Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line Album Lyrics

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Rest Of My Life

The battle is over.
Here we all lie
In a dry sea of Solo cups
With the sun in our eyes.
But it's one of those endings
Where no one claps 'cause they're sure that there's more.
What a great way to start the first day of the rest of my life.

I guess the show's going on.
So we pick up the pieces
We dropped for a song
And an ear-splitting headache
That makes it hard to figure out which puzzle they're for.
But I can leave this part out of the story I write.
And there are worse ways to start the first day of the rest of my life.

Roommates, friends, lovers - quiet.
I'm coming to.
I'm turning myself into something a little less promising,
A little more useful.

The battle is over.
We lost, but we'll live to call off the war.
Don't that ceiling look high from the floor?
Don't it hurt just to move
As we shrink from the light?
As it pierces our bodies and thaws out our hearts.
What a great way to start the first day of the rest of
The rest of my life.

 

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Destination

You don't owe me
one more minute of your wasted time
you act like it's all fine

but all the years I gave you
thinking you knew that you wanted me
I wanted to believe

I've gotta make a destination
find where I'll be loved
This time I've got no hesitation
and I'll be movin' on
(to where I belong)
and I'll be movin' on

I'm tired of trying
to describe what you will never see
how that we could be

gave up and lost her
now you're looking for a little grace
well look at my face

I've gotta make a destination
find where I'll be loved
This time I've got no hesitation
and I'll be movin' on
(to where I belong)
and I'll be movin' on

empty corner gotta keep movin'
taking hits while you've been missing
night after night after I hear you

say we're solid
but I know we're looking through the cracks
in our little patch

it isn't hard to leave
knowing that I'll be getting life on track
never looking back

I've gotta make a destination
find where I'll be loved
This time I've got no hesitation
and I'll be movin' on
(to where I belong)
and I'll be movin' on
(find where I'll be loved)
I'm already gone

 

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Elsie


[Instrumental]

 

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Christmas Eve

It was Christmas Eve
And your message to me read,
"I really need to talk to you today."
We sat in your car that night,
Cried and said it all,
Then parted knowing nothing.

You headed north
And I made my way back south.
Stumbling through the door, I hit the ground.
And there I laid,
With 10,000 words to say
That all amount to one thing.

Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.

Now it's New Year's Eve,
So I fake like I'm all right.
To say I'm moving on would be a lie.
'Cause I still believe,
Though you're wounded and so am I,
That we still have something.

Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Over yet.
Over yet.
Over yet.

Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
Please, darling, wait.
It's not all over yet.
(It's not over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(Please, darling, wait.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(It's not all over yet.)
(Please, darling, wait.)

 

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Hayloft

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
You better run.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.

It started with the hayloft a-creakin'.
Yeah, it just started in the hayloft.
With his long johns on, Pop went a-creepin'
Out to the barn, out to the hay.

Young lovers and they are not sleeping.
Young lovers in the hayloft.
With his gun turned on, Pop went a-creepin'
Out to the barn up to the hay.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
You better run.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.

Hayloft
Hayloft

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
You better run.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.

It started with the hayloft a-creakin'.
Yeah, just started in the hay.
With his long johns on, Pop went a-creepin'
Out to the barn, out to the hayloft.

Young lovers with their legs tied up in knots.
Young lovers with their legs tied up in knots.
With his long tall gun, Pop went a-creepin'.
To blow their hayloft bedheads straight off.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
You better run.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
You better run.

My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.
My daddy's got a gun.

Hayloft
Hayloft
Hayloft

 

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21st Of May

It's time to bid this whole world goodbye.
Oh, glory, time to fly away.
We'll meet our savior in the sky.
Hallelujah, the 21st of May.

Sinner, heed these words of mine
'Bout the coming Judgment Day.
Yes, the end is drawing nigh.
Hallelujah, the 21st of May.

They laughed while Noah built his boat,
Then cried when came the rain.
They mock me now, but I will float
On the 21st of May.

Well, I've never been so sure
And I've never led no one astray.
'Cept in the fall of '94.
But Hallelujah, the 21st of May.

They laughed while Noah built his boat,
Then cried when came the rain.
They mock me now, but I will float
On the 21st of May.
They mock me now, but I will float
On the 21st of May.

Hallelujah, the 21st of May.

 

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Love Of Mine

Love of mine when you're born I tell myself that you'll never die.
And I throw my arms around the girl who finds you,
'Cause the world is rosier
through your eyes.

I don't suppose you caught her name.
Never mind I'll just name her after you, love of mine.
I'll fashion her into a sweet long legged icon making all praise holier.
Satisfied.

Oh, but she gave us to each other.
The only thing she's done for me that you could never do.
For that she'll always be remembered.
After she discovers I don't love her half as much as you.

Love of mine when she goes why can't you stay,
here with me.

Love of mine when you die I tell myself that you'll never live.
Even as I curse the girl who says she'll find someone worthier of the gift.
Someone who wants to share it with her,
far away from those who take you to have and to hold.
Now I'm stuck here trying to not remember,
for all these pretty words it wasn't her but love that I adored.
It's my love I adored.

Love of mine when you're born I tell myself that you'll never die.

 

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Elephant in the Corn


[Instrumental]

 

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You Don't Know What's Going On

Well, it's time for me to live
The good life on the road.
And to forgive her
For the lies that she sold me.
We were falling in love and that's what you do.

I didn't know and I feel like a fool
Now watching her go.
'Cause I played by the rules
I guess we were above.
And that's what I get for trying my best

To believe in her,
To believe I could turn it around.
To keep bailing out the water while the ship went down.
To keep calling her name when we started to drown.

You can tell me I should have known better.
You can ask me why
I didn't see it coming
'Til it got inside me.
You can say it's all right.
You can think it's all wrong,
But you don't know what's going on.
You don't know what's going on.

So the road led to your door.
The good life ain't the good life anymore
If it doesn't include you,
If you send me away.
'Cause you don't believe I tried my best

To believe in her,
To believe I could turn it around.
To keep bailing out the water while the ship went down.
To keep calling her name when we started to drown.

You can tell me I should have known better.
You can ask me why
I didn't see it coming
'Til it got inside me.
You can think it's all wrong.
I can hope it's all right.
But I don't know what's going on.

I just know that I tried and I tried and I'll try for you
If you want me to,
If you can be the girl who

Believes in me.
Who believes I can turn it around.
Who keeps bailing out the water while the ship goes down.
Who keeps calling my name when we're starting to drown.

I'll never tell you you should have known better,
Never ask you why
You didn't see it coming
'Til it got inside you.
It can turn out all right.
Or it can turn out all wrong.
We just don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
You don't know what's going on.
You don't know what's going on.

 

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Where Is Love Now

If I could wait here for you,
Without hope or knowing what to do...
Watch the light fade away,
Without fear or knowing what to say...
Cry the tears from my eyes.
Leave me here long enough to realize.

Where is love now?
Where is love now,
Out here in the dark?

If I should hold all my dreams,
Through the night of the way life sometimes seems...
And if I can't see which way to go,
I'll stay lost in silence 'til I know.
Cry the tears from my eyes.
And leave me here long enough to realize.

Where is love now?
Where is love now,
Out here in the dark?

Cry the tears from my eyes.
Leave me here long enough to realize.

Where is love now?
Where is love now?
Where is love now?
Where is love now,
Out here in the dark?
Out here in the dark?