Zack's Lyrics: Archive

String Tension

It’s been a few months And there’s been a disconnect From my hands on your strings And my touch against your neck - And the chords that used to ring clean But have become anything except on key Now ill write because I miss the way I used to press into your frets - And feel you bounce back when I let go To make sure that you were still free To make sure that you could survive without my...

Dec 4th

The Giving Tree

She said, “I’m not young enough to know everything anymore” And that’s when I realized that we’re at that age Where everything starts to change When you can see all the different aspirations in your eyes They said it first: “This is growing up” It’s the fall, so why’s it raining like the spring? I thought I had more time And this umbrella’s keeping me dry But soon enough I’m gonna feel the flood...

Oct 2nd

Clock Hands

So show me a map with no destination Show me a field with grass so high that I cannot see the ground Tell me to jump into a river that no one knows how deep Put ink on your arms that only you can truly read Take me on a walk in an undeveloped neighborhood To show me just how undeveloped we all are He wants nothing more than to be always there, On a rest between notes during a pause between...

Jun 28th

Sinked

Well I’ve been walking on crumpled leaves for far too long The veins that keep them in shape tear and crunch when I step too hard It’s not even fall and I can sense that my breathing’s stable It seems I’m going to let my year be more than one season long It’s spring and the air tastes good enough to be content just from walking home You can’t wrap your arms around a memory But you can wrap your...

May 20th

Two Years

It’s been two years And I swore I’d write back About the times I’ve had And all the nights that are in the past So as I sit down I’ll play your favorite record of the year And watch the needle dig its grooves Into a vinyl so frequently used So as this record spins, The tales begin You tried so hard to mold me with your hands But clay can’t settle when you don’t give it a chance But now...

Apr 18th

Impostors

Your four walls alter similar to the seasons Summer and fall give you the respect to be free Winter and spring give me impressions that you’re as lasting As the imprint of an oar pushing through the water To be able to paint in color rather than in words Is a skill you’ve yet to gain You struggle with the issue of sinning and living Some dare to treat those two impostors just the same We push...

Apr 18th

In This Darkness I Will Disappear

I drift from tree to tree I suck the pollen from any flower that’s close enough to me I tend to indulge, I take what I can until I find there’s room left But there is no more there I drift from tree to tree And hop vines when the axe men come to cut down you and me I make lists to make lists And I don’t wear a watch because I’d rather not focus on the time I wear ink because I like focusing on...

Mar 15th

The Sound Of Silence

Verse A great big field, filled with stone and leaves Coupled by a wooden fence and waves of scenery And I know, it’s hard to believe that such a place Could be filled with such daunting realities Chorus Don’t dig your shovel too deep There’s a whole line of people behind you Who have a stake in how well she sleeps Verse 2 Noises of water fill your ears The peaceful surroundings are for the...

Feb 28th

Purple Heart

Purple Heart I feel like a man who has come home from war I don’t see color in the faces that I once loved anymore Time plays awful tricks My daughter was so young when I left But now she’s grown and I don’t have a heart for this By the time I came back my father wasn’t much of a talker But I needed someone to tell my nightmares to I wouldn’t forgive myself for missing his death But his tombstone...

Feb 14th

A Day To Remember

I watched the sun creep up and paint the sky in blood I watched the clouds cover the wounds and shade the skyline in a gray flood I stood and gazed as I realized that planes weren’t always made of paper, But that planes always burn As if it were in slow motion he fell to the floor Each vowel became elongated as his screams shook the ground I heard the words of a friend sink in the car As we...

Jan 13th

A King's Collapse

Verse What was supposed to be vacation, wasn’t quite vacation after all I got to emptying out my bag, and at the bottom I found our past I drew this picture for you but now it’s riddled with gashes The images on the page no longer move, and the words scribbled over top of them no longer scream for you Chorus You were the roof over my head keeping me safe from every storm But now you are nothing...

Dec 30th

Berlin

Verse And I’ll sit at my desk, and hope the words commence Because staring at this blank page doesn’t make much sense When the ink flows I’ll toss out this page and start again For I know what I say to follow will forever stay Because what we don’t forget, makes us happier than a promise kept Chorus You misspell words to see if I’ll notice when you’re not sincere But you put letters in the...

Dec 30th

In Closing

Verse And I’ll flip through the pictures of when the waves didn’t break so hard And I’ll think about the camera that was forever attached to your heart You couldn’t move away from the East, though it killed what you hoped to be You could never give up the seasons and what you wanted them to mean Will you collect me like a leaf and paste me in the folds of your sheets To gaze at whenever you need...

Nov 22nd

The Holy Trinity

You were the youngest of three, brought a whole scene down to its knees Always put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you are no Hercules, Said, “they didn’t mean that much to me” Bit off more than you could handle, but you threw it away because you could Your followers forget your present future and stay focused on your past They’d rather remember your worth than dwell on the lack of...

Nov 16th

I'm Sorry

Verse Left two girls with weights on their hearts But you didn’t care enough, you became your own God Your skeleton lay on the floor, barking out orders, begging to be no more You were detoxing your sins Turned out you had more evil in you than good within What had you done, some of us had actually wanted you to live Chorus You can beg to me on your knees But ill never set you free Because...

Sep 22nd

He With The Magnifying Glass Controls The Ant

Verse The great dead are past our physical reach And the solemn living beneath our Christian belief They sit deep in their cathedra, not confident enough to stand and preach They don’t think twice about the adverse effects of what they teach And when I fade will you grab my final breath? Will you see who I am or will you see what I’ve left? Will you grieve me with an open mind? Or cast away all...

Sep 16th

Independence Day

Verse I’m taking it all down, my room needs to change Getting rid of everything, I can’t sleep in its shame I almost took it all down, until I found our first movie stub Started seeing flashbacks of what this once was At that point I called it quits and gave up Seeing it reminded me of when you said we could fall so in love Chorus This rain smells of memories of you and I But I’m not quite close...

Sep 10th

The Way A Toy Feels

Intro I consider cancer a thief; I miss your tracked veins lying next to me By the end, I could barely see your eyes; they were covered by starry images inside If you weren’t lighting up your headaches were nowhere near fine The cringe of the filter and its last puff were always the first things on your mind The fine print on the label was the first warning My last memories from the hospital are...

Aug 23rd

Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes Verse Maybe Holden was right, I could be a product of my own demise To answer his question? No I don’t believe in anything but spite I’m a cynical mess, torn between a lush and the rest So tell me, at what point does my sarcasm stop being my defense And start becoming me, my enemy I’m building this backwards because the beginning sounds like the end That split second where you know...

Jun 27th

beLIEve

Verse So why don’t you open your eyes and see what we’ve come to Why don’t you just open your ears and hear all the screams our conversations fall to I just want to figure why I can’t figure this out I try to justify everything you’ve ever fantasized I’ve been forced to compromise everything I’ve ever realized Pre-Chorus Far be it from me to stand in the way of you and your dreams But I’ve got...

Jun 8th

Lets Just Pretend You Were In A Coma

Verse I think your Holy book reads a little differently from mine You said everything important is in between the lines I think we can both agree that without it we’d be just fine I hope this sends shivers up and down your spine Pre-Chorus And while all the other words have lost their meaning The look in your eyes tells me that this is just the beginning Chorus You’re a masochist for this...

Jun 5th

Corners

Verse I don’t particularly enjoy the late night calls But I do what I can to show you that it’s not your fault I wish you wouldn’t let it take you over, You’re so much stronger And while I sleep I dream this repetitive dream The things I see don’t mean half as much as they seem But I’ll take the blame Chorus Your knees to your face like you don’t know any better Your eyes coughing up tears like...

Jun 5th