Paved Country: Chemically Unable to Panic

CD: Chemically Unable To Panic - Lyrics

SNOWING IN BOSTON

It's snowing in Boston
I see it by streetlight
I see it by headlight
I can feel it in my bones

Oh it's cold this winter
Just like the one before it
But I'm likely to ignore it
Some things I don't want to know

Remember those days back when you used to breathe me in
when I swore your hands were made of flame
before we only found passion in the pain

Living by memory and I'm
Living by feel and I'm
Walking in shadows and I'm
Sleeping on my own
Oh you're in there somewhere
I hear you breathing I can
Feel you grieving
I can feel you in my bones

Remember those days..

Unsure of what we hope to find
We search the house by candlelight
For anything that makes it real
Makes us feel... makes us feel

It's coming down white and it's
Coming down cold and it's
Coming down steady and I'm
Feeling old

Well I can't move back and I
Can't move on and I
Can't tell really if you're gone

Remember those days..

Andy Pinkham: Guitars
Matt Cullen: Wah, Guitars
Ed Riemer: Bass
Woody Giessmann: Drums
Tom Diehl: Djembe, Drums
Tom West: Keyboards
Marjie Alonso: Lead & Harmony Vocals
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals
Adam Sherman: Vocals

ALWAYS FINE

You don't know me
You don't know you
You don't know anything you're supposed to
You don't know your heart
You don't know your mind
You don't even know that you're flying blind

So if it's all the same
I'll send you on your way
And I know you won't mind
Because you're always fine

It must feel good to walk so tall
To know the answers to it all
Take a deep breath
Survey the scene
Shrug your shoulders, read a magazine

So if it's all the same
I'll send you on your way
And I know you won't mind
Because you're always fine

Never in doubt, never in need
Never a question that you'll receive
You've got plenty of time - no need to hurry
After all there's no need to worry

I'm sure your friends
Will pat your back
You'll find somebody to help unpack
You'll make a new plan
Draw a new line
Uninterrupted... doing fine
So if it's all the same
I'll send you on your way
And I know you won't mind
Because you're always fine

Andy Pinkham: Electric Guitar
T-Bone Wolk: Bass
Tom Ardolino: Drums & Percussion
Tom West: Keyboards
Marjie Alonso: Lead Vocal
Sarah Mendelsohn, Lisa Love: Vocals

a broken place

I've been thinking
About me and you
What's missing
And all that we've got to lose

There's a broken place
That lies between us
Can't talk about it
'Cause that might make it real

You stopped asking
And I didn't say
Just kept getting further
And further away

There's a broken place
That lies between us
Can't talk about it
'Cause that might make it real

Makes me fragile
Makes me mean
Makes me torn apart
Makes me, makes me
Like I've never been

It's there
Can't be seen
Under the surface
And it's never gonna leave

There's a broken place...

Andy Pinkham: Electric Guitar
Jim Scoppa: Telecaster
Duke Levine: Guitorgan
Ed Riemer: Bass
Woody Giessmann: Drums
Sarah Mendelsohn: Lead Vocal, Percussion Marjie Alonso: Vocals

TOO EASY

Don't touch too deep
Where the water's sweet
Where every ripple might
Rock the boat

Where every ripple might
Rock the boat
Makes it hard
To stay afloat

Too easy to sink in
Too easy to give in
Don't tell me tales
Of a dragon slain
While you sing me songs
While you call my name

While you sing me songs
While you call my name
Makes it hard to remember
Who I am

Too easy to sink in
Too easy to give in

Your finger, down my back
An easy, sleepy laugh

An easy, Sleepy laugh
Hard to find something
Wrong with that

Too easy to sink in
Too easy to give in
Too easy to give in

Andy Pinkham: Bass, Acoustic
& Electric Guitars
Tom Diehl: Djembe
Marjie Alonso: Lead Vocal, Silvertone
& High-Strung Guitars, Percussion
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals

Where are you now

Last time I slept I was in your arms and you held me while I lay
You kissed my eyes and you pressed me down, and I thought everything is gonna be OK
Where are you now?
Where are you now?

I'd like to talk about the future
I'd like to talk about the past
And how it is we came together
And how there got to be too much sting to last
Where are you now?
Where are you now?
Hey where are you now?

Why do you run from this love of mine?
It's all you seem to do
Why am I having such a hard time
Opening my eyes, and giving up on you?
Where are you now?
Where are you now?

Last time I slept I was in the dark
And you held me while I lay
You kissed my eyes and you pressed me down, and I thought everything is gonna be ok

Where are you now?
Where are you now?
Hey where are you now

Andy Pinkham: Bass, Guitars, Percussion
Norm Hartley: Drums
Tom West: Keyboards
Marjie Alonso: Lead Vocal, Percussion
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals

WHAT YOU CALL Love

Well you ruined my name
This town can't like it anymore
Filled me with shame
Yeah I should have known it before

You spent all my money
Going out on the town
Obliged to no one
Nothing would bring you down
Then you bruised my body
You bruised my pride
Made up my stories
'Til I curled up inside
What you call love

I thought I was alright
You were gone from me
But still some nights
Just can't shake the memories
Never thought I was weak
And I knew I was brave
So how could somebody
Leave me so afraid
I was losing my mind (you'll change)
I was losing my will (you'll try)
Well I sure knew better (show me)
But I was with you still (next time)
And what you call love

How could somebody (show me)
Leave me so afraid (next time)
And what you call love

I don't want to hide anymore
Yeah I want to hold my head high
I don't want to run from the past
And when my demons rise
I'll look them straight in the eye
Straight in the eye and say
What you call love

Duke Levine: All Guitars & Mandos
Mike Rivard: Bass
Paul Bryan: Chamberlain, Harmonium
Dave Mattacks: Drums & Percussion
Sarah Mendelsohn: Lead & Backing Vocals
Marjie Alonso: Vocals

Just Walk away

How can you hold me
When you won't put your arms around me?
How can you see me
When you won't even look my way?
My heart is breaking
Years of faking
Oh, how could you love me
And then just walk away?

When did you know me?
'Cause you don't seem to know me now. How long did you hide it, when you knew you'd be heading out. You stopped trying
Love was dying
Oh, how could you love me
And then just walk away?

Maybe you thought that you told me but your silence grows every day. Maybe I just believed you
When you said you'd stay
You stopped trying
Love was dying
Oh, how could you love me
And then just walk away

Andy Pinkham: Electric, Acoustic & Baritone Guitars
Jim Scoppa: Telecaster
Brad Hallen: Bass
Woody Giessmann: Drums
Tom West: Keyboards
Sarah Mendelsohn: Lead Vocal, Percussion
Marjie Alonso: Vocals

FALL COMING ON

Summer's almost gone
I feel the fall coming on
And just the promise in the air seems good to me
A small reminder of what used to be

It's been a bad couple years
Waiting for my head to clear
I spent a lot of time just chasing my tail
And running sideways in the gale

Where I've been's unclear
I just kind of disappeared
Into a landscape unfamiliar and strange and baffled by the blows of change

Aware of some familiar ground
Maybe safe to look around
And it's good to feel the earth beneath my feet
Good to hear my own heart beat

Summer's almost gone
I feel the fall coming on
And just the promise in the air seems good to me
A small reminder of what used to be

Andy Pinkham: Electric, Baritone &
Tenor Guitars
Jim Scoppa: Telecaster
Ed Riemer: Bass
Norm Hartley: Drums
Marjie Alonso: Lead Vocal, Acoustic &
High-Strung Guitars
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals

In Too Deep

I've been waiting for winter
'Cause it's too hot for me to think
Maybe I'll be all right when the cold winds come and sweep through town, come and freeze the fire from this thing

And I've been waiting for nightfall
And that light up in the sky
Maybe that old man will see me
And smile on down and
Offer up some good advice

'Cause I'm in too deep
I can't find my way
Yeah I'm in too far
From the light of day

I've been watching the weather
Looking for the skies to change
Thinking that maybe if the wind blows hard enough it'll
Part the clouds and then explain

I've been holding your picture
Looking for some kind of clue
Thinking that maybe if I just stare
Long enough it'll tell me what I'm supposed to do

'Cause I'm in too deep...

I need the power of the sun
To pull me when I run
To pull me free
A little space, a little time
Will clear my mind
And let me see
That I'm in too deep

'Cause I'm in too deep...

Andy Pinkham: Electric Guitar
Duke Levine: Electric Guitar
T-Bone Wolk: Bass, Banjo, Baritone Guitar
Tom Ardolino: Drums & Percussion
Tom West: Keyboards
Marjie Alonso: Lead Vocal
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals

I'll Always Have You

You were there when I was just a child, on my own, feeling grown
And I'd tell you how the world was mine, just a matter of time
'Til it all came home

And every place I've been
High or low, you've been too
And goodbye's not the end
Wherever I go, I'll always have you

Well you stood beside me right and wrong
Saw the years unfold
Kind and cold
And I'd tell you of the deeds
I'd done Lovers come and gone
Battles lost and won

And every place I've been...

When disbelief gives in to grief
When I'm sometimes barely hanging on
Like a shadow lost in the night
I will know you're never really gone

Every now and then my mind will stray
And I see you here, feel you near
Just imagination running wild
Looking for a way
Back to yesterday

And every place I've been...

Andy Pinkham: Acoustic Guitars
T-Bone Wolk: Bass, Nylon-String Guitar
Tom Ardolino: Percussion
Marjie Alonso: Lead & Harmony Vocals
Sarah Mendelsohn: Vocals

So SLOWLY

There were years that I waited
Riding the river dry
Out of luck, living jaded
In someone else's life
Then you took my hand
Showed me promise, showed me truth - So slowly you showed me love

I would stumble without warning
Feel the ground go underneath my feet
See the sun rise in the morning
Not recognizing what a day could be

Then you took my hand
Showed me promise, showed me truth - So slowly you showed me love

You opened my eyes
Saw through my disguise
Showed me I could be free

I was fine, I was final
I was all that I'd ever be
I could do what I had to, if I had to, but I could not see