Matt Costa - Miss Magnolia

Well Miss Magnolia
You just can't keep, keep me to yourself
You know I've been here way to long
You had me working all day long
No I'm not cut out and I won't be found to make a man for you,
No, no

La na na na
La na na na
[11x]

Well if you see her, make sure you tell, tell her that I'm gone
To find a land beyond where I'll be free
The riverboat and me
A rolling stone, but by and by I'll find me home

La na na na
La na na na
[6x]

I wrote a letter in the mail it said:
"A steed don't need a mare Dearest Magnolia"
Well put flowers on the grave, and may the headstone read:
"We could get along but we never did belong"

Well Miss Magnolia
You just can't keep, keep me to yourself
You know I've been here way to long
You had me working all day long
No I'm not cut out and I won't be found to make a man for you
No, no

La na na na
La na na na
[11x]

Matt Costa - Heart Of Stone

I must confess this blood in my chest
I've made a great mistake so cruel
One, two, three there's an owl on me
I'm searching for the way it used to be
Why don't you give yourself to me, I
I've got a deal for you
But Ph yes I've a lot to confess,
Drowning far away from home
Tied to a heart of stone

Darling my days are so bleak
Pretending that you're still alive,
Lonely nights, this mariner cries
He's drowning in desperate tides, because

This solitary mindset has left me cursed in fame
But oh death I would give my last breath
Drowning far away from home

My sinking heart of stone
Oh death can I breathe my last breath
Yes yes I'd like to confess

Because this solitary mindset has left me cursed with fate
But oh death
Can't breathe my last breath
Drowning far away from home
Stuck with my heart of stone

Matt Costa - Bound

Behind the mountains where the Cuckoo sings
They tried to mine a miner for his golden veins
But a guy gets lonely and a guy gets sick
Evil woman you're bound to make a mess of it

She laid me down in her golden sheets
Lord save me, Lord I was knee deep
Well a hundred soldiers and a thousand men
Couldn't drag me down but I'm back on my knees again

Wanna leave, wanna go
That woman is a devil yes I know

But i know more than you think I do
You got a hole in your face where I can see through you
Well holy me, you've got devils in your sleeves
With the bull in your court you're bound
To make a mess of me

Wanna leave, wanna go
That woman is a devil yes I know

Matt Costa - Trying To Lose My Mind

I talk with my friend over the phone,
I'm scared to say things I don't know and be wrong,
And words always sound much better coming out of someone else
But put it in a song and know that we can get along

I'm trying to lose, lose my mind
When it's gone I'll tell you where it went
About the extent of it's stay
Strum a few chords and use my voice
And make this song with the hopes that you'd play along, along

And look at the ones before me
Some say I waste my time
But normal life seems so boring,
So trying to lose my mind

Well I met a girl,
She didnt like my song
She told me that old songs are better
She played me her favorite records
This is how I repayed her
I said it's okay to some but I hope that you can sing alone alone

And look at the ones before me
Some say I waste my time
But normal life seems so boring so im trying to lose my mind.

Matt Costa - Downfall

If I wait long enough someone might come out
If I tried I could be somebody else

So I follow false prophets walking down my street
To keep, keep me busy so soundly I sleep
But it's all in the downfall of me, all in the downfall

Don't bury my feet so I can't run
I'll be your martyr in bells
Well I've walked in your steps and held my breath
Until your words reached the air

Then I lied with the poets face first in the street
When the world cast it's shadow I became it's sheep
But it's all in the downfall of me, all in the downfall

So I follow false prophets walking down my street
To keep, keep me busy so soundly I sleep
I lied with the poets face first in the street
When the world cast it's shadow I became it's sheep

But it's all been the downfall, it's all been the downfall
It's all been the downfall of me
All in the downfall

Matt Costa - Cigarette Eyes

I've heard the story, I'm sure he held you down
Forced you to do things while I'm not around
But you lied, yeah you lied
But I've got cigarette eyes

Feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling depressed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lie, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

Out in the country I'm sure no one could tell
You held a victim under your spell
So go hide, well go hide
But I've got cigarette eyes

I feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling obsessed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lied, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

So you've got yourself a bright young girl
One who lies with you in bed
When she tells you that she likes the weather
Don't believe a word that she says no more

Out in the country I'm sure no one could tell
You held a victim under your spell
So go hide, well go hide
But I've got cigarette eyes

I feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling depressed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lied, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces

Your surprises wear disguises
All of your truths masquerade around on Hallow's Eve
So I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

So impressed by you undressing
Did you take his hand aside from love?
The truth would break me in two

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

This is the voice that's scared to hear those names
So this is the void we'll leave a hole in space

I'll take it kindly if you'd blind me
Holding inside the thoughts I have inquisitively wondering

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

But this is the voice that's scared to hear those names
So this is the void we'll leave a hole in space

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

Matt Costa - Vienna

Vienna can you hear me lazing on the afternoon?
Cathedral bells are ringing a sound
Winter can't ignore her
Spring'll bring her back with blossoms
Summer bring her back to me now
Bring her to me

Shoulder to shoulder, be back in a month I told her
Wishing wells I wish her with me
Vienna was machs du
I'm running through the streets of Zurich
Calling all the trains in Europe to bring her to me

Anything I got to do now
Anything I got to do to be...
Back with happy Mondays
Sleeping in on Sundays

Just to bring her to me

Vienna can you hear me lazing on the afternoon?
Cathedral bells are ringing a sound
Winter can't ignore her
Spring'll bring her back with blossoms
Summer bring her back to me now
Bring her to me

Anything I got to do now

Anything I got to do to be...
Back with happy Mondays
Sleeping in on Sundays

Just to bring her to me

Matt Costa - Emergency Call

Skin's turning green, eyes are turning yellow
The Doctor stays rich because I'm a sickly fellow
Got the hypochondriac blues
I need your medicine to soothe
Creams and pills they've got nothing on you

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
Doctor, Doctor, can't get no relief
This losing sleep is misery
Won't you come and rescue me?

Doctor, Doctor

Spent the last week in my bed started feeling symptoms
My psychiatrist fills me up with a new prescription
Tell me where I went wrong
It felt too good for too long
Honey you got the remedy for me

Well Doctor Doctor can't get no relief
And this losing sleep is misery

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
I don't want to be sick no more

Doctor, Doctor

My heart's made of glass, mama don't you break it
I knew that I made a mistake when I let you take it
Now this pain is only for you
I need your medicine to soothe
Creams and pills they've got nothing on you

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
But come back mama I'm feeling withdrawal
Please take my emergency call

How long must I wait held up in depression?
I tried to erase my past, to make a good impression
But my broken horn's lost the tune
And only shattered mirrors fill my room
Fell for you and only got me down

Well Doctor Doctor come give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
Doctor Doctor can't get no relief
This losing sleep is misery
Won't you come and rescue me?

Doctor, Doctor

Matt Costa - Never Looking Back

Burnt trees on a snowy pass
All my friends are far behind
I'm stuck with you tonight
But I'd be better alone

So come on wheels take me far away
Where I don't have debts to pay
I can't count on yesterday to find the way home

I know it happens all the time
But they don't have my back
So I'm never looking back

Plumes of smoke rise high above
Burned bridges lost in luck
I guess it's all because
They're found on the fault

On sandy ground
Foundations can't be found
And all the stones of change were thrown in my face

I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back

I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back

Matt Costa - Lilacs

You were right, I was up all night
Thinking about you
Dreamed I choked on your kaleidoscope
Now you still look deadly

My fatal flower how the tigers all laughed
As I ran along the well worn paths

Sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

Insincere as we rolled for years in turning barrels
I washed my hands in the lake
As you blew it all away with roman candles
So take your fever, let me wallow alone
The callus on your eyes have grown

Sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

And your faults have me stoned
Paying rent to your ghost
Torn up by a frightened little girl

I thought that you were right
So I was up all night thinking about you
I thought that you were right, you were right
You were right, you were

You were right, and I was up all night
Thinking about you
And I couldn't speak
Covered with bees you flew above me
Figured it all out, I think you've had enough time
I've had long enough to change my mind

And a sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

And your faults have me stone
Paying rent to your ghost
Torn up by a frightened little girl
I thought that you were right
And I was up all night thinking about you

You were right, so I was up all night
Thinking about you
I thought you were right, you were right
You were right, you were

Matt Costa - Mr. Pitiful

Oh Mr. Pit, oh Mr. Pit, Mr. Pitiful
Who let you down?
Who let you down?
Who let you down?

You still don't believe, you don't believe
You don't believe, and your grievances show
When your soapbox unfolds

But please come down from that cloud you're sitting on
I don't expect you to admit that you were wrong

I just want to know how you've been
It don't make me feel bad that we're still friends
Mulling it all over in my head
I hope that you see through your picket
I hope that you see through your big yard and white picket fence
To make amends
And still be friends, still be my friend

So where did you go? Where did you go?
Where did you go while I was out?
While I was out? While I was out?
Well I don't believe, I don't believe
I don't believe everything I see
And if you don't like the movie then quit acting

But please come down from that cloud you're sitting on
I don't expect you to admit that you were wrong

I just want to know how you've been
It don't make me feel bad that we're still friends
Mulling it all over in my head
I hope that you see through your picket
I hope that you see through your big yard and white picket fence
To make amends
And still be friends, still be friends

Still be my friend