Nathan Metz & Nick Bosworth – 2007

Track List

1. Love (love, love)
2. Protector
3. Two
4. Sunday Afternoon
5. Study in G
6. I Don’t Wanna Leave
7. Different Places
8. The Happy Birthday Song
9. To The Ease of My Mind

Lyrics

01. Love (love, love)

All I wanna do is say goodnight
I just need to find some things to ease me
There’s so much life that I cannot get right
I just need to find the things that are pleasing

Like love, love, love
Love, love, love
Like love, love, love

Talkin’ to a man about his anger
A barrel shaped fist waved like a flag
He was sharing his frustrations
He just needed a new plan

So I told him ’bout a love, love, love
Love, love, love
Told him ’bout love, love, love

I’ve got family, I’m a father
Every day we’re growing closer
I will cry they’re not happy
I will try to pick them up

Pick ‘em up with love, love, love
Pick ‘em up with love, love, love
Pick ‘em up with love, love, love

02. Protector

I would like to spend a night on the ground with fireflies
Around us so we watch the trees and see the breeze play with the leaves
And you would say that you were feeling cold and needed me to hold you
Closer like I’m supposed to I’m the, I’m the one who protects you from it all

Let this be a memory that hangs around in my mind
And says to you that things we do are everything I’m waiting for
But rarely do I speak with you about my head or what’s inside
Cause maybe I don’t understand what love has done to my persona

So spend with me this night sleeping ‘neath the trees
I’ll keep you warm and I’ll protect you from it all

I remember last December, I had tried to cook for you
But I could tell the thought of me in there was awkward territory
You now have a need to care for me and do the things you never
Thought you’d even do for yourself but you’ve fallen, you’ve fallen in love

So spend with me this night sleeping ‘neath the trees
I’ll keep you warm and I’ll protect you from it all

03. Two

04. Sunday Afternoon

Don’t wake up I’ll be in your head if you like a gentle whispering heart
I was remembering Sunday afternoon on the floor in our new house
An empty room it feels like a fresh start and it got you all jazzed up
That day you looked better than you thought your smiles a pick me up
You danced across the carpet
You danced in your socks
I watched you dance across the carpet
I watched you dance in your socks

When you dream remember I love you
When you dream remember I love you

Soon well be four I’ll be the only one will you stay beside me then
Besides by then well have another week till we reach another stone
There is a science to the way that we work the way we operate
When you’re down when you can’t keep going on ill be the stronger one
I’ll be your nurse
I’ll be your crutch
Let me be your nurse
Let me be your crutch

When you dream remember I love you
When you dream remember I love you

05. Study in G

06. I Don’t Wanna Leave

Amaretto and tea that’s how my day went
I couldn’t see the moon and don’t know where it went
I hope the custard shop is here for my children
So they can see what’s great about the city where we live

I don’t wanna leave

Driving home I see where the new factory’s going
Is the progress all around here just a silly lie
I heard about the big boys coming to save us
We don’t need a savior that comes with another factory

I don’t wanna leave

Forty eight minutes of burn oh my heads on fire
We ain’t talking ’bout fuel no babe were talking ’bout desire
I’d travel the globe to stay far from this thunder
Some mistakes are okay but man this will take us under

I don’t wanna leave

07. Different Places

Five steps remain in the tiny parade
With her hat at her heals cause that’s how she plays
We found the same path that we took yesterday
I think she remembers we traveled that way
And we stopped different places do do do do do
And she laughed at my faces do do do do do

So every day I wanna walk with you every day
So every day I wanna walk with you everyday

Oh how she complains if it rains that day
‘Cause we stay inside while the puddles are made
Now I have learned that a ride kills the frown
So we jump in the car and we drive around town
And we stop different places do do do do do
And she laughs at my faces do do do do do

So every day I wanna walk with you everyday
So every day I wanna walk with you every day

She plays a game with the wind in her hair
And it doesn’t matter who wins or what’s fair
Daddy’s around and all that she wants
Is the love of her parents
And all that she wants is to
Stop different places do do do do do
And she laughs at my faces do do do do do

So every day I wanna walk with you everyday
So every day I wanna walk with you every day

08. The Happy Birthday Song

There’s a man up in Rochester
Selling rides in his hot air balloon
Oh I wish I had money for things like that
Tuesday I called him, asked him how much
Then I coughed and hung up the phone
So I’ll sow up my shirts, the ones I don’t wear
I’ll make a balloon and tie it to a chair
And we’ll fly up so high that we can’t see our house
And I’ll kiss you and give you a beautiful pearl

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday

Wear the one that you wore the second day we were wed
You asked that I not be so imaginative
So as you wish, here’s your gift
Don’t let go, we’re oftly high
I don’t think that our day would recover

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday

09. To The Ease of My Mind

How did you see me on the concourse in Kansas City?
You were back home with the babies
You were back home with the babies
How did you spare me some lonely moment
With your addendum to my back pocket

ooo, I miss you
Oh my love I’m coming home
ooo, I miss you
Oh my love I’m coming home

I’m halfway home it isn’t home at all
You can’t fool a heart that wants to be home
New expectation to the ease of my mind
Sweet adulation the last leg I find

ooo, I miss you
Oh my love I’m coming home
ooo, I miss you
Oh my love I’m coming home

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