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After The Landslide
Matt Simons/Jamie Hartman/Greg Holden 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

Lying here
In my head, in my head, in my head
Done with the hiding
Sick of the fighting

Dying here
There’s nothing left, nothing left, nothing left
Stuck in the moment
Where are we going?

It’s been keeping me up all night
Cause I know what it feels like
To be staring into headlights
Pretending that it’s alright

Chorus:
I wanna know what’s next
I’m gonna see what’s left
I’m gonna see what’s left
After the landslide

We’re in up in to our necks
Don’t care how hard it gets
I wanna know what’s next
After the landslide
After the landslide

All I know
When it’s gone, when it’s gone, when it’s gone
We can’t erase it
But we can escape it

Cause we’ve been driving through the dead of night
Hitting every red light
Now we’re fighting just to stay alive
Finally I realize

Chorus

I wanna know what’s next
I’m gonna see what’s left
I’m gonna see what’s left
After the landslide

We’re in up in to our necks
Don’t care how hard it gets
I wanna know what’s next
After the landslide

Already Over You
Matt Simons 2006

 

You come home in what seems like forever
I catch you sporting raised tail-feathers
I ain’t stupid I can put four together
There’s something going on in here

You act like we don’t have trouble
I take pleasure in bursting your bubble
I know exactly where you been crossing double
The lines have been drawn crystal clear

How could you do me so wrong
How could you do me so wrong
So think about
All of the ways I have slaved for you
The home that I made for you

Well, I ain’t coming home again
This time tomorrow I will be gone and
You can cry all you want
I’m already over you

You say that you don’t have another
You tell me I’m your one only lover
Well, I did me some work undercover and
Found out what you’ve done and where

I found fault with the things that you said to me
I take salt with the shit that you fed to me
By now, you are already dead to me
Dead to me, dead to me, dead to me

How could you do me so wrong
How could you do me so wrong

So think about
All of the ways I have slaved for you
The home that I made for you
Well, I ain’t coming home again
This time tomorrow I will be gone and
You can cry all you want
I’m already over you

It made its way about town
That you’ve been fooling around
And made its way back to me
Woah oh oh oh
How could you be so unkind
How could I be so blind
To not have seen this immediately

So think about
All of the ways I have slaved for you
The home that I made for you
Well, I ain’t coming home again
This time tomorrow I will be gone and
You can cry all you want
I’m already over
I’m already over
I’m already over you

Amy’s Song
Matt Simons/Amy Kuney/Agrin Rahmani - 2018 / From 'After The Landslide'

When Cupid shoots his arrows
Oh he doesn’t always aim
People on the straight and narrow
Seem to wander now and then

Does your god really give a damn?
Does your god really give a damn?
Does it make me less of a man being who I am?

You can’t fight how the heart is
I’d rather make it on my own
From the mouth of my own momma
She said, “You can never come back home”

Does your god have me on the run?
Does he not take everyone?
Does it make me less of your son loving who I love?

We’ve explored the darkest oceans
We can count the galaxies
When I act on my emotions
Will the sky rain down me?

When the sun comes up tomorrow
On our side of history
Will the higher love that we know
Hold a light to those beliefs?

Does your god really give a damn?
Does your god really give a damn?
Does it make her less of a woman?
Does it make him less of a man?

Does your god really give a damn?
Does your god really give a damn?
Does it make her less of a woman?
Does it make him less of a man?

Does your god really give a damn?
Does your god really give a damn?
Does it make her less of a woman?
Does it make him less of a man?

Does your god really give a damn?
Does your god really give a damn?
Does it make me less of a man being who I am?

Being who I am

Best Years
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Saturday night, time to go out again

Bask in my self doubt again, sounds like fun

Stumble around, search for more games to play

Think I’ll throw the whole week away, it’s what we do
Take a picture witness from afar
Losing a sense of who we are, as we find a sense of who we’re going to be
All at once it’s changed, all at once it’s real
Need to take control, learning just to deal
Draw away our minds, till that day arrives

This is how we’ll spend the best years of our lives

Part of the crowd, I remember who’s hearts you wear

I can’t help it I stop and stare, you caught my eye

Talking to you, I guess it’s now time to be

Trickin’ you into lovin’ me, maybe for a night
Words they’ll fall so far they’ll fall so fast
Gotta just make this moment last
And let die for one more day
The fear of ending up alone

All at once it’s changed, all at once it’s real
Need to take control, learning just to deal
Draw away our minds, till that day arrives

This is how we’ll spend the best years of our lives

All the strange new highs
Give to all time lows
Problems take control, before anybody knows
Luckily for me dreams are hard to break
Balance to be learned between the give and

Take a picture witness from afar
Losing a sense of who we are, as we find a sense of who we’re going to be
All at once it’s changed, all at once it’s real
Need to take control, learning just to deal
Draw away our minds, till that day arrives

This is how we’ll spend the best years of our lives
The best years of our lives
The best years of our lives

Better Tomorrow
Matt Simons / Mitch Allan / Lindy Robbins - 2020

Hey I see the panic in your eyes
It’s so familiar
I’ve been there before
In the moment it can feel
Like it might thrill ya
I’ve been been there

So don’t freak out
It’s all imaginary
What goes up
Comes down
It’s necessary
If you lose your mind
It’s temporary
Happens all the time

You’ll feel better tomorrow
Even though I know you think you’re gonna die
You’ll feel better tomorrow
If you want me to I’ll stay with you all night

Hey, so you tell me you regret your latest choices
I’ve been there before
Can’t just turn around and tune out all the voices
We’ve all been there

When it feels like the walls are caving in
And it feels like there’s no escaping it woah oh
When it feels like the walls are caving in
You can fight it or you can roll with it woah oh

You’ll feel better tomorrow
Even though I know you think you’re gonna die
You’ll feel better tomorrow
If you want me to I’ll stay with you all night

You’ll feel better tomorrow
Even though I know there’s nothing going right
You’ll feel better tomorrow
If you want me to I’ll stay with you all night

So don’t freak out
It’s all imaginary
What goes up
Comes down
It’s necessary
If you lose your mind
It’s temporary
Happens all the time

You’ll feel better tomorrow
Even though I know you think you’re gonna die
You’ll feel better tomorrow
If you want me to I’ll stay with you all night

You’ll feel better tomorrow
Even though I know there’s nothing going right
You’ll feel better tomorrow
If you want me to I’ll stay with you all night

Bonnie & Clyde (Getaway)
Matt Simons, Drew Pearson - 2016 / From 'When The Lights Go Down'

 

Long nights

Years gone by

Highlights of you and I

 

We will ride

We’ll be bulletproof

One more time

Nothing left to lose

 

I take all the money and make for the door

So keep the car running and head for the shore

I hope they’re all ready

It’s time to get saved

So keep your hands steady

We’ll make our getaway

 

Drive fast

Make our move

Don’t look back

Your aim is true

 

Long white lines

Split the world in two

On our side

With nothing left to lose

 

I take all the money and make for the door

So keep the car running and head for the shore

I hope they’re all ready

It’s time to get saved

So keep your hands steady

We’ll make our getaway

 

I take all the money and make for the door

So keep the car running and head for the shore

I hope they’re all ready

It’s time to get saved

So keep your hands steady

We’ll make our getaway

 

Nobody said we were heroes

Nobody said that we were heroes

Nobody said we were heroes

Nobody said that we were heroes

Nobody said we were heroes

Nobody said that we were heroes

Nobody said we were heroes

Nobody said that we were heroes

 

I take all the money and make for the door

So keep the car running and head for the shore

I hope they’re all ready

It’s time to get saved

So keep your hands steady

We’ll make our getaway

 

I take all the money and make for the door

So keep the car running and head for the shore

I hope they’re all ready

It’s time to get saved

So keep your hands steady

We’ll make our getaway

Catch & Release
Matt Simons, Erik Matthiasson - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

There’s a place I go to

Where no one knows me

It’s not lonely

It’s a necessary thing

 

It’s a place I made up

Find out what I’m made of

The nights I’ve stayed up

Counting stars and fighting sleep

 

Let it wash over me

I’m ready to lose my feet

Take me off to the place where one reveals life’s mystery

Steady on down the line

Lose every sense of time

Take it all in and wake up that small part of me

Day to day I’m blind to see

And find how far to go

 

Everybody got their reason

Everybody got their way

We’re just catching and releasing

What builds up throughout the day

It gets into your body

And it flows right through your blood

We can tell each other secrets

And remember how to love

 

Da da dum da dum dum dum

Da dum dum dum

Da dum dum

Da da dum da dum dum dum

Da dum dum dum

Da dum dum

 

There’s a place I’m going

No one knows me

If I breath real slowly

I let it out and let it in

 

It can be

terrifying

To be slowly dying

Also, clarifying

We end where we begin

 

So let it wash over me

I’m ready to lose my feet

Take me off to the place where one reveals life’s mystery

Steady on down the line

Lose every sense of time

Take it all in and wake up that small part of me

Day to day I’m blind to see

And find how far to go

 

Everybody got their reason

Everybody got their way

We’re just catching and releasing

What builds up throughout the day

It gets into your body

It flows right through your blood

We can tell each other secrets

And remember how to love

 

Da da dum da dum dum dum

Da dum dum dum

Da dum dum

Da da dum da dum dum dum

Da dum dum dum

Da dum dum

 

Everybody got their reason

Everybody got their way

We’re just catching and releasing

What builds up throughout the day

And it gets into your body

And it flows right through your blood

We can tell each other secrets

And remember how to love

Champagne Tears
Matt Simons/Kevin Fisher/Joy Deb/Linnea Deb/Anton Hård Af Segerstad 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

Do you ever wonder why you been chasing?
When you feel like running away
Got the truth inside your mind and you hate it
Left alone with no one to blame

Like you’ve run a million miles to erase it
Really you’ve been running in place
In the crowd you’re trying to climb, trying to make it
Losing every sense of you

Chorus:
Smiling on the outside
Dying underneath
I’ve been looking through you
You ain’t fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can’t you see it’s killing you softly and slowly?

Oh cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here’s to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears

Aren’t you tired of living life in a panic?
Things you said you’d never become
Left with someone you don’t like and abandoned
Every sense of you

Chorus

I’ll be ready, I’ll be waiting if you want to leave
Cause it’s not too late to be someone you want to be
Let it out, let it out, let it out

Oh cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here’s to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears

Smiling on the outside
Dying underneath
I’ve been looking through you
You ain’t fooling me

Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can’t you see it’s killing you softly and slowly?
Oh cry me those champagne tears

Cold
Matt Simons / Sean Myer

Summertime
It was always a vibe
You and I
In the heat of the night
Drinking
Tequila and lime
With you on the side
Thinking
This is the life
Just as long as you’re mine

From making love
To making you mad
To picking fights in the back of a cab when
We start shit then we’re taking it back and
Just like that I was making you laugh

Now I can’t even get a reaction
I can feel you pushing away
What happened to the love and passion we had

And when did you get so cold
When did we lose that heat
I’m waiting till you come home
And every time
I’m thinking you might
I’m losing my mind alone
Dont tell me I’m all you need
When you lie next to me
Cause every night
You put me on ice
Oh when did you get so
Cold
When did you get so
Cold
When did you get so

Over it
I’m the enemy
We go to bed and we don’t even speak
What
This is it? I can take it or leave us?
Stick around and just hope you don’t freeze us?

I can’t even get a reaction
I can feel you pushing away
What happened to the love and passion we had

Dust (Feat. Betty Who)
Matt Simons/Dan Nigro 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

There’s a part of us all that is weak
And it’s hard to admit what I need
So on nights that I’ve had two or three
I erase all the bad memories

I know you’re settled down and living so far away
So I knew that when I called you I would hear you say

Chorus:
Don’t kick the dust up
Just cause you’re lonely
And you got fucked up late at night

Don’t kick the dust up
Just cause I’m happy
And I’m the one that’s on your mind

Now it feels like you’re still holding on
It’s been so many years since I’ve been gone
I forgive you for what you did wrong
But the pain that you feel shouldn’t last so long

You know I’m settled down and living so far away
So don’t come calling cause you know that I will always say

Chorus repeat

Easy

Verse 1:
Can I shake my past
So much harder than it has to be
Now, when I look back Such a typical disaster-piece
The future’s looking bright
Now I got you dancing next to me
Cause we move so right
Got ‘em looking at a masterpiece

Pre:
I used to think the pain was love But now I’m seeing that was dumb

Chorus:
It’s easy like the summer
Keeping it a hundred
Let me tell you something, Anywhere I’ll follow your Lead me to the summit
Ooo you know I love it
Easy when we do what we do, So do what you do

Verse 2:
All the ones gone by
I don’t know who I was trying to be (I was trying to be), When I said that it was fire
Must have meant it masochistically (cause it burns)
I’m feeling more alive now I got you standing next to me Cause you shine so bright, got ‘em looking at a fantasy

Pre 2:
I used to think the pain was love But that’s just so ridiculous

Chorus

Bridge:
Come on, just come a little closer baby

Chorus

Post:
So do what you do So do what you do So do what you do

Emotionally Involved
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

All alone on the road done my miles now

I’m a soldier, a dark horse, a warrior
Hungry for, I don’t know, going oh so crazy from this distance
Take my soul, take everything I know, take control of my existence
You got emotional
You got emotional
We got emotionally involved
We got emotionally involved again

Saved my soul and it shows, such a friend to me
All I know’s you’re so close, now we’re family
But you got on, I got off, we got over it
Have some sense, I’ll be steady with my intent, but I know we can’t forget it

You got emotional
You got emotional
We got emotionally involved
We got emotionally involved again

I’ll never forgive myself if I lose you
I’ll never forgive myself if I lose you
Never forgive myself if I lose you
My whole life

You got emotional
You got emotional
We got emotionally involved
We got emotionally involved
We got emotionally involved
We got emotionally involved again

Fall In Line
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

I’ve been fine here on my own. In fact, I prefer to be alone
From these signs that you have shown, mixed up all that I thought I known

You’ve been looking out for your own time and
I was merely wondering if your’s and mine could ever align

Saw you just the other day, I caught you looking back my way
Then to your friends as if to say, “Yeah, this just might turn out ok”

I’ve been looking out for my own time.
And I’ve come around to thinking if you were mine, that could be fine.

I don’t know you all that well, maybe
Could be something special, time will tell, lady
Pay no mind, there’s no way that we gon’ find it alone
Nothing if we stall, heaven when we fall in line

I’ll try and show what this needs to survive
I think you’ll know when we arrive
Listen, I will think of you only
Ain’t you tired of lonely?
So do what is good for you
I’ve seen the way you act
You’ve been trying to attract me too

I don’t know you all that well, but maybe
Could be something special, time will tell, lady
Pay no mind
There’s no way that we gon’ find it alone
Nothing if we stall
Heaven when we fall in line

 

I don’t know you all that well, but maybe
Could be something special, time will tell, lady
Pay no mind
There’s no way that we gon’ find it alone
Nothing if we stall
Heaven when we fall in line

Garden
Matt Simons, Ash Howes and Olivia Sebastianeli - 2024

VERSE
When you’re gone,I starve
So I gotta be
Wherever you are

There’s no place too far
You’re giving me life
No matter how hard

PRE CHORUS
There’s sunshine
Every day that you’re mine
Stepping into your light
Even the flowers turn your way

Like staring at the sunrise
Oh, you keep me alive Alive, yeah

CHORUS
Got my heart racin’
Like a rollercoaster
If I want it, you got it
So baby pull me closer

Got a hunger growin’
Like it’s never over
If you’re feeding, I need it
So keep your garden open

VERSE 2
Everywhere you go
You nourish, my love
Mind, body and soul

I’m puttin’ down roots
Entangled with you
When I look in your eyes
All I see is the truth

PRE CHORUS
You’re sunshine
Everyday that you’re mine
Stepping into your light
Even the flowers turn your way

Like staring at the sunrise
Oh you keep me alive
Alive, alive

BRIDGE
All your touch rain it on me
All your love rain it on me
All your touch rain it on me
All your love rain it on me

CHORUS
Got my heart racin’
Like a rollercoaster
If I want it, you got it
So baby pull me closer
Got a hunger growin’
Like it’s never over
If you’re feeding, I need it
So keep your garden open

Garden (Acoustic)

VERSE
When you’re gone,I starve
So I gotta be
Wherever you are

There’s no place too far
You’re giving me life
No matter how hard

PRE CHORUS
There’s sunshine
Every day that you’re mine
Stepping into your light
Even the flowers turn your way

Like staring at the sunrise
Oh, you keep me alive Alive, yeah

CHORUS
Got my heart racin’
Like a rollercoaster
If I want it, you got it
So baby pull me closer

Got a hunger growin’
Like it’s never over
If you’re feeding, I need it
So keep your garden open

VERSE 2
Everywhere you go
You nourish, my love
Mind, body and soul

I’m puttin’ down roots
Entangled with you
When I look in your eyes
All I see is the truth

PRE CHORUS
You’re sunshine
Everyday that you’re mine
Stepping into your light
Even the flowers turn your way

Like staring at the sunrise
Oh you keep me alive
Alive, alive

BRIDGE
All your touch rain it on me
All your love rain it on me
All your touch rain it on me
All your love rain it on me

CHORUS
Got my heart racin’
Like a rollercoaster
If I want it, you got it
So baby pull me closer
Got a hunger growin’
Like it’s never over
If you’re feeding, I need it
So keep your garden open

Gone
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Get on out of town, roll the windows down
Feel that pouring rain, and leave it all behind
Disappears over my shoulder, turn a new leaf over
Freedom in my soul, I got nothing on my mind
I’m ’bout to put this away oh

Hear about it on the evening news
All about a man with nothing left to lose
We ain’t got nothing if we ain’t got shoes to run
I know my heart is true
So, what you want, what you gotta get me through
I ain’t got nothing if I ain’t got you to love
And I’m tired of being wrong, yes I’m tired of being wrong

I’m so tired of being wrong I’m gone

After the way things went, I’m not so innocent
The way I acted and the foolish things I said
And left behind with all those screams, sits a pile of my broken dreams
I could rummage through or I ditch it all instead
I’m ’bout to put this to rest oh
Come on

Hear about it on the evening news
All about a man with nothing left to lose
We ain’t got nothing if we ain’t got shoes to run
I know my heart is true
So, what you want, what you gotta get me through
I ain’t got nothing if I ain’t got you to love
And I’m tired of being wrong, oh I’m tired of being wrong

I’m so tired of being wrong I’m gone

For three long years I’ve been waiting, pick myself up off the floor
I feel my time here been wasted
I’m about to pack on up and get on out the door oh oh no
Hear about it on the evening news
All about a man with nothing left to lose
We ain’t got nothing if we ain’t got shoes to run
I know my heart is true
So, what you want, what you gotta get me through
I ain’t got nothing if I ain’t got you to love
And I’m tired of being wrong, yes I’m tired of being wrong, I’m so tired of being wrong I’m gone
And I’m tired of being wrong, oh so tired of being wrong, I’m so tired of being wrong I’m gone

I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Love of mine someday you will die
I’ll be close behind
I’ll follow you into the dark
No blinding lights or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks
I’ll follow you into the dark

Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised
By a lady in black and
Held my tongue, as she told me

“Son, fear is the heart of love”
So I never went back in
If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks
I’ll follow you into the dark
I’ll follow you into the dark

You and me, have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of our shoes are

All worn down
The time for sleep is now
There’s nothing to cry about
‘Cause we’ll hold each other soon in the blackest of rooms
If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no’s on their vacancy signs
If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you into the dark
I’ll follow you into the dark

Identity Crisis
Matt Simons/Caroline Pennell/Sean Myer - 2021

I thought I knew all the answers to what it’s all about
I never once had to think about what I’d do without
The kind of loving you gave me but now you let me down
I wasn’t ready to let it go but I’m over that now

I was always the easy come with the easy go
Facing the future without you well that ain’t easy no
The person I am alone is somebody I don’t know
I wanna be holding on to you but you let me go

Why did I do this to myself
Why did I do this to myself
Why did I do this to myself

Now I’m having an identity crisis
And you know that I don’t ever get like this
The adrenaline is doing my mind in
You’re my medicine but now I can’t find it

So I’m having an identity crisis
And I’m doing all I can just to fight it
But my head is spinning I can’t define it
I can’t hide it
No I can’t hide it

That I’m having an identity crisis

How did I go from the top of the world to underground
What do I do to get moving and say I’m better now
The hardest part is to start it up without knowing how
I can’t deny it I lied when
I said I’m over that now

Why did I do this to myself
Why did I do this to myself
Why did I do this to myself

Now I’m having an identity crisis
And you know that I don’t ever get like this
The adrenaline is doing my mind in
You’re my medicine but now I can’t find it

So I’m having an identity crisis
And I’m doing all I can just to fight it
But my head is spinning I can’t define it
I can’t hide it
No I can’t hide it

That I’m having an identity crisis

Who am I
Who am I
Who am I
Who am I without you

Who am I
Who am I
Who am I
Who am I without

If I Was Your Man
Matt Simons/Pete Harper/Jason Converse Blynn 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

When I wake up in the morning
I waste no time
I’m making my way to you

I know when I see you
You’ll be looking lovely
What can I do?

I know that you don’t even know me
I think you could love me
Just give it a chance

You’ve been making coffee
I could make you happy
If I was your man

Chorus:
If I was your man (If I was your man)
If I was your man (If I was your man)
If I was your man (If I was your man)
If I was your man (If I was your man)

If you got to know me
You’d see I’m delightful
I got a good job
I just need someone like you

I’m friendly with my father
And always call my mother
They’d like you too

Chorus

Don’t mean to make you uncomfortable
Does this happen to you every day?
Maybe you smile at everyone
Just had to tell you I’m feeling this way

You may think I’m acting crazy
I’m just saying lately you’ve been on my mind
Ooo ooo and maybe I don’t think it’s crazy for us to spend time

Chorus repeat

 

It’s Not Enough
Matt Simons, Gordon Groothedde - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

I’m a liar

 

I don’t think about you the same way

You’re an actress

Act like everything’s ok

I’m a drifter

I’ve been drifting far enough to say

I’ll be leaving

I’ll be gone before the day

 

There’s still love here

The first love is the one that never dies

You’re still shining

You’ve got diamonds in your eyes

Cut right through me

Deep within my soul I’m paralyzed

I release you

You can be someone else’s prize

 

It’s not enough, It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough

It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, It’s not enough

For me

 

The darkness of the basement

My parents basement

Where we used to love

We’re so quiet

We can hear the footsteps up above

I feel your body, I can taste your breath inside my lungs

You’re like fire, you’re like fire on my tongue

 

It’s not enough, It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough

It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, It’s not enough

For me

 

I don’t know myself without you

Afraid the world might swallow me whole

Starting over

With no one here and no where else to go

No excuses

Honestly, there’s something we both know

 

It’s not enough, It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough

It’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, it’s not enough, It’s not enough

For me

It’s You
Matt Simons 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

I’d say darling don’t cry
You’d say baby don’t leave
I should probably lie
Say it’s not you it’s me
But I know where you been
And I know what you did

Chorus:
I could say I love you but I won’t
Say that I forgive you but I don’t
I should tell you what’s true

You know it takes two to fall in love
It only took you to fuck it up
Yeah that’s just what you do
And now that we’re through
I can say it’s not me, it’s you

I’ve been trying to find
Any love that we had
I’ve been racking my mind
I’ve been feeling so bad
Well I’m leaving tonight

Chorus

Don’t give me your excuses just save your breath
You made your choice to do this to me instead
Oh and someone’s gotta lose
Well it’s not me
It’s you, oh

Chorus

Last To Know
Matt Simons/Tobias Karlsson 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

Please don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last to know

Please don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last to know

You know I care
Call it my pride
Tell me your secrets
Lies that you hide behind

Sing like a bird
Give it to me
Oh the truth is gonna set you free

Oh I knew it could be too good to be true with you
And it’s keeping me up at night

If some other man is loving you so
Tell me now and baby let me go

Chorus:
Please don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last to know

Please don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last
Don’t let me be the last to know

Don’t let me be the last to know

I’ll move along
The way that I do
I’ll save you my story
How I’m still in love with you

If you change your mind
Or alter your track
Well you know I’ll probably take you back

Cause I knew it could be too good to be true with you
And it’s keeping me up at night

If you’re moving on with somebody new
Just remember I’ve been good to you

Chorus repeat

 

Let Me Go On
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Here’s a tune, to formally know me
How I’m bound to get lonely once left to wait
We go out, we are bound to get wasted
Settle down and just taste it
Before it’s too late

Pestered with tales of our responsibilities

The world’s gonna bring you down to size
I got a plan to fight the fire in your eyes

Let me go, let me go
Let me go on

Let me go, let me go
Let me go on

So it goes, and I gotta be honest
Better get on this
Before it slips away
The day will come for realizing potential
It’s really not so suspenseful
Get left with bills to pay

Pestered with tales of all missed opportunities
Of youth being wasted on the young
I got a plan to fight the fire on your tongue

Let me go, let me go
Let me go on

Let me go, let me go
Let me go on

Life’s too short to take people at their word
Regardless of all you heard
Everyone I know says once a season
That they got a reason to change
Usually they just rearrange

Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go, let me go on
Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go, let me go on

Let me go, let me go
Let me go on

Light In You
Matt Simons, Andrew Allen - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

Somehow I’m worth your while

I get to hold you first thing in the morning

Then when I see you smile

Brighter than the new day the is dawning

It really me makes me wonder

If this is real life

Not a dream or spell I’m under

With the way, the way that you make me feel like

 

In a crowded room I’m the only one

That it’s just us two and the setting sun

There’s a light in you and everything you do

Once again it seems you found a way

To make me love you even more, then I loved you yesterday

 

I figured I’d you tell you why

I stay up some nights to hear you breathing

With every day that goes by

You’re the one and only I believe in

 

If you’ll agree to have me

Each day of your life

I’ll try to make you happy

Like the way, way that you make me feel like

Lose Control
Matt Simons, Steve Mac - 2016 / From 'When The Lights Go Down'

 

Escape with me
I’ll hold you tight
Let the sparks ignite the darkness while our hearts align

Run away with me leave it all behind
We’re estranged from limitation when we free our minds

Do you think we could lose control?
Get lifted when we lose it all We can be here in this crowd

Feel the music ringing out
With people ’round us singing loud
It’s just you and me right now
It’s just you and me right now
Do you think we could lose control?

(interlude)

Stay with me
Enjoy the ride
We can play here in this perfect take a look inside

Yeah lay with me
Our hearts alive
Find purpose and resurface from that pace we hide

Do you think we could lose control?
Get lifted when we lose it all
We can be here in this crowd
Feel the music ringing out
With people ’round us singing loud
It’s just you and me right now
It’s just you and me right now
Do you think we could lose control?

(interlude)

Escape with me
Do you think we could lose control?
Escape with me
Do you think we could lose control?
We can be here in this crowd
Feel the music ringing out
With people ’round us singing loud
It’s just you and me right now
It’s just you and me right now
Do you think we could lose control?

Made It Out Alright
Matt Simons, Dan Nigro, Trent Dabbs - 2018 / From 'After The Landslide'

 

We were just kids
Ignoring what our parents said
Sneaking down to the basement
Was it really love we were chasing?
Were we just trying to get away?

But truth is
It was a high we never tasted
As we were lying there naked
Is she gonna find it other places?

Well she did

So I’ll tell you heartbreak won’t break ya
I’ll let you know I sleep just fine
Even though the world’s gonna shake ya
The view is always worth the climb

If there’s another risk worth taking
Go and take it every time
Life is only what you make it

I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright
I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright

We were just kids
Ignoring what our parents did
Playing songs in a basement
Barely knew what we were saying
We were just trying to run away?

But truth is
It was a high we never tasted
While looking out on all the faces
Is everybody gonna hate it?
Well they did

So I’ll tell you heartbreak won’t break ya
I’ll let you know I sleep just fine
Even though the world’s gonna shake ya
The view is always worth the climb

If there’s another risk worth taking
Go and take take it every time
Life is only what you make it

I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright
I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright

You are not alone
No one knows the way to go
You are not alone
No one knows the way to go
You are not alone
No one knows the way to go
You are not alone

And I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright
I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright

I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright
I think we made it out alright
Think we made it out alright

Miss You More
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Back when we made our choice, miles behind us

Now when I hear your voice, I’m reminded of

All of the love we share, how we’re missing out

We got our lives to live
I know there’s no one like you here

I know there’s no one like you here

And we both have no intention of holding back

And I will miss you more
You know I grow so tired, tired of leaving

Motion will not be made by believing that

We can just sit right here, love will conquer all

That would be so naïve
I know there’s no one like you here

I know there’s no one like you here

And we both have no intention of holding back

And I will miss you more

 

I will miss you more, I will miss you more

Watch the months fly by

There’s hope for you and I

We must not lose sight

oh no no…
We’ll see how I carry on, on without you

Knowing that most my thoughts are all about you

Now, I will be waiting till we can be together

I can come home for good
I know there’s no one like you here

I know there’s no one like you here

And we both have no intention of holding back

And I will miss you more

I will miss you more

I will miss you more

I will miss you more

Not Falling Apart
Matt Simons/Dan Nigro 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

I don’t cry myself to sleep at night
I don’t think about you by my side, as my bride, no
You’re not the girl in every song I write
And I don’t miss your smile in every place that I go
You were never the one for me

Chorus:
So ask me how I’m doing oh I’m doing so well and
There’s nothing sad or pathetic that I can tell you
My life doesn’t resemble a dark, living hell
No I’m not, not falling apart

So ask me how I feel, oh I feel so good and
I’m doing much better than I thought that I would
No I’d never take you back even if I could
No I’m not, not falling apart
No I’m not, not falling apart at all

There’s not a freckle on your face that I’m missing and
I don’t lay on my floor in the fetal position
I don’t think about other guys you’ve been kissing
I don’t think about all the ways that you were different, no

You were never the one for me

Chorus

I don’t need your love
I don’t need your love
I don’t need your love

I don’t need your love
(You’re not the one)
I don’t need your love
(You’re not the one)

I don’t need your love
(You’re not the one)
I don’t need your love
(You’re not the one)

Chorus repeat

 

One Last Time
Matt Simons - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

It’s a little bit foreign

It’s a little bit strained

We’ve got our excuses, we’re emotionally drained

 

It’s a little familiar

Still a little bit blind

Fighting it is useless as we’re losing both our minds

 

Running on empty and I get you have to go

We’ll take it one more time before you hit the road

 

One last time, close the door

Come by it honestly, suddenly feeling

Two hearts breaking that thought they could make it

Take my hand, show me you don’t love me anymore

 

It’s a little bit tragic

A little bit sound

Yeah, damn good years of both our lives in a pile on the ground

 

It’s a little bit stupid

A little bit hard to conceive

That it all fades away when you leave

 

Running on empty and I get you have to go

We’ll take it one more time before you hit the road

 

One last time, close the door

Come by it honestly, suddenly feeling

Two hearts breaking that thought they could make it

Take my hand, show me you don’t love me anymore

 

Is this really over

Is this really over

Is this really over love

We had our whole lives

We had our whole lives

Take my hand, show me you don’t love me anymore

Take my hand, show me you don’t love me anymore

Open Up
Matt Simons/Emily Warren/Scott Harris/Dan Romer 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

 

You’re hard to talk to with that wall around you

Don’t look at me that way

 

What can I do to build that bridge to find you?

I don’t know what to say

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Tell me what you need so we don’t have this fight

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

I know it’s a front you’ve been hiding behind

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

 

I know you want to do that thing you always do

You get in your head

 

When that door stays shut it puts this space between us

You make it hard to guess

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Tell me what you need so we don’t have this fight

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

I know it’s a front you’ve been hiding behind

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

 

I don’t believe the last thing that I said’s

The real reason you’re so upset

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Tell me what you need so we don’t have this fight

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

I know it’s a front you’ve been hiding behind

 

Come on and open up

Open up, my love

Why don’t you tell me what’s really on your mind?

And open up

(come on and open up)

And open up

(come on and open up)

Yeah open up

(come on and open up)

And open up

 

Pieces

Matt Simons – 2013 / From ‘Pieces’

The moment we meet
Notice the sparks start to fly
Turn into heat
It’s gonna get cute you and I
Comes time to leave
Unaware hours gone by
Done the best to stay
Out of my own way

Starts with a phone call
Sided with caution, three day wait
Certain you’ll soon fall
Not gonna leave this up to fate
Picture together
All of my problems you erase
I don’t hear a peep
Guess I’ll get some sleep

Every time I drop, into pieces over nothing
At the top, with belief that this is something
But its not, lie awake and I am wasting time
Lying to my mind, lying to my mind

The very next weekend
My call finally gets returned
My will has been weakened
You’d think that by now I’d have learned
She says we can be friends
Bringing about my concern
Never had control
Back to feeling low

Every time I drop, into pieces over nothing
At the top, with belief that this is something
But its not, lie awake and I am wasting time
Lying to my mind, lying to my mind

There is a so fine line
Built to give way by design
That you walk at your own risk
of being left out in cold
Or so I’ve been told
I guess I haven’t been told, no no

Every time I drop, into pieces over nothing
At the top, with belief that this is something
But its not, lie awake and I am wasting time
Lying to my mind, lying to my mind, lying to my mind, lying to my mind

Say Goodbye
Matt Simons - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release '

 

Stay up lately while she’s sleeping by my side

Still heartbroken by the way that lovers lie

I used to need her now it’s hard to recall why

I think it’s time to say goodbye

 

How many days she did not call and did not write

All we’ve been through I never treated her unkind

Could not be bothered as she watched me lose my mind

She can take her precious time

 

But I still believe in love

Visions of a girl that I’ve been dreaming of

I can’t remember when exactly time was on my side

I think it’s time to say goodbye

 

It can be said that I’m naive and lack foresight

A firm believer in strong will and appetite

How many years now since they gave up that good fight

They had bark but could not bite

 

But I still believe in truth

Words that once they’re heard do not require proof

I still remember when it was that words were on my side

I think it’s time to say goodbye

 

How many parties and rooftop lonely nights

How many girls, how many fancy evening flights

Do I lay down before I get you off my sights

It’s been hard to feel alright

 

But I still believe in love

Visions of a life that I’ve been dreaming of

I can’t remember when exactly time was on my side

But I can finally say goodbye

 

Ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo

I can finally say goodbye

Self Control
Matt Simons/Hampus Lindvall/Linnea Sodahl - 2021

I got a fear of missing out mixed with crippling self doubt
And I can’t escape it
I got this pattern I’m repeating, it’s always so self-defeating
No, I can’t break it

One step and I’m over the line
One taste and it’s gonna rewind
Won’t quit till I’m outta my mind, I
I know it’s a matter of time
If I start here it’s a steady decline
I’m trying, I’m trying

I’ve been working on my self-control
I’ve been practicing how to say no
But I always answer when you call
Don’t do this to me

You said you only live once and you’re already out front
So, get going there with you
Yeah, you’re pulling me back in and
You’re probably gonna win cause I can’t resist you

One glass, then a bottle of wine
One more and it’s over to mine
One look and you’re staying the night, I
I’m weak when we’re dimming the lights
I know I’ll feel empty inside
I’m trying, I’m trying

I’ve been working on my self-control
I’ve been practicing how to say no
But I always answer when you call
Don’t do this to me

And you know I got no self control
So I feel like I should just stay home
But I always answer when you call
Don’t do this to me (don’t do this)

Don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this don’t don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this don’t don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this to me (don’t do this)

Don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this don’t don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this don’t don’t do this (don’t do this)
Don’t do this to me (don’t do this)

I’ve been working on my self-control
I’ve been practicing how to say no
But I always answer when you call
Don’t do this to me

And you know I got no self control
So I feel like I should just stay home
But I always answer when you call
Don’t do this to me

State Of Things
Matt Simons, Ian Keaggy, Brett McLaughlin - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

We don’t talk

No confrontation at all

Been building tension up high like a wall

So that explains the state of things

 

We still touch

Use making love like a crutch

I feel your heart barely beating for us

Yeah that explains the state of things

 

How many tears can we hold until somebody blinks

And how many holes can we put in this boat till it sinks, till it sinks

We can try to ignore it just comes back for more

It won’t go away, go away

So tell me how long we can both carry on in this state

State of things

 

We got stuck

This faded love’s not enough

With no direction we’re straight out of luck

Yeah that explains the state of things

 

How many tears can we hold until somebody blinks

How many holes can we put in this boat till it sinks, till it sinks

We can try to ignore it just comes back for more

It won’t go away, go away

So tell me how long we can both carry on in this state

State of things

 

Alone in the night though you’re still by my side

Nobody’s wrong but I know this ain’t right

 

So tell me how many tears can we hold until somebody b

links

And tell me how many holes can we put in this boat till

it sinks, till it sinks

We can try to ignore it just comes back for more

It won’t go away, go away

So tell me how long we can both carry on in this state

State of things

Summer With You
Matt Simons/Gordon Groothedde 2019 / From 'After The Landslide'

Oh I never cared much for being the new kid on the block
But we never stayed put in just one place for all that long anyway
Oh I never got used to all the different cities and funny ways that people talk
And I don’t remember them
But I remember when

In the backyard grass laying up for hours
We were waiting on a sign from a meteor shower
It was ‪3am

That summer with you
Feeling something so new it was almost frightening
But I put it in the back of my mind cause it felt like lightning
With the beat of our hearts in tune and our senses heightened
We were young and you were mine
That summer with you

Oh I never much cared for the damp in the air
But I guess that’s just the price you have pay on the Fourth of July
Ooo all the pitch black rolling hills
We were riding dirt back roads chasing fireworks shows
Oh I don’t remember them
But I remember when

I could feel your hand like it’s frozen in time
Cause when I looked down you were holding mine
And the world made sense
Oh it just made sense

That summer with you
When we snuck you out of the house while your daddy was snoring
And the summer rain came on fast in the heat it was pouring
And we ran all around till the sun came up in the morning
We were young and you were mine
That summer with you

How we’d dance to the beat of our drum
That summer with you
And we’d scream at the top of our lungs
That summer with you
Now you’re still on the tip of my tongue

That summer with you
Feeling something so new it was almost frightening
But I put it in the back of my mind cause it felt like lightning
With the beat of our hearts in tune and our senses heightened
We were young and you were mine

That summer with you
When we snuck you out of the house while your daddy was snoring
And the summer rain came on fast in the heat it was pouring
And we ran all around till the sun came up in the morning
We were young and you were mine
That summer with you

 

 

Take Me Home
Matt Simons, Jimmy Robbins - 2016 / From 'When The Lights Go Down'
I can’t get to sleep
I stayed up till
6am all week
I’m a mess
I can’t stay on my feet
I’m a danger to my health

 

People everywhere
It still feels lonely
They don’t seem to care
Cause they don’t know me
Maybe that’s not fair
I don’t even know myself

I can’t tell what I’ve been trying to find
All I know’s I’m going out my mind

I’ve spent too many nights in the corner
Oh, I used to be warm now I’m colder
I need you and your head on my shoulder
Take me home

I thought I knew before
When things were different
I walked out the door
So independent
Now I’m not so sure
With the way I’m missing you

I don’t know what I’ve been trying to prove
Or which mountains I’ve been trying to move

I’ve spent too many nights in the corner
Oh I used to be warm now I’m colder
I need you and your head on my shoulder
Take me home

I’m confusing what I’m trying to say
I’ll tell you in person babe, I’m on my way

I’ve spent too many nights in the corner
Oh I used to be warm now I’m colder
I need you and your head on my shoulder
Take me home

I’ve seen so many places I’m tired
All I know is I’m so uninspired
I need you and your soul by the fire
Take me home

I need you and your soul by the fire
Take me home
Take me home

Tear It Up
Matt Simons, Adam Watts, Grannin Arnold - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

Take me home

When I was younger

All the parts unknown would feed the hunger

When I’m on my own

Can’t help but wonder how life keeps on tearing me down

 

Take me back

Back to the time when

All the thoughts I lacked would keep me smiling

Now the cold hard facts

I seem to be finding by taking the long way around

 

So we cry when we try

While we empty out our eyes

We grin and we bear till the end

We can stare at the parts of our shattered broken hearts

Or we put them back together and then

We can tear it up all over again

 

(woah)

Tear it up all over again

(woah)

 

Take me in

I wanna feel it underneath my skin

Start taking over when I’m stretched too thin

And need a shoulder

To lean or for resting my head

 

So we cry when we try

While we empty out our eyes

We grin and we bear till the end

We can stare at the parts of our shattered broken hearts

Or we put them back together and then

We can tear it up all over again

 

(woah)

Tear it up all over again

(woah)

Tear it up all over again

(woah)

Tear it up all over again

 

Take me there

I gotta see it, need to find out where

How to believe that all the love we share

Can set me free and

Keep lifting me up when I’m down

Lifting me up when I’m down

 

The Boxer (Ft.Chris Ayer)
(Paul Simon) Published by Paul Simon Music, Universal Music Publishing Group. - 2021

I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station
Running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, la la lie la lie

Asking only workman’s wages
I go looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, la la lie la lie

Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
Wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters are not
Bleeding me
Leading me
Going home

In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
Though the fighter still remains, still remains

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, la la lie la lie

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, la la lie la lie

 

 

The Higher Ground
Matt Simons, Tamra Keenan, Gordon Groothedde - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

There’s something about the melody

How it hits when I close my eyes

Straight to paradise

There’s something about the harmony

And the way it makes me feel

Heaven knows that it’s real

 

Everywhere I go

I know I’m not alone

I’m smiling just because I feel the love and

It makes me feel at home

Even when I’m down

Within the heart of me I believe

We can find the higher ground

 

Woah woah

We can find the higher ground

Woah woah

We can find the higher ground

 

There’s something in the atmosphere

Something in the air I can’t describe

It makes me feel alive

And there’s something about the people here

That everybody seems to know

Like one collective soul

 

Everywhere I go

I know I’m not alone

I’m smiling just because I feel the love and

It makes me feel at home

Even when I’m down

Within the heart of me I believe

We can find the higher ground

 

Woah woah

We can find the higher ground

Woah woah

 

Come on up I want to feel it

Come on up I want to hear the sound

We can find the higher ground

 

Come on up I want to feel it

Come on up I want to hear the sound

We can find the higher ground

 

Woah woah

We can find the higher ground

Woah woah

We can find the higher ground

The Ones You Keep Close
Matt Simons, Rune Westberg - 2016 / From 'When The Lights Go Down'

 

Nobody knew me better

We went where nobody goes

Secrets that should have been guarded

Whenever we came to blows

 

You said words, words I won’t ever forget

I did things, things I will always regret

 

The brighter the light that a love shines

The darker the nights when it’s gone

The ones you keep close can hurt you the most

 

Nobody loved me better

You got the best in me out

We left our hearts wide open

The worst in me could not back down

 

I said words, words you won’t ever forget

You did things, things you will always regret

 

The deeper the trust that gets broken

The harder it is to repair

The ones you keep close can hurt you the most

 

(interlude)

 

We said words, words we won’t ever forget

We did things, things we will always regrets

 

The higher you let your love fly

Oh the harder you hit when it falls

The ones you keep close, they can hurt you the most

The ones you keep close can hurt you the most

To The Water
Matt Simons, Gordon Groothedde - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

I walked into the bedroom

On a rainy afternoon

And I heard her say to me

Not a moment too soon

 

She said child don’t you worry

I will always be with you

From the way she looked at me

I believed it to be true when she said

When she said

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

Steady and hold tight

I’m gonna be crossing over

To heaven and the great divide and I

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

Heavy and so wide

I can feel it pull me under

Steady as the rising tide

 

Take me to the water

By the road that leads you down

And lay me down

 

It was early in the evening

She gave all that she could give

And I felt her leaving me

But I learned how to live when

She said, when she said

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

Steady and hold tight

I’m gonna be crossing over

To heaven and the great divide and I

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

They’re heavy and so wide

I can feel it pull me under

Steady as the rising tide

 

Take me to the water

By the road that leads you down

And lay me down

Lay me down

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

Steady and hold tight

I’m gonna be crossing over

To heaven and the great divide and I

 

I’m ready to close my eyes

They’re heavy and so wide

I can feel it pull me under

Steady as the rising tide

 

Take me to the water

By the road that leads you down

Take me to the water

Scatter me around

Take me to the water

By the road that leads you down

Take me to the water

Scatter me around

Take me to the water

By the road that leads you down

 

And lay me down

Lay me down

Tonight
Matt Simons, Steve Daly - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

I, from the moment that I found you

I’ve tried spending all my time around you

Do you remember how many days all of the ways I’d try to frame it

Do you remember all of the useless, tired excuses that I came with

 

I’m gonna tell you tonight

I got plans of making you mine

And I know it’s just a matter of time

I’m positively out of my mind

 

I want to bring it to light

Everything I feel so it’s clear

Yeah, hopefully what you wanted to hear

I’m laying everything on the line

Tonight I’m gonna make you mine

 

I’ve tried to imagine life without you

But I find something so unique about you

I can remember, every time you’d smile I got a feeling

I can remember, all the nights when we got wild and hit the ceiling

 

I’m gonna tell you tonight

I got plans of making you mine

And I know it’s just a matter of time

I’m positively out of my mind

 

I want to bring it to light

Everything I feel so it’s clear

Yeah, hopefully what you wanted to hear

I’m laying everything on the line

Tonight I’m gonna make you mine

 

We both live wild and free, won’t pressure something to be

I know it’s better when the love comes naturally

Not stepping out on a whim, I’m hanging out on a limb

I know, I know

 

I’m gonna tell you tonight

I got plans of making you mine

and I know it’s just a matter of time

I’m positively out of my mind

 

I want to bring it to light

Everything I feel so it’s clear (so clear)

Yeah, hopefully what you wanted to hear

I’m laying everything on the line (on the line)

Tonight I’m gonna make you mine

Too Much
Matt Simons/Chris Ayer/Leon Paul Palmen/Hampus Lindvall - 2021

Oh I never know I’ve had enough till I had too much (till I had too much)
And I never know the parties over
Till the walls are closing in
The sun is up

Well I went and done and did it again
I took it too far and the part of me
I been trying to pretend isn’t there
Went and overshared with all my friends
Stare at the wall and recall all I said

Cause nobody knows if you meant it
God only knows how they felt while you said it
Do you know if you meant it?
Well I meant to keep it to myself

Oh I never know I’ve had enough
till I had too much (till I had too much)
And I never know the parties over
Till the walls are closing in
The sun is up
I trip over what I say
and I get in my own way
I don’t know what I turn into
Oh I never know I’ve had enough till I had too much
So I had too much

Well I’ll probably go and do it again
Looking for something strange to satisfy my lizard brain
When we evolved from creepy crawlers to charlemagne
The gods forgot to add a button to numb the pain

Do you know where we’re going?
Isn’t it crazy that nobody knows it
I gotta know where we’re going
And I can’t keep it to myself (say it again)

Oh I never know I’ve had enough
till I had too much (till I had too much)
And I never know the parties over
Till the walls are closing in
The sun is up
I trip over what I say
and I get in my own way
I don’t know what I turn into
Oh I never know I’ve had enough till I had too much
So I had too much

We Can Do Better
Matt Simons, Emily Warren, Scott Harris, Dan Romer - 2018 / From 'After The Landslide'
We can do better
We can do better

I know it hurt bad
Your mom left your dad when you were a little girl
You think I’m gonna leave cause history repeats, we’ve seen it around the world

All that we’re told is this’ll get old, we’ll cheat and we’ll both get hurt
Against all the odds we’ll pray to the gods
That this love works

When all we see is bad blood and mistakes
All we hear is sad songs ’bout heartbreaks
And no matter how long it takes
We’re not gonna give up

We can do better
We can do better
If nothing lasts forever

Things can get rough, we might drink too much and say things we shouldn’t say
Forgive and forget before we go to bed
We’ll be ok

Some people pretend it’s not gonna end and then up and walk away
But that isn’t me I’m not gonna leave
I’m here to stay

I ain’t worried cause the thing is
(We can do better)
I know you and I are different
(We can do better)
I don’t want to overthink it
(We can do better)
I know you and I are different

Weight On Me
Matt Simons, Gordon Groothedde - 2016 /From 'Catch & Release'

 

For a moment

All our cards are on the table

Why you gotta be so shy?

I’ll make something out of nothing if I’m able

I should just walk on by

 

There’s a picture

In your pocket of somebody

And he is waiting back at home

I’ve been climbing up your stairs and I am sorry

He’s got a right to know

Yeah he’s got a right to know

 

So I’m running out

Maybe you’ve got something that I dream about

We can’t keep on going around telling lies

Somewhere in this I became the other guy

I can’t be that

I don’t need that weight on me

And I don’t need that weight on me

 

There’s a world where I can picture us together and

It’d be different, it’d be right and

My conscious would be feeling so much better

Then I’ve been feeling tonight

Then I have been feeling tonight

 

So I’m running out

Maybe you’ve got something that I dream about

We can’t keep on going around telling lies

Somewhere in this I became the other guy

I can’t be that

I don’t need that weight on me

No, I don’t need that weight on me

 

We might be having our fun

But with us carry so much more

Now all this damage we’ve done

I’ve been the one alone at home before

 

And I don’t need that weight on me

I don’t need that weight on me

No, I don’t need that weight on me

I don’t need that weight on me

 

No, I don’t need that weight on me

And I don’t need that weight on me

What I’m Looking For
Matt Simons - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'
Well, my heart’s been bumping

I’ve been meaning to say something

I can get off my chest

 

Yeah I know I’ve been bit

I ain’t too proud to admit

That I can’t get no rest

 

I’ve been living ‘neath the surface

Feeling every kind of worthless

Now it’s time that it ends

 

And there ain’t no way

That I would ever be ok

With being just friends

 

So baby be good to me

Let me know you’re here to stay

Baby be good to me

You won’t ever run away

 

So be good to me lover all we got is each other

And I don’t need much more

Yeah I’m glad that I said it now I know I won’t regret it

You are what I’m looking for

Yeah, you’re what I’m looking for

 

I’ve been all around the world

and I meet a lot of girls

Now I can’t understand

 

No, it’s still unclear

How you got me standing here

With my heart in my hands

 

Yeah I did a lot of swimmin’

and I meet a lot of women

and they just don’t seem to spike

 

There’s no time to delay it

There’s no other way to say it

Girl, you got what I like

 

So baby be good to me

Let me know your search is done

Baby be good to me

And tell me I’m the only one

 

So be good to me lover all we got is each other

And I don’t need much more

Yeah I’m glad that I said it now I know I won’t regret it

You are what I’m looking for

Yeah, you’re what I’m looking for

 

Keep on looking down the line

We can leave the past behind us

Keep on looking down the line

We can leave the past behind us

Keep on looking down the line

We can leave the past behind us

Oh, well there’s nothing left to do

But fall more in love with you

 

So baby be good to me

Let me know you’re here to stay

Baby be good to me

You won’t ever run away

 

So baby be good to me

And oh, let me know your search is done

Baby be good to me

And tell me I’m the only one

 

So be good to me lover all we got is each other

And I don’t need much more

Yeah I’m glad that I said it now I know I won’t regret it

You are what I’m looking for

Yeah, you’re what I’m looking for

When The Lights Go Down
Matt Simons, James Newman, Tushar Apte - 2016 / From 'When The Lights Go Down'

 

When I wake in the night I’m reaching for you

There’s a place in my dreams where you’re still in the room

And you’re next to me somehow

 

There are times when I sleep on your side of the bed

Now since you’ve been away it’s as close as I get

Oh well, I should’ve learned by now

 

Morning light

Every now and then I start to feel alright

Days are going by, I know I’ll heal in time

Never thought I’d be scared of the dark

 

Now I only feel it when the lights go down

Feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

There are times I get drunk when I’m all by myself

Cause It helps me forget you’re with somebody else

Well, it don’t really work that well

 

And the other night I walked by your place

Hoping by chance that I might see your face

Oh now why did I think that would help

 

Morning light

Every now and then I start to feel alright

Days are going by, I know I’ll heal in time

Never thought I’d be scared of the dark

 

Now I only feel it when the lights go down

Feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

Oh I only feel it when the lights go down

Feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

I’ll pray for light

Four in the morning I don’t feel alright

Nights are growing long, I hope I heal in time

Never thought I’d be scared of the dark

 

Now I only feel it when the lights go down

I feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

Oh I only feel it when the lights go down

Feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

Oh I only feel it when the lights go down

Feel it when the lights go down

Only get that feeling when the night rolls around

Feel it when the night rolls around

 

When I wake in the night I’m reaching for you

With You
Matt Simons - 2013 / From 'Pieces'

 

Honest where I start from
I try and impart my wisdom
A combination of truth and fear
That’s the way it’s always been
My father and his before him
At times we hurt the ones we love so dear

I’ll be with you, I’ll be waiting for you
On the other side, on the other side
And the winds that blow they’ll guide you home
Get you through the night, get you through the night
It’ll all be right

My job to control you
Darling though I barely know you
Hoping you grow tired and start giving in
Spout of holy water, pour it on my only daughter
Maybe there’s a shot she’ll begin again

I’ll be with you, I’ll be waiting for you
On the other side, on the other side
And the winds that blow they’ll guide you home
Get you through the night, get you through the night
It’ll all be right

So wrong, and I’m here to make it right
For what it’s worth
And I’m sorry, yes I’m sorry
If you never felt the love, the love
The love that you deserve

I’ll be with you, I’ll be waiting for you
On the other side, on the other side
And the winds that blow they’ll guide you home
Get you through the night, get you through the night
It’ll all be right, it’ll all be right

You Can Come Back Home
Matt Simons, Gordon Groothedde - 2016 / From 'Catch & Release'

 

Take this heart now give it everything

It’s your life now live it, don’t shy away
Put all of you in it
I’ll be waiting here for you

Show your face don’t hide it and
I know you’re scared to spread your wings, don’t fight it
On your way, get that fire ignited
I’ll be waiting here for you

And I love to have you near me
But I hate to see you cry
Now, I need for you to hear me
Today we say goodbye
So you can come back home again

(oh oh oh)
You can come back home again
You can come back home again
You can come back home

The bed is yours now make it, and it’s where you lay
The time is now so take it and
Hear me say this love is strong, can’t break it
I’ll be waiting here for you, yeah

And I love to have you near me
But I hate to see you cry
Now I need for you to hear me

Today we say goodbye
So you can come back home again

(oh oh oh)
You can come back home again
You can come back home again
Yeah, you can come back home

(oh oh oh)
You can come back home again
You can come back home again
Yeah, you can come back home

Take a breath you’ll need it, all the way

Take this fire, now feed it
Hear me say it’s your time, believe it
I’ll be waiting here for you