Dan Swift

What Is, Was, Could Be

About the Album

Tracks

1. Window Painted Black (lyrics)

   I often wondered
   what's past the window
   with small kids numbered
   the night-time light glow

   Eight rooms with a rug
   back porch with some bugs
   I really don't know
   do you really know?

   I think the world is round
   my feet don't touch the ground
   they just slip and slide
   I have nowhere to hide
   I just can't seem to see
   please don't leave me be
   why don't we go now?

   I wish someone would take me to the world's show
   anything to prove that there is more than my front window

   I love the outside
   where I breathe freely
   where the table is
   with the sky-blue sea

   sectioned off with a fence
   man, that grass is dense
   i really don't know
   do you really know

   <chorus>

   see my matted hair?
   I don't have a care
   I really don't know
   Do you really know?

   I think the world is round
   my feet don't touch the ground
   they just slip and slide
   I have nowhere to hide
   I just can't seem to see
   please don't leave me be
   why don't we go now?

   Take me with you to the world's show
   Why don't you see for yourself what's beyond the front window

2. Make Believe (lyrics)

   and you're going around and you're falling around the world
   and you're seeing what's there and you're seeing what's bought and sold
   and you try to get by and you're trying too hard to not cry
   cause you walk around your little world of make believe

   then you try for this
   but to try you have to miss

   you go
   don't go
   but you have to go
   don't go
   but you have to go
   say so
   but you have to know
   you go

   and you're trying to run and you're betting it all on your eyes
   and you're playing the games and you're going for nothing good bye
   and you're trying to go but you're stuck inside with the snow
   cause it's a broken globe that is filled with make believe snow

   <chorus>
   <bridge>

   and you're trying to run and you're betting it all on your grin
   and you're playing your games and you're going for nothing but fame
   and you're trying to go but you're stuck inside with the snow
   cause it's a broken globe that is filled with everything but snow

   <chorus>

3. Never Know (lyrics)

   we go away for awhile
   and we want you to stay
   and we're okay for now
   and it must be this way

   you don't know who you are
   but you're all that you can be
   you are who you are
   and you are who we see

   and you want
   and you want
   and you want what you want
   you want to be free and you want you to be me

   and you are where right now
   what's with the frown
   we see some space
   that star's like a face

   <chorus>

   and you've gone away back to here
   you're in the clear
   what's this something new
   I don't know conspiracy fears

   you know who you are
   but you're all that you can be
   you are who you are
   and you are who we see

   and you want
   and you want
   and you want
   what you want
   you want to be free and you want you to be me

   and you want
   and you want
   and you want
   what you want you want to be free and you want you to be

4. File Under Chapyer 11 (lyrics)

   money's a funny thing it makes the world go round
   what happens when the well dries up and when you go sky-bound?

   some say there is no god
   some say there are some gods
   you decide what's true
   this one is for you

   I got a call from god he said heaven is done
   how can this be, you're out of money?
   different arrangements, what do you mean?
   make some new goals you're pawning off souls

   people cash in all their bonds they should use them now
   they're not worthless can't use them in the new town

   <chorus>

   issue stocks and bonds
   maybe add some cons
   pyramid schemes
   works on the tv
   cook the books somehow
   all is good for now

   we have investors now dish out graces galore
   we have more money now from the brand new gift store

   <chorus>

   I got a call from god he said heaven is done
   how can this be

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