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Sometimes Things Don't Turn Out How You Thought They Would

by Thomas Paessler Band

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1.
I am a Ghost 05:15
I am a ghost, my body has gone oh please, don't come looking for me I'm over across the ether through the telephone speaker my body lies over the sea I am a ghost, electronic apparition oh please, come conjure me up I'm just on the other side of this ephemeral divide and the day is not long coming when we can give it up Oh, there's a pain in leaving Oh, one I won't quite touch and I can't escape the lingering feeling tomorrow's dawn will still shine on those whom my heart has loved I am a lover, my body was wrong to try to keep hold of you I strove to lay claim to what could not be maintained when all that we had was half-true I am a lover, all vigor and fire ready to face for your sake what I must but all my effort spent would not defeat your indifference and I pray it's not long coming when I can give you up Oh, there's a pain in seeing you Oh, one I won't quite touch though your feelings have died the look in my eyes says always and forever you'll mean just as much I am a man, my body is strong the one that you gave to me it's endowed with volition and human ambition to pursue what life is meant to be I am a man, flesh and bone and spirit and oh, try as I might it seems my efforts have borne a disastrous storm while I wait for the day coming please, get me through this night Oh, there's a pain in needing Oh, one my pride can't touch the truth uncovers as my earnest hands flutter and blow away in the breeze that you're more than a crutch and joy, joy comes in the morning and joy, joy comes in our mourning and joy, joy comes without warning
2.
Manhattan in the morning I followed you to Bedford Ave. I walked on the streets as you lay between your sheets and waited for you to lift your sleeping head last night's kiss still lingers on my lips and sits on the stoop of my mind with what I'd hoped torn asunder it leaves me to wonder is this what I came hoping to find? yes it is. I needed to sit with you, by the water's edge look at that skyline, and hardly say a word I needed to sit alone by the water's edge lift my eyes to heaven, and finally come to terms The Staten island ferry rolling gently through the waves I stood in front of the wind to protect you from it like you stood to protect me from me I can see what I'd kept hidden from myself though I've known it for a time to be true you can do better than this, and I have to admit that I pray a day is coming when I can do at least as good as you I needed to sit with you, in times square's light look at those lights, and hardly say a word I needed to sit alone, in times square's light set my face towards the present, and my feet on the earth oh, you know I think you hung the moon oh, you know I didn't know what else to do oh, we both know what we were hoping to find but perhaps in the end you were never supposed to be mine and that's fine. Airports in the morning but until then New York all afternoon but it's you and me that make a place magic, you see we make it what it's meant to be
3.
Out The Door 03:42
So close, how's it go? but still a million miles away and traveling in the other direction further and further every day until the memory of what had been is just a speck on the horizon that you scan for signs of hope but find nothing to lay your eyes on because it's gone You're never going to find what you're looking for no you're never going to find what you're looking for you might as well go ahead and settle for second best you're never going to find what you're looking for she already walked out the door you might as well go ahead and settle for second best you just imagined it, you say to try and deal with the pain I fabricated this kind of romance real people don't feel this way I'm a victim of poetry, and love songs and my own petty hope and the list of the disillusioned is pretty long so at least I'm not alone. You're never going to find what you're looking for no you're never going to find what you're looking for you might as well go ahead and settle for second best you're never going to find what you're looking for she already walked out the door you might as well go ahead and settle for second best So close, how's it go? but still a million miles away oh, I'm done waiting for someday to be today Oh I know I can find what I'm looking for I know I can find what I'm looking for I won't give this heart over to distress
4.
the final nail in the final coffin and I put it in the earth amongst the other memories that speak of what we were and I can still hear their murmur as I walk amongst the tombs for you can't really lay to rest what's still living in your bones so I leave the gates wide open to revisit from time to time to pay my solemn respects and peace therein to find and so we started like we would end a house abandoned to the wind full of effects of what was left behind and ghosts of a life never realized and these days all I find are old corks from our wine that speak of different times, different times The first word on the first page of a new chapter of life that builds on all that's taken place in between you and I in what has become two diverging tales that I thought would be just one I guess I missed the plot twist in a story neither spun but we embraced it and each other as I kissed you on the cheek the stage directions read "exit stage left" and thus I took my leave and so we ended like we would start with a loving embrace and heavy heart and an ocean of distance that lay in between a new life for you, and a new life for me and these days all I don't mind these old corks from our wine that speak of different times, different times
5.
You can call me a drunk and you can call me a fool and I'll tell you that I'm a happy one except when things don't come through and granted things don't come through most of the time but half the fun is getting there with the other half hanging on the line Oh, sometimes things don't turn out how you thought they would that don't make it bad and that don't make it good I just give my whole self to each opportunity I've met so if I ever have to sing this song, I do it with no regrets I thought she was the one I for her, and she for me if things kept going our way happily ever after we'd be so I threw myself all in but when all was said and done reality said it was over when it'd only just begun Oh, sometimes things don't turn out how you thought they would that don't make it bad and that don't make it good I just give my whole self to each opportunity I've met so if I ever have to sing this song, I do it with no regrets

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Love is great, but the reality is that sometimes things don't turn out how we thought they would.

That's ok too...after you stop crying. :P

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released December 20, 2009

everything - Thomas Paessler
album art - Emily Ferrell

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