 Genius Lyrics
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City and Colour – Blood
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I'd like to take my time / There's a good reason I must find / I want to put a few miles down / I'd like to feel my two feet on the ground / Another year's hard work done / I've
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City and Colour – Astronaut
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[Verse 1] / Give me one more year / Then I'll be around / From now until then / I'll just write my thoughts down / I'm feelin' lucky to be lost / Wonderin' what's comin' next
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City and Colour – The Girl
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The 10th song off of City and Colour’s widely popular and acclaimed album Bring Me Your Love
Dallas Green croons to the woman in his life, thanking her for everything she does and
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City and Colour – Confessions
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I've been up for days / Trying to find a way to write this confession down / Seems every line I write's a miss / At least this I'll admit / For what I've done, I am not proud / But
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City and Colour – Runaway
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I know I have earned it / But most days I don't feel like I deserve this / To the victor go the spoils / Through this mortal coil / Oh how the years have been so kind to me / [
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City and Colour – Sometimes
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If I was a simple man / Would we still walk hand in hand? / And if I suddenly went blind / Would you still look in my eyes? / What happens when I grow old? / And all my stories
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City and Colour – Missing
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So, now you're not there / But your ghost still burns in the air / Finally above us the waves have come / To take you away / And with this song I'll say goodbye / And thank you for
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City and Colour – Faithless
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Please believe in what I say / Cause I'm running out of ways to convey / This lack of faith in myself / That's becoming my own personal hell / Vicious cold now settles in / My
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City and Colour – Un-Thinkable - I'm Ready
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Moment of honesty / Someone's gotta take the lead tonight / Whose it gonna be? / I'm gonna sit right here / And tell you all that comes to me / If you have something to say / You
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City and Colour – Sleeping Sickness
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“Sleeping Sickness” is the second single from City and Colour’s second album, Bring Me Your Love. The song features vocals from Gordon Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip
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City and Colour – Take Care
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Take better care / Of yourself, my friend / For, you never know / When it will all / Come to an end / Cause only time will tell / When death shall ring his bell / So take better
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City and Colour – Sunflower
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When they found your body / Giant X's on your eyes / With your half of the ransom / You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet / Sweet sunflowers / And gave them / To the night
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City and Colour – Northern Wind
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[Verse 1] / You're the Northern Wind / Sending shivers down my spine / You're like fallen leaves / In an autumn night / You're the lullaby / That's singing me to sleep / You are
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City and Colour – Little Hell
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This song is about a couple which have problems because he has got an addiction. They are trying to get out of this little hell and he wonders if they can
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City and Colour – Hello, I'm in Delaware
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Track 3 from Green’s debut album “Sometimes,” explains the struggle of a relationship while always having to be away on tour, rarely ever coming home to see their partner.
The
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City and Colour – Friends
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Here I am again / Trading in a group of friends / To hopefully make amends / With everything I've done wrong / A last ditch effort / To find something better / And leave well
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City and Colour – Sensible Heart
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Dallas Green, the man behind the City and Colour moniker battles his emotional demons in Sensible Heart and finds a self-confidence in himself that he uses to beat out these demons
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City and Colour – Waiting...
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A coma might feel better than this / Attempting to discover where to begin / You're weighed down, you're full of something / Of sickness, and desertion / You're weighed down, you'
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City and Colour – What Makes a Man?
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This song is about a man facing fear after realizing he is about to die. He reflects on his past and is filled with regret, because he could have lived and been a better man. “What
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City and Colour – Lover Come Back
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“Lover Come Back” is the third single from City and Colour’s forthcoming album If I Should Go Before You.
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City and Colour – Boiled Frogs
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Old man sits at his desk / One year from retirement / And he's up for review / He's not quite sure what to do / Each passing year / The workload grows / I'm always wishing / I'm
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City and Colour – Forgive Me
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I'll cross my heart and hope to die / Before I have the chance to lie / To you, my dear, who I wish no harm / But I know in the end this will turn out wrong / See I've been known
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City and Colour – Without Warning
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[Verse 1] / Did someone say that this would be easy? / Did they proclaim this too shall pass? / One thing I know you learn for certain / Is that the good times, they never last / [
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City and Colour – The Death Of Me
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The third song off of City and Colour’s 2008 release Bring Me Your Love.
Green contemplates turning to the bottle to relieve the troubled thoughts in his mind.
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City and Colour – Underground
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[Verse 1] / Abandoned and lamenting / The wasted days were spent running from ourselves / Aimlessly ramblin' but hey man, at least we've got our health / Oh, but it ain't enough
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City and Colour – Woman
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“Woman” is the first single released from City and Colour’s fifth studio album If I Should Go Before You, to be released in October. It shows a departure from the acoustic folk
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City and Colour – After Disaster
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[Verse 1] / Now, I know this might be the hurt talkin' / But I can't imagine a world without us / I didn't think it would be this lonely / But now I feel it deep in my guts / Oh
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City and Colour – Grand Optimist
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I fear I'll die from complications / Complications due to things that I've left undone / That all my debts will be left unpaid / Feel like a cripple without a cane / I'm like a
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City and Colour – The Love Still Held Me Near
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[Verse 1] / Awake, awake, my darling / The moon is down / The waves, the waves, they are crashing all around / What would you do? / What would you say, if I was gone? / Losing your
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City and Colour – Like Knives
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Seems to me that this song is about a breakup.
The first paragraph symbolizes a fight.
In the 2nd, he blames himself for relying on something he thought would keep them together.
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City and Colour – Day Old Hate
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So let's face it this was never what you wanted / But I know it's fun to pretend / Now blank stares and empty threats / Are all I have, they're all I have / So drown me and if you
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City and Colour – Meant to Be
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[Verse 1] / When I grew up / I had big city dreams / I wondered if the Bible was wrong / What the hell were they teachin' me? / I was lost in thought / And I could not hide it
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City and Colour – Coming Home
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Well I've been down to Georgia / I've seen the streets in the West / I've driven down the 90, hell I've seen America's best / I've been through the Rockies, I've seen Saskatoon / I
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City and Colour – Bow Down to Love
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[Verse 1] / If I could gather up all the hate / Light a match and burn it all away / Then with compassion in my voice / I would sing this song / In hope that we might find a better
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City and Colour – Difficult Love
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[Verse 1] / What if I, what if I have nothing left / To heal you with? / I must stay calm, keep my head, then / Start again, workin' til the bitter end / Slowly let the light shine
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City and Colour – Thirst
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[Verse 1] / When I think of / Fates worse than death / All I can think of / Is something you said / You said we were golden / Bright like the sun / And now I am stranded / Knowing
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City and Colour – Things We Choose to Care About
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[Verse 1] / How can you just walk out on me / Without a trace? / I don't hear the sound of your voice / I can't see your face / On one side of the coin, there's a cure / But on the
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City and Colour – Strangers
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[Verse 1] / Don't wake me when this is over / And just let me drift amidst my dreams / I need to regain composure / And right now, my heart is still and asleep / [Pre-Chorus] / I
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City and Colour – Love Don't Live Here Anymore
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You abandoned me / Love don't live here anymore / Just a vacancy / Love don't live here anymore / When you lived inside of me / There was nothing I could conceive / That you wouldn
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City and Colour – Soon Enough
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Years from now / They will make water / From the reservoirs / Of our idiot tempers / Soon enough / Work and love will make a man out of you / Through and through / Your gentleman
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City and Colour – Weightless
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Come close, lay next to me / Come close, lay next to me / I need to tell you something important / So stay close, remain next to me / I need to feel important / Because it's your
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City and Colour – We Found Each Other in the Dark
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I heard the church bells from afar / But we found each other in the dark / And when the smoke does finally pass / We will rise above all the ash / Cause we're gonna live, we're
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City and Colour – Commentators
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I don’t wanna be revolutionary / No, I'm just looking for the sweetest melody / If I overstayed my welcome / I would take my things and leave / ‘Cause I’m not trying to be
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City and Colour – Constant Knot
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[Verse 1] / How much would you bet / That if I tried hard enough / I would spontaneously combust? / I wish I could disappear / And run away from all of my fear / I think I'm coming
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City and Colour (Ft. Dallas Green) – Sorrowing Man
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Sorrowing man is the 9th song in Little Hell (2011), released on June 7th.
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