 Genius Lyrics
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Heartless Bastards – Only For You
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On “Only for You”, I was trying to make myself sound like Curtis Mayfield. I was inspired by… I love the way he sings real close to the mic. But when I was talking to the band
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Heartless Bastards – Marathon
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[Verse] / Staring out at the city skylights / A marathon is going down the street / And we're all racing for our own reasons / And sometimes in the middle, we all meet / [Chorus
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Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
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All you feel and you taste / And you wanna go higher so what do you do? / And so you peek into the mountain where your desire goes / Spilled blood on this place / It only echoes
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Heartless Bastards – Blue Day
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It's been a long day / When nothin' seems to be goin' my way / I really don't need a lot / Just tryin' to hold on to what I got / Lord knows it's been a while / Since my face has
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Heartless Bastards – Hold Your Head High
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I've made a lot of choices / Most have not been wise / But I have some really good friends / I have been fortunate enough to find / They get me through the lonely days / When I
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Heartless Bastards – Sway
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My heart has drifted out into a place I cannot find / And the days go by searching all the time / I was searching all, searching all the time / I looked into the eyes, the eyes of
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Heartless Bastards – Brazen
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And I, I was up past the dawn / Spots of twilight gone / I been held by the wounds that speak / That speak with bitter tongue / Things eclipsing all the time / For better and worse
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Heartless Bastards – Came A Long Way
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Sometimes a silence seems so loud to me / And I'm thinkin' out loud and I'm tryin' to keep / Too much reflection isn't healthy for me / Present and future is where I need to be
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Heartless Bastards – Into the Open
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I just want to go / But I didn't wanna let go / I just want to go / But I didn't wanna let go / And I find myself / In a fleeting moment / Travelin' far and wide / To the great big
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Heartless Bastards – A Beautiful Life
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[Verse 1] / I can see now the road is clear, been looking for the signs / There to steer me / Break a mold that's ages old, shake patterns from the trees / Towering above me / Oh
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Heartless Bastards – Had To Go
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Oh there was silence thinly veiled as peace / Then oh the lightning struck and it started a fire / Oh we lost all patience, things they keep on turning / When you take the bark all
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Heartless Bastards – Piano Song
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You, you cannot take anything away from me / My spirit won't break 'cause there's nothin' left, you see? / You wanna take your poison arrow and pierce it through my heart / But my
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Heartless Bastards – You Never Know
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[Verse 1] / If I ask you to stay, would you hold me in your arms? / What a beautiful thing this could be, oh, woah / And I'd risk my heart breaking just to see where this could
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Heartless Bastards – Early In the Morning
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Early in the mornin' I woke up out of bed / All my thoughts are runnin' back, they're runnin' through my head / Of how you want to debate everything you hear / And I just want to
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Heartless Bastards – How Low
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[Verse 1] / People, can we get together and help each other out? / The temperature is rising, oh / Oh, the world is filled with so much greed / Can we ask ourselves how much we
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Heartless Bastards – Gray
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Sometimes I feel a little bit gray in the autumn / Gray in the autumn / And I'm lookin' at things in a new way / Sittin' in my skin, I'm gettin' up again / And I got these words on
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Heartless Bastards – All This Time
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[Verse] / All these places part of me / It fills me up and swallows me / My emotions wrapped in vines / Are reaching for the sun that shines / Oh, I must say I adore ya / But
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Heartless Bastards – Wide Awake
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I am so wide awake / So wired and I don't like this state / I'm seein' into spots / That narrow into places inside / I fought for what I got / And when I sleep, the dust remains
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Heartless Bastards – Runnin
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For every calm there is a storm / But it is often out of view / It changes paths, it changes forms / Just like our souls, like they often do / Broke the calm, strain in the back
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Heartless Bastards – Revolution
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[Verse 1] / Where you going, my friend? / Have you forgotten when / There was a time filled with hope instead of fear that's in your heart? / There was a time when life was simple
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Heartless Bastards – So Quiet
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It was oh so quiet / Oh it was so quiet that winter / I was dreaming / Dreaming of your sound / Spring came / Along with the spring came good fortune / Laughing all day / Nothing
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Heartless Bastards – Out At Sea
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I packed up and headed to the City of Light / To escape from pain and for thrills / I walked around through the bottom of the ocean / I took a deep breath and drank through my
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Heartless Bastards – Hi-Line
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[Verse 1] / Oh, oh, remembering when / We were so young and innocent, oh-oh / So young and free / Smell of pine on my mind / Running through tall grasses on / On the Hi-Line / [
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Heartless Bastards – Skin and Bone
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[Verse] / Spent my time here as a child / And now I'm passing through here / And it's all coming back again / Dilapidated buildings down on Main / This small town was crumbling
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Heartless Bastards – No Pointing Arrows
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I am a-comin' to the end of this road / My cursed hands, they are worn and swollen / For a long time, I've been carryin' this load / Now I'm restin' my arms of these things have
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Heartless Bastards – Onions
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Most of my life I've spent up in the air / Waitin' for time to come down / And now my virtue is well past its curfew / I've got to get out of this town / Madness, a train that has
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Heartless Bastards – Bye Bye Baby Blues
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[Verse 1] / Well, it's bye-bye, pretty baby, and, baby, bye-bye / Well, it's bye-bye, pretty baby, pretty baby, bye-bye / Well, I'll probably never see you anymore / May God bless
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Heartless Bastards – Got to Have Rock and Roll
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[Chorus] / And, oh, whenever you're feeling down / Well, you gotta have, gotta have, you gotta have rock and roll / And, oh, if you need a pick-me-up / Well, you gotta have, gotta
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Heartless Bastards – Swamp Song
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Oh ramblings and a nervous reaction / In certain situations and factions / I want to hold my ground / So I don't let them get me down / I'm tryin' not to open my mouth / 'Cause
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Heartless Bastards – Witchy Poo
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Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what you know / Hold on to what
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Heartless Bastards – Parted Ways
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[Verse 1] / And the wind, it tore all through the atmosphere / And the air, it filled with dust / Searching for a connection, I went in every direction / Some places I've already
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Heartless Bastards – The Fool
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[Verse 1] / I’ve got so much love to give / Need you in my life / I need someone to hold me / Someone to hold me tight / Wanna feel the warmth of your skin / Hearts beat in time
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Heartless Bastards – Doesn’t Matter Now
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[Chorus] / No use to sit and wonder why / Baby, it don't matter now / No use to sit and wonder why / Baby, it don't matter now / [Verse] / You got to let go of your worry / Oh
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Heartless Bastards – The River
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[Verse] / Bless the water that carries me, carries me across the river / Bless the water that carries me onto the other side / Let the water carry me, carry me across the river
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Heartless Bastards – Into the Light
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[Verse] / Oh won’t you come with me through the buzzing streets? / I’ve been so lonely, I just can’t keep from crying / Oh won’t you come with me? / I need to find myself here in
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Heartless Bastards – Valley of Debris
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Help, this feeling has captured your soul / It's holding on tight and it won't let you go / For a long time, your head's been in the sand / Try to help out, but you won't let me in
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Heartless Bastards – Lazy
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Don't (?) feel so guilty / Oh, and full of sin / And I don't know where to begin / Or where to end / And I want to go back home / And I want to go back home / Where I won't feel so
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Heartless Bastards – Searching For the Ghost
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[Verse] / Hotel rooms and highway signs / And other books to pass the time / Empty cans and bottles lying / This room is almost like a shrine / To an idea and a place / We've all
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Heartless Bastards – The Will Song
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Wanna keep on movin', I am hanging on a wire / I've lost reception from the faded spire / And when the silence all comes crashin' down / There's nothin' left but for you to make a
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Heartless Bastards – Nothing Seems the Same
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Oh nothin' seems the same / I'm trying to maintain / Spinnin' round like a hurricane / I don't want to remain / I don't want to fall into / Into the wicked sun / I don't want to
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Heartless Bastards – Pass and Fail
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Well it's hard to predict in the end what you'll get / When you find me a wall that is infinitely tall / And the strength it takes to operate / Under the guidance of my primitive
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Heartless Bastards – Journey
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I feel so idle / Like I’m watching the world go by / The bustle of the city / Yeah it is making me wanna thrive / We're making our way to the sun / Where the
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Heartless Bastards – Dust
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[Verse 1] / Won't you come with me to the age of light? / Another door will open in the dawn / I've been sleeping deep underneath the willow tree / It's time to wake up, it's
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Heartless Bastards – The Thinker
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[Verse 1] / I went to the station / With a heavy load / I missed my connection / And I started to go / But there was a light shining in the isle / It said, "Where are you going
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Heartless Bastards – Wind Up Bird
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[Verse 1] / I know you're lying, but you don't even know / I entertain myself with the thought / Like a wind-up bird, watch you go, go, go / Tryin' to seem like you're something
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