1. |
All I Know
01:46
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D, A, E
All i know is that i hold love close
Why am i letting these things get to me
Whats an occasion if were doing the same old thing?
All i really got is this settled past rhythm
Im showing myself, but at least im humble
These parrell visions got me feeling like im in a sitcom
And if im just a selfish fourth kind of jesus
Praising my god as i sin myself dead
I really do appreciate a lie without a reason
If it lets me into the shadow of a person
Cause all that im really craving
Is this love im receprcating
But you know love is a unique thing
And there aint no one like u
Oh were all jsut talking within the wind
U know you got that look that i cant resist
All u really need to do is ask
And we can let the love perhaps
All of this is just a little to reeal
Expectations are taking a little to real
There starting to take their toll their toll
I just want to be on the road
Knowing i can come and goooo
some things will never change
Im still doing the same old things
Thats okay i really cant complain
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2. |
The Happier I Get
02:55
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C,G, am,E, F, C, F, G
The happier i get the harder this all gets
each breath a stab in my chest each thought soldiering me along
Im Pretending for today laughing at the pain that bleeding away
In my body, and in my mind, im feeling myself slowly die
The sadder that this all seems
I naturally seeing the beauty of a beast
I have only caught a glimpse
Before i lived within this moment
You know this world is more than
I understand but it doest really bother me
As long as i have a you and a I
These things never seemed more alright
Give it time the colors creep and bring
The black and white never ever so sweet
You'll be gone again pretending
Wheres the reason why your singing?
You know im starting to realize
The closer i feel to dying
The more i really am alive
They say we all just starts
Made from the universe
If you believe your gonna be alright
Well you know, you just may be
And if your not
What is life but a one shot opportunity
The happier i get the harder this all gets
each breath a stab in my chest each thought shouldering you along
Im Pretending for today laughing at the pain that bleeding away
In your body, and in you mind, im feeling myself slowly die
The sadder that this all seems
you naturally seeing the beauty of a beast
you only really caught a glimpse
Before you lived within the moment
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3. |
You Know ft Sam Robinson
02:09
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You know i kindly take advice, rather than giving my own
I blindly trust in others, even though I'm an old soul
Givin to the feelin that you know is within
Where im going? How I've been and why did it happen
The sex i now get is very different
When i with my reason why, love can not be disguised
To all the lovely friends that i could not meet
Ill sing and be what you mean to me
You Know how (optional)
Lucky you are, to end with an I love you
You know how
Amazing it is, coming back home to you
Sometimes im staying, sometimes im going
I like the idea of not knowing
Something things are meant to be said out loud
Some things will always get ya down
But you know how
Lucky you are, to end with an I love you
You know how
Amazing it is, coming back home to you
You know its sounds crazy but i really do love you
Even if ive yet to meet you
The answer is right here isnt it clear
Sing it one more time before we disappear
x2
You Know how (optional)
Lucky you are, to end with an I love you
You know how
Amazing it is, coming back home to you
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4. |
I miss
01:42
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Deep G Surrounded by second chords, G the type chords
Im tired of the ordinary
Ive seen days just like this
I sit and think of the moments
Were i forgot i existed
I miss not having a care in the world
I miss seeing the beauty of a girl in the objects of the world
I miss how it all went so slow
I miss not missing how yesterday was
I miss the open road to the soul
I miss being happy with myself
I miss being unprepared
Its how i learned the most
Oh how i feel old
I miss the morning mists, and the sunrises too
I miss staying up all night till dawn shown through
I miss knowing i may just die happy
I miss knowing ill keep a moment forever with me
I miss being as opposed to living
I miss making love to the sea
I miss ambitiously leaving without reason
and Coming back just a little different
But most of all i miss the moments in which
I Realized I was still blind up just what is life is
And all these days i miss
Look similar to this
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5. |
I promise
01:37
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Cap 6 d a e a
I promise I'll come can't control the road
I promise I'll try with little hope
I promise I'll miss every bit
If this feels long imagine a world without it
I promise I'll miss like we talked
I promise without you I'll feel a little bit lost
So I'll swear to a future even though I'm not sure
Better than being speechless and filled with tears
I promise to see you in your own way
I promise I'll teasily look away
I promise I'll change but stay the same
And try to be a little more sexy
I promise I'll keep you in mind
Even if I'm creepin into another's life
I promise next time won't have an end
I promise honestly with it a fib
I promise we'll be back just look at now
Not to closely I'm one sad clown
I promise I'll write you everyday
I promise to promise my life away
I promise to promise
I'll mean it everyone time
I Swear it with my pinky
your the love of my life
ill promise youll whole family
if thats what make you happy
ill promise to the bitter end
you and i forever like cement
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6. |
How?
02:17
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C, G, Am, B7, C G7 A# F7
How
How could you leave without saying a word
Another year gone oh never before
Another time with me forever
Childhood memoirs
I adore your honesty
Yet question your false peace
This seems to be
The reason why
This aint worth a try
I understand the need to pretend
Nature treats all the same
Its just a shame we've come all this way
To only slowly fade
On the bright side
Ive had the time of my life
I laughed i smiled i feel like i can die
Knowing i can believe in such sweet things
If this wasn't fate well i cant wait
All i really want was a chance to amend
Grab the hand of understanding
I need to keep in mind
Not to drink from anothers wine
We may move on
But youll never be gone
Some of myself will be left with you
I just want to say Thank you
How could you leave without saying a word
Another year gone oh never before
Another time with me forever
Childhood memoirs
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7. |
Lost
01:39
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Where can i go?
I got no home?
Gots no place
To call my own
Where can i find?
Diamond of life
If it only
Might be there
How come these things?
Never work out
exactly how i want them to
Why do i always end up thinking myself awake at night?
Im lost
I dont know what im doing, saying, craving, misbehaving just because
Oh im so just
Im on my way to somewhere wether its heaven or hell forever
i really dont care
I dont know, i dont care
Im not sure
what it is
i really fear
in the morning, look in the mirror
another day
wandering in place
Who am i?
what do i do?
How soon will i escape this doom?
Of my heart, of my head, of my soul
am i dead yet?
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8. |
Everything Around Me
01:25
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D c g cap2? whatever feels right
i paint you on to everything around me
somehow now you got me making
my life into something living
someone looking foward to see
how youll be greeted with grief
will love sweep you by the feet
can age change who you are
does another take your heart
your the only thing i really think about
everything else is something im trying to drown out
i cant even seem to touch myself
without you here to help
tell me you feel it to
Tell me your opinion of the truth
Does it eat away at you
The way it does to me
is the past always frozen
what really is a moment
Under the cover of darkness
alll you need is to stare up
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A, C#M, D, E
I have this picture frame of you in my room
Its what i use when im blue and away from you
Its a reminder we will be well soon
Theres comfort knowing that you got one too
I give all of myself without a question
You give me the confidence that no one ever has
Its a strange thing being accepted as
No one other than who I am
I still keep the painting we did together
I look at it sometimes as a reminder
Of what i have what i lost and what i miss
Man i would give it all to be in the moment
I still feel the real something that you give me
Its what reveals the purpose of days
I dont think it will ever go away
Like you in the memory of that picture frame
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10. |
A lifetime in a day
01:56
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Am, F, G, C
A day can feel like a lifetime
When your a sucker for the sad
Writing songs for sanity
Hoping it will take you back
Night and Day its all the same
Either or your still blue
Remember yesterday when your free
thinking of everything you can be
A day can feel like a lifetime
when time is whats on your mind
you didnt choose to be alone
Out in the freezing cold
A day can feel like a lifetime when you realize the sunsets quick
How many days will you really have a chance with it
A lifetime can feel like a day
looking back of the past age
Oh weren't those the days
when i hadn't discovered anything
A day can feel like a lifetime
when money is an excuse for living
Only to lose that bet that you made from the beginning
A day can feel like a lifetime
When your a sucker for the sad
Writing songs for sanity
Hoping it will take you back
Night and Day its all the same
Either or your still blue
Remember yesterday when your free
thinking of everything you can be
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11. |
Make Love Familiar
01:35
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E A E A
How am i supposed to stick to silly sayin’s
When i know there uh whole greater meaning
Sometime since ive been gifted influence
I bestow in the we met
Your face is so honest, im down on my knees
You smell as if heaven just descended upon me
Hard to hold my heart from altar proposals
Im Starting to subtly grow up my stuble
B A BA
Give me the only thing ill ever need
Lets make our love familiar
As strange as it seems we can get
Closer than anyone has ever been
It just takes a second to start the rest of your life
So why wait when its gone in the blink of an eye
Why do i feel a need to posses u
Ive always played fair
But for once my inner beast
Is getting the best of me
B A BA
Give me the only thing ill ever need
Lets make our love familiar
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12. |
Up Up Up
01:40
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Up up up
G, em, c, em, g
Up up up and away we go
Dont know how to do what im told
Searching for, I wish i knew
Then maybe i would have a chance to
Know where to start
Im so young, to old, so many missing parts
You know even if i wanted to
I got no clue where to start
Up up up can you take me there
The place where my brain rest, the world at my fingers (heart everywhere)
Only way to see the picture
Is to go above and follow this hope
But Do i dare wish upon a mystery
Ill told to chase my passion but that scare the death out of me
Don't we do what naturally makes us complete
Or am I still just nieve
Up up up
Till i cant see
Till i cant see anything
Please please
I need to know
Before it is my time to go
Up up up
Take me take me take me to the place
Where i meditate in the rain
Where everyday is the sam
Ill be happy
Ill sing, ill sing
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13. |
For You
02:44
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2. For You
(Cap 3) G,C
For you i would take away all the pain
If that meant you would stay another day
For you i would go through it instead
If that meant you would have a happy home again
For you i would work myself to death
My legs would fall off but id put them right back on again
Cant you see my only reason to keep living
Is to make sure that you do to
I love you more than life itself
Your the only reason I've ever feel what i felt
Our time together
has been better than living forever
For you i would break the law
If thats the kind of thing that turns you on
Oh how it so obviously does
since you stole my heart without getting caught
For you i may be wasting my life
but the point is to be happy so i guess it must be alright
Sweetheart the time just isnt right
But i still believe one day your going to be my wife
be the one i lye with at night
The one i get into a fight and make it alright
i cant believe how short everything seems
the second your back next to me
For You i would be remembered forever
Somehow someway by everything and everybody
Cause i love to watch you sleep
It reminds me how this is all just a dream
For you i would take away all the pain
If that meant you would stay another day
For you i would go through it instead
If that meant you would have a happy home again
For you i may be wasting my life
but the point is to be happy so i guess it must be alright
Sweetheart the time just isnt right
But i still believe one day your going to be my wife
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14. |
Like Any Other
01:55
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G,C
Today was like any other
Someday is everyday from now
Yesterday may seem so far
But its as close as tomorrow
G,C
A home is someone you hold close
Someone far seen as an enemy
Your the only one who ever really knew me
still holds true but the blues are easy
Em, G, C, G
i once well in love
but i fucked it all up
i still think about her every day
i once well in love, but i fucked it all up
and i still miss her to this day
and my thoughts wonder
G,C
Why do we feel the need to be loved?
How come i want to know your all of your secrets?
Does it make me strange to say these things
If you all want to say it to...
Em,G,C Together!!!
gether we can conquer
disaster to the individual
Hold on to each other
cause you know its only inevitable
G,C
Tomorrow may not seem different
You might not even cross my thoughts
It doesnt mean i dont love you a whole lot
I just found know just like me times move on
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15. |
Here You Now
02:02
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Here you Now CFG
i dont know what makes it all worth it
i still think about you time to time
less often than i like
a same yet separate path of life
2 in a million
3 including myself
4 for those that are here with me right now
5 if you your lucky and in love with somebody
since ive known you ive been nothing but blessed so lets
build a upon what im slowing losing
fix the world till it becomes assuming
falsify feelings until they turn true
excuse are shying away from the truth
here we are slowly killing ourselves
and you know the only cure is
finding out what is a moment
if you dont have time to think while your in it
all i want to do is be perfect for you
you understand like i thought i knew
you come to my mind when things are good
i think its bout time to cut the wood
will you be here with me now
can u stay, beside me, here with me
i dont know why i cry as a craft
raining underneath till i turn green
i still smell the same as last week
twice as strong but 4 times as weak
six senses are signs of sickness within us
Serendipity has me questioning a sure thing
You keep revealing everything but yourself
Like you said of its meant it's meant
will you be here with me now
can u stay, beside me, here with me
now
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Rap: kopi lime
Im everything that i tell myself not to be
But i just cant seem to see the left and right of things
Im hiding what i want, all these false faces put on.
Its been awhile since i turned myself around
Im in doubt, i cry, i shout but all that seems to come out
Is this truth i forgotten in
When the morning begins, that just when the night ends
You know Its okay to go back to your own bed
Maybe this is the birth of something new
Something rumored yet only written in truth
My palms have lines of ancestral lives
They just look a little bit different than last time
I have irrational fears
Now a days thats all i seem to hear
Im indifferent to definitions of knowledge
When a moment is all it takes to be gone with it
I may not be remembered like Julius caesar
I may never ever cancer my own nature
I may just maybe see some of what i dream to see
I may be the names i dont see who were just like me
Whatever it really means i know your a cure
For the mature torture of a departure
Everywhere and anything youve ever seen
Feels like apiece itching inside me
Is it crazy to think?
That nothing is what it seems
Im deeply in love with these growing gaps of love
The longer your gone the easier this becomes
Im starting to know that everything i hold can be let go
And even if were scared to admit it
Without this there would be no point to it.
You know its really is a funny thing
After a minute its like you never ever left me
And if im being honest thats what scares me
This Familiarity is a dangerous thing
We all may be
Nothing but stranger things
Unexplained exposed and cold
To all the places and people that go
Up down on top and through
Your nothing but a record of a so called truth
And if im going down
At least I'll have a place to put a frown
You see, it really easy
It just a matter of accepting
That although your a somebody to your self
Im a nobody with a body, honestly
And your an allusion that brings the meaning
A first impression is all you really get
And you'll look back and think of the lies you said
And you know there's nothing you can really do
Other than wonder if in another universe you broke through
One day with you
A delay but what can you really do
Other than put faith in another
A moment missed is another word for forever
Taking things as imagery
A mirage of a childhood poetry
It's just as I age it isn't as easy
To preach a hope I'll never see
Hand in hand
Side by side
We all just live what the reason maybe just to die
But if it is you made it seem it was all a lie
Because I never felt closer to it with you by my side
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Niklas Li San Francisco, California
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