Ashley Parker Angel

"Soundtrack To Your Life"

[Verse]
If you can hear me
And know that im right here
I heard your heartbeat
It took away the fear
Cuz my life is sliding
I tried to ride the wave
It came down crashing, it's time to start again
Backwards to go forward
Left at every corner
Been there and back again
And when the music ends

[Chorus]
Your life is a flashback
A question, a photograph
A statement, a story, a struggle
A chance to laugh
Cuz if you don't laugh you cry
A last crescendo when you die
So hit the rewind and listen
It's the playback
The soundtrack to your life

[Verse]
First step, your last breath
Everythings been planned
There's questions, and answers
You'll never understand
I hold on, but let go
I give you room to breath
Remember, the best things
Were never mine to keep
Starting at the ending
It won't break, while your bending
Been there, and back again
And when the music ends

[Chorus]
Your life is a flashback
A question, a photograph
A statement, a story, a struggle
A chance to laugh
Cuz if you don't laugh you cry
A last crescendo when you die
So hit the rewind and listen
It's the playback
The soundtrack to your life

The soundtrack to your life
And it goes by like a bullet, and my name
It may be different than yours but, you got the same
Beat a broken back for more
I'll be dragging my own ass off the floor

I've thrown my self right in and,
whats the point if you don't live in

If you can hear me
And know that im right here
I heard your heartbeat
It took away the fear

[Chorus]
Your life is a flashback
A question, a photograph
A statement, a story, a struggle
A chance to laugh
Cuz if you don't laugh you cry
A last crescendo when you die
So hit the rewind and listen
It's the playback
The soundtrack to your life

"Shades Of Blue"

As seven ticks to eight o'clock,
He rumbles down the stairs,
Mother's cooking in her kitchen, father is in his chair
The headline on the front page reads "the sun's coming out today",
Shining down in perfect streaks, it's anywhere USA.

With eyes wide open,
The sky is always a thousand shades of blue.
Probably broken, lost and lonely,
We're all just shades of you.

Can't you hear the school bells singing?
Hurry, don't be late.
Wandering the crowded hallways,
Searching for his place.
The writing on the chalk board reads,
"who will be king this year?"
And even though he raised his hand,
No one knows he's there.

With arms wide open,
His life's becoming a thousand shades of blue,
Probably broken, lost and lonely,
We're all just shades of you.

There's no escaping where he's going,
A thousand shades of blue.
Probably hopeless, don't you notice?
We're all just shades of you.

He let the water run too deep,
Then he just slowly slipped on in,
And when he finds the nerve to breathe,
All they say is no one saw it coming.

Hear the sirens, the cops arriving,
A thousand shades of blue.
But it's hopeless, no one noticed,
We're all just shades of you.
With eyes wide open, they found him floating,
A thousand shades of blue.
There's no escaping where he's going,
We're all just shades of you.

"Where Did You Go?"

There's an empty room full of memories,
And everywhere I look, it's where we used to be.
It's like a photograph,
A moment froze in time,
I'm staring at your face, even when I close my eyes.

Oh oh, where'd you go?
I thought you'd never leave,
Oh oh, should have known,
How much you mean to me.
Oh oh, where you are is where I wanna be,
So, it's a shame that you'll never really know.

I wish I could go back,
And be with you again.
'Cos there's so many things I should have said,
When I had you listening.
As close as we were then, as far as we are now,
As much as this won't change a thing,
You've got me calling out...

Oh oh, where'd you go?
I thought you'd never leave,
Oh oh, should have known,
How much you mean to me.
Oh oh, where you are is where I wanna be,
So, it's a shame that you'll never really know.

Now was it ever meant to last?
The candles burned from yesterday,
The past is over, gone ahead
And watch the glow just fade away.
I can't run to catch my breath,
I can't hide to see what's left,
The plans, the hopes, the dreams, the tears,
All disappeared...

Oh oh, where'd you go?
I thought you'd never leave,
Oh oh, should have known,
How much you mean to me.
Oh oh, where you are is where I wanna be,
So, it's a shame that you'll never really know.
Oh oh, where'd you go?
I thought you'd never leave,
Oh oh, should have known,
How much you mean to me.
Oh oh, where you are is where I wanna be,
So, it's a shame that you'll never really know.

So, it's a shame that you'll never really know...
It's a shame that I never really showed.

"Let U Go"

Broken promises
But you don't really mind
It's not the first time
And you know it, don't you know
Tell me why it is you only smile inside
But when you break me into nothing
Don't you know

It's not like I haven't tried
Over and over again
Stupid fights
Wrong or right
Goodbye...

[Chorus:]
I Remember when you came with me that night
We said forever, that you would never let me go
But here I am again
With nothing left inside
No I don't wanna but I gotta let you go

You're the one mistake
I really didn't mind
So beautiful, unmerciful
It took me down
Too little and too late
So now I know your kind
You fake it easy, just to please me
Don't you know

It's not like we haven't tried
Over and over again
Sleepless nights wrong or right
Goodbye...

[Chorus:]
(slows down)

I gotta let u go...
It's you...
Theres nothing I can do

I remember when you came with me that night
You said forever [3x]

Here I am again
With nothing left inside
No I don't wanna but I gotta
Let U Go

[Chorus:]

"I'm Better"

Hey, tell me what's going on
Hey, tell me where I go wrong.
I've been losing all I got,
Then you, you just walk right in,
You just walk right in.

When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.

Hey, I'm watching the worlds collide,
Hey, there's nobody else inside
Girls they don't know what they want,
But you, you just walk right in,
You just walk right in.

When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.

Used to be that I just had to fake it,
All my life,
Over and over I just couldn't take it,
Not this time.
But you, wherever you walk, I'll run,
Yeah you, anything goes tonight.

When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.

When I'm here with you,
I just block it out,
It's cool we talk about whatever,
And yeah, you know I've been around,
My world came crashing down,
But when I'm here with you I'm better.

"Feel So Alive"

Red lights flashing,
I keep driving through,
31st of December,
Photographs I never took of you.
Yeah, I start to remember,
The broken moments that I might have thrown away,
I don't care, I'll be okay.

Got no way of knowing exactly where I'm going,
But I feel so alive.
Everything is changing, life is rearranging,
But I feel so alive,
So alive.

A payphone calling, it's so hard to forget,
Can you forgive me?
Know I'll never be what you expect,
I'm not sorry.
For every moment that I'm making a mistake,
I bend, but I won't break.

Got no way of knowing exactly where I'm going,
But I feel so alive.
Everything is changing, life is rearranging,
But I feel so alive,

'Cos I feel so far, I'm halfway there,
Just over the edge and I won't be scared.

Everything is changing, life is rearranging,
But I feel so alive,
So alive.

How would it be,
How would it be if you could finally accept that this is me?

Got no way of knowing exactly where I'm going,
But I feel so alive.
Everything is changing, life is rearranging,
But I feel so alive,

'Cos I feel so far, I'm halfway there,
Just over the edge and I won't be scared.

Everything is changing, life is rearranging,
But I feel so alive,
So alive.

Gonna make it real, gonna make it real,
Gonna make it real, gonna make it real

"Crazy Beautiful"

Like a splinter in my thumb, you're not going anywhere,
Not like I care 'cause I have got used to it,
Refuse to quit.
You're like the label in my shirt that keeps scratching at my back,
Then I forget 'cause I've grown immune to it,
Go figure it.

Knew you were trouble back then but that's what turned me on,
It's all wrong.

Suitcase, some baggage in her head she screams out, yes and it's crazy beautiful,
Crazy beautiful.
Tattooed, lying on the bed, Don't,
Regret smashing her fist into the wall,
Crazy beautiful,
She's worth it all.

She leaves the ashtray on the bed,
She don't censor any thoughts inside her head,
She just has to get them out,
Can't shut her mouth.
She's like a song that's in my brain,
But every other lyric says my name,
And I just can't turn it off,
Can't get enough.

Knew you were trouble back then but that's what turned me on,
It's all wrong.

Suitcase, some baggage and a head she screams out, yes and it's crazy beautiful,
Crazy beautiful.
Tattooed, lying on the bed, Don't,
Regret smashing her fist into the wall,
Crazy beautiful.

Sometimes something that is not perfect ends up being what you want,
Sometimes she lets me into places where her demons come to haunt.

She's like an angel that's corrupted and I'm hanging on to her...

Suitcase, some baggage in her head she screams out, yes and it's crazy beautiful,
Crazy beautiful.
Tattooed, lying on the bed, Don't,
Regret smashing her fist into the wall,
Crazy beautiful.

(She's got a) Suitcase, some baggage in her head she screams out, yes and it's crazy beautiful,
Crazy beautiful.
Tattooed, lying on the bed,
Don't regret smashing her fist into the wall,
Crazy beautiful,
She's worth it all.

"Who Cares?"

Staring at the sky,
There's angels in the snow.
Wishing she could fly high,
Above the world below.

All that she wanted,
Is to be wanted.
She's sitting on the stairs,
With ribbons in her hair,
Waiting for someone who cares,
Who cares.

Pouring over magazines,
She soaks up every page.
Each picture like a daydream,
She never wants to fade.

All that she wanted,
Is to be wanted.
She's looking in the mirror,
Wondering what to wear,
Hoping she'll meet someone who cares,

At the window sill, she's looking out on,
Strawberry daffodils,
Butterflies and broken roller skates,
The colours bleed like finger paint.
Yesterday...

All that she wanted,
Is to be wanted.
She's rocking in a chair,
Silver in her hair, still waiting for someone...

All that she wanted,
Is to be wanted.
She's sitting on the stairs,
Ribbons in her hair,
Waiting for someone who cares,
Who cares.

"Beautiful Lie"

In a corner of the closet,
there's a suitcase packed with clothes,
And the postcard from your parents with the words "please come back home",
I've been waiting for the moment that all this shit explodes,
And I can't believe that you think I don't know.

How you gonna say you're never gonna leave me lonely?
How you gonna say you're never gonna walk away?
Knowing that you'd break me if you ever say goodbye,
So you keep on telling me that everything will be alright,
And it's a beautiful lie.

Well I can't help but to notice in the bedroom something's changed,
There's a picture on the dresser that's gone missing from the frame,
I could ask you but you'd answer in that same familiar way,
That there's nothing wrong, and everything's okay.

How you gonna say you're never gonna leave me lonely?
How you gonna say you're never gonna walk away?
Knowing that you'd break me if you ever say goodbye,
So you keep on telling me that everything will be alright,
And it's a beautiful lie.

You surrender on your naked skin, falling back into the rhythm,
I could never forget you.
Feeling so electric on my fingertips, hurts so good,
can't go on like this.
Here comes another sunrise, like a broken promise in the skies,
It's about to be a different day but you keep on living that same old lie.

How you gonna say you're never gonna leave me lonely?
How you gonna say you're never gonna walk away?
Knowing that you'd break me if you ever say goodbye,
So you keep on telling me that everything will be alright,
And it's a beautiful lie.

"Perfect Now"

Hey you, miss wearing the crown,
Run me around,
Dragging me down.
Hey you, miss head of the class,
Never come last,
Pain in the ass.

Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Look who's perfect now,
Got my feet on the ground.
Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Got my feet on the ground,
Look who's perfect now.

Hey you, miss never too fall,
Standing so tall,
Knowing it all.
Hey you, miss living a lie
Flying so high,
Goodbye, goodbye.

Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Look who's perfect now,
Got my feet on the ground.
Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Got my feet on the ground,
Look who's perfect now.

Now I see,
Now I found,
Now I know,
What you're about,
I keep you out of reach, won't let you pull me down.
My favourite superstition left me a piece, but the puzzle's missing,
And it didn't take too long to figure out,
Look who's sorry now.

Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Look who's perfect now,
Got my feet on the ground.
Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Got my feet on the ground,
Look who's perfect now.

Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Look who's perfect now,
Got my feet on the ground.
Look who's perfect now,
Got my head in the clouds,
Got my feet on the ground,
Look who's perfect now.

"Along The Way"

Firefly, can I have a light?
It's so dark out here,
My shadow looked me in the eye,
like I was staring in the mirror.
Everything became so clear,
in the middle of nowhere.

I walk along the boulevard,
My feet don't touch the ground,
Scratch my name on concrete stars,
I'm never coming down.
Feels so good to disappear,
in the middle of nowhere.

Along the way,
That's where I'm supposed to be.
Along the way,
In the spaces in between.
I find my place in the middle of tomorrow and yesterday,
If you're going there, look for me along the way.

Taxi driver, can I hitch a ride?
Anywhere but home.
I'm looking for an alibi,
a reason to stay gone.
I can't hear the voices say "you're in the middle of nowhere"

Along the way,
That's where I'm supposed to be.
Along the way,
In the spaces in between.
I find my place in the middle of tomorrow and yesterday,
If you're going there, look for me along the way.

It's who I am, it's how you'll be,
It's where we run.
Letting go of everything is the hardest part when you start along the way.

Along the way,
That's where I'm supposed to be.
Along the way,
In the spaces in between.
I find my place in the middle of tomorrow and yesterday,
If you're going there, look for me along the way.

"Apology"

Close to you, so far away,
A rented room, an empty space,
Sirens bleeding through the open door,
Movie scene in black and white,
The snow falls down alone tonight.
No one's ever felt like this before.

What went wrong with you and me?
This is my apology.
'Cos even when I fall asleep, you stay with me,
You stay with me.

Stuck inside a broken frame,
Watching as seasons change,
Hoping time will finally set me free,
Suddenly, you're standing there,
A crowded street, a lonely stare,
A thousand miles of traffic in between.

What went wrong with you and me?
This is my apology.
From the moment that I leave, you stay with me,
You stay with me.

Every letter that you wrote stays with me,
And every promise that I broke, stays with me,
And everything that's left inside, stays with me,
It stays with me.

Close to you, so far away,
A rented room, an empty space,
Sirens bleeding through the open door,
Movie scene in black and white,
The snow falls down alone tonight.
No one's ever felt like this before.