Sean Hanley

[VERSE 1]

Sun's bleeding out on the water
Your sundress in the sand
Air's salty, your lips taste like summer
Fingers drawing circles in my hand
Waves keep crashing, but they don't see us
Moon's up, tide's up, we ain't leaving

[CHORUS 1]

Love me on the beach
Where the water meets your knees
With the sand on our backs
And the stars watching over me and you
Love me on the beach
Whisper what you want to me
Let the ocean keep time
While I get lost in you

[VERSE 2]

Your hair wet, your eyes on fire
Footprints washed away behind us
Every breath a little higher
Every touch feels timeless

[BRIDGE]

Hold that moment
Let the tide roll in
You and I in the blue
Never gonna want it to end

[FINAL CHORUS]

Love me on the beach
All night, all night
With the waves on repeat
And your body close to mine
Love me on the beach
Just you, just you and me.

[VERSE 1]

3 AM motel, neon buzzing low
Bottle full of nothing, TV on snow
I sold my halo for a handful of dust
Faith in the gutter, love in the rust
Then you kicked down the door of my blacked out mind
Barefoot angel with a bottle of wine

[CHORUS 1]

You see through me
Past the smoke, past the cheap tattoos
Past the man that I pretend to be
You see through me
When I'm blind to everything that's true
You cut me clean and set me free

[VERSE 2]

Red light fever, sweat on your skin
You say babe, you gotta lose to win
Your hands on my chest like you own my sins
Saying let me in where the hurt begins
I was deaf, I was dumb, I was dead inside
You put the pulse back in my pride

[CHORUS 2]

You see through me
Past the smoke, past the cheap tattoos
Past the man that I pretend to be
You see through me
When I'm blind to everything that's true
You cut me clean and set me free

[BRIDGE]

I was six feet deep in my own damn head
Living on the words I never said
One look from you, and the dark got bright
One kiss from you, and the wrong felt right
Hey! Hey! You see through me!

[FINAL CHORUS]

You see through me
No more shadows, no more alibis
You ripped the blindfold off my life
You see through me
And for the first time in a long time
I can see

[VERSE 1]

You tell me all about him over coffee at two
How he made you laugh, how he made you blue
I nod and I listen like a good friend should
Swallow the words I wish I could
You rest your head on my shoulder when he lets you down
I hold you close, but you don't hear a sound

[CHORUS 1]

You love him, I love you
We're standing in the same room
But you're looking right through me
To somebody out of view
You give him all your heart
I give you all of mine
You love him in real time
And I love you overtime

[VERSE 2]

He don't see the way you leave the last sip in your cup
He don't know you hum when you're nervous up
I know every little thing, every little tell
I memorized heaven, but I live in hell

[BRIDGE]

If loving you loud was enough
I'd be the one you'd be calling
But love don't care about fair
It just keeps on falling

[FINAL CHORUS]

You love him, I love you
And that's the truth we know
You run to him, I stay here
And watch you go
You love him
And I love you.

[VERSE 1]

You left the door unlocked, red light in the hall
Dress on the floor, like you knew I'd call
No words, just your eyes saying take your time
I have been waiting to be yours tonight
Hands on my jacket, pulling me near
Whisper in my ear, stay right here

[CHORUS 1]

Slow, slow, love me slow
Like you got nowhere to go
Learn every inch like a secret code
Write your name in my afterglow
Romance in your fingertips
Passion in your hips
Heaven in the way you say my name like that
Don't stop, don't stop

[VERSE 2]

Candles sweating, sheets in a mess
Your hair all tangled on my chest
You trace my scars like they are yours to keep
Kiss me like you want me in your sleep
You arch, you breathe, you pull me deep
In that place where we don't need to speak

[BRIDGE]

You say "look at me"
And I see everything I ever wanted
You say "feel me"
And I forget the world that ever hurt me
This ain't just bodies
This is praying with skin
This is you and me letting the night win

[FINAL CHORUS]

Slow, slow, love me slow
Like the morning will never come
Let me worship at your collarbone
Till you come undone, till we come undone
Romance, passion, you and me
A story written in heat and sheets
When morning finds us, let it find us still
Wrapped up, tangled, and yours, I will.
Stay.
Right here.
In this dream we made

[VERSE 1]

I was good at being alone
Built walls I called a home
Thought love was a losing game
You don't lose what you don't own
Then you walked in like daylight
Didn't knock, just came right through
Didn't ask me to be perfect
Just said be real, that's enough for you
And suddenly

[CHORUS 1]

I want to be better
Not because you told me to
I want to be braver
Because I saw it in you
I want to love like that
Love that makes a man stand up
Love that lifts the weight of the world
With just one cup of coffee and one look
I didn't know I could love like that
'Til you loved me like that

[VERSE 2]

Now when I say forever
I know what the word means
It's not a promise in a moment
It's the dishes and the dreams
It's staying when it's hard
It's cheering when it's good
It's I believe in you when
You don't believe you could

[CHORUS 2]

I want to be better
Not because you told me to
I want to be kinder
'Cause that's what you do
I want to love like that
Love that makes the future less scary
Love that turns a house into a home
And a hard road into a journey
I didn't know I could live like that
'Til you loved me like that

[BRIDGE]

This is more than butterflies
This is where I lay my life
You didn't complete me
You revealed me
You didn't save me
You believed me

[FINAL CHORUS]

So I will love like that
Love that stays when the music fades
Love that works when the feeling don't
And chooses you again every day
I never knew I could love like that
'Til you loved me like that
Yeah, you loved me like that
Now I love like that.
Just a little better
Just a little braver
Because of you.

[VERSE 1]

TONGUE CUT FROM THE MOUTH THAT SPOKE THE LAW!
SIGNED IN BLOOD, SEALED WITH A CROOKED JAW!
CROWN OF THORNS BUILT FROM WIRES AND THIEVES!
PREACH THE GOSPEL THROUGH A MOUTH FULL OF TEETH!
SPLIT! THE LIP! OF THE LIAR!
WATCH HIM PRAY THROUGH THE FIRE
YOU BUILT AN EMPIRE ON A BROKEN SPINE
BOW DOWN! BOW DOWN

[CHORUS 1]

SCREAM FOR ME! SCREAM FOR THE WITNESS!
BLEED FOR ME! BLEED FOR THE BUSINESS!
BEND THE KNEE! KISS THE BOOT!
TRUTH HUNG DEAD FROM THE GALLOWS' ROOT

[VERSE 2]

GAVEL FALLS - GUILTY BEFORE BORN!
VERDICT WRITTEN ON A UNIFORM TORN
PULPIT BUILT ON BONES OF THE UNHEARD
EVERY PRAYER'S JUST ANOTHER SLUR
CHOKE! ON! YOUR! CROSS
COUNT! THE! COST
You said this was necessary
NECESSARY EVIL IS STILL FUCKING EVIL
OPEN YOUR THROAT
OPEN YOUR THROAT

[SOLO]


[BRIDGE]

I saw it
I heard it
I said nothing
NOW IT'S COMING FOR ME

[FINAL CHORUS]

SCREAM FOR ME! SCREAM FOR THE WITNESS
BLEED FOR ME! BLEED FOR THE BUSINESS
NO MORE KNEES LEFT TO BEND
THIS IS WHERE IT ALL FUCKING ENDS

[VERSE 1]

No coffee in the morning, don't need that caffeine
One look at you, you wake up everything
No whiskey in the bottle, no smoke in the air
Just your name on my lips, and I'm already there
Late night, no prescription, no cheap high
You walk in the room and I'm touching the sky
I used to chase a feeling, chase a buzz, chase a rush
Now I chase your love

[CHORUS 1]
You are the only drug I need
Rushing through my bloodstream
Hands shaking when you leave
One taste and I'm in too deep
You are the only high that holds me
No comedown when you hold me
Never need another fix
You are the only drug I need

[VERSE 2]

Your lips like nicotine, but you never kill me
Your touch like morphine, but you make me feel free
Addicted to the way you say my name low
Overdosing on your afterglow
All my old vices, throw 'em all away
You cured every craving in one day

[CHORUS 2]

You are the only drug I need
Rushing through my bloodstream
Hands shaking when you leave
One taste and I'm in too deep
You are the only high that holds me
No comedown when you hold me
Never need another fix
You are the only drug I need

[BRIDGE]

Don't need the lights, don't need the noise
Don't need the pills, don't need the poison
You kiss me sober, I'm wasted on you
You kiss me once and I'm ruined for good
I don't wanna quit, don't wanna be clean
If clean means living without you next to me

[FINAL CHORUS]

You are the only drug I need (only drug I need)
Rushing through my bloodstream (through my bloodstream)
Keep me high forever, love, never let me leave
One taste and I'm in too deep
You are the only high that holds me
No comedown when you hold me
Never need another fix
You are the only drug I need
Only you, only you
Only drug I need is you.

[VERSE 1]

You got a book of feelings, got a law for every tear
Wrote a rule for what I say if someone doesn't wanna hear
Said my freedom is too loud, too sharp, too mean
So you made a little law to keep the air clean
You got offended, so you made it a crime
Said my conscience is harassment, gotta do time
Put your feelings in a statute, stamped it true
Said my rights have to bow down to you
But feelings change with the weather
Rights will never die.

[CHORUS 1]

Your invalid laws don't matter
Our rights and freedoms are the number 1 law
You can cry about it, you can write it down
But your feelings ain't the law of the land
Rights over feelings, truth over fear
The big law stands when the small law disappears
Your invalid laws don't matter
Rights over feelings
You can't make a law that trumps the Constitution

[VERSE 2]

You say I can't speak cause it hurts your heart
Say I can't believe cause we believe apart
Say my freedom is violence, my words are harm
So you wrap a little law around my arm
But I don't need your permission to be free
Free don't mean comfortable, free means free
Your safe space ain't safe if I gotta kneel
To keep your feelings from getting peeled

[CHORUS 2]

Your invalid laws don't matter
Our rights and freedoms are the number 1 law.
You can cry about it, you can write it down
But your feelings ain't the law of the land
Rights over feelings, truth over fear
The Constitution stands when the small law disappears
Your invalid laws don't matter
Rights over feelings
You can't make a law that trumps the Constitution

[BRIDGE]

I don't care if you're offended. I HAVE THE RIGHT
I don't care if you're triggered. I HAVE THE RIGHT
You have the right to feel how you feel
I have the right to be free still
Your feelings are yours
My rights are mine
Your law is invalid
When it crosses that line
You can't legislate a hurt feeling into a right
You can't make wrong right cause you feel it's right
The top law don't care how you feel inside
It says what it says, it don't have to hide

[FINAL CHORUS ]

YOUR INVALID LAWS DON'T MATTER
OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ARE THE ONLY LAWS THAT MATTER
You can pass it, sign it, shout it loud
Still don't beat the rights we hold now
Your invalid laws don't matter
Rights over feelings
Rights over feelings
Rights over feelings
Feelings come and go
Rights are forever