Lyrics to "Never Going Back to OK" by the Afters

Wow, here is another great album to listen to, released just two weeks after Sanctus Real's "We Need Each Other". They make a great two CD set to listen together on the old A MP3 player! I pre-ordered it so I get to order it online, and since I am a computer geek I was able to record the stream into MP3 files and listen to them for personal use. Hey, that's perfectly legal I believe!!
I found a few of these lyrics from NewReleaseTuesday.com which were submitted by others but I corrected. I am also listed there as wuhchou to try to earn some points. It is a nice site, but it is slower than molasses!

Track Listing:


01. The Secret Garden

Don't try to lose us 'cause it's right where you'll find us
Don't try to bruise us 'cause it's right where you bleed
Don't call me a stranger we're your brothers and sisters
Try to refuse us when it's just what you need

Here tomorrow, gone today
We're a part of the secret parade

Here tomorrow, gone today
We're a part of the secret parade

02. Never Going Back to OK

(okay, okay, okay)
(okay, okay, okay)
It's not the end, but it feels like it is
I'm waking up, like I'm back from the dead
I'm stepping out, and I feel so free
But as long as I'm moving it's all right

I feel alive, and it hurts for a change
No looking back
It's hard to believe that I was cool
With the days that I wasted
Complacent and tasteless and bored
But that was yesterday...

We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to easy
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK

This discontent, like a slap in the face
I'm mediocre, I've had enough of this place
This party's over, and I'm moving away
from the thrills of your Beverly Hills
That was yesterday...

We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to easy
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK

We can't stay
This is the time, our only life
Our chance to live

Yeah
We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to easy
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to OK
(okay, okay, okay)
(okay, okay, okay)

03. Keeping Me Alive

It's like I've never lived
Before my life with you
So much was missing here, I never even knew
I still picture the place we were
When I walked into your world

My heart is in you
Where you go, you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
You're keeping me alive

I don't know why I feel this way,
But something's right
You're like the morning air before the light arrives
No more lonely and no more night
No more secrets to hide

My heart is in you
Where you go, you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
You're keeping me alive

I'll hold you near
Together, we'll never die
Your love is keeping me alive
Your love is keeping me alive
Alive

My heart is in you
Where you go, you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
You're keeping me alive

You're keeping me alive

04. Tonight

Time after time I'm reminded that I fall apart
When I run away from you
Even when every mistake leaves me broken and blue
I can hold onto you

Tonight, tonight, we're going to put it all
Put it all behind
Tonight, tonight, we're going to make it all
Make it all alright
We'll be, who we want to be tonight
Tonight

Why do I feel like a space that just waits to be filled
Looking for something new
When ours is a love that is already perfect
And I, I know I belong to you

Tonight, tonight, we're going to put it all
Put it all behind
Tonight, tonight, we're going to make it all
Make it all alright
We'll be, who we want to be tonight

When tomorrow comes we're gonna feel alive
Somehow forget about the tears we cried
There's so much more we have to gain
Than we could ever lose

Tonight, tonight, we're going to put it all
Put it all behind
Tonight, tonight, we're going to make it all
Make it all alright
Tonight, tonight, we're going to put it all
Put it all behind
Tonight, tonight, we're going to make it all
Make it all alright
We'll be, who we want to be
We'll be, who we're meant to be
Tonight
Tonight

When tomorrow comes we're gonna feel alive

05. Ocean Wide

Look outside
It's already light
And the star's ran away with the night
Things were said
Words that we try to forget
It's so hard to admit

I know we made mistakes
I see through all the tears
And that's what got us here

If love is an ocean wide
We'll swim in the tears we cry
They'll see us through to the other side
We're going to make it

When love is a raging sea
You can hold on to me
We'll find a way tonight
Love is an ocean, wide

I'll stay right here
It's where I'll always belong
Beside with your arms
And days like this
I wish the sun would set
I don't wanna forget

One made us feel this way
You see through all my fears
And that's what got us here

If love is an ocean wide
We'll swim in the tears we cry
They'll see us through to the other side
We're going to make it

When love is a raging sea
You can hold on to me
We'll find a way tonight
Love is an ocean

Wide enough to forget
Even when we think we can't
Think we can't

If love is an ocean wide
We'll swim in the tears we cry
They'll see us through to the other side
We're going to make it

When love is a raging sea
You can hold on to me
We'll find a way tonight
We'll find a way tonight
Love is an ocean, wide
Love is an ocean, wide

06. MySpace Girl

I saw you once, it was enough
You asked me what I wanted: I want you
But I look by, I'll have some fries
So mesmerized, my heart was over-driving though
I saw your name, and unashamed
I searched within 500 miles to find
Any clue, just as to who, I've fallen for
Cuse you've got me,and I've got time.

I saw your picture on MySpace
Maybe someday, we can turn it into our space, baby
I don't care how long it takes
I'm saving space in my top eight for you.

The second time you were so nice
I loved the way you told me to enjoy my day
But I know what you meant, to say instead
Was really that you wanted us to run away
I said lets go, I'll pack my clothes
Just promise me you'll wear the purple dress you have
You look so cute when your confused
You backed away and asked me how I knew 'bout that

I saw your picture on MySpace
Maybe someday, we can turn it into our space, baby
I don't care how long it takes
I'm saving space in my top eight for you

I know you're scared
I know our love is crazy
And I'm so crazy
You make me crazy...for you

I saw your picture on MySpace
Maybe someday, we can turn it into our space, baby
I don't care how long it takes
I'm saving space in my top eight for you.
I saw your picture on MySpace
Maybe someday, we can turn it into our space, baby
I don't care how long it takes
I'm saving space in my top eight for you.

07. We Are The Sound

(We are the sound)
(We are the sound)
Now is the time we have
Say you'll never give it back
Say what you need to say
This could be our only chance

Everybody's watching now
Someone new could show them how
To be what you wanna be
Stand without backing down

Here we are
Here we are

We are the sound
We are the siren
We are around
And we won't stop singing it out
Shout it out, like you believe it
We'll break you down
When we all start singing it out
Shout it out now

If silence is a better thing
It keeps us from the things we weave
It ages but it never grows
So quiet now we start to bleed

Shake it up and let it go
Forget it while we think you know
We're waking from your revelry
We're taking back control

Here we are
Here we are

We are the sound
We are the siren
We are around
And we won't stop singing it out
Shout it out, like you believe it
We'll break you down
When we all start singing it out
Shout it out now
Shout it out now

(We are the sound)
(We are the sound)
(We are the sound)
(We are the sound)

We are the sound
We are the siren
We are around
And we won't stop singing it out
Shout it out, like you believe it
We'll break you down
When we all start singing it out
Shout it out now
Shout it out now

08. Falling Into Place

It was raining on the sun
The ground beneath my feet was crumbling
Day and night had come undone
It was a season of my wandering

Somehow, somwhere
You found me there
It was the moment that it all became clear

I was on the edge of a distant world
A shattered life with nowhere left to turn
Til I saw You there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place
Falling into place

It's finally quiet in my head
As I leave the pieces at Your feet
It's finally starting to make sense
I guess I found the missing part of me

I was on the edge of a distant world
A shattered life with nowhere left to turn
Til I saw You there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place
Falling into place
Falling into

Oceans that I almost drowned in
I had to lose it all
Just so I could find out You were there to break my fall

In the season of my wandering

I was on the edge of a distant world
A shattered life with nowhere left to turn
Til I saw You there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling, falling
On the edge of a distant world
A shattered life with nowhere left to turn
Til I saw You there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place

09. Beautiful Words

Slow down
This is such a blur
Tell me what's the hurry now
Have we been running round in circles
Missing all that we could be

You say
It's not
Too late

We are words
On pages that we've left unturned
An ending no one's ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding
Beautiful words

I could
Walk across the ocean
With You walking next to me
And You could melt away this winter
Now we're starting over

We will see (will see)
It's not (it's not)
Too late

We are words
On pages that we've left unturned
An ending no one's ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding

Beautiful words
That last
When everything else has past
Even when all the stars are gone
I know that every single beautiful word that we've heard will live on

I know (I know)
It's not (it's not)
Too late

We are words
On pages that we've left unturned
An ending no one's ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding
Beautiful words

We are a story slowly unfolding

10. Forty-Two

I came into this world to find a reason to live
I came with nothing to give
Nothing I could offer, nothing I could ever do
Before you set the stars up in the sky
You came and took me aside
You told me I was part of the plan
You told me I was yours

Will you tell me what this life is all about
Will you show me how to make my time here count
Will lead the way on, to the other side
Because I want to feel alive

If I could only see right to the end
I'd know just where to begin
I could put together all the little pieces
You carry the world, You hold it in your hands
It's all a part of your plan
Show me how to love, won’t you help me find my way to you

Will you tell me what this life is all about
Will you show me how to make my time here count
Will lead the way on, to the other side
Because I want to feel alive

There's a place for us
The perfect place for us
There's a place for us
The perfect place

Will you tell me what this life is all about
Will you show me how to make my time here count
Will lead the way on, to the other side
Cause I want to feel alive
Cause I want to feel alive

11. Summer Again

I'm watching the grey giving to gold
As summer recalls October's cold
Gravity begs for one final kiss
She drops in to help as she gives in

Traces of light linger around
As laces of white fall to the ground
The softest of sounds for the heaviest things
The pain that it brings

As she falls, I try to catch her
But one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when

Don't remember the day she started to fade
The ground felt a chill as she gave it away
A whisper, a sigh for the time she had passed
But the winter won't last

As she falls, I try to catch her
But one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when
Oh, to be with summer again

The days were all warm, she wore them like skin
Now I feel the effects of October again

As she falls, I try to catch her
But one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when
Oh, to be with summer again
Oh, to be with summer again

I'm watching the grey giving to gold
As summer recalls October's cold

12. One Moment Away

Wake up and smile
Put on a tie
Walk to the car
And wave goodbye

Radio on
You're singing along
It's all gonna change
But how could you know?

You're one moment away
One chance left to take, and you're gone
Are they gonna remember you
For running away
Or saving the day from the darkness
And letting your love shine through
(What will you do?)
You're one moment away

Eyes are on you
The pressure is on
Where will you stand when the lines have been drawn
The clocks have all stopped, the story's been told
This is your life, so how will it show

You're one moment away
One chance left to take, and you're gone
Are they gonna remember you
For running away
Or saving the day from the darkness
And letting your love shine through
(What will you do?)
You're one moment away

No you can't pretend that forever
Will never come knocking at your door

Run through the flames
Never look back
What did you think that you came here for?

You're one moment away
One chance left to take, and you're gone
Are they gonna remember you
For running away
Or saving the day from the darkness
And letting your love shine through
(What will you do?)
You're one moment away

You're one moment away
One chance left to take, and you're gone
Are they gonna remember you
For running away
Or saving the day from the darkness
And letting your love shine through
You're one moment away
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