"I closed the door like so many times, so many times before Felt like a scene on the cutting room floor When I let you walk away tonight without a word I tried to sleep but the clock is stuck on thoughts of you and me A thousand more regrets unraveling If you were here right now, I swear I'd tell you this"

"I'm a house of cards in a hurricane A reckless fire in a pouring rain"

"Here we are, seven days And seven nights of empty tries It's rituals, habitual But it's never gonna work this time We're to the point of no return And along the way the only thing we've learned Is how to hurt each other"

"When the snow hits your skin The cold don't last forever But you'll live it again If you don't let seasons change"

"How fool was I into thinking I was gonna be alright, okay, fine So every day I try a little harder to forget her Lie here convince myself tomorrow will be better"

"Last night I saw the fireworks The kind of pain that never hurts The one you hate to love that's made for you Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon."

"There's us, going on about a band Working out how we play our hands I lay there dreaming, later all alone in my bed If I were stupid, maybe careless, so were you"

"In the heart of the night, when it's dark in the lights I heard the loudest noise, a gunshot on the floor I looked down and my shirt's turning red I'm spinning around"

"It's known that I'm a liar, often they're blacker than white Add on my uncandid ego, no one's less humbled than I But you don't care, you keep sticking around While I'm acting a clown, you're bigger"

"Life should be like a game of cards You make a mistake, shuffle the deck and start over It should be just like driving in your car Get lost and your navigation system gets you closer"

"I could be the one, give you all the love Forget what he has done to you, I'm here now Open up to me, love will set you free If ever you believe it, please believe in me This is us, this is us This is us, this is us This is love, this is love Let the world know, baby, this is us"

"I didn't wanna live without you, I didn't wanna love without you I used to think I'd die without you, now it's killing me That we could be undone You're talking now And I'm hearin' everything that you say And I'm holding on is a real phrase And it's dragging me along to my grave"

"Maybe it's all in my head. feel like leaving but I don't really want to But I feel so misled, a kiss through the phone just won't do, no 'Cause from my point of view, I gotta say Something 'bout you, so tell me, baby Somewhere down the road I think you lost it all Now it's all in my head"

"I'm not a player, I'm not a clown I won't be a puppet, just hanging around You need another man to put diamonds on your hands and let you take his car I found out who you are, I finally figured you out"

"Let me introduce you to the coolest guy I know (that's me, baby) You'll go, "Hello, hello." I'm unstoppable, so damn lovable Even if you think you'll find someone he'll never be just like me Hello, hello, I am Mr. A"

"The truth is stranger than fiction When you're a walking contradiction Look how I go, impeccable flow Wind in my face, it hardly ever rains Always on top, I'm comin' up I'm everything and I am everything I know it all, don't know a thing I am changing, still the same I'm every color, I am evergreen"

"Soul music … arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."

"What they call rock and roll now is rhythm and blues: I've been playing for 15 years in New Orleans."

"When I think of soul, I think of grease 'cause ain't nothin' no good without the grease."

"Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it."

"But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that."

"There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about [rhythm & blues artists] at all. … They do now, which is very groovy."

"God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. … When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul."

"Soul is truth, … no matter where it comes from, no matter how it is presented."