1 CAVE IN 4:02

2 THE BIRD AND THE WORM 3:28

3 HELLO SEATTLE 2:47
4 UMBRELLA BEACH 3:51
5 THE SALTWATER ROOM 4:03
6 DENTAL CARE 3 :1 1
7 METEOR SHOWER 2:14
8 ON THE WING 5:01
9 FIREFLIES 3:48
10 THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG 3:23
11 VANILLA TWILIGHT 3:52
12 TIDAL WAVE 3:10
BONUS TRACKS
13 HOT AIR BALLOON 3:35
14 BUTTERFLY WINGS 2:56
15 RUGS FROM ME TO YOU 1:28
16 SUNBURN 3:48
17 HELLO SEATTLE (REMIX) 5:53
18 IF MY HEART WAS A HOUSE 4:06
19 STRAWBERRY AVALANCHE 3:18
20 FIREFLIES (ADAM YOUNG REMIX) 3:15

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 Owl City is Adam Young
Produced & engineered by Adam Young
Mixed by John Goodmanson
Additional production on The Bird and The Worm,
Fireflies & Tidal Wave by Matthew Thiessen
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
Executive Produced by Steve Bursky
Recorded at Sky Harbor Studios, Owatonna, MN
Strings recorded at Two Sticks Audio,
Seattle, WA by John Goodmanson
Recorded at Sky Harbor Studios, Owatonna, MN
Mixed at Bogroll Studios, Seattle, WA
All songs written by Adam Young
All songs written by Adam Young
All songs published by Ocean City Park,
( 2009) All songs published by Ocean City Park/Universal
administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Music Corp. (ASCAP) except The Bird and The Worm &
Tidal Wave, written by Adam Young & Matthew Thiessen. Art Direction and Design
Published by Ocean City Park (ASCAP), Stylishly Flyfishing Christopher Kornmann for spit and image, nyc
Publishing/Songs Music Publishing, LLC o/b/o Creative Direction by Sandy Brummels
Songs For Beans (BMI). Lyrics reprinted by permission. Original Artwork by Imran Khan
Photography by Eric Ryan Anderson,
Cello on Cave In, Umbrella Beach, Fireflies, The Tip Of The Iceberg
Megan Baker & Akira Peck
& On The Wing by Phil Peterson. Arranged by Adam Young
MANAGEMENT
Vocals on Cave In, The Bird and The Worm,
Steve Bursky & Brian Winton at Foundations Artist Management
Fireflies & Tidal Wave by Matthew Thiessen
Vocals on The Tip Of The Iceberg & Meteor Shower by Melisa Morgan BOOKING (North America)
Vocals on Meteor Shower by Jolie Lindholm Brian Manning, Jeff Krones & Andrew Simon at Creative Artists Agency
Vocals on The Saltwater Room & On The Wing by Breanne Düren
BOOKING (Rest of World)
Vocals on On The Wing by Austin Tofte
Marlene Tsuchii at Creative Artists Agency
Matthew Thiessen appears courtesy of Mono vs. Stereo
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
BONUS TRACKS
Dawn Nepp at Haber Corporation
Produced & engineered by Adam Young
Mixed by Adam Young except Rugs From Me To You, Hello Seattle (Remix) LEGAL
& If My Heart Was A House mixed by John Goodmanson Ken Abdo at Lommen Abdo
Mixed at Sky Harbor Studios, Owatonna, MN except Rugs
For all business inquiries: ocmgmt@foundationsmusic.com
From Me To You, Hello Seattle (Remix) & If My Heart
Was A House mixed at Bogroll Studios, Seattle, WA Endless thanks to all who were involved in the making of this project.
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound All praise & glory to Jesus Christ, to whom I owe everything.
CAVE IN
Please take a long hard look through your textbook, ‘cause I’m history | When I strap my helmet on, I’ll be long gone
’cause I’ve been dying to leave | I’ll ride the range and hide all my loose change in my bedroll, ’cause riding a dirt bike
down a turnpike always takes its toll on me | I’ve had just about enough of quote “diamonds in the rough” because
my backbone is paper thin | Get me out of this cavern or I’ll cave in | If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining
because I’ve heard it said that every mushroom cloud has a silver lining, though I’m always undermining too deep
to know | Swallow a drop of gravel and blacktop ’cause the road tastes like wintergreen | The wind and the rain smell
of oil and octane mixed with stale gasoline | I’ll soak up the sound, try to sleep on the wet ground, I’ll get ten
minutes give or take ’cause I just don’t foresee myself getting drowsy when cold integrity keeps me wide awake | Get
me out of this cavern, or I’ll cave in | I’ll keep my helmet on just in case my head caves in | ’Cause if my thoughts
collapse or my framework snaps, it’ll make a mess like you wouldn’t believe | Tie my handlebars to the stars so
I stay on track | And if my intentions stray, I’ll wrench them away, then I’ll take my leave and I won’t even look back
THE BIRD AND THE WORM
If you’re the bird whenever we pretend it’s summer, then I’m the worm, I know the part, it’s such a bummer but
fair is fair, if my segments get separated I’ll scream and you’ll be there | Close your eyes (close my eyes), slide the
cotton off of your shoulder | And feel the shine (feel the shine) I’m hooked so toss me over and cast a line (well I'll
try) | I’ll throw a party and greet my undersea friends (it depends) | as they arrive (if they arrive) | You and I left our
troubles far behind | But I still have just one more question on my mind | For all my pals who live in the oceans and
the seas | With friends like these, well who needs enemies? | If I’m your boy, let’s take a shortcut we remember
and we’ll enjoy picking apples in late September like we’ve done for years, then, we’ll take a long walk through
the cornfield and I’ll kiss you between the ears | If you’re my girl, swirl me around your room with feeling and as we
twirl, the glow-in-the-dark stars on your ceiling will shine for us as love sweeps over the room ’cause we tend to
make each other blush | (you make me blush) | You and I left our troubles far behind | But I still have just one more
question on my mind | For all my pals who live in the oceans and the seas | With fronds like these, well who needs
anemones? | You’re the bird, I’m the worm and it’s plain to see that we were meant to be | We were meant to be
HELLO SEATTLE
Hello Seattle, I am a mountaineer in the hills and highlands | I fall asleep in hospital parking lots and awake in your
mouth | Hello Seattle, I am a manta ray deep beneath the blue waves | I’ll crawl the sandy bottom of Puget Sound
and construct a summer home | Hello Seattle, I am the crescent moon shining down on your face | I will disguise
myself as a sleeping pill and descend inside of you | Hello Seattle, I am a cold sea horse feeling warm in your sand | I sing
about the tide and the ocean surf rolling in the evening breeze | Hello Seattle, I am an albatross on the docks and
moored boats | I sail above your inlets and interstates | Through the rain and open wind | Hello Seattle, I am an
old lighthouse throwing beams of bright light | Red in the morning, blue in the evening sun | Taking heed for
everyone | Take me above your light | Carry me through the night | Hold me secure in flight | Sing me to sleep tonight
UMBRELLA BEACH
Stems and gears, oh how the daisies bloom when chandeliers light up the engine room | Can you feel the drops
as it starts to rain? | There’s an underwater ferris wheel where I found the missing link to this island chain | Home
will always be here, unseen, out of sight, where I disappear and hide | I think dreamy things as I’m waving goodbye
so I’ll spread out my wings and fly | Home is a boxcar and it’s so far out of reach, hidden under Umbrella Beach
THE SALTWATER ROOM
I opened my eyes last night, and saw you in the low light | Walking down by the bay, on the shore, staring up at the
stars that aren’t there anymore | I was feeling the night grow old, and you were looking so cold | So like an introvert,
I drew my over shirt around my arms and began to shiver violently before you happened to look and see the
tunnels all around me | Running into the dark underground, all the subways around create a great sound | To my
motion fatigue: farewell | With your ear to a seashell, you can hear the waves in underwater caves as if you actually
were inside a saltwater room | Time together isn’t ever quite enough | When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at
home | What will it take to make or break this hint of love? | Only time, only time | Can you believe that the crew
has gone and they wouldn’t let me sign on? | All my islands have sunk in the deep and I can hardly relax or even
oversleep | But I feel warm with your hand in mine, when we walk along the shoreline | I guess we’ll never know why
sparrows love the snow | We’ll turn out all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow | So tell me, darling, do you wish
we’d fall in love? | Yeah, all the time | All the time | Time together isn’t ever quite enough | When you and I are alone,
I’ve never felt so at home | What will it take to make or break this hint of love? | Only time, only time | When we’re
apart whatever are you thinking of? | If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone? | So tell me darling, do
you wish we’d fall in love? | All the time, all the time
DENTAL CARE
I brush my teeth and look in the mirror, and laugh out loud as I’m beaming from ear to ear | I’d rather pick flowers
instead of fights | And rather than flaunt my style, I’d flash you a smile of clean pearly whites | I’ve been to the dentist a
thousand times so I know the drill | I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair but somehow I still get the chills | “Have
a seat!” he says pleasantly as he shakes my hand and practically laughs at me | “Open up nice and wide!” he says,
peering in | And with a smirk he says “Don’t have a fit, this’ll just pinch a bit” as he tries not to grin | When hygienists
leave on long vacations, that’s when dentists scream and lose their “patients” | Talking only brings the toothaches
on because I say the stupidest things | So if my resolve goes south, I’ll swallow my pride with an aspirin and shut my
mouth | Golf and alcohol don’t mix and that’s why I don’t drink and drive, because, good grief, I’d knock out my teeth
and have to kiss my smile goodbye | I’ve been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill | I smooth my hair,
sit back in the chair but somehow I still get the chills
METEOR SHOWER
I can finally see that You’re right there beside me | I am not my own, for I have been made new | Please don’t let me go,
I desperately need You | I am not my own, for I have been made new | Please don’t let me go, I desperately need You
ON THE WING
Breathe and I’ll carry you away into the velvet sky, and we’ll stir the stars around, and watch them fall away into the
Hudson Bay, and plummet out of sight and sound | The open summer breeze will sweep you through the hills, where
I live in the alpine heights, below the Northern Lights, I spend my coldest nights alone, awake and thinking of the
weekend we were in love | Home, among these mountain tops, can be so awfully dull, a thousand miles from the
tide, but photos on the walls of New York shopping malls distract me so I stay inside | I wish the rockets stayed over
the promenade, ’cause I would make a hook and eye and fish them from the sky, my darling, she and I, we’re hanging
on so take us high to sing the world goodbye | I am floating away | Lost in a silent ballet | I’m dreaming you’re out in
the blue and I am right beside you | Awake to take in the view | Late nights and early parades | Still photos and noisy
arcades | My darling, we’re both on the wing, look down and keep on singing, and we can go anywhere | Are you
there? | Are you there, or are you just a decoy dream in my head? | Am I home or am I simply tumbling all alone? | I
am floating away | Lost in a silent ballet | I’m dreaming you’re out in the blue and I am right beside you | Awake to
take in the view | Late nights and early parades | Still photos and noisy arcades | My darling, we’re both on the wing,
look down and keep on singing, and we can go anywhere
FIREFLIES
You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep | ’Cause they’d fill the open
air and leave teardrops everywhere | You’d think me rude but I would just stand and stare | I’d like to make myself
believe that planet Earth turns slowly | It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep | ’Cause everything
is never as it seems | ’Cause I’d get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they tried to teach me how
to dance | A foxtrot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed | The disco ball is just hanging by a thread | I’d
like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly | It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m
asleep | ’Cause everything is never as it seems when I fall asleep | Leave my door open just a crack | (Please take me
away from here) | ‘Cause I feel like such an insomniac | (Please take me away from here) | Why do I tire of counting
sheep? | (Please take me away from here) | When I’m far too tired to fall asleep? | To ten million fireflies, I’m weird
’cause I hate goodbyes | I got misty eyes when they said farewell | But I’ll know where several are if my dreams get real
bizarre | ’Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar | I’d like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly | It’s
hard to say that’d I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep | ’Cause everything is never as it seems when I fall asleep | I’d like
to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly | It’s hard to say that’d I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep | ’Cause
everything is never as it seems when I fall asleep | I’d like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly | It’s hard
to say that’d I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep | Because my dreams are bursting at the seams
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Welcome back winter once again, and put on your warm fuzzy sweater ’cause you’ll feel much better when the
snowflakes fall gently to the ground, the temperature drops and your shivers freeze all the rivers around, but I keep
you warm | If speed’s a pro, inertia must be a con ’cause the cold wind blows at precise rates when I’ve got my ice
skates on | If all the roads were paved with ice that wouldn’t thaw or crack, I could skate from Maine to Nebraska,
then on to Alaska and back ’cause you keep me warm | Peer over the edge, “Can you see me?” | Rivulets flow
from your eyes | Paint runs from your mouth like a waterfall and your lungs crystallize | I’ll travel the sub-zero
tundra | I’ll brave glaciers and frozen lakes | And that’s just the tip of the iceberg | I’ll do whatever it takes to
change | Farewell, powdery paradise | We’d rather skate on the thinnest ice | Our fingers failed us before they
froze | And frostbite bit down on all our toes | Snowdrifts build up and enfold us | As we wait out this winter
storm | So we snuggle close in the darkness | And keep each other so warm
VANILLA TWILIGHT
The stars lean down to kiss you and I lie awake and miss you | Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere | ’Cause I’ll
doze off safe and soundly, but I’ll miss your arms around me | I’d send a postcard to you dear, ’cause I wish you
were here | I’ll watch the night turn light blue but it’s not the same without you because it takes two to whisper
quietly | The silence isn’t so bad till I look at my hands and feel sad, ’cause the spaces between my fingers are right
where yours fit perfectly | I’ll find repose in new ways, though I haven’t slept in two days ’cause cold nostalgia chills
me to the bone | But drenched in vanilla twilight, I’ll sit on the front porch all night | Waist deep in thought because
when I think of you, I don’t feel so alone | I don’t feel so alone | I don’t feel so alone | As many times as I’ll blink, I’ll
think of you tonight | I’ll think of you tonight | When violet eyes get brighter and heavy wings grow lighter, I’ll taste
the sky and feel alive again | And I’ll forget the world that I knew but I swear I won’t forget you | Oh, if my voice
could reach back through the past, I’d whisper in your ear | Oh darling, I wish you were here
TIDAL WAVE
I wish I could cross my arms and cross your mind ’cause I believe you’d unfold your paper heart and wear it on your
sleeve | All my life I wish I broke mirrors instead of promises ‘cause all I see is a shattered conscience staring right
back at me | I wish I had covered all my tracks completely ’cause I’m so afraid | Is that the light at the far end of
the tunnel or just the train? | Lift your arms, only heaven knows where the danger grows and it’s safe to say
there’s a bright light up ahead and help is on the way | Help is on the way | I forget the last time I felt brave | I
just recall insecurity | ’Cause it came down like a tidal wave | And sorrow swept over me | Depression, please cut
to the chase and cut a long story short | Oh please be done | How much longer can this drama afford to run? | Fate
looks sharp, severs all my ties and breaks whatever doesn’t bend | But sadly then, all my heavy hopes just pull
me back down again | I forget the last time I felt brave | I just recall insecurity | ’Cause it came down like a tidal
wave | And sorrow swept over me | Then I was given grace and love | I was blind but now I can see | ’Cause I found
a new hope from above | And courage swept over me | It hurts just to wake up whenever you’re wearing thin | Alone
on the outside, so tired of looking in | The end is uncertain and I’ve never been so afraid | But I don’t need a telescope
to see that there’s hope and that makes me feel brave
HOT AIR BALLOON
We wrote a prelude to our own fairy tale and bought a parachute at a church rummage sale | And with a mean
sewing machine and miles of thread, we sewed the day above L.A. in navy and red | We wound a race track through
your mom’s kitchen chairs, and fought the shadows back down your dark basement stairs | I lit a match, then let it
catch to light up the room and then you yelled as we beheld an old maroon hot air balloon | I’ll be out of my mind
and you’ll be out of ideas pretty soon so let’s spend the afternoon in a cold hot air balloon | Leave your jacket
behind, lean out and touch the treetops over town | I can’t wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back
down | We drank the Great Lakes like cold lemonade and both got stomach aches, sprawled out in the shade | So
bored to death, you held your breath and I tried not to yawn | You made my frown turn upside down and now
my worries are gone | I’ll be out of my mind and you’ll be out of ideas pretty soon so let’s spend the afternoon in
a cold hot air balloon | Leave your jacket behind, lean out and touch the treetops over town | I can’t wait to kiss the
ground wherever we touch back down | I’ll be out of my mind and you’ll be out of ideas pretty soon so let’s spend
the afternoon in a cold hot air balloon | Leave your jacket behind, lean out and touch the treetops over town | I can’t
wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back down
BUTTERFLY WINGS
If I was a raindrop, would you be my thunderstorm? | It’s cold so surround me with rain clouds to keep me warm | I
feel like I’m falling, so darling don’t let me go | The thought is appalling, but should I slip away into the stormy sea,
will you remember me? | Asleep in our warm cocoons, we dream of lovely things | We’re both gonna wake up soon,
so we hope that tomorrow brings us our butterfly wings | If I was a grain of sand, would you be Miami Beach? | So
dusty with starlight, close your eyes and cuddle close to me | I’ll try not to wake you or make a sound while you’re
dozing off | But in the night, should the high tide sweep me away from you, tell me again my dear, will you be
waiting here? | Whenever we leave the ground and take to the sky, I’ll smile as I’m gazing down ’cause I’ve always
wondered why we won’t need feathers to fly
RUGS FROM ME TO YOU
To pay or not toupee, that is the question | It refused to stay as it all turned grey, old William Shakespeare’s
receding hair | Please excuse the pun, it’s “hair” today, gone tomorrow, so be thankful for what precious locks you
have | To pay or not toupee, that is the question | And by the way, I just gotta say thank the Lord I’m not going
bald | And if I may quip, my curls and I are just like heaven ’cause rest assured, they’ll be no parting there | But should
my head get bare like Friar Tuck, hard cheese to swallow, it makes me smile ’cause I know just what I’d do | Yeah if I
had more wigs than I knew what to do with, I’d open a second hand store | And if you ever went bald you’d recall it
’cause I’d cleverly call it “Rugs From Me To You”
SUNBURN
So there we were, back home from somewhere inside my head | Where bravely, I fought off the monsters beneath
her bed | Pillars of post-war books supported my frame of mind | While she memorized the pages that I tried to not
hide behind | She took my hand in hers and whispered her love for me | The lantern died that night, but we didn’t
need to see | Implying that she’s the bee’s knees and I am the cat’s meow | It’s funny how she recalls what I can’t
remember now | But when her smile came back, and I didn’t feel half as horrible | She gave me a heart attack just
because she looks so adorable | We both put our sun block on, laid on the beach and vowed that we’d live and we’d
learn | Yeah, but she got a tan and I got a sunburn | I got a sunburn | So there we were, out there, unaware of where
we’d been | We kicked off our flip-flops and swung from the rooftops again | It’s awkward but I’ll confess that she’s
all I think about | And it’s funny how I recall what she can’t remember now | But when her smile came back, and I
didn’t feel half as horrible | She gave me a heart attack just because she looks so adorable | We both put our sun
block on, laid on the beach and vowed that we’d live and we’d learn | Yeah, but she got a tan and I got a sunburn | Oh
afterglow, look out below | I left a trail of dust behind | As we parted ways, she held my gaze | And left an imprint
on my mind | I tried not cry as we said goodbye | And hung the clouds above my town | But I shed a tear when she
disappeared | ’Cause now I’m a stranger on the ground | We both put our sun block on, laid on the beach and vowed
that we’d live and we’d learn | Yeah, but she got a tan and I got a sunburn
IF MY HEART WAS A HOUSE
You’re the sky that I fell through | And I remember the view whenever I’m holding you | The sun hung from a
string | Looking down on the world as it warmed over everything | Chills run down my spine | As our fingers
entwine and your sighs harmonize with mine | Unmistakably | I can still feel your heart beat fast when you dance
with me | We got older and I should’ve known | (Do you feel alive?) | That I’d feel colder when I walk alone | (Oh, but
you’ll survive) | So I may as well ditch my dismay, bomb’s away, bomb’s away | Circle me and the needle moves
gracefully back and forth | If my heart was a compass, you’d be north | Risk it all ’cause I’ll catch you if you fall,
wherever you go | If my heart was a house, you’d be home | It makes me smile because you said it best | “I would
clearly feel blessed if the sun rose up from the west.” | Flowerbomb perfume | All my clothes smell like you ’cause
your favorite shade is navy blue | I walk slowly when I’m on my own | (Do you feel alive?) | Yeah, but frankly I still
feel alone | (Oh, but you’ll survive) | So I may as well ditch my dismay, bomb’s away, bomb’s away | Circle me and
the needle moves gracefully back and forth | If my heart was a compass, you’d be north | Risk it all ’cause I’ll
catch you if you fall, wherever you go | If my heart was a house, you’d be home
STRAWBERRY AVALANCHE
This is a world of dreams and reverie, where I felt the stars explode around me | A grass blade flashed with a gleam
as it slashed open a moonbeam, and I stared back breathlessly as mountains of fruit tumbled out, I barely had
the chance to shout, “O strawberry avalanche, crash over me!” | Staying awake that night was rather hard, deep
in a sleeping bag in your backyard | When we woke up buried alive beneath a fruity landslide, we both laughed
hysterically | It could have been just another dream but I swear I heard you scream, “Oh strawberry avalanche,
crash over me!” | Hope is a citrus constellation in the galaxy scratched on the back of both my eyelids that I’ve
been dying to see | If you were a beautiful sound in the echoes all around, then I’d be your harmony | And we’d sing
along with the crowds beneath the candy coated clouds | “O strawberry avalanche, please crash over me!” | This is
a world of dreams and reverie, where I felt the stars explode around me