Grant Lee Phillips - Mobilize (2002) by Grant Lee Phillips (보컬) on maniadb.com

Sleeping in a yellow cab
My head against the barrier
Lost 'em as we touched St. Anne
Stepped from the ferryboat there
Looked around the terminal
Paid the toll
And split the fare
Wake me up
Oh, wake me before Union Square
Got a couple numbers to call
Tryin' to wrack my brains
But I can't think of the name
Or the hotel at all
We're off to see America
We're asking for directions, yes
We're off to see America
We're tumbling in our chariot
Speeding over soaking streets
Tides of the destitute wail
Coughing up a lung of steam
Rise from the underground rail
Never felt so far away
Up till now
I was green
Wake me up
Oh, wake me before Union Square
Got a couple numbers to call
Tryin' to wrack my brains
But I can't think of the name
Or the hotel at all
We're off to see America
We're asking for directions, yes
We're off to see America
We're tumbling in our chariot
What a slender thread
I've been clinging to
All these cracks for me
To slip into
We're off to see America

And the point of my life is what
What if it doesn't add up
And the trouble was all for naught
Chalk it to the state of the world
Revelations are soon forgot
If only humankind was not so heartless now
Heartless now
It's hard to love your fellow man
However, can I help myself
From harboring such evil
And the reason of pain is clear
Never learned the lesson of bliss
All the riches to squander here
If only humankind was not so selfish now
Selfish now
It's hard to love your fellow man
However, can I help myself
From harboring such evil
And the point of the stars is to shine
Shine a little light in our way
When the fear in my heart leads me blind
Even in the light of the day
Come stumbling out
Oh
If only humankind was not so heartless now
Heartless now
It's hard to love your fellow man
However, can I help myself
From harboring such evil

I'm movin' with the strength of a spear
I'm cruisin' with the past in my mirror
Done leveling my city of ghosts
Cool ashes, like it's all that she wrote
Shake off the sadness soot
It's doin' me good
Embrace the solitude
It's doin' me good
I'm darting through the traffic alone
Dim shadows carve the streets that I roam
Bewitching is the need to be held
I try to fight it
But I'm under that spell
Knee deep in sadness soot
It's doin' me good
Embrace the solitude
That's welcoming us
Face the night
And all its fireworks
Wrap yourself up
In the silence
Birthing dreams of love and hurt
Aborted by the city of sirens
Face the night
Face the night alone
I'm swimming with the weight of my heart
Upstream to where the green river parts
Two directions force my will to decide
Shall I drift before I swim for my life?
Shake off the sadness soot
We're gathering rust
Embrace the quiet flood
That's welcoming us
Shake off the sadness
Shake off the sadness
Shake off the sadness

Holding on for dear life
Dodging arrows
What a strange elation in my bones
Bit the dust and tasted
Imperfection
What a sweet confection
I have known
And they can't take that away
No, they can't take that away
'Cause the gods make sure
We all get a taste
Signing off
I saw the correspondent
Throw his crap back in the van
Still with pride
While having grown despondent
Journalism broke that man
And they can't take that away
No, they can't take that away
'Cause the gods make sure
We all get a taste
Wooden wheels and dust
Up ride the bandits
Gunning for some treasure trove
If you could store their joy
And jubilation
And take it in a jug back home
But they can't take that away
No, we can't take that away
But the gods make sure
We all get a taste
And they can't take that away
No, they can't take that away
'Cause the gods make sure
We all get a taste

Shangri-La
Out on the west side
In the blinding light
Oh, why
Where they swing their arms
Out by the roadside
Like a baby doll
Oh, why
Damn, this floor is thumpin'
Spring released and
My little girlfriend's hanging light
I feel the blood rush
Pumpin', haulin'
Late July
Fire in the dance hall
Honey, where am I?
Stuck to the wall
Out on the rim of space
Up by the bandstand
Don't I know my place?
Always
Damn, this floor is thumpin;
Spring released and
My little girlfriend's hanging light
I feel the blood rush
Pumpin', haulin'
My little girlfriend
She's a-hanging light
Pale eyes
Don't show your weakness
On the town tonight
Oh, why?
Pale heart
Don't cut your write up
Can't ya, can't decide
Oh, why would ya?
Damn, this floor is thumpin'
Spring released and
My little girlfriend's hanging light

On a sea of untapped leagues
Rocking to and fro, I dreamed
Far below there was a monster
Golden-finned with confidence
Churns the muddy floor alive
Drowns the voices in the water
Lazily drowning
Ferry me downstream
Lazily drowning
Not a care in the world
In the blink of an hour
Races a lifetime
Lazily drowning
Not a care in the world
Not a caring world
A raft of waves to ride
A torch of ice to lead
Where the currents cool meander
And these strange persuasive tides
Draw me closer still tonight
On my voyage of surrender
Lazily drowning
Ferry me downstream
Lazily drowning
Not a care in the world
In the blink of an hour
Races a lifetime
Lazily drowning
Not a care in the world
Not a caring world
Onyx slivers catch the light
Still a slave in heaven's eye
But I'm soon to be delivered
For the tales that we've been fed
Only leave ya dumb and deaf
To the gospel of the river
Lazily drowning
Ferry me downstream
Lazily drowning
Not a care in the world

Of all the fishes in the sea
So ghostly, white, and glittering
Nobody's ever stole my heart
And took it down to the ocean dark
Nobody's ever meant that much to me
Judge and my jury, hear my plea
No woman's ever held the reins on me
No warden's ever held that key
Not a soul on Cell Block Three
Nobody but her come to set me free
I rattle on for miles
Put it on a page
You let me tap away
And I'll rattle on for days and days and days
Nobody hits home the way ya do
Nobody makes sense out of my blues
Nobody makes me laugh that hard
Or hurts me so till I see stars
Nobody holds a candle up to you
Nobody knows best how to shine my crown
Or the ease it takes to knock it down
Nobody's ever been that true
None of the funkies on the midnight crew
I found something there that I'm afraid to lose
I rattle on for miles
Put it on a page
You let me tap away
And I'll rattle on for days and days and days
Nobody's gonna piss me off so bad
It's a certain power that you have
Never one to just recoil
'Fore ya bring my blood to a boil
Nobody like a lover makes you feel so sad
Nobody like a lover
Nobody like a lover makes ya feel so sad

High time to mobilize
The work we'll do
High time to synchronize
Gather our crew
A secret battlefield
Lies within you
War is the cost
Of fighting off the truth
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
We're gonna fight the good fight
Well, no one's dragging you along
On a Saigon summer night
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
You're gonna come to realize
When your belly's in the trench
Then your heart's gotta mobilize
I'll be a spy for hire
I'll plant the bug
Eavesdrop on sweet desire
Go undercover
But you must promise
To stop fighting off the truth
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
We're gonna fight the good fight
Well, no one's dragging you along
On a long, long summer night
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
You're gonna come to realize
When your belly's in the trench
Then your heart's gotta mobilize
My enemy grows stronger
As I pace the floor and wonder how
I've let it come this way
My enemy is part of me
The last one that I wish to meet
In battle face to face
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Gunning for a miracle
One they can't take away
Found it in a skinny girl
Might have been half his age
Betty likes to push his buttons
And Marco, he lose his cool
Call each other good for nothin'
Yet when the war is through
They crawl out the fire escape
And take sweet time making up
Beautiful dreamers
Beautiful ones
Carla, she's a true romantic
Living her life in verse
And Daniel was her live-in love
When everything turned for worse
Could have been a chance relation
Both of them lonely souls
Struggle with the big decisions
Both of them growing old
Now and then
They break their vows
To spend these nights alone
Beautiful dreamers
Beautiful ones
Beautiful dreamers
Odd ones
All of us trapped in the webs we've spun
Beautiful Venus
Love, love
All of us flying too close to the sun
Close the sun
And, honey, what of you and I?
How will they tell our story?
Maybe like a movie script
Seen through an open doorway
And as the camera pulls away
We could have been anybody
Beautiful dreamers
Beautiful ones

Dare ya draw me closer still
And let me be the wild witness to the kill
See how the stars abide
Showing no resistance
Late into the night
Bluer than the winter wind that howls
On a sleepless lake
Me, I'm under no duress
Offering my throat before a hungry lioness
Hear how the jungle whines
And beats a violent drum along
With these blues of mine
Bluer than the winter wind that howls
On a sleepless lake
Where the light and shadows bend
I walk your silent haunts
Along the Michigan
Grief, banished by the glow
Electric dying autumn
Has a color all of its own
Bluer than the winter wind that howls
On a sleepless lake

Here it begins
April chimes tangled in the wind
Timing's everything and all that friend
Thunder erupts
On the lake
Pull the anchor up
And make for the shore
Count the seconds 'tween the lightning and the roar
Timing's everything and so much more
Harmony blows in for us
Not for long
Before it's on to other songbook pages
Wilting yellow in the sun
You'll love again
Keep on tellin' you
The ship is comin' in
Timing's everything and all that friend
All that friend
All that friend
All that friend