Codeine

First a kiss, then a fall
Some pale shade takes it all
Tangled up in a knot
One foot free, one foot caught

Light the stove with a match
I just wait, I just think
I'm so sad, I can't stand
I can't stand, I can't stand

A good friend is hard to find
But you'll have one if you open your eyes
A good friend is hard to find
I found you
Will you be mine?
And time will show
Time will show

A good friend is hard to find
But you'll have one if you open your eyes
A good friend is hard to find
I found you
Will you be mine?
And time will show
Time will show
And time will show
Time will SHOW

But not me

Don't you have to speak now?
Not just look and half smile
All I want's to feel
That I'm barely real

I feel like string
I feel like nothing

Who's the silence for now?
Can your heart still hold
Everything...
Untold?

I feel like string
I feel like nothing

On a quiet afternoon
Staring out of your room

Feeling blue
What am I gonna do?
Look at me, just close your eyes
Try to realize
Look at me, just close your eyes
Try to realize

Coffee's there
On the floor
From the night before
Shades are drawn
Against the sun
Where is everyone?

Look at me, just close your eyes
Try to realize
Look at me, just close your eyes
Try to realize

Spent afternoons
In the smoking room.

The things that I said then
Still make me burn with shame.

The world is frozen now
It glitters, sparkles, and shines.

The way is dark
And I am tired and small
Under my skin
Sing lonely wires

Who built
Who built this machine?
This mechanism
This misery

I wanna walk
But I have to crawl
It's colder now
And I have lost my way

Silver clouds
Fill my mind

Can't watch the trees
Can't go outside
Don't go outside

Something's got in
Into my eye
A warning sign

I don't want
To know why
A warning sign

My words have broken throats
Too ashamed to speak

Afflicted by disease
They are so weak

I'll throw sand in your eye
You need a reason to cry
I'll throw sand in your eye
I need a reason to smile

I went to school to learn
But it didn't work

How do you learn to try
Why can't I?

I'll throw sand in your eye
You need a reason to cry
I'll throw sand in your eye
I need a reason to smile

Slowly build
A pile a bones
Once sucked down
Now come ashore

Things
Keep washing up
Keep washing
Keep washing up

In the sky
Spotlights search
The ghosts of birds
The ghosts of things gone by
How can we live
Forget
But not forgive?

D for effort
D for intent
D because you pay the rent

D for love
D for insight
D because you're heaven sent

I want you to need me - not to feed me
I want you to need me - not to feed me

D for dishes
F for floors
Can't make the grade anymore

D for love
D for intent
D because you pay the rent

You kick my head
Lying on your ten - your ten foot bed
You say you're all alone, that's just 'cause,
you don't want anybody home
See a smile, make it sad
Take it all so bad.

Dream in black and white
Model cities, shooting up, in the sky
Did they go to sleep, just to die,
just to drown, in the air?

Look under the bed
There's no ghosts, that I can see

Tires burning
Can't go back there
Can't go forward

What does the word vacany mean,
when you don't expect anything?
Don't even try to justify, there's no way to justify

Loss leader, losing sight of the shore
Can't take this loss loop anymore, anymore
Water - running down
Water - running down

Now things taste kind of bitter
Two muddy shoes, far from home, far from home
Water - running down
Water - running down - RUNNING DOWN

And as I walk back
I feel the moon against my neck

Loss leader, losing sight of the shore
Can't take this lost loop anymore

A white ship sails on a black sea
Takes my love from me
And it takes so long
But then I understand
I under...
STAND

Put your hand in my good hand
Promise not to leave this dry and barren land
And it takes so long
But then I understand
I under...
STAND

When I see the sun
I hope it shines on me
And gives me everything...well, almost
Some people seem
To be just small hard peas
Sometimes I think it's me

I try so hard for bruises on your back -
just to get you back
I try so hard for bruises on your back, tiny and mean
Just to get you back
Just to get you back
Just to get you back
Just to get you back

When I see the sun
I hope it shines on me
And gives me everything
To be one mile high
Then I would kill you all
What I gave to you, just meant nothing
When I see the sun
I hope it shines on me
And gives me everything
When I see the sun
I hope it shines on me
And gives me everything...well, almost

Three angels - holes in their socks
Three angels - holes in their socks
I'll take the one on the right
You take the one on the left
One in the middle
One to forget

Take a walk - 'round the block
Take a walk - 'round the block

Three angels - holes in their socks
Two to play
One to sing
They know...
EVERYTHING

Take a walk - 'round the block
Take a walk - 'round the block

Walk, just walk away
And throw old things away

Things don't last too long
But when they do
They last too long
Walk, just walk away
And throw old things away

I, I thought I tried
But what, what does that mean?
Walk, just walk away
And throw old things away

Nothing sticks to you
Not even what you WANT to

Dry heave doubt
From a little dragon's mouth
Split lip and split tongue
Finally, cross eyed

She stands next to the cigarrette machine
"This device has got it made," she thinks.
It has a cast iron stomach
But a candle for a heart

Odd the way the very stuff falls out
Hard the way it makes you doubt
This thing leaps up and complains, full of bile
Not even starcrossed, just unlucky

Odd how the very stuff falls out
Hard the way it makes you smile
This thing leaps up and complains
Not even starcrossed, just unlucky