Dan Murphy

The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can I go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which I was born
My friend, here's to you


How would I know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can I go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which I was born
My friend, here's to you


How would I know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you
And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life
A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you
I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you
I know for something to do with the rest of your life
Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way
This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be
If you're coming with me I might be on your way
I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most
For you, I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain

Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you
And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life
A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you
I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you
I know for something to do with the rest of your life
Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way
This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be
If you're coming with me I might be on your way
I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most
For you, I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain

Right before the aftermath, I saw where it would end.
They said it was an accident, I guess that all depends
on who you talk to and who you know,
and where you come from and where - where you go.
In your crowd of pushers and users, takers and loosers,
beggars and beggars and beggars and choosers.

Your childhood days are over as you stuff your shirt and say
made a choice it's wrong or right, it's this way I will stay.
You'll sell it to your children, you'll sell it to your wife.
Buying is your business, and selling is your life, It's your life.


The vultures are all circling around your ????.
Scavengers, evangalists will get to you some how.
Your mother and your ex-best friend, letters that you never send.

Your illegitamate children are coming for you now.
They're always dragging you down, it's looking like a showdown,
between revenge and in the end you can't defend.
Can you try to imagine, a story that has no end?
I think you better steal it while you still understand it, and sell it to one of your friends.

At the end of the track is a shack
When you die, that's where you go
Down the lines, up from this pit at the end of your rainbow
That's one too many flights of stairs
One more stair and almost there
One more dose close
Keep coming back to haunt you,
Got no place left to go
And they'll strip your car to the bone
We did a scene, checked out a gown
The Justice started laughing
I guess that's what you get for laughing
One last laugh and lived to tell
One more pomp and circumstance
One more fool to follow
Another finger down my throat
It's a bitter pill to swallow
It's moving much too slow
Who it is asleep at the wheel
I don't want to know
Just around the corner there's
Somebody there to take you there
Don't worry child you're sure to be scared
One more drink before I go
One last good luck kiss
One less thing to call my own
That's one more thing I miss
Took the world by storm
Most of 'em either in a dark jail
Or wishing they had never been born
Just around the corner there's
One more pomp and circumstance
One more fool to follow
Another finger down my throat
That's a bitter pill to swallow

I got something special to show you
But I suppose you've seen it all before
There's one thing I'm trying to tell you
But then again, you've heard it all before
I survived another week just like the one before,
When everything you wanted somehow leaves you wanting more
And I looked beneath the carpet behind each and every door,
Trying to find you something like you've never had before
And it seems we're just beginners
No previous experience at all
Just the last original sinners
And if you need me just be sure to call
And they tell you which way not to go and so you go that way
One child plays with another throws it away
Like a kite without string do anything
I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before
I see something new in each and every moon
From your old, old hat to your blown-out shoes
It's tried and true, and it's all I do
And I hope it's not all the same to you
The old and new, they get mistaken all the time
Is there something I've never seen before
No, just a brand new shine
Now they're cranking 'em out by the millions
They look and act exactly just the same
And each one's one in a million
And each has got its own elusive game
It's the same old dusty atmosphere just like the other place
I see something familiar in each and every face
Seems to me I've seen you, been here, said this once before
I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before
I see something new in each and every moon
From your old, old hat to
When I dropped it and broke it, I thought of you
And I hope it's not all the same to you
And the old and new, they get mistaken all the time
Is there something I've never seen before

Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail,
I can’t see it’s too dark,
but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me.
When the circus that you left goes on parade,
and those things you see seem so far
in your charade, too far,
but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away,
Don’t look away.
Did it almost make you feel,
that something’s got to happen soon,
when you wake up feeling lost in your own room.
If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown,
if you think we’ll rise above,
you’d better look around,
you’ll see.
It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me.
Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall,
they loom so large,
but make me feel so small somehow,
when you’re chasing your own tail
spinning your own wheels.
..
And a time to leave,
and a time to stay,
I guess the things I look away...
Did it almost make you feel
that somethings gotta happen soon.
You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon.
There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent.
There’s a beast out on the ruins,
some broken down lover’s lament.
It goes on and on but it won’t go away.

Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail,
I can’t see it’s too dark,
but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me.
When the circus that you left goes on parade,
and those things you see seem so far
in your charade, too far,
but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away,
Don’t look away.
Did it almost make you feel,
that something’s got to happen soon,
when you wake up feeling lost in your own room.
If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown,
if you think we’ll rise above,
you’d better look around,
you’ll see.
It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me.
Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall,
they loom so large,
but make me feel so small somehow,
when you’re chasing your own tail
spinning your own wheels.
..
And a time to leave,
and a time to stay,
I guess the things I look away...
Did it almost make you feel
that somethings gotta happen soon.
You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon.
There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent.
There’s a beast out on the ruins,
some broken down lover’s lament.
It goes on and on but it won’t go away.

Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to?
You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly
How is this going to affect you?
Do you think it might wreck you?
Your friends might reject you
Say you took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be

Hooked on glossy pictures
and drugs I’ve never seen
We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine
One day she just walked into that magazine
I wonder if she’ll ever come back
And they all said she would crack
They said her mind was one track,
Said she took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars
...

Every time you move your lips
Let me give you a few tips
Yesterday you were too young
Tomorrow you will be too old
To regret all the things
you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ?
Somebody you wanna show your muscle?
Second hand excuses never went too far
What’s this scene you’re making?
Your ideas have been taken
We’ll seek when you awaken alone
in someone’s car
You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking
They said you were faking

You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars...

Closer to the stars

He's a stranger to authority, welcome to the minority.
It's not someplace you have to go, it's not something you have to know.
Don't do this, don't touch that. Hey, draw the line
I'll speak my mind, maybe I'll wait for another time.
Sometimes you get close to those who wait,
Sometimes it makes you hesitate.
Some folks find more humanity, some folks find more than sanity.
Don't do this, don't do that, don't try this, don't do that,
Don't try this, don't touch that. Hey, do it for the last time.
By the weight of the world coming down, down on, down on up to me.
Down on up to me, wait for another time.
When you look down on me, I get so uppity,
Starting my own army, just me and my friends, said you better get ready. Hahaha.
Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to me.
Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to
Though it might just come down to trust,
It sometimes just comes down to lust, that's just one person's point of view.

Did you hear the one about the friend of a a friend who tried to end it all
At the last moment he picked up the phone and gave you a call
You thought about letting it ring, but you answered after all
And there you were, put on the spot at the end of the other line
For questions that you never thought you'd ever have to answer to
Who do you turn to when the ones you always turn to go and turn on you
It leaves you in the dark, feeling for a switch to turn it on again
There are no easy answers, the questions remain tough
There's no shortcuts to easy street, no corners you can cut
Can you cut this diamond in the rough
And it's good to see you alive
Sign your will to survive
A look into your heart before it sees its final hour
Lived each day like there is no tomorrow
Beyond this mess ahead there is a street so very hard to find
Though I have got to lay my head down at this dead end so many times
And if we ever get to easy street, you can say with a smile
I came just for the ride

Rise and shine it's you're razor sharp.
Size up yourself in the mirror, a slice of life,
To last through all the years, because sooner or later it all comes back to you,
And we will remember, the fine things you can do.
I'm giving back all the things that you gave to me.
I'm saving up the price to pay to be free.
Remember the first time you saw the rising sun.
You may be done but I've just begun.
The leaves are burning and the ashes have flown away.
I'm turning over new leaves almost every day.
You let him think you just as soon stay - you let him think you had nothing to say.
Just let you go away, to find some mangled security, some strangled form of purity,
To restore your faith and all the things you've come to hate.
You give and you take and you leave, leave it alone.
What i want so badly for this to be a place you can call home, and I haven't felt this
Way since yesterday, but I don't remeber when.
What I want so badly to be someone you can call a friend, till we meet again.
Endless Farewell. Hello, Hello, Hello again. Endless Farewell.

Make ure chillin
guts start spillin
its piece of a puzzle
piece of a trouble
is it somethin else?
ure sellin yourself
Im so wanting
without a clue
gotta find something better
something better to do
something so exciting
Im into something new
you piece together the whole thing
gives u something to use

maybe I should practice it one more time
maybe Im afraid what it might do
maybe it might upset someone
maybe that's what its supposed to do

pull it from the bottom
it begins to change
find another existance
thats what ure trying to say?

Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u off
Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u

All of the lands are terribly restless
with tellin u what to do
but u go bak to the land


where ure defensless
they act just like me and u

look what u've dont to me
look what I've done to u
look what they've done to us
now were like noone else
theyre laughin at u
talkin about u
all these new things
all these new things
I found in use

and Im workin so hard
when I think it is real
everybody does once
just to see how it feels
its not a sensation
and its not for sale
so what can u call it now?

keep em gotten
theyll spoil u rotten
keep em gotten
keep em gotten
just another freak
be another freak
be a freak

When aid turned sideways
And It'd head on down the highway
Say this is my way, disappearing forever
But there ain't just one way
So you choose the fun way
Slide down the runway
On a ticket that goes two ways
And by the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Cause it wasn't yours to take
What once seemed like dying
Soon turned into flying
So you settle for trying
And you wish you were grounded
No you cannot get much higher
Than your utmost desire
So you bring it down to size and
Now it seems that you are grounded
By the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Now you find that you are grounded

Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown

Some things don't come easy
Some things got to give
You just might have to waste your life just to live

Now did you think that I was somebody?
And did you think this was somewhere?
I will still be there
So watch out

Well, I got the right to free myself of fear
Stand over me and watch me disappear
You're sent to the death to be in another mess
To keep your mind, to keep them in
I don't know where they're meeting to pretend

Well, I am the one that soaks it up
Well, I am the one that takes a punch
And I am, I am, I am the human sponge

Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious?
Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say

'Cause you've got so much I can't follow
One more debt I can't repay
Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away
I'm just trying to live with today
And I'm just trying to live with the way
The way I am?

I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am

Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown

Some things don't come easy
Some things got to give
You just might have to waste your life just to live

Now did you think that I was somebody?
And did you think this was somewhere?
I will still be there
So watch out

Well, I got the right to free myself of fear
Stand over me and watch me disappear
You're sent to the death to be in another mess
To keep your mind, to keep them in
I don't know where they're meeting to pretend

Well, I am the one that soaks it up
Well, I am the one that takes a punch
And I am, I am, I am the human sponge

Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious?
Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say

'Cause you've got so much I can't follow
One more debt I can't repay
Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away
I'm just trying to live with today
And I'm just trying to live with the way
The way I am?

I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am
I am

If I could be anything I wanted, I don't know
I'd be stuck here with myself, be an Average Joe
But if I could be like a Jack of all trades, yes I'd have it made

Glass blower, flamethrower, grass mower, firefighter
I'm tryin' to loose it up, or make it tighter

But a Jack of all trades master, I'm not dead, you're tired in bed
But a Jack of all trades, there's stuff that gets made, wait for your lucky day

See my train and now it's gone
Rings the damned, threw the phone
He's studdering, he stalls
He hit the bottle of call
Ching chase and rat race, and laid down and out of place, and down the hall

Problem called (na, na)
Problem called (na, na, na)

Yes I'll try anything sometimes I just can't say no
And I'm learnin' to dig with my hands
I've learned to work with my mind
So much to lose, and so much left to find
So much to take, so much to leave behind

Yeah, I walked down, your thoughts are free, don't think of the dead but think of dignity
Picked you up by the side of your head, you were half dead
Say your prayers, and put you to to bed

At the end of the day stands a Jack of all trades, and the fool he has made
It's a Jack of all trades and the fool he has made of himself and his friend

But he'd do it again, yes he'd do it again
He's a Jack

You sold your soul for a lump of coal
She's blacker than the night
Didn't think you'd be needing it
But you thought
But you never know who you might meet
On the street where the church bells ring to a different beat
Is it joy, is it pain? Is it rustin' in the rain?
Do you really think I need it?
Is it just plain evil?
Heard of a man who had a plan
To save the wretched world
Nationwide genocide, like one-eyed jacks
And suicide queens
Look out for if you know what I mean
Is it good, is it bad? Is it bitter, is it sad?
Is it inside all these people?
Is it just plain evil? You've got a lot to learn
You've got a lot to change, you've got nothing to lose
But a ball and chain
Is it good, is it bad?Is it bitter, is it sad?
Do you really think I need it? Is it just plain evil?

Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair
Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that
Dirt will always be there, it's only
Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and
Follows you everywhere
Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut
The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt
Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you
I'm truly certain, usually washes out
Don't you know, rain will wash out the
Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out
Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence
To some-odd social scene, you're right on top
But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean
One day dirt will bury you and you will understand
There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there
It's only dirt around you and
Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere
'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene
You're right on top, but you've been replaced
By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you
And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean
A little too clean, a little too clean

Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair
Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that
Dirt will always be there, it's only
Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and
Follows you everywhere
Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut
The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt
Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you
I'm truly certain, usually washes out
Don't you know, rain will wash out the
Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out
Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence
To some-odd social scene, you're right on top
But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean
One day dirt will bury you and you will understand
There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there
It's only dirt around you and
Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere
'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene
You're right on top, but you've been replaced
By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you
And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean
A little too clean, a little too clean

Guess I'll be leaving in the morning
By the chill that you gave me I will ride
I will tear out my insides just to find a place to hide
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

You got the dagger but I got the revolver
As we rolled and we tumbled to the floor
I been ?? is it just these drugs I'm feelin'?
And I don't want to lie to you no more

??
?? till the end
A guitar's a man's best friend
But these rules were meant to be broken



?? make myself uneasy
And I haven't got the guts to make you cry
?? to one thing ?? do something
And I don't want to hurt you anymore

Now with this advice I will end
??
Some things are meant to be spoken
And these rules are meant to be broken

Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood
Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger
But somehow you still swing
Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss
Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips
She thinks she must be doing something wrong
They pull the strings and then they string you along
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle
On just what makes you swing
Hanging by a string
Know the boss he makes her do things his way
So why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It doesn't always have to be this way
She's saving up for a vacation somewhere
Why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It's very hard work when you don't get paid
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings

Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood
Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger
But somehow you still swing
Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss
Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips
She thinks she must be doing something wrong
They pull the strings and then they string you along
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle
On just what makes you swing
Hanging by a string
Know the boss he makes her do things his way
So why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It doesn't always have to be this way
She's saving up for a vacation somewhere
Why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It's very hard work when you don't get paid
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings

Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary
No one talked as they synchronized their watches
And they drove past a train station

The train rolled out with a passenger car
Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars
?? coats
?? and that would be all she wrote

And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers
Sold out their trades to become drug dealers
There ain't no money in doing things straight
Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid

Outside the train window fast as he could ride
Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies
And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes
For the house he was riding to burglarize

All through the house they were dancing and singing
An extended family with fiddlers and magicians
A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion
to pacify all the killers and rapist

The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription
For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman
In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions
To the city that looked over the ocean

And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids
And soon the city would be crawling with addicts
And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics
(When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?)

And no one knows what's going on
But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day
And nice guys don't get paid
Nice guys don't get paid

Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars
(Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars
Car-jacking fanatic

Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary
No one talked as they synchronized their watches
And they drove past a train station

The train rolled out with a passenger car
Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars
?? coats
?? and that would be all she wrote

And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers
Sold out their trades to become drug dealers
There ain't no money in doing things straight
Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid

Outside the train window fast as he could ride
Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies
And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes
For the house he was riding to burglarize

All through the house they were dancing and singing
An extended family with fiddlers and magicians
A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion
to pacify all the killers and rapist

The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription
For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman
In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions
To the city that looked over the ocean

And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids
And soon the city would be crawling with addicts
And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics
(When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?)

And no one knows what's going on
But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day
And nice guys don't get paid
Nice guys don't get paid

Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars
(Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars
Car-jacking fanatic

Well my friend Jud he was a fuddy-dud
Chewed his cud, was a stick in the mud
I swear he hated everyone
And he's bumming nickels and bumming dimes
But most of all you know he's just bumming time
And every day was a bad day
They walked out and on and over him, he was turning gray
Never knew love he gave up on hope
Stayed in bed and he stopped using soap was a dirty old man
But he never said poor little old me, poor poor
Now one fine day he won the lottery
Instant millionaire without a care it didn't change a thing
Drove up to Reno he lost everything at a roadside casino
You know he never made it into town
Where the bright lights trickle down, he was a casualty
And all he got was more lewd and crude, he was very rude
The only thing he hated worse than the city
Was charity and self pity he'd been around
I talked to him that's what I found, he was a casualty
Poor little old me, poor poor casualty

Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him


As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more

Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another drug
All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so

Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss your kiss, impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an under-dose of love
All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing


Wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing

Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing
Wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way

I ran away I walked a fine line wasting time only to find
You were callin' I think finally to remind me I am fine
What you are is what you see and you see me and we can be
Something you can call real we are, we are, we are
Doing the best we can, working without a plan
I'm beginning to understand, its getting out of hand
I have seen these closing doors, I've woke up on this floor before
Picked it apart for hours and hours and hours
Of turning, tossing and looking and listening
To you and all the f~~ked up things you do
But you're doing the best you can, with every grain of sand
Its trickling through your hand, sayin'catch me if you can
If someday comes early, comes whipping comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning, the bridges are burning
My destination sometime to return
Throw away your calender and saddle up your salamander
Get up and get down ride in to town and look around
Get up and do something, no time to choose it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Doing the best I can, with or without a plan,
I'm taking what I can get, I haven't seen nothing yet.
If one day you wake up and find what you make up,
Come and get me, come and take me there.
Into your illusion,I'll make my intrusion - anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
The hour glass is draining fast, it knows no future holds no past, and
all this to wil lcome to pass - never, forever, whenever.

Follows me wherever we go
Undermining all that we know
Suddenly starts thinkin' been fooled from the beginnin'
When the cause is lost you find there is no point in winnin'
Then it's hard to think straight when your head it keeps on spinnin'
If I lost my mind, would you help me find it?
Maybe it's you, maybe it's me
Things aren't quite the way they should be
And now it seems my peace of mind has come up for the biddin'
All those I respect and trust I guess they were just kiddin'
And they will say it's me who's lost, and as you sit there grinnin'
My little world has lost control but still it keeps on spinnin'
If I lost my mind, would you help me find it?
If I lost my mind, I wouldn't have to be reminded
If I lost my mind I'm not sure I would mind
Would you help me find it?

Standing in the doorway
Wondering if it's safe to go outside
Wondering if I'll come back
Wondering if I might just drift out with the rising tide
Sitting and waiting and hoping to find
Something you're good at to use up your time
To crawl from the ocean and lie on the shore
A moonbeam the rests on the dust on your floor

I'm not going out there
Don't try to tell me I'm paranoid
Wouldn't say I'm not scared
Though it may be safe to say that I am annoyed
In the intersection traffic lights are red in all directions
Everyone breaks the law sometimes
We all break down have foolish pride and
Beg for some affection
I can't say I know how you feel everyone seems to know
Are you sure I would if I could help you remember
What it's like to feel good
Chitter and chatter and everything matters
I ask how you're feeling
And you just act shattered
Asleep on the couch with your eyes open wide

Standing in the doorway
Waiting as you come and as you leave
You say get out of my way
Won't you stop and talk about the hectic life you lead
They're all going somewhere
They all have some place they have to be
Maybe I should join them
I wish I could I think I have to stay here with me
It brings a tear to your eye to get out into the open
I can't believe I see myself
Coming into focus

People say I'm the life of the party
'Cause I laugh or tell a joke or two
Though I might be laughing loud and hearty
Deep inside I'm blue

So take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

I need you

If you see me with another guy
Looking like I'm having fun
May be cute, she's just a substitute
'Cause you're the permanent one

So take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

Outside I'm masquerading
Inside my hope is fading
I'm just a clown since you put me down
My smile is my makeup
I'm absent since my break-up with you

Baby, take a good look at my face
You know my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?
It isn't easy but I'll try

If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters
That would soar a thousand feet high
To Sir, with love

The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong
And weak from strong that's a lot to learn
What, what can I give you in return

If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start
But I would rather you let me give my heart
To Sir, with love

Those awkward years have hurried by, why do they fly away?
Why is it Sir, children grow up to be people some day?
What takes the place of climbing trees and dirty knees in the world outside?

If you wanted the world I'd surround it with a wall
I'd scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall
To Sir, with love

Well, a fascinating sensation, no I can't even feel it
I just had to let you know I can't conceal it
I was recently considering taking the pain with the pleasure
Just to find my way to the bottom of this, I'll have to dig forever

And it's no small measure
Lift up your veil of tears

Don't be disappointed child, if your prayers go unanswered
We are not responsible for these sad circumstances
Secret agents and freedom fighters on those impossible missions
Better put your toys and games away, maybe take the kids out fishing

For a family treasure
In your early years
Behind your veil of tears

So frustrated
Get up anyway
So complicated


Changes every day

So the darkness fades
And the light will come shining through

I heard the eyes that look to a better world
always hide beneath the veil of tears
And you hide no more
Lift up your veil of tears
Hide no more
Behind your veil of tears

Now the executioner must be executed
No I think we'll set him free instead, watch him run

And you hide no more
Lift up your veil of tears
You hide no more

I was tapping my foot on a Friday night
To my favorite band I was pushed aside
I said "hey don't push me no one pushes me"
When I was face to face with the woman I admired
And she gave me this look I could not believe
And the cold stare remained; I wanted to leave

See, I do believe anger is offset by sorrow
But you destroy today you might regret tomorrow
When you're young and defensive it comes off offensive
And it's hard to repay the tolerance that you borrowed
The lasting relationship sinks right off the pier
Who wears the pants; it's faded but clear

She's your girlfriend, seems she ain't too fond of me
I guess if that's the way it was meant to be
There we were, just we three
You, your girlfriend, and me

I've known you forever, you two just met
So easily amused; how fast we forget
In my jealously, my self-righteous greed
She's a bit like a book I'm too far sighted to read
And I wish you the best, I sometimes feel the need
To say remember me

She's your girlfriend, as far as we can see
Does she look at you the way she looks at me
And here we are, just we three
You, your girlfriend, and me

She's your girlfriend, it's getting harder to see
Better just take her home, better just let her be
When she walks out that door, you'll come looking for me

No one taught you how to sing the blues
And you only play the games that you lose
Can't even tie your own shoes
But I think you're alright

Woke up in the morning on my own
Trying to figure out what went wrong
Now you're wondering why I'm gone
But I think you're alright

Saw you can't play aloud on a hill
Why is she probably you
Think it's time for you to choose
Dude, I think you're alright

Now you never behave like you wanted to
'Cause they don't understand what you're going through
So you're gonna get lost in your body tonight

Yeah, I think it's alright
I said, "Yeah, I think it's alright"

Saw you on the corner asking for change
Mangy, vicious dog acting deranged
Everybody thought that you were strange
Dude, I think you're alright

She down on my socks
Getting ice for my scotch
Never bending my ear
Just chilling my beers

She don't say much
She's cold to the touch
Sometimes it's rough
With her handcuffs and stuff

She likes what I got
She takes what I give her
She feels so real
Just don't look into her eyes

If I come home late
The love is still great
Doesn't follow the trends
[Incomprehensible], how she bends

She likes it on top
Little cream, a lil' crop
And it's getting better

She likes what I got
Takes what I give her
She feels so real
Just don't look into her eyes

Oh, you give me so much pleasure
Oh, I wish you were alive
Oh, it gives me so much pleasure
Oh, it makes me feel alive

She likes what I got
Takes what I give her
She feels so real
Just don't look into her eyes

Oh, you give me so much pleasure
Oh, I wish you were alive
Oh, it gives me so much pleasure
Oh, it makes me feel alive

She comes in a box
My own private fox
She's pretty in pink
She cleans in the sink

She don't say much
She's cold to the touch
Doesn't complain
Travel to Spain

She likes it rough
With her handcuffs and stuff
She comes up tough
There's a cream on the crop

She's passing my socks
Getting ice for my scotch
Never bending my ear
Just chilling my beers

Didn't know what time it was, the lights were lo-o-ow
I leaned back on my radi-o-o
Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll
Lotta soul, he said

Then the loud sound did seem to fa-a-de
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of pha-a-se
That weren't no DJ that was hazy, cosmic jive

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile

He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

I had to phone someone, so I picked on you, ooh, ooh
Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too, ooh, ooh
Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two

Lookin' out your window, I can see his li-i-ight
If we can sparkle, he may land toni-i-ight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, oh

Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, oh

He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

Hey, what's bubbling down under there?
Why is it screaming what's unfair?
Please excuse it for getting out
Let the shellfish swell inside
How should I know? Watch it squirm
It's asking me words that I learned

Stay inside for me or space
Trip me in a sprinkling gray
Stay and take my fate

Thought I knew you, stuck out my hand
Didn't wish I could understand
It's a twisted feeling, its there and bold
It's time to burn out, hope I score
Wait for me there, dash and run
To watch this with the lantern

Stay inside for me or space
Trip me in a sprinkling gray
Stay and take my fate

Take my fate, take my fate
Take my fate, take my fate

Travelin' with no anchor, Lord
In a sea of indecision
Lost in fields of languish, Lord
As I am I cannot stand

I'm here to make a declaration
Won't fall without a struggle
And I accept your invitation
Follow when you call

It's clear to me
That I must join the battle, here at hand
Fly to where the thunder plays
And lightning flashes bright

Had this revelation, Lord
You're still my [Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]

I'm here to make this promise, dear
Won't fall without a struggle
And I accept your invitation
Follow when you call

I'm here to make this promise, dear
Won't fail without a struggle
And I accept your invitation
Follow when you call

It's clear to me
That I must join the battle, here at hand
Fly to where the cannons play
And lightnin' flashes bright

5-22-02
That's when I told you
5-22-02

Did you ever feel the way?
The feeling of a day gone by
I was hoping you felt that thing too

Could you stand another day
Making habits out of our gone bys?
You and I have better things to do

5-22-02
That's when I told you
5-22-02

Did you ever feel the day?
The feeling of the night gone by?
I kept hoping you felt that thing too

Now the mirror's on the bed
And the shades are black and lead, she said
It was then that everything was mine

5-22-02
That's when I told you
5-22-02

All your life you've been holding on, holding on
All your life you've been holding on, holding on

Could you stand another day
Making habits out of our gone bys?
You and I have better things to do

5-22-02
That's when I told you
5-22-02
That's when I told you

5-22-02
That's when I told you
5-22-02

22-02
22-02
22-02
...

Too bad you got a chip on your shoulder
You've broken the hate, it's never too late
Turn 'round, you're just another year older
Still ready to fight, then lose on your side

Can't find your direction
Another fine day, another fine day
Can't find your direction
Another fine day, another fine day

Who put one foot in front of the other
Drift through the maze of golden haze
Sweating birds are darting down in anger
Block now, cries the pain

Can't find your direction
Another fine day, another fine day
Can't find your direction
Another fine day, another fine day

Don't drown yourself in the sorrow
You had a fall from grace

Another fine day, another fine day
Another fine day, another fine day
Can't find your direction
Another fine day, another fine day

It's not a story of a god around the calling
Locked in silence and pops up your pretty head
They're sleeping now but dreams, except for lately
Some things are better left unsaid

Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind
Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind

I saw my picture in the paper, it read 'Guilty'
Eleven strong, consider him dead
The crime was mine and it was done unforgiven
You draw the line and I'll cross it where I stand

Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind
Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind

The clowns are withered, as the wind it was blowing
As you and I end somewhere down again
A sky channel, hollow hand sat there waiting
Some things are better left unsaid

Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind
Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind

The crime was mine and it was done unforgiven
You draw the line and I'll cross it where I stand

Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind
Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind

Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind
Beautiful mind
Such a beautiful mind

Don't it blow your mind?
Don't it blow your mind like the first time?

Circle the voices in a crowded room
Plays in my head so out of time
Kill me with kindness never enough I find

Don't it blow your mind?
Don't it blow your mind again?
Don't it blow your mind for the third time?

The dream is never over
The dream is never over

Envision a future still in back and white
Colors of youth run into gold
Blue is for sorrow, red is for sadder light

Don't it blow your mind?
Don't it blow your mind again?
Don't it blow your mind for the third time?

The dream is never over
The dream is never over
The dream is never over
The dream is never over

There's a part of you here, part of you everywhere
Looking around all that I see
Buildings and cars, modern technology

Don't it blow your mind?
Don't it blow your mind again?
Don't it blow your mind for the third time?

The dream is never over
The dream is never over
The dream is never over
The dream is never over

I can see you in the summer time
Throwing caution to the wind as you reach and touch the sky
I can see you done some circles in the rain
You're a long forgotten truth in the twilight of my day, of my day

Watch the sun swirl, angels whisper as you rise
On the shoulders of the giant who carries you among the clouds
Keep your eyes wide, as you the cross the universe
Put your future in a box, pain today or they meant well

And I wish I could see through your eyes
So full of innocence
So full of joyfulness in a world that's so unkind
You are the cure for it

I can see you in the summer time
On the shoulders of the giant as you reach and touch the sky

And I wish I could see you one more time
So full of innocence
So full of joyfulness in a world that's so unkind
You are the cure for it

Soaked yourself in gasoline
And you're down the [Incomprehensible]
Are you lying, frying pan eyes

You pawn my box at the Highland store
You're waitress night or two before
But you're trying, open your eyes

But you live and you love
And you give this love

Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad
Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad

'Cause you're up or you're down
No in between

You told the saw that you're gonna stop
So he bent you up and you went too cop
Now you're flying, how am I done

You never really were my sinner
It's not like me to be mean
But I'm trying, frying pan eyes

Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad
Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad

'Cause you're up or you're down
No in between
'Cause you're up or you're down
No in between

Soaked yourself in gasoline
And you're down the [Incomprehensible]
And you dying, frying pan eyes

Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad
Don't look so sad
You know it ain't that bad

Don't look so sad
Don't look so sad
Don't look so sad
...

Well, I saw you at the station
It was after the election
Down cast they would call him
Your behavior was a poem

At the feet of blessed
Your hate burned my hand
Are you happy where you are?

Well, I knew that it was over
When the crowd began standing
You were driving, we were swerving
In the feathers began burning

From the mountains to the desert
I searched but you were gone
Are you happy where you are?
Are you happy where you are?

And all the hours upon that everyone consume
Could not arrest the void of him to hers
Him to hers, silent too

Your priest who is praying
In the cold moon was laying
The drunkard, he was drinking
And the young boy, he was thinking

For the first time in a long time
You felt hurt she died
Are you happy where you are?
Are you happy where you are?

And all the alcohol that everyone consumed
Could not arrest the boy who trots around the wound
Don't look behind the face to see the faith is gone
You know that's only wise for everyone, everyone, oh, gone

Well, I saw you at the station
It was after the election
Down tribe they would call him
Your behavior was so sad

At the feet of altar
Your hate burned my hand
Are you happy where you are?
Are you happy where you are?

And it's a drag wind and your world's a hurricane
Forever blownin' up some coasts
So you run in and form a quick sand
But all you do is you see your ghosts

And it's a drag wind and your world's a hurricane
Can't fall asleep without the TV on
[Incomprehensible] her, watch him run
But in the morning she'll be gone, she'll be gone

Inside, outside, I thought I knew her
She's hard to track, she's like a hurricane
Thought she knew me, just blew right through me
Two of us like a hurricane, like a hurricane, like a hurricane
Hurricane

And it's a drag wind and your girl's a hurricane
'Cause you can't look her in the eye
Now more than ever, just not forever
And all you do is you make her cry

Inside, outside, I thought I knew her
She's hard to track, she's like a hurricane
Thought she knew me, just blew right through me
Two of us like a hurricane, like a hurricane, like a hurricane
Like a hurricane, a hurricane, hurricane

Outside the cold wind broke the mold
You now I always loved it, just because I can
Couldn't find the door you let me in
You said I'm always welcome, sure you will again

Call me the moment you wake up

Our hand is stretched till under edge
No one could ever stop us or give a shit, my friend
And on the bus, you weighed your trust
That wasn't made to be broken and it's never been

Call me the moment you wake up
When you close your eyes, do you think of me?
When you close your eyes, do you think of me?

Your eyes are bold, your heart is gold
You know I always love you, just because I can
I let you in, you're always welcome
That's how it's always been

And if it feels like no one else understands
You know I can
And if you're feeling no one else understands
You better believe I can

You know what's wrong with me
You know what's wrong with me
And you know what's wrong with me
You know what's wrong with me

When you close your eyes, do you think of me?
When you close your eyes, do you think of me?
When you close your eyes, do you think of me?
When you close your eyes, do you think of, do you think of?

I touched your face
You were still warm
I took my place
Beside your thorn
Swaying like an old familiar breeze
Brought me to my knees

Lifting up my eyes
Surprise surprise everyone dies
Cry and cry you're being a baby

No body know where we go
Listen, joy will drive you crazy

And no matter where you go
And no matter what is true
I will always think of you
I will always think of you



Drew up my plans
Made some mistakes
Packed up my bags
Felt no embrace

Never found a reason I should stay
Just tell me what to say

Laughing at your lies
Surprise surprise everyone dies
Cry and cry you're being a baby

No body cares where you go
Listen joy will drive you crazy

And no matter where you go
And no matter what is true
I will always think of you
I will always think of you

I remember when mom and dad named you Claire
Before you were born, before you had hair
You don't remember but I was there

I remember when you broke your arm
I know how you tell it
You get it all wrong
I loved you then and from now on

That was a long time ago
That was a long time ago

I remember when mom and dad brought you home
I was so used to bein' alone
And then I wasn't alone

There must be some reason for flesh and blood
Some other purpose for stayin' in touch
Oh we shared so much

I remember when mom and dad named you Claire
Before you were born, before you had hair
You don't remember but I was there

That was a long time ago
That was a long time ago

Is it on or in the air tonight
Or is this just a station on the way
Cannon come to know we're on an endless flight
Won't come down again till All Souls Day

Spend your days, your time's unfazed
Passed out on a floor
Lost remains were claimed the names
Of something you ain't never felt before

I know a star that shines but not so bright
Its nights like these, they will fall out of the sky
She loves it all, just not herself tonight
Sleeps but never dreams and wonders why

The river bends, refuse descend
All washed up on the shore
The turnings seems like twisted scenes
Of something you ain't never felt before

You never felt before
You never felt before

The best made plans like planes are standing
Tumble through the hour glass
And all those things you've come to hate
Are gone

And hope won't bring her 'round again
She's yours until the bitter end
And all those things you've come to hate
Are gone

Something you ain't never felt before

You never felt before
You never felt before

Dying to breathe life into a photograph
Human you to pass, where did you go

Where are you going, I don't mind
I'll kill my world and I'll kill my time
So where do I go, what do I see
See many people coming out to me

So where are you going to, I don't mind
If I live too long I'm afraid I'll die
So I will follow you wherever you go
If your offered hand is still open to me

Strangers on this road, we are all
We are not two, we are one

So you been where I've just come
From the land that brings losers home
So we will share this road we walk
[Incomprehensible]

To peace we find till you what I'll do
Oh, the things I own, I will share with you
If I feel tomorrow like I feel today
We'll take everyone, give the rest away

Strangers on this road, we are all
We are not two, we are one

Holy man and holy priest
This smother loud makes me weak in my knees
When we get there make your mind
Soon I feel you're gonna carry us away

In Promised Land you made us believe
For any man there's so much grief
[Incomprehensible]
If I live too long I'm afraid I'll die

Strangers on this road, we are all
We are not two, we are one
Strangers on this road, we are all
We are not two, we are one

Starry days, sunny nights
All you do is, think about yourself
Walk around, head in hands
All you do is, think about yourself

Though you tried to rearrange
People in their place

All the things that you created
Were about yourself
All the lines you spent relating
Were about yourself

Hide behind those pretty eyes
And I can read your mind

Every night you close your eyes
Your head is filled with alibis and rules to play
Everywhere I turn I see
The bridges that you burned just to be free again

Summer days, summer nights
All you do is, think about yourself
All the times you spent relating
Were about yourself

Hide behind your pretty eyes
And I can read your mind

Every night you close your eyes
Your head is filled with alibis and rules to play
Everywhere I turn I see
The bridges that you burned just to be free again

Drill the trigger under your thumb
Think of all the damage you've done
Oh, yeah

Every night you close your eyes
Your head is filled with alibis and rules to play
Everywhere I turn I see
The bridges that you burned just to be free again

I want you to understand
I'm gonna be your man
You make it easy
You make it easy

I like it here by myself
But I want what no one else
Just sometimes need me
You make it easy

And I want you and I need you
And you know it's true
I can't see myself with no one else

You close down with my hand
Your fallouts be comprehend
You sometimes need me
You make it easy

It's a sad turn
To be on your own
It's a strange view
With no sight of home

And I want you and I need you
And you know it's true
I can't see myself with no one else
I don't see myself with no one else
Could you believe?

I want you to understand
I'm gonna be your man
You make it easy
You make it easy

And I want you and I need you
And you know it's true
I can't see myself with no one else
I don't see myself with no one else

Could you believe?
Could you believe?
Could you believe?
Could you believe?

I don't want you to be high
I don't want you to be down
Don't want to tell you a lie
Just want you to be around

Please come right up to my ears
You will be able to hear what I say
Don't want you out of my world
Just you be my backstreet girl

Please don't be part of my life
Please keep yourself to yourself
Please don't you bother my wife
That way you won't get no help

Don't try to ride on my horse
You're rather common and coarse anyway
Don't want you out in my world
Just you be my backstreet girl

Please don't call me at home
Please don't come come knocking at night
Please never ring on the phone
Your manners are never quite right

Please take the favors I grant
Curtsy and look nonchalant just for me
Don't want you part of my world
Just you be my backstreet girl

I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail
Those starry nights, campfire lights
The coyote call, the howling wind wail
As I ride out on an uncertain sundown

I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail
Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
The nights we spent together riding on the range
Looking back it all seems so strange

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo

I was took in Texas, I did not know her name
Lord, those southern girls all seem the same
Down below the border, a town in Mexico
I set out with the rodeo

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding free with the buffalo

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo

Roll me over, I'll turn around
And I'll watch my fingers go up and down
Up and down

That's okay, amigo
Let me go

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo

Roll me over and let me be
Roll me over and let me be
Cowboy's life is the one for me

How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings?
How can they ignore their friends?
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless?
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no

Come on easy to get rich
Easy to say no
Much too easy to be cold
Easy to say no
Much too easy to say no

Johnny was a school boy when he heard his first Beatles song
"Love Me Do" I think it was and from there it wouldn't take long
Got himself a guitar, used to play every night
Now he's in a rock & roll outfit and everything's all right
Well, don't you know?

Johnny told his Mama, "Hey Mama I'm goin' away
Gonna hit the big time, gonna be a big star someday"
Mama came to the door with a tear drop in her eye
Johnny said, "Don't cry Mama. Smile and wave goodbye"
Don't you know?

Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are

Johnny made a record, went straight up to number one
Suddenly everyone loved to hear him play his song
Watching the world go by, surprisin' it goes so fast
Johnny looked around him and said, hey, I made the big time at last
Don't you know

Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are

Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are

Johnny died one night, died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleepin' tablets by his head
Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind sometimes, you can still hear him play
Don't you know

Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know? Don'tcha
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
(Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na)
Don't you know that you are a shoot, a shooting star?
(Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na)
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
(Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na)

Hello mom, I'm fine
Where the sun is dying
How's the weather 'round my old hometown

You see no worry about my living
Say that all's forgiven
What's lost is bound to be fo)und

I hope you don't expect to see me
'Cause you know I'm very far away
You know I really miss you
But a man's got to make it on his own someday

Soon she sends him greetings
'Bout the school civic meetings
Says she's doing well in her cell

Yeah, her brother won a race now
And he's proud to show his face now
On the corner scene and his paper doll dreams

And me, I guess I'm living
Taking what's for the living
Oh mom, you do know how
I really wish you could see what's on my mind, yeah

Yeah, I guess it's kinda lonely
And I've been uptight for money
But I'll make it on my own, staying high

You seem upset about the drugs and music
Yes, I've finally found my way
It's my way, gonna get to freedom
You failed with me

Someday you'll understand all this
Just what it is I mean to say
Just don't try to love me
I don't want to see you hurt this way

Guess I'll be a goin'
Makes a guy afraid he's blowin'
That's how money kills, somewhere

Mom, I cannot mail this
And let you know I've failed
It's just not right somehow, oh no

I rather let you think I'm dead
Then hung on drugs instead
I'm dying anyhow and it's too late now

I guess there's a moral somewhere
But I can't seem to think just now
If I had to do it over
I guess I'd try change the trial somehow

Lord it's really hell
When you're living in a pell
And nothings like it seems
In a cocaine dream

Met a man on a train near Santa Fe
Who was dead a minute as a child
Fell off a dock
He couldn't swim and his heart stopped
A gold snake slid from the sky and swallowed him up

He disappeared inside
He disappeared inside

The train stopped in a field of oil wells
A blind girl needed help getting on
The man was drunk from a flask half full of rum
I shook my head when he offered me some

"Que sera," he said and took another swig
The train roared up a hill of sickly pines
A small boy chased a ball up the aisle
As the black mouth of a tunnel swallowed us up

We disappeared inside
We disappeared inside

There we go

I am not a shadow, I am flesh and blood
Meet me in the middle if you think you could
If you think you could

If I'm walking in the dark I'm whispering
If I'm walking in the dark I'm whispering
Follow my whisper
And I will see you through

If I make three wishes
One is not to fall
The other two will follow
Beyond the wall

If the world spins faster on my knees I crawl
If the world spins faster on my knees I crawl
On my knees I crawl
Straight on back to you

If I make three wishes
One is not to fall
The other two will follow
Beyond the wall

Yeah I am not a shadow I am flesh and blood
Meet me in the middle if you think you could
If you think you could
I will see you through
If you think you could
I will see you through

Hey, ain't it great for us to be alive
I've been lying in wait for you to come outside
I know you don't know me but I know a lot about you
You're the one who knows me better than I do

When I get back home I'm gonna put your records on
I play 'em way too loud and I'll sing along
I know all the words to every song
And I don't really care but tonight you sang one wrong

And I, I can't keep from talking
I can't keep from talking about you
And I just wanted to thank you
Thank you for doing what you do

I wanted to tell the world a little bit about myself
Realize my feelings and put them on a shelf
Then jump out the window so you'd know what it's all about
'Cause I can't be there to help you figure it out

And I, I can't keep from talking
I can't keep from talking about you
And I just wanted to thank you
Thank you for doing what you do

If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you

Time takes toll
The hours I'd roll
Is it a blessing or is it a curse?
Seems this love makes matters worse

I'm stuck in this cafe
Lost along the way
Moving to keep strong
When I'm feeling myself burn
It don't matter let it hurt
It tells me I'm alive

When you saw me in California
I was lost in a dusty haze
Now that I know you
You feel so far away

If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you

As I'm waving you goodbye
Following the line
Trying to get to you

Still the echos fill the void
Your eyes rolled in your head
As you slowly disappeared

Still hard to rearrange
The distance made it strange
I'm still trying to get to you

If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you

She came from a wealthy family
There were walls inside of walls
She walked the widow's walk, so all alone
She watched from every window
Darkened every door
Saw her reflection on every wave that hit the shore

Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?
Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?

Wandered off into the night
One eye closed, the other blind
Reading the silver side of signs
Don't worry, it's too late
Some rain don't come down straight
Everything you had, you lost before

Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?
Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?

When her scattered thoughts had died
The sand upon her feet had dried
Among chandeliers and sweet perfume

Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?
Jane, why don't you give a damn?
Jane, why don't you stay?

Stay

Ooh

Jennifer save me ooh-ooh
Jennifer save me ooh-ooh

I'm sick of all the faces
Staring back as if to say
"I know that you're half crazy
but I wish you would go all the way"

I'm driving your friend's car
'Cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow

It's time to face the music
But they never taught me how to dance
I'd give you everything I've got
If you'd only give me half the chance, yeah

I'm driving your friend's car
'Cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow

Jennifer save me ooh-ooh
Jennifer save me ooh-ooh

Need not fight for sunlight
The ashes and the elms grow tall
Fences bent gunmetal sunlight
Wrapped to here from Montreal, yeah

I'm driving your friend's car
'Cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow

Jennifer save me ooh-ooh
Jennifer save me ooh-ooh
Jennifer save me ooh-ooh
Jennifer save me ooh-ooh

She had a Nova that was tinted green
He took a Greyhound that was a bus
From the city of New Orleans
The only light that shined in their eyes
Was that of a simple screen
In a one Bal Harbour bedroom apartment
With a vision and a dream

Feeling like they sunk already
Feeling like they're done
Knowing what's been done already
Has been done by everyone

Deep in Nevada they played it straight
They stayed in Reno inside a casino
With a 2/4 rate
The only life that was in their eyes
Was burning like the sun
It is this sundowner hellroom confinement
Where they remained as one

Feeling like they sunk already
Feeling like they're done
Knowing what's been done already
Has been done by everyone

Back in Miami

Back in Miami, back to the sand
He took to running that was illegal
She ran a peanut stand
The only night he closed his eyes was his final one
In a one Bal Harbour bedroom apartment
Where his dream begun

Feeling like they sunk already
Feeling like they're done
Knowing what's been done already
Has been done by everyone

Now they're living in Miami
Trying to get down to the Keys
Is it lost, is it such a cost
When you try to aim to please

Down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap
They took it down for the dirt nap

Looking forward to seeing you
In the sunshine of my time
In a station off the coastline
Coming in view

Looking forward to seeing you
In that one room down the hallway
With two doorways and a window
Without a view

It all comes in threes
I purchase six but I still got three

Looking forward to seeing you
Where the sun shines off the coastline
In a station on your time
Coming in view

Looking forward to seeing you
In that one room down the hallway
With two windows and a doorway
We can't get through

It all comes in threes
I purchase six and I still got three

Looking forward to seeing you
Looking forward to seeing you
Looking forward to seeing you
Looking forward to seeing you

You
You
You
You
You

Lost love in the desert
Lost love on the sea
If you can put it behind you
But it's still beyond me

'Cause hearts break in the summer
And they meet me in the spring
Broken hearts all around me
But I don't feel a thing

Lost love on the highway
Lost love on the phone
Lost love with a suitcase
Heading back home

Where hearts break in the summer
And they meet in the spring
Mine's still wrapped inside me
But I don't feel a thing

You're my lost love, I can't see
That you're coming back for me
You're the trouble I can't find
And it's only a matter of time

Should've taken it all so hard
Should've taken it all so hard

My lost love
My lost love
My lost love
My lost love

Saw your eyes light up the horizon
Just like the sun, still it's new
Bodies being hung for drying
Now there's one, guess they're through

Making waves in the bathroom
The time it saves, it's the last room

Hearing sirens on the street
Getting closer, please don't stop
Race won't be with these feet
Even closer comes the drop

Making waves in the bathroom
The time it saves, it's the last room

Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now

In the chair I thought you were sleeping
Your eyes rolled back, your lips blue
It was a drag to be dragging
You down the hall till you came to

Making waves in the bathroom
The times it saves, it's the last room

Are you in there?
Hello, hello, hello?
(I'll be out in a while)
Are you in there?
Hello, hello, hello?
(I'll be out in a while)
Are you in there?
Hello, hello, hello?
(I'll be out in a while)
Are you dying, hello?

Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now
Ooh, don't leave me now

Please tell my brothers I love them still
Over the mountains on their phone bill
I should call more often, but they know I never will
Please tell my brothers I love them still

Please tell my sister I miss her too
My nieces and nephews and their swimming pools
When I think about her, her skies are blue
Please tell my sister I miss her too

Please tell my father I love him still
Forget the railroad and all those bills
Head for the cooler and drink your fill
Please tell my father I love him still

Listen dear mother, I miss you the most
And as I travel from coast to coast
I feel your love an' I feel your ghost
Listen dear mother, I miss you the most

Listen dear mother, I miss you the most

If we were just a little smarter
Wouldn't be such fire starters
Then you wouldn't have to put me out

If times were just a little kinder
Carry you as a reminder
As is, you say you've got some doubts

You say you're looking through me
You don't like what you see
But I swear
It's only reflections on me

Seeing through a two-way mirror
Looking back it's all a little clearer
Or just the line-up of your life

All day long you put 'em through their paces
Late at night haunted by their faces
Darkness fades into the morning light (ooh)

You say you're looking through me
Scared of the things that you see
But I swear
It's only reflections on me

One more time for old times
Come with me
Just one last time for all times
Seeing you just the same way
Differently

Could have been a little smarter
Shouldn't have been such fire starters
Fires they always burn out

You say you're looking through me
Scared of the things that you see
But I swear
It's only reflections on me

Blowing through my losing streak
Bought the farm on a dead-end street
Nothing ever grows under your sun

Filling voids with emptiness
And driving past your old address
Loneliness, two has turned to one

They welcome you with broken arms
Tell you they don't mean no harm
Do they mean anything at all?

Feeling crowded by my company
You can't hate but parts of me
I know there's a new myth on your floor

Staying up in 409
The days are yours, the nights are mine
Burned out everything except the door

It's like breaking out of broken homes
They tell you they don't eat their own
Searching for one thing to call my own
To call my own

There's a gold mine in the local scene
Get nine lives, you need thirteen
Paid the price, landed on all fours

You used to mean the world to me
Scared to death of what that means
So it don't mean nothing at all

I welcomed you with broken arms
You know I don't mean no harm
Do I mean anything at all?

(ooh, ahh)

They all come from broken homes
Tell you they don't eat their own
Searching for one thing to call my own