When I was down she was full of advice 'Cause she'd been there once or twice With a ring on the side of her nose Wearing other people's clothes She had her highs and she had her lows In between she'd show When she smiled everything else died V let off a good vibe
* As if in a dream The one and only V As if in a dream The one and only V
Buying shots and breaking hearts She used to wait on us down at the bar Never took as much as she gave She's still giving to this day Staying up half the night Mood swing yet we cried On a cold December day V up and went away
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Staying up half the night Mood swing yet we cried On a cold December day V up and went away
Wasn't much of a union Denial and confusion Meant something to you, I bet you would have stayed Stumbled on some good times Turned them into land mines You know you can turn the other way
You say you've been meaning To sort through all your demons If there's some room, are you gonna let me in? You've been hung dry by your close friends Your inner child's an orphan You're so far down, you don't know where you been
So many things you don't know If you want me to leave, just say so
* It's the kind of thing I like Curse cast in the night So ill fated So ill fated
Goodbye with reservations Regrets and salutations Something in there somewhere that I didn't say It's you I think of only Whenever you get lonely an' I got more than years to give away I've been dying to start living You're just living to be dying We can't seem to find no common ground You hate me when I'm lonely I'm lonely when you hate me Mostly I'm just there to kick around
Soaring high and low First to leave, last to know
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It's the kind of thing I like Curse cast in the night So ill fated
Yesterday is just the day before today Sat and watched it, watched it slide away Yesterday cried. Oh, yesterday cried Looking at me through those tiny eyes Why did you do it, why'd you have to lie Yesterday cried. Oh, yesterday cried
* All you ever wanted, and all you'll ever need (*4) Oh, yesterday cried
My main line's gone a different way I woke up, and it was yesterday Yesterday cried. Oh, yesterday cried Times been good, times they been bad When I was with you, you know it made me sad Yesterday cried. Oh, yesterday cried
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Yesterday cried By the shape of things I'm in I'll just watch it slide away Yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday
He is reaching up for climbing Ropes hanging down below I see the children smiling No need to let it show
* I know, I won't be coming home No more
The streets and sidewalk borders Stretch out beyond the scenes The sweet and dark emotions Every day hopes and dreams My God, I know who's waiting Beneath the bedroom floor Her eyes anticipating My each and every move
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All I ever wanted Was to turn from my side All I ever wanted Was to turn from my side
The rake is scratching harder The half-drawn window shade Like any empty memory The colors seem to fade My God, I know who's waiting Beneath the bedroom floor Remember summer showers Outside the cabin walls
I once knew a guy Who always asked for money I'd give him 10, he'd insist on 20 And now when I see him around His face is always pointed down at the ground
* All I wanna know Is why he is such a prick Please tell so I know what makes guys like him tick He's such a dick
He wanted to borrow some records from my collection On no return, I felt the rejection And now, when I see him in town Same way as always, his head is towards the ground
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Unsatisfied, a word he often uses is need He is usually really wired on that cheap trucker speed Last time he was at my house, he tried to walk away with my weed Jeff plays bass, Mark and I play rhythm Dan and Gary play lead
There's a man on TV claims he killed 23 Burnt their bodies and collected their teeth There's another man at home with his wife and family tree Who agreed this would make a good movie? And I'm sitting here, wondering what this is all doing to me
He sold the book rights, and he was set for life A woman on a talk show wants to be his wife Another man decides to purchase his knife A court decides he's got the right And I'm sitting here, wondering how he can ever sleep at night
I don't want to walk where he walked I don't want to talk to who he stalked I don't want to walk where he walked
First it was a book, and then it was a movie They cut it all up and they put it on the TV The starring role was played by Christopher Lee He was fine, he was something to see And I'm sitting here, wondering what this is all doing to me
It don't matter if I lose It's how I play the fool Somewhere down the line it all got Twisted, torn, and tossed and thrown away It all looks the same to me What you want I'll never be
* And I can't seem to get it right But I wanna get off right now I can't seem to get it right But it's all so wrong, somehow Did you think I wouldn't return. Did you think I wouldn't return Did you think that I was dead. Did you think that I was dead Did you think I'd crash and burn Did you think it was my turn
Radio plays, I'm coming down Road stretches out, but it ain't - Lord I'm home I'm not big on being amazed I'm in a haze, I'm lost - Nowhere bound And all my friends they jumped the wagon Parked today, tails a-waggin'
You always thought In a town this size That you'd always Have a place to hide But you can't. . . Can't treat your woman right If you got another One on the side
* She don't have to see you She don't have to see you To see through you
You used to brag To all your friends Telling'em all about Your other love But you never thought You never thought she'd been giving away The very thing That you've been getting plenty off
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She can tell by the look in your eye That you've been telling her lies She don't have to see you to see through you
How many times 've you come home late at night You remember all the times Got caught sneaking in And your woman She never said a word But she knew exactly Where you've been
Hello darkness, come on in Let me light a candle Imaginations running Hands start to tremble Knows enough to know not to believe Wha's real, and what it seems to be Knows what's keeping him from being free Right outside your door
* Don't run away, red headed stepchild I can only promise you won't find your way back home
In another room there's laughing Entertaining strangers Walls in there don't breathe no more But they're keeping out some angels Laughed so much, he almost cried Stranger offers him a ride City blocks roll on by Never coming back
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Take your pictures off my wall I hate to look at strangers Then it's burning be forewarned Keep me out of danger Knows enough to know not to believe What is real, and what it seems to be Knows what's keeping him from being free Right outside your door
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
