I want you to keep a piece of me In there, right below your majesty I may tend to it with flattery Or maybe I'll jump start, counting on a battery
What's right, unglue, what's left, breakthrough Brake up, brakedown, let up, leave town Oh, fuck, got stuck, you lose, tough luck The odds were in your favor The taste was in your savor How bitter is that swill? And it's dragging me to you Don't let me go Black hole, falling in Don't let me go If I'm wrong again Don't let me go Even if it pulls you in Don't let me go Baby, don't let me go
If you don't, you can say you didn't quit And I'm likely to be needing it So sorry, but when I let go I thought you'd know How to follow Did you swallow? It's gone Head rush Can't see This crush Will prove I was unworthy And what I did was usury I'm sorry for that too But it's dragging me to you Don't let me go Black hole, falling in Don't let me go If I'm wrong again Don't let me go Even if it pulls you in Don't let me go Baby, don't let me go My baby, don't let me go
Sweet Miranda brings me the wine We have had our fill Of almost everything Turning thistledown laughter I would take her blue cue too late I would say the words Almost anything Just to catch what she's after
But you don't believe that I'm a partner in this game How can you believe that I'm the innocent one?
When the bough broke and in pieces we feel We would scream and shout Almost anything But the point is we fell, dear There will be no more wishlessness There will be some doubt No new day without Best that we say farewall, dear
But you don't believe that I'm a party to the pain How can you believe that I'm the innocent one?
Well, I saw this girl crying Behind the wheel of a car She had balloons in the back seat The front door ajar She never moved So I just wispered goodbye She reminded me of you when you cry And I didn't mean to make you cry
Sweet Miranda brings me the wine We have had our fill Of almost everything Turning thistledown laughter I would take her blue cue too late I would say the words Almost anything Just to catch what she's after
But you don't believe that I'm a partner in this game How can you believe that I'm the innocent one?
Baby's busy hiding in the bassinet wonderin' if the third world war started yet I told her I was pulling up and heading west she said she would have come but she was overdressed so I sent a picture postcard of a midwest bank she wrote me that she showed it to her new friend Frank who noticed in a window on the 19th floor a guy my age about to prove that man can't soar and he would also like to know if I could just check around before I left this town for slow-mo footage of the tumble down so This may not be my best day but this ain't no golden age You looked pretty on the freeway let's drive into the brave new world.
A van pulls up and someone offers me a ride the driver lost the map and he was terrified everybody whispering to save his pride say "son would you be kind enough to be our guide?" The driver yells "the one in back already tried, but his memory is rusty and his vision tied." glasses and a lubricant were by his side but the tin man was inanimate, the lion lied They did not want to see me go but I did not want to be another muskateer plus the gas runs out before the van's in gear Please don't hit me if I do say
but this ain't no golden age You looked so pretty on the freeway let's drive into the brave new world...
Buster and his company look good in black they're looking for a way out of the cul-de-sac tearing through the phone book and the almanac they all have dusty noses 'cause they sniff shellac they finally found the number of a matador who rode up in a Beemer with a pricey whore but Buster wasn't quick enough he'd lock the door and rode off sayin' he'd be back before the war by then the night was falling slow and I did not want to stick around and just look old when I saw you pulling onto my soft shoulder
This may not be my best day but this ain't no golden age You looked pretty on the freeway let's drive into the brave new world.
I don't care that you won't quit this notion Of burying the carnival But what the Hell is in your potion That's made you so dull?
So I cannot make a blind from sawdust Much less a cool millennium, but I'd Much rather feel the heat of August Than be sheltered and numb
So move out of your bed of roses now I'm putting in a bed of nails Because missles, guns and rubber hoses Will land me in jail
This paradise is slowly crumbing From here to Wilshire Boulevard But the rubble over which you are stumbling Just isn't that hard
What did you do with all that grace now? What did you do with all my wine? What makes you think that just 'cause you dress bright Means that you shine?
So move out of your bed of roses now I'm putting in a bed of nails 'Cause when this whole production closes That innocence fails
Weren't we supposed to shine like half harvest Never shown Shine like half harvest Never known
So move out of your bed of roses now I'm putting in a bed of nails 'Cause when this whole production closes That innocence fails
Shine like half harvest Never shown Shine like half harvest Never known Shine like half harvest Never known Shine like half harvest Never shown Shine, mm (ah) Shine like half harvest Never known Shine
So, she says it's time she goes But wanted to be sure I know She hopes we can be friends
I think, yeah, I guess we can say I But didn't think to ask her why She blocked her eyes and drew the curtains With knots I've got yet to untie
What if I were Romeo in black jeans What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth Maybe she's just looking for Someone to dance with
See, it was just too soon to tell And looking for some parallel Can be an endless game
We, we said goodbye before hello My secrets she will never know And if I dig a hole to China I'll catch the first junk to Soho
What if I were Romeo in black jeans What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth Maybe she's just looking for Someone to dance with
Sometime from now you'll bow to pressure Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees I'm between the poles and the equator Don't send no private investigator to find me please 'Less he speaks Chinese And can dance like Astaire overseas, okay
What if I were What if I was Maybe she's just looking for Someone to dance with
What if I were Romeo in black jeans What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth Maybe she's just looking for Someone to dance with
it's a kind of parade it's a bucket brigade who got it off the wire that you'd set it and left just to cover the theft that would topple and empire but you wanted the world and it was only the heart... only the heart of a girl
for everyone in the know he's going to put on a show death defying feats of daring and for the riff and the raff he's gonna mimeograph a statement he's preparing that he wanted the world and it was only a heart... only the heart of a girl
here we are handing over all we know either that or
start to blow 'til we've run out of breath
it's a kind of parade it's a bucket brigade who read it off the wire that you lost your whole world and it was all over the heart of a girl only the heart of a girl here we are handing over all we know either that or start to blow 'til we've run out of breath
When you're on a high with no telling how you got there I might catch your eye from a world beneath you How do you? Don't you recognize what you are leaving? Let me introduce what you've just seen
a trampoline and it's dropping out of view trampoline until gravity pulls you
When you hit the ground the impression you are making is of one who's found what all the reasons are you fall so far
and with that put a dent in my resistance Hey, look who'se lining up to intervene
a trampoline and it's dropping out of view trampoline until gravity pulls you trampoline and it's dropping out of view trampoline until gravity pulls through
That's the way it goes You're going to have to See it through eventually Listen, I propose that Everybody show Some sort of sympathy 'Cause all the highs and lows Are really wearing out Its elasticity
There's no bouncing back No recovery Put it out of Its misery
If you take my devotion And figure it as something You're due to accrue It's only emotion Winding up the motion We are going through And don't it break your heart To watch its little quiver On the avenue
'Til it's crawling back On its only knee Put it out of Its misery
Misery
I can hear mercy, mercy me Letting this go on and on and on Endlessly
That's the way it goes Everybody knows we're through So you see Your i-told-you-sos Weren't any help And now they're boring me Listen I propose That we might indulge A little luxury
But there's no going back And it falls on me That it is murder 'Cause I know, baby, only you Can put me out of my Misery Misery Misery Misery
Years away With foreign girls The bedlam boys Took sand from pearls The tide went out The time was ripe It's so much more subtle to be The silent type
And I'm in no mood to reunite If they came with her tonight
The bedlam boys Make some noise for me The bedlam boys
Lisa's knocking at My open door With a chance to make up And a hope for more So I just whispered to her Underbreath "This love has suffered Such a quiet death" The keys in your pocket Have turned to rust You brought suspicion And I was put in trust
She says "time and tide abide" Yeah, 'cause time and tide's been fried
By the bedlam boys Make some noise for me The bedlam boys Make some noise for me
Well, it's history, my baby Like ruins in textbooks That's making you stare With come-hither-type looks And that's why your touch seems So baited with all those old hooks
This ain't part of the deal See all that counts is how you feel
About the bedlam boys Make some noise for me The bedlam boys Make some noise for me The bedlam boys (yeah) Make some noise (yeah) The bedlam boys Make some noise (Ah, oh)
First she's going to relocate it to the southland stake her claim in Silverlake what she's showing off will be on your account there's little doubt she's stealing what she confiscates chalking it all up to fate that is why she always waits for the perfect candidate
She's got every reason in the world to pick one more as she will demonstrate how many does that make it now? I'm losing count it's tantamount to stealing what she confiscates chalking it all up to fate and she can not hardly wait for the perfect candidate congratulations!
take a bow what will you do now, anyhow?
She can read your mind 'cause she wrote it for you you who'll take surprising bait like a magic lantern beaming with projection my reflection: slate as blank as face is straight makes the perfect candidate and she can not hardly wait for her perfect candidate
In a little while I'll forget your name and with the time we had I will do the same 'cause I can't belong to any future the past's a never ending overture until it's only now no matter how I put my foot down I want to know my rank and I want my reward or I will make a little war that you can not afford I don't mean to be somehow unkind but the bottom of my heart is in the backseat of my mind
it's a drive with will I guess until I put my foot down I don't mean to be somehow unkind but when I put my best foot forward something's left behind I'm gonna tell you now I'm going to make a vow to put my foot down
One more for the collection you've got on your wall paint it in the frame until you hire out a little stall and on a few, you've got to laugh as you inscribe his autograph... they are the ones that everybody chooses beautiful excuses Closing in on targets in an open sight each one spins around you and around you like a satellite just take one down when times are tough a diamonetta in the rough they are the ones that everybody chooses beautiful excuses Always tragic perfect bait they grip you as they captivate twist, but do not fabricate then imply they implicate you get thirsty; while you wait
a demonstrator demonstrates that you've run out of holy water, dude
Your works of art are hanging in the Parthenon but where's the only one who ever bothered to take you on you can't explain why that one's gone until you put your finger on whatever it accuses beautiful forgery such beautiful excuses all you ever wanted someone who refuses beautiful
What a scene what a drama just to find the door that was mean that was totally uncalled for have you reached the point where you must choose between what you lost and what you stand to lose isn't it high time?
Could it be that the future's going to turn out great? well, we'll see meantime somebody lays in wait 'til you reach the point where you must choose between what you've lost and what you stand to lose so come up with a new line 'cause baby it's high time
What a shame I know nothing's ever been this tough out of blame and out of all of that other stuff but when you're alone with what you've left and you've done bereaved and been bereft enough you have reached the point where you must choose between what you've lost and what you stand to lose isn't it high time baby it's high time baby it's high time
Monday seventeen degrees the shadows disappear all around you dear until it's loud and clear isn't it the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help me the whole truth nothing but the truth so help me God
I'm the bad guy waiting in the wings and the key light hat all my words fall flat but I'm used to that getting to the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help me the whole truth nothing but the truth
so help me God
baby if you want to talk I'll be there to listen neither rain, not hail nor sleet or snow but Cahuenga is stop and go this much I do know all I want's the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help me thw whole truth nothing but the truth so help me God
I'm sending out a call to arms from the cities to the farms to the sounding of alarms with all the bells and whistles took my prize, hung my plaque pat our big collective back and then got drunk on crackerjack and e-mailed my epistle I must be the lucky one the luckiest in Luckydom who reached the moon but wound up numb now that I've had my fun here comes the millennium Knowing love everyday my baby wants to be that way but I can't bring myself to say how I can't hope for crying things got bad, things got worse
I got loaded in a hearse when all I needed was a nurse believe me, I'm not lying I must be the lucky one the luckiest in Luckydom who reached the moon but wound up numb now that I've had my fun here comes the millennium I must be the lucky one the luckiest in Luckydom who reached the moon but wound up numb let's call this party done here comes the millennium
Baby calm down. Baby come back down to the ground. Let me hold you; Let me hold this moment a spell. I can tell
That there's really not a lot of options open For another kind of aftermath. You're hoping that there's something else that you can do to Make it come true, Make it perfect, Make it O.K..
Light the marquees. Santa Anas twist through the trees. And while the line swings, Putting all your light things with his. Trouble is
That there's really not a lot of options open For another kind of aftermath you're hoping. But there's something else that you can do to Make it come true, Make it perfect, Make it O.K..
And there's really not a lot of options open For another kind of aftermath. You're hoping that there's something else that you can do to Make it come true, Make it perfect, Make it O.K..
Who'd have ever thought to Call that coal If my hands were warm then I might I don't know I keep panning And in my reach it
Hangs on Water falls down There's no gold in this barren town
"Used to be a man could make his way with a barrel full of this black coal," Half certain you'd say But in my reach it
Hangs on Water falls down There's no gold in this barren town.
Look at every angle And draw a square Find some nut you can instead untighten Watch me in the corner With a pair Under certain pressure Ace, a diamond So run your fingers down my back You'd make such a cool distraction 'Cause in my reach it
Hangs on Yeah, the walls down There's no gold There's a line drawn and crossed By the banks. By the way Water falls down There's no gold in this barren town.
I count the cases piled up high. For the 1: 15. For platform and for passerby. It's the same routine. I'm ranting while I’m raving, There's nothing here worth saving. Tell me now, what more do you need? Take me to Walter Reed tonight. Baby I've lost the will for fighting. Over everything. Well there's a few things I gotta say. And make no mistake, I'm mad... 'Cause every good thing I've had Abandoned me.
All I want to do is hide. It's graduation day. And everything I learned inside Didn't seem to pay. I've had my fill of palm trees. And lighting up Grauman's Chinese. Tell me now, what more do you need? Take me to Walter Reed tonight. Baby I've lost the will for fighting. Over everything. And there's a few things I gotta say. Make no mistake, I'm mad... 'Cause every good thing I had Abandoned me.
A sad and lonesome me. I'm the walking wounded. And I'd say it to your face. But I can't find my place. So tell me now, what more do you need? Take me to Walter Reed tonight. Baby I've lost the will for fighting Over everything. And there's a few things I gotta say. Make no mistake, I'm mad... 'Cause every good thing I had Abandoned me. A sad and lonesome me. A sad and lonesome me. A sad and lonesome me.
