Michael Penn

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone's
Hard earned pay
you and me Sunday driving
Not arriving
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters
On my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

We're going home
Better believe it

Macy day parade
Saw it on a station
It is in the air
The floats are floatin' in it
Everything's all right
Yes everything is changed
Everything you thought of
But don't it look the same
Whe nyou bend down to it
Bend like giants filled with rum
You wanna see me
Fee Fo Fum
You are traipsing through tonight
a garden of delight
Bring the family up
Bring your friends and neighbors
When they call, "Last call,"
You look so contagious
And I would catch it all
Neon signs of love
Exotic girls retire
Power's out tonight
It has blown a wire
So never mind
You never might
Till you cultivate an appetite
For the only open hand to bite
garden of delight
Let your hair hang low
Let the air surround you
If I lick your wound tonight
Would you leave me or requite
Honey you are sure polite
A garden of delight

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.

I've heard people say they've come for miles
To pay their due respects
(for mileage, each expects).
"A pillar of community and style".
"At heart, a family man
Who'd had a change of plan".

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

What's it say about me that I'm bored?
Don't need another speech
To know I'm out of reach.
Someone made a joke about the lord
And somehow it relates
To a dash between the dates.

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

I don't expect you to.
You've got other things to do
In a life I now know that I never really knew.

The light are going out. They shut the lid.
I guess I lost the thread.
I'm in over my head.

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

We took the crowd,
You were drunk and I was loud.
We pulled a fast one zigzagging around.
Made our way
To a table straight away.
And if you're able…

Baby, bet everything.
You're going to lose
But believe it or not you'll be highly amused

'Cause what's it worth anyway?
It's just another broken part.
Give 'em your artificial heart.

Pass the hat;
chalk up a real debt. Fancy that!
I fucking called it!
Now we're on a roll.
Lose some more.
Show him it's worth dying for
And play your favorite.

Baby bet everything
You're going to lose
But believe it or not you'll be highly amused

'Cause what's it worth anyway?
It's just another broken part.
Give 'em your artificial heart.

Punched the floor
And through the door.
And baby, may I just say on a side note.
Nothing's changed.
(Just rearranged
For you to fix.
You're awesome at it).

But these tricks
Are just theatrics
Wearing your battery out.

So splash your face
And put on that gown.
It's a race and I'm heading back down.

Baby, bet everything.
You're going to lose
But believe it or not you'll be highly amused

Because what's it worth anyway?
It's just another broken part
And I just can't get the thing to start.
Here is my artificial heart.

Let's say that was then.
Here we go again.
All our friends are filling the room.
It's like a play,
And the words that I'll say
Are not for you. They're for that costume.
Giving you hope
That when they pull the rope
It's on a happy ending. But baby, I'm pretending.

Isn't it hard?
The windows are barred
But you can't let go and can't hold onto
Anything sure,
That's attached and secure.
Looking for a lifeline online;
Something to show
That I really do know.
So that file I'm sending but baby I'm pretending.

Baby I'm pretending even though I know better

But I can't refuse
'Cause, although on a ruse
You've come to me depending, baby I'm pretending.

Baby I'm pretending.
Baby I'm pretending.

Hold my head up,
Turn around Mary Lynn.
Hold my head up,
Turn around Mary Lynn.
And if you'd only stay the night
You'd see it's not so
Black and white.
And on a hard day
Put your cares away
And pray.

Every eye will go to you.
You do not have a doubt.
'Cause baby, these appearances
Are what it's all about.
And if I told you how that looks
You'd say I've got a nervea€|
Just another particle
That we can all observe

As you trot it out.
You know how.
You trot it out.
You know how.

You had a ball at Edendale.
I'll never guess who came!
The guy who played the lover in
That film without a name.
He lavishes praise upon you,
And fetched umbrella'd drinks.
And when you think he likes you
Then you like the way he thinks.

So you trot it out.
You know how.
You trot it out, babe.
You know how.

The merits of my argumenta€"
Given up for dead.
But, humbled by the universe
Revolving 'round your head,
Suddenly you're telling me,
That, credit where it's due,
Every blessing come your way
You've been entitled to.

(Oh, you trot it out babe
You know how).

So captivate my interest with
An answer for it all.
A destiny's awaiting youa€|
You sort of feel the call.
But you can't help me with this bit
Of text you memorize.
You can make excuses
But you don't apologize.

No, you trot it out.
You know how.
You trot it out.
You know how
To trot it out, babe.
You know.
You know how.

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..

I'm on automatic
And you gotta flip the switch.
Baby there's a box in the attic
But I couldn't tell you which was which.
It's all become a running joke.
I'm what you might call simple folk.
But everything'll turn out fine.

Things are looking up.
In the meantime
Things are looking up.

I'm swinging through the top of the valley,
Felling like the missing link.
But there's another schematic
and look, she's getting me a drink
While putting flowers on his crypt
'Cause Valentino's lost the script.
But everything'll turn out fine.

Things are looking up.
In the meantime
Things are looking up.

You blew another ring.
I thought you'd quit.
Along with calling misfits
But it's me your looking up.

I'm on automatic.
The only person left to frisk.
I know I'm being over-dramatic
But I think I'm going to run that risk,
Of walking down the same old plank.
And maybe I'm about to tank,
But everything'll turn out fine.

Things are looking up.
In the meantime
Things are looking up
In the meantime.

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.

I've heard people say they've come for miles
To pay their due respects
(for mileage, each expects).
"A pillar of community and style".
"At heart, a family man
Who'd had a change of plan".

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

What's it say about me that I'm bored?
Don't need another speech
To know I'm out of reach.
Someone made a joke about the lord
And somehow it relates
To a dash between the dates.

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

I don't expect you to.
You've got other things to do
In a life I now know that I never really knew.

The light are going out. They shut the lid.
I guess I lost the thread.
I'm in over my head.

Goodbye Sally, Simi Valley,
Denton Road, The Roosevelt Hotel
For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

For my own farewell
And if you don't show, that's fine.

Whatever news you had
Whatever shoes you had
Whatever made you mad enough
On the promenade you can
Give it a rest
Give it a seat
Or in the glass you can cut your feet

Pop a knee
Flesh torn
And everything else seems
A little worse for worn
A simple thing, I admit
Out I never did figure it

I can tell that I'm about to
I can tell when I'm without you

I've seen you juggle
I've seen your best
I've seen you running out of luck you pressed
I've seen the scores on how far up you fessed
Until a thinner air is what you're breathing now
So catch your breath
Don't just stand there holding it
I've seen you die a little death
I'm pretty sure you were here
But lately things tend to disappear
Like the days I never got around to

I can tell when I'm without you

Psychic on the corner
'Palms and Runes, Tarot and Tea'
The proprietor gives matches to the girls in line
For Club Diplomacy

Be he's not on to me
Crossed Olympic to collect my fee
But there's no one in this neighborhood who
I can tell when I'm without you
I can tell when I'm without you
I can tell when I'm without you

The fire that this town can see
Is me alight in effigy
I suppose baby don't want me around
She threw my stuff into a pit
And laughed aloud as I dove after it
I suppose baby don't want me around

Is this the place you want to be?
Out of the woods
Out of control
And is it really only me
Who never gets here with you

She changed the number, changed the lock
A rubber door in case I knock
I suppose baby don't want me around

Is this the place you want to be?
Out of the woods
Out of control
And is it really only me
Who never gets here with you

Looking up your balcony
By the light of the moon I will be
I suppose baby don't want me around

The stars above they are not real
They are the sparks from smitten steel
I propose forging is making that sound
Baby don't want me around
Baby don't want me
I suppose my baby don't want me around

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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)

She's there separating
Orange from rind
And i sit at her station every time
So what ever happened to
Common courtesy
Now one in a million
Seems one more than me
I don't mind just watching her
Parading for customers
But everybody bayed as i
Slowly fade
I go invisible
Don't give me away
She's there pouring coffee
Watching the time
And i sit half amazed
That she's pouring mine
She said that she'd always
Pegged me as gay
And she only plays for keeps
When she plays
Well isn't that something
You're pulling my heart strings
But what you gonna do when you
Slowly fade
I feel invincible
She went invisible
Don't give me away
I go invisible
Don't give me away

It's hiding in the corner
Of every sacred place
Before the ambush you won't want to
Recognize its face

It slithers like a viper
Readies its attack
Tears your flesh and soul apart
Then clings on to your back

But not till it turns away
Can you feel the pain of all the damage done
And you may notice that
This quick opiate
Might wear the wings of angels
That's when you realize
You've been shot down
Wounded unto death by something called love

It followed you to hell, Ange
A double agent who
Will listen to your every lie
But never tell on you
Just whisper to you true

It promises you silk things
But burns the clothes you wear
Gives you leave in heaven
And you scream that it's unfair
To force you to compare

But not till it turns away
Can you feel the pain of all the damage done
And you may notice that
This quick opiate
Might wear the wings of angels
That's when you realize
You've been shot down
Wounded unto death by something called love
You've been shot down
Wounded
Wounded unto death by something called love

Without an invitation
it used to be more fun
surveillance through the dry bush
you knew the art of ring and run
and hid behind the t-bird
unless the door would open first
you had a talent for excuses...
an innocent who'd been coerced
you had to have it all rehearsed when
knocking at the big house
knocking at the big house
It always seemed the easiest
when it didn't mean that much
though you welcomed competition
you had an ace no one could touch
but didn't have a short clue
that this gift's a given thing
call it camouflage or filthy rags
it was not enough to let it ring
you had to sign this offering by
knocking at the big house
knocking at the big house
Now there's nothing to conceal you


you come in from the front
the hedges have been cut back
and you're much too old for scavenger hunt
maybe you're collecting
donations for the cause
it may be now or never
so let it ring
don't you pause
you are not breaking any laws when
knocking at the big house
knocking at the big house
keep your eye up to the keyhole
what do you see now
you'll be

This one is a bad one
It's no lie
but that's not why I'm standing, dear
I only want to whisper to your heart
but I'm too smart for starting here...
we get into that battle room
we choose to get into the battle room
in twos, we get into the battle room
It doesn't have a floor
it's kind of small
but there's no wall between us here
Every move you make's a somersault
in this altered atmosphere
we get into the battle room
we choose to get into the battle room
in twos, we get into the battle room

If you wipe the slate
Let me start again from this moment on
We've been through this before
Every single time that I thought you had gone
Well, I'm out of reserve
I'm out of my wherewithal
But when the moment comes
When I've got nothing left
I find I've got it all

See, what I know I can't always believe
A poison kiss can take like a reprieve
And once again, I'm caught up on the evenfall

I know it's late
I'm never in the frame of mind any earlier
I can just judge the hour
By how much of what I see is no more than her
Well, I'm down on my knees
Looking for some kind of antidote
When moment comes, I keep one thing in mind
That keeps my head afloat

What I believe ain't always what I feel
Another chance can sting like naked steel
And once again, I'm caught up on the evenfall

Well, it's a mystery, can't you see?
Why you'd still be here with me
I don't need no guarantee
But don't ever turn from me
Don't ever turn me away

What I believe ain't always what I feel
Another chance can sting like naked steel
And once again, I'm caught up on the evenfall

See, what I know I can't always believe
A poison kiss can take like a reprieve
And once again, I'm caught up on the evenfall

Oh man,
look what the cat drug in
It's got the dress, tho the color's gone
that I gave my one true love on
Oh man, look what the wind blew home
Never had this much stimulation
since her low down elevation, but
Oh, don't look in those eyes
bluer than blue
her rule's on the rise
and if I wear apathy's crown
don't call me higness
it's a long way down

Oh, what terrible things she shows
I'm overwhelmed by rumors this high
and overcome by lows
Oh, what use is it to pretend
that I have the strength for this anymore
This is all in the world that she lives for but...
Oh, don't look in those eyes
bluer than blue
her rule's on the rise


and if I wear apathy's crown
don't call me highness
('cause) it's a long way down

Now I would suppose
that I'm not the only one
and one never knows...
but I got a feeling she's been
sleeping with the whole wide world

Oh, don't look in those eyes
bluer than blue
her rule's on the rise
and if I wear apathy's crown
don't call me highness
it's a long way down

I won't ever get used to this
A blank spot
temptations
do resist.
The other shoe will drop
just an aftershock
Nice hat; you look like a referee
Nice watch; but why are you timing me?
Its spring has come unwound
I was not out of bounds
This is not out
I drew that line
when I was handed free time.

Bells clang
I guess it's a holiday
Did that rhyme?
Shit! I'm a poet now.
So give me stuff for free
and if I do somehow
into the soft whites
of beautiful lies
stare down


stare
I don't apologize
I've never been the kind
to close an open mind
so leave behind all that extra free time.

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 loved a girl once
beyond compare
She saw inside me
and gave me air
She was assisting
my surgery
My heart was opened
as she put a mask on me
I'm breathing
but it's become a chore
"Now that you've seen the doctor
don't call me anymore"

I was impatient
I was not in full arrest
and the symptoms were induced by something
I could not digest
She'd said a mouthful
I'd swallowed whole
My heart starts beating
a capriole,
a murmur,
too different to ignore
"Now that you've seen the doctor
don't call me anymore"

Always been horseblinded
Could never see
Past the two shades on the periphery
I ask you for mercy
And beg clemency
But something I'm feeling is sticking with me

When you're all alone
And I am not around
I know that you think me
As cold as the ground
I don't play accordion, we disagree
But something I'm thinking is sticking with me

Here's the car you will be driving. Radio works.
Take the 10 out. On arriving, detour other road.
Where every sign's a carved design.
stick feather on with glue
and run amok upon the lawn
The sun comes up and it just dawned on me:
one thing's clear
the times come when all of your love is drained

I've seen this scene
I'll dream this dream and have now and then
I lose my concentration to some twister again
and I point mute in shrunken suit like all your
weathermen
now feeling wet and most alone
into this shelter I am thrown and found dumb?
at least I got this one thing clear:
the times come when all of your love is drained

Rats in my jacket
I'm so impressed
I am now seen unclean
Wash me up mama
and give me a suit of gabardine
I had a suit,
by the look on my face,
maybe it's plain to see
that that never stopped what was troubling me
like once, it was Monday out.
And dry?
Man, it was a drought
but all that is slipping my mind

Cracked like a whip
like a brick coming down
and hit me between the eyes
another occasion I've yet to forget
was I unwise?
Should I remind you that this is the end


of Camels,
and masking tape,
and this demonstration of tripping with grace
and if I need you
I'm intentionally wasting your time
Hey, everything's slipping my mind

Now copper and nickel
are heads in my hand
I'll bet you your sparest change
that this time tomorrow you'll be miles away
with all trace of Monday out
with deserts to think about
and all of this slippin' my mind.

This story is past tense
and I did not want my cover blown
Thought well enough was left alone
and who decided you'd rescue me?
Yeah, I do agree
a bent and broken set are we

Up in a tree we're stuck
and the only lights off the wire
are all the moths in the fire
Can't you feel how the air is getting dry
Try, but can't identify
what you start to think

Always thought it was a game with us
Move until enough's enough
into a picture-perfect view
I'd like to rip it up with you
Why would anybody leave this place?
It's overdrawn
and won't erase
And if you're feeling incomplete
the line is stretching up the street

So take a look
but you might stay until
you have counted every light from Bunker Hill
Take a coat you're going to freeze

My baby sees every sentence with an underline
never uses turpentine
Put out a fleece and build a kite
A siren's going off tonight
Lay your head down
Do you call this chance?
Found the exit
this entrance
Now's the time
(and it is still)
I'm sorry that I kept you waiting here until



Hey, Luanda
do you want a thrill?
We can watch the lights shine up from Bunker Hill
But if it puts your heart at ease
my baby, please...

Try,
but you can't hide
Impossible. You're lit from the inside
And all I've got to do is
keep my eyes above the ground
to see you move around

The only points of light are fires on Vermont
Somebody must suspect that all we really want
is a tranquilizer gun to fill
It's a free-for-all on Bunker Hill
and everybody wets their knees
on the trapeze...

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.