Pearl Jam

Oh, tonight began with anything
Shadows, a light, a warm breath and a scream, ah yeah...
Oh, tamper if you like between the doors, oh yeah...huh...huh...
Oh, can't expect to go out...to go out...
With anything...anything more...
Oh, reach the door...a breath and a scr...oh, reach the door
And a nada lada yeah...
Life ain't what it's worth...a breath and a scr...oh, reach the door
All these reaching hands out grabbin' things, grabbin' me
Day in, day out, accumulating, ah yeah
Whoa, I suggest you step out on your porch
Oh yeah, huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah...
Run away my son, to see it all...oh, see the world
Oh, reach the door...a breath and a scr...oh, reach the door
Oh, and a nada lada yeah...
Life ain't what it's worth...a breath and a scr...oh, reach the door
Come...here it comes...there it goes...when it comes...
Where it goes...where it comes...can't see through the faith...
Ooh, come...here it comes...there it goes, grasp what you can...
Don't you know there's something inside your hand, yeah...
Oh, if I knew where it was I would take you there...
There's much more than this, ooh...whoa, much more than this
Oh, see the world...much more than, oh...
Much more than...
Why?

woooh

state of love and trust as i busted down the pretext
sin still plays and preaches but to have an empty court, uh huh
and the signs are passing...grip the wheel can't read it
sacrifice receiving the smell that's on my hands...hands, yeah

and i listen for the voice inside my head, nothing, i'll do this one myself

lay her down as priest does...should the lord be a-counting?
will be in my honor, make it pain, painfully clear, uh huh
promises are whispered in the age of darkness
want to be enlightened like i want to be told the end...end, yeah
and the barrel shakes aimed a-directly at my head
oh help me, help me from myself
and i listen from both sides of a friend, nothing, i'll do this one myself
myself, myself...

yeah yeah

hey, na na na na hey that's something
hey, na na na na hey that's something
hey, na na na na hey that's something
want it back, back to the left, yeah huh uh

and i listen oh for the voice inside my head, nothing, i'll do this one myself

oh, ah and the barrel waits, trigger shakes, aimed right at my head
won't you help me? help me from myself, oh...
hmm, state of love and trust and a...
state of love and trust and a...
state of love and trust and a...
state of love and...yeah...woh woh woh

It's time, I came to get mine.
Runnin' through the hoods with a hand on the nine.
Why do the pigs come?
Bring your ass on, cross the line so I can get the blast on.
Oh shit, I'm empty, but I got a shank on the side so don't even tempt me.
Runnin' the program, Cypress Hill on the real,
With the Pearl Jam and I'm packin' the steel.
Don't come my way, 'cause it only takes one minute to reach for the AK...
Then POW!, whatcha' gonna do now?
Nowhere to run when my dog's on the prowl.
Prowlin', howlin', give it up punk, you might want to throw the towel in.
I like doin' the ill thing, 'cause ain't nothin' like the real thing.

It ain't nothin' like the real thing.
It ain't nothin' like the real.
Ain't nothin' but the real thing.
Ain't nothin' but the Hill.
Ain't nothin' but the real thing.
Ain't nothin' but the real.
Ain't nothin' but the real thing.
Ain't nothin' but the Hill.

Keep me a tazer up in the blazer,
And the black nine by the waistline.
Never know when someone'll test ya'.
Let you know I got mine by my body, yes y'all.
I'm the victim that became the attacker.
Have my little friend waitin' for the carjacker
That'll do anything for the looper.
When I leave the Hill I strack when I swoop.

Clack, clack, bang, bang, 'cause it ain't no thang.
When I hang with Stone and I kick that funky slang.
I got the funk when I got ta' do the ill thing.
'Cause ain't nothin' like the real thing.

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Ain't nothin but the real.
Ain't nothin' but the real thing.[2x]
Ain't nothin' but the Hill.

There's a girl on a ledge who's got nowhere to turn
Cause all the love that she had was just wood that she burned
Now her life is on fire it's no ones concern
She can blame the world or prey till dawn

But only love can break her fall. Break her fall
Yeah, only love can break her fall. Fall

It's like she lost her invitation to the party on earth
and she's standing outside hating everyone here
Yeah, she's her own disease, crying to her doll

But only love can break her fall. Break her fall
Only love can break her fall. Yeah. Yeah

fall. Blame the world
Break her fall. Break her fall
Love, love, love can break her fall
Who? Now only love can break her fall
Love, love can break her fall. Fall
Love, love can break her fall
Only love can break her

It's out of my hands making your hands meet
Stumble rises crumbling out of reach
It's in the cards of destiny your sanity in tow

Designate my luck
Uh resignate

This power has no roots to guide. No role
Trust me. Rusted minds refuse to go
Unwillingness is meaningless to walk away in vain

Designate my will
Ah, designate my fill
Ah resignate

My will is crashing. Synapses flashing slow
Ah, days like frame by frame. Where do they go
Ah yeah, why fight? Forget it. Cannot spend it after I go

Roll them high
Throw them again
All god's dice

Monkey driven. Call this living
Ha. Ah, too much thought it's overwrought a hole
Yeah, minding yours what's mine not yours. Will finish us off

Ah, designate my life
Ah, designate my view
Ah, resignate my will, my will, my will, I will
Resignate my god

The sirens scream wanton attention.
Time to take heed and change direction.
Time to take stock and make omissions.

Evacuation.
Evacuation.

Time to take leave all formal functions.
Time to plant seeds of a reconstruction.
No time this time to feign reluctance.

It's like your waiting for a diamond shore to wash your way.
Bets put aside you're evil.
Lets crawl into your face.
A vision vague or not raising a frightful wake you up.
Time for evacuation.

Evacuation.

There was a solemn man.
Watched his twilight disappear. In the sand.
Altered by a falling eagle.
A warning sign. Sign.
He sensed that worry could be strength
with a plan he said,
"Time for evacuation."

Evacuation.

I've used hammers made out of wood.
I have played games with pieces and rules.
I undeciphered tricks at the bar.
But now you're gone. I haven't figured out why.
I've come up with riddles and jokes about war.
I figured out numbers and what they're for.
I've understood feelings and I've understood words
but how could you be taken away?


And wherever you've gone
and wherever we might go.
It don't seem fair.
Today just disappeared.
Your lights reflected now.
Reflected from afar.
We were but stones.
Your light made us stars.


With heavy breath awakened regrets.
Back pages and days alone that could have been spent
together but we were miles apart.
Every inch between us becomes light years now.
No time to be void or save up on life.
Oh, you got to spend it all.


And wherever you've gone
and wherever we might go.
It don't seem fair.
You seam to like it here.
Your lights reflected now.
Reflected from afar.
We were but stones.
Your light made us stars.


And wherever you've gone
and wherever we might go.
It don't seem fair.
Today just disappeared.
Your lights reflected now.
Reflected from afar.
We were by stones.
Your light made us stars.

Don't feel like home.
He's a little out.
And all these words elope.
It's nothing like your poem.
Putting in. Inputting in.
Don't feel like methadone.
A scratching voice all alone
it's nothing like your baritone.


It's nothing as it seems.
The little that he needs.
It's home.
The little that he sees.
Is nothing he concedes.
It's home.


One uninvited chromosome.
A blanket like the ozone.


It's nothing as it seems.
All that he needs.
It's home.
The little that he frees
is nothing he believes.


Saving up a sunny day.
Something maybe two tone.
Anything of his own.
A chip off the corner stone.
Who's kidding? Rainy day.
A one way ticket headstone.
Occupations overthrown.
A whisper through a megaphone.


It's nothing as it seems.
The little that he needs.
It's home.
The little that he sees
is nothing he concedes.
It's home.
And all that he frees.
A little bittersweet.
It's home.
It's nothing as it seems.
The little that you see
it's home.

There's a light, when my baby's in my arms.
There's a light, when the window shades are drawn.
Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her.
Wash it off cause this feeling we can share.

And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.

Byzantine is reflected in our pond.
There's a cloud, but the water remains calm.
Reaching in the suns fingers clutch the dawn to pass.
Even out, it's a precious thing to bear.

And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart in thin air.

It's not in my past to presume.
Love can keep on moving in both directions.
How to be happy and true is quest we're taking on together.

Take it on, on, on, on, on.
Take it on, on, on, on, on.

There's a light when my baby's in my arms.

And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart.

All in all it's no one's fault.
Excuses turn to carbon walls.
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance
breeding in the thoughts of ten
thousand fools that fight irrelevance.

The full moon is dead skin.
The one down here's wearing thin.
So set up the ten pins as the human tide rolls in.
Like a ball that's spinning.

Bombs dropping down overhead. On the ground.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down.
Please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.

Turn the jukebox up, he said.
Dancing in irreverence.
Play C-3. Let the song protest.

The plates began to shift.
Perfect lefts come rolling in.
I was alone and far away, hey.
When I heard the band start playing.
On the lip they take off.

Bombs dropping down overhead. Underground.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down.
Please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.

Feel like resonance of distance.
In the blood the iron lies.

It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down.
Please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.

Oh he deals them off of the top. Ties them off.
Fills it up with his past. Gets carried away.
Oh half his life a hand me down wasted away.
Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl.


Oh he left it alone drilled the pain with money to buy.


How he makes his getaway.
How he makes his getaway.


Oh he chose a path. Heavy the fall. Quarter to four.
Fills his night with the thought of a girl.


How he makes his getaway.
How he makes his getaway.
How he makes his getaway.
Get away

Have a drink they're buying.
Bottom of bottle of denial.
Big eye, big eye watching me.
Have to wonder what it sees. Sin.
Progress laced with ramifications.
Freedom's big punch.

Oh. Pull the innocent from a crowd.
Raise those sticks them bring them down.
If they fail to obey.
Ah, if they fail to obey.

Yeah yeah. For every tool they lend us
a loss of independence.

I pledge my grievance to the flag.
Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
Oh we're all deserving something more.
Progress. Taste it. Invest it all.
Champagne breakfast for everyone.
Everyone.

Break the innocent when they're proud.
Raise those stakes then bring them down.
If they fail to obey.
Yeah, ha, if they fail to obey.

Pledge your grievance to the flag.
Cause, don't give blood then take it back again.
Oh, we're all deserving something more.

Have a, have a drink, drink.
Have a, have a drink, drink.

I want to breathe
part of the scene.
I want to taste
everyone I see.
I want to run when I'm up high.
I want to run to the sea.
I want life to be.
I just want to be.
I will feel alive
as long as I am free.

All my rivals will see what
I have in store. my gun.
I've been harboring fleets in this reservoir.
Red sun.
And this nations' about to explode.

You're disciples are riddled with metaphors.
Well hung.
Better pony up and bring both your barrels full.
Not one.
As we release this unspeakable toll.

Woh. Happy idols ??? can crawl.
All the sound and acting well.

How's our mother to damn these contributors.
With mud.
How will the man who made chemicals difficult.
Shed blood.
How's our father supposed to be told.
I don't know.

Routine was the theme.
He'd wake up wash and pour himself into uniform.
Something he hadn't imagined being.
As the merging traffic passed
he found himself staring down at his own hands.
Not remembering the change.
Not recalling the plan.
Was it?

He was okay but wondering about wandering.
Was his age by consequence
or was he moved by sleight of hand?

Mondays were made to fall.
Lost on a road he knew by heart.
It was like a book he read in his sleep.
Endlessly.
Sometimes he hid in the radio
watching other pull into their homes.
While he was drifting.

On a line of his own.
Off the line of the side.
Bye the by.
As dirt turned to sand.
As if moved by sleight of hand.

When he reached the shore of his clip on
world he resurfaced to the norm.
Organized his few things.
His coat and keys.
And he knew realizations would have to wait.
Till he had more time.
More time.

A time to dream to himself.
He waves goodbye to his self.
I'll see you on the other side.
Another man moved by slight of hand.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette.
Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
What's missing? He's living a day he'll soon forget.
That's one more time around.
The sun is going down.
The moon is out but he's drunk and shouting.
Putting people down.
He's pissing. He's living a day he'll soon forget.
Counts his money every morning.
The only thing that keeps him horny.
Locked in a giant house that's alarming.
The townsfolk they all laugh.

Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent.
Seem the more you make equals the loneliness you get.
And it's fitting. He's barley living a day he'll soon forget.
That's one more time around and there is not a sound.
He's lying dead clutching Benjamins. Never put the money down.
He's stiffening. We're all whistling a man we'll soon forget.

Behind her eyes there's curtains and
they've been closed to hide the flames. Remains.
She knows their futures burning
but she can smile just the same. Same.


And though her mood is fine today
there's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.


Standing like a statue.
A chin of stone a heart of clay. Hey.
And thought he's too big a man to say
there's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.


Drifting away

Oh, please don't go out on me,
don't go on me now
Never acted up before, don't go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted,
just thought of it now
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on

Go...fuck...

Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers overhead,
shoulda' pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a fool not a fucking god
No...time...suck...my...Please...
Don't go on me
Please...oh...

Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel, vision
...tuck...time...see...
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me
Don't you want me...don't go on me...
Don't go on me

One two three four five against one
Five five five five against one Said
one two three four five against one
Five five five five five against one
Torture from you to me
Abducted from the street
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal

Why would you wanna hurt me
Oh so frightened of your pain
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be I'd rather be
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
Said one two three four five against one
Five five five five five against one
One two three four five against one
Five five five five five against one

Alone listless
breakfast table
in an otherwise empty room
Young girl violins
center of her own attention
The mother reads aloud
child tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down
it's in her head
Painted room
can't deny
there's something wrong
Don't call me daughter
not fit to
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me daughter
not fit to
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me

She holds the hand
that holds her down
She will rise above

Don't call me daughter
not fit to
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me daughter
not fit to
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me daughter
not fit to
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me daughter
not fit to be
The picture kept
will remind me
Don't call me

The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go go

Got a gun, fact I got two
That's O.K. man, cuz I love god
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Double think, dumb is strength
Never shot at a living thing
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a...

Always keep it loaded

Kindred to be an American...

Life comes...I can feel your heart...
Ooh...life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Like some...I can steal your heart form your neck...

Glorified...glorified...

She nursed him there, ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay What to say what to say
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past a holy no She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold, oh she folded A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here
And to this day, she's glided on Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced Nothing said, what a waste
When she had contact with the conflict
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold she folded A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh oh oh
She gave him away when she couldn't hold no she folded A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh
Couldn't hold on she couldn't hold no she folded A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place, oh A dissident is here

He won the lottery when he was born
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue
Trained like dogs, color and smell
Walks by me to get to him
Police man

He won the lottery by being born
Big hand slapped a white male 'merican
Do no wrong, so clean cut...
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man

Jesus greets me...looks just like me...
Do no wrong, so clean cut
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man

Spin me round roll me over fuckin' circus
Stab it down one way needle
pulled so slowly
Drains and spills soaks the pages
fills their sponges
It's my blood
Paint Ed big Turn Ed into one of his enemies
It's my blood
Stab it down fill the pages suck my life out
Maker of my enemies
Take my Fuck
Fuck

I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks
or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gauged, united by fear
S'pose to endure
what I could not forgive

I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Tried to endure what Icould not forgive

Saw things Saw things
Clearer Clearer
Once you were in myRearview mirror
I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe
finally the shades areraised

Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you
Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you
Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you
Saw things so much clearer
Once you oh yeah

They don't eat, don't sleep
They don't feed, they don't seethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
Fuck to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare

They don't scam, don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones bread
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs,

Rats...They don't compare

Ben, the two of us need look no more

I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when, your stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...

Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh...
I am fuel, you are friends,
we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side, yeah...

Young lover I stand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Take my fucking hand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Will myself to find a home, a home within myself
We will find a way, we will find our place
Drop the leash, drop the leash... Get outta' my fuckin' face
Drop the leash, we are young
Oh, get outta' my fuckin' face...
Drop the leash, drop the leash...
Get outta' my, my...
Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww...
Get outta' my fuckin' face...

I will light the match this mornin',
so I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent,
for soon light will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched,
pretend I'm free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through,
one more day in Hell...

How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah...

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until
their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
Hey, I won't change direction,
and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make..

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference
How much difference
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make

I wanna shake. I wanna wind out.
I wanna leave this mind and shout.
I've lived all this life like an ocean in disguise.
I don't live forever. You can't keep me here.

I wanna race with the sundown.
I want a last breath. I don't let out.
Forgive every being.
The bad feelings. It's just me.
I won't wait for answers.
You can't keep me here.

I wanna rise and say goodnight.
I wanna take a look on the other side.
I've lived all those lives.
It's been wonder. Full at night.
I will live for ever.
You can't keep me here.

Gonna save you fucker,....not gonna lose you
Feeling cocky and strong,.. can't let you go,...
Too important to me
Too important to us,... we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall,... I'm right below you now
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck if you only hear what you wanna hear
Fuck me if I care,... but I'm not leaving here
You helped me when I was down,... I'll help when you're down
Why are you hitting yourself,... c'mon hit me instead
Let's pick up your will,... it's grown fat and lazy
I'm sympathetic as well,... don't go on me now
And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfist and clear
And you're not leaving here without me,
I don't wanna be without
My best friend,... wake up to see you could have it all

Cause there is but you,... and something within you
It's taken control,.. let's beat it, get up let's go
Oh you're in your own world, let's see the whole world
Let's pick up your soul
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
Please help,... me,... to help you,... help yourself
Help me help yourself,... please want me to,... please let me to
Help you

Is this just another day,... this god forgotten place?
First comes love, then comes pain.
Let the games begin,...
Questions rise and answers fall,... insurmountable.
Love boat captain
Take the reigns and steer us towards the clear,... here.
It's already been sung, but it can't be said enough.
All you need is love
Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves
Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings
Once you hold the hand of love,.. it's all surmountable.
Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you,...
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word I stil believe
And it's
It's an art to live with pain,... mix the light into grey,..
Lost 9 friends we'll never know,.. 2 years ago today
And if our lives became too long,
would it add to our regret?
And the young, they can lose hope
cause they can't see beyond today,...
The wisdom that the old can't give away Hey,...
Constant recoil...
Sometimes life
Don't leave you alone.
Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you.
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word that I still believe and it's
Love,... love. love. love. love.

Love boat captain
Take the reigns,.. steer us towards the clear.
I know it's already been sung,... can't be said enough.
Love is all you need,.. all you need is love,..
Love,.. love,...

Light green to green, dark green, brown.
Every life is falling down.
Brown to black, it's coming back.
Dies to be part of the ground.
Seed to seedling, root to stem.
Eyes, no eyes, there's no difference.
Every life is looking in.
Swallowing seeds on the deathbed.
Dig a hole in the garden.
Everyone is practicing.
But this world's an accident.
I was the fool because I thought.
I thought the world.
Turns out the world thought me.
It's all the other way round.
We're upside down.

Daddy's gone up flames.
But this ain't no movie.
This ain't no book you can close.
When the big lie hits your eye.
Everybody's practicing.
Our world's an accident.
I was the fool because I thought.
I thought the world.
Turns out the world thought me.
It's all the other way round.
We're upside down.
Let the fluence sat it down. (x2)
There's an upside of down.

The moon is rolling round the world. (x2)

The mind is grey,... like the city
Packing in and overgrown
Love is deep,... dig it out
Standing in a hole alone
Working for something,.. that we can never hold
A place in the clouds.
Your place to hide oh my oh
I'm flying away, away
I'm driving away, away

The TV, she talks to me
Breaking news and building walls
Selling us, what I dont need
Didn't know soap made you taller
So I'm riding away, away
Hiding away, away
So much talk it makes no sense at all
So I'm flying away, away
Driving away, away
Passing old friends I don't miss at all

It doesn't hurt,.. when I bleed
BUt memories they eat me
I've seen it all before,..
Bring it on cause I'm no victim

The selfish they're all standing in line...
Faith in their hope and to buy themselves time.
Me, I figure as each breath goes by,
I only own my mind.
The north is to south what the clock is to time.
There's east and there's west and there everywhere life.
I know that I was born and I know that I'll die.
The in between is mine. I am mine.
And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time...
We're different behind the eyes, there's no need to hide.
We're safe tonight.
The ocean is full cause everyone's crying,
The full moon is looking for friends at high tide.
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrows denied.
I only know my mind. I am mine.
And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time.
We're different between the lines, there's no need to hide...
Cause we're safe tonight.

And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time.
We're different behind the eyes, there's no need to hide.
And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with lies.
We're different behind the eyes.
We're safe tonight.

I have not been home since you left long ago
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
counting steps walking backwards on the road
I'm counting my way back to heaven
I can't be free with what's locked inside of me
if there was a key, you took it in your hand
there's no wrong or right
but I'm sure there's good and bad
the questions linger overhead
no matter how cold the winter
there's a springtime ahead
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I wish that I could hold you
I wish that I had thinking 'bout heaven
I let go of a rope
thinking that's what held me back
and in time I've realized
it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next
from this lonely overpass
hang my head and count my steps
as another car goes past
all the rusted signs
we ignore throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back
now there's no turning back
no matter how cold the winter
there's a springtime ahead
I smile, but who am I kidding
I'm just walking the miles
every once in a while I'll get a ride
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
thumbing my way back to heaven
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven

This broken wheel is coming undone.
And the road's exploding.
But you're keeping me strong.
Rolling along with you.
Love is a tower and you're the key.
Leading me higher. When you let me in.

Keeping us close, so close, on down the line.
Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun with no one knowing.
But you're keeping me strong. Moving along with you.
You are a tower of strength to me.
The darkening hour sees light again.
Again. Ooh wah, ooh wah, you are, you are~~

Love is a tower of strength to me.
I am the shoreline but you're the sea.
The sea. You are~~~~

I want for to lay down.

I'm waiting till sundown.
I'm searching the haystacks.
Water is sunshine. Wait for the moment.
The moment between us.
The fire is made now. Harder to touch.
I wanted to get right.
I wanted to get right. I wanted to get right.
With it. With you.
Bakers dozen parades. Stand and debate.

Out single file. Nine in a row.
Swear if you must. Keeping your boots on.
Float with the now. Hot to the touch.
Concrete underground. Cast out everyday.
Dregs of society. Underbelly, inside of me.
Rejoice and follow thee.
I wanted to get right. I wanted to get right.
I wanted to get right.
With it. With you.

I wanted to get right. I wanted to get right.

G-R-E-E-D
It's a disease and they're all green
It emminates from their being
Agitation with occupation
And like weeds with big leaves
Stealing light from what's beneath
Where they have more Still they take more
Course I know Then I don't
There's a stoway with my throat It's deceiving
I don't believe him
We can scream out our doors
Behind the wall a fat man snores
In his dreams he's choking on leaves
Well I guess there's nothing wrong with what you say
But don't sell me There can't be better ways
Tell the captain This boat's not safe, and we're drowning
Turns up he's the one making waves Waves Waves

I said there's nothing wrong with what you say
Believe me just asking you to sway
No white or black just grey Can you feel this
world with your heart and not your brain
G-R-E-E-D

Tell me what I wanna hear. This shits too good to be true.
My dear.
Tell me lies. Tell me lies, tell me. Tell me lies, tell me.
Help me. Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.
Storybook keeps from hurting me. You see.
Shell of the man from the sea.
Tell me lies. Tell me lies, tell me. Tell me lies, tell me.
Tell me why. Tell me why, tell me. Tell me why, tell me.
Tell me lies. Tell me lies, tell me. Tell me lies, tell me.
Help me. Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.
Reservoir of hate and fear. Invisible in repair.
A hundred thieves cast a spell. This is hell.
Help me. Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.Help me.
The man they call my enemy.
I've seen his eyes he looks just like me, a mirror.
The more you read, we've been deceived everyday
it becomes clearer. Clearer. Clearer. Clearer.
Not my enemy. No, not my enemy.
Don't speak for me. No, not my enemy.

How does he do it? How do they do it? Uncanny and immutable.
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party.
Like sugar, the guests are so refined.

A confidence man but why so beleagued?
He's not a leader he's a Texas leaguer.
Swinging for the fence. Got lucky with a strike.
Drilling for fear makes the job simple.
Born on third. Thinks he got a triple.

Blackout weaves its way through the cities.
Blackout weaves its way through the cities.
Blackout weaves its way.

I remember when you sang that song about today.
Now it's tomorrow and everything has changed.

A think tank of aloof multiplication.
A nicotine wish and a columbus decanter.
Retrenchment and hoggishness.
The aristocrat choir sings, What's the ruckus?
The haves have not a clue.
The immenseness of suffering.
And the odd negotiation. A rarity.
With onionskin plausibility of life.
And a keyboard reaffirmation.

Blackout weaves its way through the cities.
Blackout weaves its way through the cities.
Blackout weaves its way.

I remember when you sang that song about today.
Now it's tomorrow and everything has changed.

Climbing on a mountain Floating out on the sea
Far from lights of a city The elements they speak to me
Whispering that life Existed long before breed
Balancing the world On its knee
Don't see some men as half empty See them half full of shit.
Thinking that we're all but slaves There's ain't gonna be.
No middle anymore It's been said before
The haves be having more Yet still bored
Won't someone save? Won't someone save, the world?

It's a hopeless situation
And I'm starting to believe
That this hopeless situation
Is what I'm trying to achieve
But I try To run on Towards
All or none all or none
Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that our destinations
Are the ones we've been before
I still try To run on Towards all
Or none all or none

To myself I surrender
To the one I'll never please
But I still try to run on
I still try to run on
But it's All or none all or none

Large fingers pushing paint
You're god and you've got big hands
Colors blend
The challenges you give me
Seek my part
Devote myself
My small self
Like a book amongst the many on a shelf
Sometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself dear god

Ah, is there room for both of us
Both of us apart
Are we bound out of obligation
Is that all we've got?
I get the words and then I get to thinkin'
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
How do I feel? How do I?
If you're the only one will I never be enough, yeah
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah
Oh, how I'd love ya till the day I die and beyond
Are we goin' to the same place?
If so can I come?
It's egg rollin' , thick and heavy
All, the past we carry
Oh, I could be new
You under-estimate me
If you're the only one
will I never be enough, yeah
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

I sometimes realize ...
I could only be as good as you'll let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Bandaged hand in hand.

Black lining,
On the run, in a race that can't be won, yeah
Oh, Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah
If you're my only one
So good, you, only one
I want to be your one
Enough, you won, your one, your one

Come to send
Not condescend
Transcendental consequence
Is to transcend where we are
Who are we Who we are
Trampled marrs on your souls
Changes all you're a part
Seen it all not at all
Can't defend, fuck the man
Take me for a ride Before we leave
Circumstance
Clappin' hands
Guidin' winds
Happenstance
Off the track, in the mud
Patch the marrs, in the aforementioned verse

Just a little time Before we leave
Stop light plays its part
So I would say you've got a heart
What's your part Who you are
You are who who you are

Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah
No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm tradin' stories with the leaves instead, yeah

Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
Sidewalk, Cigarettes, and seen the tempted
It's up here so high I start to mistake
Up here so high in the sky, i scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
A deep breath in my chest
Just like innocence

I remember when, yeah
Swore I blew everything away, yeah
Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah
It's growin' up just like me, and yeah

I'm so light, the wind he shakes
I'm so high up in the sky, I scrape, yeah
I'm so high I hold just one breath
To go back to my nest...sleeping innocence

Up here so high the boughs may break
Up here so high in the sky I sway

And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence... Really got it... Still got it

Don't it make you smile?
When the sun don't shine
Don't it make you smile?

Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
Oh, when the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all, yeah
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already
I miss you always
I miss you already
I miss you all day
This is how I feel

Ah, I miss you already
I miss you always
Three crooked hearts... Swirls all around her
I miss you all day

Know a man His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact Suggest that he should relax
But he's movin' much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope There he goes
He's yet to come back But I seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken...where, I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope There he goes
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
Nothing changed but the surroundin' bullshit That has grown
For he still smiles... And he's still strong
And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next
Before his first step, he's off again

seen it happen to a couple of friends
seen it happen and the message it sends
taken up for what's an obvious fault
just to see what all the fuss is about
it's not your way not your way
it's not your way
another habit says it's in love with you
another habit says its long overdue
another habit like an unwanted friend
i'm so happy with my righteous self
it's not your way not your way
it's not your way
never thought you'd... habit
i never thought you never thought you
never thought you'd... habit
i never thought you never never thought you
never thought you'd... habit
speaking as a child of the nineties
never thought you'd... habit
i never thought you, never thought you
never thought you'd... habit
i never thought you never never thought you
never never me never you never me

watched from the window
with a red mosquito
i was not allowed to leave the room
i saw the sun go down
and now it's coming up
somewhere in the time between
i was bitten, must have been the devil
he was just paying me
a little visit, reminding me of his presence
letting me know he's a-waiting oh

red man's your neighbor call it behavior
while you're climbing up slippery hills
two steps ahead of him punctures in your neck
hovering just above your bed
hovering just above your bed
i was bitten, must have been the devil
he was just paying me
a little visit, reminding me of his presence
and letting me know
he's a'waiting he's a'waiting
up there yeah

if i had known then what i know now

Drive down the street can't find the keys
to my own fucking home.
I'll take a walk so I could
curse my ass for being dumb.
I'll make a right, after the arches
stinking grease and bone.
Stopped at the supermarket people
stare like I'm a dog.
I'm going to Lukin's.
I've got a spot at Lukin's.
I knocked the door at Lukin's.
Open the fridge. Now I know life is worth.
I found the key
but I return to find an open door.
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered
by rape her own son.
I find my wife, I call the cops
this days work's never done
The last I heard that
freak was purchasing a fucking gun

Do you see the way that tree bends?
Does it inspire?
Leanin' out to catch the sun's ray
A lesson to reapply
Are you getting something out of this?
All encompassing trip
You can spend your time alone
Redigesting past regrets, Oh
Or you can, come to terms and realize
Your the only one, you can forgive yourself, Oh
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense

Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked your hands and studied the lines?
Have you the belief that the road ahead
Ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin' harder to find
And approach... Ain't no way to live
Are we gettin' something out of this
All encompassing trip

You can spend your time alone
Redigesting past regrets, Oh
Or you can, come to terms and realize
Your the only one, you can not forgive yourself, Oh
Ah, makes much more sense to live in the present tense

You'll be goin' out with radio
Goin' out with disco
Goin' out like bacchanal

I'll be goin' out with telephone
Goin' out alone
To the radar zone

It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?

I'll be playing with my magazine
Usin' up my listerine
Like ovaltine

And you'll be dippin' in your battleship
For the latest tip
For the latest drain

It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?

It's all just inadvertent imitation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?
What's got the whole world fakin'
What's got the whole world fakin
What's got the whole world fakin
What's got the whole world fakin
What's got the whole world fakin' it, yeah

A man lies in his bed in a room with no door
He waits, hoping for a presence,
something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?
When he was six,
he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact,
no trade-backs
So this is what it's like to be an adult?
If he only knew now what he knew then
I'm open
Come in
I'm open
Come in
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream...Dream up a new self...For himself

I am wishing you a well
Mind at peace within yourself
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watchin' as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend

I hold you deep in my arms
My fingertips, they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me, won't you dear
Please forgive and let me share
With you around the bend

You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend

Lives opened and trashed..."Look ma, watch me crash"...
No time to question...why'd nothing last...
Grasp and hold on...hold tight and fast...
Soon be over...and I will relent...

Let the ocean swell, dissolve 'way my past
Three days, and maybe longer, won't even know I've left

Under your tongue...I'm like a tab...
I will give you what...you're not s'posed to have...
Under my breath...I swear by sin...
For better or for worse...a best we began...

Let the sun climb, oh, burn 'way my mask
Three days, and maybe longer, shed my skin at last...shed...shed...

Let the sun shine, burn 'way my mask
Three days, and maybe longer, won't ever find me here

Let the ocean dissolve 'way my past
Four days, and not much longer...

Let my spirit pass...
Ooh...
This is, this is... (3x)
My...last exit

see this needle...a see my hand...
drop, drop, dropping it down...oh, so gently...
well here it comes...i touch the plane...
turn me up...won't turn you away...

spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...whoa...

pull it out...a paper sleeve...
oh, my joy...only you deserve conceit...
i'm so big...a-my whole world...
i'd rather you...rather you...than her...

spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...whoa...oh...

you're so warm...oh, the ritual...when i lay down your crooked arm...
spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
spin, spin...spin the black circle
spin, spin...
spin the black circle
spin the black circle...
spin, spin...
spin, spin...

Restless soul, enjoy your youth.
Like Muhammad. Hits the truth.
Can't escape from the common rule
- if you hate something don't you do it too. Too...

Small my table. A-sits just two.
Got so crowded. I can't make room.
Oh where did they come from? Stormed my room.
And you dare say it belongs to you. To you...

This is not for you. (x3)
Oh, not for you. Ah you...

My friends call me Ed, they call me.
My friends they don't scream.
My friends don't call.
My friends don't...

All that's sacred comes from youth.
Dedication. Naive and true.
With no power. Nothing to do.
I still remember. Why don't you? Don't you?

This is not for you. (x3)
Oh, never was for you. Fuck you.
This is not for you.
Oh, this is not for you. No, no.
This is not for you. Oh, not for you. Oh you...

Winded is the sailor...drifting by the storm...
Wounded is the organ he left all...bloodied on the shore...
Gorgeous was his savior, sees her...drowning in his wake...
Daily taste the salt of her tears, but...a chance blamed fate...

Little secrets, tremors...turned to quake...
The smallest oceans still get...big, big waves...

Ransom paid the Devil...He whispers pleasing words...
Triumphant are the angels if they can...a get there first...

Little secrets tremors...turned to quake...
The smallest oceans still get...big, big waves...

I'll decide...take the dive...
Take my time...not my life...
Wait for signs...believe in lies...
To get by...it's divine...whoa...
Oh, you know what it's like...

Turns the bow back, tows and...drops the line...
Puts his faith and love in Tremor Christ...

Nothingman

Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...

She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...oh...oh...oh...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...

Oh, she don't want him...
Oh, she won't feed him...after he's flown away...
Oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...

Burn...burn...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Nothingman... (2x)
Coulda' been something...
Nothingman...
Oh...ohh...ohh...

Don't need a helmet, got a hard, hard head
Don't need a raincoat, I'm already wet
Don't need a bandage, there's too much...blood...
After a while, seems to roll right off...hmm...

Whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...

Don't need a hand, there's always arms attached
Oh, don't get behind, I can't fall back
Why must we trust all these rusted rails?
They don't want no change, we already have

They're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...

Don't mean to push, but I'm being shoved!
Ohh, I'm just like you, think we've had enough
I can't believe a thing they want us to...oh...
Oh, we all got scars, they should have 'em too...

Oh, they're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
They're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping...yeah...they're whipping...

P-r-i-v-a-c-y is priceless to me.
P-r-i-v-a-c-y...

The waiting drove me mad...
you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back...
can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...

I'll take the firmest path...
oh, and I must refuse your test
A-push me and I will resist...
this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...


I don't want to be held in your debt...
And I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
And I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...

Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed
Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my tincture

I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your breast...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...(x2)
Can't be what you want because I'm...

I ain't s'posed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...

It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I,
I guess I hate you...

All these...
I got bugs. I got bugs in my room.
Bugs in my bed. Bugs in my ears.
Their eggs in my head.
Bugs in my pockets. Bugs in my shoes.
Bugs in the way I feel about you.
Bugs on my window trying to get in.
They don't go nowhere. Waiting, waiting...
Bugs on my ceiling. Crowded the floor.
Standing, sitting, kneeling. A few block the door.
And now the questions...
Do I kill them? Become their friend?
Do I eat them? Raw or well done?
Do I trick them? I don't think they're that dumb.
Do I join them? Looks like that's the one.
I got bugs on my skin. Tickle my nausea.
I let it happen again. They're always taking over.
I see they surround me I see, see them deciding my fate.
Oh, that which was once, was once up to me. Now it's too late.
I got bugs in my room. One on one.
That's when I had a chance.
I'll just stop now. I'll become naked and with them I'll become one.

It's not all been said, been said and done.
I've never slept in Satan's bed.
Although, I must admit, still visits my place.
Uninvited, as you know he don't wait.
Funny how he always seems to fit in.
Funny how I always want to give in.
Sundays, Fridays, Tuesdays, Thursdays the same.
Sometimes this special guest he don't like to leave.

Already in love. (x3)
Already...

Who made, who made up, made up the myth
that we were born to be covered in bliss?
Who set the standard? Born to be rich.
Such fine examples, skinny little bitch.
Model, role model. Roll some models in blood.
Get some flesh to stick so they look like us.
I shit and I stink. I'm real join the club.
I'd stop and talk but I'm already in love.

Already in love. (x3)
Already in love... Ah ha ha ha...

Torture follows reward, follows torture, follows reward.
Oh, oh my word.

Never shook Satan's hand. Look, see for yourself.
You'd know it if I had that shit don't come off.
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.
Jump off a cliff don't need your help so back off.
I'll never suck Satan's dick.
Again you'd see it, you know, right round the lips.
I'll wait for an angel but I won't hold my breath.
Amagine they're busy. Think I'm doing okay.

Already in love. (x6)
Already...

Waitin', watchin' the clock, it's four o'clock,
it's got to stop
Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech
As he opens the door, she rolls over
Pretends to sleep as he looks her over
She lies and says she's in love with him
can't find a better man
She dreams in color she dreams in red
can't find a better man
Can't find a better man(2x)
Ohh

Talkin'to herself
there's no one else who needs to know
She tells herself oh
Memories back when she was bold and strong
And waiting for the world to come along
Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone
She dreams in color, she dreams in red
can't find a better man
She lies and says she still loves him
can't find a better man
She dreams in color
she dreams in red can't find a better man
Can't find a better man(2x)
Yeah

She loved him yeah
she don't want to leave this way
She feeds him yeah
that's why she'll be back again
Can't find a better man(3x)
Can't find a better man
Ohh ohh
uh huh

Awooh...aye davanita...awooh...awooha... (4x)

*Jahooh...jahooh...

*Repeat

Awooh...aye davanita...awooh...awooha... (4x)

Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...

A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on...
But there's a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...

As privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...

A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on, too...
But saw the trapdoor in the sun...

Immortality...
I cannot stop the thought...I'm running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live...
Ohh...

Don't you want people to love you
My spanking that's the only thing I want so much
Spanking that's the only thing I want so much
That's the only thing I want so much
Don't you want people to love you
My spanking that's the only thing I want so much
That's the only thing I want so much
Why is that better than being hugged
Why is that better than being hugged
Because you get closer to the person
Closer to the person
Why is that better than being hugged
Because you get closer to the person
Closer to the person
Just like a person having sex feels cared for
We wanna be loved so we have sex together
And they feel loved about that
And this is the way it makes me feel loved
I want it I dream about it I think about it I want it
Just like a girl wants sex with a boy you know
It's the way I'll always be probably
My last one was born in the system
See they're stupid very stupid those people over there
They're stupid
These people are so below mentality honest to God really
You know what I mean he got the nerve to bug me (x2)
This mentality honest to God really
You know what I mean he got the nerve to bug me
Honest to God really
You know what I mean he got the nerve to bug me
Bug me bug me he got the nerve to bug me
Everything seems so eight ball (x2)
And I I don't know if that's my imagination but umm
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me
And I don't know if that's my imagination but umm
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me (x2)
Think they got me
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me hmm
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me
Know if that's my imagination but umm
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me
She prides herself on her cleaning habits (x2)
Hey foxymophandlemama that's me
She prides herself on her cleaning habits (x2)
It's a lovely stupid mop it is
There's something really screwey about no streaking
Is it any old dumb mop It streaks
Come on mop no streaking mop
I don't mind mop the floor my mop streaks I don't like it
It's not me it's the mop
Come I bought some new mops
Go away you stupid dumb old sponge mop
I don't believe it now the floor looks beautiful (x2)
I don't believe it old sponge mop
Dumb old sponge mop (x2)
Old sponge mop dumb old sponge mop
You're right this mop's stupid
Dumb old sponge mop
I don't believe it now the floor looks beautiful
That's why they call me mophandlemama
Now the floor looks beautiful
That's why they call me mophandlemama (x3)
In two weeks before she could see herself not dressed
The twenty-third of May you know she disturbed no one today
The manager told her to completely forget
If you ever go to bed I'll kill you
Do I tell the whole world that I'm mentally ill
Go to the papers yeah why not
Drum roll
I want to show them that I can walk on my own without hands of theirs
And I can still fantasize but I keep it to myself
Keep it to myself keep it to myself
I think I deserve to be loved don't you
Very much so
Think I deserve to be loved
Keep it to myself keep it to myself
I think I deserve to be loved don't you
To be loved don't you
But I keep it to myself
Keep it to myself keep it to myself
I think I deserve to be loved don't you
And I can still fantasize but I keep it to myself
Keep it to myselfkeep it to myself
I think I deserve to be loved don't you
Very much so
Do you ever think that you would actually really kill yourself
Well if I have thought about it real uhh real deep
Yeas I believe I would
I have thought about it real uhh real deep
Yes I believe I would
And I can still fantasize but I keep it to myself
Keep it to myself keep it to myself
That I can walk without hands of theirs
And I can still fantasize but I keep it to myself
Keep it to myself keep it to myself
I think I deserve to be loved don't you
Very much so
Do you ever think that you actually would kill yourself
Well if I have thought about it real uhh real deep
Yes I believe I would

Sailing on my every step.
Inching off of the earth.
Is magnified by the things I've done.
The thing that I've become.

Every lift of my hand.
Coffee cup up, and back.
Is magnified by the things I've done.
The things I've seen. the things I've caused.

I'm a dead man walking.

The hammer that I once brung down now
hovers over me.
Cast a shadow across, onto me.

The hallways are all mocking me.
What I've become they're all mocking me.

I'm a dead man walking.
A dead man walking.
A dead man walking.
I'm a dead man walking.
Dead man walking.
Dead man walking.

Oh he deals em off,... off the top,... ties em off,...
Fills it up,... with his past,... gets carried away,...
Oh half his life,... a hand me down,... wasted away,...
Oh he fills it up,... with the love,... of a girl.
He left it alone,... drilled the pain,... money to buy,...
How he makes his getaway,...
How he makes his getaway,...
Oh he chose a path,... heavy the fall,... quarter to four,...
Fills his night,... with the thought,... of a girl,...
How he makes his getaway,...
How he makes his getaway,...
How he makes his getaway,...

Clouds roll by
Kneeling is what they say or is it just my way
Wind blows by low light sidetracked low light
Can't see my tracks your scent way back
Can I be here all alone clear a path to my home
Blood runs dry
Books and jealousy tell me wrong I will feel calm
Poise blows by low light car crash low light
Can wear my mask your first my last
Voice goes by
Two birds is what they'll see getting lost upon their way
Wind rolls by low light eye sight low light
I need the light I'll find my way from wrong
What's real the dream I see

I have not been home since you left long ago
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
counting steps walking backwards on the road
I'm counting my way back to heaven
I can't be free with what's locked inside of me
if there was a key, you took it in your hand
there's no wrong or right
but I'm sure there's good and bad
the questions linger overhead
no matter how cold the winter
there's a springtime ahead
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I wish that I could hold you
I wish that I had thinking 'bout heaven
I let go of a rope
thinking that's what held me back
and in time I've realized
it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next
from this lonely overpass
hang my head and count my steps
as another car goes past
all the rusted signs
we ignore throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back
now there's no turning back
no matter how cold the winter
there's a springtime ahead
I smile, but who am I kidding
I'm just walking the miles
every once in a while I'll get a ride
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
thumbing my way back to heaven
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven

There's a light, when my baby's in my arms.
There's a light, when the window shades are drawn.
Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her.
Wash it off cause this feeling we can share.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Byzantine is reflected i

How good is he? How warm are his eyes?
You'll see its not a reprise
That he arrived too late and too teathered away
To put on his suit and his tie

How good is he? How warm is his heart?
Or ego telling him which place to park
Did he relay the message is clearly, hardly grounds for dismissal outright
Grounds for dismissal outright

I wake up and wait up when anger's in fashion
I wake up and wait up it echoes through the mansion
I wake up and wait up when April's in May, oh, oh
I wake up and wait up the answers are fatal
The answers are fatal

When I wait up and wake up the answers are fatal
If he's truly outta sight, is he truly outta mind
If he's truly outta sight

Don't feel like home. He's a little out.
And all these words elope. It's nothing like your poem.
Putting in. Inputting in. Don't feel like methadone.
A scratching voice all alone it's nothing like your baritone.

It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs. It's home.
The little that he sees. Is nothing he concedes. It's home.

One uninvited chromosome. A blanket like the ozone.

It's nothing as it seems. All that he needs. It's home.
The little that he frees is nothing he believes.

Saving up a sunny day. Something maybe two tone.
Anything of his own. A chip off the corner stone.
Who's kidding? Rainy day. A one way ticket headstone.
Occupations overthrown. A whisper through a megaphone.

It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs. It's home.
The little that he sees is nothing he concedes. It's home.
And all that he frees. A little bittersweet. It's home.
It's nothing as it seems. The little that you see it's home.

Tidal waves don't beg forgiveness
Crashed and on their way
Father he enjoyed collisions others walked away
A snowflake falls in may
And the doors are open now as the bells are ringing out
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
Goodbye for now

Nature has its own religion gospel from the land
Father ruled by long division, young men they pretend
Old men comprehend

And the sky breaks at dawn shedding light upon this town
They'll all come 'round
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
Goodbye for nowa

And the road
The old man paved
The broken seams along the way
The rusted signs, left just for me
He was guiding me, love, his own way
Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
As the curtain comes down
I feel that this is just goodbye for now

Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place on me or her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...

A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on...
But there's a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...

As privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...

A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on, too...
But saw the trapdoor in the sun...

Immortality...
I cannot stop the thought...I'm running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live...
Ohh...

1,2,1,2
Know a man his face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
So I approach with tact suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flipside
Of this trip he's taking for a ride
He's been taking too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
He's yet to come back but I see his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder about his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken where I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes
And now I rub my eyes for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles and he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown
And now he's home and we're laughing like we always did
My same old same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next
Before his first step
He is off again

I am wishing you a well
Mind at peace within yourself
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watchin' as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend

I hold you deep in my arms
My fingertips, they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me, won't you dear
Please forgive and let me share
With you around the bend

You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend

I used to be on an endless run
Believed in miracles 'cause I'm one
I've been blessed with the power to survive
After all these years I'm still alive

I'm out here kickin with the band
I am no longer a solitary man
Everyday my time runs out
Live like a fool, that's what I was about

Oh I belive in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you
Oh Oh I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you

Tattooed your name on my arm
I always said my girl's a good luck charm
If she can find a reason to forgive
Then I can find a reason to live

I used to be on an endless run
Believed in miracles 'cause I'm one
I've been blessed with the power to survive
After all these years I'm still alive

Oh I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you
Oh Oh I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you

I close my eyes and think how it might be
The future's here today
It's not too late, it's not too late oh

I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you
Oh I believe in miracles
I believe in a better world for me and you

Routine was the theme. He'd wake up wash and pour himself into uniform.
Something he hadn't imagined being.
As the merging traffic passed he found himself staring down at his own hands.
Not remembering the change. Not recalling the plan. Was it?
He was o

It's a hopeless situation
And I'm starting to believe
That this hopeless situation
Is what I'm trying to achieve
But I try To run on Towards
All or none all or none
Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that our destinations
Are the ones we've been before
I still try To run on Towards all
Or none all or none

To myself I surrender
To the one I'll never please
But I still try to run on
I still try to run on
But it's All or none all or none

Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking
home
I take a walk so I can curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches. . . stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket. . . people stare like I'm a dog

I'm gone to Lukin's... I gotta spot at Lukin's
Unlock the door at Lukin's. . . open the fridge
Now I know life's worth

I find the key but I return to find an open door
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered by raping my son
I find my wife. I call the cops. This day's work's never done.
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.

Behind her eyes there's curtains and they've been closed to
hide the flames. Remains.
She knows their futures burning but she can smile just the
same. Same.
And though her mood is fine today there's a fear they'll soon
be parting ways.
Standing like a statue. A chin of stone a heart of clay. Hey.
And thought he's too big a man to say there's a fear they'll
soon be parting ways.
Drifting away. Drifting away. Drifting away. Away. Away.
Drifting away. Drifting away. Drifting away. Away. Away.

Down. Fall by the wayside no getting out.
Down. Cry me a river dried up and dammed.
The names can be changed but the place is still the same.
I am loaded. Told that all's for naught. Holds me down.

Rise. Life is in motion. I'm stuck in line.
Rise. You can't be neutral on a moving train.
One day the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

Won't let the light escape from me.
Won't let the darkness swallow me.

So long.

I wanna shake. I wanna wind out.
I wanna leave this mind and shout.
I've lived all this life like an ocean in disguise.
I don't live forever. You can't keep me here.

I wanna race with the sundown.
I want a last breath. I don't let out.
Forgive every being.
The bad feelings. It's just me.
I won't wait for answers.
You can't keep me here.

I wanna rise and say goodnight.
I wanna take a look on the other side.
I've lived all those lives.
It's been wonder. Full at night.
I will live for ever.
You can't keep me here.

Sailing on my every step
Inching off of the earth...
It’s magnified
by the things I've done
The thing that I've become

Every lift of my hand,
Coffee cup up and back,
Is magnified
by the things I've done
The things I've seen, the things I've caused,
I'm a dead man walking.

The hammer that I once brought down now hovers over me.
Casts a shadow, a cross/across onto me.

The hallways are all mocking me.
What I've become they're all mocking me.
I'm a dead man walking. A dead man walking.
A dead man walking.
I'm a dead man walking.
Dead man walking. Dead man walking.

Come you masters of war, you that build all the guns
You that build the death place, you that build all the guns
You that hide behind walls, you that hide behind desks
I just want you to know, I can see through your masks
You that never done nothing, bu

Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Her lace spread out before me, as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed
everything...

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed
everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...

Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be
a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

She lived on the curve in the road
In an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town
We'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did
But her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed
Crazy Mary.

Down a long dirt road
Past the Parson's place.
That old blue car
We used to race.
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side.
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd.

Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass ita...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass itaround.

One night thunder cracked.
Mercy backed outside my windowsill.
Dreamed I was flying high
Above the trees over the hills.
Looked down into the house of Mary.
A bare bulb on.
Newspaper covered walls.
And Mary rising up above it all.
Oh... Oh... Oh...

Next morning on the way into town
Saw some skid marks and followed them around.
Over the curve,
Through the fields,
Into the house of Mary.

That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)

Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass ita...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass itaround.
Oh, pass it a... Pass it arround. Pass it a... Pass it a... Passit a...
Oh yeah.

They're buildin' the gallows outside my cell.
I got 25 minutes to go.

And in 25 minutes I'll be in Hell.
I got 24 minutes to go.

Well, they give me some beans for my last meal.
23 minutes to go.

And you know... nobody asked me how I feel.
I got 22 minutes to go.

So, I wrote to the Gov'nor... the whole damned bunch.
Ahhh... 21 minutes to go.

And I call up the Mayor, and he's out to lunch.

I got 20 more minutes to go.

Well, the Sheriff says, "Boy, I wanna watch you die".
19 minutes to go.

I spit in his face... and I kicked him in the eye.
I got 18 minutes to go.

Well...I call out to the Warden to hear my plea.
17 minute to go.

He says, "Call me back in a week or three.
You've got 16 minutes to go."

Well, my lawyer says he's sorry he missed my case.
Mmmm....15 minutes to go.

Yeah, well if you're so sorry, come up and take my place.
I got 14 minutes to go.

Well, now here comes the padre to save my soul
With 13 minutes to go.

And he's talkin' about burnin', but I'm so damned cold.
I got 12 more minutes to go.



Now they're testin' the trap. It chills my spine.
I got 11 minutes to go.

'cause the goddamned thing it works just fine.
I got 10 more minutes to go.

I'm waitin' for the pardon... gonna set me free
With 9 more minutes to go.

But this ain't the movies, so to hell with me.
I got 8 more minutes to go.

And now I'm climbin up the ladder with a scaffold peg
With 7 more minutes to go.

I've betta' watch my step or else I'll break my leg.
I got 6 more minutes to go.

Yeah... with my feet on the trap and my head in the noose...
5 more minutes to go.

Well, c'mon somethin' and cut me loose.
I got 4 more minutes to go.

I can see the mountains. I see the sky.
3 more minutes to go.

And it's too damned pretty for a man to die.
i got 2 more minutes to go

I can hear the buzzards... hear the crows.
1 more minute to go.

And now I'm swingin' and here I gooooooooo....

Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention
The, mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud

The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me...

She holds the hand that holds her down
She will...rise above...ooh...oh...

Don't call me daughter, not fit to }
The picture kept will remind me } (2x)
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be }
The picture kept will remind me }
Don't call me...

The shades go down (2x)
The shades go, go, go...

Unsealed on a porch a letter sat.
Then you said, "I wanna leave it again."
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand. And on the sand I wanna leave it again. Yeah.
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away, yeah.
And they called and I said that "I want what I said" and then I call out again.
And the reason oughta' leave her calm, I know.
I said "I know what I wear not the boxer or the bag."

Ah yeah, can you see them out on the porch? Yeah, but they don't wave.
But I see them round the front way. Yeah.
And I know, and I know. I don't want to stay.
Make me cry...

I see... Ooh I don't know why there's something else.
I wanna drum it all away... [ ;-) ]
Oh, I said, "I don't, I don't know wheather I was the boxer or the bag."

Ah yeah, can you see them out on the porch? Yeah, but they don't wave.
But I see them round the front way. Yeah.
And I know, and I know. I don't wanna stay at all.
I don't wanna stay. Yeah.
I don't wanna stay. (x2)
I don't... Don't wanna, oh... Yeah. Ooh... Ohh...

You're always saying that there's something wrong.
I'm starting to believe it's you're plan all along.
Death came around, forced to hear it's song
And know tomorrow can't be depended on

Seen the home inside your head.
All locked doors and unmade beds

Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that
i have faced it, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.
i escaped it,a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.
having tasted, alife wasted.
I'm never going back again.

the world awaits just up the stairs
leave the pain for someone else
nothing back there for you to find
or was it you you left behind

You're always saying you're too weak to be strong.
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone
why swim the channel just to get this far
halfway there, why would you turn around
darkness comes in waves...tell me,
why invite it to stay
You're one with negativity
yes, comfort is an energy
but why let the sad song play

i have faced it, a life wasted
i'm never going back again
oh i escaped it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again
having tasted, a life wasted
i'm never going back again
oh i erased it, a life wasted
i'm never going back again

I felt the earth on Monday.
It moved beneath my feet.
In the form of a morning paper.
Laid out for me to see.
Saw his face in a corner picture.
I recognized the name.
Could not stop staring at the.
Face I'd never see again.
It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over
It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved,
and who will be left to hold her?
The whole world...World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.
and who will be left to hold her?
It's a worldwide suicide.
Medals on a wooden mantle.
Next to a handsome face.
That the president took for granted.
Writing checks that others pay.
And in all the madness.
Thought becomes numb and naive.
So much to talk about.
Nothing for to say.
It's the same everyday
and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray,
while the devils on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that
our soldiers save
Does not equate,
and the truth's already out there
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another,
another, another, another Another way
It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray,
while the devils on their shoulder
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.
The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
Yea, I'll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity
Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling

Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission
Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose,
with no fear of falling
Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel It rising
High above I'll break the law,
if it's illegal to be in love,
leave the hatred, on the cross
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yea I'll be hanging upside down
and here I will swing
for all eternity
feel it rising, yea next stop falling
feel it rising,
comatose with no fear of falling
feel it rising, yea, next stop falling
feel it rising
something never thought you'd be part of