Spymob

Pedaling around
My head's facing down
Watching specs in the road
whiz by before my eyes
Take a two hour break to watch Nasfaratu
the old German vampire, with the blinds closed
When the credits hit, turn it off
and hit the streets of 4 PM once again
Pedaling around
Humidity's down
No longer curling my hair
so I stop off for a fountain drink
I pretend it's a beer with a citrus after-taste
and I wave hello to a guy I know
but he can't recall my name
even though he once told me I was the most
talented person that he'd ever met

Pedaling around
My head's facing down
Listening to the tires on the asphalt below
Wondering just how hot oozing tar would have to be
to melt them
If it could would they explode or would the air leak slowly
Just to play it safe, I steer around
the small patches of that black, goopy stuff
but I do enjoy a deep inhale as I roll on by

Pedaling around
My head's facing down
Sweaty bangs in my eyes
Half steering, half eating ice cream

My mother once told me on the phone that
I should name my band, Millennium
Because in the next few years the millennium
Will be on everyone's minds
I told her that I agree,
But I didn't like it as a band name.
But it got me thinking
About what I'll be doing
In 2040...

In 2040, I'll reminisce about the Twentieth Century
When we still wrote on pads of paper
And humans still did all the cleaning

In 2040, I'll be camping out with my grandsons
Who'll have little gadgets to talk to their friends around the world
They'll see them, smell them, hear them, feel them
Communicate as if they're there.
In 2040, my wife and I will take up games like, lawn bowling.
We'll compete, interactively
With couples our age in Africa
And we'll compete, interactively
With couples our age in Thailand

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In 2040, I'll be camping out with my grandsons
Who'll have little gadgets to talk to their friends around the world
They'll see them, smell them, hear them, feel them
Communicate as if they're there.
They'll see them, smell them, hear them, feel them
Communicate as if they're there.

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Sometimes I'm scratching at the back door
Waiting to be let out for five minutes
To take care of business
They don't always pay attention to my needs

Someone's laughing at the way I'll drop anything
I'm doing just to chase the things
They throw into a field
I'm going in ways that I can't explain

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It gets me going in ways that I can't explain
Never grow tired of a routine that seldom changes
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Sometimes when we're walking down the sidewalk
I wish I was fixed up so I didn't have all these feelings
That keep me in a permanent frustrated state

When you go out and you leave me in
I have hours to ponder, too many to fill
I feel myself going now in ways that I can't explain

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My eyes are either filled with life or they're glazed over

Leave some space at the foot of your bed
So I can give you the protection you deserve
I feel much better knowing firsthand that you are safe

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I read your name and interests
And I got a funny feeling
Deep inside.
We had some things in common
You said you been out of the whole scene for a while.

I guess we're supposed to meet
It said so on the printed sheet
There's just one thing that you should know...
I still live at home.
I still live at home.

It's not so bad
A door leads down to my basement bedroom from outside.
Upstairs,
They don't care when my friends
Drop by for surprise visits
Late at night.

I guess we're supposed to meet
It said so on the printed sheet
There's just one thing that you should know...
I still live at home.
I still live at home.

If we went back to my place,
I would light up scented candles.
No one would dare disturb us
We'd be all alone.
And if things did get serious,
It would be convenient
To walk right up the stairs
And have you meet my folks.

I guess we're supposed to meet
It said so on the printed sheet
There's just one thing you should know...
I still live at home.
I still live at home.
I still live at home.
I still live at home.

Sitting around, keeping score
On a little note pad past bedtime, yeah
Vowed that I'd wait three days to call
I'm already two ahead, is that alright?
Is that alright?

If someone told you, barely knowed you
That you showed up in their dream
You'd check them closely for intention
Why share something so revealing?

Kicking around with too much to do
Putting it off until lunchtime, yeah
Pick up the phone and then hang it up
Checking the mail and it's so bright outside

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Gazing across the neighbor's lawn
From a bedroom desk until sundown
Picking away at a ketchup stain
Getting up now would take
Way way too much out of me

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Someone's been tipped off that she's gonna show tonight
I've got a real strong hunch that she'll be here all right
Someone's been tipped off that she's gonna show tonight
I've got a real strong hunch that she'll be here all right

A guy polled the room and everyone agrees
This place will light up brighter than the Christmas tree

Hostess gets the crowd's attention, then apologizes
Redhead yells back, "Don't sweat it, she's been here the whole time"

Dancers turn around just in time to see
Chaperones kissing spontaneously

A slower song comes on and the couples begin to move outside
The talk is all about searchlights and the latest dance craze
It's nice to sit on the concrete steps with a glass of punch
It's nice that the night is mild and a light jacket is enough

Someone's been tipped off that she's gonna show tonight
I've got a real strong hunch that she'll be here all right

Boyfriends spinning girlfriends 'round in perfect time
Everyone just wait, I think she's on the line
No one getting through is all we're being told
Two reported sightings on the valley floor

Sometimes I want to swing by
To check on her, see how her week is going
But you disapprove
Other times I'll call up
He picks up and makes me feel like I'm intruding

You get to wake her every day
And we divide up National Holidays
This month is highlighted yellow with one box of blue

Last weekend I watched her in
A game I never knew that she played
But she led the team
Afterwards I picked up
A schedule so that I could come the next week secretly

You get to wake her every day
And we divide up National Holidays
This month is highlighted yellow with one box of blue
It didn't help things the last time I complained
Don't want to upset her, I try to explain
But you of all people should walk one year in these shoes

Can we at least be civil to one another?
She only has one father and one mother

Years ago you told me how
You could not imagine life without our little baby
Wouldn't it tear you up too
If you could only see her one day out of thirty?

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Winter's slowing down
Nothing is really earned or gained by prolonging this
I'm high above the ground
On a windmill pointing out the sights of the country
In a corner of the barn, the pickup rusted out
By too many years
I can see your mouth is moving
You are saying something
Probably asking us to come down

There is something so nice about
Driving down here with you
Please just a few more hours
I don't wanna drive back to town just yet
'Cause the sun sets late this time of year
And I've been deprived of it for so many months
I'll bet my face will burn
But I ain't even concerned about it
No, no, no, no, not one bit, 'cause we're

Walking under green leaves at last
Walking under green leaves at last

There's something so nice about driving down here with you
Please just a few more hours, I don't wanna drive back to town yet

Day is winding down
Nothing is really earned or gained by denying this
Thanks for the few more hours
You sleep now, I'm feeling alright to drive
'Cause the sun sets late this time of year
And I've been deprived of it for so many months
It's leaving me again
I don't wanna miss one minute of it
No, no, no, no, not tonight

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Lying on the couch with my little toe in a splint
Smashed it on a corner while reaching for my instrument
Talk shows get depressing and my eyes are too tired to read
Stranded in the house, staring outside helplessly

Thinking of someone else
Longing for that special person
Who always took good care of me

Hold me mother, cuddle me closely
Hold me mother, talk to me softly

Looking at the phone that is well within my reach
Wondering why I'm lacking so in self-sufficiency
Rates are high at this time, I should really try to act my age
Yet her words always got me back on track in my younger days

Thinking of someone else
Longing for that special person
Who always took good care of me
Stayed up with me all night long
When I was a child with the flu
Never short on sympathy

Hold me mother, cuddle me closely
Hold me mother, talk to me softly

Always helped me to see the brighter side
Convinced me that everything would turn out right

Lying on the couch, washing down two aspirin
Cordless on the coffee table rings, I'm on it in an instant
She tells me that she's worried, do I have enough to eat?
I'm pretty sure that I just started healing rapidly

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The beltway around Des Moines
Completed in record time
Dedicated anniversary
Of four lanes crossing our state line
Hot sun all day
Brightens local water holes
I've got three days off from my regular job
Just let my mind go wandering

Fly fly fly fly fishing poles
Paddle boats pull up close
To the band shell on the shoreline
Test the water with your toes

The beltway surrounds Des Moines
It got me here in record time
No more use for the side streets now
It's just a twenty minute ride
Hot sun all day
Glassy surface, water bowl
No luck, not even bites today
Instead my mind goes wandering

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The beltway loops around Des Moines
Forms a perfect oval shape
Forty-six miles from start to end
Pilots often point it out from planes

There goes one now
Trails across a cloudless sky
"Oh, look straight down
At the silver, gleaming metro egg"

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When autumn rains come
And the ground rarely feels completely dry
And I'm test driving cars on mountain roads
Ooohh
Take the curve slow
Check my digital watch
Gotta keep track of the time
Cause i've got plans to take my lady out
Tonight

Fasten seat belts for the ride
Defrost windows right away
Holding my hand over the passenger seat
Fingertips tracing the seams
And I feel like I'm strapped into a cockpit

Ooohh
Grip the wheel tight
My speed is up
And light showers stars coming down
And water's bringing oil up onto the surface of the road
Ooohh

Fasten seat belts for the ride
Defrost windows right away
Fasten seat belts for the ride

Only supposta have the car out for an hour
When autumn rains come
And the ground rarely feels completely dry
And I'm test driving cars on mountain roads
Ooohh

Fasten seat belts for the ride
Defrost windows right away
Fasten seat belts for the ride
Defrost windows right away

They rushed as I released the ball downfield
My receiver knows which way to turn and he'll find it
And these things I just know

When someone's coming up behind me
I scramble to the right
And it's this sense that keeps my knees from dying

Back at home my family's watching me
Slapping hands in the middle of a stadium
Back in a midtown high-rise hotel room
She's thinking of me, waiting to see me

Someone's coming up behind me
So I scramble to the right
And it's this sense that keeps my knees from dying

And I'm sure you all know the game
You relive it play by play
When you go to work tomorrow

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Picture me at night
Living dreams out on the field at home
Never reeling from the game
With my leg up in a sling, my head packed in ice

Showing up at Shea Stadium
Where you can hardly see the number on my jersey
You can hardly believe my stats from this whole season
On certain nights you'll see the light on in my building