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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
There's no way in
The street is all blocked off Police lights spin Sirens and certain pain So we drive around Don't worry, I'm not lost The cab driver frowns If you have to ask If you have to ask If you have to ask Then you’ll never know Later that night All your black winter clothes The wind cuts right through you Like you weren't there at all You froze on the street You froze to the glass You think I don’t love you If you have to ask If you have to ask If you have to ask Then you’ll never know Then you’ll never know My voice gonna sneak like smoke through a crack in your window pane Gonna curl up your stair And light a fire in your brain The music flows and echoes From the club on the empty street As you walk away from me Footsteps, the useless beat I watch your shadow Headlights and brick walls You think I won't follow If you have to ask If you have to ask If you have to ask Then you'll never know |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
The laws of Purgatory
Pulled your train off the track Spoken music playing Loss you can't take back The laws of Purgatory Are written on your pillowcase It's the windows rattling It's no one in your embrace I know your story I won't tell anyone I'll keep you free of harm I know I'm a little shallow Always a new dance theme For the Memorial Disco Band No one wants the things you see No one wants to understand I know your story I won't tell anyone I'll keep you free of harm It's 'cause I'm a little shallow Gabriel lost his trumpet Embarrassed to be seen to feel So you bury yourself You bury yourself busy standing still I'll keep you free of harm I know I'm a little shallow But I don't know what else to do with my arms |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
Life is short in the laughing gallery
A secret handshake gets you ice cream and a key To a brand new car that only drives into walls Sugarcoat their eyes All they want Is your silence Breathe in helium Throw away the key Dissolve in the air Never free In the Mile High City All that's good is the air A moon that follows Any road out of there Gunslingers and John Denver They only make me sad Anyway I always thought The Wild West was a drag Like your silence Like your silence Like your silence Breathe in helium Lost to the day A sense of the future fades away There's a cotton thread all wound into a ball Don't try and talk, caught in mid-fall Your eyes are firecrackers, hopeless for tomorrow Your clothes were made for dolls You're clothed in sorrow like your silence Breathe in helium You're lighter than air A sense of the future that disappears |
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You can write about it
You can feel it flow through your heart You can wish for it with all your might Oh, but then it really happens All I know is I can't stay at home I stay out all night At least 'til closing time He stares at my window Stares all night long Like he would drink the last drop From my reflection I only trust their indifference I only trust a touch that slides off of me I only trust a short-term rental and a long walk home Another drip lost in the Milky Way You butcher You tailor Did your sad mothers name you? You came out of nowhere And that's what defines you Your entertainment value Like a plastic dinosaur The truth matters more Than what you did or who you are You can dream about it You can wish for it with all your might But then you hear its song beat against your window And then it really happens All I know is I can't stay at home I stay out all night At least 'til closing time He stares at my window Stares all night long Like he would answer all my questions |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
Time doesn't have any
Exit signs just lights That string you along The vacancy you're forced to fill Is only going to prove Only going to prove that You were wrong And you're forced to listen You're forced to listen That you have nothing left In your life, you had it You threw away your life Throw it to me Don't ever trust their projection Just gonna lead you nowhere Just gonna lead you into marking time They say you should embrace the danger So cross the street into the traffic You know you'll be okay Just let 'em go on by You're stuck with me, yeah You're stuck with me I'm hanging by A road that only leads you Leads you under mine Gives you no chance to breathe They threw you in the deep end And they left you floating Stood on the sidelines and laughed At your place in life Now you can't do the dog paddle And it's humiliating Guessing games and calling names Undermined by love and life Scattered sun and terror Doesn't make it any clearer You can't say return to sender In your life I live in your life And that's all that saves me |
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Lower Eastside tourist, out of your depth
Seem to need alcohol more than you need breath Drinking on the company, phony smile confusion Bone and blood illusion, where to go Happy you can't focus, no love at all Alcohol and exhaustion Hunger and revulsion What's beyond human? What's beyond moving? People come and people go Slip through your fingers Can't stop the flow Lower Eastside tourist: the trash you throw away Think someone will save you or stand in your way or watch your decay Turn into hunted prey or a dumb cliche People come and people go Drop in the ocean, drown in the flow Slam the door behind you Vaporizers, tranquilizers Leave your toys behind you For the light-house or for the blind spot Slam the door behind you and wear a blindfold, so you can't see yourself disappear People come and people go Decks loaded, watching the overflow People come and people go Drop in the ocean, drown in the flow |
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Once I knew come when I was three
saw the sun spilled across my house Heard it try and speak to me like a cat talks to a mouse There is a song in the next room I can't quite hear and only three inches of wall separates me from my fear In the next room just beyond the wall are shelves filled with cheap plaster dolls who gave up speech, but if they could talk would say, “Come in this room, throw your bodies away.” There is a song in the next room we can't quite hear and only three inches of wall separates us from our fear Like dead leaves that huddle high from the wind, we flash by and speed high and thin skinned Hear the bows bend, hear the cellos play Come in this room, throw your body away There is a song in the next room we can't quite hear and only three inches of wall separates me from my fear There is a love in the next room I can't quite hear and only three inches of wall separates me from my fear |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
I hear a low chord play inside me, a sustained note holding
Like the equation inside fire, I'm feeling inhuman I stand and watch the roller coaster like a rope unwinding They say you should embrace the danger, you get used to falling. I'm gonna move myself ahead and I don't know how A low chord plays inside me like an electric motor Watch the ride, hear the screams from the beautiful roller coaster See the ants all make these patterns and I want to wipe them out I know you would do the same for me if you ever found me out I'm gonna move myself ahead and I don't know how No one else hears that melody of sink or swim or come in between A low chord plays inside me, a sustained note holding Like the equation inside fire, I'm feeling a little inhuman I stand and watch the roller coaster, a rope that's unwinding I can't get used to the danger, I can't get used to falling A low chord plays inside me like an electric motor Watch the ride, hear the screams from the beautiful roller coaster I'm gonna move myself ahead and I don't know how I'm gonna move myself ahead but I don't know how |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
Old photographs
Black and white convictions I remember the way you were facing this restriction Old pieces of paper Memories to fight over Self-interest and loss There's nothing to remember We tried to look back We never told your family Nothing to keep back We lived up to your memory Sayonara, old Singapore Dancing women in barrooms, probably not around anymore Tattoos of sinking ships Silver, long bruised black Some old photographs Fixing history won't get it back Never told anyone We never told the family We tried to live up, to live up to your memory I don't believe in anything I ever said or did The pain you kept buried Life you kept hid I live up to nothing There's nothing to live up to Just a rage that's buried and a silence to live through We never told anyone We never told a soul Never saw you get free We lived up to your memory We lived up to your memory I don't believe in anything I ever said or did |
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from Mark Eitzel - West (1997)
On the freeway
The traffic fixed in front of me Like a still-life I don't want to survive I can't stay in between the lines With my hands held just so I watch the sky and a silent race As fast as you can go I forgot there was such a thing As good people left Can't you just save my life? I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time A quote from the architect That designed the slums Said, “Beauty just don't matter It's a function of form” I said, “Yes, you're right, you're right You must be right Your truth is part of a bigger lie That sews our lives up tight.” And I forgot there was such a thing As good people left Can't you just save my life? I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time Set me up For my last breath I watch you wave your hands over a top hat Boring me to death I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time I got a fresh screwdriver So what if I'm dying? I got a fresh screwdriver Right before closing time |
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When the truth is all you have
You live a sham of rain and rust Truth is a shine in your eye No one cares No one cares if I live or die Only expect time to run out A question mark - demand no more It's enough just to catch your eye No one cares No one cares if I live or die Not even murder is so cold What makes me always turn away? I gotta find a different alibi No one cares No one cares if I live or die There's no such thing as the truth Only wall that chains and locks And questions that have no reply |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
With the music of life, my soul is out of tune,
And I feel like I'm growing old much too soon, My love for you, I just couldn't convey, And the keys to my happiness, I let slip away. Now I'm a man without a dream, I've got a heart that has no hope, All my senses are numb, Losing you, I've become, A man (I'm just a man) without a dream. Instead of striving to reach my goals and my aims I got distracted with meaningless games, For just an illusion, I traded love that was real, Now my eyes cannot see and my heart cannot feel. Now I'm a man without a dream, I've got a heart that has no hope, All my senses are numb, Losing you, I've become, A man (I'm just a man) without a dream. Sometimes I think I'm a prisoner of fate, Doomed to find out things a little too late, And so I must play this broken man's role, Unless you come home, girl, and bring back my soul. 'Cause I'm a man without a dream, I've got a heart that has no hope, All my senses are numb, Losing you, I've become, A man (I'm just a man) without a dream, Without a dream, Without a dream. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By GOFFIN, GERRY/KING, CAROLE <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing</i> |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Now I'm out walking
On Saturday morning Without a direction I'm a dime a dozen A worthless tourist A walking target With his eyes stuck On glue and paper No roof to crawl under But with a heart full of rain A heart full of rain Full as the clouds My throwaway map Should throw me away And where does it take me Streets long since flooded Raindrops and heartbeats Though Noah doesn't want me You won't let me drown I don't need to see you I just need to feel you When we make love Feel you in the dark Feel you in the future When we make love Up in heaven Do we make 'em burn up? Or do they ignore us? Bigger fish to fry Waiting with the others At the Sacre-Cœur Many different colors From all over the world Here in the City of Love No one wants me here But I remember The sweet things we did together When we made love Saturday morning Waiting with the others Listening to Messiaen Waiting in the dark At the Sacre-Cœur The future doesn't matter Nothing lasts but the dark Where we feel love Track me down and I'll give you My pomegranate heart My throwaway heart Track me down and stop me I'm ripe enough for the terror That lies at the center of my heart's desire I'm always alone I'm always alone I'm always alone I'm always alone And I don't want to be Always alone |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
There are pools across the tidal plain
That look like white sheets draped across The vacuum beyond our conversation The thread of our lives unraveling Always turning away Away Away The tide makes all our decisions for us It breathes just like a pearl accordion The water softly inches for your eyes Kisses the soft skin under your disguise Always turning away Away Away Always facing away Away Away Under the sun we flood across the shallows And lay on our backs Gleaming like liquid pearls The wind and the light Give us up a show of hands Gives us to any justice that'll have us Always turning away Away Away Always facing away Away Away |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Your warm embraces thrill me
in your arms I fall like a star rain or shine come what may in your arms the cold seems far away And there's no safety in this world I have no time for good luck charms but I still long for your touch 'cause I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved in your arms An empty heart is like an empty house filled with old ghosts and little else and secrets that everyone but me knows that without love nothing grows And there's no safety in this world I have no time for good luck charms but I still long for your touch 'cause I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved in your arms in your arms I don't think about consequences I only know what my heart senses and it pulls me like an arrow straight to you love it pulls me to what is true love And there's no safety in this world I have no time for good luck charms but I still long for your touch 'cause I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved I know I'm saved in your arms in your arms in your arms |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
The people I was with said you were
Nothing but a fag hag and a dope fiend But the song of your eyes Was of the loneliest woman I've ever seen We talked drunkenly at the bar I thought there's a sweetness here The world is missing You just got fired and now you're out High and drunk and celebrating Cleopatra Jones If they don't see you then they're blind Cleopatra Jones Liquor and love and everything that's kind Always kind to strangers But you know enough never to look back You never know if they're about to Pour salt in the knife wound on your back People in this bar are all smiles But that doesn't mean they'll give you The air you need to breathe When the show's over They'll take a big part of you When they decide to leave Cleopatra Jones She can kung fu just like Hercules Cleopatra Jones Leaves evil men on their knees Cleopatra only answers to a higher source from above A sensitivity to bright light And an unfounded belief in love And a soul a little bigger A little bigger than politeness can endure Lighter than air and harder to hold And much much bluer Much bluer Cleopatra Jones Is in exile with a lot of class Cleopatra Jones Teach me how to kick a little ass Cleopatra Jones Scales of justice under her head wrap Cleopatra Jones Crown of thorns, wears it like a nightcap |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
When my plane finally goes down
I hope it falls into the sea And then the freezing clean water it will Wash away whatever's left of me These sweet breezes blowing here Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, USA Could dissolve the tissue paper around my heart Spring the trap door and watch it fall away And your love is all I have to take with me And your love is all I'll have to take with me When my plane finally goes down I hope it falls into the sea And then the cold and the hard love of the tides Finally make sense to me And your love is all I'll have to take with me And your love is all I'll have to take with me And your love and your love |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Let’s have a drink at the Mission Rock
Watch the Oakland lights Across the dry dock Watch the blue, blue sky Darken like an inhalation Over the graveyard of ships And your conversation It’s sad when you try and manipulate me It’s sad ’cause I don’t love you that way anymore You’re worried if you remembered to use bleach on a needle Well so what So what So what So what So we sit and watch the planes take off from Oakland and circle gracefully In a sky so royal and blue They flash their lights like a jewel In some pretentious crown Then vanish forever Hey, how’s your Margarita? You won’t be around very much longer And all talk is useless It only makes us seem clever While nothing changes While nothing changes Nothing changes Nothing changes Not ever If I could talk it out of you I would If I could beat it out of you I would But all I can do is Is follow stupidly behind And watch you walk To the ocean in your mind And there’s always more Always more ties you could sever And nothing changes While nothing changes While nothing changes And nothing changes Not ever |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Inside he's empty
A head filled with shopping lists and politics And a hollow eggshell kind of frailty Pulling himself back together like desperate wishes Into the wild sea that moans and boils Filled with old ghosts and a whole other language Uncoiling forever Indecent and foreign Welcome to the laws of decay The song of Darwin and dismay The wild sea rises higher Heavier it rushes down on him It was invited, it was not unwelcome His fear was just a 60 watt silver lining Shining from the edges of his crying Teaching him its frozen prayers Distant as the next second Far as any distant land's future on the horizon He's laughing in the ocean Laughing in the ocean Laughing in the ocean All his life was a gesture A check paid in dirty dishes Listen to the sea wind, hear how it hisses As it rolls over all your vain petty wishes And your sweet passionate kisses The wild, wild sea Forever dumb, it has no memory Just a replay of your complicated amnesty As it rolls over rocks and weed breaking your birdcage And your poet's pages And all your drowned words That were just death threats and unpaid debts And leaves you breathless and peaceful for a while And you think your heart is without hate for a while And you think your soul is without hate for a while And your body was an animal that loved to hide See the source of your heart buried deep in the tide See the source of your heart singing from the tide Lonely joy Lonely joy Tears of joy The source of your heart deep in the undertow Hidden tongues and hidden hands pulling you from below To the source of your pain The source of your pain in the undertow |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Is the pain they caused you
your final destination it’s just going to make you hate your own reflection you try and endure it but you know you gotta give in tell me why such a cheap thing always hides the real thing My love, though all you had was stolen, tell me will your heart always be broken The little hero who threw away your life feeling hate and being proven right always looks into mirrors trying to see bullets instead of eyes sees a handsome devil who’s the spirit of the skies Relax my love it’s just the gates of hell swinging open I hope your heart won’t always be broken Hate seems like the sun in the heavens and there’s nowhere to run, no way to get even Just hide in the shadow of your own making and hold your head high, even if you’re faking The goal I guess is to be like glass transparent to anyone looking through but our lives aren’t like that and once the glass is broken you do the best you can do Relax my love though this time the world wasn’t joking I hope your heart won’t always be broken I hope your heart won’t always be broken I hope your heart won’t always be broken Broken Will your heart always be broken always be broken Always be broken always always |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
Spec's almost drowned off the coast of California
And started this museum To help the shipwrecked remember They grow quiet The sea grows colder Drinking the night away Burn bridges grow older Kent worked at Spec's since 1970 Right after Haight Street finally choked on its own vomit An impartial smile made him a gentleman Some bartenders have the gift of pardon A bar has a longer history than a country What keeps the moon chained Are ridiculous acts of faith And after a couple of drinks Visionary eyes all burn The drunks seem saint-like In their disillusion Kent always knew the serious nature of a smile Knew the serious nature of the job he was given Never told himself there's only so much a man could take on Some bartenders have the gift of pardon With the same old tape wearing out in the background Billie Holiday “Solitude” Or some sad old Irish folk songs You're not promised the moon Or lied to by its distractions You enter the world alone And that's the first and the last thing It seems one night he was having a hard time falling asleep And found himself in an accidental shipwreck Dreaming he's still at the bar counting sheep The cold ocean threw its chains around his neck Never have to worry about counterfeits at 2 a.m. 'Cause that's all there is 'Cause that's all there is Just some old poets drinking The last nightmare in And the comfort of the dark And being forgotten Some bartenders have the gift of pardon Some bartenders have the gift of pardon |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
This summer the sun was a shotgun pointed down at me
And I was just another ugly American melting in the heat Watching the stagnant ocean breathe painfully It only wants to drag you down by your feet No one swimming in the water No sharks, no eels, no little life boats Just a history lesson and some two bit Victorian ghosts Who do a turn at the pirate ship singing, “It's A Small World After All” Either you laugh at it, baby Or you hit a brick wall You said to me “You're from California and you laugh too easily” You said to me “You just let things happen that are killing me” We're like whitefish beached all day on hot parking lots Waiting for the summer parade to sadly drift by Melancholy floats filled with suicides and drooping paper flowers A defeated army and no wind to blow away the smell of surrender There was '50s nostalgia and horrifying Flintstone characters Living memorials to wasted days and wasted bitter nights And everyone on the promenade participates in your silence Cause I'm always wrong, baby, and you're always right You said to me “You're from California and you're as dumb as can be” You said to me “Are you the Scarecrow, the Tin Man or are you Dorothy” You said to me “I'm beginning to think that you're a part of the enemy” You said to me “If I was drowning would you save me from Southend-on-Sea” From Southend-on-Sea There was a chamber of horrors and it was packed with onlookers Wax figured day trippers being tortured Worse than their crimes deserved And there I was in a stranglehold spinning out from your nightmare And my life with you was a black cloud hanging in the air And you said to me “You're from California and you lie too easily” You said to me “Did you really think that this was going to set my heart free” You said to me “I'm beginning to think that you're a part of the enemy” Part of the enemy You said to me, “If I was drowning would you save me from Southend-on-Sea” From Southend-on-Sea |
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from Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining (2006)
The thinnest rope won't hang you
It'll break and you'll be Just another pen stroke For the sunset Or the dawn Or the dawn A little girl child of x or y Who doesn't speak Who doesn't know at least at the right time And that's all anybody wants Not angel wings Not invisible things And everything's beautiful But babe not you or me Like a tower ready to fall Spinning over the ground Like the gorilla ride There's moments and minutes There's seasons and there's dreams Glued onto dreams And everything's beautiful But babe not you or me And everything's beautiful But babe not you or me You're the girl in the paperweight I barely know you You're so quiet Is there nothing In this weird perspective That'll let me breathe in The smell of Eden In your eternally open eyes I barely see you I barely see you And everything's beautiful But babe not you or me Yeah everything's beautiful But babe not you or me I barely see you I barely see you I barely see you And everything's beautiful But babe not you or me |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
He’s always giving you free advice
On ways you can avoid telling him no The game of survival Some play it far too well So much hate to make So much room in hell And when he tells you you’re lucky You can’t tell its a lie You’re a figment of his vanity You’re a glint in his eye Even when he hurts you Well it all seems okay His beauty is always beyond you And somehow always gets in the way You only have his rules to find justice with But babe they don’t include you They never did Evil wears a big smile Evil loves your mind Evil gets what it wants Evil leaves you behind Are you the trash It left behind Are you the trash It left behind Are you the trash It left behind Are you the trash It left behind |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Well, haven't you seen that big sign
Over on First and Seventh that says With words ten feet high and made of teeth "Oh reason not the need" and underneath Is a man doing an imitation of Satan But there is nothing evil in him He was just another saint that was made broken Next to an old doorway With a dark history of being left open Saint Nicholas Left your toys again behind at the bar A silver gun Aome dollar bills A lump of coal And wolves howling at your door A ceiling full of inflatable worlds And Xmas lights that spin all year round The question is always bigger than the answer It takes a nurse to ease you into your surrender As she smiles 'cause she knows you won't remember Things you should only be telling your mother As she counts you down, your drowned soul Tired and hard, defeated and getting mean And what's worse, the humiliations of a good time Or slipping into the routine Or for you is it All the same thing Saint Nicholas Left your toys again at the bar A silver gun Some dollar bills A lump of coal Wolves howling at your door Most people want to inhabit their lives Like ghosts and drift from room to room And brag about what imprisons them And wait for the sweep of a broom And written in the dust beneath your drink It says, “Deadness needs nothing to justify it” Like the ache that's crawling though your chest Needs nothing to amplify it For years you wore the crown Now the wolves are hunting you down And you're dead serious in your face You're dead serious now Want someone to see you Saint Nicholas The wolves all believe you Saint Nicholas The wolves all believe you |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
It's hot and it's humid but the rain won't fall
Thunder cracks but the rain is stuck And the wind blows cool And wet And smells like the flu And rests a cool hand on your forehead A comfort instead of a cure And the I-280 on-ramp lights turn on And I can feel the speed building Denial is what you bought So you'll never be caught The storm just hangs like it's dumb Unable or unwilling A little girl with a white rosary Calling to heaven to take her away From the trap that life turned out to be And from the trap she only wanted Jesus to see 'Cause you're damned by the things you don't see A touch that vanity undermines A strength lost in the flicker of disbelief A poem that can't contain its awful rhymes In shadow like a thief And now I walk careful And quiet Wherever I go The secret business of a spy So no one will ever see or know A little girl with a white rosary Calling to heaven to take her away From the trap that life turned out to be From the trap she only wanted Jesus to see She was damned by the things she couldn't see |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Playground by a cliff long drop to the sea
A little space ride spins you around and around I told you to stop but you wouldn't stop for me Eyes never leave the ground Never leave the ground Hate and pain turn us into familiar shadows Where you could be anyone and I could be anyone Do you stand with God's finest laughing in the gallows Abandoned in the wind and the sun If I had a gun I know what I would do I would seal my fate Seal my fate with you Little space ride begins to crap out and fall Through an atmosphere that's weak and unreal I told you to stop but you wouldn't stop for me Now I don't even try I don't even feel If I had a gun I know what I would do I would seal my fate Seal my fate with you Blind, deaf and mostly dumb Can't chase away and I can't outrun It doesn't matter how I seek my peace Nothing separates me from the beast If I had a gun If I had a gun If I had a gun I would give you Your freedom |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Seeing eye dog on the end of its leash
Says, "How can you live without trust" It said, "Love fades like all things do Into dust into dust" It's all been said and done The whos and the whats and the whys And I'm tired to the bone Of telling you goodbye A dowsing rod trembles over the underground stream Frozen water pouring through the dark Empties through the well that was my dream Loss of faith loss of heart It's all been said and done The whos and the whats and the whys And I'm tired to the bone Of always telling you goodbye So goodbye Goodbye The funny shoes The banana peel The bag of tricks Face down on a road off the map History like a smoke that blinds and sticks A fly caught in a fly trap It's all been said and done The whos and the whats and the whys And I'm tired to the bone Of always telling you goodbye So goodbye Goodbye Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye Goodbye Goodbye |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Lights flash in the half-filled night club
He stands alone with big soft eyes He’s brittle as Goodwill dishes Drained of blood drained of wishes He’s a solitary ghost under a clock He’s good only for leaving quarters behind He’s a gold mine in reverse Dripping water and an ancient curse Some of them are queens of prejudice and pride that dine on heroism Some of them are queens of the chaos inside and celebrate their indecision Raise a toast to being empty inside To the new queen of no one A shot and a beer for a buck Surreal visions when you run out of luck He’s the crocodile who swallowed the clock Waiting to make his soul come unstuck Some of them are queens of the ant farms and the ants In plain brown paper wrapping Well some of them are queens of beauty and truth Waiting for someone to help them Well raise a toast, long live the queen The new queen of no one New queen of no one All the unhappy drunks with their broken backs Sooner or later they hang up their hats But his life is like a cut that won’t bleed Leaving him high and dry and stupid with need Well some of them are queens of cowardice and luck And of soft sky blue distraction And some of them are queens of hopelessness and beauty And some are at least the queens of someone Well raise a toast, salute the queen The new queen of no one The new queen of no one The new queen of no one |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
It’s 2 in the afternoon
I’ve been here since 7 a.m. I’ve been hiding out on someone’s private property I know sooner or later the owner with his gun Is gonna discover me and say "Hey, what are you doing here alone In the cold light of day In the cold light of day What are you doing here alone In the cold light of day In the cold light of day In the cold light of day What are you doing here alone In the cold light of day" I tried to find the darkest part of the trees So I could be in an ocean five fathoms down This pine forest is abandoned and overgrown I’m not hurting nothing I’m just waiting around In the cold light of day In the cold light of day I’m just waiting around In the cold light of day In the cold light of day In the cold light of day I’m just waiting around In the cold light of day The sun is like poison it kills all my dreams Just like you kill me with your laughter I know fear is the one thing you understand Your kisses taste bitter You say you’re my future In the cold light of day in the cold light of day You say you’re my future In the cold light of day In the cold light of day In the cold light of day You say you’re my future In the cold light of day You say you’re my future You say you’re my future You say you’re my future You say you’re my future You say you’re my future You say you’re my future You say you’re my future |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
The butcher shop in the air
Is heavy with all the choice cuts The Columbus God of Hope Twists a knife in your guts And all we talk about Is how disappointed you are every day A blank face on a child Who can't reply to anything you say Go away Go away Go away The prison guards just try and sell me These little yellow pills They say they'll cover up the pain For a wound that never heals And all I got All I got was the last look You wore on your face And if I live to be a thousand That's one thing I'll never replace Go away Go away go away Go away go away I know you've got a plank to walk I know you've got a kite to fly And I'll do everything I can To help you say goodbye just wanted to fill your soul with light And free us both from the Ohio day My touch just makes you draw Farther and farther And farther away Go away Go away Go away go away Go away Go away Go away go away go away Go away go away |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Let the snake crawl around on your floor
You're not afraid of its tongue Or its tiny heart It lays curled up on the corner Watching Craig and Jose Hisses quietly to itself Doesn't have a thing good to say Like the fire's final spark Like predictable behavior The last drop in the battery Food that lost its flavor Blood inside like ground below Just growing colder No freedom in cowardice Poison fangs give no power The only love you'll ever grow Is to look beyond the things you know The things you know To crawl out of its hole A hired car and a 747 Wants to swallow the world whole Including hell including heaven Tiny eyes that strain to see The point behind all this gift giving Well, snakes may come and snakes may go Jose and Craig--well, they're still living The only love you'll ever grow Is to look beyond the things you know The only love you'll ever grow Is to look beyond the things you know The things you know The things you know |
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from Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap And I Can`T Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (2002)
Hands in pockets
Eyes screwed shut Let it all go Hands in pockets Eyes screwed shut Let it all go No address book You're lost in the sky You're lost in the sky Blue upon blue Green-eyed past The length of an arm Shiver and shake Blue upon blue Green-eyed past The length of an arm Swallow the speck You're lost in the sky You're lost in the sky Long endless tone Rope ties it up Delivers it home Long endless tone Rope ties it up Delivers it home Everywhere at once You're lost in the sky You're lost in the sky Seahorse little eye Seahorse little eye |
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from Mark Eitzel - Music for Courage and Confidence (2002)
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting For its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers That will bloom again in spring When I was young my heart was young then too Anything that it would tell me That's the thing that I would do But now I feel such emptiness within For the thing that I want most in life's The thing thing that I can't win Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day The one I love forever is untrue And if I could you know that I would Fly away with you The breeze along the river seems to say That he'll only break me heart again Should I decide to stay So little snowbird take me with you When you go To that land of gentle breezes Where the peaceful waters flow Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day The one I love forever is untrue And if I could you know that I would Fly away with you |
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from Mark Eitzel - Music for Courage and Confidence (2002)
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
It's not warm when she's away. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away. Wonder this time where she's gone, Wonder if she's gone to stay Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away. And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone, But ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness everyday. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away. Anytime she goes away. Anytime she goes away. Anytime she goes away. Anytime she goes away. |
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from Mark Eitzel - Music for Courage and Confidence (2002)
Give me time to realise my crime
let me love and steal. I have danced inside your eyes how can I be real. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry precious kisses words that burn me lovers never ask you why. in my heart the fire is burning choose my colour find a star precious people always tell me that's a step a step too far. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry. Words are few I have spoken I could waste a thousand years Wrapped in sorrow, words are token Come inside and catch my tears You've been talking but believe me If it's true you do not know This boy loves without a reason I'm prepared to let you go If it's love you want from me then take it away everything's not what you see it's over again. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry. Give me time to realise my crime let me love and steal. I have danced inside your eyes how can I be real. If it's love you want from me then take it again. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By O'DOWD, GEORGE/MOSS, JON/CRAIG, MICHAEL/HAY, ROY <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing</i> |
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from Mark Eitzel - Music for Courage and Confidence (2002)
Take the ribbon from your hair
Shake it loose and let it fall Layin' soft upon my skin Like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side Till the early mornin' light All I'm takin' is your time Help me make it through the night I don't care who's right or wrong I don't try to understand Let the devil take tomorrow Lord tonight I need a friend Yesterday is dead and gone And tomorrow's out of sight And it's sad to be alone |
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가슴네트워크 Review :: 2002-09-30
Subject : Mark Eitzel - The Invisible Man (Ales,2001)
