Matt Messina

'Cause he gets up in the morning,
and he goes to work at nine,
and he comes back home at five-thirty,
gets the same train every time.
'Cause his world is built 'round punctuality,
it never fails.

And he's oh, so good,
and he's oh, so fine,
and he's oh, so healthy,
in his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
doing the best things so conservatively.

And his mother goes to meetings,
while his father pulls the maid,
and she stirs the tea with councilors,
while discussing foreign trade,
and she passes looks, as well as bills
at every suave young man.

And he's oh, so good,
and he's oh, so fine,
and he's oh, so healthy,
in his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
doing the best things so conservatively.

And he likes his own backyard,
and he likes his fags the best,
'cause he's better than the rest,
and his own sweat smells the best,
and he hopes to grab his father's loot
when Pater passes on.

And he's oh, so good,
and he's oh, so fine,
and he's oh, so healthy,
in his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
doing the best things so conservatively.

And he plays at stocks and shares,
and he goes to the Regatta,
and he adores the girl next door,
'cause he's dying to get at her,
but his mother knows the best about
the matrimonial stakes.

And he's oh, so good,
and he's oh, so fine,
and he's oh, so healthy,
in his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
doing the best things so conservatively.

I took the Polaroid down in my room I'm pretty sure you have a new girlfriend it's not as if I don't like you it just makes me sad whenever I see it cuz I like to be gone most of the time and you like to be home most of the time if I stay in one place I lose my mind I'm a pretty impossible lady to be with Joey never met a bike that he didn't wanna ride and I never met a Toby that I didn't like Scotty liked all of the books that I recommended even if he didn't I wouldn't be offended I had a dream that had to drive to Madison to deliver a painting for some silly reason I took a wrong turn and ended up in Michigan Paul Baribeau took me to the giant tire swing gave me a push and he started singing I sang along while I was swinging the sound of our voices made us forget everything that had ever hurt our feelings Joey never met a bike that he didn't wanna ride and I never met a Toby that I didn't like Scotty liked all of the books that I recommended even if he didn't I wouldn't be offended wouldn't be offended now I'm home for less than twenty-four hours that's hardly time to take a shower hug my family and take your picture off the wall check my email write a song and make a few phone calls before it's time to leave again I've got one hand on the steering wheel one waving out the window if I'm a spinster for the rest of my life my arms will keep me warm on cold and lonely nights Joey never met a bike that he didn't wanna ride and I never met a Toby that I didn't like Scotty liked all of the books that I recommended even if he didn't I wouldn't be offended........ wouldnt be offended....... even if he didnt i wouldnt be offended

Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest ending of a book you ever had to read
The statue’s crying too and well he may
I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the wider family net absurd
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”
Maybe, but not what she deserves
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects
his speed he’s praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour
Meet you at the statue in an hour

loose lips might sink ships but loose gooses take trips to san francisco, double dutch disco, tech tv hottie, do it for scotty do it for the living and do it for the dead do it for the monsters under your bed do it for the teenagers and do it for your mom broken hearts hurt but they make us strong and we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we're just dancing, we're just hugging, singing, screaming, kissing, tugging on the sleeve of how it used to be how's it gonna be? i'll drop kick russell stover, move into the starting over house and know matt rouse and jest are watching me achieve my dreams and we'll pray, all damn day, every day, that all this shit our president has got us in will go away while we strive to figure out a way we can survive these trying times without losing our minds so if you wanna burn yourself remember that I LOVE YOU and if you wanna cut yourself remember that I LOVE YOU and if you wanna kill yourself remember that I LOVE YOU call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead send me an IM, i'll be your friend shysters live from scheme to scheme and my 4th quarter pipe dreams are seeming more and more worth fighting for so i'll curate some situations, make my job a big vacation and i'll say F*CK BUSH AND F*CK THIS WAR my war paint is sharpie ink and i'll show you how much my shit stinks and ask you what you think because your thoughts and words are powerful they think we're disposable, well both my thumbs opposable are spelled out on a double word and triple letter score we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we won't stop until somebody calls the cops and even then we'll start again and just pretend that nothing ever happened we're just dancing, we're just hugging, singing, screaming, kissing, tugging on the sleeve of how it used to be

Long ago and oh, so far away I fell in love with you before the second show Your guitar it sounds so sweet and clear But you`re not really here, it`s just the radio Don`t you remember you told me you loved me, baby? You said you`d be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby I love you, I really do Loneliness is such a sad affair And i can hadly wait to be with you again What to say to make you come again? Come back to me again and play your sad guitar Don`t you remember you told me you loved me, baby? You said you`d be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby i love you I really do Don`t you remember you told me you loved me, baby? You said you`d be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby i love you I really do

Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide,
how he'd kick it in the head when he was twenty-five,
speed jive, don't want to stay alive
when you're twenty-five.
and Freddie's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face,
And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks
funky little boat race.
The television man is crazy saying we're juvenile deliquent wrecks,
oh man, I need TV when I got T Rex
oh brother you guessed
All the young dudes (Hey dudes!),
carry the news (Where are ya?),
I'm a dude dad.
boogaloo dudes (Stand up, come on!),
All the young dudes (I want to hear you.),
carry the news.
carry the news (I want to see you.),
boogaloo dudes (I want to talk to you - all of you.),
carry the news.

Now Lucy looks sweet cause he dresses like a queen
but he can kick like a mule - it's a real mean team
but we can love, oh yes - we can love.
And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones,
we never got it off on that revolution stuff,
what a drag - too many snags.
Now I've drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine,
I've got to race some cat to bed,
is that concrete all around,
or is it in my head, yeah,
All the young dudes (Hey dudes!),
I'm a dude dad.
carry the news (Where are ya?),
All the young dudes (I want to hear ya.),
boogaloo dudes (Stand up!),
Carry the news
carry the news (I want to see you.),
boogaloo dudes (I want to relate to you.),
carry the news.
carry the news (Let's hear the news - come on!),
All the young dudes (C'mon dudes!),
boogaloo dudes (I want to kick you),
carry the news.
carry the news (I want you.),
All the young dudes (Hey you there - you with the glasses!),
carry the news (Are you all his friends?).
boogaloo dudes (I want you in the front!),
All the young dudes (Will you bring him down, 'cause I want him!),
carry the news
carry the news (There you go!).
boogaloo dudes (I want him right here, bring him come on - bring him!),
boogaloo dudes (How do you feel?),
All the young dudes (I've wanted to do this for years!),
carry the news (Sick!).carry the news (There you go!),

I was quiet as a mouse when i snuck into your house and took roofies with your spouse in a nit and out a louse and lice are lousy all the time they suck your blood drink your wine say shut up and quit your crying give it time and you'll be fine you're so nice and you're so smart you're such a good friend i hafta break your heart tell you that i love you then i'll tear your world apart just pretend i didn't tear your world apart i like boys with strong convictions and convicts with perfect diction underdogs with good intentions amputees with stamp collections plywood skinboards ride the ocean salty noses suntan lotion always seriously joking and rambunctiously soft-spoken i like boys that like their mothers and i have a thing for brothers but they always wait til we're under the covers to say i'm sure glad we're not lovers you're so nice and you're so smart you're such a good friend i hafta break your heart tell you that i love you then i'll tear your world apart just pretend i didn't tear your world apart i like my new bunnysuit i like my new bunnysuit i like my new bunnysuit when i wear it i feel cute

I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

You held up a stagecoach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
So you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me

I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

There're people going into the stratosphere
Soldiers fighting with the Cong
But with you by my side I can do anything
When we swing, babe, we hang past right and wrong

I'll do anything for you
Anything you want me too
I'll do anything for you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you

Kimya: You're a part time lover and a full time friend The monkey on you're back is the latest trend Adam: I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Adam: I kiss you on the brain in the shadow of a train I kiss you all starry eyed, my body's swinging from side to side I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Kimya: Here is the church and here is the steeple We sure are cute for two ugly people I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Adam: The pebbles forgive me, the trees forgive me So why can't, you forgive me? I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Kimya: I will find my nitch in your car With my mp3 DVD rumple-packed guitar I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Both: Du du du du du du dudu Du du du du du du dudu Du du du du du du dudu du Kimya: Up up down down left right left right B A start Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Adam: You are always trying to keep it real I'm in love with how you feel I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Kimya: We both have shiny happy fits of rage You want more fans, I want more stage I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Adam: Don Quixote was a steel driving man. My name is Adam I'm your biggest fan I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Kimya: Squinched up your face and did a dance You shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you Both: Du du du du du du dudu Du du du du du du dudu Du du du du du du dudu du But you

Come with me
My love
To the sea
The sea of love

I wanna tell you
how much
I love you

Do you remember
When we met
Thats the day
I knew you were mine

I wanna tell you
How much
I love you

Come with me
My love
To the sea
The sea of you

I wanna tell you
How much
I love you