I'm lost in my head, been thinking all around
I've gotta find the off ramp to my heart.
Stop lights in a row, when all I want is go
Drop it into first and I'll get home.
Its ok I'm alright
I'm just a little rough around the edges of this life.
Play it cool, you can always follow
Bread crumbs in a line when you are lost.
Little little seeds grew into troubled trees
A sorry sorry sight between my ears.
I need to settle down and eat my troubled fruit
The sweetness of the taste will do me good.
Its ok I'm alright
I'm just a little rough around the edges of this life.
Play it cool you can always follow
Bread crumbs in a line when you are lost.
Well the corners of my frown have slowly turned around
No more upside down, no more upside down.
They've slowly turned around, they've slowly slowly turned around
Its ok I'm alright
I'm just a little rough around the edges of this life.
Play it cool you can always follow
There was a party last night, last night
Cigarettes and empty bottles, empty bottles
Better open up this window, this window
Need some air to clear my head, clear my head
Alone in these strange beds
I think that I've travelled enough
Poetry and aeroplanes
I am tired of waiting for love
Tend to fall asleep in the fast lane, in the fast lane
Sometimes sinking low in the high life, in the high life
No more happy songs of heartbreak, oh' heartbreak
Or playing white knight misunderstood, misunderstood
Alone in these strange streets
I think that I've walked them enough
Poetry and Aeroplanes
I am tired of waiting for love
Another night I lie awake
In woken dreams of faith and fate
Hope my love don't come too late
Hope my love don't come too late
Alone in these strange beds
I think that I've travelled enough
Poetry and Aeroplanes
Can you say goodbye without ever leaving?
That€™s some sad soul to keep
Amanda awakes in a moment believing
She€™s better off staying asleep
So she drives by the station
Imagining somewhere
Sings a slow, slow song
Now she€™s waiting at the stoplights
With nowhere to go
In our town there€™s just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There€™s a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere Amanda€™s Dream
She sits late at night by the light of a candle
With wishes that never come true
Her hopes get so high they€™re too hard to handle
She stares as they fade out of view
All of these somewheres have lead her to nowhere
Except a slow, slow song
Now she€™s waiting at the stoplights
With nowhere to go
In our town there€™s just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There€™s a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere Amanda€™s Dream
She sleeps like a girl and she wakes like a woman
Waiting at the stoplights
With nowhere to go
In our town there€™s just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There€™s a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere Amanda€™s Dream
There's too much sky, not enough blue
There's too many questions to why I love you
There's too many clouds, not enough sun
The rain must fall on everyone
I'm fire-you're the ocean
I'm energy-you're the rhythm
Love is somewhere in between
What you believe and what you dream
I'm just trying to make you mine
You're the ocean
There's too much doubt and not enough dare
There's too much decision everywhere
There's too much decision everywhere
There's too much talk and not enough time
Let's close our eyes and not our minds
I'm fire-you're the ocean
I'm energy-you're the rhythm
Love is somewhere in between
What you believe and what you dream
I'm just trying to make you mine
You look for leads, I follow clues
You love to win, I dare to lose
Mostly you're a mind game in my head
You are earth, I am water
I can give you what you're after
You can be the word:I can be the rhyme:
There's really nothing you can do
You're going where I'm going too
Stay beside me, stay beside me
I want you
I'm fire-you're the ocean
I'm energy-you're the rhythm
Love is somewhere in between
What you believe and what you dream
I'm just trying to make you mine
It's five miles till I see my lover
I guess you could say that she's more than that
I've been sat in this seat now for hours
Reading my book like a map
Yeah these windows are crying
And this train is dying
To meet you
This train is filled with emotions
They all make me think about you
When we pass these old desert stations
I want to go there with you
It's four miles and counting
And my hands are shouting to meet you
To meet you is fine
For i know you're all mine
Waiting is nice, i can think of her eyes
These tracks can lead
Just to one place
And your face
That i kiss and embrace when I meet you
I'm wondering if you will ever come with me
And we can play husband and wife
We could waltz around this globe and its mystery
Then rest till the end of our lives
Yeah its 2 miles and closing
And i'm overdosing on you
Dah da doo....to meet you
Dah da doo...to meet you
Yeah these windows are crying
Can I call you if I'm back in town?
Leave a message when I'm southbound?
Could I please, could I please?
Won't be long till I'll be passing through,
Maybe three days, maybe two.
Could I see you one more time, if its ok if you don't mind?
I'm the shade of a shadow, baby.
Been thinkin' bout you tonight, how sweetly you bring light.
You're the ray of the sun, and I'm the shade of a shadow.
Of all the letters I never sent and all the time we haven't spent,
Could I please, could I please?
You always said I play games I know I'd lose,
You always said that's the life I'd choose.
Could I see you one more time if it's ok if you don't mind?
I'm the shade of a shadow, baby.
Been thinkin bout you tonight, how sweetly you bring light.
You're the ray of the sun, I'm the shade of a shadow.
Can I call you if I'm back in town?
Leave a message when I'm southbound?
Could I please, could I please?
I've been wishing on a star but I never could have imagined
I would land just where you are after all this lonesome travelling
Took one look in your eye, reached out to hold your hand
This is when I realized what I could never understand
Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to be my one and only love?
So you wanna be my friend, so you wanna be my lover
With you I do confess I can't be one without the other
That was hard for me to say, I hope I said it right
Which ever, come what may, you see I need to know tonight
Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to play these cards, do you want to lay them down?
Do you want to run away or do you want to stick around?
Do you want to be my one and only love?
Look out my favorite window
Eyes on the beautiful rainbow
Almost painted on the glass
All the colors of the past
Every day on the 1455
Dreaming in two hour drives
Sitting on the ferry
Myself is all I carry
Familiar announcements
People waiting on the pavement
Every day on the 1455
Dreaming in two hour drives
Now where?s your love?
Where?s your heart?
And where's your destination?
Dreaming in two hour drives
I cruise into my scene
This roundabout routine
Like a thousand times before
I've been wanting nothing more
Now where's your smile?
And where's your love?
And where's your destination?
Dreaming in two hour drives
Got my perfect view
And papers to run through
Just the daily do and such
I'm not asking all that much
Every day on the 1455
Who is to say who wins or who loses?
I sing to myself at the end of the day
When I know what the blues is
All my mistakes have become masterpieces
I was born in the goodness of grace
Because of faith, because of courage
Because of forgiveness
All my mistakes have become masterpieces
There comes a time
You must stay in the moment while your heart's still bleedin'
There comes a time
When you must walk away though your heart's still beatin'
There comes a time
You must stay in the moment while your heart's still bleedin'
There comes a time
When you must walk away though your heart's still beatin'
Who is to say who wins or who loses?
I sing to myself at the end of the day
When I know what the blues is
All my mistakes have become masterpieces
I've been haunted by this old ghost before
I want to hear your voice you know it's been so long
Like a dancing wave you balance on the shore
It would feel so good to see your face again
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on
We both understand we've got no way back
Our love was strange in a strange land
We got broken wings we were bound to fall
Until the sun comes up you can hold my hand
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on
Take it easy, take it slow
Let's just watch the tides they grow
The wind is coming from the side
We are sleeping in the light
Feel like waking up in your house some day
Or eating of your hand like a bird astray
But nothing's gonna change, we'll still be the same
We've said what's to say, nothing's buried nowhere
I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
Our minds run in circles
Racing around the resturant
They are searching for what more to say
To say what we realy want
Lets leave it like it is
And stop stearing at theese walls
Lets not go headlong to that distance
Where you cant come back at all
Lets go dancing
Waltz around the rumor mill
In your faded dress with daphodills
Lets go dancing,
Let time stand still
Once your name was but a wisper
A simple wish upon that tongue
And staring at your shadow is like staring at the sun
And in this dark dark hour, you still illuminate a room.
Oh God give the power, we got to keep ourselves in tune
Lets go dancing,
Waltz around the rumor mill
In your faded dress with daphodills
Lets go dancing,
Dreamt I was back with the pirates and cats of my sommerville
The girl in the alphabet shirt covered in dirt lives on the hill
Well, my sweet Josephine,
Are you still racing stray dogs
Across the old stream?
My neighborhood queen,
Are you still kissing cowboys that cry, Josephine?
She stole, my grandmother's watch, a treasure to touch
To keep time to herself
Her mind, was a very big house, we got lost there for hours
Until August fell.
Well, my sweet Josephine
Are you still racing stray dogs
Across the old stream?
My neighborhood queen,
Are you still kissing cowboys that cry, Josephine?
You say you're alright, but Josie it's time
You gotta get your feet on the ground
But she says: "No, don't you see we have wings?
It's the funniest thing, it's just that no one knows."
No one knows, sweet Josephine...
Well, my sweet Josephine
Are you still racing stray dogs
Across the old stream?
My neighborhood queen,
Are you still kissing cowboys that cry, Josephine?
My neighborhood queen,
I was just thinking that I have been missing you for way too long
There's something inside this weary head that wants us to love just instead
But I was just thinking, merely thinking
I've got loads of pictures
I've got the one of you in that dancing dress
But man I feel silly in that dim light
Just after doing you by the sight of My Kodak delights
I am sinking, merely sinking
I think about long distance rates instead of kissing you babe
I'm a singer without a song
If I wait for you longer my affection is stronger I,
I was just thinking, merely thinking
This boat is sinking
I'm tired of postcards, especially the ones with cute dogs and cupids
I'm tired of calling you, missing you, dreaming I've slept with you
Don't get me wrong I still desperately love you
Inside this weary head I just want us to love instead
But I was just thinking and thinking, merely thinking
I think about long distance rates instead of kissing you babe
And time is running me still
If I wait for you longer my affection is stronger
I was just thinking - I was just thinking
That I'm tired of calling you once a week
And thinking of long distance rates instead of kissing you
Can you say goodbye, without ever leaving?
That's some sad soul to keep
Amanda awakes in a moment believing
She's better off staying asleep
So she drives by the station
Imaginin' somewhere
Sings a slow slow song
Now she's waiting at the stoplights
With no where to go
But in our town there's just one stoplight
Oh I wish she would know
There's a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere's Amanda's dream
She sits late at night by the light of a candle
Her wishes that never come true
Her hope gets so high they're too hard to handle
She stares as they fade out of view
And these song words have led her to nowhere
Cept a slow slow song
Now she's waiting at the stoplights
With no where to go
But in our town there's just one stoplight
Oh I wish she would know
There's a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere's Amanda's dream
Well she sleeps like a girl
But she wakes like a woman
She sleeps like a girl
But she wakes like a woman
Like a woman
Waitin at the stoplights with nowhere to go
But in our town there's just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There's a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Mother nature hold me, talk me off the ledge I was raised to believe in what the good book says
And sometimes i'm confused and I don't know what to say Maybe what I'm meant to do is reach out and pray
God, I have so many things to tell you I know you'll understand
The strength to surrender brings sweet relief I'm stronging off to let go if you're ready to
I know that there's a heaven beyond what I can see I'm not asking for salvation cause I already believe
God, I have so many things to tell you I know you'll understand I've been cynical, I've been pointing fingers left and right, throw me a line and save this drowning man
I live for deadlines, dying for just a minute's peace. I swallow headlines, always running from the time police.
Will I ever get used to this? Will I ever get used to this?
Racing car driver, I'll beat you to the next light. Born again survivor, I never lose a dog fight.
Start wasting my time. Let's rent a sad movie and drink some bad wine. And stare the sunset. Just make sure that I'm wasting my time.
Will I ever get out of here? Will I ever get out of here?
Everything you do seems to be in slow motion. It must be some voodoo. Could do with some of that potion.
We bought a six-pack and headed to the Austin Motel. Stars were aligned between heaven and hell. The door was open, we sat on the floor. You rolled those cigarettes like you'd been to war.
You told me how you met Andy Warhol when you arrived on the New York scene. I may not remember everything just right. I was more impressed by the music you had played that night. You said that songs were what the world needed. That you liked those singers that really mean it!
You don't even say that you ain't going back to rehab. You kept that pretty silent. Guess I wasn't meant to know.
Your mouth was aching, you said it would be alright. You travelled alone and your girlfriend cried at night. Forsaken talents feel so sorry for themselves. I felt sorry for you and all your shame.
I told you to shut it, to stop complaining. I felt like beating you up with your guitar. But you had your reasons and now you are gone. You are still my hero, if I ever had one.
You don't even say that you ain't going back to rehab. You kept that pretty silent. Guess I wasn't meant to know.
I always had the voice, and now I am a singer. The audience grows silent when I open up my mouth. I sing the words I've written every night before a crowd. As if I were a poet or some legendary mind.
They wonder what I'm doing up there on the stage. They stare at my posture and say I speak so well. I sing about my loneliness and in return they thank me. I had never meant to be a singer, but I'm slowly getting used to the idea.
I am a part of this whole movement that people come to see. They drive for seven hours from all across the country. We raise our voices in unison at the end of the show. People break into tears for reasons I don't know.
I'm in love with a girl I don't know I carry her with me wherever I go I walk these streets with her name in my shadow All for the girl I don't know
And flags are waving proudly in the air
And I'm selling flowers on the square
And the evening turns to watch tomorrow All for the girl I don't know
Before we said hello It was just another day You must learn to love the rain I said to the girl I don't know
And if she wonders tell her where I am
And then I am blindly finding my way through these lands
And tell her how I don't believe in sorrow And fall for the girl I don't know
I'm in a state of mind I'm in my private desert I'm in a passionate study Waiting for Mars to come out
All the lights in Paris All the songs of Belfast Every detail in my head is Waiting for Mars to come out
My skin shrinks against my body bones I'm lost into the weight of gravity I'm at my best with my astronomy
I don't know you very well I'll be the first to admit I don't recall the situation I just remember what i felt
All you do is make feel good In a way i've never felt before Now I can't stop thinking of you I have a funny feeling that you feel the same way too
Is almost too good to be true I can't believe all this happening It's only making sense inside me and I don't know what to make of it
Don't want you to wake up Stay under the stars Where no one can make us Change what we are
Dreamers in the dark Following our hearts
Try to be silent My eyes are too loud Sit back in my hiding While you're in the clouds
One kiss away From what I have to say
Don't want you to wake up Stay under the stars Where no one can make us Change what we are
It's almost the morning One foot out the door As I let the light in To love you even more
May our minds lose the battle May our hearts win the war
Yellow lights spin On the ring road We pass by Like fire flies
While the night time works continue
Certain things are best kept for night time Like making tea and making babies, Writing songs or making friends With ladies
Feel like a thief about to break in Standing outside a broken window My breath is warm, the air is cold Hear noises of insects in the green wet grass
I'm not gonna sell what I have stolen It's something that belongs to me
The floor simmers, I am nervous Place my hand on the entrance wall There are shrieking whispers in the closets Layers of dust on every surface
Please wash my head in a bucket of water Rinse every corner of my body
I thought it would never end We would always be friends I didn't see it coming Your book is wisely done And you don't talk to me no more, never like you did before
In your great book I am the crook You have given me a gun And black glasses on You make me do awful crimes And say all the bad lines
In your great book You got the good looks In your great book
In chapter 2 you admit I loved you But the funniest part is where I'll break your heart You'll have to leave the country to rise again from misery
I read it everyday And you got things to say You are reminding me of jazz You are sometimes too fast But that was then and this is now I learned a trick or two somehow
In your great book You got the good looks In your great book
I run the carousel With horses and tinkerbell Late night by the canal
You wouldn't notice me I have a tendency To blend with the music
I run the carousel
Children swirl around Like drapes in a summertown Husbands kindle their wives
Sometimes it tortures me The envy and the jealousy But I never panic
I run the carousel
Sometimes when the birds fly over I look up, but I don't want to go nowhere Got lives to save under the open
Live as a mystery man Sleep in a caravan I love everybody
Umbrellas in the rain
Pop up in the windows
Because we're not together
They're out on a parade
Like workers of a union
We're the only ones who can see it!
You've got sapphire eyes but that's okay I've seen that before it's nothing new You can look at me that way if you want but don't let me fall in love with you
You've got one of those smiles I've heard about That can tear us all in two Almost afraid to see you happy I just might fall in love with you
Don't let me fall Don't be so cruel Don't let me fall If I can't have you
When we touch electricity gets through It's a good trick if you can do it to make me fall in love with you
Don't let me fall Don't be so cruel Don't let me fall If I can't have you
You never liked dark limousines, sunday mornings or crowded scenes. I fell in line between the roses beyond silent gates, it's like you to be late. The chill of winter digs deep within, you would have spared us the violines. A trail of people from wayward places gather close, steal the air, because you were there.
You should have seen us, there was laughter in every tear. You should have seen us. Let the stories be told, you would have loved to be this loved.
The joke is that we thought we were shooting a dog. We sure didn't see no man in that fog. It was just a boring day that we decided to betray. Me and him are outlaws now.
There ain't no stopping now. They are coming to get us now. "You fired that shot and I simply had to watch. I am putting the blame on you!"
He looked at me and we looked away. The fog was getting closer. Our gun was still smoking. We saw this as a token that we could still run away.
Run, run away. There ain't no stopping now. I'll always run away. Run, run away. They are coming to get us now!
Minutes later we came back. We would say that we had found this man in a crack. Something kept an eye on us, the eye that always watches us and we finally told the truth.
A killer is a cold blooded one. Just like us, he shoots stray cats for fun! What happened there is beyond, I swear, we'd never aim to kill or scare! There ain't no stopping now!
She was just a hitchhiker That I picked up by the side of the road What you did to me, what you put me through What you did to me, what you put me through
I've got no money, but I'll paint your picture If I wake up to the morning sun
She was just a hitchhiker I said my name was Christopher She had mudstains on her shirt I remember what I said to her
I called the police, I put in a report But no one has reported Seeing my most wanted one
I was just a lonesome rider Headed nowhere in particular I have her picture awake in the night Of promised landscapes in white on white
The end of February, a garbage truck is backing up outside my window.
Four years ago my father died, that's more than a thousand days.
Emily is across from me, her head cocked like a curious dog. She's muttering lines from an upcoming show, broken into jazz standards. Something about "Baby leaving" and "Never coming back."
Where are you in the winter when I need some camaraderie?
I'm disappointed about my job. It's definitely not what I envisioned.
Emily is staring out the window, the three armed lamp is out one bulb. I hear you are travelling around towns I can't pronounce. You know, I used to live in them! Now I must get some rest.
Louis, Louis Play us a song Louis, Louis This stage is aching for one Please come back to the quiet generation We don't have any representation
Louis, Louis Our stars no longer dance Louis, Louis Come down through the heavens The sky is full of innuendos We don't want any heroes
Louis, Louis All we want is music Louis, Louis You play it without melancholy
Please play a song for everyone Play it like it was the only one So it will travel through the valleys Into the roses and the berries Louis, Louis Louis, Louis
Louis, Louis They shot all the poets Louis, Louis The world is not like you know it There's no one with the right agenda That's why we stay down here and won't surrender
Louis, Louis When only music is the answer Louis, Louis Every living being is a dancer
Please play a song for everyone Play it like it was the only one So it will travel through the valleys Into the roses and the berries
So it will travel through the valleys Into the roses and the berries Louis, Louis Louis, Louis Louis, Louis Louis, Louis
My baby travels with a barstool My baby travels with a barstool Boy, she can sing, my baby!
My baby don't do the dishes My baby won't do the dishes Boy, she can sing, my baby!
Saw my baby's picture when she was a kid Yeah, yeah, yeah she was always like this She looks so sweet in the bar-room shadow Blowin' off the roof, she's a flamin' arrow!
My baby doesn't have an address My baby doesn't have an address Boy, she can sing, my baby!
My baby writes a thousand letters My baby writes a thousand letters Boy, she can sing, my baby!
You have moved to the outskirts of town. I bet you like it more when no one is around. I bet you spend most days in your dressing gown. Word is out that you are working again. That you look good with coloured chins. I'm glad to hear that you are seeing our friends.
It's still the same, nothing has changed. We still drink the same water.
All those women on our street look at me strangely when we meet. They smile politely and nod with sadness. It's as if they're saying: "Please, go get her back. You poor old thing, you look like a wreck!" As if all of their dreams did not come true.
It's still the same, nothing has changed. We still drink the same water.
I might take a holiday, I need to get out of my own way and put an end to all of this running away. I'm thinking that we might as well quench our thirst and get up where we fell. Since we float in the same well we still drink the same water.
If I say no, if I resist If I don't give in to this Would it be a lesson or a loss?
Suddenly I know what it's about Thoughts come in, and words come out Suddenly I'm not killing time It's all over now
You get me You get me
Like a beautiful song You heard a million times Like the rainbow's end You can never find
You get me You get me
If I say yes, if I let go And face the consequence I'll know Will it lead to living with regret?
Suddenly the walls are coming down I won't be the same when I come around Suddenly I am understood It's all over now
You get me You get me
Like a crimson sunset Where the sky meets sea Like no one alive But lives in my dreams
You get me You get me You get me You get me
Like a beautiful song You heard a million times Like the rainbow's end You can never find
It's hard to ignore And undeniable, too This feeling inside When I look at you
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love drives a man insane You broke my will, oh what a thrill Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire
I pull my fingers and twiddle my thumbs I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun C'mon, c'mon baby, you drive me crazy Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire
Kiss me baby! Oh it feels good Hold me baby! I wanna love you like a lover should
