Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name...name
Hello I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
Hello, how are you? I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name...name
Hello, I'm sorry I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
Hello my friend, are you visible today?
You know I never knew that it could be so strange...strange
Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
GET UP LYRICSSleep delays my life (get up, get up)
Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up)
I don't know
Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up)
Wake it up...up (get up, get up)
You've got all your life (way up ahead) (get up, get up, get up)
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
Life is rough...rough (get up, get up, get up)
I've seen you laying down (get up)
With the loving kind (get up, get up)
I know life is hard...hard (where goes your time?)
Where to turn? Where to turn?
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
Dreamtime...
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
This time, no escape, I wake up. (get up, get up)
YOU ARE THE EVERYTHING LYRICSSometimes I feel like I can't even sing (say, say, the light)
I'm very scared for this world
I'm very scared for me
Eviscerate your memory
Here's a scene
You're in the back seat laying down
The windows wrap around
To sound of the travel and the engine
All you hear is time stand still in travel
and feel such peace and absolute
The stillness still that doesn't end
But slowly drifts into sleep
The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen
And they're there for you
For you alone you are the everything
I think about this world a lot and I cry
And I've seen the films and the eyes
But I'm in this kitchen
Everything is beautiful
And she is so beautiful
She is so young and old
I look at her and I see the beauty
Of the light of music
The voices talking somewhere in the house
Late spring and you're drifting off to sleep
With your teeth in your mouth
You are here with me
You are here with me
You have been here and you are everything
(repeat 1st verse)
STAND LYRICSStand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't before
Now stand in the place where you work
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
If you are confused check with the sun
Carry a compass to help you along
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
(repeat 1st verse)
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
Season is calling
(repeat 1st verse)
If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
Reason is calling
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
So Stand (stand)
Now face North
Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before
Now stand (stand)
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't
(repeat 1st verse)
Stand in the place where you are (Now face North)
Stand in the place where you are (Now face West)
Your feet are going to be on the ground (Stand in the place where you are)
Your head is there to move you around, so stand.
WORLD LEADER PRETEND LYRICS(from the _Green_ inner sleeve/booklet/insert)
I sit at my table and wage war on myself
It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing
I know the barricades, and
I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognize the weapons, I used them well
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down
I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated,
I demand a rematch
I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the weapons
I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me
This is my world
And I am the world leader pretend
This is my life
And this is my time
I have been given the freedom
To do as I see fit
It's high time I've razed the walls
That I've constructed
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony
You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls
And I'm the only one
I will be the one to knock it down
THE WRONG CHILD LYRICSI've watched the children come and go
A late long march into spring
I sit and watch those children
Jump in the tall grass
Leap the sprinkler
Walk in the ground
Bicycle clothespin spokes
The sound the smell of swingset hands
I will try to sing a happy song
I'll try and make a happy game to play
Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend
Tell me what it's like to go outside
I've never been
Tell me what it's like to just go outside
I've never been
And I never will
I'm not supposed to be like this
I'm not supposed to be like this
But it's okay
Hey those kids are looking at me
I told my friend myself
Those kids are looking at me
They're laughing and they're running over here
They're laughing and they're running over here
What do I do?
What can I do?
What should I do?
What do I say?
What can I say?
I said I'm not supposed to be like this
Let's try to find a happy game to play
Let's try to find a happy game to play
I'm not supposed to be like this
But it's okay...okay
ORANGE CRUSH LYRICSFollow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me
(repeat verse)
High on the roof,
thin the blood,
another one ____ on the waves tonight,
comin' in, you're home
We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and
centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and
our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county
hell any county it's just like heaven here and I was remembering and I
was just in a differnet county and all then this whirlybird that I
headed for I had my goggles pulled off I knew it all I knew every back
road and every truck stop
(repeat verse and chorus)
TURN YOU INSIDE-OUT LYRICSDivide your cultured pearls in haste
I'm looking for to lay to waste
Of all the things I cannot taste
and this not the racy race
They spoke loud
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you
It's what you do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
Given the choice
Given the heart
Given the tool
Given the word
Given the cheers
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you
It's what you do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
HAIRSHIRT LYRICSI am not the type of dog
That could keep you waiting
For no good reason
Run a carbon-black test on my jaw
And you will find it's all been said before
I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest
It's easier and better
To just beat it from the chest
Of desire
I could walk into this room
And the waves of conversation are enough
To knock you down in the undertow
So alone so alone in my life
Feed me banks of light
And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung
It's a beautiful life
And I can hang my hairshirt
Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog's life chest
Or bury it at sea
All my life I've searched for this
Here I am here I am in your life
It's a beautiful life
My life
It's a beautiful life
Your life
I REMEMBER CALIFORNIA LYRICSI remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines
The ocean's Trident submarines
Lemons, limes and tangerines
I remember this
I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this
History is made
History is made to seem unfair
I recall that you were there
Golden smile and shining hair
I recall it wasn't fair
Recollect it wasn't fair
Remembering it wasn't fair outside
Low ebb, high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
A symbol wave I must confide
I guess we took us for a ride
I guess it's just a gesture
I remember this defense
Progress fails pacific sense
All those sweet conspiracies
I remember all these things
I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this...this
Low ebb, high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
I guess we took us for a ride
I guess its just a gesture.
At the end of the continent
At the edge of the continent
(UNTITLED) LYRICS(Bits and pieces printed in the 1988 fan club holiday card)
This world is big and so-awake
I stayed up late to hear your voice
This light is here to keep you warm
This song is here to keep you strong
I made a list of things to say
But all I really want to say
All I really want to say is
Hold her and keep him strong
While I'm away from here
Hold her and keep her strong
While I'm away from here
I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold her
I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold him
Hold her and keep her strong
While I'm away from here
Hold him and keep him strong
While I'm away from here
( bown )
so then the sky turned weird
and the sun went down
but it weren't two hours 'fore it came around
it was a midnight feast
such a sheer delight
i saw the northern lights then i hit the ground
green, green, keep it clean
stick all your money up your money machine
green green perfect scene
oh it's very very nice here
but i wouldn't wanna live here
you got your blazing red
you got your frozen breath
watch the countryside just bleed to death
and then the ground turns white
and the sky turns brown
and the whole damn world looks upside down
brown brown dead end town
just like a-living in a hole in the ground
brown brown upside down
well it isn't very nice here
and i wouldn't wanna live here
green, green, keep it clean
stick all your money up your money machine
green green perfect scene
oh it's very very nice here
but i wouldn't wanna live here
Take off my nothing inside
take off my nothing inside
green green green green
temple ..green, your simple guide
bubble back in young beat
glad ..their rights
and this the..far and..
the quite time
fake it, take it, leave it, feel it
fake it, take it, leave it, feel it
fake it, take it, leave it, feel it
fake it, take it, leave it, feel it
fake it, green, take it, green,
leave it, green, feel it,
You built a city in my head
Then there were candles
And a phoenix burned my bed
These are subwords
These are air
There's one boy
In one house
In one place
At all times
And green eyes
I got no more
Who are you for?
I got no more
What is this?
I shouldn't be smoking
This last cigarette
I feel sick
Now there are words in my head
You took my house
Burned it inside out
Kneel in my ashes
Kneading them
There's one boy
In one house
In one place
At all times
And green eyes
I got no more
Who are you for?
I got no more
What is this?
And now you're leaving again, no
Temper and tempest
To knock at the moon
And the stars come out at night
What's that beyond the floor?
You were left screaming
My hands are in your hair
You're on the deep with the stars(? )
You built a city in my head
Where are your candles?
(...can see my...)
And a phoenix that was you in my bed
These are subwords
These are air
(turning my body around)
There's one boy
In one house
In one place
At all times
(there's one boy)
And green eyes
I got no more
Who are you for?
I got no more
What is this?
Smoke falls to the ceiling
It begins
There's a man dancing at me
He's making circles
So I will tell you now
(I wear your clothes)
I wear your clothes like armour
(I love your face)
I love your face like god
So you're in love and I'm indebted always
Green eyes
And now you're leaving again
If all the things you said were right
How come you can't go hame at night
Your frightened on your own
Scared to be alone
In your head
Not at home
And all the things you say and do
Won't take the fear away from you
And so you're once again tonight
Just praying for light
When thoughts that haunt you so
Will slowly let you go
And once again the dread
Is burning in you head
You try but can't let go
This pain that kills you so
If all the things you say were true
Why can't you start this game anew
It's nothing that was said it's only in your head
But the dread,
oh god a dread
And all the things you say and do
Won't take the fear away from you
And so you're once again tonight
Just praying for light
When thoughts that haunt you so
Will slowly let you go
And once again the dread
Is burning in you head
You try but can't let go
I don't understand your problems, 'cause you got too many of them
It's hard to relate to you, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside, outside!
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
Well I don't understand your reasoning,
'Cause you know that it really doesn't make any sense to me, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside, outside!
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
You know I'd never say these things to you if they didn't mean something to me
You know I'd never try to get in your head
Try to make you believe what I want you to see, yeah
They told me that everything changes, well yeah,
Just remember that everything changes
I'm just a casual observer
I'm always just taking it in, I watch the world go by, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside, outside!
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I cant escape from these dreams of where it went and what it meant a pain i've felt now back again what i thought was a beginning turned into an end thoughts of you fill my days I feel confused like im trapped in a maze because your gone from my sight bright days turned dark as night I think about that warm green glow god I have to see, those are times I wont forget, those are times I wont regret (now regret
I don't understand your problems, 'cause you got too many of them
It's hard to relate to you, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside - OUTSIDE! Buy
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
Well I don't understand your reasoning,
'Cause you know that it really doesn't make any sense to me, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside - OUTSIDE!
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
You know I'd never say these things to you if they didn't mean something to me
You know I'd never try to get in your head,
Try to make you believe what I want you to see, yeah,
They told me that everything changes, well yeah,
Just remember that everything changes
I'm just a casual observer
I'm always just taking it in, I watch the world go by, well
We've been told that the grass is always greener on the other side,
The other side, oh yeah, but that doesn't mean we should stop
what we're doing on the outside, the outside - OUTSIDE!
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
We all know that everything changes, this always seems better than the other
Gotta keep my mind focused on right now
I can't take my eye off thinking 'bout how
Green
(Kirk McLeod; arranged by K. McLeod/J. Amato/A. Wadeen)
C'mon Jamie we've got
We've got to hurry baby
We've got our tickets bought
We've got to make tracks lady
Isn't that just me
I'm always lost in the future
Making plans for some new scene
I'm always lost in some far off land
Looking for a deeper shade of green
But Jamie doesn't mind at all
She likes it that way
Well, I've been thinkin', and I've been drinkin'
And I still cannot find a better place to come home to
It drives me crazy all these maybes
But still you're on the way I always come
Running back to
Lost in the future and I'm looking for
I'm looking for that scene
Lost in the future and I'm looking for
I'm looking for that green
She likes it that way
She likes it that way, when she likes it
You opened the door
I left myself in. Between
you and me, I only believe what I want to.
I guess its because I'm greener then green,
Only because I'm green.
Only because I'm green.
I came up to your floor,
You were dressed just a little
Obscene.
And it shut me down
Quite sexually as a pre-
Adolescent because I'm greener then I'm green.
Only because I'm green.
Only because I'm green.
Only because I'm greener then green.
Only because I'm greener then green.
Only because I'm green.
Only because I'm green.
Only because I'm green.
1...2..3..Let's do it!
Oh Oh Oh
Let's do it!
Oh Oh Oh
Listen up I got a secret
My flaws are beautiful
I'm way beyond average
I don't catch the common cold
The bar I set is a reach above...to you
See, I'm not your average girl at the party, party
It's just me and the dance floor at the party, party
Hey!
Show me what you got
I make my move, you make yo move
So go!
Cause tonight I'm green
Go go go go
I-i-i-i-i-it's just me and the dance floor
Cause tonight I'm green
Look at me, look at me, look at me, ain't I pretty?
Me and the dance floor gettin' it, and ain't this thang ridiculous?
Look at me, look at me, look at me, ain't I pretty?
Me and the dance floor gettin' it, and ain't this thang ridiculous?
You can tell it ain't a secret
I'm green so I'mma glow
And even when I'm wrong I'm still dead-on
And I'm a straight-up kinda girl, in confidence
See, I'm not your average girl at the party, party
It's just me and the dance floor at the party, party
Hey!
Show me what you got
I make my move, you make yo move
So go!
Cause tonight I'm green
Go go go go
I-i-i-i-i-it's just me and the dance floor
Cause tonight I'm green
Look at me, look at me, look at me, ain't I pretty?
Me and the dance floor gettin' it, and ain't this thang ridiculous?
Look at me, look at me, look at me, ain't I pretty?
Me and the dance floor gettin' it, and ain't this thang ridiculous?'
1..2..3..let's do it!
Green light (Green light)
If you lookin' at me you're lookin' at sure perfection
Take a picture, yea
-Can't understand this part at all-
If you wanna see it done then look my direction
GREEN LIGHT!
Hey!
Show me what you got
I make my move, you make yo move
So go!
Cause tonight I'm green
Go go go go
I-i-i-i-i-it's just me and the dance floor
Cause tonight I'm green
Hey!
Show me what you got
I make my move, you make yo move
So go!
Cause tonight I'm green
Go go go go
I-i-i-i-i-it's just me and the dance floor
Cause tonight I'm green
GREEN LIGHT!
Let's do it!
Oh Oh Oh
Let's do it!
I can't believe what you just said You'd sell your soul for a dollar bill I can see the signs in your eyes The signs that make an honest man lie You've got green on your mind Now you've got green in your eyes Say green is sex, green is power Such filthy thoughts I think you better go take a shower You're seeing green I'm seeing red I can't believe what you just said I heard your song, then I heard your spiel Music as money has gone to your head You're seeing green, I'm seeing red I used to listen and we'd share your love It didn't matter that I had none to give But now I want to steal your heart Claim it as mine before the bidding starts I've got green on my face Got jealous green I can taste Bitter-green bile because you're vile And yet I covet what I hate
Look out
People used to call me backwards, livin' out here with the tractors
Lettin' this world leave me behind
Now a days I'm an innovator, I'm a country boy prognosticator
Man, a man ahead of my times
I've got a hundred acre farm
I've got a John Deere in my barn
I've got a garden in my yard
Full of corn, peas and beans
I've got a guitar, I play unplugged
I've got a homegrown girl I love
And when the summer time hits we skinny dip in the stream
I was green before green was a thing
Sheets on the clothes line dryin', red tail hawks are flyin'
A couple of deer on the timber line
Yeah, and I know a lot more about cane pole fishin'
Then I ever will know about carbon emissions
But my little corner of the world is doin' just fine
I've got a hundred acre farm
I've got a John Deere in my barn
I've got a garden in my yard
Full of corn, peas and beans
I've got a guitar, I play unplugged
I've got a homegrown girl I love
And when the summer time hits we skinny dip in the stream
I was green before green was a thing
I've got a hundred acre farm
I've got a John Deere in my barn
I've got a garden in my yard
Full of [Incomprehensible] and greens
I've got a guitar, I play unplugged
I've got a homegrown girl I love
And when the summer time hits we skinny dip in the stream
I was green before green was a thing
GREEN
Look for the way to find out air
We've spent too many tears to wash the earth
Look for the way
We've spent too many tears no life no air
Look for the way to find out air
We've spent too many tears harvest the earth
Look for the way
We've spent too many tears no life no air
You opened the door,
I let myself in.
Between you and me,
I only believe
what I want to believe.
I guess it's because I'm
greener than green.
Only because I'm green.
(repeat 2x)
I came up to your floor
you were dressed just a little
obscene.
And it shut me down
quite sexually
like a pre-adolescent
becuase I'm greener than green.
Only because greener then green.
Only because I'm green.
Consumption is needed
By the holy system we live in
Need to buy new hollow things
Creates the demand
For an army of slaves
Fake ecology
By green economy
Everything is made of
Recycled materials
To be consumed again in the future
Beware of global warming
Make sure you recycle everything
Become proud and green
Clean conscience for system needs
Suffering and feeble
When I want a taste
And I don't wanna beg
I just look down and see my veins
As I open the door
And I see your face
It takes me to that fucked up place
I can't see the ground
My minds tightly wound
I wanna hold you but here I'm found
Huddled won't hear a sound
Pictures of you all around
Someone please take me away from this
Gotta let her go
Gotta get away
Time to kill myseLf
Time to make her pay
Replaced by time
Thought this was the way
Gave you my life
Dead raped I lay
When I, I wanna taste
And I, I don't wanna beg
I just look down and see my veins and I'm alive
When I open the door
And I see your face
It takes me to that fucked up place
Greens and purples and reds and blues all bright
Spinning and tumbling sliding down so fuckin light
I'm sobbing and I'm grasping trying to find my way out
I'm at my lowest point someone please save me now
Gotta let her go
Time to make her pay
My mind is fucking wacked
Green - it's never enough
Different shades bought and sold, illusion control
Extortion incest
Greed - it's never enough
They're building us up while they're tearing us down
On their hands is the blood of the ones who had made them
Praise them, save them, break them
Eyes - they watch from inside
So in God do we trust? Paranoid? Not enough
Do you think that it's near?
Yes I do I can feel it
You can't believe in them or what they say
Their colors change
We should have never let them get away
My brothers
Green is in their eyes, green surrounds you
Lies, his story, our past
A lesson not learned, never changed, never learned
Passing on one by one to the lost generation
You can't believe in them or what they say
Their colors change
We should have never let them get away
My brothers
Save them, praise them, break them
Suddenly all turns to green!!
(whisper) And a forest cracks a smile
*A seed conceals an important part
Of the way we see, the world is ought to be
Plants and trees, initiate the air we breathe
And give us more than they receive
*Often times, rooting their stability
The way that they ought to be
But sometimes cut down!
*In recent years, the peace upon the greenery
Has fallen to machinery
Tree sap tears, dried upon the slaughtered
Bark,
Yes man has really made his mark
It's plain to see, the land as it used to be
Is gone for eternity
The cypress cries loud!!
Beauty bears the colour green!!
They didn't call so I thought I would take matters into my own hands
You were looking for something
that I buried long ago
I wish you could see yourself now
Your reflection is fading
Outside of this light
You are very small
There is no more reason to think that no time
is worth this ending
Since you are lost I'll leave those years buried
Leave them buried long ago
I think I will be myself now
That small space, your suffocating
Outside of my sight
You will only fall
I wish you could see yourself now
Your reflection is fading
Outside of this light
You are very small
When you think of yourself now,
In that reflection you made clear
outside in this night
I can only watch you fall
When you think of yourself now,
Is that reflection you made clear
outside in this night
Green is a place, I want to see
Before I'm gone
The sky in the trees, wilder than bloom
Older than me
I'll be waiting, follow me
I'll be waiting
Where the rain can't fall on me
I'll be waiting
These city nights, all of my days
Wrote on my face
Faces I know, all of them gone
Older than you
I'll be waiting, follow me
I'll be waiting
Where the rain can't fall on me
I'll be waiting
Summer has gone, where did they go?
What have I done?
I know your name, can't see me sin
Zeppelin never left her
Never died or second guessed her
Painted on her body
The stars would never hurt her
Never lie never desert her
Painted on her body
She prayed to God when she was young
After the storm a calm would come above her
I thought that I could be the one
To part the clouds before the sun above her
Green reminds me
Of everything we did it blinds me
It rushes through my head it finds me
Close to you again
Green reminds me
Of everything we said it blinds me
It rushes through my head it finds me
Close to you again
Mother moves to town again
Holds her upside down again
Said it’s nice to see her
Brendan now you’ve got to come
She’s where I get my smile from
I’d like for to meet her
Now Andrea was pain and pride
A step behind oh how she tried
I loved her
And all she wore from head to floor
Were shades of green from our store
I loved her
Green reminds me...
And all for me she cried
And all for love
In retrospect wish I
Could have said three words that night
Oh me, oh me, oh me
Gettin' close and I'm feeling jittery.
I grabbed your hand, it was sweaty; asked you to dance.
I jump around as you hint of fun and romance
and feel the spin as I squint and try hard to see.
The way that you looked at me-
the knowledge and fear as we indulge our anxiety.
Push and twist and pry and pull and dance and spout
and fall and spoon, unzip and bounce and rip and move
and churn and dress and try to act cool.
All things we said we meant. Adolescent words well spent.
Into the unknown we careen.
We never were the best, all thumbs and no finesse,
our awkward love, so crude and green.
Second base and I know I'm getting there.
I touch your face 'cause i don't know where else to touch.
Yesterday on the bench we shared your hot lunch.
Didn't know that tonight I'd savor this much.
We had to read '84.
You said if I did your chores.
'could copy your book report...
All the lust that we packed into a day
And now we act like we don't know where we woke up.
Nervous laugh at my socks pulled all the way up.
Giggle on 'til you wave and slinker away.
But that was the pace back then:
Get busy in less than ten,
You feel inside, so long ago a dream
The sky and sun were real
And everyone was there to wave you on
It takes by surprise, that love never dies
Everywhere, everyone's a fighter above love
Working alone so hard, you try, its a bad day
So you talk, talk to your spirit, it gives you soul
Never look down, never look up from the world
You let go
I takes you by surprise
All those pictures we keep alive
When love never dies
Nothing to collect or lose
The train is here, it's slowing down for you
See all those years in their eyes
Tell them, have they loved or have they lied
The last light fades away
My image of you remains
You face the star, it won't fall
Then I know we fooled them all
Then I know we fooled them all
Green is what I see when I close my eyes, drifting out of
here
The colour of the forests and the uniforms and the
bottles of beer
Flying in low above the cedar trees through the soaking
Our voices raised high against the rotor blades and the
beating of fear
So long ago
Green is what I was the last time I saw my family
I was hungry then for anything and everything
The world could throw at me
Then we were sweeping over lands that I never knew were
there
With half a pound of dope and cigarettes
For the soldiers on either side
Of the burning bridge
They shipped us out but I never went home
Driving timber on these mountain roads
You skip a beat and seven years goes by
Tonight again I'll dream I'm walking across the room in
the moonlight
I?ll throw the windows open wide, smell the falling dew
outside
Climb out onto the roof, close my eyes
time has made me green and i'm standing here alone
i've watched the changing scene, and i've no way to get home
you cannot pretend that our love is gone for good
don't take me for granted even though you think you should
can i once more be my true self
if headed for the gate
would you still be waiting for me
i hope you can stay
time has made me strange and i'm talking to myself
persistence cannot change what i see in someone else
smoke gets in your eyes when you burn the bridges past
razor blades of thought make the cuts of anger last
look me in the eyes and tell me
if there is another way
your life is ruined just because you
didn't wanna stay
You live in a castle
A castle made of light
You know it's useless
Useless to make demands
It's fascinating
All your fantasies
They're complicating
What you can't really see
And now is the way
As the child used to say
You're as green as the trees
You grow outside
And I tried to reach you
But you're too far to find
Living in your castle,
The castle inside your mind
Create your dimension
No family or friends
And it's complicating
How you could make amends
And now is the way
As the child used to say
You're as green as the trees
You grow outside
It's fascinating
All your fantasies
It's fascinating
What you can't really see
But now is the day
As the child falls away
You're as green as the trees
there are secrets I hold
some are mine, most are yours
and you're in there
leaning against the waves
no need today
save your strength
I am here
come into shore
it's okay
we'll end these days
and the story of how you were
never young
is safe with me
you know I'd never tell
let it fall down on me
[Unfinished]
I know he found you first,
He queched your thirst,
and he loved your worst,
Before he bored you half to tears.
And I came with the tag still on,
I'm the freshest thing you've seen in years
And I've got green eyes, green eyes,
Grass on the other side,
I've got green eyes,
Green as grass on the other side,
My eyes are green.
You had your fill of me,
Set me free,
I bet you chased him up a tree.
But you lost your chance to grow(?)
Walked too low, the light is going,
I feel you scratching up your knees.
And I've got green eyes, green eyes,
Grass on the other side,
I've got green eyes,
Green as grass on the other side,
You're flying much too high
You're flying much too high
You're flying much too high
You're flying much too high
Take me closer
I can't see
The world is moving faster
Sit down with me
Take me closer
I can't see
The world is moving faster
Sit down with me
You came to me like a stormy night
With electric tears, I couldn't hide
I let you in, I dried your eyes
You reached for me and held tight
This is for real
This is for real
This is for real
This is for real
This is for realizing everything is real
You can taste it, you can touch it, hold it in your hands
You can taste it, you can touch it, hold it in your hands
You can taste it, you can touch it, hold it in your hands
You can taste it, you can touch it
Show me the flowers
I can't see
Show me the flowers
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