The dead girl mopes through a dead scene
With a cross-stitched lip she's picking at the seams
She's got bravado she says she's been
Featured in a few magazines
Outside the bar Hank is straddling a police car
His fingers are purple and numb from circling crow bar
Well, twenty-four years have made it clear
That things ain't ever what they appear
Now, now, he says, "I won't be going easily
No, I won't be going lightly
And I won't be going peacefully
No, I won't be going innocently"
A sweet drink spiked with a speed ball
A twenty foot ladder and a ninety foot wall
Dark shadows are gathering
And swaggering down the hall
And I know, I won't be going easily
No, I won't be going lightly
And I won't be going peacefully
'There's no train
There's no boat
There's no car
To get you far enough
There's no bus
There's no plane
There's no wreck
To make you beg enough
There's no drink
There's no sleep
There's no pill
To keep you still enough
It's heartache weather, please remember
Things are going to get worse
before they get better
There's no rope
There's no nail
There's no psalm
To make us strong enough
There's no con
There's no skin
There's no beauty
To help you through enough
It's heartache weather, please remember
Things are going to get worse
before they get better
There's no book
There's no code
There's no verse
To make it hurt enough
There's no kill
There's no spark
There's no script
To help you live enough
There's no cause
There's no drum
There's no breath
Darling take my hand
This ride is getting rough
And there's no talk of trouble ceasing
I want you in my arms
They're sounding the alarms
And no one knows if
We've seen the worst yet
Sometimes I close my eyes
And hum the songs we loved
Your dress was blue and you
Were as bright as Christmas
And down through all the streets
The air was cool and sweet
And all we knew was brief
But seemed eternal
The cathedrals and the banks
The stones we throw at tanks
The endless war of man vs himself
The traffic night and day
The things we try and say
The growing din of human wreckage
It started simple enough
Day broke and we woke up
To the morning news and
The smell of coffee
I loved you with my mind
I gave you all my time
And then things got sublime
We are snowmen
We disappear
Our hearts are nuclear
With hope and fear
Hope and fear
Well you sent me running
For cover, deep in those dark and lonely hallways of my heart
And there were problems
You said there was something wrong with me
And they were deep-seated they were deep-rooted
I must've pushed 'em away I pushed 'em away
So you left with the impression that if I could just clear my head
You'd be back with me on day
But now you walk the roads with a rose in your teeth
Walking arm and arm with him it's hard to believe that I'm the furthest
Thing from your mind
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Come on baby you know better than that
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sane
You just trudge through the best that you can
And remember
To watch your step
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you'll throw it away
Just like you threw me away
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Come on baby you know better than that
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sane
You just trudge through the best that you can
And remember
To watch your step
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
You can take it on the run now babe
Cause you're gonna throw him away
She said be quiet, be still
She said I'm not here to kill
I'm not here to maim
Or to give you a new name
She took my hand in her hand
She said, "I hope you understand
'Cause I'm asking please say
Please I'm asking won't you say?"
But you don't want the truth
And though you say that you do
I can see it in your eyes
I see it in your eyes
That you don't want the truth
And though you say that you do
I can see it in your eyes
i wish i'd known maybe i could've helped you
but you were already gone to the trouble that held you
come knee high you were treated like the meantime
well they might've been young but excuses just become
lies
they were wrong they were wrong they were wrong they
were wrong
the day is never too long when it's gone it's gone they
were wrong my god they're still wrong
we were drinking warm beer at ninth and michigan
you were making me nervous but i was still listening
well he might've been a talker but he never said too
much
he was just a souvenir from a cold done dead love
they were wrong they were wrong they were wrong they
were wrong
the day is never too long when it's gone it's gone they
were wrong my god they're still wrong
here's the saddest song you never heard
these catholic kids get what they deserve
we were in the front row at the sad last goodbye
you were so pissed off you were trembling inside
why would you ever live to wish and wait by the front
door
that your daddy never answered and your momma won't any
more?
they were wrong they were wrong they were wrong they
were wrong
the day is never too long when it's gone it's gone they
were wrong my god they're still wrong
they were wrong they were wrong they were wrong they're
still wrong
they were wrong they were wrong they were wrong my god
This is an invisible song
From an invisible man
Lost in the wilderness
Of a static avalanche
I started out with wonder
With air on my teeth
Careful what you wish for
There's something underneath
Because the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
All over again
All over again
She's standing in the doorway
She's taking off my shirt
No one could have told me
One day this would hurt
I'm moving through Manhattan
In the back seat of a cab
And all that ever happens
That's all we'll ever have
'Cause the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
All over again
All over again
Now some will say it's maudlin
And some will say bullshit
But there's no living without living
And the living shows you this
That the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
All over again
Has the future come
To make a liar out of me?
Every day I wake
And I'm further out to sea
High above the driving nails
Swirl the gardens of relief
A broken smile, a little grace
For no longer how brief
The little things, the little things mean everything
The little things, the little things mean everything
Now I'm off to work
On the train I only stare
There's a sleepy drum
And there's corruption in the air
Only souls have been lost
Desperate is as desperate does
A little push, a little shove
A little talk I give myself
The little things, the little things mean everything
The little things, the little things mean everything
In the house of the lie we were living
You lost your tongue, and in my touch I lost all feeling
I saw the sun falling small upon your shoulder
I lit your smoke, we barely spoke, the days got colder
I took my things to a flat in the suburbs
I put your ring in the folds of a long verse
Now your blue scarf, your green eyes, the great sadness
They often dwell, recall and swell a wild tempest
I can't hold you, but I'm still kissing you
I don't want to, but I'm still missing you
Still, I carry you still
I guess I always will
In these hours that unwind with such effort
Amid this hoax that swirls and floats upon the weather
Some hearts get numb 'til they become frozen hopeless
But this I swear, I will live there beyond this slowness
I feel my sleep on the verge of a bright dream
Where all is well and cherry light warms a dark street
And there your hand will fall to mine, safe with comfort
And there your lips will rise to me 'til they whisper
I can't hold you, but I'm still kissing you
I don't want to, but I'm still missing you
Still, I carry you still
I'm riding down Kingsley figuring I'll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud so I don't have to think
I take her to the floor looking for a moment when the
world seems right
And I tear into the guts of something in the night
In the street you're born with nothing, and you're better
off that way
Soon as you've got something they send someone to try and
take it away
You can ride this road 'till dawn without another human
being in sight
You're just wasted on, hm, something in the night
Nothing is forgotten or forgiven, when it's your last
time around
I got stuff running 'round my head I just can't live down
When we found the things we loved, they were crushed and
dying in the dirt
We tried to pick up the pieces, and get away without
getting hurt
But they caught us at the state line, and burned our cars
in one last fight
We're left burned and blind, hm, chasing something in the
I can't tell you where I've been now darling
There are hawks inside my head
And every smile and every good thing are picked at 'til
they are dead
"I love you," was all she said
That's all she said
From that old street to that new house
To those beautiful hills inside your blouse
To the rain that kept falling and those years off the
rails
When we smiled like 2 sailors with holes in our sails
When I turned to a coma with a black hole in my chest
When a kiss was the cure and I'd save my breath
When you'd walk to the bedroom and I'd fall on the couch
If I wasted your beauty I'll ignite it somehow
'Cause a dream can be cruel when it haunts you like this
With your eyes like a deer
And the words from your lips
What I'm trying to say is I was afraid that you'd leave
So I slept with my failures and I started to grieve
I started to grieve
Walking outside our old house
Tragically dressed trying to coax your ghost out
There's some things I'm ready to confront
Some that I didn't do and some that I've done
Angry inside over a cup of black tea
Your watery eyes and perfume were choking me
But I don't need to tell you how it went
Except that all things beautiful are blurred into sadness
Sadly love, know it will really let you in
I need your little hands to hold my expression
'Cause I've been cursed until the kingdom comes
To always have and miss someone
To always have and miss someone
It was one bedroom with a dog in the thorn
I remember thinking about dad as I was walking out the door
Looking back seeing the girl you never should be
Heartbroke and poor lovesick and lonely
Sadly love, know it will really let you in
I need your little hands to hold my expression
'Cause I've been cursed until the kingdom comes
To always have and miss someone
Slowly walking down the street
Where the homeless and the lovers meet
I bask in ol' blue your skin does too
I saw the garland in the skyline, in the byline
I took a drink, I took the pills you'll murder me I know you will
Some wish that I could change this
That you were hopin', I keep hopin'
For a cure for some medicine, just one conversation
I can't return to you you must return to me
That's the deal
I'm sorry, did I say I'm sorry?
I'm sorry
In a universe where I was flat
You hunkered down and lived the past
You're leaving soon it's 10 'til noon
I see a black car I'm movin' through time when will we part
I have been the worst of kinds
A sorrowed heart and a cluttered mind
And I'm thinkin' that I could change this
That I could change this, but I can't change this
I can't return to you you must return to me
That's the deal
I'm sorry, did I say I'm sorry?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry now
I can't return to you you must return to me
That's the deal
I'm sorry, did I say I'm sorry?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry now
Did I say I'm sorry
Did I say I miss you
I'll do what I have to do
I said I miss you, I miss you
the girl's got problems she's dancing for the deaf
living with her latest love all vacuumed like the rest
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
you're just afraid to leave
the rotten apple of her eye talks junk on weekends
at a dump called the firefly he's laughing with his
friends
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
you're just afraid to leave
you're just afraid to leave
sugar gets bitter she knows to watch her tongue
that bastard never hit her in front of anyone
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
hold on to me hold on to me you're going to feel better
you're just afraid to leave
you're just afraid to leave
Well, I smoked my
Throat out last night
Hoping you'd call
Or just stop by
Now, I'm wheezing
Like the Oakland sky
Feeling like
The rusted tracks
And forgotten dream
Of the old train lines
It's a perpetual stone
In my shoe
One that I'll always
Be trying to shake loose
An ache in my chest
And a thorn in my side
More than a scratch
Beneath this skin
Somewhere between
The beginning and the end
I don't feel a lot lately
I don't feel whole lately
I don't feel much lately
That's how I hide
That's how I hide
You wrote it down not to
Draw attention to yourself
You let the pilot just
To blow it out
Here the conversation's
Always too loud
And we're as pathetic as the jumper
That listens to the crowd
To say I miss you
Wouldn't be enough
I feel like Tom Waits
Singing, 'Diamonds and rust'
And I'm as pathetic as a junkie
Who knows what he does
It's a perpetual stone
In my shoe
One that I'll always
Be trying to shake loose
An ache in my chest
And a thorn in my pride
More than a scratch
Beneath this skin
Somewhere between
The beginning and the end
I don't feel a lot lately
I don't feel whole lately
I don't feel much lately
But that's how I hide
Door swings shut, keys are cold
Engine cranks and hums
Pull away, feeling slow
By and by, in the hollow
Don't fool yourself, it's hard and soon
Life alone will humble you
Red lights blur, the rain in sheets
It's black above and blue beneath
All my life, "Rabbit," they said
"If you weren't so quick you'd be dead"
Don't fool yourself, it's hard and soon
Life alone will humble you
Thick red hair, sunken eyes
Round as pearls, dim as bar lights
Where a haunted sound can always be heard
In even the truest of laughter
Don't fool yourself, it's hard and soon
You get one shot
To prove that you’re not
Just another chump
That’s been in a slump
Uh huh
Where you stand
Stood
I misundercould
Hell maybe i did
Maybe i should
Uh huh
I’ve been took
Shook
Deleted from the book
Hot on your trail
I swallowed the hook
Uh huh
It seems just last night we were higher than kites
And sure as rain we were burning so bright
It was giving me the chills; it was giving me the
chills
It was giving me the chills; it’s still giving me the
chills
You get one shot
To prove that you’re not
Just another chump
That’s been in a slump
Uh huh
I’ve been took
Shook
Deleted from the book
Hot on your trail
I swallowed the hook
Uh huh
Where you stand
Stood
I misundercould
Maybe i did
Maybe i should
I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry
From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry
And I felt the shock of an atom bomb
When the tired old city of Chester
Was draped and dying in my arms
For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering
Of how the sun would warmthe projects some mornings
When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain
And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch
Twelve years old and already ashamed
Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue
By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too
Yeah I had returned like I swore I would
To right some wrongs and sing my song
And share the luck that every man should
But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream
I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar
And carried my drunk bones all the way home
You wore my shirt
Beside the ocean
Your eyes were serious
The air was blue
And I've relived
That simple notion
When you're young
Does it make it any less true?
Cause, Jane, I still feel the same
You were a good thing
You were a good thing
In a world gone wrong
All the cars on the boulevard
I watch their tail lights disappear
And all the days that I've been sleeping through
Awake to remind me
that you're still... not... here
And you'll never be again
You were a good thing
You were a good thing
In a world gone wrong
It's been 4 years
It feels like a hundred
Another world
A lifetime ago
I'm living on Jupiter
I couldn't feel stupider
But I know,
What I know
Jane, I still feel the same
You were a good thing
You were a good thing
In a world gone wrong
There's only one light on in the house
And that's the light up in the hall
And it's shining on the back of my head
And I'm concentrating hard
On the cigarette, to the ashtray
From the ashtray back to my lips
So I lean up from my easy chair
I rub my three day beard
And give that thousand yard stare
As I recall all the time and the money we spent
Before I became irrelevant
So the straw dog threw rock salt
And the precious girl took a bow and walked
As I ran my finger over the screen door
Yeah, every kiss has reeked of betrayal
Since my heroine jumped the guardrail
And decided who she wanted to be once more
Now, every night I'm paralyzed
By the fear of rope burns and morning light
And the smell of wet cement
Since I became irrelevant
Now, memory's just a flash flood
A thick and black sticky mud
And heartache it's like a breaking bone
It was always twelve hours on a missionary line
You think I would've spared some time
But I didn't, I never went home
Now, it occurs to me like blinds undrawn
Or a bullet from a shotgun
That she knew long ago, oh, what it meant
To feel irrelevant
Now, I'm always smilin', cryin'
And hidin' my intent
hold yourself from dark
my arms are tired
saw you walking backwards
towards the fire
i'm in love with the red sky
i'm in love with the tragedy
we'll be trading what we can't reunite
'cause i believe that she'll leave me
caught of flesh
of absolute perfection
shattered like
felt dark
in all directions
track floats like a ballet
all below in the distance
just as sad as the wind we'd say
it's all gone in an instant
it's just so easy, it's hard
it's just so easy, it's hard
hold me close
I can't feel you
You'll have to trust me
I can't steal you
as strays
like hearts for you
to burn it
smoke curls from your mouth
before you turn in
our love is a white gum
been lost in the monday
in the hours and minutes
it's just so easy
it's hard
it's just so easy
it's hard
hold me close,
I can't feel you
Well the clocks are quiet
Little Joe's in jail
He got stopped late Sunday
Piss drunk and ordinary
Took a swing, no bail
And Clyde only smiles
When Mary Anne is here
You know she married too young
To a poor anyone
For money, for fear
It's happy hour
The music is loud
It's happy hour
Tell a joke
Light a smoke
Just let the day go for now
Now things aren't the same
Since Toby was killed
For a while we assumed
He got fed up and moved
For his dream in Nashville
But we're all moving targets
And it's all for sale
Either a pearl shaped pill
Is killing your will
Or you're tooth and nail
It's happy hour
The music is loud
It's happy hour
Tell a joke
Light a smoke
Just let the years go for now
Just let the years go for now
Now it's barely dark out
But it's falling light
Maybe I should go
Settle in at home
I could sit and write all night
But I've got trouble
That don't let me move
If you had everything you wished for
Then what would you live for
And what would you lose?
It's happy hour
Voices get loud
It's happy hour
Tell a joke
Light a smoke
Just let your dreams go for now
Here comes the razor of doubt, here comes the fallin' out
Here comes the wave and the turn, here comes the crash the burn
Here comes I'm sick of crying, here comes man I quit trying
Here come I hate you and I'm giving back all that you gave to me
Here comes the baited hook, here comes the bones you shook
Here comes the dread and denial, here's where you've been all the while
Here comes I'm sick of groveling
Here comes the only thing that ever happens
Here comes I hate you and I'm giving back all that you gave to me
'Cause lately I've been dreaming of angels and cranes
In some kind of purgatory dodging the CIA
With a head full of soot, waving black flags
Throwing off the bodies just to cut down on the drag
Take 'em to the desert or to a dried up well
Tell 'em they're in Heaven and mutter "Welcome to hell"
I've been guilty, guilty, I've been guilty
Guilty of all these things, of all these things
Here comes the razor of doubt, here comes the falling out
Here comes the wave and the turn, here comes the crash and burn
Here comes I'm sick of groveling
Here comes the only thing that ever happened
Here comes I hate you and I'm burning all that you gave to me
'Cause lately I've been dreaming of angels and cranes
In some kind of purgatory dodging the CIA
With a head full of soot, waving black flags
Throwing off the bodies just to cut down on the drag
Take 'em to the desert or to a dried up well
Tell 'em they're in Heaven and mutter "Welcome to hell"
I've been guilty, guilty, I've been guilty
Guilty of all these things, of all these things
I need someone to save me, someone to save me
I need someone to save me, someone to save me
I need someone to save me, someone to save me
It’s criminal
You’ll be
My enemy
And i’ll do
What i must
To kill your memory
Cause all this talk
Has given me the shakes
Yeah, i know
We all live to
Bury our mistakes
But you’re gone
…and gone for good
We were
The lone ranger and tonto
Stillborn to cold strangers
In our own home
But you took it hard
You took it personal
You know you never really should
When you’re gone...
…and gone for good
Our igloo
Will soon be
In poisoned silver pools
Where no fever
Or cool breeze
Will ever comfort
Just dead silent still
Forever and until
Your landfill swallows every june
And you’re gone
It’s follow the leader, baby
That’s how it’s gonna be
If you ever really wanna get lost
Then follow me
Follow the leader
We’re in a solar system
Together and alone
The bills, the smoke, the furniture
The happy home
Now you can follow your gut
Or you can follow the past
But if you knew an eclipse was coming
Why’d you even ask?
Follow the leader
(there’s brighter days ahead
I’ve seen them on tv
Word is there’s something big
Hidden up their sleeve)
So maybe it gets quiet
And maybe it gets numb
At least then there’s still something
To share with someone
I remember sometimes
When you never came home
How i crawled inside
Those sad and lovely bones
That you left behind
Rarely held nor seen
Everybody always
Everybody always leaves
It was a third world town
In the great dead north
I felt a wedding bell shiver
Folded hands divorced
From a prayer for the permanent
Warmer tears on my sleeve
Everybody always
Everybody always leaves
Sometimes i can’t remember nothing
Sometimes it shadows everything
Some sundays it’s as loud as thunder
In the morning when the telephone rings
Clearer days in some distant forecast
Dark days in this present past
In the blur of some phantom widescreen
I’ll let go of what i never had
She took a mouthful of rain
With a gutter full of pills
She wrote i handled the pain
But it’s the hope that kills
So take care of yourself
And don’t worry about me
Cause everybody always
Everybody always leaves
Sometimes i can’t remember nothing
Sometimes it shadows everything
Some sundays it’s as loud as thunder
In the morning when the telephone rings
Clearer days in some distant forecast
Dark days in this present past
In the blur of some phantom widescreen… i’ll let go of
what i never had
Don’t leave… don’t leave… i’ll never understand… don’t
Hittin' it hard, hittin' it long
up all night tryin' to write this song
there's no way that you'll forget what I said
there's no way you'll forget me
Look at that slow southern sun
Hovering and burning everyone
Cold air that blows just rattle the pain
I've only always said what I thought I meant
I'm inclined to give up this time
I'm inclined to drift
Or crawl
Postcards use short words
deserted lovers got what they deserve
Only wished that you had turned to say
"It's alright, I still love you anyway"
watch that crow as it floats from view
radio towers and dark hills drift
Photographs are pinned and stretched across
Every promise I broke, every smile you lost
I'm inclined to give up this time
I'm inclined to drift
Disappointed
Never more
Got so low they had to use
The jaws of life
To yank me up from under the floor
Thrilled to be here
Thank you much
It's strange when nothing gets to taste so satisfying
That you don't mind the rot gut
So me and my sugar we're on a roadtrip
From Bostone to Philly and I don't know maybe St. Louis
Got a patch
From my therapist
Sha's got a heart like a yacht
But she's all screwed up, she's a pugilist
Sorrry Bobby, miss ya Jack
But if I could choose I'd ask to have
Dr. Martin Luther King back
So me and my sugar we're on a roadtrip
From D.C. to Dallas and I don't know maybe Memphis
So when this ship eventually sinks
That'll be alright
Got a friend
In a cracked house
That sits around all day wonderin' who and when
Shot the lights out
But some things won't be explained
Like the cabby that fell asleep in Hoboken
And woke up Shirley MacLaine
So me and my sugar we're on a roadtrip
From Hollywood to the East village and I don't know maybe midland Texas
So when this ship eventually sinks
When this ship finally sinks
When all this shit don't mean a thing
Coffee is sweeter
Days are sharper
Since I lost her
Since I lost
From the steps of Saint Mark's cathedral
I watch the steeple
Stab the clouds
Who's lonesome now?
Never, never, never, never, never again
Never, never, never, never, never again
Never again
Remember when we met
We were so innocent
I was so cautious, you were so cool
The world was brand new
Never, never, never, never, never again
Never, never, never, never, never again
Devastation
Midnight now
In the city of sidewalks
I miss her so much
But not enough to call
I've wrapped myself in the sweet kiss
Of loneliness
She's my mistress
She's always been
Never, never, never, never, never again
Never, never, never, never, never again
Do you think that you've come far
Through winds so hard
And are you as disgruntled as you appear
Are you wishin' that I wasn't here
Well, one day soon that dam is gonna break
It'll wash you away, it'll wash you away
Yeah, on day soon that dam is gonna break
And it'll wash you away, it'll wash you away from me
Do you know love, do you push it below you
What does it owe you
And are you as ungrateful as you appear
Are you wishing I wasn't here
Well, one day soon that dam is gonna break
And it'll wash you away, it'll wash you away
Yeah, one day soon that dam is gonna break
And it'll wash you away, it'll wash you away from me
And that's the best damn thing could happen to you
Yes, that's the best damn thing could happen to you
I was sitting in hell's kitchen
Contemplating murder
Contemplating murder
Contemplating the great escape
When you walked in
Looking like crap but satisfied
I swear that you looked satisfied
And I hated you for that
Well, someone once said
If you never look back
Then you'll never regret, nothing
Oh, but nothing
Has got a way of sneakin' up
Well, I know you did not ask
But I've got some comfort to offer
Nothing very good or bad ever lasts
Well, the bum that slipped underneath the fridge
Like a phantom card, we call him happiness
And all that happiness is a miserable son of a bitch
Now the kitchen's getting crowded
And the band is really loud
And there's a fat man saying he's my friend
Well, hey, man, if you're my friend
Will you spot me a drink?
And the couple in the corner
They're the reason why I hate rock and roll
'Cause rock and roll is dead, is dead, is dead
Well, I know you did not ask
But I've got some comfort to offer
It's not the things that
I can't change that bother me
And it's not the things that
I don't know that undermine me
It's not the thing that
I can't hold or the balancing wire
That broke, that throws me
It's not the fact that
You walked out that bewilders me
It's not the sleep that
I can't steal that wires me
It's not the coffee or the pills
It's not this space that
I can't fill that kills me
Well, in case you didn't know
I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been bent 'til it was twisted
And in case you didn't know
I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been burned
But it's still willing to try and shine
It's not the drunks and their devices
That provoke me
And it's not the politics of love and distance
And all that that shit evokes in me+
It's not the Sunday morning fights
Or this soul on ice that numbs me
And it's not the passing of another Indian
Summer that saddens me
It's no the shutter in the undertow
That bears down on me
It's not everything ending as it begins
Or the loneliness that grins that destroys me
Well, in case you didn't know
I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been bent 'til it was twisted
And in case you didn't know
I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been burned
I wandered up to what I thought was your door
I'd only been there a hundred times before
I gave it my most polite rap and wish
I held my heart loosely in my other fist
The dead of winter in North Hollywood
The struggling actress and her flash flood
Smell of perfume cash and love
The sucker punch with a horseshoe in the glove
Sayin' if I held you up, would that be enough?
I gave you all that I was capable of
Would that be enough?
Would that be enough?
A trailer park tycoon last June
A telegraph a flash and a boom
An autumn like there never was
A why and because
Hopin' if I held you up would that be enough?
If I gave you all that I was capable of
Would that be enough?
Would that be enough?
The front porch
The long road
A train whistle
August the 24, 1991
You're calling for me from the bedroom window
I'm working on the lawn
Under a northeastern sky
Hollow and gray
You said,
"Everything's different now."
I said, "Oh really, I dont' think nothing's changed."
Telephone rings
It's the middle of the night
"You're awfully quiet babe are you still alive?"
And every star
Looks down and grieves
You turn and you open up wide
And then you retreat
Pale blue sky
Colder than hell
If you're looking for me to make you feel
Well I'm looking for that myself
And a strong foundation
That no heartache could shift
The grace of God and for all this frustration to finally
life
My beautiful fool
My beautiful fool
Didn't you know
LIBERTY EXPLODES AT THE STRANGEST TIMES
A THORNY WALK THROUGH THE DARKEST MINES
APRIL SANG LIKE A BABYBIRD
THE MUSIC SOARED I ONLY HEAR THE WORDS
POURED MY SOUL OUT ON A BLOODY PAGE
FOR A MOMENT LAST NIGHT I THOUGHT THAT I WAS SAVED
IT AIN’T SAFE INSIDE
BUT I’M GOING IN
I FEEL LIKE JAZZ, I FEEL LIKE BERLIN
BABY, BABY, PLEASE
GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES
THIS AIN’T THE TIME OR PLACE TO GRIEVE ALL YOU GRIEVE
I’M DECLARING WAR ON ARROGANCE
IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THE WORST AND THE FALL OF MEN
JUST LOOK AT ROME, LOOK AT THE OLD SOUTH
IT’S THE OPPRESSED THAT SHOW YOU THEN AND NOW
HOW SHEER WILL CAN TURN THE WORLD ON ITS SIDE
AND WHEN THEY DO IT AGAIN
YOUR LUXURY
SUVS
WON’T BE
NO PLACE TO HIDE
MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE LIBERTY BELL
VS A SUPER BOWL RING OF ARTIFACTS OF HELL
HELLO COULD YOU PLEASE, HOLD FOR A WHILE?
I’M ON THE TOILET IN THE GAP WITH A HEROIN SMILE
MAYBE I’VE GONE TOO FAR
MAYBE I CALL IT QUITS
I JUST WANNA BURN STRAIGHT THROUGH ALL REGRET
SO IF YOU SLEEP TONIGHT, I HOPE YOU’RE SAFE AND WARM
AND IF YOU WAKE UP SCARED
I HOPE YOU’RE NOT ALONE
I HOPE YOU’RE NOT ALONE
People and cars on the avenue
But I can’t hear a thing ‘cause I’m looking for you
I’ve been haunted,
By all that I can’t have.
I should make a list of everything I missed
Everything that fell, brushed my fingertips
I’m shattered,
Gone is the wait and see.
Now, love, say good-bye to all that.
Lower my head, turn away,
And never look back.
A quitter never quits he just changes his mind
This song I sing is true and sublime
It comforts me,
But it won’t pay the rent.
I lean in far to give her a kiss
I spill her drink, I burn her wrist
With my cigarette,
I’m clumsy when I get close.
Now, love, say good-bye to all that.
Lower my head, turn away,
And never look back.
I wanted it all, but I’ll settle for some
At the end of the day it don’t matter what you’ve won
Come the end of days,
All you get is the truth.
On needles and pins, the story begins
The world outside, the house lights dimmed
Well anyway,
What else can a poor boy do?
Now, love, say good-bye to all that.
Lower my head, turn away,
And never…
Now, love, say good-bye to all that.
Lower my head, turn away
And never look back.
Honey, I swear it's not my fault
They shut us down, the big door was locked.
The bigger the dream
The bigger the trap
The bigger the black in disappointment
I crossed my fingers 'til they were broke
I threw a brick the arc formed so slow
And on the TV
Outside the mall
In my defense
I've been spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
Spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
I wish I'd done something with my life
Something safe, it's so useless.
I move through days like I were a knife
My eyes were blue, now they're bruises
A silver cross on tan wet skin
I'm thirsty thinking I should climb in
Heather please
Heaven knows, I'm by a thread
I've been spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
Spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
You're on your side facing the wall
Our room disappears between the streetlights
Come the pride
Come the fall
We volunteer
We've been spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
Spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
Spittin' out American dirt
All that money can buy
All that money can buy
Spittin' out American dirt
Spittin' out American dirt
No More
No More
No More
No More
It was dark
It was dark
I needed a spark
I needed it bad
All was lost
All was lost
Cause you never knew
Just what we had
The silver state
The wars we wage
No gasoline
No match
I’m all lit up
I’m all lit up
From the inside
The golden age
The time we waste
No auctioneer
No flash
I’m all lit up
I’m all lit up
From the inside
Climb the stairs, baby
Climb the stairs
There’s no one there
There’s no one there
Climb the stairs, baby
Climb the stairs
There’s no one there
To turn you away
I’m in my right mind
I found the peace
And it’s in exactly
What i’ve wanted to say
So climb the stairs, baby
Climb the stairs
There’s no one there
