Welcome
You're under control
And buried like a mole
A thousand feet below
Waiting
We're all that we've got
Our reputation's shot
A ninety-story fall
No one here can make a sound
We're all ghosts in this town
We are standing in the trenches
Of the new underground
Pipe down
Stay under control
It's getting so absurd
Soon everything will turn
It's our time
To see the Sun
There'll be a crack
And our day will come
Maybe then we'll be the ones
You never can be sure
The shot heard 'round the world
No one here can make a sound
We're just ghosts in this town
We are standing in the trenches
Of the new underground
No one here can make a sound
We're just ghosts in this town
We are standing in the trenches
Of the new underground
All the walls are coming down
We're still hanging around
We are digging in the trenches
Of the new underground
(All right, yeah, all right, uh-huh)
(All right, yeah, all right, uh-huh)
(Yeah, I got it, uh-huh, all right)
(Uh-huh, all right, yeah, uh-huh)
(Uh huh, I got it, morning, I know you are)
I built a time machine
I'm going to see the homecoming queen
Take her to the Christmas dance
Maybe now I'll get in her pants
Whatever
Back with my high school friends
Meeting where the train tracks end
Passing round a skinny joint
Rolling up to Lookout Point
I want to pull it apart and put it back together
I want to relive all my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine
Back in my parents' house
Back to the shouting out loud
One day you'll be a man
One day you'll understand
I want to pull it apart and put it back together
I want to relive all my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine
Here in the present tense
Nothing is making sense
Waiting for my moment to come
Everything has come undone
I tried to pull it apart and put it back together
No point in living in my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine
Inspired by true events on movie screens
Doesn't it bring you down
So many lights and sounds
Call your mom on the telephone
Tell her you're coming home
Tell her there's not a chance
You're ever going to change the world
If you want to be free, take a sip of this tea
Join the red oyster cult
If you drink the whole cup, you will never grow up
You will never grow old
Remember when you were 14
You'd paint every picture so green
Call your mom on the telephone
Tell her your muse is gone
Tell her there's not a chance
You're ever going to change the world
Just a few drops away, you'll never want to change the world
If you want to be free, take a sip of this tea
Join the red oyster cult
If you drink the whole cup, you will never grow up
You will never grow old
Call your mom on the telephone
Tell her you're coming home
Tell her there's not a chance you're ever going to change the world
Just a few drops away
5 a.m., March 16
Jesus on the radio
You took a photograph of me
on your yellow bucket seat
Its too high, its too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through, to go around
So don't look back
There ain't nothing there to see
Was once like you
Can't say I recognize that face
in that picture that you keep
Its too high, its too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through, to go around
I threw away your greatest hits
You left them here the day you split
Your bass guitar and shaggs CD
Well they don't mean that much to me right now
I'm going through your things
These days, I'm changing all my strings
I'm gonna write you a letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I wanna see your reaction
I wanna see how it looks
>From way up on your cloud
Where you've been hiding out
Are you getting somewhere?
Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?
You won't get too far from me
believing everything you read
You're wasted in the great unknown
and I am getting ready to dispose
of all your vintage clothes
Your drugs and every secret code
I'm gonna write you a letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I wanna see your reaction
I wanna see how it looks
>From way up on your cloud
Where you've been hiding out
Are you getting somewhere?
Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?
>From your red balloon you were
a super high tech jet fighter
Floating over planet earth
Come back down here, I'll show you where it hurts
Take this bitter pill
Is it easy to swallow?
I'm gonna write you a letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I wanna see your reaction
I wanna see how it looks
From way up on your cloud
You're never coming down
Are you getting somewhere?
A gaping wound tells the story of it all
A man lost only to find
What was left of his mind?
With no hope of a scar at all
You say, “Go slow”
But something’s right behind me
I can run away for only so long
It will not stop
I will come down
Oh no
Let me find my way
I’ll take you to the edge
Go across that window
And I’ll carry you there
Oh when nothing goes right
Oh when days don’t come tonight
Oh when all I see is the error of my own enemy
A man alone and cut and torn for it
His whole life friend after friend
They’re all a flash in the pan
With no hope of rejoice at all
Let me find my way
(Don’t be scared of what you might be thinking)
I’ll take you to the edge
Go across that window
There we stand about to fly
Peeking down over land
Parachute behind
What was that moment for which we live?
Without a parachute about to dive
I find myself convincing
Blindly falling faster
How easy
Know the place I’m leaving
And the rest just is gone
Oh the adoration
But how much strength does it take
For exploration
For split decision
Or are you stronger to remain
I find myself convincing
Blindly falling faster
How easy
Know the place I’m leaving
And the rest is just gone
It crept up on me
Ignored all my pleas
Begging to leave
No justice to name me
Fell out of the sky
Cease it to be
Without a reply
Gravity fails me
And when I awoke
I knew what was real
Hope to convince you
Lies they all torture me
Opened the door
Knew what was me
I finally realized
Please come tempt me,
you've got something
good in mind.
Dropped everything glad to be
persuade this time.
Into the car baby bleed the gas,
fast as fast, never turning back.
Oh yeah, not scared of that,
the past has passed and we cannot take it back.
They want to know
if we could get away.
Yeah we backed it up
and made our great escape.
When the dust will settle
and they'll discover
the furthest exodus getting somewhere.
While the messengers
get the message in,
try to capture us
we've done nothing wrong.
Please come tempt me
steal me from this priss-teen life.
Oh so gently
everyone feels pain this time.
Into the car baby bleed the gas,
fast as fast, never turning back.
Oh yeah, not scared of that,
the past has passed and we cannot take it back.
They want to know
if we could get away.
Yeah we backed it up
and made our great escape.
When the dust will settle
and they'll discover
the furthest exodus getting somewhere.
While the messengers
get the message in,
try to capture us
we've done nothing wrong.
And she wants me,
and she needs me
and can have me all of the time
And she wants me and she needs me,
circle circle dot dot dot.
They want to know
if we could get away.
Yeah we backed it up
and made our great escape.
When the dust will settle
and they'll discover
the furthest exodus getting somewhere.
While the messengers
get the message in,
try to capture us
we've done nothing wrong.
I've come down with something
I'm frozen, tied up, cast in lead
It's simple, so says the captain
Face forward, move slow, forge ahead
I'm earning a reputation
My conscience, mistrust and regret
Courageous, just like the captain
Marching forward with no doubt in his head
Onward
Onward
Onward
Yes I heard all that you had to say
That's when it all fell apart
Might be hated, but I can't pretend
I liked you better before
So long, so long, front foot leads the back one
Go on and it won't be too soon
I'm gone, I'm gone and on to the next one
So long, and I won't be back soon
Yes I'm blue, but from holding my breath
Like I have from the start
I'm the villain and I should confess
I liked you better before
So long, so long and on to the next one
Go on and it won't be too soon
I'm gone, I'm gone, bet you saw this one comin?
So long and I won't be back soon
It's hateful to say, see it this way
Don't even know who you are
But in my defense I'd do it again
I don't need to know who you are
So long, so long and on to the next one
Go on and it won't be too soon
You're gone, you're gone, are you waiting for somethin?
Go on cause I won't be back soon
It's hateful to say, see it this way
Don't even know who you are
But in my defense I'd do it again
I don't need to know who you are
So long, so long, front foot leads the back one
Go on and it won't be too soon
You're lost and gone and on to the next one
Don't need to know who you are
Standing on a building
I am a lightning rod
And all these clouds are so familiar
Descending from the mountain tops
The gods are threatening
But I will return an honest soldier
Home...
Steady on this high-rise
Like every lightning rod
And all these clouds are boiling over
Swimming in adrenaline
The sky is caving in
But I will remain the honest soldier
When we all finally washed ashore
It was clear there was no one else around
We declared a national holiday
A chance to build it from the ground
So far away from everyone
and everything starts today
Keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now
and everything starts today
Can we rise? Can we get along all right?
Can we miss the storm that sucked the whole world in?
And the boats went out at night
and the choppers in the sky
They searched but they could find no trace of us
So far away from everyone
and everything starts today
Keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now
and everything starts today
The thunder struck, the clouds appeared
Our fearless crew was not prepared
and pretty soon the boats came for us
half a million strong
We gathered arms, we fired shells
We build a wall around ourselves
and pretty soon the spirit was a lot like
what it used to be back home
So far away from everyone
and everything starts today
Keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now
I'm awake, you're still sleeping
The sun will rise like yesterday
Everything that we are now
Is everything we can't let go
Or its gone forever, far away
I hope tomorrow is like today
Don't you go away tomorrow
I don't think I could handle that
You're probably dreaming that you're flying on
Then you start to fall
But then you rise
and shine forever
Don't go away
Can you remember
What the future held
A little candy ring
In a mystic ocean€™s shell
They were anesthetized
Slowly washed away
Left all the poison in
The sands in which I played
I don€™t mind falling down
And scraping up my knees
Scars and stitches always fade
And only strengthen me
With my eyes as wide as pearls
My only centerpiece
Is taken like the dead man€™s urn
And tossed into the sea
Write me a letter
And dot your i€™s and cross your t€™s
Nothing was everything to me
Under the monster€™s claws
And in between his teeth
Was the shadow and a silhouette
Of what I thought I€™d be
I don€™t mind falling down
And scraping up my knees
Scars and stitches always fade
And only strengthen me
But with my eyes as wide as pearls
My only centerpiece
Is floating on the ocean€™s bed
And floats there endlessly
Well it€™s taken like the dead man€™s urn
And tossed into the sea
Tonight
Where do we go from here?
The road to Ruby Falls has reached the end
And now we're digging in the sand
They're promising that help is on the way
Love, confession number one
Impossible and sorry
And judge, can you look the other way?
Some things are best unsaid
And now where can we go from here
When all the morning birds have gone away
Two wrongs won't navigate tonight
The afterlife is all in the end
The afterlife is ours in the end
Love, don't look me in the eye
Just wash it all down
And judge, can you let me know the way
We're outta here, straight outta here
Somewhere down buried in the sand
Two birds give out a song
And all of Ruby Falls is singing along
Sing along...
(...gone and turned away (?))
They’ll find it on the stairs
Politely placed it there
Been so unkind without a hint
No warning sign for them
Read my apology
Their hope of disbelief
But no denial changes things
No remedy ahead
I am not to be martyred
I am not to be worshipped
I did it not to be strong, strong, strong
I implicate no others in this crime
I’m off on a rocketship prepared for something new
I’m off on a rok-it-ship ecstatic with the view
I am scared of the things upcoming
And I want for the things I don’t have
Cannot stand to be one of many
I’m not what they are
We'll gather in my name
The morning will begin
It's all or nothing over there
It's teasing me again
I am not to be martyred
I am not to be worshipped
I did it not to be strong, strong, strong
I implicate no others in this crime
I’m off on a rocketship prepared for something new
I’m off on a rok-it-ship ecstatic with the view
I am scared of the things upcoming
And I want for the things I don’t have
Cannot stand to be one of many
I’m not what they are
Ramona, where have you been?
I couldn't go to sleep till you came in
Ramona, you're Miss Oklahoma
and you miss Oklahoma
I'll get you what you want
There were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
Just like your favorite singer
Why'd you have to be so nice?
A wink and a girlish smile
And why'd you have to punch my eye?
That was something
but I still want you to stay
When I was younger and thought of myself
I never dreamed I'd become like this
A snap of your fingers,
and end to the arguments
Anything for you, love
There were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
The only one you know
But I know now, not at the start,
We're going to pieces, we're falling apart
So won't you sing that song for me
5 a.m., March 16
Jesus on the radio
You took a photograph of me
on your yellow bucket seat
Its too high, its too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through, to go around
So don't look back
There ain't nothing there to see
Was once like you
Can't say I recognize that face
in that picture that you keep
Its too high, its too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through, to go around
To get through, to go around
I will dig a hole
Save my pennies for a rainy day
I will dig a hole
Savin pennies for a rainy day
I'm not scared
I will build a wall
Sensing trouble from a mile away
I will build a wall
Saw it comin from a mile away
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
Try when your inside's out
I don't even try, I know I have seen the best I'll have
I don't even try
I will just play dumb
I won't hear a single word that's said
I will bite my tongue
Never sing another song again
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
Try wearing my insides out
I don't even try, I know I have seen the best I'll have
I don't even try
Never been one to take my chances
I don't even try
Clouds are comin
Air get's heavy
Looks like trouble on a rainy day
Sun starts sinking
Can't see my shadow
Looks like trouble on a rainy day
Holes uncovered
Walls will crumble
If in the morning you look up
Fake a smile and you sigh
Don’t fear the future
In the years to come you’ll learn
I used to sit and watch the pouring rain
I used to wish to be back home again
I hadn’t the strength then
I hadn’t the chance to reveal it
But it’s all in your hands
When do we begin?
Although you’re so sad
Discover things never had
It makes you wonder
A life alone you’ll learn
You’ll learn
Melanie is smilin' at the sky
If it were up to me
I'd give everythin' for that, oh
So many claims to know divine
Is it stupid to think
Am I jealous missin' that?
Would you be, would you define?
Bein' a crutch like this
Or grief like mine, ohh, ahh
Does it feel like
There's no bright side?
Do you want to
Place your fist in the wall?
I feel that warmth within me
Can't help but think it's all lies
So sadly strip down and thrust to the cold outside
Nothing can left to protect me
I wish I could believe this
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down
Am I your charity?
For you to look so kind?
But your aim is not quite clear
It’s better if you leave in quiet
Is this mood frightening?
And who are you sometimes?
Don’t try and rescue me
Go save someone else
I’m far past done
Gasping, calling
I saw I’m all alone
Grasping, crawling
Is this not what you had planned?
Oh I’m all alone
Go on hero
You’re faking no one, not today
Stop this you’re scaring me
Don’t even know you now
Trying to rescue me
Go save someone else
I’m way past gone
Bones are broken and the will is sunk
How did everything get so fucked up?
Do you want to change your mind?
You can always change your mind
You and I could quit this scene
Build a town and then secede
Like an Adam and an Eve
'Cause to the dreamers go the dreams
But the leaders have the lead
It's a frightening, frightening thing
Born to the land of opportunity
Of manifest destiny
Do you want to change your mind?
You can always change your mind
You and I could quit this scene
Build a town and then secede
Like an Adam and an Eve
To the dreamers go to the dreams
But the leaders have the lead
It's a frightening, frightening thing
The Moon and stars are ganging up on the Sun
Rebellion
Everybody, the sky is falling down
Friends and lovers, the world is coming down
Down, down
I was dead sleeping in your bed
Floated up from the ground and looked down
Then finally I could see completely
Heard the angels' song
I know what you are
I could never tell
They sang what you are
This far away, you're a miniature to me
Are you sorry you almost disappeared
Now I know what you are
I could never tell
They sang what you are
Now the notes are fading
and everything is turned around
And I can't help but think it
Its a long way down
And everything is changing
and everything is turned around
And I can't help but thinking
its a long way down
Now I know what you are
I could never tell
On your way to the best years of your life
Everyone's banging on their gongs
The sooner you leave the sooner you're home
Back in Massachusetts
To your golden age where they tuck you in at night
You didn't see it coming
Now who you gonna wave to?
This time you're not homecoming king
Did you hear that?
Have you heard that sound before?
Do you even know where it is coming from?
Its getting too loud
It keeps on pushing you out
Into the arms of 1994
You didn't see it coming
Now who you gonna wave to?
You're not homecoming king
You stand on your own
wasn't what you hoped at all
Do you still recall it,
giving dead-arms in the hall?
Stay right where you are
You'll be half of who you were
When you always would win
So count the days till you give in
Back to massachusetts
To your golden age where your crown is shining bright
You didn't see it coming
Now who you gonna wave to?
This time you're not homecoming king
Did you see it coming?
Now who you gonna wave to?
Absent in the things I’ve done
For the real
Revelations come to people so slow
Frightening
Won’t stop now before they’re done
Peel their skin
Eaten underneath
Rotten
Rotten
Drowning in understanding
Swallowed poison keeps them well
But watching the others struggle through
Makes me grin
Should I tell the mindless stumbling through
That I have found it?
Watching all the things they’ve done
This is real
When revolution comes from misguided hands
Frightening
And in all the idiots I see
Thoughtless men casting doubts on me
Enlightening
Downing in understanding
Swallowed poison keeps them well
But watching the others struggle through
Makes me grin
Should I tell the mindless stumbling through
That I have found it?
They’ll turn the vice once
And slowly break your hand
Will it come back to you now
Just like it never left?
(Chorus in forefront, lyrics below as backup)
Peel away their faith, their fears, have led them towards the worse one
See the way their minds have glazed they’re looking for the worst one
You were almost kind, you were almost true
Don't let me see that other side of you
You have learned in time that you must be cruel
I'll have to wait to get the best of you
Poison in everything you say
Don't you, don't you?
Wonder what difference does it make......Either way
You were almost kind, you were almost true
Why give away that other side of you
Happens every time, so it must be true
Step on a kid, he'll grow up hating you
Poison in everything you say
Don't you, don't you
Wonder what difference does it make....Either way
Were you ever kind, were you always cruel?
Who's ever seen that other side of you?
Happened every time, so it must be true?
Where did you learn it's either him or you?
You were almost kind, you were almost true
Don't let me see that other side of you
You have learned in time that you must be cruel
I'll have to wait to get the best of you
Poison in everything you say
Don't you, don't you?
She leans closer to me
I give a warning of higher calling
Must go over with me
We’re not happy in this place we are
Get up
The countdown will begin
Get up
Towards devotion
Get up
Leave everything with them
Get up
Cause you won’t need anything
We’ll be shielded up above
And the screams will not reach us
Fear will be undone
On the path of chosen ones
Getting even
They haven’t heard a word we’ve said
They make mistakes
They doubt his calling
To taste revenge will be so sweet
When we have left them this place
And as we leave our sacrifice
One final step outside
No longer feel these things around
Soon we’ll be happy in the place we are
Get up
The countdown will begin
Get up
Towards devotion
Get up
Leave everything with them
Get up
Cause you won’t need anything
We’ll be shielded up above
And the screams will not reach us
Fear will be undone
On the path of chosen ones
When you look in the mirror, wish you were somebody else
Just a perfect reflection, you and no one else
Minutes run into hours, hours run into days
You're still waiting for someone who never ever came
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
Go and run through the hallways, and find your way to the door
You will end up like always, back where you were before
Can you look in the mirror, wish you were somebody else
But it's still your reflection, you and no one else
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
No matter where you go, you'll never find your way home
You'll never find your way home no matter where you go
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
You were always saying something, you swear you'd never say again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
Never be the same again
Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
All I want is the world
And everything for me
You can rattle off your talk
All that matters is what I see
If you break me down
Selfish desire is all you blame
Cause desperate times
Call for desperate measures
And I am not ashamed
Oh it took me a long time to come to this
And I have chosen my path
I am only for me
All my dreams are so closed
If I open them to you
You can count them all as lies
You can believe me or you can believe the truth
But I could let you in
Put your feelings on the shelf
There’s only room cause it helps myself
Oh I could let you in
But it’s to no avail
I only listen cause it helps myself
Oh it took me a long time to come to this
And I have chosen my path
I am only for me
I took a cane from a blind man
And I’ve tasted the fruit in the garden of Eden
When I walk out of here
I know I’ll stand clear
But the taste in my mouth still remains
Still remains
Oh it took me along time
And it’s true he was so young
But you are here
And the moment clouds your brain
You could’ve even saved him
That means nothing
You could’ve even been there
That’s a lie
How can you blame him for your life?
It’s a mental suicide
And it carries you away
Dissolve your fear into one
Dissolve will find a way
Then it’s true we aren’t immune
But there’s a way
And denial clouds your brain
To try and understand him
That means nothing
To try and find the meaning
It’s a lie
How can you blame him for your life?
It’s a mental suicide
And it carries you away
Dissolve your fear into one
Dissolve will find a way
To right a wrong
To understand
To figure out
It’s in His plans
To leave alone
To find a way
To figure out
It’s not your fault
And it’s the both of you he’s ruined
He’s torn away all the desire born inside
You could’ve even saved him
That means nothing
You could’ve even been there
That’s a lie
To try and understand him
That means nothing
To try and find the meaning
It's a lie
To leave alone
To find a way
To figure out
It’s not your fault
To see yourself
Your brother wouldn’t be proud of you
My words confuse you
My eyes don’t move a blink
Cause it’s easier sometimes
Not to be sincere
Somehow I make you believe
Believe
When I speak I cross my fingers
Will you know you’ve been deceived?
I find a need to be the demon
A demon cannot be hurt
Honest is easy
Fiction is where genius lies
Cause it’s easier sometimes
Not to be involved
Somehow I make you believe
Believe
When I speak I cross my fingers
Will you know you’ve been deceived?
I find a need to be the demon
A demon cannot be hurt
When I speak I cross my fingers
Will you know you’ve been deceived?
I find a need to be the demon
A demon cannot be hurt
When I speak I cross my fingers
Will you know you’ve been deceived?
I find a need to be the demon
As I fall asleep, to black and white TV
Fly far away, in my recurring dream
Each winter drains electricity
There are words to say
There are songs to sing
But I can hardly speak at all
Home, I'm on my way to a holiday in real time
Float, hold my own weight, say we'll be OK
Dear Valentine
Now quietly peek across the street
Perfectly kept, perfectly neat
But it's not complete, no not at all
Home I'm on my way to a holiday in real time
Float, hold my own weight, say we'll be OK
Dorothy moves to click her ruby shoes
Right in tune with dark side of the moon
Someone, someone could tell me
Where I belong
Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay
No more messing around and living underground
And new year's resolutions
By this time next year I won't be here
I turn on MTV, the volume's down
Lips move, they say
It'll be okay
To tell you the truth, I've said it before
Tomorrow I start in a new direction
One last time these words from me
I'm never saying them again
and I shut the light
and listen as my watch unwinds
To tell you the truth, I've said it before
Tomorrow I start in a new direction
I know I've been half-asleep
I'm never doing that again
I look straight at what's coming ahead
and soon its going to change in a new direction
Every night as I'm falling asleep
These words repeating in my head
Voices calling from a yellow road
To come downstairs and say hello
Don't be shy, just say hello
To tell you the truth, I've said it before
Tomorrow I start in a new direction
I know I've been half-asleep
I'm never doing that again
I look straight at what's coming ahead
and soon its going to change in a new direction
Every night as I'm falling asleep
Just one more time he said as he crawls into his own
I’m doing fine he said as the tears fall down alone
Why must you question me?
Do you want your future blown?
Look at the sight of him
What can he do to show you?
Living life for others
Shuffle through the day
Everyone is out to get him
What do they have to say?
Pull yourself up out of this rut
Make it all come clean
Cause the day the sun gets in your eyes
Is the day that you’ll be free?
Open the door
The world is too young
To see what you’ve felt before
When all the sleeps end restlessly
Without time
Dream yourself to sleep at night
Only lying beneath the clouds
Spend your lifetime in the shade
When the early morning sun wakes up
And you walked out when I asked you to stay
As usual you will get your way
You closed the door and stumbled down to the street
Where you wring your hands
And you drag your feet there
Where the words can't find you
To crawl inside you
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell you
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Gonna try, try, try till the morning
But you can't hide standing under these stars
They know everything, they know where you are
You're in your head, you're all turned around with it
And they're shining down their light to bring you back again
Back where I can find you
To crawl inside you
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell you
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Gonna try, try, try till the morning
All you want to see is make believe
It's nothing but way down underneath
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful you don't hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell you
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
When the day will come along
And you have been there
Find the angels at your feet
Prone on the ground there
So come and bury me
I’ll find mine underneath
Don’t you see the kingdom?
Hold your crown so high
So come and bury me
Won’t find mine underneath
Don’t know where the angel’s gone
Haven’t been there
Find the jackals at your feet
Stain the ground there
Don’t you see the kingdom?
Hold your crown so high
Don’t come and bury me
Won’t find mine underneath
So come and bury me
In the backyard
In the garden
You were always there
Digging down where roots would burrow underneath
Now the grass is always overgrown
And the weeds are choking out the sun
Pretty soon they'll come under the door
And you don't care
In the backyard
Since last summer
Almost nothing left
Just some pieces of the roots that once dug in
And the grass is always overgrown
And the weeds are choking out the sun
Why do you still come home anymore
Glad you made it
Welcome to the farm
Who’s your daddy?
I’m your daddy now
I’m here seeking only what i need
In your mind is where ill plant my seed
It’s for sure
Let me keep you in this place
You’ll be better off this way
I will keep you warm and safe
You’ll be better off this way
You learn to love the price you pay
Trust me dear you’re better off this way
Put to bed the son and sister moon
Ill be hiding in your dirty room
Ill go there seeking only what I need
La ti da we’ll stay there till we bleed
It’s for sure
Let me keep you in this place
You’ll be better off this way
I will keep you warm and safe
You’ll be better off this way
I will not wake you from your sleep
Leave you wandering counting sheep
No more sad and sunshine days
Trust me dear you’re better off this way
Played follow the leader
Keeping my steps in time
Counting on the wonder ahead
I leave the pain behind
It?s on me, it?s all mine
Go away they?re my mistakes
They?re not your problem
Pinned down in this heaven
I?ll die a thousand times
Aware of the damage ahead
I?ll leave the pain behind
Another day, a perfect day
A twinge of pain the sting of the needle
Starin' at the walls provide
A brilliant sight through eyes of the needle
So warm at the bottom
Warm never felt so kind
And for a moment or two
I leave it all behind
It's on me, it's all mine
Go away, they're my mistake
And not your problem
Black dog white picket fences
Mow them down and dance in the rip tide
Face down in consequences
Crack me up and stay on your own side
Another day, a perfect day
A twinge of pain, the sting of the needle
Starin' at the walls provide
A brilliant sight through eyes of the needle
I wish I may, I wish I might
I pray my soul to keep tonight
When all the walls start staring back
One of us won't last the night, between you and me it's no surprise
There's two of us, both can't be right
Neither will move till it's over
I'm the center of attention and the wall's inside my head
And no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight
My own little world is what I deserve
Cause I am the only child there is
I'm king of it all, the belle of the ball
I promise I've always been like this
Forever the first, my bubble can't burst
It's almost like only I exist
Where everything's fine, if I can keep my mouth shut tight...tight...tight
All by myself, I'm so much better on my own
And way out there, it is the same old place that it always has been
I'm the center of attention and the wall's inside my head
And no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight..tight...tight
My own little world is what I deserve
Cause I am the only child there is
I'm king of it all, the belle of the ball
I promise I've always been like this
Forever the first, my bubble can't burst
It's almost like only I exist
Where everything's fine, if I can keep my mouth shut tight...tight...tight
One of us won't last the night, between you and me it's no surprise
There's two of us, both can't be right
Neither will move till it's over
I'm the center of attention and the wall's inside my head
And no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight
Yeah, no one will ever notice if I keep my mouth shut tight...tight...tight
Cause I am the only child there is
I'm king of it all, the belle of the ball
I promise I've always been like this
Forever the first, my bubble can't burst
It's almost like only I exist
Can you remember?
What the future held
A little candy ring
And a mystic oceans shell
But they were all anesthetized
And slowly washed away
Left all the poison in the sands in which I played
I don’t mind falling down and scraping up my knees
Scars and Stitches always fade and only strengthen me
But with my eyes as wide as pearls
My only centerpiece
Is taken like a dead mans urn and tossed into the sea
Write me like a letter
And dot your I’s and cross you T’s
Nothing was everything to me
Under the monsters claws and in between his teeth
Was the shadow and a silhouette of what I’d thought I’d be?
I don’t mind falling down and scraping up my knees
Scars and Stitches always fade and only strengthen me
But with my eyes as wide as pearls
My only centerpiece
Where'd you get that
Blue ocean in your head
I know you're there when you close your eyes
Don't waste my time
Just make up your mind
It's the hardest thing there is to do
Just treading water here with you
On a Sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon
Where'd you find that
Fence your sitting on?
You know I'll climb it if you want me to
So don't waste my time
Just make up your mind
The hardest thing there is to do
To stand beneath you feeling blue
On a Sunday afternoon
It's the hardest thing there is to do
To fall asleep and dream of you
Every sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon
To clear the conscience of who I am
I break the silence that keeps it all in
I’ve given you everything I wish you knew
I did it for me
I didn’t do it for you
I looked her way with x-ray eyes
And she looked like she was not even there
Preserving the things that I have kept from you
Didn’t give them away when you had asked me to
You’re pointing at me and how do I reply
I smash your fingers and drag you away
I looked away with X-ray eyes
And she looked like she was not even there
I cannot deny that I had planned this
I only gave till I was done
Fallen on me this happy ending
I know I was awake and she was numb
But then she started to leave
Finally started to leave
1945, the year I was born
My mother died, but left behind a son
You stayed with me Jesus
Yes, you showed the way
You flew down from Heaven, to steal me away
In 1959 two cars collide
Nine in the crash and 1 survived
You stayed with me Jesus
Yes, I'll testify
You flew down from Heaven, to keep me alive
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
1985 I missed a plane
which then disappeared, never seen again
You came to me Jesus, stood right in my way
You flew down from Heaven to save me again
Everywhere I go they run in fear
This mortal coil, the end is near
You stayed with me Jesus, bow my head and pray
You've come down from Heaven to keep me safe
You've come down from Heaven to keep me safe
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
We're not sentimental
We're just oil-filled machines
Trying not to say the things we mean
You gotta show us a little love
Our big brother tells us
That it's something in our genes
Pretty soon we'll all be coming clean
So start showing a little skin
I'm the judge and jury
I'm the lion and the lamb
And this is the beginning of the end
It's breaking you down
We're breaking you down
We're unrecognizable
We're sunken submarines
Trying to escape before we're seen
You're gonna miss us when we're gone
I'm the judge and jury
I'm the lion and the lamb
And this is the beginning of the end
We're breaking you down
There are ghosts in here
They are stuck in the middle
Midnight rattling chains
Just like fireworks
Heading straight for the heavens
But explode on the way
Wake up, sweetheart
Rise and shine
There are bones to bury
And bones to find
This place is coming to life
Just like dominoes
First one, then come the others
Long invisible lines
Restless prisoners
Damsels longing for lovers
Rhymers searching for rhymes
Wake up, sweetheart
Rise and shine
I hear music playing
Chorus lines
This place is coming to life
Speak up, sweetheart
We're wasting time
These are changed surroundings
Hold on tight
'Round the corner
Lonliness still following me
I can't shake her
Her mother said,
"Now don't be scared to fight"
So I should feel no shame
I should never turn the other cheek
Come and say that to my face
Shyness will keep me in place
Love always comes
Love gets her way
Love bites my tongue
Then love goes away
Shyness, fear, and shame
Whisper all those things about me
Come and say that to my face
Words that I think but don't say
Love always comes
Love gets her way
Love knows the time
Then love is gone
Save me, I'm strong
Where is the sign?
For shyness, fear, and shame
Wrapped her arms and legs around me
Come and say that to my face
When will it be that
I don't feel no shame?
There's a sin that's coming on me
Shining like a work of art
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Elevator to the moon
Whistling our favorite tune
Trying to get a closer view
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
Maybe you will always be
Just a little out of reach
You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
They've got to be clean, they've gotta be clean, ahhhahh
We wash our hands whenever we eat
And in the bath we wash our ears, our elbows and feet
We gotta be clean
We gotta be clean
It's healthy and keen
We gotta be clean
Ahhh Ahhh
(Yes sir!)
We start each day by brushing our teeth
(Brush brush!)
And getting the plaque and stuff off the smile underneath
We gotta be clean
We floss in between
Like the string must be green
We gotta be clean
Each day's a fight with the forces of dirt
(Dirt! Dirt! Dirt!)
Battling the smudge and the smear and the squirt
(Squirt! Squirt! Squirt!)
What do we do when our shirt is all covered with mustard?
(Mustard! Mustard! Mustard!)
You may just wear it and wear it and wear it for weeks
(No!)
Not Guster...
We wash it, then we wear it
We may be sad
We may be beat
We may be cross or tired or mad but we'll always be neat
We gotta be clean
Like all dishes we've seen
Or a fresh nectarine
Or some laundry that's been through the washing machine
We gotta be clean
One half of me is still shaking
The other half is still waiting for little hug
Walk down the water slide
Look in my eyes show me a sigh
So people swimming
I'm sitting here and waiting for little huh
Come down through the other side
Look in my eyes tell me your mine
After the cut then comes the blood
Falls to the dirt turns into mud
From the soil we grow together
That's no way to get to heaven
And everyone thinks that's crazy
Sitting here and we are waiting for a little hug
Step down the water slide
Look in my eyes tell me your mine
After the cut then comes the blood
Falls to the dirt turns into mud
From the soil we grow together
Woke up today to everything grey
And all that I saw just kept goin on and on
Sweep all the pieces under the bed
Close all the curtains and cover my head
And what you wish for won't come true
You aren't surprised love, are you?
If this serenade is not what you want
It's just how it is, it keeps goin on and on
Come out, come out where ever you are
Would you do it all over right from the start
And what you wish for won't come true
You aren't suprised love, are you?
So what you wish for won't come true
You aren't surprised love, are you?
Once had this dream, crashed down in Oz
Not black and white, but where the colors are
I never dreamed that I would let her go
And I will get what I deserve
Keep all the secrets under the bed
Open the curtains, forget what I said
And what you wished for could come true
You aren't surprised love, are you?
So what you wished for could come true
I caught a piece of the sunshine, put a little hope in me
But after the flood raged, there's nothing really left to see
But I was not done, or beat, the violence was a source of strength
Not everything is always just as it seems
What you call love, is just urgency
What you call love, is a place you turn in an emergency
Would you give up, when it's not what you want it to be?
But that's not love, what you call love
I caught a piece of the sunshine, burned a little hole in me
But after the flood raged, there's nothing really left to see
But i was not done or beat, the violence was a source of strength
Not everything is always just as it seems
What you call love, is just urgency
What you call love, is a place you turn in an emergency
Would you give up, when its not what you want it to be?
But thats not love, what you call love
What you call love, is just urgency
What you call love is a place to turn in an emergency
Would you give up when its not what you want it to be?
But thats not love, what you call love
No thats not love, what you call love
Late afternoon when the sun was unraveling
Walking the trail to the end of the gravel and
Into the well went a lucky old silver coin
Tumbling down in the dark I was fading and
Leaning so far and so quietly waiting
A wish that was made at the bottom of the well
What happened then is so hard to recall
But as quick as the snap of a whip I was falling and
Tumbling following after my silver coin
Silence as day turned into the night
Could I go back how I wish that I might
I was the boy in the bottom of the well
Parents were weeping and frantically searching
He’d always been wandering looking for something
One moment he’s here and the next he is surely gone
But he didn’t return for a day and a night
We all knew the son that just couldn’t be right
A voice on the phone said he’d fallen in the well
I woke from my sleep with the firemen screaming and
Lowering down all the things I was needing
A basket a bible a blanket and a bell
And dozens of voices yelling in unison
Loudly and echoey hazy and (?) hold on hold on hold on
I’d always been dreaming of places and scenes
Fireflies only now could you see
The rhythm of crickets and toads the only sound
And soon I’d be leaving but now I’m believing
In wishes and wells and a way to get back
To the sacred place I’ve stumbled on and found
Late afternoon while the sun was unraveling
Walking the trail to the end of the gravel and
Into the well went a lucky old silver coin
Tumbling down in the dark I was fading and
Leaning so far and so quietly waiting
If that's all you will be, you'll be a waste of time
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind
Two points for honesty
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all
I want to be where I've never been before
I want to be there and then I'd understand
Know I'm right and do it right, could I get to be like that
I'll know what I don't know with nothin more to gain
Will I get better or stay the same
I find I always move to slowly
Can't lift a finger, can't change my mind
I never knew till someone told me that...
If that's all you will be, you'll be a waste of time
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind
Two points for honesty
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all
And all the people who've seen it all before
And all the people who really understand
Know they're right, and have done it right, could I get to be like that
I'll know what I don't know, it's harder everyday
Can't lift a finger, can't hurt a fly
I've found I always move too slowly
One things for certain, I'm insecure
I never knew till someone told me that....
If that's all you will be, you'll be a waste of time
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind
Two points for honesty
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all
Nobody cares at all
Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone's hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters on my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
Longer that that road
That stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
Longer that that road
That stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
I closed the door and stepped into the city
The city stepped right back to me
There's cracks on every sidewalk of this city
Like licking lips to swallow me
This is a sea of cars on the road
Lined up like bottles, shook up, ready to explode
With feathers and string and wax I made wings
I climbed up a building, crossed my heart, and took a leap
One single voice makes a deafening sound
You can be anything this time around
I flew across the sea and to an island
I wrestled down an old King Kong
I rescued maidens captive on that island
Hero in a uniform
My conscience was clean and taking control
A model American just doing what he's told
And dusty old crates, and my father's tapes
But Timothy Leary said the words which led the way
One single voice makes a deafening sound
You can be anything this time around
You can be anything this time around
It was the darkest day
I could tell from the moment you spoke my name
Said in a miserable way with every year you've come to regret it
We've colored in the lines and followed all the signs
Fought a war till the war was over
Said you'd never be the kind with an ordinary life
Now this how it feels to have a broken heart
Look at the mess we made
Now we stopped and say what we always say
And then you make the great escape
With every year you'll come to regret it
Chorus
And everything we had you think that it's a trap
You fought a war now war was over
You knew what you would find was an ordinary life
There's a message in the skies and in the streets
Opportunity, the Amercany dream
It's in the radio, it's superstars
Are the arteries and veins that feed your heart
From the Dairy Queen to the head of the parade
In a blink your life could change
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours, be yours someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
You come as Elvis Presley every Halloween
And dream of sing-a-longs the whole wide world will sing
Into the great unknown, Horatio
Desire and ambition fuel this heart
So take a breath and step into the light
Everything will be all right
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours, all yours someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
Someday
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours someday
This could all be yours, all yours someday
Someday
Someday
My, my how things have changed since I have been away
It’s the first time but it’s different, I’m afraid
Where’s the boy so happy to be near it all?
He’s lost in the travels
A little part of me so small
Cry for me
Cry for him
Cry for the answer
Cry because it’s done
Cry for the feeling
Cry for the youth
All for the prize
Through different eyes
The promise that you have made forgets
See it as you may
Deny it while you can
Search for the reasons
As you beg to understand
Cry for me
Cry for him
Cry for the answer
Cry because it’s done
Cry for the feeling
Cry for the youth
All for the prize
Come and go
Don’t get pulled into the light
Come and go
Wouldn’t believe it if you tried
Come and go
It’s as useless as it was
You can go
The end we know
I wont tell you anything
So far away you are to me
Cry for me
Cry for him
Cry for the answer
Cry because it’s done
Cry for the feeling
Cry for the youth
All for the prize
My, my I swear it’s been a lifetime since i have been away
It’s the last time but somehow it’s all the same
Verse:
Am I asleep?
Is this a dream?
Oh my God, what have I done?
Anything?
Verse:
At twenty-three,
You walked out on me.
Oh my God, where have you gone?
Anyway?
Chorus:
On the ocean,
I think I'm taking on water.
The storm is on the way,
But I will hold on anyway.
Verse:
Ten thousand leagues,
under the sea,
Oh my God, what have you done?
Anything?
Bridge:
Twenty nine years,
I've wondered around,
There's no beauty here,
No emerald town,
I shout aloud, "what will be forgotten?"
Everything?
Chorus:
On the ocean,
I think I'm taking on water.
The storm is on the way,
But I will hold on anyway.
Bridge:
I close my eyes and there's someone beside me.
Hand in hand we can only speak in tongues.
She's pulling me along.
Follow'n down, a trail of crumbs behind me,
My head's in her hands,
But everything, it still feels wrong.
This isn't what I thought,
So can I just go home?
Verse:
Am I asleep?
Is this a dream?
Oh my God, what have I done?
Anything?
(ROUND)
On the ocean,
Ten thousand leagues,
I think I'm taking on water,
Under the sea,
The storm is on the way,
Oh my God, what have you done?
But I will be? you? anyway.
Anything?
Oh, no here we go
We're the last ones alive
Every family and every friend
Has been strangled and tangled tonight
All the world is abandoned and I
Got what we need and we don't look back
OK alright, OK
OK alright, OK
So now take control
Pick a car we can drive
Every dream we have ever held
No more strangers or dangers
Tonight
All the world is a canvas tonight
Got what we need and we don't look back
OK alright, OK
OK alright, OK
And that's the way it goes
Skin the vapor and flesh to goes
It's the first day of our lives
Tear their names from the cages
My oh my my
Everyone is a virgin and I
Got what we need and we don't look back
Another chance
Yeah we get another chance
OK alright, OK
I know there is a place, a place where I belong
Not be mistreated or undone
And if I find that place, I'll keep my mouth shut
'Cause I won't be there alone
And if you're standing there with me
I'll swear it's a lie, and I'll still believe it
'Cause I came and I spoke and you ran
Didn't even wait to hear the words
See the look in my eyes
'Cause I bled and you watched
And I cried myself to sleep
Came to wipe my tears away but you
Couldn't look in my eyes again
Because of the love for me
Well, I understand the time
It passes so slowly and I can hear it's laughter
But there will come a time
When you will ask me and I will join you then
And if you're standing there with me
I'll swear it's a lie, and I'll still believe it
'Cause I came and I spoke and you ran
Didn't even wait to hear the words
Or see the look in my eyes
'Cause I bled and you watched
And I cried myself to sleep
Came to wipe my tears away but you
Couldn't look in my eyes again
Because of the love for me
Because of the love for me
Because of the love for me
Because of the love for me
Because of the love for me
Because of the love for me
Home
I'm livin' alone
I'm starin' at the waves
I'm drinkin' in the gasoline
Since the fall, I've been lost at sea
Walking in my sleep
Dreamin' of the major leagues
And who's been calling my name
Is it me, or's it getting darker in this town
You know, you know, we're all just castaways
We're cold and wet and naked and surrounded by the waves
Something in the way
Hold on, hold on.
Waiting for the land to come again
Alone, I'm drinkin' alone
I'm walkin' in the weeds
I'm sinkin' in a submarine
Since the fall, I've been lost at sea
Trippin' on my feet
Singin' in a minor key
Is it true I will find a way
And I know
That's the biggest joke in town
You know, you know, we're all just castaways
We're cold and wet and naked as we struggle in the waves
Something in the way
Hold on, hold on
Waiting for the land to come again
You know, you know, we're all just castaways
Suspended on a line between the dark blue and the gray
But something in the way
Hold on, hold on
Waiting for the land to come we're waiting for our ship to come
I was down for the count
Without any real way out
In this new submarine
Like the whale of Jonah's dreams
And what if I should rise up
From several fathoms too
A scar on my soul and a humbling tale of a world
That swallowed me whole
Swallowed me whole
It was harmless enough
While acquiring all this stuff
But the truth in the end
Was a slippery descent
And what if I should rise up
From several fathoms too
A scar on my soul and a humbling tale of a world
That swallowed me whole
Swallowed me whole
I was asleep while the angels were weeping
And racing below me to cushion my fall
And I was just like Jonah
Staring down the whale
A scar on my soul and a humbling tale of a world
That swallowed me whole
Swallowed me whole
Swallowed me whole
Come on dear friends
Come gather round the mountain
Drink from the fountain
Tell your lovers it's time to go
Tell them the tale when Sodom met Gomorrah
The end days are coming the Mullah send the way out the sun
The drummers drum and the motors hum
And the trumpet players make the chords
Sound wakes the devil down below
Jesus and Mary and Juliet and Romeo
In a movie on TV plays seven days a week
Turn off that radio we don't wanna hear about it anymore
[whistle]
Kill of the kill the hunters and the hunted
Seems like we're running 2000 years and still under control
So let's go start a war with FDR and Eleanor
These where the ways of the men before
The ammunition and, soldiers and guns
Lovers love and the motors moan
And the trumpet players blow the horn
Sound wakes devil down below
Jesus and Mary and Juliet and Romeo
In a movie on TV plays seven days a week
Turn off that microphone we don't wanna hear about it anymore
Sunned ends with a big Amen and the preachers take it door to door
Sound shakes devil down below
Jesus and Mary and Juliet and Romeo
In a movie on TV plays seven days a week
Turn off that telephone we don't wanna hear about it anymore
I looked down and I didn't know what to think
Vapor trails from the engine of this plane
Shut my eyes and I flew right from this place
Made a wish and I blew it all away
Then I was alone
Then I was alone
Right now the sun fills up the sky
And waves of color beat in time
Tell all my friends I'm seeing them again
I'm on a great divide
There is no doubt, I'm never coming back
The story of my life
I was down and I did not understand
Was afraid couldn't wash it off my hands
So I rose and I flew right from that place
Got my wish that I'll never be the same
Then I was alone
Then I was alone
Right now the sun fills up the sky
And waves of color beat in time
Tell all my friends I'm seeing them again
I'm on a great divide
There is no doubt, I'm never coming back
The story of my life
Now I'm fine
I'm through
I'm through
I'm through
Then I was alone
Then I was alone
But it won't be long
But it won't be long
I'm through
I'm through
We went down to the May parade, mumbled words under my breath
There is something I've been meaning to do, I am dying to tell you
I've been so damn tired
It went down at the May parade, bitter words under my breath
There is something I've been dyin to do, I was meaning to tell you
I've been so damn sad
Cause I spy something red
You don't know how far you've gone
Or recognize who you've become
How'd you grow to be so hard...sick of playing my part
We went down at the May parade, alcohol under my breath
There is something I've been meaning to do, I am dying to tell you
I've been so damn sad
Cause I spy something red
You don't know how far you've gone
Or recognize who you've become
Looks like these afternoons of revery are through
What's left for me to say, what's left for me to do?
Float along and feel the water on my back
Try not to sink down to the bottom
Hollow my head, it echoes like a wooden drum
Peel back my skin and make my ribs a xylophone
Feel the water rise and fall between my bones
And then just sink down to the bottom
It's a simple love affair, dangerous and true
Her arms are all around, reaching out for you
She's a siren in the night, with streaks of red and blue
And though you've disappeared you know, she will get you through
She'll come to the rescue
It's a simple love affair, dangerous and true
Her arms are all around, reaching out for you
She's a siren in the night, with streaks of red and blue
And though you've disappeared you know, she will get you through
Not much of this makes sense to me
The river leaves run cold and dry
But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree
And sometimes I’m too scared to even try
Hashing through the possibilities
They seem as endless as the sky
You seek the truth and the quiet breeze
But the air is too thin to reply
Well I know that’s where I’ll never be
Because I can see the summer’s done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
And pray I float at all
Distant notions of subtle residue
Cling to minds from our past
Tell us what is what and who made who
But time’s events move us too fast
Simple sentiments whisked away by anxious steel wool
Struggling to content ourselves with what we think best
That what makes happy of which we seem never full
Is actually more than plenty though it is already possessed
Well I know that’s where I’ll never be
Because I can see the summer’s done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
And pray I float at all
Not much of this makes sense to me
The river leaves run cold and dry
But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree
And sometimes I’m too scared to even try
Utter confusion feigns clarity
Scattered delusions excuses destiny
It’s never exactly how it appears to be
It’s too much for any of us who even try to see
Well I know that’s where I’ll never be
Because I can see the summer’s done
I try to let the river flow in and out of me
And pray I float the way I think I want
Say goodbye, lose your friends, make them go, don't need them around
Cause it's time, lose your friends, make them go, was never supposed to be like this
They were too weak, too prone to break
Their needs too deep, their skin too thin
By now you took what was to take
Tear it apart and start again
So go on, if this will make you happier
It got you this far, did what you had to
You've wasted every moment of your Saturdays and your Sundays
You're wasted from the boredom, was never supposed to be like this
Like your father said, just do what was done unto you..always
In your father's steps you'll do what was done unto you
It won't be hard to start again
So go on, if this will make you happier
It got you this far, do what you have to
(Well you knew this would come)
And you're gone now
(And you've left me all alone)
And did it make you happier?
(And you're lost and long gone, don't take it so seriously)
It wasn't that hard
(Go on and get goin, I'm fine on my own)
Did what you had to
(We got you this far, finally got it figured out)
One more itch you son of a bitch
You've been wasting my time...always
And now you're half awake
You bend till you break
And make the same mistakes...always
So go on, if this will make you happier
It got you this far, do what you have to
(Well you knew this would come)
And you're gone now
(And you've left me all alone)
And did it make you happier?
(And you're lost and long gone, don't take it so seriously)
It wasn't that hard
(Go on and get goin, I'm fine on my own)
Did what you had to
Here we are inside a novel
Waiting for an end
We don't know the authors of the book
Maybe someone's writing chapters
For us while we sleep
From a million miles away
Stuck without a captain or a chart
No one seems to know just who to follow anymore
Hang on
Hang on
There's a twilight
A nighttime and a dawn
Who knows
How long
So hang on
Hang on
If we fell inside a forest
Would it make a sound
It doesn't seem there's anyone around
Days are long we carry on
But still don't understand
We're a million miles away
Stuck without a captain or a chart
No one seems to know just who to follow anymore
Hang on
Hang on
There's a twilight
A nighttime and a dawn
Who knows
How long
So hang on
Hang on
Hang on
Hang on
When all is shattered
When all your hope is gone
Who knows
How long
There is a twilight
A nighttime and a dawn
We break
We bend
With hand in hand
When hope is gone
Just hang on
Please come tempt me you’ve got something good in mind
Dropped everything glad to be persuade this time
Into the car baby bleed the gas
Fast is fast never turning back
Oh yeah not scared of that
The past has passed and we cannot take it back
They want to know if we could get away
Yeah we backed it up and made our great escape
When the dust will settle and they discover
The furthest exodus getting somewhere
While the messengers get the message in
Try to capture us we’ve done nothing wrong
Please come tempt me steal me from this priss-teen life
Oh so gently everyone feels pain this time
Into the car baby bleed the gas
Fast is fast never turning back
Oh yeah not scared of that
The past has passed and we cannot take it back
They want to know if we could get away
Yeah we backed it up and made our great escape
When the dust will settle and they discover
The furthest exodus getting somewhere
While the messengers get the message in
Try to capture us we’ve done nothing wrong
Oh she wants me
And she needs me
She can have me all of the time
Oh she wants me
And she needs me
Circle circle dot dot dot
They want to know if we could get away
Yeah we backed it up and made our great escape
When the dust will settle and they discover
The furthest exodus getting somewhere
While the messengers get the message in
Everyone here's in trouble
The man with the megaphone
Smoke and mirrors and crystal balls and red alerts and all because
Of the king who hides behind the pawns
I can see what's really going on
I can see what's really going on
Everyone here's a bubble
Merrily floating on
Manicured suburban lawns and patriotic country songs
Pledge allegiance, sing along
I can see what's really going on
I can see what's really going on
Everyone here's in trouble
Angels abandon guard
History is cyclical
Crusaders and the biblical
Light the torches bang the gongs
I can see what's really going on
I can see what's really going on
Na na na na-na
Na na na na-na
Na na, na na
Na na, na na
Na na na na-na
Na na na na-na
Na na, na na
He smiled to the world
But his heart fell below his pain
He wanted only arms
But he lied to himself again
Closing doors and locking locks
He looked inside himself
Only to find
Seeping from his soul
Let me fall in two
Wide as a river and spread as thin
What it could start and no one would finish
Bottled up frowning treaties or what they would
Knowing not nothing he was the only son
Closing doors and locking locks
He looked inside himself
Only to find
Seeping from his soul
Let me fall in two
Let me fall in two
What are you running from?
He finds himself away
Only have to make the world come find you
Try to leave but there is nothing he can do
Downcast eyes scrutinize
As to what the lead ball hummingbird could not succumb
To find what is gone you must burn what is dried
And smell the essence of what remains inside
And blackened thoughts erase all that is past
Before him not knowing where it’s coming
So you shake him around and scream into his eyes
That to drown in the water is to lie by his side
Closing doors and locking locks
He looked inside himself
Only to find
Seeping from his soul
Been the crawl of a mountain
Been a link in a chain
Been scolded for stealing
Been told to behave
Been reading the forecast
Something's coming this way
But it's taking forever
I'm too tired to maintain that
I'm slow
Been a scratch on the surface
Been a clog in the drain
Been melodramatic
Been sleeping for days
Been one in a million
Been a million to one
This is taking forever
It always seems to return that
I'm slow
All hands up, salute the Empire State
Faith be true, you know the way
Ten feet tall in this: an empty space
Fallen walls all around
Destroyed again
Destroyed again
Been digging to China
Been a fish in the sea
Been talking to Jesus
He's not talking to me
Been reading the forecast
Something's coming this way
But it's taking forever
I'm too tired to maintain that
I'm slow
All hands up, salute the Empire State
Faith is true, she knows the way
Ten miles tall in this: an empty space
Fallen walls all around
We'll build again
Rebuild again
Been the crawl of a mountain
Been a link in a chain
Been scolded for stealing
We were young, twenty one, all those years ago
In came a fascination, everything is under control
Full of life, untried, through thickets and through thorns
Out came a revelation, everything is out of control
Do you feel it?
Do you feel it now?
Want it, but you don't know how?
Have it, as much as anybody ever has?
I wanna wake you from your dream,
I wanna know just who you're talking to when your singin' in your sleep
I wanna find out what it means
Do you love me?
I got marbles in my mouth
Thousand words I wanna say but it's impossible to spit em out
I can barely make a sound
Do you love me?
Now we're fine, all right, but all those days are gone
We read our constellations, everything is under control
Are you tired, I'm tired
The tv sparks and glows
The news man gives information, everything is under control
Do you feel it?
Do you feel it now?
Want it, but you don't know how?
Have it, as much as anybody ever has?
I wanna wake you from your dream,
I wanna know just who you're talking to when your singin' in your sleep
I wanna find out what it means
Do you love me?
I got marbles in my mouth
Thousand words I wanna say but it's impossible to spit em out
I can barely make a sound
Do you love me?
Do do do do do, do do do do do do do [x4]
Do you feel it?
Do you feel it now?
Want it, but you don't know how?
Have it, as much as anybody ever has?
I'm the king and you're the queen
Maybe I'm not the one that you're singin' to in your sleep
I wanna find out what it means
Do you love me, love me?
Be a sinner or a saint
Take the beauty over brains
On your Malcolm, draw the X's on the eyes
Fill it in or leave it blank
Be the hero or the crank
Undercover with a secret alibi
Do what you want
Just say so
Open up your mind
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
No one's gonna care nothing
So ready or not
Here we come
Walk into the night
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
No one's gonna care if we disappear
On your knees or on your back
Oversee Johnny attack
I'm forever like I'm done plenty time
Laugh your fingers in your fist
Twist your lips into a kiss
Cross your heart, go into the open wild
Do what you want
Just say so
Open up your mind
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
No one's gonna care nothing
So ready or not
Here we come
Walk into the night
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
No one's gonna care if we disappear
And where we're going is so far away
And there I sigh
I know together we could find a place
That's where we are just who we are
So do what you want
Just say so
Open up your mind
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
No one's gonna care at all
So ready or not
Here we come
Walk into the night
Doesn't matter at all
Oh, oh, oh, oh
The secrets that we keep
We say them in our sleep
and wrestle down our souls if we would speak
I watched you board a train in the London rain
and waved bye-bye as you slipped out of view
Diane
We'll make it out together
In your dreams when the smile now comes,
you're mumbling words with a lazy tongue.
We lie together when we say its love,
who were you just thinking of, Diane?
Diane
Diane, I don't say it, but I know you know
The theme returns so deep
and visits us in sleep
to define the you and I as we
So we pass the time and occupy our minds
and close our eyes and hope that we'll be fine
Diane
We'll make it out together
And I may leave in time you'll see
I look out of my bedroom window pane
Every day, but the view just stays the same
I was young I would run straight from this place
Come back home and then start it all again
I know just what I want, I know just what I need
It's a big old house and it's coming back to haunt me
We'll be alright, we'll be easy
Dont look back, dont look back
Just c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
Look around at the people in this place
I'm afraid that we'll end up the same way
So let's rise, dye our hair, and change our names
Make a wish and just blow it all away
I know just what I want, I know just what I need
It's a big old house and its coming back to haunt me
We'll be alright, we'll be easy
Dont look back, dont look back
Just c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
We'll be alright, we'll be easy
Dont look back, dont look back
Just c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
Cause you know what you want
When I'm a walking, I strut my stuff then I'm so strung out
And I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on like a blister in the sun
Let me go on, big hands I know you're the one
Body beats, I stain my sheets, I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end, she is starting to cry
Let me go on like a blister in the sun
Let me go on, big hands I know you're the one
When I'm a walking, I strut my stuff, then I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out
When I'm a walking, I strut my stuff then I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out
Body beats, I stain my sheets, I don't even know why
My girlfriend, she's at the end, she is starting to cry
When I'm a walking, I strut my stuff then I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on, like a blister in the sun
I know a movie star, I've got her plastered to my wall
Just like we're dear old friends, like she already knows me
She's perfect as she seems, lifts me right out the Mezzanine
I finally fell in love, I'd been waiting forever
Four, three, two, one
When at the barrel of a gun
Keep my head way down.
Stay out, I'll stay in.
Half dead, half numb
She's enough to make me warm
It's all so safe and sound.
Lie back and fast asleep, if you could see what I could see
Drip drop a lovely dream
God damn you movie star, can't you just play a minute more
We'd be the best of friends, you could stay here forever
Four, three, two, one
When at the barrel of a gun
Keep my head way down.
Stay out I'll stay in.
Half dead, half numb
She's enough to make me warm
It's all so safe and sound.
She will be sweet on me, just like a mystery
It's not so hard to see if I'm not mistaken
She comes from far away, and gets closer everyday
And all that I can say is that she's all I want and all that I live for
Four, three, two, one
When at the barrel of a gun
Keep my head way down.
Stay out I'll stay in.
Half dead, half numb
She's enough to make me warm
I'm wide awake
It's the middle of the night
I'm standing in the dark
Waiting for the light
And here I'll remain
'Til the sun is in the sky
Standing in the dark
Waiting for the light
There is love
There is peace in this world
So take it back
Say it's not what you thought
Grab a hold
Take these melodies with your hands
Write a song to sing
Isn't such a bad, bad world
And I say these times are strange
I can feel it in the night
I'm standing in the dark
Holding up for the light
And here I'll remain
'Til the great sun shines
Standing in the dark
I live on the second floor
Of an old row house down in Baltimore
Watching all the colors and the shapes
Standing tall up here
My face against the window
Oooooo....
My face against the window
Oooooo....
These moments, they can never last
Like a sad old man with his photographs
Keeps wishing for the things he cannot change
Standing tall up here
My face against the window
Oooooo....
My face against the window
Oooooo....
So the architects and the engineers
Build their monuments, make their souvenirs
We are occupants
It's a trap, this town
We are burning up
We are fading out
We are shooting stars
Oooooo....
Oooooo....
He said to only look up
He said to never look down
Down is where he came from
He said to hope for the best and take a load off my chest
Soon I could be happy
And go all the way up to heaven
And go all the way back home
(whistles)
He thought I might need his help
No one gets high on themselves
I just seem so lonely
He's just trying to be nice
And spread around his advice
I could be that happy
And go all the way up to heaven
And go all the way back home
Stay the way I am today and serve to more disaster
He could tell a fairy tale that's happy ever after
Just relax and green of grass will grow here for a change
Maybe then we'll last a million years or more..or more..or more
And go all the way up to heaven
And go all the way back home
Yes, I do belive what he says
I want to be happy
I could show you this hell
No one gets by on themselves
He can make me happy
(It's a long silent peace)
And I will only love him
(It'a a weakness in your knees)
And I will never look down
Down is where we came from
(It's a perfect place to go for everlasting love)
Because it's all in the past
(Nothing to fear, nothing to hide)
He took a load off my chest
(You just say what's on your mind)
(Needn't think before you speak)
Ooh cause it's not happy
(This is how it's meant to be)
Cause I had needed his help
(Never high, never fall)
No matter how by myself
(You can do no wrong at all)
I am going nowhere
(In this heaven up above filled with everlasting love)
And now I'm changing my plans
Because we only live once
Ooh could be this happy
ROCKAPELLA - A Change in my Life
Standing cold and scared on top of Blue Hill,
There came one moment when I lost my will.
I prayed for mercy, " Please, Lord take me away,
Or give me sunshine where I only see grey."
The past had a hold on me, it can't be denied,
And the changes didn't come easily.
Chorus
I've been lonely, I've been cheated, I've been misunderstood;
I've been washed up, I've been put down, and told I'm no good.
But with you I belong, 'cause you helped me be strong.
There's a change in my life since you came along.
Now I don't mind working so hard every day,
And I don't pay no mind to what people say.
'Cause after all the pain I've been through,
Lord knows I'd give up everything just to love only you.
All my life I've held my head bent in shame,
But now I've found you, and with you I'll remain.
Lord knows...
(Chorus)
A man gets crazy when his world is all wrong,
And a heart gets weary when it doesn't belong.
When the road gets rocky, Lord, you've got to keep on,
Let the new light come shining on through.
Late afternoon when the sun was unraveling
Walking the trail to the end of the gravel
And into the well went a lucky old silver coin
Tumbling down, in the dark it was fading
Leaning so far and so quietly waiting
A wish that was made at the bottom of the well
What happened next is so hard to recall
But as quick as the snap of a whip I was falling
And tumbling, following after my silver coin
Silence as day turned into the night
Could I go back, how I wish that I might
I was the boy in the bottom of the well
My parents were weeping and frantically searching
"He'd always been wandering looking for something
one moment he's here and the next he is surely gone."
"But he didn't return for a day and night
We all knew that something just couldn't be right
A voice on the phone said he'd fallen in the well"
I woke from a sleep with the firemen screaming
And lowering down all the things I was needing
A basket, a bible, a blanket, and a bell
And dozens of voices yelling in unison
Loudly and echo-y, hazy and boom-y
"Hold on, hold on, hold on"
I'd always been dreaming of places an scenes
Fireflies the only light that you see
The rhythm of crickets and toads the only sound
And soon I'll be leaving
But now I'm believing
In wishes and wells
And a way to get back to the sacred place I've stumbled on and found
Late afternoon when the sun was unraveling
Walking the trail to the end of the gravel
And into the well went a lucky old silver coin
Tumbling down, in the dark it was fading
Leaning so far and so quietly waiting
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it's nothing but flowers
There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it
We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it
There was a shopping mall
Now it's all covered with flowers
you've got it, you've got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you've got it, you've got it
Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it's only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it's nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong
Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it
I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it
We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it
This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it
Don't leave me stranded here
Once upon a time
Before the Lord, the skies they parted
So a few must die
To bring us back to where we started
Two at a time (x4)
Do what you're told
Each and every kind were gathered up
This tiny boat
The future of the world
For those that drowned, it made no sense
They should've known, because we told them so
Two at a time (x4)
Do what you're told
I can see the rains are coming
To wash away the filth and vermin (vermin)
Hand in hand, we'll watch them running
Home
Now it's summertime
Long ago, the skies, they parted
So a few have died
To bring us back to where we started
Two at a time (x4)
We went down to the May Parade
Mumbled words under my breath
There is something I've been meaning to do
I am dying to tell you
I've been so damn tired
It went down at the May Parade
Bitter words under my breath
There is somethign I've been meaning to do
I was meaning to tell you
I've been so damn tired
'cause I spy something wrong
You don't know how far you've gone
Or recognize who you've become
How'd you grow to be so hard
Sick of playing my part
We went down at the May Parade
Alcohol under my breath
There is something I've been meaning to do
I am dying to tell you
I've been so damn sad
'cause I spy something wrong
You don't know how far you've gone
Or recognize who you've become
How'd you grow to be so hard
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