Bright Eyes Filmography

• Coachella (2006)
• Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek (2005)

Eyes, Bright Filmography

• Jappu za rokku riborubâ (2009)

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Bright Eyes - Manic Street Preachers
• Bright Eyes - Boyzone
• Poison Oak - Bright Eyes
• Patient Hope In New Show - Bright Eyes
• Movement Of A Hand - Bright Eyes
• If Winter Ends - Bright Eyes
• The first noel - Bright Eyes
• Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem - Bright Eyes
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Bright Eyes
• Blue Christmas - Bright Eyes
• Away In A Manger - Bright Eyes
• Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love And To Be Loved) - Bright Eyes
• Biographie - Bright Eyes
• Messenger Bird's Song - Bright Eyes
• You Will.you? Will.you? Will.you? Will. - Bright Eyes
• Waste Of Paint - Bright Eyes
• The Big Picture - Bright Eyes
• Make War - Bright Eyes
• From A Balance Beam - Bright Eyes
• Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come - Bright Eyes
• Bowl Of Oranges - Bright Eyes
• We Are Nowhere And It's Now - Bright Eyes
• Old Soul Song (for The New World Order) - Bright Eyes
• Another Travelin' Song - Bright Eyes
• I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (road To Joy) - Bright Eyes
• At The Bottom Of Everything - Bright Eyes
• The Movement Of A Hand - Bright Eyes
• When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass - Bright Eyes
• The Center Of The World - Bright Eyes
• The Calendar Hung Itself - Bright Eyes
• An Attempt To Tip The Scales - Bright Eyes
• A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever And A Necklace - Bright Eyes
• A Song To Pass The Time - Bright Eyes
• A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks - Bright Eyes
• Take It Easy (love Nothing) - Bright Eyes
• Light Pollution - Bright Eyes
• Devil In The Details - Bright Eyes
• Arc Of Time - Bright Eyes
• White Christmas - Bright Eyes
• The Night Before Christmas - Bright Eyes
• Motion Sickness - Bright Eyes
• Middleman - Bright Eyes
• Neely O'hara - Bright Eyes
• Mushaboom - Bright Eyes
• Weather Reports - Bright Eyes
• We Are Free Men - Bright Eyes
• Triple Spiral - Bright Eyes
• Seashell Tale - Bright Eyes
• Train Under Water - Bright Eyes
• Touch - Bright Eyes
• Time Code - Bright Eyes
• Theme From Pinata - Bright Eyes
• The Joy In Discovery - Bright Eyes
• The Difference In The Shades - Bright Eyes
• The City Has Sex - Bright Eyes
• The Biggest Lie - Bright Eyes
• The 'feel Good' Revolution - Bright Eyes
• Supriya - Bright Eyes
• Sunrise Sunset - Bright Eyes
• Stray Dog Freedom - Bright Eyes
• Spring Cleaning - Bright Eyes
• Soul Singer In A Session Band - Bright Eyes
• Solid Jackson - Bright Eyes
• Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra - Bright Eyes
• One For You, One For Me - Bright Eyes
• Nothing Gets Crossed Out - Bright Eyes
• Lover I Don't Have To Love - Bright Eyes
• Loose Leaves - Bright Eyes
• Little Drummer Boy - Bright Eyes
• Lila - Bright Eyes
• Lets Not Shit Ourselves - Bright Eyes
• Laura Laurent - Bright Eyes
• Ladder Song - Bright Eyes
• Jetsabel Removes The Undesirables - Bright Eyes
• I've Been Eating (for You) - Bright Eyes
• I Believe In Symmetry - Bright Eyes
• Hot Knives - Bright Eyes
• Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh - Bright Eyes
• Four Winds - Bright Eyes
• Emily, Sing Something Sweet - Bright Eyes
• Drunk Kid Catholic - Bright Eyes
• Devil Town - Bright Eyes
• Cleanse Song - Bright Eyes
• Classic Cars - Bright Eyes
• Center Of The World - Bright Eyes
• Black Comedy - Bright Eyes
• Beginner's Mind - Bright Eyes
• Attempt To Tip The Scales - Bright Eyes
• A New Arrangement - Bright Eyes
• Approximate Sunlight - Bright Eyes
• Act Of Contrition - Bright Eyes
• A Perfect Sonnet - Bright Eyes
• A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not - Bright Eyes
• Jejune Stars - Bright Eyes
• Road To Joy - Bright Eyes
• Gold Mine Gutted - Bright Eyes
• First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes
• Firewall - Bright Eyes
• False Advertising - Bright Eyes
• Down In A Rabbit Hole - Bright Eyes
• Calendar Hung Itself - Bright Eyes
• Bad Blood - Bright Eyes
• Arc Of Time (time Code) - Bright Eyes
• Amy In The White Coat - Bright Eyes
• A Machine Spiritual - Bright Eyes
• A Celebration Upon Completion - Bright Eyes
• Bright Eyes - Blind Guardian
• When The President Talks To God - Bright Eyes
• Arienette - Bright Eyes
• Well Whiskey - Bright Eyes
• Trees Get Wheeled Away - Bright Eyes
• Tourist Trap - Bright Eyes
• The Vanishing Act - Bright Eyes
• The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat - Bright Eyes
• Southern State - Bright Eyes
• Something Vague - Bright Eyes
• Ship In A Bottle - Bright Eyes
• Shell Games - Bright Eyes
• Method Acting - Bright Eyes
• Lua - Bright Eyes
• Landlocked Blues - Bright Eyes
• I Must Belong Somewhere - Bright Eyes
• Hit The Switch - Bright Eyes
• Haile Selassie - Bright Eyes
• Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
• Bright Eyes - Jason Mraz
• Bright Eyes - Simon & Garfunkel
• Bright Eyes - Hayley Westenra
• Bright Eyes - Mike Batt
• Bright Eyes - Typecast
• Bright Eyes - Declan Galbraith
• Bright Eyes - Joana Zimmer
• Bright Eyes - Brotherhood Of Man
• Bright Eyes - David Essex
• Bright Eyes - Mmmkay

Is it a kind of dream
Floating down on the river?
Following the river of death down stream
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog on the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody knows where you can go
Or what does it mean
Oh, oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly turn so pale?
Bright eyes
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching over the hill?
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody knows where you can go
And where do you start
Oh oh, into the dark
Bright eyes burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly grow so pale?

Is it a kind of a dream
Floating out on the tide
Following the river of death downstream
Oh is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where it goes
And what does it mean?
Oh is it a dream?
Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly,
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Is it a kind of a shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Oh is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows where you go
And where do you start?

Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
When a telephone was a tin can on a string
And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
You said you weren't afraid to die
In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer?
Well, I don't think I ever loved you more
Than when you turned away
When you slammed the door
When you stole a car
Drove toward Mexico
And you wrote bad checks
Just to fill your arm
I was young enough
I still believed in war
Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words will turn back into steam
But me, I'm a single cell
On a serpent's tongue
There's a muddy field
Where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away
But Im still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet
From your brother's tears
And I never thought this life was possible
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for
The end of paralysis
I was a statuette
Now I'm drunk as hell
On a piano bench
And when I press the keys
It all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness

Alright
Alright
The heat comes in distant shifts to fill up my room
It spills out of these ancient vents to meet the new cold
And I lay in my twisted sheets and stare out at the snow
Thinking of the next few months, my cold and lifeless eyes
No I've never felt so separate
And then there's you that's so obvious
So say "It's hopeless and I know this
That's why I can't dream"
No desire or circumstance
Keep this from me
Keep this from me
Keep this, keep this
One by one to department stores, we walk through the aisles
In a forest of designer clothes you touch me and smile
And all for a moment I could want nothing
Your bright eyes burn through my exploding heart
So we stand as the shoppers pass us
And for once I can feel a touch complete
And I need to just be near you fill these empty eyes
You start turning as resistance pulls
You from my cold and boring life
Let's make this easy and let time pass, as devotion dies
The list goes on and on
I have waited and I will be waiting for the pain to cure the fear

You follow the footsteps
Echoes leading down the hall
To a room, there's music playing
Tiny bells with moving parts
Here the shadows make things ugly
An effect quite undesirable
And the bold and yellow daylight
Grows like ivy across the walls
And it bounces off of the painted porcelain
A tiny dancing doll
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
The world suddenly seems small
On an off white, subtle morning
You stretch your legs in the front seat
And the road has made a vacuum
Where our voices used to be
An' you lay your head onto my shoulder
Pour like water over me
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes
Of this drive, that will be fine
And all these trees that line this curb
Would be rejoicing and alive
Soon all the joy that pours from everything
Makes fountains of your eyes
'Cause you finally understand the movement

i dreamt of a fever,
one that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart.
with heat to melt these frozen tears
and burned with reasons as to carry on.
into these twisted months
ill plunge without a light to follow
but i swear that i would follow anything
if it would just get me out of here.
and so you get six months to adapt
and you get two more to leave town
and in the event that you do adapt
we still might not want you around.
but I fell for the promise
of a life with a purpose
but I know thats impossible now
and so I drink to stay warm
and to kill selectred memories
cause I just cant think anymore about that
or about her tonight.
and I give myself three days to feel better
or else I swear am driving off a fucking cliff
because if I cant learn to make myself feel better
how can I expect anyone else to give a shiiiit
and I scream for the sunlight
or a car to take me anywhere
just get me past this dead and eternal snow
cause i swear that im dying
slowly but its happening
and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere
just take me there
just take me there
just take me there
and lie to me and say
and lie to me and say
it's going to be alright
its going to be alright
yeah you worry too much kid,

The first Noel the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay a keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep
Noel Noel Noel Noel
Born is the King of Israel
Noel Noel Noel Noel
Born is the King of Israel
Born is the King of Israel

Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
Oh little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie!
Above our deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Now in thy dark streets shining
The everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
Oh in thy dark streets shining
The everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
Oh little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie!
Above our deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on our troubles will be out of sight
So have yourself a merry little Christmas night
Here as in olden days
Happy golden days of yours
Faithful who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Here as in olden days
Happy golden days of yours
Faithful who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on, our troubles will be miles away

I'll have a blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't mean a thing though if you're not here with me
I'll have a blue Christmas that's certain
When all those blue memories start hurting
You'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas
Yeah, you'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head
The stars in the sky look down where he lay
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay
The cattle are lowing the baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus no crying he makes
I love the Lord Jesus look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle till morning is night

The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cries hard in an apartment
complex,
as I pass in a car buried under the influence. The city is driving me out of my
mind.
I have seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and weeps
for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I.
A mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.
Her family is reduced to names on a shopping list.
Meanwhile, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix.
He know that there are worse things than being alone.
I have learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.
I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? Ambition, I have found, can only
lead to failure.
I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. And I would throw my whole billfold
if I thought it would help. With all these wishes I make,
I should by something great, at least a telephone call home.
My teachers, they built the retaining wall memory, all those multiple choices I
answered so quickly.
And I got my grades back and forgot just as easily, but as least I got an A.
So I don't have them to blame. I should stop pointing fingers;
reserve my judgment of all those public action figures, the cowboy president.
So loud behind the bullhorn so proud they can't admit when they have made a
mistake.
While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, he knows that he doesn't have to
say it,
so it don't bother him. "Honesty" "Accuracy" are really just "Popular Opinion."
And the approval rating is high, so someone is going to die. ABC, NBC, CBS:
Bullshit.
They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split. And each new act of war is
tonight's entertainment.
We are still the pawns in their game. As they take an eye for an eye until no one
can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history. Well, I guess that we all fit
into your slogan
on the fast food marquee: Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues.
I got the Blues! I got the Blues! That's me! That's me!
Well, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and
pills,
in a Chicago hospital. My father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so
far away.
I tried talking, just whispered, "...so sorry...so selfish..." He stopped me and
said,
"Child I love you regardless and there is nothing you could do that would ever
change this.
I'm not angry. It happens. You just can't do it again."
So now I try to keep up, I have been exchanging my currency.
While a million objects pass through my periphery. So now I am rubbing my eyes
because
they are starting to bother me. I have been staring too long at the screen.
But where was it when I first heard the sound of brutality? It came to my ears in
the goddamn
loveliest melody. How grateful I was them to be part of the mystery,
to love and be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.

Nebraska ist als einer der langweiligsten Flecken in den USA bekannt. Endlose, im
Wind wogende Kornfelder, unterbrochen nur von vereinzelten Farmen und Baumgruppen
prägen das Bild, das in den Köpfen vorherrscht. Doch seit Anfang der 90er Jahre gibt
es in Omaha, Nebraska das Indie-Label Saddle-Creek, welches zahlreiche Bands der
lokalen Szene weit über Nebraska hinaus bekannt macht. Eine dieser jungen,
erfolgreichen Gruppen nennt sich Bright Eyes. Genauer gesagt ist es
Multiinstrumentalist Conor Oberst, der als Songwriter unter dem Namen Bright Eyes
seine Melodien und Texte zum Besten gibt. Für die Aufnahmen und Auftritte sucht
Oberst immer wieder neue Formationen aus seinen Musikerfreunden in Nebraska
zusammen, so dass die Besetzung der Band lediglich in Person Conor Obersts konstant
ist. Dieser ist gerade einmal 20 Jahre alt und kann schon auf ein halbes Dutzend
veröffentlichter Tonträger blicken. Als Zehnjähriger machte der kleine Conor seine
ersten Aufnahmen mit dem heimischen Kassettenrecorder. Mit seiner Band Commander
Venus brachte Oberst dann das erste Album auf einem unbekanntem Label heraus, bevor
er mit 17 Jahren das Projekt Bright Eyes startete. Innerhalb dreier Jahre schuf die
Gruppe drei Alben, eine EP und ein paar Singles. In den USA schon längst ein
Begriff, schaffte die Band mit ihrem drittem Album "Fevers and Mirrors"
(2000) auch den Sprung über den großen Teich. Kurz nach Erscheinen ihrer Scheibe auf
dem europäischen Markt folgten einige Auftritte auf dem alten Kontinent, welche ihre
Musik auch in unseren Breiten bekannt machte.In den Konzerten und auf den Alben der
Bright Eyes bekommt der Zuhörer gefühlvolle und melodische, meist akustisch
gespielte Nummern dargeboten. Conor Oberst zelebriert dabei einen zutiefst
melancholischen Stil und singt mit zittriger Stimme von Herzschmerz, Unglück und
Selbsthass. Nach dem dritten Album wird Conor Oberst nun schon von Vielen als
begnadeter Songwriter gefeiert. Um diesen Anspruch gerecht zu werden wird das
"Wunderkind" allerdings noch ein paar gute Songs schreiben
müssen.2000 Fevers and Mirrors1998 Letting off the Happiness1998 A
Collection Of Songs Written and Recorded

The kitchen is cold
But the coffee is warm
And the suns coming up
The day has just begun
And your already bored
Bored of cheering me up
Bored of calming me down
Bored of drying my eyes
But there once was a time when you were the one
You were the blue of the sky
You came after the storm
You were the switch on the wall
In the dark of the hall
I'm still fumbling for
'Cuz I'm lost in the black
I don't know where I am
Arms strecthed out in front
I'm calling your name
Just as loud as I can
I know theres words that we will never speak
And the questions can't be answered easily
But I wanted to be easy so
Nod your head if the plans have change
Shake it love they stayed the same
Smile at me and I will stay
Start to cry and I'll go away
Just please don't leave me guessing
So you made me come
Then you sent me away
Lke a messenger bird
So I circled the earth
Blown away in the wind
But I always returned
With some new little song
Some sad story to tell
Of a breif love affair
With a girl I compared to you and she failed
You said you dont want me to beg
Then you said get down on your knees
'Cuz you knew that I would
If I do any good satisfying your needs
And I know all about those things we cannot speak
And just so you know well they don't bother me
So you don't have to be worried
Just nod your head if the plans have changed
Shake it love if they stayed the same
Smile at me and I will stay
Start to cry and I'll go away
Just please don't keep me waiting
Just nod your head if your mind's been changed
Shake it love if some hope remains
Just say the word and of course I'll stay
Roll your eyes and I'll go away
Just please dont leave me guessing
Just please dont keep me waiting

You say that I treat you like a book on a shelf. I don't take you out that often
because I know that I completed you and that is why you are here. That is the reason
you stay here. How awful that must feel.
You said you would be my dream. I could have you every night, and if, by morning, I
had forgotten you, well, no big deal, it would be all right because you are the
reoccuring kind. You are the reoccuring kind. You never really leave my mind.
Are you the love of my lifetime? Because there have been times I have had my doubts.
We were just kids when I first kissed you. In the attic of my parents house, and I
wish we were there now. It took so long to figure out what this book has been
about.
Now I write when I'm away letters that you never read. You said to go explore those
other women, the geography of their bodies but there is just one map you'll need.
You are a boomerang. You'll see. You will return to me.
You will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You?
Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
Because if you don't, then this book is all lies. If you don't, then my plans would
all be ruined. If you don't, I'll start drinking like the way I drank before. And I
just won't have a future anymore.

I have a friend, he is made mostly of pain
And he wakes up, drives to work, and then straight back home again
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper
Well, I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover
And I tried to tell him he had a sense
Of color and composition so magnificent
And he said, "Thank you, please but your flattery
Is truly not becoming me, your eyes are poor
You are blind, you see, no beauty could have come from me
I am a waste of breath, of space, of time"
I knew a woman, she was dignified and true
And her love for her man was one of her many virtues
Until one day, she found out that he had lied
And she decided the rest of her life from that point on would be a lie
But she was grateful for everything that had happens
And she was anxious for all that would come next?
But then she wept, what did you expect?
In that big, old house with the cars she kept
And "Such is life," she often said
With one day leading her to the next
You get a little closer to your death, which was fine with her
She never got upset and with all the days she may have left
She would never clean another mess or fold his shirts or look her best
She was free to waste away alone
Last night, my brother, he got drunk and drove
And this cop, he pulled him off to the side of the road
And he said, "Officer, officer, you got the wrong man
No, no, I'm a student of medicine, a son of a banker
You don't understand"
The cop said, "No one got hurt, you should be thankful
And your carelessness, it is something awful
And no, I can't just let you go
And though your father's name is known
Your decisions now are yours alone
You are nothing but a stepping stone
On a path to debt, to loss, to shame"
The last few months I have been living with this couple
Yeah, you know, the kind who buy everything in doubles
Oh, they fit together, like a puzzle
And I love their love and I am thankful
That someone actually receives the prize that was promised
By all those fairy tales that drugged us
And they still do me, I'm sick, lonely
No laurel tree, just green envy
Will my number come up eventually?
Like love is some kind of lottery
Where you scratch and see what's underneath
It's 'sorry, just one cherry', 'play again', 'get lucky'
So I have been hanging out down by the trains depot
No, I don't ride, I just sit and watch the people there
And they remind me of wind up cars in motion
The way they spin and turn and jockey for positions
And I want to scream out that it all is nonsense
All your live's one track, can't they see it's pointless?
But then, my knees give under me
My head feels weak and suddenly it is clear to see
It is not them but me, who has lost my self-identity
As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry
Like art could save a wretch like me
With some ideal ideology that no one could hope to achieve
And I am never real, it is just a sketch in me
And everything I made is trite and cheap and a waste
Of paint, of tape, of time
So now I park my car down by the cathedral
Where the floodlights point up at the steeples
Choir practice was filling up with people
Could hear the sound escaping as an echo
Sloping off the ceiling at an angle
And when the voices blend they sound like angels
I hope there's some room still in the middle
But when I lift my voice up now to reach them
The range is too high, way up in Heaven
And so I hold my tongue, forget the song
Tie my shoe, start walking off
And try to just keep moving on
With my broken heart and my absent God
And I have no faith but it is all I want
To be loved and believe in my soul

The picture is far too big to look at kid
Your eyes won't open wide enough
And you are constantly surrounded
By the swirling stream of what is and what was
Well, we all made our predictions
But the truth still isn't out
But if you wanna see the future
Go stare into a cloud
And keep trying to find your way out
Of that maze of memories
It all sort of looks familiar
Until you get up close and then it's different clearly
But each time you turn a corner
You are, you are right back where you were
And your only hope is that forgetting
Might make a door appear
Well, is it your fear of being buried
That makes you so afraid to speak?
An avalanche of opinions
Like the one that fell, that I am now underneath
It was my voice that moved the first rock
And I would do it all over again
So, I mean it's cool if you keep quiet
But I like singing, yeah
So I'll be holding my note and stomping
And strumming and feeling so very lucky
There is nothing I know except this lifetime
Is one moment and wishing will just leave me empty
So you can try and live in darkness
But you will never shake the light
It will greet you every morning
And it'll make you more aware with its absence at night
When you are wrapped up in your blankets, baby
That comfortable cocoon
But I have seen the day of your awakening, boy
And it's coming soon
So go ahead and lose yourself in liquor
And you can praise the clouded mind
But it isn't what you are thinking, no
It's the course of history, your position in line
You are just a piece of the puzzle
So I think you better find your place
And don't go blamin' your knowledge
On some fruit you ate
'Cause there's been a great deal of discussion
Yes, about the properties of man
Animal or angel? You were carved from bone
But your heart it's just sand
And the wind is going to scatter it
And cover everything with love
So if it makes you happy then
Keep kneeling, Mama, but I am standing up
Because this veil, it has been lifted, yes
My eyes are wet with clarity
I have been a witness to such wonders
Oh, I have searched for them all across this country
But I think I'll be returning now
To the town where I was born
And I understand you must keep movin' friend
But I am headed home
Yeah, I'm gonna follow the road
And let the scenery sweeping by easily enter my body
And I'll send you all this message in code
Underground, over mountains, through forests and deserts and cities
Ah, ah, ah, all across electric wires, and baited line, ya
The hook's in deep boys, there is no more time
So you can struggle in the water, be too stubborn to die

Our love is dead but without limit
Like the surface of the moon
Or the land between here and the mountains
Well, it is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
But the way you taught me to just let it all go by
And so we've learned to be as faithless
Stand behind bulletproof glass
Exchangin' our affections through a drawer
And it was always horribly convenient and happening too fast
You should count your change before you're even out the door
Yes, you should
But please return, return to the person that you were
And I have to do the same
'Cause it's too hard to belong to someone who is gone
My compass spins, the wilderness remains
Once too often I've retreated into the depths of my despair
I built a barricade to block you on the road
But standin' there with all of my possessions
Piled higher than a house
I felt closer to you than you ever would have known
So let these tiny acts of charity
Be common ground on which to build
A monument to commemorate our time
And though you say you've found another
Who will surely speed you on your way
Don't let the forest grow over that path you came there by
But you will
So, so hurry up and run to the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he'll make war, oh war
On who you were before and claim all that has spoiled in your heart
Now I tell myself I've mended under these patches of blue sky
There's still a few holes that let in a little rain
And so it's crying on my shingles
My floorboards moan under my feet
The refrigerator's whinin' so I got reason to complain
But I'm not going to bless you with such compliments
Some degrading psalm of praise
Like the kind that converted you to me so long ago
Because the truth is that gossip's as good as gospel in this town
You can save face but you will never save your soul
And that's a fact
So hurry up and run to the one that you love
And tie him up in your likeness
And he'll become, become the prisoner I was
And know all that has spoiled in your heart
He'll know all that has spoiled in your heart
So hurry up and run to the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he'll make war, oh war on who you were before
And claim all that has spoiled in your heart
Yeah, he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart
So hurry up and run to the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he'll make war, oh war on who you were before
And claim all that has spoiled in your heart

There is a man holding a megaphone
He must have been the voice of God
The bystanders claimed they saw Angels
Flying up and down the block
They must have been attached to wires
I'd seen one laying in the lawn
With a broken arm, so I called 911
Well, that's one less founded opinion
One more cause for a dispute
So the street filled, like a basin
Up with cameras and their crews
And they washed away the rumors
Leaving just the concrete truth
It was a spectacle
No, I, I mean a miracle
So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam
A gymnasium of eyes all were holding on to me
I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping
It was a small mistake, sometimes that is all it takes
Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the time is right
When the planets will align, there will be no planets to align
Just the carcass of the sun
And little painted marbles spinning senseless
Through an endless black sky
It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub, I baptized myself in change
And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been
I emerged to find the parallels were fewer, I was cleansed
I looked in the mirror and someone new was there
But, I was as helpless as a chess piece
When I was lifted up by someone's hand
And delivered from the corner, my enemies had got me in
But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside
That holding cell that is myself
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key
As it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me
"Oh my patient prisoner, you waited for this day and finally
You are free, you are free, you are freezing"
Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode
This day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come
And we will finally know the way out of here
And I will throw away this wrinkled map
And my chart of stars and compass, cracked
And I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap
To avoid the hungry beasts below
I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing
Of a graveyard gray and a garden green
And then we won't have to worry no more
No, we won't have to until again
About how this song or story ends

Is it true what I heard about the Son of God
Did he come to save, did he come at all
And if I dried his feet
With my dirty hair
Would he make me clean again
They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will just go black
It will just go back
To the way it was before
I knew a lovely girl with such pretty pride
And every man wanted her and so did I
And so did I
But she up and died
In a fit of vanity
Now men with purple hearts carry silver guns
And they will kill a man for what his father has done
But what my father did
You know it don't mean shit
I'm not him
So you think I need some discipline well I've had my share
I have been sent to my room, I've been sat in a chair
And I held my tongue
I didn't plug my ears
No I got a good talking to
Now I don't know why but I still try to smile
When they talk at me like I'm just a child
Well I'm not a child
No I am
Much younger than that
And now I have read some books and I have grown quite brave
If I could just speak up I think I would say
That there is no truth
There is only you
And what you make the truth
So I will just sing my songs and I'll pass a hat
Then I'll leave your town and I'll never look back
No I don't look back
Because the road is clear
Layed out ahead of me
I'll get home and meet my friends at our favorite bar
We'll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts
And we will share a drink
Yeah we'll share our fears
And they will know how I love them
They will know how I love
They will know how I love them
I am nothing without their love
I don't know when but a day is gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
It will all go black
It will all go back
To the way it is supposed to be
Is it true what they say about the Son of God
Did he die for us, did he die at all
And if I sold my soul
For a bag of gold
To you which one of us would be the foolish one
Which one if us would be the fool
Which one if us would be the fool
Which one if us would be the fool
Could you please start explaining
You know I need some understanding
I could do with some exaplaining
You know I want to understand

The rain, it started tappin' on the window near my bed
There was a loophole in my dreamin', so I got out of it
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been
So I dressed myself and left then, out into the gray streets
But everything seemed different and completely new to me
The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet
And I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health
I said, "There is nothing that I can do for you, you can do for yourself"
He said "Oh yes you can, just hold my hand, I think that would help"
So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt
He said, "I think I'm cured, in fact I'm sure"
Thank you stranger, "For your therapeutic smile"
So that's how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone
And your eyes must do some rainin' if you are ever gonna grow
When cryin' don't help you can't compose yourself
It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing
Or simple song of hope
That's why I'm singin', baby don't worry, 'cause now I got your back
And every time you feel like cryin', I'm gonna try and make you laugh
And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, then we will wait for it to pass
And I will keep you company through those days so long and black
And we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve
Of Love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole
But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall
Then I think we would see the beauty then, we would stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges

If you hate the taste of wine
Why do you drink it till you're blind?
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares
How come you say it like you're right?
Why are you scared to dream of God
When it's salvation that you want?
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on...
In our wheels that roll around
As we move over the ground
And all day it seems we've been in between
The past and future town
We are nowhere and it's now
We are nowhere and it's now
And for a ten minute dream in the passenger's seat
While the world was flying by
You haven't been gone very long
But it feels like a life time
I've been sleeping so strange at night
Side effects they don't advertise
I've been sleeping so strange
With a head full of pesticide
I've got no plans in too much time
I feel too restless to unwind
I'm always lost in thought as I walk a block
To my favorite neon sign
Where the waitress looks concerned
But she never says a word
Just turns the juke box on and we hum along
And I smile back at her
And my friend comes after work
When the features start to blur
She says these bars are filled with things that kill
By now you probably should have learned
Did you forget that yellow bird?
How could you forget your yellow bird?
She took a small silver wreath and pinned it onto me
She said this one will bring you love
And I don't know if it's true
But I keep it for good luck

Grey like new day leaks through the window
And some old song comes on the alarm clock radio
You walk the forty blocks to the middle
Of the place we heard where everything would be
And there was barracades to keep us off the street
But the crowd kept pushing forward
Until they swallowed the police
Yeah, they went wild, they went wild
They went wild, they went wild
We left before the dust had time to settle
And all the broken glass swept off the avenue
All the way home I held your camera like a bible
Just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room
You dropped the paper in the water
And it all begins to bloom
Yeah, they go wild, they go wild
Yeah, they go wild, they go wild
Just when I get so lonesome I can't speak
I see some flowers on a hill side
Like a wall of new TVs
Yeah, they go wild, they go wild
They go wild, they go wild…

Well I'm changing all my strings
I'm gonna write another travellin' song
About all the billion highways and the cities at the break of dawn
Well I guess the best that I can do now is pretend that I've done nothing wrong
And dream about a train that's gonna take me back where I belong
Well now the ocean speaks and spits and I can hear it from the interstate
And I'm screaming at my brother on a cell phone and he's far away
And I'm saying nothing in the past or future ever will feel like today
Until I park it in an alley
Just hoping that our shit is safe
So I go back and forth forever
All my thoughts they come in pairs
Well I will, I won't I doubt them
I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
Now I'm hunched over a type writer
I guess you call that painting in a cave
And there's a word I can't remember
And a feeling I cannot escape
And now my ashtray's overflowing
I'm still staring at a clean white page
Oh and morning's at my window
And she is sending me to bed again
Well I dream the dark on the horizon
I dream the desert where the dead lay down
I dream the prostituted child touching an old man in a fast food crowd
Oh yeah, I dreamt a ship was sinking
There was people screaming all around
And I woke to my alarm clock
It was a pop song and it was playing loud
So I will find my fears and face them
Or I will cower like a dog
I will kick and scream or kneel and bleed
I'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up

The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleeping in their beds
The city's cemetery's humming
I'm wide awake, it's morning
And I have my drugs, I have my woman
They keep away my loneliness
My parents, they have their religion
But sleep in separate houses
I read the body count out of the paper
And now it's written all over my face
And no one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
But sometimes that's just the most comfortable place
So I'm singing, drinking, breathing, writing
Everyday I'm on the clock
My mind races with all my longings
But can't keep up with what I got
So I hope I don't sound too ungrateful
What history gave modern men
A telephone to talk to strangers
Machine guns and a camera lens
So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
You know it's best to join the side that's gonna win
And no one's sure how all of this got started
But we're gonna make 'em God damn certain how it's gonna end
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voice
But failures always sounded better
Let's fuck it up, boys, make some noise
The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleeping in their beds
The city's cemetery's humming
I'm wide awake, it's morning

So there is this woman and she was on an airplane
And she's flying to meet her fiancé
Sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth
And she was seated next to this man, who
You know she had tried to start conversations
And only really the only thing she did heard him say
Was to order his Bloody Mary
And she's sitting there
And she's reading this really arduous magazine article
About this third world country
That she couldn't even pronounce the name of
And she's feeling very bored and very despondent
And then uh, suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure
And one of the engines gave up
And they started just falling in thirty thousand feet
And the pilot's on the microphone and he's saying
"I'm sorry I'm sorry oh my God I'm sorry"
Apologizing and, and she looks at the man and she says, she says "where are we
going?"
And he looks at her and he says
"We're going to a party it's a birthday party
It's your birthday party happy birthday darling
We love you very very very very very very VERY much"
And then he starts humming this little tune
And it kinda goes like this:
1-2, 1-2-3-4
We must talk in every telephone
Get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read
And to the face of every criminal strapped firmly in a chair
We must stare we must stare we must stare
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing we must sing we must sing
And it'll go like this:
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun
He says "Death will give us back to God
Just like the setting sun
is returned to the lonesome ocean"
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
It was a wonderful splash
We must blend into the choir sing a static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
And to this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run we must run we must run
We must hang up in the belfry
Where the bats in moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball
And only see the past
And in the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge we must plunge we must plunge
And then we'll get down there
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it
Oh we'll see it we'll see it we'll see it
Oh my morning's coming back the whole world's waking up
Oh the city bus is swimming past I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one

You follow the footsteps… Echoes leading down a Hall to Room.
There is musik playing – tiny bells with moving parts.
Here the shadows make things ugly, an effect quite undersurable.
The Bold and yellow Daylight grows like ivy across the wall
and bounces off of the painted porzelain, tiny dancing Doll. Her Body spins.
As she pirouettes again. The world suddenly seems small.
On an off white, subtle morning you strech your legs in the front seat.
The Road has made a vacuum where our voices used to be.
And you lay your head onto my shoulder.
Pour like water over me.
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive that would be fine.
And all the Trees that line this Curb would be rejoicing and alive,
soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes
because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you good-bye.

Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
And I'm making him take me back down to the water
That lake where we sailed
And we laughed with our father
I will not desert him I will not desert him No matter how I may wish for a coffin so
clean
Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me
I put my face in the dirt
And then finally I'll see the sky that has been avoiding me
I started this letter,
'm gonna send it to Ruba
It will be blessed by her eyes on the Gulf Coast of Florida
With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit
She will recite the prayer of my pen
Saying time take us forward
Relief from this longing
They can land that plane on my heart
I don't care
Just give me November the warmth of a whisper
In the freezing darkness of my room
No matter what I would do in an attempt
To replace all these pills that I take trying to balance my brain
I've seen the curious girl with that look on her face
So surprised she stares out from her display case

At the center of the world
There is a statue of a girl
She is standing near a well
With a bucket bare and dry
I went and looked her in the eyes
And she turned me into sand
This clumsy form that I despise
It scattered easy in her hand
And came to rest upon a beach
With a million others there
We sat and waited for the sea
To stretch out so that we could disappear
Into the endlessness of blue
Into the horror of the truth
Yes, we are far less than we knew
Yeah, we are far less than we knew!
But we knew what we could taste
Girls found honey to drench our hands
The men cut marble to mark our graves
Said we'll need something to remind us
Of all the sweetness that has passed through us
(fresh sangria and lemon tea)
The priests dressed children for a choir
(white robed small voices praise him)
But found no joy in what was sung
The funeral had begun
In the middle of the day
When you drive home to your place
From that job that makes you sleep
Back to the thoughts that keep you awake
Long after night has come to claim
Any life that still remains
In the corner of the frame
That you put around her face
Two pills just weren't enough
The alarm clock's going off
But you're not waking up
This isn't happening happening happening happening
It is!

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
When you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you, incessantly
From the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school
With his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps
To pretend he walks with you?
Oh, does he know that place below your neck
That's your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences like,
"I love you far too much"?
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Worried you smoke too many cigarettes?
Is he coughing now?
On a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile
There's a thousand more
You won't ever see
But most hold inside yourself
Eternally
Well, I drug your ghost across the country
And we plotted out my death
In every city, memories would whisper
Here is where you rest
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
And in a story told, she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
And it rose like thunder
Clapped under our hands
And it stretched for centuries
To a diary entry's end
Where I wrote
You make me happy
Oh, when skies are gray
You make me happy
Oh, when skies are gray and gray and gray
Well the clock's heart it hangs
Inside its open chest
With its hands stretched towards
The calendar hanging itself
But I will not weep
For those dying days
For all the ones who've left
There's a few that stayed
And they found me here
And pulled me from the grass
Where I was laid

Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand
Like the sun's just gonna drop if it's night you demand?
Well in the dark we're just air
So the house might dissolve once we're gone
Who's gonna care if we were ever here at all?
Well summer's gonna come,it's gonna cloud our eyes again
No need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing
So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales
I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details
Now you can't even recall any names
Faces or lines it's more the feeling of it all
Well winter's gonna end I'm gonna clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living
"Hi we're back This is Radio [beep]
And we're here with Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes
How are you doing Conor?"
"Fine, thanks...just a little wet"
"Oh, it's still coming down out there?"
"Yeah, I sort of had to run from the car"
"Well we are glad you made it
Now your new album Fevers and Mirrors tell us a little bit about the title
I notice there is a good deal of repeated imagery in the lyrics
Fevers mirrors... scales clocks...
Could you discuss some of this?"
"Sure let's see... The fever is..."
"First let me say that this is a brilliant record man
We're all really into it here at the station
We get lots of calls
It's really good stuff"
"Thanks,thanks a lot"
"So talk a little bit about some of the symbolism"
"The fever?"
"Sure"
"Well the fever is basically whatever ails you or oppresses you
It could be anything
In my case it's my neurosis my depression...
But I don't want it to be limited to that
It's certainly different for different people
It's whatever keeps you up at night"
"I see!"
"And the mirror is as you might have guessed
Self examination or reflection in whatever form
It could be vanity or self loathing
I know I'm guilty of both"
"That's interesting. How about the scale?"
"The scale is essentially our attempt to solve our problems quantitatively
Through logic or rationalization
In my opinion it's often fruitless
But always... well not always
The clocks and calendars it's just... time
Our little measurements
It's always chasing after us"
"It is it is... How about this Arienette?
How does she fit into all of this?"
"I'd prefer not talk about it in case she's listening"
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize she was a real person"
"She's not I made her up"
"Oh, so she's not real?"
"Just as real as you or I"
"I don't think I understand"
"Neither do I but after I grow up I will
I mean a lot of things are really unclear for me right now"
"That's interesting
Now you mentioned your depression"
"No, I didn't"
"You're from Nebraska, right?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Now let me know if I'm getting too personal
But there seems to be a pretty dark past back there somewhere
What was it like for you growing up?"
"Dark? Not really Actually I had a great childhood
My parents were wonderful.
I went to a Catholic school
They had one so it... was all easy
Basically I had everything I wanted anytime"
"Really? So some of the references like babies in bathtubs are not biographical?"
"Well, I did have a brother who died in a bathtub... drowned
Actually I had five brothers who died that way
No I'm serious
My mother drowned one every year for five consecutive years
They were all named Padraic
So they all got one song
It's kind of like walking out a door to discover it's a window"
"But a lot of your music is certainly very personal"
"Of course I put a lot of myself into what I do
But it's like being an author
You have to free yourself to use symbolism
And allegory to reach your goal
And a part of that is compassion and empathy
For other people and their situations
Some of what I sing about comes from other people's experiences as well as my own
It shouldn't matter the message is intended to be universal"
"I see what you mean"
"Can you make that sound stop please?"
"Yes. And your goal?"
"I don't know... Er create feelings I guess
A song it never ends up the way you planned it"
"It's funny you would say that do you think that...?"
"Do you ever hear things that aren't really there?"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Never mind. How long have you worked at this station?"
"Just a few minutes
Now you mentioned empathy for others
Would you say that is what motivates you to make the music that you make?"
"No not really It's more a need for sympathy
I want people to feel sorry for me
I like to feel the burn of the audiences eyes on me when I'm whispering all my
darkest secrets into the microphone
When I was a kid I used to carry this safety pin around with me
Everywhere I went in my pocket and when people weren't paying enough attention to
me
I'd dig it into my arm until I started to cry
Everyone would stop what they were doing and ask me what was the matter
I guess I kind of liked that"
"Really? You're telling me you're doing all this for attention?"
"No I hate it when people look at me
I get nauseous
In fact I could care less what people think about me
Do you feel that way?"
"No, I'm feeling sick"
"I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours all over everyone I love"
"So, you're going to play something for us now
Is this a new song?"
"Yeah, but I haven't written it yet
It's one I've been meaning to write... called A Song to Pass the Time"
"Oh, that's a nice title"
"No, it's not
You should write your own scripts"
"Yeah, I know..."

"So long everything" he shouted
Then he ran next door to Margot's house
"I'm moving" he said
"Where" asked Margot
"Two weeks away" said Mitchell
"Where is that" asked Margot
"It's everywhere
I will be after I walk for two weeks" said Mitchell
"I have lived in the same place for a long time
It is time for me to go some place else"
"No" said Margot "you have only lived next door for fifteen years"
"Sixteen" said Mitchell
"Fifteen six what's the difference" said Margot
"I want you to stay next door forever"
"I can't" said Mitchell
"I do not want to go wake up in the same old bedroom and eat breakfast in the same
old kitchen
Every room in my house is the some old room
Because I have been there too long"
You turn on a spindle you're so much looser now
But you're not explaining how you've gained such new repose
I touch the clasp of your locket with its picture held
Some secret you wouldn't tell but let it choke your neck
So we imagine a darkness where all shapes divide
Solids changing into light with a burst of heat so bright
Well fine don't you do what I want you to
Don't degrade yourself the way that I do
'Cause you don't depend upon all the shit
That I use to make my moods improve
"And you look at me and think 'same old face
Same old tail, same old scale same old walk
Same old talk," said Margot
"No" said Mitchell "I like your face tail scale walk and talk"
"I like you"
"I like you too" said Mitchell
He walked to the door "I must pack" he said
Near a sea of pianos there were waves of chords that crashed against the shore in
one huge and useless roar
And there were girls bringing water
Like a dream they came to cool the fever of my brain and soothe my burning throat
And they made me a necklace
Hanging beads of sweat on a string of my regrets and placed it round my neck
They were singing don't you do what you've wanted to
Don't destroy yourself like those cowards do
Maybe the sun keeps coming up
Because it's gotten used to you and your constant need for proof

There's a middle-aged woman she is dragging her feet
She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat
While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street
And they laugh in a language I don't understand
But I love them why do I love them?
Now the neighborhood's dimming
I smoke on the porch watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars
On their faces just anger or disappointment
I start wishing there was something I could offer them a consolation what could I
offer them?
And they are sad in their suburbs
Robots water the lawn
And everything they have touched gets dusted spotless
And so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all
And the cars in the driveway only multiply
They are lost in their houses
I've heard them sing in the shower
Making speeches to their sister on the telephone
Saying you come home woman you come here
Don't stay so far away from me
This weather has me wanting love more tangible
Something I can hold because it's getting cold
I say let's hold up our fists to the flame in the sky
To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes
'Cause it would blind us yeah it will blind us
Now I have locked my actions in the grooves of routine
So I may never be free of this apathy
But I wait for a letter that's coming to me
She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope
So there still is hope yes I can be healed
There is someone looking for what I've concealed
In my secret drawer and my pockets deep
You will find the reasons that I can't sleep
And you will still want me
Will you still want me?
Will you still want me...
Well I said come for the week
You can sleep in my bed
And pass through my life like a dream through my head
It will it will be easy I'll make it easy
But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time
A melody to keep me from worrying
Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy
And words that are sure to come back to me
And they'll be laughing, yeah they'll be laughing... my mediocrity
My mediocrity...

Here's a scale weigh it out and you'll find easily more than sufficient doubt
That these colors you see were picked in advance by some careful hand
With an absolute concept of beauty
They are smeared and these blurs come in random order
And they'll color the eyes of your former lovers
Hers were green like July except when she cried, they were red
Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat
You contract on the day you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it
can be
A reflection of something we're missing
And language just happened it was never planned
And it's inadequate to describe where I am
In the room of my house where the light's never been
Waiting for this day to end
And these clocks keep on winding
And completely ignore
Everything we hate or adore
Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more
So tell me then what was it for
Oh tell me what was it for

First with your hands, then with your mouth
A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds
I was a fool, you were my friend
We made it happen
You took of your clothes, left on the light
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy
Each feature improved, each movement refined
And eyes like a showroom
Now they are spreading out the blankets on the beach
That weatherman' s a liar, he said it would be raining
But it's clear and blue as far as I can see
Left by the lamp, right next to the bed
On a cartoon cat pad she scratched with a pen
"Everything is as it's always been
This never happened"
"Don't take it so bad, it's nothing you did
It's just once something dies, you can't make it live
You're a beautiful boy, you're a sweet little kid
But I am a woman"
So I laid back down and wrapped myself up in the sheet
And I must have looked like a ghost, cause something frightened me
And since then I've been so good at vanishing
Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
I should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free
And a little bit empty
No it isn't so hard to get close to me
There will be no arguments, we will always agree
And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave
We will both take it easy
But if you stay too long inside my memory
I will trap you in a song tied to a melody
And I'll keep you there so you can't bother me

Jonny Hobson was a good man
He used to loan me books and mic stands
He even got me a subscription
To the Socialist Review
Listening to records in his basement
Old folk songs about the government
It's love of money, not the market
He said these fuckers push on you
And freedom yells, it don't cry
Whatever selves will decide
But there's no hell when you die
So don't look so worried
He got a night life, lost his day job
Pushing papers, swinging pendulums
Anything to serve a function
Or to occupy some time
You gotta earn this living somehow
You're good as dead without a bank account
But it's funny how that life has felt down
In that unemployment line
With all that trash at his feet
The pools of piss in the street
All of that filthy empathy
For the way we're feeling
Don't worry
Don't worry
The billboards shade
The flags they wave
The anthem's playing loud
The baseball game was letting out
And all at once
You saw the dust and hurt
And turned the sound
Got in his truck and turned around
Drove out through the crowd and the cops
Drove out past that center mall
Drove out past that sickening sprawl
Out past that fenced in gold
And maybe he lost control
Fucking with the radio
But I bet the stars seem so close
At the end
At the end
At the end

A house of cards, supple heart
Is not a place to dwell
Now you have your cake
Don?t hesitate
Come on just do it
Come on just do it
Put it in your mouth
There is only now
Tomorrow has to wait
But know there?s no backing out
This is gonna be reality
You can never dream it down
I have
No way of telling
The two apart
Well I made amends
In the general sense
But the devil?s in the details
And I know the cause
And I want to stop
But I can?t do it
I just can?t do it
There was love unmeant
There were accidents
So tell me which is which
?Cause I just can?t work it out
But for memory and clarity
We had better write it down
I have no way
Of knowing the truth
With tongues of
I put the past into the ground
I saw the future as a cloud
If theres still time to turn around
I'm going to
Its just one day I fell asleep
And all day all night I dreamed
I am the first one I deceive
If I can make myself believe

You can make a plan
Carve it into stone
Like a feather falling
It is still unknown
Until the clock speaks up
Says it's time to go
You could choose the high
Or the lower road
You might clinch your fist
You might fork your tongue
As you curse or praise
All the things you've done
And the faders move
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the arc of time
So you nurse your love
Like a wounded dove
In the covered cage of night
Every star is crossed
By phrenetic thoughts
That seperate and then collide
And they twist like sheets
Till you fall asleep
And they finally unwind
It's a black balloon
It's a dream you'll soon deny
I hear if you make friends
With Jesus Christ
You will get right up
From that chalk outline
And then you'll get dolled up
And you'll dress in white
All to take your place
In his chorus line
And then in you'll come
With those marching drums
In a saintly compromise
No more whiskey slurs
No more blonde haired girls
For your whole eternal life
And you'll do the dance
That was choreographed
At the very dawn of time
Saying, I told you son
The day would come
You would die you'd die you'd die you'd die
You would die you'd die you'd die you'd die
You would die you'd die you'd die you'd die
You would die you'd die you'd die
To the deepest part
Of the human heart
The fear of death expands
Till we crack the code
We have always known
But could never understand
On a circuit board
We will soon be born
Again, again, again, again
And again again again again
And again again again again
And again again again

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
The children were nestled, all snug in their beds
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter
Away to the window I flew like a flash
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer
With a little old driver, so lively and quick
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too
And then, in a twinkling I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof
As I drew in my hand and was turning around
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack
His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly
He was chubby and plump a right jolly old elf
And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work
And filled all the stockings then turned with a jerk
And laying his finger aside of his nose
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose
He sprang to his sleigh to his team gave a whistle
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle
But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight
"Happy Christmas to all and to all a good-night"

There is nothing for which I am responsible
Just this baggage that I keep carrying on
As if I had someone
Okay, maybe there is a woman somewhere
Who's still thinking of me or a girl
With coal black hair who's haunted in her dreams
But what they've seen, well, it wasn't me
It was just some lie that they slept beside
I kept this from them but I can't keep this from you
So will you look for me in that strange, bright place?
Where the statues bloom in the park
They don't need no rain
Because how I ever got to you, I have no idea
It's like some secret door, well, it just appeared
So, no matter what I do from now on with my time
You will always stay here in my mind
I am certain of this and I am not certain of anything
So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down
So that these winds of circumstance
Won't keep blowing me around
To when I land to when I leave
There is enough time to sleep and sing

I traveled through the atmosphere as a wall of feedback climbed
The pegs were gold, the band was old, they played in half time
Now every dream gets whittled down just like every fool gets wise
'Cause you never reap of any seed deprived of sunlight
So I have become the middleman, the gray areas are mine
The in-between, the absentee is a beautiful disguise
So I keep my footlights shining bright, just like I keep my exits wide
'Cause I never know when it's time to go, it's too crowded now inside
The dead can hide beneath the ground and the birds can always fly
But the rest of us do what we must in constant compromise
So I have become the middleman, the gray areas are fine
The 'I don't know', the 'Maybe so', is the only real

In the morning
When you throw up water
And your skin turns a pale pale yellow
Well everyday you lose more color
Do you think that someone paints your mirror?
Do you think that someone paints your mirror?
And you think that things sound different
At the time when you speak
There are visions much clearer
Than these blurs that you see
And like Neely O'Hara you swallow your sleep
And you wake up in the morning to find you are not
You are not, you are not who you used to be
You don't recognize behavior
Or the spelling of your name
And the shape that is in the mirror
Well you'd swear it is not the same
And like Neely O'Hara you swallow your sleep
And you really can't remember
But you know you are not think you are not
No you are not who you used to be
You used to be
You used to be

Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
Unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay
Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
I got a man to stick it out
And make a home from a rented house
And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done
How many acres how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
Talk to the neighbors and tip my cap
On a little road barely on the map
Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
Old dirt road
Rambling rose

Well, I left my baby for a dream as lovely
For a love that's only in books I read
And then I hit the cities, spent all my money
I just left my whole life in a taxi cab
'Cause it's just a memory, I can't love completely
When you're really with me, I'm indifferent
But I try to get my head clear
It's too full of ideas that I haven't thought of yet
And time, clocks keep waving their hands
Doing all that they can to get our attention
But the days fly away, down a clean interstate
And I'm staring drunk at a map
So I let my hair down for the second time
Now for the final time, now I had my fun
But there's no returning from the places we've been
Just repeat our slogan, never again
So you split, said you had to get out
Headed back to the south, where everything is gentler
And I stayed for a couple weeks more
All the weather reports said it would be snow for sure
But the storm moved away to a neighboring state

Well, the future spills it's intangibles
An unknown set of variables
A path that spliten infinitely up ahead
So tell me what's the use to pick and choose
From what you should or shouldn't do?
That's time spent better sleeping in your bed
Or wide awake in a shopping mall
Trying clothes on from off of the wall
Yeah, anything to entertain yourself
'Cause a costume can be quite comfortable
It can make you feel more beautiful
It can even make you look like someone else
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix
They pat your back bruised with their accolades
And all four walls are a trophy case
But that doesn't make it any less of a cage
But you can make it all less difficult
By embracing the ephemeral
Then you'd never have to worry or explain
'Cause if it's really all just physical
Then my memory's immaterial
So why then do I remember you at all?
But I do, I do, my friend, I seen your face
We shared a cup, I know the taste
Its sweetness is relentless on my lips
So help me drink in everything that is like a freed convict
Drunk on redemption from the way I've been
But I swear this time, that things will be different
Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart
For those who'd write that sentence where you hang, hang
We will be lifted up from all of this
Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence
Yeah, your body's gone, but angel, you will live
Yeah your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone
Now your body's gone

I love thee, triple spiral
My maiden mother groaned
I am folded my devotion
Into an origami rose
So let her tip the window
She said to look below
Could I see the town was burning
Could I see the broken prison
Could I see that it was time for me to go
They looted the museum
Took all that they could hold
A motorcade of flatbed trucks
Made off with quite a haul
That's when I heard someone shout
"Here with the new, out with the old"
A dusty box of letters
A rusty suit of armor
A casket made of 14 karat gold
That's the problem
No sense of time
She changes like an hour glass
Just laying on her side
I loved you triple spiral
Father, son, and ghost
But you left me in my darkest hour
When I needed you, when I needed you
And now the dream is over
I want it to be known
I never saw it coming
From my little human prism
How sad it is to know I'm in control
That's the problem
An empty sky
I fill it up with everything
That's missing from my life
Oh where'd you come from
You fated sign
Spinning through the centuries
Expanding all the time
Three worlds at one that blend together
Three times I cried for us
But I felt better then
I loved you triple spiral
My maiden mother crooned
You found me in this fallow state
My mind was off and stowed
I heard your strange commotion
And wished I could go home
To live a little longer
A folded [knee?] in the summer

Two three four
Let's go place some money on the order of the horses
Break the ribbon of that famous finish line
And we'll gather up our stash babe
Find a little ranch baby and buy a lonely little pony to ride
Well I know I was lucky when the needle came and stuck me
This porcupine came and poked my cactus hide
So let me finish what I start babe open up your heart babe
I saw a land of milk and honey in your mind
Our flesh and blood has found me in your arms again
See the whisper of the wind has found your hair again
And though my heart said give me refuge in you dignity my dear
All I could do was put a seashell to your ear
Our flesh and blood has found me in your arms again
I see the whisper of the wind has found your hair again
And though my heart said give me refuge in your dignity my dear

You were born inside of a raindrop
And I watched you falling to your death
And the sun, well, she could not save you
She'd fallen down to, now the streets are wet
Body of water, toxic and timeless
Atlantic ocean, New York skyline
I always get lost when I leave the village
So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night
But I sing glory from my lowest
And I will say peace to the people I meet
While the world waits for an explosion
That instant of light that wipes the slate clean
So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to
Love was always cruel
And don't act strange, don't be a stranger
It happened to me, now it's happening to you
But if you take that train underwater
Then we could talk it through
Well, if I could tame all of my desires
Wait out the weather that howls in my brain
Because it seems that it's always changing
The winds indecision, the sorrowful rain
Yeah, I was a postcard, I was a record
I was a camera until I went blind
And now I'm riding, all over this island
Looking for something to open my eyes
Well I still sing glory from a high rise
And I will say thanks if you're pouring my drinks
While the world waits for an explosion
That moment in time when we are set free
So don't stay mad, just let some time pass
And in the morning you awake feeling new
And if I don't come back, I mean
If I get sidetracked, it's only 'cause I wanted to
I'm keeping up with the moon on an all night avenue
[Incomprehensible]
Make me cry

Touch, lying on the floor, wishing this could last
Knowing that it can't, and soon you will leave
And I'll be on the floor, watching the TV
Trying hard to find a reason to move
I'm frozen in one place, staring at the screen
Listening to the rain falling on the street
Some days go on too long
So no, no one can hang out tonight
Here, where the carpet is cool and soft
Underneath the clock, I feel my weary heart is put to rest
You gather around your friends, the connection that you feel
When the night has not yet died, you are new
With a promise of a love, and you'll probably never find
And touch that you can really feel
The brokenness inside, [Incomprehensible]
And nothing is real
And there is nothing more I want than just one night
That's free of doubt and sadness

Death data entry, ant hill law
Encoded arc, our common cause
Drink liquid clocks till I see God
Crystal display, can't turn it off

I wish I had a parachute
'Cause I'm fallin' mad for you
I can see the ground approachin' now
But I'm not sure what to do
I feel like the pinata
Once you take a swing at me
If you could just crack the shell open
I think inside you would find something sweet
And I hear you're like a hunter now
Your footsteps in the leaves
And I would gladly leave my hidin' place
I'm hopin' to be seen
So let your arrow fly and sing
I'm well within your aim
Lay your traps for a thousand miles
Please don't let me escape
Winter came to Omaha
It left us looking like a bride
A million perfect snowflakes now
And no two are alike
So it's hard for me imagining
The flaws in this design
I know debris, it covers everything

Why do you lay in the grass?
Don't you want to be found?
Don't you want that?
Isn't the Sun even going to try to find
A hole in the clouds?
Isn't it even going to try?
Why won't it try that?
Why do you lay so low in the grass?
Don't you want to be found?
Don't you want to be found?

Now that it's June, we'll sleep out in the garden
And if it rains we'll just sink in to the mud
Where it is quiet and much cooler than the house is
And there's no clocks or phones to wake us up
Because I have learned that nothing is as pressing
As the one who is pressing, would like you to believe
And I'm content to walk a little slower
Because there's nowhere that I really need to be
And I find that life is easier when it's just a blur
With no details to confuse
Who or what or where I was
So when the ending comes the full regret will seem obscure
But these are days we dream about when the sunlight paints us gold
And this apartment could not be prettier as we dance up there alone
And this TV is old the color is fucked
Do you see the difference in the shades?
But the green is still close to green my love
And I believe we are the same
And we'll stay like this, all gold and green
The light collects and projects your heart on a movie screen
And if you close your eyes we will always be
The way we were that night you crawled inside of me
You slept in my blood the way you sleep now
The quietest hush has consumed this house
And when the doctors have gone and you sweat through the bed
With the pictures and pills they piled around your head
But just rest now
And in a moment you will know everything, was it all a dream?
It's too vague now to recount
An outline of the one you loved in a life that was that not longer will be

The city has sex with itself I suppose
As the concrete collides well, the scenery grows
And the lonely once bandaged lay fully exposed
They undressed their wounds for each other
And there is a boy in a basement with a four track machine
He's been strumming and screaming all night down there
The tape hiss will cover the words that he sings
They say it's better to bury your sadness
In a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring
To awake from its sleep and burst into green
Well, I cried
And you would think I would better for it
But the sadness just sleeps and it stays in my spine
For the rest of my life
And I've learned
And you'd think I'd be somethin' more now
But it just goes to show it is not what you know
It's what you were thinking of half the time
This feeling's familiar
I've been here before
In a kitchen this quiet, I waited for
A sign of just something that might reassure me of anything close
To meaning or motion with reasons to move
I need something I want to be close to
And I scream but I still don't know why I do it
Because the sound never stays it just swells and decays
So what is the point?
Why try to fight what is now so certain?

I'm waiting for the train
Subway that only goes one way
Stupid thing that will come, pull us apart
Make everybody late
Well, you spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
Now I'm a crushed credit card registered to Smith
Not the name that you call me with
You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancin' on this pot of gold flake paint
Oh, we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh, I just told the biggest lie
Oh, I just told the biggest lie

Come by when you get off work
I'll be sitting around doing nothing
Let's wait till the sun goes down
Then we'll drive off deep into the night
Don't care where we are going
As long as I'm going with you
The summer swells in us
With the heat comes a new kind of wanting
Cool nights never cooled us off
Lay around, wait for something to happen
When it is three lonely figures
A bedroom, a basement, she's scared
Which one is sleeping
And which one is lying awake?
Which one is sleeping
And which one is lying about it?
Afternoon drags on and on
Movie nights that never end
We can hang out all night long
Lay in bed and talk to a good friend
'Cause we only get older
You probably forget what it is like
The university's quiet today
Didn't clean, we just talked in the bathroom
The girl always gets in my way
Ruined friendships but others replace them
These opinions are poison
I've been drinking them all of my life
I could never replace you
I could never forget what it's like
Step out on a moonlit roof
The radio leads a feel good revolution
Cigarettes and my closest friends
Tell myself that I have to remember this
Remember this
Tell myself that I have to remember this
Remember this

You wanna sing a song
Okay here we go
Lets sing a song while we're away from home
Hush little Maggie don't say a word
Daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
Daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
Agony and withdraw disrupt my wellbeing
A voice flooded by the piercing and the sounds of distant lands
Silence is my heart
I carry out my cross while the son suffers away
Clouds reveal the chariots of Venus, of Venus
Restrictions of time and space retial
While her bright eyes burn through my exploding heart
And I can see I'm in heaven with her flesh in my arms
Easy the undeniable

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly go the days
Sunrise, sunset
You wake up, then you undress
It always is the same
A sunrise and the sun sets
You?re lying while you confess
Keep trying to explain
A sunrise and the sun sets
You realize then you forget
What you?ve been trying to retain
But everybody knows it?s all about the things
That get stuck inside of your head
Like the songs your roommate sings
A vision of her body as she stretches out on your bed
And she raised her hands in the air asked you
When was the last time you looked in the mirror?
'Cause you have changed, yeah, you have changed
Sunrise, the sun sets
You are hopeful, then you regret
The circle never breaks
With a sunrise and a sunset
There?s a change of heart or address
Is there nothing that remains?
For a sunrise or a sunset
You?re manic or you?re depressed
Will you ever feel okay?
For a sunrise or sunset
Your lover is an actress
Did you really think she?d stay?
For a sunrise or sunset
You?re either coming or you just left
But you?re always on the way
Towards a sunrise or a sunset
A scribble or a sonnet
They are really just the same
To the sunrise and the sunset
The master and his servant
Have exactly the same fate
It?s a sunrise and a sunset
From a cradle to a casket
There?s no way to escape
The sunrise and the sunset
Hold your sadness like a puppet
Keep putting on the play
But everything you do is leading to the point
Where you just won?t know what to do
And at that moment you may laugh but there is someone
There who will be laughing louder than you
So it?s true, the trick is complete
Become everything you said that you never would be
You?re a fool, you?re a fool
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise and the sun sets
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, the sun sets
Sunrise, the sun sets
Sunrise, sunset
Go home to your apartment
Put the cassette in the tape deck and let that fever play
Sunrise, sunset
Where are you, Arienette?

There's a skinny dog in a dirty parking lot
And he doesn't bite but he begs
And he knows what's true, so if you are he'll follow you
If you're headed home all the way
So we let him finish every dinner plate
And we watched his tail saying thanks, thanks, thanks
And we tried to name him but he ran away
Once he knew his freedom was at stake
This same old shit, so it's how you deal with it
It's the glove that fits, that you wear
So when the wind blows strong, I put a few more layers on
And I tell myself I don't care
I might make a phone call to a better man
To ask the questions that I have, have, have
Like how do I get started and where's it gonna end

Amy's got a baby in her stomach
She took my hand, I felt it kick
So she's crying and glowing
She's three months and showing
Seeing her now makes me want to live
But her man's got an angry mouth
He once told me to rot in hell
He's poisonous, reasonless
Demons and Jesus
If he died, it'd be just as well
So I'm having it out with the rain
It argues so long and so loud
It keeps tapping and talking
We're walking forever on First Avenue headed south
And all the traffic lights blur
Into a bright bouquet
My heart is in mothballs
It's been packed away
And I can't get to it no way
Until the birds return for spring cleaning
All the traffic lights blur into a bright bouquet
I wish I could just turn and walk away
But I can't do it no way

See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to ribbons beneath a microphone stand
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
For the soul singer in the session band
A red carpet bagger makes a blackberry call
To the plastic piranhas in the city of salt
Wasted wheat paste campaign, post no bills on the wall
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault
See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to ribbons beneath a microphone stand
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
For the soul singer in the session band
I had a lengthy discussion about the power of myth
With a post-modern author who didn't exist
In this fictitious world, all reality twists
I was a hopeless romantic, now I'm just turning tricks
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded confetti beneath a microphone stand
Saw the conflict of interest slipping cash in the hand
Of the soul singer in the session band
Now his room is on fire since he painted it red
There are a stranger's silk sequins at the foot of the bed
He's been to weddings and funerals but he still never wept
Now sorrow is pleasure when you want it instead
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Wailed like an infant atop a white baby grand
We'll need every sandbag and every man
To save the soul singer in the session band
Headlights or taillights, it's a flip of a coin
I've been coming and going since the day I was born
And I followed the breadcrumbs but I never got home
I grew old in an instant, now I am all on my own
See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to nothing beneath the microphone stand
Saw the wave of the future through the crack in the dam
Drowned the soul singer in the session band

She says she's read too many fashion magazines
She's forgotten what real love is like
And as the basement collects more kids off the street
They smoke themselves to death waiting for the band to begin
They have been tuning up there for an hour now
And I don't think I can stand another minute more
Just then the first chord strums and the drums set in
And I know what I have been waiting around for
'Cause no one's going home until the morning comes
No one's gonna sleep until the sun comes up
Did you hear those first two songs? They were fucking tough
And the band is not going to stop until the cops show up
So hold your applause until the end
And wait for the sadness to set in
'Cause that's the only feeling that's worth it
He say he's done with the pop music scene
There's too many opinions and so few are worth a shit
He has got to learn to act a little more mean
'Cause the mean ones always end up with the record deals
And it is only when I'm angry that I feel complete
When we are screaming at each other is when I am most happy
I hang out with my friends and then I get depressed
And I drink myself to sleep with any strength that is left
And I quit going to church a year ago
And my teachers thinks that my faith is gone
But I can do without the Eucharist

I had a beautiful, beautiful time
The drives and the talks were amazing
Kind of friend I though I'd never find
I had a beautiful, beautiful time
You have a beautiful, beautiful smile
The way it curls and collapses on your lips
When you touch me I shake like a child
It's late, I'm afraid you might leave
Because sometimes it seems like
You still don't believe me
There's nothing I can do to concentrate
It's so distracting, always thinking of you
So I expose and explain and I meant everything that I said
And it's moments like this that repeat and replay in my head
When I'm laying in bed
It's a beautiful, beautiful time
If you laugh and roll onto your stomach
The carpet embraces your design
My heart pounds as I lay by your side
And I find that I am unable to hide
All these feelings that flow
In this basement, in this dim light
You look so beautiful
I'm unsure and unclear with the words that I say
I'm happy when you are near and I wish that forever could stay
Just like today
You have beautiful, beautiful eyes
So bright and alive and enchanting
Want to be with you all of the time

One for the righteous, one for the ruling class
One for the tyrant, one for the slaughtered lamb
One for the struggle, one for the lasting peace
One for you, and one for me
One for the Führer, one for his child bride
One for the wedding, one for the suicide
One for the bunker, one for the broadcast booth
One for me, now one for you
How did we get so far away from us?
How did we get so far away?
One for the people, one for the parliament
One for the weary, one for the malcontent
One for the master, one for the protégé
One for you, and one for me
One for the bread lines, one for the billionaires
One for the missing, one for the barely there
One for the certain, one for the real confused
One for me, okay, now one for you
Now that we've come so far away from us
Now that we've come too far to say
You and me, you and me that is an awful lie
You and me, you and me that is an awful lie
It's I and I
It's I and I
It's I and I

Well, the future's got me worried
Such awful thoughts
My head's a carousel of pictures
The spinning never stops
I just want someone to walk in front
And I'll follow the leader
Like when I fell under the weight
Of a schoolboy crush
Started carrying her books
And doing lots of drugs
I almost forgot who I was
But came to my senses
Now I'm trying to be assertive
I'm making plans
Wanna rise to the occasion
Yeah, meet all their demands
But all I do is just lay in bed
And hide under the covers
Yeah, I know I should be brave
But I'm just too afraid
Of all this change
And it's to hard to focus
Through all this doubt
I keep making this 'To Do' list
But nothing gets crossed out
Working on the record seems pointless now
When the world ends, who's gonna hear it?
Well, I'm trying to take some comfort
In written words
Yeah, Tim, I heard your album
It's better than good
When you get off tour, I think we should
Hang and blackout together
'Cause I've been feeling sentimental
For days gone by
All those summers singing, drinking
Laughing, wasting our time
Remember all those songs and the way we smiled
In those basements made of music
But now I've got to crawl
To get anywhere at all
I'm not as strong as I thought
So when I'm lost in a crowd
I hope that you'll pick me out
How I long to be found
The grass grew high, I laid down
Now I wait for a hand
To lift me up, help me stand
I've been laying so low
Don't wanna lay here no more
Don't wanna lay here no more
Don't wanna lay here no more
Don't wanna lay here no more
No more, more
But if everything that happens
Is supposed to be
And it's all predetermined
Can't change your destiny
I guess, I'll just keep moving, someday, maybe

I picked you out of a crowd and talked to you
Said I liked your shoes, you said "Thanks can I follow you?"
Now it's up the stairs and out of view, no prying eyes
I poured some wine, when I asked your name
You asked the time
Well, it's 2 o'clock and the club is closed
We're up the block, your hands on me
Pressing hard against your jeans
Your tongue in my mouth
Trying to keep the words from coming out
You didn't care to know
Who else may have been here before
I want a lover, I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I thought I'd meet him here but I'm not sure
I got the money if you got the time
You said it feels good, I said, "I'll give a try"
Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was parked
So let's take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning
Bad actors with bad habits
Some sad singers they just play tragic
And the phone's ringing and the band's leaving
Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep on singing
I want a lover, I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need a meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind
But you, you write such pretty words
But life's no story book, love's an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt, do you like to hurt? Do you like to?
Then hurt me, then hurt me
Didn't hurt me
It didn't hurt me
It didn't hurt me
It didn't hurt me

There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground
There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf
We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah
We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
Forty hours television and prescription pills
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who's to say, at least my doctor gets paid
So that's fine, yeah, come by, we'll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
'Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to fill
And you're my girl I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill
And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
So let's just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once it's gone
We'll pour another round and come back to life, come right back
I guess I'm moving faster now or that's what they said
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep
Look in the mirror, have no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down 'til the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
Of staying out, sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
Well, that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept I won't cling to what I had in the past
But life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest hill
Hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up
Somewhere in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room
And never know what could have been
Believe what everyone else tells me is true
Yeah, they say, "True" Yeah
Yeah, they say, "True", Yeah, they say, "True"

Come they told me
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
A new born King to see
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
Our finest gifts we bring
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
To lay before the King
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
So to honor Him
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
When we come
Baby Jesus
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
I am a poor boy too
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
I have no gift to bring
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
That's fit to give our King
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
Shall I play for you
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
On my drum
Mary nodded
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
The ox and lamb kept time
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
I played my drum for Him
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
I played my best for Him
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
Rum, pum, pum, pum
Then He smiled at me
Pa rum, pum, pum, pum

Close your eyes
The dark outside can't hurt you
And I will never desert your bedside
So close them tight
The stars are so glad that they've found you
And on the blankets that surround you
They shine their light
They shine their light
So rest your head
And I will be watching from your doorway
As you slip into a perfect, peaceful sleep
And morning will come
In all its simple glory
And you will find the light
And I will be there
Standing in your shadow
Knowing that you once were mine
All mine, my baby
My baby, my girl

Here we go
Can I get a goddamn timpany roll to start this goddamn song?
Tonight, it is a goddamn song
For all you goddamn people
Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex
As I pass in a car buried under the influence
The city's driving me out of my mind
I?ve seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
And lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity
Next time he will not aim so high, yeah, next time neither will I
Now, a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges
Her family?s reduced to names on a shoppin' list
While a coroner kneels beneath a great wooden crucifix
He knows there's worse things than bein' alone
And so I?ve learned to retreat at the first sign of danger
I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender?
An ambition, I?ve found, can lead only to failure
I do not read the reviews, no, I am not singin' for you
Well, I stood droppin' a coin into the pit of a well
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help
With all these wishes I make, I should buy somethin' real
At least a telephone call home
Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall memory
All those multiple choices I answered so quickly
And got my grades back and forgot just as easily
But at least I got an A and so I don't have them to blame
Well, I should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgment
Of all those public action figures, the cowboy presidents
So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit
When they've made a mistake
While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen
He knows he don't have to say it, so it, it don't bother him
'Honesty, accuracy is just popular opinion
And the approval rating's high and so someone's gonna die
Well, ABC, NBC, CBS, bullshit
They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment
We're still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see
We must stumble blindly forward, repeatin' history
Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan on that fast food marquee
Red-blooded, white-skinned, oh and the Blues, oh and the Blues
I got the Blues, that's me, that's me
Well, I awoke in relief, my sheets and tubes were all tangled
Weak from whiskey and pills in a Chicago hospital
And my father was there in a chair by the window
Starin' so far away
I tried talking, just whispered, "So sorry, so selfish"
He stopped me and said, "Child, I love you regardless
And there is nothing you could do that would ever change this
I'm not angry, it happens, but you just can't do it again"
And so now I try to keep up, I?ve been exchangin' my currency
While a million objects pass through my periphery
Now I?m rubbin' my eyes 'cause they?re startin' to bother me
I?ve been starin' too long at the screen
But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery

Laura, are you still livin' there on your estate of sorrow?
You used to leave it occasionally, but now you don't even bother
To ride the commuter train West to Chicago
To stroll through the greenery in the park past the statues
My eyes seemed to follow you, like a hated addiction
The beauty carved out of absolutes, you could never claim or even envision
Laura, you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman
Yea, I thought you were beautiful but I wept with your movements
But I hope that you're laughin' now from that place on the carpet
Where we shared a sleepin' bag in your sister's apartment
Oh, how she would worry so, you know I was just a stranger
But she asked me to care for you, yes she did and I went and betrayed her
Do you know we're in high demand? Laura us, people who suffer
Because we don't take to arguing and we're quick to surrender
I think I would call tonight, if I still had your number
Your thoughts have always laid close to mine, we were both skippin' supper
But you should never be embarrassed by, your trouble with livin'
'Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats, Laura
Who have done the most singing, everybody
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la

No one knows where the ladder goes
You're gonna lose what you love the most
You're not alone in anything
You're not unique in dying
Feel estranged every now and then
Fall asleep reading science fiction
I wanna fly in your silver ship
Let Jesus hang and Buddha sit
It's on now
The days are long now
The ups and the sundowns
And the twisting mind
If I've got to go first
I'll do it on my terms
I'm tired of traitors
Always changing sides
They were friends of mine...
Don't hang around once the promise breaks
You'll be there when the next one's made
Kiss the feet of a charlatan
Some imagined freedom
All the rest is predictable
You can say you're the first to know
Bought a mantra to concentrate
Car alarm or hissing snake.
I know now
How it's gonna turn out
We gotta calm down
Or I'll lose my place
Gotta get to the center
Gotta get to the concert
Run off with a dancer
Gonna celebrate
Welcome the new age
Covered in warrior paint
Lights from the jungle to the sky
See now, a star's born
Looks just like a blood orange
Don't it just make you want to cry?
Precious friend of mine...
Well, I know when it's finally done
This whole life's a hallucination
You're not alone in anything

My brother finds comfort in calculators
He assigns every number a name
He believes that they add up to certainty
And he's upset with the fractions that remain
So I examine these maps with my eyes
And at best, I can trace with my finger all the way
To that town where she went an attempt to forget
The cracks and the lines of my face
So Jetsabel cleaned out the closets for me
And she piled the boxes in the hall
Tomorrow when she wakes she'll come take them away
And they will never haunt me again
But it is still hard to sleep with the moon's heavy beams
I run barefoot to the backyard
Just to freeze in my place by the wrought iron gate
Too afraid and ashamed to advance
Today I walked through the snow
And found a field of headstones
They were in rows like the weeks on calendars
Where each box is a day that you can ever escape
Without pills for your poisonous sleep
These memories leak from these faucets that weep
Hot tears splash against the shower floor
And I stand in the steam as if inside a dream
I can see her again by the sink
From behind the bathroom mirror she pulls a thermometer
And placed it underneath my tongue
She said, ?You are as pale as a sheet, you look awful my sweet
Lay down and wait for the sun?
So I stayed in that bed, she brought me water
And read each night from a volume out loud
She whispered soft poetry
Her favorite was 'Annabel Lee'
And those words, like these drugs, comforted me
But the clocks kept waving their hands
And she could not understand
Why my temperature would never drop
And although she promised with tears
That she would always be here
I heard truth like the sounding sea
I said, ?My Arienette, oh, how soon you forget
This house will never be your home
And you will leave in the fall when the trees become graves
And their colors lie dead in the grass?
Gold and green torture me like the lies I believe so easily
Oh my Jetsabel, look at this hell that I have made
If you want maybe drop by sometime
Put some flowers on my grave
So that I will look beautiful in my silent sepulcher
Yeah, that's fine, throw those dresses away
I don't want anything of hers
For the moon never shines and the stars never rise
Without bringing me dreams

So, I?m just the medicine
You take when you?re sick
You get well and that?s it
I?m put back on the shelf in your mirror
And it isn?t exceptional
The course of our fate
So people love and they hate
And I guess it?s just our turn to hate
Yeah, you were just some song I wrote
A poem on a page
A sculpture I made out of clay
Desire was the flame
But now you?re more of a basketball
Boys just pass you around
They bounce you hard on the ground
And dribble, and then we all get high fives
And you think I?m an asshole now
Well, you?re probably right
But at least I?m not blind
To the facts I?ve been wishing were lies
But still I hope you get everything
That you care to possess
And unbelievable sex
With him or any one of my friends
But just don?t ask about my appetite
I didn?t lose it tonight
No, it?s been gone half my life

Some plans were made and rice was thrown
A house was built, a baby born
How time can move both fast and slow
Amazes me
And so I raise my glass to symmetry
To the second hand and its accuracy
To the actual size of everything
The desert is the sand
You can't hold it in your hand
It won't bow to your demands
There's no difference you can make
There's no difference you can make
And if it seems like an accident
A collage of senselessness
You aren't looking hard enough
I wasn't looking hard enough at it
An argument for consciousness
The instinct of the blind insect
Who makes love to the flower bed
And dies in the first freeze
Oh, I want to learn such simple things
No politics, no history
Till what I want and what I need
Can finally be the same
I just got myself to blame
Is everything up to fate
When there's choices I could make
When there's choices I could make
Now, my heart needs a polygraph
Always so eager to pack my bags
When I really wanna stay
When I really wanna stay
When I wanna stay
When I wanna stay
When I wanna stay
When I wanna stay
The arc of time, the stench of sex
The innocence you can't protect
Each quarter note, each marble step
Walk up and down that lonely treble clef
Each wanting the next one
Each wanting the next one to arrive
Each wanting the next one
Each wanting the next one to arrive
An argument for consciousness
The instinct of the blind insect
Who never thinks not to accept its fate
That's fate, that's happiness and death
You get to the next one
You get to the next on down the line
You get to the next one
You get to the next on down the line
The remedy of longing that
Distills each dream and the song I had
By morning watered down again
On silver stars I wish and wish and wish
From one to the next one
From one to the next one down the line
From one to the next one
From one to the next one down the line
You get to the next one
You get to the next on down the line
You get to the next one

The wife forgave the mistress for she only entertained
The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name
Said, "Both of us must suffer from the same unending ache"
The world was not of interest though her days were never dull
Her bed, beneath a crucifix, on guests performing miracles
With the son of God just hanging like a common criminal
When I do wrong, I am with God, she thought
When I feel lost, I am not at all
So give me black light, so give me hot knives
On a dance floor, no one tells time
Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up
She went to see a mystic who made medicine from rain
And gave up her existence to feel everything, dream others dreams
Bid farewell to her family with one ecstatic wave
Out the window, as the car rolled away
She just vanished into a thick mist of change
So let us rejoice in all this pink noise

The phone slips from a loose grip
Words were missed, then some apology
I didn't want to tell you this
No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with
I don't know, the past couple of weeks, I guess
Thank you and hang up the phone
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close
Let's pin split black ribbon to your overcoat
The laughter pours from under doors in this house
I don't understand that sound no more
Seems artificial, like a TV set
Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh
This weight, it must be satisfied
You offer only one reply
You know not what you do
As you tear and tear your hair from roots
Of that same head you've twice removed
Now, a lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die, well, ha ha ha
I remember everything, the words we spoke on freezing South Street
All those mornings watching you get ready for school
You combed your hair inside that mirror
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
Something about those bright colors
Would always make you feel better
But now we speak with ruined tongues
And the words we say aren't meant for anyone
It's just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance
But there was once you
You said you hate my suffering, and you understood
And you'd take care of me
You'd always be there, where are you now?
Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh
The plans were never finalized
But left to hang like yarn and twine
Dangling before my eyes
As you tear and tear your hair from roots
From that same head that you have twice removed
Now, a lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press onto the strings
Yet another clumsy chord
Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie
This weight would now be satisfied
I'm gonna give you only one reply
I know not who I am?
But I talk in the mirror
To the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
Always one sided, nothing is clear
Except we keep coming back
To this meaning that I lack
He says "The choices were given"
And now, you must live them
Or just not live

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying, trying to keep 'em alive
His body's decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed, she caves
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran's mute
If you burn them all together, you get close to the truth still
They are pouring over Sanskrit on the Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Cast all the school and meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four winds, cry until it comes
And it's the sum of man, slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks, it breaks, it breaks
Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
With four winds, leveling the pines
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space

Emily, sing something sweet for me
I want to feel the warmth inside your heart
Emily, sing something sweet for me
I need to hear those words out of your mouth
Emily, sing something, please
I want to face the life behind your eyes
Emily, sing something

The drunk kids, the catholics, they?re all about the same
They?re waiting for something, hoping to be saved
Well, I have been happy the past couple days
Just thinking of the women who?ve taken your place
And every night I think I certainly won't ever sleep sober or alone
And then suddenly it occurs to me, I've slept alone before you
And so I pour myself the stiffest drink, my stomach can stand
And convince myself to lay back down again
I?m gonna lay back down, I?m gonna lay back down again
The drunk kids, the catholics, they're all about the same
They?re waiting for something, hoping to be saved
The drunk kids, the catholics, they're all about the same
They?re waiting for something, hoping to be saved
The drunk kids, the catholics, they're all about the same
They?re waiting for something, hoping to be saved
They crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves
But I?m working all weekend, I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves
But I?m working all weekend, I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves
But I?m working all weekend, I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves
But I?m working all weekend, I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans to paint in the caves

I was living in a devil town
I didn't know it was a devil town
Oh, Lord, it really brings me down about the devil town
All my friends were vampires
I didn't know they were vampires
It turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town
I was living in a devil town
I didn't know it was a devil town
Oh, Lord, it really brings me down about the devil town
All my friends were vampires
I didn't know they were vampires
It turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town
I was living in a devil town
I didn't know it was a devil town
Oh, Lord, it really brings me down about the devil town
About the devil town
I was living in a devil town
I didn't know it was a devil town

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow
See the new pyramids down in old Manhattan
From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending
Heard it loud and long the river's Om
Time marching on to a madman's drum
Don't forget what you've learned all you give is returned
And if life seems absurd what you need is some laughter
And a season to sleep and a place to get clean
Maybe Los Angeles, somewhere no one is expecting
On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk
Someone wrote in red, "start over"
So I muffled my scream on an Oxnard beach
Full of fever dreams that scare you sober
Into saltless dinners
Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth
Is it bitter or sweet? All depends on your timing
Like a meeting of chance with the train station glance
Many lifetimes had past in a instant reminded
Of a millstone house in a seaside town
When your heart gave out in a mission bed
So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge
You woke up purged as a wailing infant
In Krug Thep, Thailand
Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows

She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts
Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars
So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar
To think of them, all alone in the dark
So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen
She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean
Gave me anything I wanted, oh, the generosity
I took all that I could, it was free
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint
It?s a room I?m renovating, it?s a name I got to change
If I get out of California, I?m going back to my home state
To tell them all that I made a mistake
And I keep looking for that blindfold faith, lighting candles to a cynical saint
Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape
You can go right out your mind trying to escape
From the panicked paradox of day to day
If you can?t understand something, then it?s best to be afraid
The whole world, it loves you if you are a chic chameleon
Intersecting circles, she could hang with anyone
But when conducting business, she would lie about where she?s from
Saying, "Life is how it is, not how it was"
I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school
She?d talk forever about the phases of the moon
Saying, "Everything's a cycle, you?ve got to let it come to you
And when it does, you will know what to do"
Without even knowing, I guess I took up her advice
Painted her front door, it seemed a suitable goodbye
It?s not that often but I think of her sometimes
Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night
And they keep moving at a glacial pace, turning circles in a memory maze
I made a new cast of the death mask that's gonna cover my face
I had to change the combination to the safe
Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait

At the center of the world there is a statue of a girl
She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry
I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand
This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand
And it came to rest upon a beach with a million others there
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear
Into the endlessness of blue, into the horror of the truth
You see we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew
But we knew what we could taste
Girls found honey to drench our hands
The men cut marble to mark our graves
Saying that we will need something to remind us
Of all the sweetness that has passed through us
(Fresh sangria and lemon tea)
The priests dressed children for a choir
(White-robed small voices praise him)
But found no joy in what was sung
The funeral had begun in the middle of the day
When you drive home to your place from that job that makes you sleep
Back to the thoughts that keep you awake
Long after night has come to claim any life that still remains
In the corner of the frame that you put around her face
Two pills just weren't enough
The alarm clock's going off but you are not waking up
This isn't happening, happening, happening, happening, happening

Once I gave a look to you
But you never gave it back
So here I stand expressionless
But my memory's intact
I guess the past is good for a laugh
A comedy so dry and black
That it makes my stomach hurt so bad, I cried
So two thumbs up we give this one
Despite its predictable ending
The dialog seemed rushed and wrong
But the actors did their best
To lay some worth on every word
Like coffins dropped into the earth
The saddest song we ever heard
We sang along, we sang it

Hold on tight Beginner's Mind
The wheel is spinning too
Fast to make your move
The worst must be assumed
Oh how they will try
To pull and to pry
Away what you know now
Beat and beat it out
Leave a drum that makes no sound
A snuff film on a JumboTron for all the world to see
A cocktail napkin epitaph
A psychobabble telegram
Message written in the sand
The tide rolls in
Swear you'll do the opposite
Of all those tangled hypocrites
Who say that the experiment has failed
Don't go there
You're getting nowhere
You're getting nowhere
Stay awhile my Inner Child
I'd like to learn your trick
To know what makes you tick
To nurse you when you're sick
Oh how you've grown so cynical
Hard lines carved in your face

Did you expect it all to stop
At the wave of your hand?
Like the sun's just gonna drop
If it's night you demand
Well, in the dark we are just air
So the house might dissolve
Once we are gone, who is gonna care
If we were ever here at all?
Well, summer is gonna come and it's
Gonna cloud our eyes again
There is not need to focus
When there is nothing that's worth seeing
So we trade liquor for blood
And in an attempt to tip the scales
I think you lost what you
Loved in that mess of details
They seemed so important at the time
Now you can't even recall
Any names, faces, or lines
It is more the feeling of it all
Well, winter is gonna end
I'm going to clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living

If could change your days
Arranging them in some sweet new sequence
Like any new arrangement is going to make a difference
Because it is the moment that you are living in
And not the one that follows that makes the mess
you are cleaning in your head
And time still drags you forward
Although you keep resisting
You know it is what you leave behind
You will soon start missing and
The people you once counted on
Now says its all depending on how you
Act and how you treat yourself
And that is not very well
So baby when I call for you
I want you to come, explain yourself to everyone
You nod in an acknowledgement of your frequent mood swings
But what good is an acknowledgement
It still don't change things
We've tried all forms of encouragement
But it's still no better
You can't seem to fake or force a smile
Not even a little one
But baby, when I call to you I want you to come
And lay it out for everyone
Exactly how it was before any of this happened
And why you can't leave it behind
Now, don't just sit there when I call to you
I told you to come and lay it out for
Don't feel awkward

I used to dream of time machines
Now it's been said we're post-everything
As a child imagining
Neck ties and Coast lines
I seen the show man, what a sight
Drenched us in approximated sunlight
The crowd was small and mostly blind
But kind, you're too kind
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
There you go again on that circular trip
Lick the solar plexus of some L.A. shaman
I'm out of breath I'd better sit
Been living, hard living
All I do is follow you around
I wouldn't waste another thought
On what is fair and what is not
The quinceañera dress she bought
Was unstitched with bullets
All the guests in the garden screamed
Women and tires squealing
Such opulence, such misery Unwinding, unwinding
All I do is follow you around
All I do is follow you around

The air was all dust, a night so untamed
The ground opened up
And swallowed all of the rain
And it swallowed you too, into distance unknown
As they sat down for dinner, they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a place for you
So don't believe everything that you read in that diary of yours
And this nervousness, it isn't all your fault
It's just these shaking hands won't do what I want them to
And I've tried to guess what it is you thought about
That act of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept
What are you crying for?
Just dust my heart and you will find there are no fingers printed there
Just the untouched place that lies
Inside of every lonely boy tonight
And all this open air has caused me to choke

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire,
Something that would make me never want another,
Something that would make it so that nothing matters,
All would be clearer then
But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments,
And watch it all dissolve into a single second,
And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet,
Or one foolish line
'Cause that's all that you'll get,
So you'll have to accept,
You are here ,
Then you're gone
I believe that lovers should be tied together,
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather,
Left there to drown,
Left there to drown in their innocence
But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter,
I've read all of the pages and there's still no answer,
The only words before I know will soon come after,
It’s the only way it can be.
So I stand in the sun,
And I breathe with my lungs,
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth,
Seeing everything you've ever seen was just a mirror,
Spend your whole life sweating in an endless fever,
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing water,
Wishing you were a ghost
But once you knew a girl and you named her Lover,
And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summers
But autumn came,
She disappeared,
You can't remember
Where she said she was going to
But you know that she's gone,
'Cause she left you a song,
That you don't wanna sing
Singing: I believe that lovers should be chained together,
Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters,
And left there to burn,
Left there to burn in their arrogance
But as for me I'm coming to my final failure,
I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better,
But still ended up becoming something other,
Than what I had planned to be
All right!
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers,
And laid entwined together on a bed of clover,
And left there to sleep,

Sitting around, no work today
Try pacing to keep awake
Laying around, no school today
Just drink until the clock
Has circled all the way
It's late afternoon
As you walk through the rooms
Of a house that is quiet
Except for unanswered telephones
You stand near the sink
You're mixing a drink
You think you don't want to pass out
Where your roommates will find you again
Stumble around the neighborhood
Nothing to do
You're always looking for something
To sniff, smoke or swallow
Calling over next door
To see what they got
But you would settle for anything
That would make your brain slow down or stop
Break this circle of thoughts you chase
Before they catch back up with you
And your parents noticed your thinning face
All the weight you lost
All the weight you're losing
You said, "I'm done feeling like a skeleton
No more sleep walking dead"
You're gonna to wake from this coma
You're gonna crawl from this bed you have made
Stop counting on that camera
That hangs round your neck
Because it won't ever remember
What you choose to forget
As you try to find some source of light
Try to name one thing you like
You used to have such a longer list
And light you never had to look for it
But now it's so easy, it's so easy to
It's so easy, it's so easy to
Second guess everything you do
Until all you want is all you want is to
Finish this half empty glass
Before the ice all melts away
This feeling always used to pass
Seems like it's every day

Every new day is a gift; it's a song of redemption
Any expression of love is a way to return
To that place that I think of so often but now never mention
The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don't deserve
Come fire, come water, come karma, we're all in transition
The Wheel of Becoming erases the physical mind
Till all the remains is a staircase of misinformation
And the code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life
So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar
How did it get so dark in the day?
It's just so bizarre, is it true what we're made of?
WHy do I hide from the rain?
Inside some cloudy nostalgia where there are no features
We look at ourselves through a porthole, the passage of time
See that sunny day that we snuck down, hid under the bleachers
Kissed as the band marched, everything fell into line
So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar
How did I get so lost? I'm amazed
It's just so bizarre all the things I'm afraid of
Why do I hide from the rain?
Sure I had my doubts
But I know it now
We are jejune stars
SO it starts again
At our childhood's end
I'll die young at heart
So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar
How did it get so dark in the day?
It's just so bizarre, is it true what we're made of?

The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleeping in their beds
The city's cemetery's humming
I'm wide awake, it's morning
And I have my drugs, I have my woman
They keep away my loneliness
My parents, they have their religion
But sleep in separate houses
I read the body count out of the paper
And now it's written all over my face
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
Sometimes that's just the most comfortable place
So I'm drinking, breathing, writing, singing
Everyday I'm on the clock
My mind races with all my longings
But can't keep up with what I got
So I hope I don't sound too ungrateful
What history gave modern men
A telephone to talk to strangers
Machine guns and a camera lens
So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
It's best to join the side that's gonna win
And no one's sure how all of this got started
But we're gonna make 'em goddamn certain how it's gonna end
Oh yeah we will, oh yeah we will
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voice
But failures always sounded better
Let's fuck it up, boys, make some noise
The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleeping in their beds
The city's cemetery's humming

It was don delillo, whiskey, me,
And a blinking midnight clock
Speakers on a tv stand, just a turntable to watch
When the smoke came out our mouths
On all those hooded sweatshirt walks
We were a stroke of luck
We were a goldmine and they gutted us
And from the sidelines
You see me run
Until i'm out of breath
Living the good life
I left for dead
The sorrowful midwest
Well i did my best
To keep my head
It was grass stained jeans and incompletes
And a girl from class to touch
But you think about yourself too much
And you ruin who you love
Well all these claims at consciousness
My stray dog freedom
Let's have a nice clean cut
Like a bag we buy and divvy up
And from the sidelines
I see you run
Until you're out of breath
And all those white lines that sped us up
We hurry to our death
Well i lagged behind

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach
Your's is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am
Don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I'd let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realized that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home
Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange
You said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said, "This is the first day of my life
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you
But, now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy"
So if you wanna be with me
With these things there's no telling
We'll just have to wait and see
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides, maybe this time it's different

I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul
Ther classicists, the posturing avant-garde
I bought a grey macaw named him Jules Vern
He'll probably outlive me he's a bright bird
Keeps me company I teach him new words
I saw a hologram at the theme park
She looked as real as me through the white fog
Then she melted down to her ankles
Turned into a million-watt candle
If I knew where she went I would follow
Walking through the land of tomorrow
Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos
In the sunshine try to act normal
My veins are full of flat cherry-cola
Slept on a bench by the rollercoaster
Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike
Lion of Judah painted on the side
I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades
Life's a wash, a pastoral school play
China shops and cold ivory towers
I and I make toasts to the Caesars
Forcing down the dregs of Decembers
Madeline she spins in a slow bang
All through the house the strong smell of burnt sage
Let's make it clean and run out the spirits
I know a diving bell when I hear it
We're going down now under the surface
Light to dark can shift in an instant
Feeling close but keeping my distance
On all fours she's just so insistent
Fills my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists
Bust through the Firewall into heaven
Then I'm standing in that blinding light
Crooked crosses falling from the sky

On a string
On a string
On a string, I was held the way I move, can you tell?
My actions are orchestrated from above
So I swing and I sway wave my hand, kick my leg
And it's always right with the music
Until' all that swaying starts to make you sick
For a song, I was bought now I lie when I talk
With a careful eye on the cue card
Onto a stage, I was pushed with my sorrow, well rehearsed
So give me all your pity and your money, now all of it
We used to think that sound was something pure
But if I could act like this was my real life
And not some cage, where I've been placed
Well then, I could tell you the truth like I used to
And not be afraid of sounding fake
Now all anyone's listening for are the mistakes
Ahh, I'm sorry
No, it's okay, it's okay
One, two, three
One, two, three
In a house by myself I hear the ice start to melt
And I'll watch the rooftops weep for the sunlight
And I know, what must change fuck my face, fuck my name
They are brief and false advertisements
For a soul, I don't have somethin' true, I have lacked
And spent my whole life tryin' to make up for
But I found in a song and in the people I love
They will lift me up out of darkness
And now my door, it stands open
I'm inviting everyone in we're gonna laugh
We're gonna drink, until' the morning comes

I heard you fell into a rabbit hole
Covered yourself up in snow
Baby, tell me where'd you go for days and days
Did they make you stay up all night?
Did they paint your face that pasty white?
You're thirsty but your appetite is chased away
The sun turns us to stone
It's a cloudy day
But we still can't go home
Open our back cellar door
Till we see the moon
We're invisible
No one ever takes the garbage out
A new kid gets dare to touch the house
He runs back only to announce, there's no one home
Does he paint the foil with a flame?
Smear the soda, taste butane
For every fear that can't be named to calm you down
Your heart starts skipping steps
So your farther gone
Then you might expect
If your thoughts should turn to death
Got to stomp them out
Like a cigarette
I heard you fell into a rabbit hole
Covered yourself up in snow
Baby, tell me where'd you go
For days and days and days
Days and days and days and days
Days and days and days and days
Days and days and days and days

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
When you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you incessantly
From the space between your bed and walls?
Does he walk around all day at school
With his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps
To pretend he walks with you
Oh, does he know that place below
Your neck that is your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences
That I love you far too much?
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Worried, you smoke too many cigarettes
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile there's
A thousand more you won't ever see
But you must hold inside yourself eternally
Well I drag your ghost across the country
And we plotted out my death
In every city, memories would whisper
Here is where you rest
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
And I settled for a telephone
And sang into your machine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
She had eyes bright enough
To burn me they reminded me of yours
And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
And it rose like thunder
Clapped under our hands
And it stretched for centuries
To a diary entry's end
Where I wrote
You make me happy, oh when skies are gray
You make me happy, oh when skies are gray
And gray, and gray
Well the clock's heart it hangs
Inside it's open chest with it's hands stretched
Towards the calendar hanging itself
But I will not weep for those dying days
For all the ones who've left
There's a few that stayed
And they found me here and pulled me

No news, that's good news, someone's gonna break
See things change, yeah I've been changing everything
It's peaceful, the pitch black, when the last light on goes out
I'm stranded in my bed, so I think about
The bad luck, the bad blood that may have come between
Two good souls that's one hell of an offering
So take these gifts, that have been given
Yes and ended up with an alphabet
But some words are too wrong to define
Now the whole world is waking up
A ribbon cut for the opening
Yeah, we all knew that day would arrive
Up all night, all upset, outsides growing light
No breakfast, just not much of an appetite
So be cool and believe in the things you haven't learned
Because you've lost and it's gone but it will return
Now it's all laid out in front of you
And that's half murdered the mystery
Are you still too shy, to describe?
Now the whole world is waking up
A ribbon cut for the opening
Yes, finally the day has arrived
So seek and rejoice fill your hands with something tangible
And fly, your own love like a flag
It's joy the desire for that which is impossible

You can make a plan
Carve it into stone
Like a feather falling
It is still unknown
Until the clock speaks up
Says it's time to go
You could choose the high
Or the lower road
You might clinch your fist
You might fork your tongue
As you curse or praise
All the things you've done
And the faders move
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the arc of time
So you nurse your love
Like a wounded dove
In the covered cage of night
Every star is crossed
By frenetic thoughts
That separate and then collide
And they twist like sheets
Till you fall asleep
And they finally unwind
It's a black balloon
It's a dream you'll soon deny
I hear if you make friends
With Jesus Christ
You will get right up
From that chalk outline
And then you'll get dolled up
And you'll dress in white
All to take your place
In his chorus line
And then in you'll come
With those marching drums
In a saintly compromise
No more whiskey slurs
No more blonde haired girls
For your whole eternal life
And you'll do the dance
That was choreographed
At the very dawn of time
Singing, I told you son
The day would come
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
You would die, you'd die, you'd die
To the deepest part
Of the human heart
The fear of death expands
Till we crack the code
We have always known
But could never understand
On a circuit board
We will soon be born
Again, again, again, again
And again, again, again, again
And again, again, again, again

You take your clothes off
Right after school
The tea is on
The flame is blue
And you hope it won't take
All afternoon
The TV's waiting
To talk to you
It's your naked body
On white velor
But there's no feeling
Just weight on you
But you get nauseous now
As he speaks to you
Such proper language
For acts so cruel
He says, we all follow the rules
We can't very well go
And break them now can we?
For you, for you, for you
Your older sisters
I had them too
But you're my favorite
You know it's true
You look like your mother
In that thin disguise
Your parting mouth
Your shining eyes
And the way that you hate me
And the length of your hair
It's the reason I make you
It's the bond that we share
'Cos you were all trying to endure it
You could easily go and make your own life somewhere
Couldn't you? Couldn't you? Couldn't you?
Couldn't you? Couldn't you? Couldn't you? Couldn't you?"
With the sun beams bright
You keep your eyes shut
Your alarm clock lies
Get to school on time
But you're a bag of warm fluid
You're the corpse in the class
You walk so near to your locker
You lay so low in the grass
Did you get that coat from the principal?
Did you get that bruise on the bus?
You should wash your hair more
You should look more like us
But I saw you walking once
Under powder blue skies
You looked cold still
Your collar was high
And I tried to talk to you
But you walked right by
I don't know which I said then
"Hello" or "Goodbye"
And yet we're all trying to be pure
But it isn't a very easy thing, now is it?
To do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do
Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it?

The people's key
Ringing through arena seats
The black machine
Played it all from memory
A fever dream
Well, I'll come back eventually
To wade into the water
Another and another
We go
Form some kind of code
The bodies float
And form some kind of code
The bodies float
Someone's out to know
Papa hobo
Don't hide your eyes
Mother mountain
Don't kill your unborn child
His day is coming
His day is coming
A question burns
Beneath the centuries of dirt
That voice you've heard
Well, every head's a different world
Well, mine's concerned
I boarded up the windows
A catatonic plateau
A backwards black-faced minstrel show
So just let me go
The prisoner moans
Oh, just let me go
The prisoner moans
No one has to know
Eva Braun went to dye her hair
Little Hitler sighs in his giant's chair
And dreamed of nowhere
And dreamed of nowhere
And dreamed
The people's key
Ringing filling everything
The theme repeats
Thinner than the galaxy
Impart to me
Your wisdom and eventually
I'll float into the ether
Another from another
We grow
Form some kind of code
A flesh at bone
We form some kind of code
A flesh at bone
No, you're not alone
History bows and it steps aside
In the jungle there's columns of purple light
We're starting over
We're starting over
We're starting

My grandfather's name was Moon
Because his eyes were bright and round
No amount of time or liquor could dull them
My grandmother's name was Joy
Because it spilled out of her heart
And bathed her precious children in its warmth
And there was happiness in life
Beyond the sorrow and the pain
But how they ever found it I cannot explain
I guess time has a way of making everything alright
It's just there is not enough of it
And so we drink and we sing and we celebrate this lie
And hope that it will last, morning is here night has passed
My grandfather was a doctor
He cured the sick with his kind hands
And he taught me how to sail and how to find dry land
My grandmother was all sweetness
And when she spoke we all heard bells and
They ran in such a way that we were comforted
And they held on to each other with all the strength they had
And they loved with devotion beyond what I understand
But fear has a way of making sleep unbearable
And the days seem dark and long
But we cry and we dance
And we stumble into love an awkward perfect grace
The moon is gone and the sun has took its place

Fool just another
fool just another
I've been waiting
for signs of god
create- enslaved- behaved-
everything is out of control
Leave me alone
isolation bears hope
there's something else waiting
a promised destiny
freezing me
I feel restless and low
these days full of sadness
had joyfully changed
into fear
My freakshow will start tonight
don't miss the right time
Ref.:
Bright eyes
blinded by fear of life
no Merlin is by my side
everything is out of control
everything is out of control
in my future plans
everything is out of control
noone's left to hurt
everything is out of control
sorrow's gone away
Broken memories
walking upstairs
step by step
I see the whole world burning
the poet dies in Neverland
how it burns
Hey, mother stubborn
I really hate you
if you say yes I will say no
ashes to ashes
but dust won't be dust
if you go there
I will go back
Ref.:
Bright eyes
blinded by fear of life
betrayed by sunrise
bright eyes
blinded by fear of life
no Merlin is by my side
Hey, father stubborn
you're ying
and I'm young
I feel alone
who really cares
Born into ashes
to lose all the games
with a smiling face
Ref.:
Bright eyes
blinded by fear of life
and dark dragons rise
bright eyes
blinded by fear of life
no Merlin is by my side
So I sit still in my room, today
winter's here
in summer's season
shall I say
I was wrong
if I'm right

When the President talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the President talks to God?
When the President talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute on down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the President talks to God?
When the President talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the President talks to God?
When the President talks to God
I wonder which one plays the better cop?
We should find some jobs the ghetto's broke
No they're lazy George, I say we don't
Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
That's what God recommends
When the President talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf?
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess God just calls a spade a spade
When the President talks to God?
When the President talks to God
Does he ever think that maybe he's not?
Did that that voice is just inside his head
When he kneels next to the presidential bed?
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the President talks to God?

The fragile keep secrets, gathered in pockets
And they will sell them for nothing
A cheap watch or locket that kind of gold washes off
And the sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warnin' to tell us that their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors
And the angry are animals senseless and savage
They act without order in logical lapses
They stain their mouths with blood
So take my hand, this barren land is alive tonight
Oh, the corn has grown stalks that form a wall to hide
But the wind carries sounds that I can't see from beyond that line
Then the stalks begin to sway
Oh, stay with me Arienette
Until' the wolves are away, yea
Well wicked are vultures, and they bake in the canyons
They circle in sunlight and wait for their victims
To collapse and call to them
And desperate of water, they run down forever
And they soak into silence, and end up together
And a dark and distant, dark and distant place
So, don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me
This house holds nothing but the memories
And the moon it leaves silver but never sleep
Then the silver turns to gray
Oh, stay with me Arienette

I get my whiskey from a well
Except on holidays, then it's the top shelf.
But tonight I don't mind if I spend a little more
'Cause you're a tolerant woman and the world is at war
I know you witnessed my decline
You used to push back the darkness like a floodlight
But tonight that's a secret, like the soul of a whore
That if you want to have fun you just have to ignore
Now I let my troubles solve themselves
I used to get involved, but I'm just no help
But tonight let's pretend that we're just like we were
Let me stay until the morning, I'll sleep on the floor
And we can talk in circles, no dollar figures
Just what is owed or paid
We can make predictions, I know you see the future
And I agree and we agreed, tonight?s not happening
When I got dry as a desert, I got mean
I was as lonely and empty as a canteen
With no anesthetic you are bound to be sore
But tonight I'm drinking all peaceful and warm
And just when I got fed up with that gray sky
The sun came out of nowhere like a bar fight
And it knocked out the wind and it bruised me with light
And I felt grateful for living just like I feel tonight
But I know you feel safer in a group
Where you could be anyone or they could be you
But tonight we'll take risks that you can afford
You still have bars on your windows and a hole in your door
We can talk in circles around a dirty mirror
Night trickles down our throats
And we could make a time line to last our whole lives
We don't know but no one knows what's further up the road
Just wait and see
Just wait and see
All in time

Anchor men spike their blood
Wear a mask of mud, cucumbers cut to fit their eyes
So no one would know how tired they've grown
Of talking and telling their lies
While the tv's change stations
Scroll messages, victims and christains both drinking blood
And they'll pray for the destrucion
Of all hatred, more often just those with hate for us
Cause it hurts when you discover ones worse and ones better
To suffer or cause others to
And you can live by your concious
Now guilt is a concept you're no longer subscribing to
There's a virgin in my bed
And she's taking off her dress
And I'm not sure what I am goin' do
There's a song stuck in my head
And i can't help singing it
Oh how i hope my singin pleases you
Cause this is not who i've become but who you make me into
We've got no health insurance
No cellular service
No disease they can cure
But we need more money to burn
So each person must learn the dollar amount they are worth
And those pills make me dizzy, forgetting my body
I watch as it walks away
And i just keep drinking the poisen
And smoking the cartons
A pack and a half a day
And so when time comes to claim me
My friends and my family will gather around my grave
And they'll believe that they knew me
And love me and miss me
And all call me by my name
So immagine what you want and hold onto that thought
Cause that's as close as it will ever come
And believe you're were you're are
Keep acting out the part
But at the end of the day
The trees all get wheeled away
And you'll be standing alone in a blank, blank space
So believe you're who you are
And stay in character
But at the end of the play the audience walks away

It's not the road we used to know
They tore some buildings down
The traffic's like a pack of dogs
There's fewer trees, windows, fleas
Concrete on the lawn
There's people here but you are gone
And I find still swimming through time
Afraid some days I've reached the shore
Make yourself free, man said that to me
Now, my heart is like an open door
And the road finally gave me back
But I don't think I'll unpack
Because I'm not sure if I live here any more
It's not my weight that makes me faint
Or the sugar in my blood
The way these strangers stand so close
They say my name like a guessing game
"Is that really you?" No, I don't think it ever was
In the spring when the world's turning green
I only think about the fall
And the frets on the board, my progression of chords
Oh, how I want this to resolve
And the road finally gave me back
But I don't think I'll unpack
Because I'm not sure if I live here any more
Now, the road finally gave me back
But I don't think I'll unpack
Because I'm not sure if I live here
No, I'm not sure if I live here anymore

Were you surprised that we never spoke?
Then in the still of the night when nothing stirs
I woke and I gathered up some clothes
I never planned on this but it's the way it goes
And now it all seems so familiar like pages turned on calendars
We get the same twelve months to fuck things up-year after year
And I can't believe how down I am like the well I'm being lowered in
Now water stops, the bucket drops us farther and farther down
Farther and farther down
Well, I guess that you never knew me
Or at least not well enough
So I fill my gut with the dark red wine
Until my brain shuts off and my eyes go blind
You won't see me there in that thick black air, yeah
I'll finally make something disappear
'Cause I've been practicing disappearing
And I think that I've got it down
Now there is no sun it's just a cellar
Nowhere is sky it's just that black, black dirt
Now there is no sun it's just a cellar
Nowhere is sky it's just that black, black dirt
Expanding outwards just echoes for answers
Not that it matters if its back or its forwards
Unhappy lovers with baskets of flowers
Use them as markers
The place where your bed once stood
A time when it still felt good
But you'll get that feeling back
You just need sometime to think
Into out of the hell, getting straight in your mind
But you calculate cause, let me take some time
But I'm sure you get to feelin' better
And I just need some time to drink
So I'll fill my gut with that blood red wine
Until my insides swim and my veins unwind
I'll be lying there in that hot white air
Once that something's gone it might never reappear
It might never reappear
It might never reappear

We escape from the house
As the day disappears from the sky
Into night we became what we wanted to be
Like a dream or a ghost
I collapse out of turn
Near a house lying still in the grass
Felt the heat from the ground rising up to contract
And expand like a breath
We leave from that place soaked with sweat
And the poison we drank
Fill the bathtub with ice and hope this fever will break
Like a heart, easily
But I do not recall all the words that were formed
On those wire lips as they greeted me
A promise was made without thought
As the temperature climbed
And I started to sink like the moon tends to do
If you stare at it so long
Then you blink and it's gone
And we crawl to our sleep with the dawn
Take it back
And isn't it the same mistake?
And isn't it the same mistake?
And isn't it the same mistake?
There's not much you can escape
And isn't it the same?
We awake in the light
Feeling hollow and selfishly warm
Close the blinds and retreat until what's burning is gone
And it's light is away
Then we're back in the dark
Chasing nothing through backyards and trees
You ripped your shirt on a fence
But it didn't get me
Yeah, it's fear, makes you slow
And these creatures look crooked
Their shadows cut lines through my face
And the concrete is fire where my bare feet are placed
In a line next to yours
And I guess I'm not sure if it's fear that was born
As those awful eyes laid their claim on us
I put my hands on the fence
Said your name and I started to climb
And it must have been sweat but I drank it like wine
It was sweet, my mouth was dry
I heard your scream but I made no reply

Well, the songs you sung spiraled and hung
'Round like echoes or ripples on a pond
And so you circled the globe, spent a year on the road
Without ever going home
More than a couple of days then you leave right away
Run to a girl you barely know
But you like how she sings and you can't help but think
That there's something that she knows and could teach you
You're sleeping in that Southern State
Where the the bars are filled with people you can't hate
But try as you try, you still can't relate to them
You drink that whiskey down as they ask you
"Are you who you say you are?"
Are you who you say that you are?
Are you who you say that you are, you who?
Are you who you say that you are?
Are you who you say you are?
The fact that we can't tell, makes us like you even more
So now you're trying again or just visiting friends
One had just had his heart broke
For the first time in his life, he realized there's times
You can't make it alone
But now you're giving advices as if you had the right
To use a word like love
No, it's a negotiable term, what gets said's not what's heard
So it's different then for everyone
But you're still hanging around that college town
With your new life, your new lover you found
And you are keeping her up at night, bringing her down
She'll watch you drink yourself to death but won't ask you
"Is this really what you want?"
Is this really what you want?
Is this really what you, is this what?
Is this really what you want?
Is it really what you want?
Are you just sticking with it now 'cause it's all you got?
Are you just sticking with it now 'cause it's all you got?
I said, I think you're sticking with me now

Now and again
It seems worse than it is
But mostly the view is accurate
You see your breath in the air
As you climb up the stairs
To that coffin you call your apartment
And you sink in your chair
Brush the snow from your hair
And drink the cold away
And you're not really sure
What you are doing this for
But you need something to fill up the days
A few more hours
There's a dream in my brain
Such as won't go away
It has been stuck there since it came a few nights ago
And I'm standing on a bridge
In the town where I lived
As a kid with my mom and my brothers
And then the bridge disappears
And I'm standing on air
With nothing holding me
And I hang like a star
Fucking glow in the dark
For those starving eyes to see
Like the ones we've wished on
But now I'm confused, is this death really you?
Do these dreams have any meaning?
No, no, I think it is more like a ghost
That's been following us both
Something vague that we are not seeing

I wanna be the surgeon that cuts you open
That fixes all of life's mistakes
I wanna be the house that you were raised in
The only place that you feel safe
I wanna be your shower in the morning
That wakes you up and makes you clean
I know I'm just the weather against your window
As you sleep through a winter's dream
Something's churning the earth, something's stirring the sky
Every color at once in a column of light
Bacteria breeds on a microscope slide
The worm in my heart's the apple of your eye
Don't adore what is impossible
We have built this ship in a wine bottle
But if you knew how it worked
We would have to grow old
Something's eating at you, wakes you up in the night
If you dig in past, who knows what you'll find
Read the newspaper, print off the microfiche slide
And your holding your breath for the rest of your life
Don't you love what is intangible
I have built this ship in a wine bottle
But if you knew who I was

Took the fireworks and the vanity
The circuitboard and the city streets
Shooting star, swaying palm tree
Laid it at the arbiter's feet
If I could change my mind, change the paradigm
Prepare myself for another life
Forgive myself for the many times
I was cruel to something helpless and weak
But here it come, that heavy love
I'm never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tag it on a Tiananmen wall
Here it come that heavy love, someone gotta share in the load
Oh, here it come that heavy love, I'm never gonna move it alone
I was dressed in white, touched by something pure
Death obsessed, like a teenager
Sold my tortured youth, piss and vinegar
I'm still angry with no reason to be
At the architect who imagines
For the every man, blessed sisyphus
Slipping steadily into madness, now that's the only place to be free
But here it come, that heavy loveYou're never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tattooed on a criminals arm
Here it come that heavy love, someone gotta share in the load
Oh, here it come, that heavy love, you're never gonna move it alone
No I don't wanna play, it's a shell game
It's a shell game
Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes
Distorted facts I could never cope
My private life is an inside joke
No one will explain it to me
We'll be everything that we ever need
Everyone on the count of three
Everyone on the count of three
All together now
Here it come that heavy love
We're never gonna move it alone
Here it come that heavy love, playin as oscylinder rolls
Here it come that heavy love, I only want to share in the load
Oh it here it come that heavy love

There is no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand
And a language learned and forgot, in turn is studied once again
It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen
You can squint at it through snowy static to make out the meaning
And just keep stretching the antennae, hoping that it will come clear
We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear
Because I don't know what tomorrow brings
It's alive with such possibilities
All I know is I feel better when I sing
Burdens are lifted from me
That's my voice rising
So Michael, please keep the tape rolling
Boys keep strumming those guitars
We need a record of our failures, we must document our love
I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending
So thank you friends for the time we shared
My love stays with you like sunlight and air
Oh, I truly wish I could keep hanging around here
But my joy is covering me, soon, I will disappear
Well, not a movie, no private screening
This method acting, well, I call that living
It is a fountain, all the doors are open
We got a problem with no solution
But to love, love, love and to be loved
So I've made peace with the falling leaves
I see their same fate in my own body
I won't be frightened when I am awoken from this dream
And returned to that which gave birth to me
And the story goes, and the story goes
And it goes on and on and on and on
It's going on and on and on
It's going on and on and on
It's going on and on and on
It's going on and on and on
And on
And on
And on

I know that it is freezing but I think we'll have to walk
Keep waving to the taxis they keep turning their lights off
But julie knows a party at some actor's west-side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening
By the morning they'll be gone
When everything is lonely
I can be my own best friend
Get a coffee and the paper have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening
By the morning looks like shit
And I know you have a heavy heart
I can feel it when we kiss
And many men stronger than me
Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble
You can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening
By the morning won't exist
You're looking skinny like a model
With your eyes all painted black
Keep going to the bathroom
Always say you'll be right back
Well it takes one to know one kid
I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening
By the morning's such a drag
I've got a flask inside my pocket
We can share it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious
I will try and do the same
Yeah we might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening
By the morning seems insane
And I'm not sure what the trouble was
That started all of this
The reasons all have run away
But the feeling never did
Not something I would recommend
But it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight
By the morning never is
Yeah it was simple in the moonlight now it's so complicated

if you walk away, i'll walk away.
first tell me which road you will take.
i don't want to risk our paths crossing some day,
so you walk that way, i'll walk this way.
And the future hangs over our heads
and it moves with each current event
until it falls all around like a cold, steady rain
just staying, when it's looking this way.
and the moon's laying low in the sky
forcing everything metal to shine
and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case
they argue "walk this way, now walk this way"
and laura's asleep in my bed
as i'm leaving she wakes up and says,
"i dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave, baby don't go away, come here."
And there's kids playing guns in the street
and one's pointing his tree branch at me
so i put my hands up
i say, "enough is enough! if you walk away, i'll walk away.."
and he shot me dead!
i found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues
it will pass away, like a slow parade.
it's leaving but i don't know how soon.
And the world's got me dizzy again
you'd think after 22 years, i'd be used to the spin
and it only feels worse when i stay in one place
so i'm always pacing around or walking away.
i keep drinking the ink from my pen
and i'm balancing history books up on my head.
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase: "if you love something, give it away."
a good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
but you may be offended and you may be afraid
but don't walk away, don't walk away.
we made love on the living room floor
with the noise in the background from a televised war
and in that deafening pleasure i thought i heard someone say, "if we walk away, they'll walk away."
But greed is a bottomless pit
and our freedom's a joke, we're just taking a piss.
and the whole world must watch the sad comic display.
if you're still free, start running away...
cause we're coming for you!
i've grown tired of holding this pose.
i feel more like a stranger each time i come home
so i'm making a deal with the devils of fame
saying let me walk away..please.
you'll be free child, once you have died.
from the shackles of language, in measurable time.
and then we can trade places, playing musical graves.
till then walk away...walk away...walk away..
so i'm lopcked back on
putting on my shoes
i just wanna make a clean escape
i'm leaving but i dont know where to.

Leave the bright, blue door on the white-washed wall
Leave the death ledger under city hall
Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today
Just leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
Leave the bird you killed at your father's feet
Let the sideways rain in the crooked street remain
Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today
Leave the sad guitar in its hard-shell case
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain
'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
A train, off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs
Everything, it must belong somewhere
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
Leave the ocean's roar in that turquoise shell
Leave the widower in his private hell
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today
Just leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage
Let the traveling band on the interstate remain
'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
Sound-stage in California, televisions in Times Square, yeah
Everything, it must belong somewhere
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
Oh, I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed
Leave the garden tools in the rusted shed
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today
Just leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
Leave the homeless man, out in that cardboard cell
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain
'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
Just like the gold around your finger or the silver in his hair
Yeah, everything must belong somewhere
And I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
Oh, I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
In truth, the forest hears each sound
Each blade of grass as it lies down
The world requires no audience
No witnesses, no witnesses
Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
Leave the autumn leaves in that swimming pool
Leave the poor, black child in his crumbling school today
Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
Leave the scientist in her Rubik's cube
Let the true genius in the padded room remain
Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow
Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today
Just leave the hot white-trash in their shopping malls
Leave the hawks of war in their capitals
Let the organs moan in the cathedral remain
'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
They lock the devil in the basement, threw God up into the air
Yeah, everything must belong somewhere
You know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here

I'm staring out into that vacuum again
From the back porch of my mind
The only thing that's alive
I'm all there is
And I start attacking my vodka stab the ice with my straw
My eyes have turned red as stop lights
You seem ready to walk, you know I will call you eventually
When I wanna talk till then you're invisible
'Cause there's this switch that gets hit
And it all stops making sense
And in the middle of drinks
Maybe the fifth or the sixth
I'm completely alone
At a table of friends
I feel nothing for them
I feel nothing, nothing
Well I need a break from the city again
I think I'll ship myself back west
I got a friend there she says
"Hey anytime!"
Unless that offers expired, I have been less than frequent
She's under no obligation to indulge every whim
And I'm so ungrateful, I take she gives and forgives
And I keep forgetting it
And each morning she wakes
With a dream to describe
Something lovely that bloomed
In her beautiful mind
I say I'll trade you one
For two nightmares of mine
I have somewhere I die
I have somewhere we all die
I'm thinking of quitting drinking again
I know I've said that a couple times
And I'm always changing my mind
Well I guess I am
But there's this burn in my stomach and there's this pain in my side
And when I kneel at the toilet and the morning's clean light
Pours in through the window, sometimes I pray I don't die
I'm a goddamn hypocrite
But then night rolls around
And it all starts making sense
There is no right way or wrong
Well you just have to live
And so I do what I do and at least I exist
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?
Mean more?
Oh oh oh, oh oh

Pilgrim across the water
We are the same brother
Hitchhiking back to Zion
Holding our tears as we flip the album
What if this leads to ruin?
You got a soul, use it
All this despair forgiven
Rolling away on the Wheel of Sevens
Sings like the Queen of Sheba
Voice through a Blonde Speaker
One dropping bubble and Leslie
Calling me home like Haile Selassie
Pilgrim beside the fire
It's been a long winter
We got a lot in common
Cover our heads as they split the atom
All of our days are numbered
I'll take in some comfort in knowing the wave has crested
Knowing I don't have to be an exception
Children they fill the bleachers
One is the next Caesar
Keep all their minds collected
Until he comes
Until he comes
How do you make a day in plain sight?
Too good to be true
I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things man
I seen, I seen that tree of smoke
Yeah
I seen, I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things happen
Happen before
Pilgrim up on the mountain
Barefoot and still climbin'
Filling the book of hours
Day after day in the filth and squalor
We are the chosen people
Safe from the next evil
One love!
Magnetic memory
Reel after reel
Spinning within me
I had the wildest dream last night
I was swimming with you in that cenote the Heavens made with black fire
Just woke up too soon
I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things man
I seen, I seen those daytime ghosts
Yeah
I seen, I seen, I seen
I seen stranger things happen
Happen before
I seen, I seen, I seen the strangest things man
I seen, I seen that tree of smoke
Yeah
I seen, I seen, I seen stranger things happen

Is it a kind of a dream
Floating out on the tide
Following the river of death downstream
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where it goes
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Is it a kind of a shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start?
Oh, into the dark
Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?

Bright lights, big city
Was quite extraordinary
The drive was pretty
I was in perfect company
The love of a lifetime
Since we were elementary friends
The one with the bright eyes
Why can't I be optimistic
I tried to find the logic logically
I had a dream and I could not shake it
I was standing up there naked
There's fear in the truth at hand
Frozen I forgot to understand
The live keep living growing
Older more into a man
And I let her grow away from me
Love, love is not pretending
Time, time was meant for mending
Memories into all is satisfactory
Healthy smiles fill the page
The day we spent in miles
And I let her drive away from me
The one with the bright eyes
Laughed her way inside this music box
Stored away in the corner of my heart
And I let her get away from me

Bright Eyes lyrics
Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death down-stream
Oh is it a dream?
There’s a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean
Oh oh is it a dream?
Bright Eyes
Burning like fire,
Bright Eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright Eyes
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?
There’s a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start
Oh oh into the dark.
Bright Eyes
Burning like fire,
Bright Eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes
Burning like fire,
Bright Eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?

(From Watership Down)
Words and music: Mike Batt
Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death down-stream
Oh is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean
Oh oh is it a dream?
Bright eyes burning like fire,
Bright eyes how can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale? Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start
Oh oh into the dark.
Bright eyes burning like fire,
Bright eyes how can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale? Bright eyes.
Bright eyes,

Is it a kind of dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky.
And nobody seems to know where you go.
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen?
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air.
And nobody ever knows when you go.
And where do you start,
Oh, into the dark?
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?

I know that you can't hear
My mind is screaming your name
Your smiles that crushes my chest with the waves of
With the waves my dreams
I curse myself for looking your way
With the waves of
With the waves my dreams
I curse myself for looking your way
I can never tell if our eyes are meeting
My heart is racing, what are we avoiding
I must be dreaming
I can never tell
Lying face to face
Your bright eyes cradles me and I'm
Wishing you're here when I wake up
Is this too much to ask? Or is this enough
If this is a dream then I don't want to wake up

Is it a kind of dream
Floating down on the tide
Following the river of death downstream?
Or is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean?
Oh is it a dream?
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start
Oh, into the dark
Bright eyes
burning like fire
Bright eyes
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Bright eyes
burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?

Is it a kind of dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go,
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air,
And nobody ever knows when you go,
And where do you start,
Oh, into the dark.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?

Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream
Oh is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean.
Oh oh is it a dream?
Refrain:
Bright eyes burning like fire
Bright eyes how can you close and fail
How can the light that burns so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start

Is it a kind of dream floating out of the tide
following the river of death downstream or is it a
dream
there's a fog along the horizon a strange glow in the
and nobody seems to know where you go and what does it
mean
or is it a dream
Bright eyes burning like fire
bright eyes how can you close and fail
how can the light that burned so brightly
suddenly burn so pale bright eyes
Is it a kind of shadow reaching into the night
wandering over the hills unseen or is it a dream
there's a high wind in the trees a cold sound in the
and nobody ever knows when you go and where do you
start
oh into the dark
Bright eyes burning like fire
bright eyes how can you close and fail
how can the light that burned so brightly
suddenly burn so pale bright eyes
Bright eyes burning like fire
bright eyes how can you close and fail
how can the light that burned so brightly

He's got free hands
And plenty of time
He's got no place to be
He's got no one to see
She's got this black light
And plenty to find
She's not scared of the truth
She's not closing her eyes
He's got no ground
And nothing to hold
He's not carried away
He's not making her stay
She's got three tries to find where he hides
She's not letting him go
She's not passing him by
(Keep your eyes where I can see them)
(Don't you hide your face from me)
With the lights low
No one can see all the scars on his heart
How he'd race to the start
She's got this one aim to be his escape
She knows all they could be
She was never afraid
(Keep your eyes where I can see them)
(Don't you hide your face from me)
Please don't fade away
Please don't fade away
He's got these bright eyes
I've got these arms open wide
Please don't fade away
Please don't fade away
Keep your eyes where I can see them
Don't you hide your face from me
(He's got free hands
And plenty of time
He's got no place to be
He's got no one to see)
(She's got this black light
And plenty to find
She's not scared of the truth