Were you born without a thought or cause,
yet alone a care? I know damn well
that it's hard to sell an interest in
a book or class. The mess we're in -
I want to know how we got here?
How the hell have we got here?
Someone just give us hope.
Rescue us. Rescue us,
from the kids in their homes
who won't speak to us.
They just laugh at us
saying "Why bother learning -
it just gets you nowhere.
We're asleep through schooling
because the books they weren't worth reading.
Why bother listening,
when it's lies repeated?"
This is the age of no feeling.
All we're trying to do is make some sense
of a TV set - a face to respect,
albeit hardly dressed.
Only for the modern time,
I'll have to say
what the public wants is what it gets.
What it wants is what it will get.
Someone just give us hope.
Rescue us. Rescue us,
from the kids in their homes
who won't speak to us.
They just laugh at us
saying "Why bother learning -
it just gets you nowhere.
We're asleep through schooling
because the books they weren't worth reading.
Yeah, why bother voting,
when we know they're cheating?"
This is the age of no feeling.
Why bother learning?
Why bother reading?
Well then why bother speaking?
Why bother breathing?
Dodging work at all hours.
When anyone asks,
you tell them we’re on it.
Oh, but your clever-kid,
cash register tricks don’t add too much.
How’s your sleep now?
When it’s all over town
that the only problem is
you don’t shut your mouth.
Trouble, it will find you
when you’ve nothing to do.
Trouble, it will find you
when you’ve nothing to lose.
It could go on forever.
On someone else’s dime
for most of the time.
You’re petty thief
'guised as an employee.
How’s your sleep now?
When it’s known all over town
that the only problem is
you don’t shut your mouth.
Trouble, it will find you
when you’ve nothing to do.
Trouble, it will find you
when you’ve nothing to lose.
No, nothing to lose.
Yeah, nothing to lose.
Trouble, it will find you
Yeah trouble, it will find you
Oh trouble, it will find you
On the first date I want to walk out
Oh, the cocaine kids and their mouths
Seemed to be a cure for shyness,
But we'd sworn to our friends never to try it
The mistakes you make in youth
Simply calling it trouble doesn't make sense,
When doctors and lawyers are clients
These are the things that we said
Made it fine for just something on weekends
There is more to this than I'm telling you
Why we're drawn to things we shouldn't do
Still that night, we hoped for a normal social life
In place of a difficult adolescent time
Oh yeah, just a normal social life
Which lead to a mischievous New York night time
And it just so happens now, our friends know what we're
all about
Now we've got to get back to the city
We could care less if it is costly
There are those two streets in Brooklyn
And it's Lou Reed lyrics as living
There is truth to what I am telling you
Why we're drawn to things we shouldn't do
Still that night, we hoped for a normal social life
In place of a difficult adolescent time
Oh yeah, just a normal social life
The verbal form of sorry is a workout
When dealing with a fall out in a small town
When friendship stops, so do phone calls
I've expected every night since last fall -
A time not to forget
I want to know what will be of consequence
In time, revenge will be healing
It's undeniably a long stretch of road
At least be civil is a goal
I wonder how it will come off
When it's so put on
Yeah, so put on
So put on
The backlash of sorry leaves you strung out
The feelings of a drama major dropout
The acting stopped, so did phone calls
I've expected every night since last fall -
A time not to forget
I'd like to know what now is of consequence
In time, revenge will be healing
It's undeniably a long stretch of road
At least be civil is a goal
I wonder how it will come off
When it's so put on
Yeah, so put on
I'm not up for going out.
At least not with the current crowd
that you're hanging out with.
And this is just to prove a point
without saying it out loud.
You said we'd need to leave town.
And I'm not gonna dignify
that question with an answer.
No, I'm not gonna dignify
that question with an answer.
As there are not too many things
in that I think you won't understand.
As there are not too many things
in that I think you won't understand.
I think I have the right to grow.
And that derives from living alone.
I think I have the right to grow.
I'm sorry if I haven't
said I'm sorry to you.
That was coming later.
And I'm sorry if things haven't
started to improve.
That I promise is never... assume.
Hold back - what for?
I'll only ask you once more
The time is right to have it out
The time is nigh for coming out
It's just that small town small mind
Excuse we've heard to many times
Why must you live as you're told
By your brother twice as old
So you should save some cash - it's wise
To have some standing by
In case that moment does come
You're seventeen on the run
When you had the chance
You should have let us know
When you had the chance
You should have told us so
'Cause the night life has
Made clear just what's en vogue
I ask you to have it out
Would you let us know?
Back to the query posed
This endless game of telephone
When will you move to a downtown
L.A. won't be that town
As it's sung, "Sell all of your clothes,
Be mad, rash, squander cash"
The records that you once owned
They echo out your old home
Moving to the larger cities
Impulse thinking keeps you busy
A night job has to pay day bills
Moving to the larger cities
Impulse thinking keeps you busy
Giving up on determination,
there never was a better taste
than the first drink since being sober.
Give us only a taste.
And we’ve thrown out Steps and programs
for rooms with dim lighting.
After eight months going nowhere,
we had no reason to leave.
Replacing outsides and daylight
with Irish Whiskey.
Every paycheck dodges deposit.
There a bills we must pay.
And it’s all we’ve been told
by the demons who control
our usual days.
Our usual days.
Which ones we cannot name.
Losing track of time and date.
Though it sounds strange,
these are our usual days.
Our usual days.
There’s no more outsides.
No more daylights.
Goodbye sunshine.
They’re all replaced.
All replaced
By what we’ve been told
by the demons who control.
Just what have we been sold?
Our usual days. (3x)
All grossed up having a fantastic time.
In love,
never forcing smiles.
No one ever likes to commit-
it’s the age we’re living in.
Will we ever miss the mischief
we’ve found on the Reeperbahn?
No one ever likes to commit-
it’s the age we’re living in.
Will we ever miss the mischief
we’ve found on the Reeperbahn?
Keep quiet son.
Just keep smiling.
Keep quiet son.
Yeah, just keep smiling.
Now I’m fed up with
what became a replica of what
was once a honest love.
All her wanderlust and world desire-
I just got dragged along.
I didn’t want to drive,
i got stuck
with the stress from the Autobahn.
Keep quiet son.
Just keep smiling.
Keep quiet son.
Yeah, just keep smiling.
Five years of marriage
was five years madness.
I know I have dug this own hole.
Five years of marriage
was five years madness.
I know I have dug this own hole.
Yeah, five years, oh five years...
I know... I know...
How give years of marriage
was five years madness.
I know... I know...
Come back to life
Give us a sign
When was it her heart stopped working tonight
Now's not the time to argue
Who was the one giving out the lines
Saturday night, everything fine
Until this problem did arrive
What's there to do
Where's there to go
What should we say when the cops arrive
Cause we'll need an answer
Think of an answer
It was hard to see this young girl die
But not enough to bring a change in lifestyle
Terrible to see a good friend die
But not enough to bring a change in lifestyle
Come back to life
Save us the time
From having to calculate this lie
To ourselves, for our sake
I wish she would just open her eyes
Saturday night, nothing's gone right
I'd say it is time to decide
What's there to do
Clear out the house
And what will we say when her parents arrive
Cause we'll need an answer
Think of an answer
It was hard to see this young girl die
But not enough to bring a change in lifestyle
Terrible to see a good friend die
But not enough to bring a change in lifestyle
Stop taking advice from your family
They've never been right on anything
The funeral's planned for your freedom and property
It's all being booked for your new life
It's all in time
Break it off before she destroys everything
Call it off, you've got to ignore "destiny"
Break it off
Before it's too late tonight
For all of the nights she lost track of time
The other man still in her eyes
Believing the lies in her all fiction alibi
It's gonna be nice not to rely
It's all in time
Break it off before she destroys everything
Call it off, you've got to ignore "destiny"
Break it off
Before it's too late, you must decide
Before it's too late
Break it off before she takes you for everything
Call it off, ignore this makeshift destiny
Let's hope one day you'll to able
To understand how ridiculous this pressure is on you
The pressure put on you
And then things will be clearer
In regards to friends and family
And the right career to choose
The right career moves
We can only save these days soon
What will regret and distress
Exactly do for you?
And with that said
How do we fix this ever changing mood?
Let's say all of this stuff happened
And then you'll sleep at night
Knowing there's nothing here to lose
There is nothing to prove
But we can only hope that with moving out
Comes moving on with the best part of your youth
The best part of our youth
Yeah I hope for you this day?s coming soon
What will regret and distress
Exactly do for you?
And with that said
Get yourself undressed
We're due for a night not to forget
As a cure for this unrest,
Think of it as simply passing time
The midwest is outside
Any morals that you hold
Have come from prudish, dated lies
The every sunday frame of mind
I'd like to open up your eyes
And ease your Catholic mind
That's where the trouble lies tonight
You can take away respect
With a television set
A new culture to digest
Think of it as simply passing time
The midwest is outside
Every pent up, mixed desire
Stems from this prudish way of life
An excuse that's guilt inspired
I'd like to open up your eyes
And ease your Catholic mind
That's where the trouble lies tonight
Her love for company - a drug at best
No longer worried what the Church accepts
Skip the remote location of home
A healthier dose of drinks I suppose
Is what everyone needs tonight
It's what everyone needs tonight
If a party gets thrown for reasons we know
The days at work, and nights at home
Then, why not tonight
At least come for a while
A bottle of wine
There's nothing worse than Saturdays alone
Saturdays alone
On top of having Fridays at home
On top of having Fridays at home
Your whole weekend alone
Why not tonight
At least come for a while
A bottle of wine
There's nothing worse than Saturdays alone
Saturdays alone
On top of having Fridays at home
On top of having Fridays at home
Your whole weekend alone
Why won't you answer calls
You never choose the right night
And it's obvious that you know
There is nothing worse than Saturdays alone
Saturdays alone
On top of having Fridays at home
On top of having Fridays at home
Every last Friday at home
This happens each year.
We lose some friends to commitment.
I enjoy what i hear, as soon as they can admit to defeat.
It's old enough now, we're old enough to predict it.
But I am holding my ground, I give them less than three
months before it ends.
When I think of the events we had to miss because of you.
And when you think of friends that meant the most, enough
not to lose.
It had to do with love.
It had to do with love.
It had to do with love.
...or rather a lack there of.
Life still goes on, for those of us not dependent.
To anything or anyone, they say avoiding routine is the
best
I say it keeps you strong, to remain independent.
And though time is to long, there should be no urgency to
settle down,
When I think of the events we had to miss because of you.
And when you think of friends that meant the most, enough
not to lose.
It had to do with love.
It had to do with love.
It had something to do with love.
to start off to focus on your look
and that it doesn't seem to work
regardless of what is understood
i said the point to this song is the hook
and that i can provide
our sincerity's a lie,
don't say that this is never going to happen
cause i believe in everything that has a reason
when you don't want to talk
something is wrong tonight
don't say that this is never going to happen
cause i believe in everything that has a reason
when you don't want to talk
i know it's off tonight
for now, we have forgot the rest
we have the job without the check
it's not like there's more to expect
when your records are in the red
and that i can provide
our sincerity's a lie,
don't say that this is never going to happen
cause i believe in everything that has a reason
when you don't want to talk
something is wrong tonight
don't say that this is never going to happen
cause i believe in everything that has a reason
when you don't want to talk
i know it's off tonight
and if you say it's through,
i guess i saw it coming
but still i need the truth,
so please except my asking for it
just to get it out of my heart
What bothers most lying here awake
Is how absurd you've been as of late
You sleep through the healthiest of our days
With bad Ohio grass headaches
You don't think out loud enough
Perhaps Denial's caused this much...
Always thinking on the bright side
Always thinking on it
The one thing to always trust is fate -
It's irony we can't get straight
And it's funny when the weather has its say -
those three day weekends full of rain
Still the times are hardly rough
And you know you should know this much
I can hardly remember what it was like.
Where do all our childhood memeories like to hide.
Such an innocent time.
Slowly it comes to me.
A charming wife
working days in a city,
never asking why? a mother of five.
Inseperable,
It’s impossible
for us to forget.
Her laughter is what we’ll miss.
And singing those high octaves,
in which only she could it.
No, I don’t want to remember '89.
The year we first learned
the cancer taking its sweet time
in taking her life.
Inseperable,
It’s impossible
for us to forget.
Her laughter is what we’ll miss.
And singing those high octaves,
in which only she could hit.
Her laughter is what we’ll miss.
And singing those high octaves,
in which only she could--those octaves.
uh-ah-uh-ah-uh-oh (3x)
"Once you figure out what is out
There will be nothing of interest"
This kind of thinking only takes away
From what you'll get
Still you stick to your request
A younger body with an older soul
What you ask for is unknown
You're forever on your own
Don't ask for the truth
To hear it, you'll only get depressed
The right advice is just a sympathy from your friends
Still you stick to your request
A younger body with an older soul
What you ask for is unknown
You're forever on your own
Start thinking solo
Silence fills your home
And your self destruction
It's stealing from Burroughs (William)
Yeah what you ask for is unknown
i'd like to start this week without a headache
go to sleep and not have this with me
it seems as if it's never-ending
why i have this much grief
i think this will always be unknown
from now on, i'm done writing letters
with words and rhymes that do read clever
at least enough for thoughts still pending
why i have this much grief
i, that's what i'm questioning
you have every right to explain
still, it's hard to hear you say
that inevitable thing
that you're out of your element
the hardest part is that you've never been
that you're out of your element
whether or not you were just kidding
about when this would all be ending
if we were stuck, i would be selling
why do you have to say such lies
when you know it depresses me
you have every right to explain
still, it is hard to hear you say
that inevitable thing
that you're out of your element
that you're out of your element
the hardest part is that you've never been.
Until you loosen up
We'll all be having a good time
Without you
It has nothing to do with us
But rather you're too uptight
To have fun
Why is it every group has one
I'm getting ready for the day when this is just a joke
And we can laugh out loud thinking about back home
And all the time we spent driving in down this road
Still, nothing's changed I know
With all the work thats been done
There still isnt the trust here
To bank on
And someone has to be drunk
For us to pass the week nights
So whats wrong
Why is it every night has some
I'm getting ready for the day when this is just a joke
And we can laugh out loud thinking about back home
and all the time we spent driving down this road
Still nothings changed I know
We traveled for the right town
To be let down
Yea and I'm still waiting for the right time
For a minor chord
Why is it everyone song needs one
I'm getting ready for the day when this is just a joke
And we can laugh out loud thinking about back home
All the time we spent driving down this road
Still nothings changed at...
No, nothing's changed at all
So baby hold on to me
A gorgeous face
stuck waiting tables.
Move to LA and work entertainment!
A clever lie can multiply
into a hell, a hell, a hell.
Dealing with shit accomodation.
Fifteen minutes fram willing and able.
And They were rehearsing lines over lines,
you’ll do it well.
Come back Isabelle
Oh Isabelle
you weren’t meant for the city.
Come back Isabelle Oh Isabelle
You must miss sincerity.
I’m asking you to stop the fuss,
yeah would you come back to us?
Stop you fuss.
A simple twist
sealing the fate of
talentless people
are made to live the lie,
or was it life?
We cannot tell.
Come back Isabelle
Oh Isabelle,
you weren’t meant for the city.
Come back Isabelle Oh Isabelle
You must miss sincerity.
Come back Isabelle
Oh Isabelle,
you're dealing with honesty.
I'm asking you to stop the fuss.
Yeah, would you come back to us?
St-st-stop your fuss.
A little problem has arrived
I have heard that you are someone's wife,
Two kids, at home full time
Which would mean that I am
That would mean that I am the other man
Well, I've never been a moral man
Where do you think it's going
Where do you see this going
I know it won't last
Can't say I'd give it the chance
Everyone says that it's wrong
We never did slow down
To think about this adultery - it screwed morality
Just when I say it's through
She comes up with, "It's the sin I love...
That's known from the first touch"
Why older women have these emotions
I will understand, as the devil guides my hands
Where do you think it's going
What do you think we're doing
I know it won? last,
But I'd still like one more pass
Everyone says that it's wrong
We never did slow down
To think about this adultery - it screwed morality
When I brag about having a Mrs. Robinson
Knowing that it is only the sin that is the attraction
We never did slow down
We didn’t think very hard
about where we came from.
And how that in itself
could do us so wrong.
We didn’t bother to learn
anyone else’s language.
You don’t need many words
for a drunk conversation.
As we traveled through
each foreign land.
We heard their jokes,
and we wanted in.
So, we called ourselves Canadian.
Yeah, colour us Canadian.
uh-ah-uh-ah-uh-ah-oh
We’re all stopped
at the boarder.
No one’s getting through.
This passport once was golden-
guess that’s no longer true.
It wasn’t drugs nor cash-
all that used to matter.
It was a simple stare
and we know not to feel flattered.
As we traveled through
each foreign land.
We heard their jokes,
and we wanted in.
So, we called ourselves Canadian.
Yeah, colour us Canadian.
Yeah, when did it all go wrong?
I’d like to know.
Just, when did it all go wrong?
I’d like to know.
We’d call ourselves Canadian.
Oh, colour us Canadian.
As we traveled through
each foreign land.
We heard their jokes,
and we wanted in.
So, we called ourselves Canadian.
