When I look back on what I'd done
About 100 years from now
Gonna cry myself to sleep at night
Somebody shows me how
When the sun shines down, what's left of me
About 100 years from now
Gonna cut my water with a rebel yell
And claw my way back to town
100 years, 100 years
They'll break me but I'll break them too
Oh and this year's for the brakemen
And this one is for you
When sky cracks open and the thunder comes
About 100 years from now
Gonna bury this old yoke and chain
In the cold wet ground
And when I get off at Tennbrook Farm
About 100 years from now
I'm gonna marry you out of common sense
And get out from behind this plow
100 years, 100 years
They'll break me but I'll break them too
Oh and this one's for the brakemen
And this one is for you
100 years, 100 years
They'll break me but I'll break them too
Oh and this one's for the brakemen
I can't remember what is wrong
I've been happy now for way too long
and oh, we got a lot more to go
I put a trash can by the road
and filled it up just to lighten my load
but oh, I got no where to go
someone alone fell asleep by the phone
waiting like a dog for a bone
how can it be that a fish in the sea
could feel like it's completely alone?
the world may never know
I know it hurt you, 'cause you cried
I know it killed you, but nobody died
and oh, the city ain't nothin but show
I found a needle in the hay
I found the sunshine at the end of the day
and oh, I found a pearl in the snow
someone alone fell asleep by the phone
waiting like a dog for a bone
how can it be that a fish in the sea
could feel like it's completely alone?
Lying on your back
In the night so black
Dreaming of sweet love
Just beneath above
There's a light on in the house
See the bug see the mouse
Hear em fight, hear em shout
Hit the lights and go out
It's just that time of the year
that brings them here
Yesterday the day got colder
Passed away got one day older
Now it seems that everything is new
Then today a rock rolled over
Came to life to kill the clover
Left to way the way the lazy do
In the dirt of the flood
There's a stick in the mud
But in the heat of the sun
It is cool to be one
It's just that time of the year
So stick right here
Yesterday the day got colder
Passed away got one day older
Now it seems that everything is new
Then today a rock rolled over
Came to life to kill the clover
Left to lay the way the lazy do
May your thoughts be kind
May your knots unwind
May your dogs drink wine
May your days kill time
And may your fears go blind
As your regret rewinds
A little peace of mind
May you wake to find
It's just that time of the year
God, He called for rain
So I built an ark but no rain came
I was ashamed
Man, he called for war
So I built a gun and I joined the corps
But I wasn't sure
Love, she asked for more
But what I gave only made her poor
I wasn't sure
The dove, she promised land
As she laid the branch right into my
There was no land
What does it mean to be here?
Well, I know because I can and I will
Yes, I know because I can and I will
What does it mean to be here?
Well, I know because I can and I will
What does it mean to be here?
Well, I know because I can and I will
Well it’s hard enough to get there
On your own
And it’s always time to pay rent
When you’re home
Is this the worst trip
You have ever been on?
Well you’re looking for the light switch
Click it on
[That’s what I do]
Now you’re staring at the T.V.
And telephone
Is this the worst trip
You have ever been on?
Well I…like it
It’s awfully dark and quiet here
Some may leave and some are going anywhere
Well you’re driving to the workplace
Come over and stump
You know the radio’s the worst thing
Early in the morning
Is this the worst trip
You have ever been on?
Well I…like it
It’s awfully dark and quiet here
Some may leave and some are going anywhere
Someone, sometime
Someone, sometime
Where'd all the time go?
It's starting to fly.
See how the hands go;
Waving goodbye.
And you know I get so forgetful
when I look in your eyes.
Now she's walking backwards
through a parade.
And I'm stuck in the shadow
blocking the shade.
And there ain't no way to sweep up the mess that we've
made
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in
Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn to stone at hospitals and funeral homes
and when the fog rises somebody sighs who is not in
disguise anymore
There's nothing to keep you
from falling in love.
It starts at the bottom
and comes from above.
Like pieces of a puzzle, like a hand in a glove
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in
Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn and stop at hospitals and funeral homes
and when the tide rises somebody sinks and is gone in
The weekend is coming soon
Well it's time to pick yourself up off the floor
Well let's grab a case of lager
and some old beat up shoes
Head down to the river
I'll strap on a canoe
We've got every kind of good girl comin' down
You just grab your banjo man
Try to sell some out
We'll play the songs we always, always sing
I can take and tell a line
You can take the lead
We'll all have, a weekend awesome
Weekends coming soon
Well let's start watching TV
And washing dishes too
We've got all the time the weekdays, and all day
So lets spend it all and celebrate
Just pretend we all got paid
We'll all have, a weekend awesome
Well I know just what to do
Cuz I've been here before
Cuz I know what I have
Well I've been here before
Yes I've been here before
Well I've been here before
Sitting here
I am very far away
Looking back, on yesterday
And it won't be long before
We all belong
Cause all the time that's left to kill
Is drawing out its' final will
Lady luck
She is always by my side
She woke me up
When I died
Taking me higher and higher
Just above the line of fire
Cause time and time and time again I'm shown
That I have never been alone at all
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
My old man
He is always on the run
He is the moon
And I'm the sun
We don't belong to the earth
We both belong to the sky
Mother me told me don't you cry
Stay at home or learn to fly
Oh my
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
We all belong
I just stayed there
And I was born at the scene of a crim
Every witness, well he was deaf and dumb
And blind
Every highlight leads the high life, yeah
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Every moment was a moment, ah
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Well, how'd I get here?
You know I followed the billboard sign
Every product, well it follows me down the line
Every daydream, every dead one, too
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Every wish that you could wish for came true
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Doo-we oo-wee a baba
Every daydream, every dead one, too
Every wish that you could wish for came true
Oh, wake up
Wake up, wake uuuup
We are only part of a dream
All the things in your heart
Like the things in your head
Are only what they seem
Oh, wake up
Wake up, wake uuuup
We are only part of a dream
All the things in your heart
Like the things in your head
Are only what they seem
Oh, wake up
Wake up, wake uuuup
We are only part of a dream
All the things in your heart
Like the things in your head
Are only what they seem
Hey, c'mon, man, everybody wake up
Wake up, wake uuuup
We are only a part of a dream
All the things in your heart
Like the things in your head
I'm doing time, I'm guilty
Rise in the morning, oh sleepy
The clouds in sky, unknown and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware and still there's a
thrill in the air
Unbearable Why
While I'm doing time I'm guilty, for now
Rise in the morning oh sleepy, dream on
The clouds in sky, alone and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware
And still there's a thrill in the air
Unbearable Why
While I'm doing time therefore now I'm not guilty
Sun rise up in the morning what a dream oh so sleepy
Lying in letters to someone I don't know
Like an old song in the waiting for something from the
past
It's all here
Today is the only day
The old times make way for the new
Some fruit punch
Spills on a tablecloth
But there ain't no mess to clean up
Garbage in a can sticks together
The tiniest of things are forever
Drop a couple coins and a feather
And watch them float away at the same time
Song is made with sugar and lemonade
Sing on the porch, swing along
Me and you having a barbecue
Sticking our thumbs in the air
Meeting of some notes on a pocket
Sitting in the sun with some chocolate
Drop a couple pens and some pencils
Well I dont want a thing to do with your kind and i aint got no time to kill on your dime
strung up hanging round
looking like your upside down
well i aint on to shed no blood thats your crime
and i aint one to sling no mud i clean it up
you aint what i call a friend
i wouldnt even if i could pretend
man you aint like anybody else
as night becomes the sunday rise
as dirt becomes the butterflies
as sure it alway seems to stay the same
and ill be waiting anxiously and ill be falling fast asleep
and ill be dreaming of the day the dream die uh huh
no sticks no stones could break my bones like you can
if i knew hate id call it love for you, man
high upon the hill,cheaper then the dollar bill
man you aint like anybody else
should we pretend?
that its the end
are you my curse? are you my friend?
and if we got hit, to the end of the road
will you yell, to carry my load
im getting it back with that terrible feeling
my vision is crack but it looks like its healing
im getting it back like its four in the morning
when the sun only shines cause its been given a warning
im getting it back with the rest of the leap year
im keeping the rabbit, the bat, and the reindeer
im getting it out whatever i gotten keep in
im telling the truth and it dont win with pretend.
I recall the moment
Though I can't recall the day
Every other song to say
Okay
Wait because
Another lifetime of words
We'll be forgotten, burned
By the time you read this letter
Sing because
Oh, but the scent of your past
Will be forgotten, gone
By the time you reach the pretender
Oh, my berries again
Will be razed and be burned
By the time you reach the pretender
If I'm not there
To remind ourselves
I'll send a friend
With a plan
I only wanted you to be obvious
I only need you to let go
Wait because
Another lifetime of words
We'll be forgotten, burned
By the time you read this letter
All the scenes of our past
Sing because
Oh, but the scent of your past
Will be forgotten, gone
By the time you reach the pretender
Oh, my berries again
Will be forgotten. burned
By the time you reach the pretender
The coffee's gone
And the rooster's rich
I only call if I could work
I only want you to be obvious
I only need you to let go
We don't need the shelter
And we barely feel the rain
We've been soaked to all begins
Or complain
We don't need the morning
And we barely need our names
I won't call the cause of comfort
Oh no, I'm not afraid
Ahhhh..
Ahhhh..
Lately, I've been cruel to my baby
She asks if I'm hers
And I only say maybe
Playin the fool
Who knows nothing about love
I act like I doubt it
But I'm nothing without it
Oooh
And if i should leave you
Darlin' you'd know
That I'm chasin the only game in town
That's running itself right back into the ground
And I won't be too old
When the story is told
Of a man, who was wrong
Cuz I know
You belong in the church yard
Thowing flowers
Writing home on a postcard
And its okay, to belong to the old ties
Making crochet, tying knots in the clothesline
Oooh
And if i should leave you
Darlin' you'd know
That I'm chasin the only game in town
That's running itself right back into the ground
And I won't be too old
When my story is told
Of a man, who was wrong
Cuz he barks
Like a hound dog in moon light
Yes he barks
On and on but he don't bite
Well it don't pay
To stand up to the old days
It's the cowards
Who are fighting the good life
Oooh
And if i should leave you
Darlin' you'd know
That, on that day
When i'm not around
I must be asleep like a stone in the ground
And I'll be a hundred years old
When my story is told
Of a man who was wrong
My soul breaks
And my heart stops its beating
And my body
Lies wounded and bleeding
When the vultures
Start in on their feeding
And all of my seconds
Stop their constant repeating
Oooh
And if i should leave you,
Where would i go?
There's only on other bed in this town
It sits like a tree in a hole in the ground
I'll be a hundred years gone
But the story goes on
Of a man, who was wrong
I'll be a hundred years gone
And the story goes on
He's sleeping in his shoes
And dreaming of the worst
Living dirty lies
Believing in reverse
He'd break into the church
To burglarize the father
Gettin older by the second
If seconds even bother
Oh but the girl
She comes around
he was lost where she found him
The girl
Though she might get to him
He might never get to
The girl
He hide behind the look
That's written in the eye
He's lower than the rain
Cause it's falling from the sky
Like a man without a mother
A choice without a chance
He's digging up the dead
Expecting them to dance
Oh but the girl
She comes around
he was lost where she found him
The girl
Though she might get to him
He might never get to
The girl
He's not out of his head but he's much better off than before
He's not out of his head but he's much better off than before
Are you moving much too fast?
And the good times that just don't last
If you're always on the go
Make an angel in the snow and freeze
Do you feel like you're stuck in time?
Forever waiting on that line
If nothing ever moves
Put that needle to the groove and sing
Is it a dream keeping you awake?
Is it the stillness that makes you shake?
If you need to know for sure
What's on the ocean's floor just sink
Do you like things the way they seem?
Or are you looking behind the scenes?
Well, if you gotta know
What it takes to make it so just believe
Are there dark parts to your mind?
Hidden secrets left behind?
Where no one ever goes
When everybody knows it's alright
Do you get dizzy on the ground?
There must be something going 'round
What blows us here today
It'll blow us all away
The breeze will blow us all away
The breeze will blow us all away
There's a hole in the roof and the rain's coming down
The roads are flooded, there's no way back to town
And the ship we came in on has just run aground
You know fate has a funny way of coming around
The memories we've buried have just taken seed
When springtime comes they'll turn into weeds
And they'll creep through your window to smother your dreams
You know fate has a funny way of coming around
Oh, they'll carve our names like scripture to the soles of the feet
Each footprint that they take it will tell of our feat
'Til the night of the following rain
'Til the low tide comes to swallow the pain
This bottle of bourbon is now dry as a bone
It drank us all up and then it left us alone
Well, we've since switched to skull pot but we can't choke it down
Glaring is nice at the sun
If you stare well you might go blind
Feelings are fine when they're fun
If they're bad well you might just die
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Eating's no good if you choke on your food
So you chew it slow
Sleeping's the best if you rest
If you don't then you're in the dark
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah tonight you might be all alone
If you don't know anything
It's alright if you don't think so
'Cause dying's like hanging around
At a funeral that no one goes to
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Well I've been waiting for the rain to break,
But I guess my waitings through,
It's been dry as a bone since 1982,
And I've been trying to protect myself,
With these possessions that I keep on these walls,
All my books and my records, but they don't give me shelter at all,
We're both smart enough to know better,
But come on, come on, come on!
Take me into town! (x2)
Oh did you see my boots when you walked in,
You know I guess this shirt'll do,
I'm broke as a monk and I could use a drop or two,
Well I know just what I'll do when I get there,
You know I saw it in a magazine,
I can get so low you'll have to peel me from off of the street
We're both smart enough to know better,
But come on, come on, come on!
Take me into town! (x4)
Well I've been talkin' to the dog for days,
But you know it's just no use,
She's just sittin' like a sphinx and I can't get to the truth,
And I've been starin' at the floor for days,
Tryin' to figure out what it all means,
But I know when I'm awake and I'm dumber in my dreams,
We're both smart enough to know better,
But come on, come on, come on!
20 years of schooling
I just never learned the math
That one and one don't equal two
They often equal half
I have tried to live the high life
The best that I know how
And bought my share of debonair
And parlayed it on the crowd
I do believe that there are no more tricks up my sleeve
The good old days have passed and the good times after that
And slowly I've become undone
A stranger with a stranger heart
Well I plan to hit the bottom
The bottle then the top
And I pray that something quits me
Before I gotta stop
Cause the masquerade is over
But I was barely there
The mask come off the gilded cloth
Yet I'm just barely here
I do believe that there are no more tricks up my sleeve
The good old days have passed and the good times after that
And slowly I've become undone
Was it in a dream? I wouldn't know
I was in the lowlands where all the old folks go
I wasn't here, I wasn't home
I was picking static up on a broken radio
Just leave me at the station and you can rest assured
That I'll be back sometime this time next year
I'll pack my bags, you get the door
Here's a stack of tokens for my friends on Baltimore
That look on your face, I've seen it before
I'll be gone, a long time, but I could be gone for good
Just leave me at the station and you can rest assured
That I'll be back sometime this time next year
I need someone
I need something
There's a tree
Outside my home
The sidewalks cracked
out where it's roots have grown
Someday came
and then left me alone.
I should've known back then
That I stayed too long
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
But I don't believe I can.
If my feet
Could carve stone
They'd mark a monument
that is never wrong
I was a man
I turned to bone
I never moved and now my
My will is gone
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
But I don't believe
No I don't believe
(shame, shame)
i was a loner unloved
i really didn't need any help at all
(shame, shame)
i really thought i was fine
i was living it up just despite my self
(shame, shame)
i used to wander the streets at midnight
avoiding any signs of life
(shame, shame)
i used to suffer alone
i really did think it would make me strong
(shame, shame)
i used to write it all down
hoping someone would read it years from now
(shame, shame)
i used to act like i was in a movie
so mysterious and misunderstood
(shame, shame)
you started hanging around
i really didn't think i could live it down
(shame, shame)
i tried to play it cool
but every single part of me felt so good
(shame, shame)
you took me someplace i'd never been before
i was a foreigner in your hands
i just couldn't let it go 'til now
a letter unopened just like a knock on the door
do you think you're so special that no one knows what
your for?
well you can mutter on sweet nothings like you're on
the other side of town
do you fear the attachment to things that you want?
do you want to cut off things for fear of their love?
well you can roll on to the graveyard and let them take
you whole
or, you can live it up and leave nothing but your bones
(shame, shame)
i don't know what to do
i was losing myself turning into you
(shame, shame)
i was really undone
the life that i lived seemed so useless now
(shame, shame)
you know you made me do it
the rain is fallin'
its after dark
the streets are swimming with the sharks
its the right night for the wrong company
and there ain't nothing round here to look at
move along
move along
the neon lights on baltimore
every shadows gettin famous
in some back yard
in some plastic chair
hoping these cigarettes will save us
here we go again
ahh ahh
here we go again
ahh ahh
you got rings in your ears
and you got kicked around and made up
looking high looking low
where did all the shadow people go x2
i want to know where the shadow people go
i stole the bike from the 2nd mile
saw a band play in the basement
i crossed the path of a friend of mine
and i knew what that look upon her face meant
somethings gone somewhere else
somethings gone gone
you could be a woman
or you could be a man
wear the glove on the other hand
or you could be twisted
or you could be insane
pushing the envelope against the grain
or just playing along x2
and i got something on my mind
and i got voices on the other line
saying hi sayin' hello
where did all the shadow people go x2
i want to know where the shadow people go
where did all the shadow people go where the shadow people go x6
Long distance, no need to shout
close quarters, ain't talkin out loud
and I gotta know
all over your open mouth
words hang like they're just hanging out
but I gotta know
where are you going crazy
in your mind or in everybody's mind?
cold shoulders have run out of luck
who knows what they're runnin from
I gotta know
you're holding up an endless line
putting pressure on my precious time
but I gotta know
where are you going crazy
in your mind or in every inch of your body?
we've got old news
wrapped up in old blues
we can't afford to call
no we don't know where we are
come on, we're dead on our feet but we're walking
well let me hear you now
we've been stripped down
hog-tied and found out
and thrown into the quiet
like sticks into a fire
come on, i'm sleeping in the street
cause it's so easy to dream but so hard to say goodnight
we've been toiling our tears hit the soil yeah
taking up a voice from a flower field of noise
come on, a dog from the past started barking
well let me hear you now
we've been stripped down
hog-tied and found out
thrown into the quiet
like sticks into a fire
come on, i'm sleeping in the street cause it's so easy to dream
If you're dead make a sound
i can put my ear to the ground
and sing a long now
sing a long now
we were peas in a pod
gotta thank almighty god
that we're together
we're together
oh no...
oh no...
fell a glance in the air
you can see what's way up there
in the stars now
in the stars now
there's no reason or rhyme
that can keep up with the time
so run along now
run along now
oh no...
oh no...
oh no...
heartbreak it looks like a snake in the grass
oh no la la la la la
oh no
sweet dreams falling asleep at the wheel again
la la la la la oh no
oh no alright come on
ba da da da da da
ba da da da da da
yeah
Oh My God [x6]
Give me Ocean give me sand
Oh Holy man
Give me Mountain give me tree
Oh Cousin
Oh My God [x6]
Well the rain will serve me well
Oh I can't tell
How much money I had dropped in wishing wells
Oh My God [x6]
Nothin scares me anymore than whats in store
I try to at least make sense when i make war
Sit on the porch smoke cigarettes
Watching the cops drive by outside
Oh me oh my
Thinking of night the devils delight
Watching the bugs fly by your eye
Oh me oh my
Oh me oh my
Run along baby the sun is gone
Carry on you're so far from home
And sleep we'll be together in a dream
We'll be together when we wake up in a cloud on the
ground
You're safe in your house, you dog and your mouse
The painting of musical night
Oh me oh my
You think of your mother, your job, and your brother,
And suddenly you're outside, oh my
Oh me oh my
Oh me oh my
Run along baby the sun is gone
Carry on you're so far from home
And sleep we'll be together in a dream
I've been thinking about a way out
And you've been thinking about moving in
Well I've been thinking about the Good Book
And you've been thinking that's a sin
You keep on thinking about the money
Well I've been thinking for free
You keep on thinking about the future
And I'm just letting it be
Cause every time we agree
It's a mystery to me
Cause I can't agree on my own
But between you and me
It's easy to see
That I could never, ever, ever
I could never leave you alone
Oh no
Alone, no, no
You might be thinking I'm a baby
I might be thinking that's true
Cause when I think about my momma
I get to thinking about you
You might be thinking that I'm crazy
But there ain't no such thing
Let's get our heads together, darling
I'll meet you out on the wing
Cause every time we agree
It's a mystery to me
Cause I can't agree on my own
But between you and me
It's easy to see
That I could never, ever, ever
I could never leave you alone
Oh no
Alone, no, no
No...
I can't be cool with what you're thinking
When I leave the thinking up to me
I think about the way I'm thinking
And I wonder why you want to be with me
Cause every time we agree
It's a mystery to me
Cause I can't agree on my own
But between you and me
It's easy to see
That I could never, ever, ever
I could never, ever, ever...
Some things never change
Or go away
I wait around
And now it’s yesterday
Like some little kid
Who’s overgrown
The lonely one
Who’s never been alone
But I don’t want to ever go back
To my old ways
Cheatin’ and creepin’ around
I don’t ever want to go back
To the old days
Leaving the dead underground
But I don’t ever want to go
No, I don’t ever want to go back
To my old ways again
Always waiting for
The rain to stop
And praying for
The other shoe to drop
Let your worries go
We’re all in love
A tidal wave
That comes from up above
But I don’t want to ever go back
To my old ways
Cheatin’ and creepin’ around
I don’t ever want to go back
To the old days
Leaving the dead underground
I don’t ever want to go
No, I don’t ever want to go back
To my old ways again
I don’t want to go back
My friend says that the end holds nothing more
He don't hide his shame
says its all the same
Like a man without a name
Old days asleep in the shade by the Brandywine
See a dog get paid
see a boy behave
Every bone deserves a grave
But I heard the Good Lord's warning
like he might not forget by the morning
With no more terrifying thoughts of dying
ooh oooooh oooh
My Lord, I'm climbing aboard and I'm going home
No time to lose, no time to pack
Take a step and take it back
But I heard the Good Lord's warning
like he might not forget by the morning
With no more terrifying thoughts of dying
ooh ooooh oooh
Keep on with the living you'll soon enough be dead
You got the whole world spinning in your head
and you don't want to give it up (don't give it up, don't give it up)
Cause no one should be sorry
we're just another day
You can say you'll be back
but you won't ever go away (won't go away, won't go away)
Cause love that never leaves is never ever welcome back
and i'm running out of skin thick enough to hide in (won't go away, won't go away)
Now hand in hand we're back in time we're chasing the train
Looking back looking back to wave goodbye
At the bottom there's a stir
And now surface is a blur
Tell the truth like it's a joke
And don't fix the part that isn't broke
I know I'm just a memory
And I know that's how it's got to be
So tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall;
There's no reflection here at all
Mirror, mirror on the wall there's no reflection here
at all.
I'm so tired that I can't sleep
The secrets that my secrets keep
Down the stairway to the church
Blackbirds hanging in the lurch
I don't want to see my name in stone
I tied a ribbon round a bone
Took a ride in a yellow car
And bought myself an old guitar
Things ain't what they used to be
I gotta devil after me
Tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror mirror on the wall
There's no reflection here at all
Mirror mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at
Mirror mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at
You're looking high, you're looking low
You got something on your mind
Did someone give you bad directions?
Where you in the wrong place at the wrong time?
They found a body in the river
They found a note left in the sand
"Leave my worries to the water
What does it take to be lonesome?
Nothing at all
What does it take to be lonesome?
Nothing at all
My thoughts are wicked and rotten
My goat don't wanna be gotten
And I had my fill of the whippoorwill
When he broke into song I shot him
Leave me alone
What does it take to be lonesome?
Nothing at all
What does it take to be lonesome?
Nothing at all
Well the train is loaded and leaving
And the Lord only knows I don't need it
And I snub my nose when the whistle blows
But it's never enough to get even
Get out of here and leave me alone
Get out of here and leave me alone
The moon can do what he pleases
He can cry so much that he sneezes
And if a falling star falls in my yard
Well I'll pick up the pieces
Get out of here
What does it take to be lonesome?
Nothing at all
What does it take to be lonesome?
Was this a dream I had
Or is this for real?
Where did I go from here
And how did it feel?
You only get one piece of time
And one space to take up
'Cause on the day that you die
You don't have to wake up.
Nothing is quite like it seems
When you're living your life in a dream.
It's only lunchtime
Aw, but he's so tired.
And if he slips away
He will surely be fired.
So he keeps his heads in the clouds
Like it's some kind of pillow
And he blows from side to side
Like a weeping willow.
Nothing is quite like it seems
When you're living your life in a dream.
Sometimes you can't help but scream
When you wake up living a dream.
Spoken:
One hundred years from now when our grandkids have all had sex,
will they look back to the past and know what they've missed?
Will they think we had it better than the way they have it then?
Will they gaze at a strip mall where a field had once been?
Will they think they're born late like the way we now do it?
Or will they curse at the present and lend credence to it?
Will they hear all the old songs and think they're all true
and hate all their own songs and everything new?
Well I'm here to tell you something that's known,
from someone who's lived it from someone who's grown,
the somebody who somebody once loaned a home to.
The grass is always greener, the past is always cleaner,
the present is crap and everyone's meaner.
They say we're moving towards something
but I think we're moving from something.
There are some folks who are more apathetic
and then there are some folks who are more money grubbin'.
Well, I know there's always been greed and green acres,
and war and peace makers.
And then there's your takers and your leavers,
your havers and your needers.
And in this great froth as we skim through the batter,
there's now many more of the former and less of the latter.
Help us climb out of this pitfall disaster
led by dynasties, charlatans, but not poetasters.
Where there is a mortal disconnect spawned by gluttonous connection,
where you pick your own culture without viewer discretion.
Where there is no more history and nothing is learned.
Where you shun all your kin and all your bridges are burned.
Where you are what you buy and you're who what you own;
and you think of yourself and you live all alone.
You make yourself feel fine when everything's wrong.
The world keeps turning but you're brittle as bone.
So to all you future dreamers and lovers and leavers,
to all those who know there's still something between us that binds us
and reminds us of times that passed,
I appreciate you listening to this one man's last gas.
In spite of all the words that we can't fit to song,
I want to start calling you babe.
Take the phone off the hook.
If anyone hurted you
I don't know what I would do.
If you gotta know,
I'd put them in the ground where flowers grow,
Just so you know.
You go on delivering to hospitals
With flowers made for you
That grew out of the ones who've done you wrong.
You got love in your heart,
I'm just after my part.
A forget me not, from a man named Scott.
He don't believe in God
But he believes in those who say they do,
The ones like you.
So go on and put your toothbrush in the bathroom sink.
We'll be here for a while,
And watch the days go in and out of style.
Double-check your alarm.
Throw a switch on the fire.
Go upstairs and pee,
Lay down next to me,
But don't look at the clock.
It's almost always later than you think.
There's no juice in my punch,
And my mind's out to lunch.
So you do the talking 'cause
You've got a voice that's like a song I've never heard.
I'll sing along but I won't say a word.
On the hills of both Virginias
I've crossed a weary mile
And on bended knee
I will sing to thee
As I tie my shoe
One moonlit night in the canyon
I talked about my dreams
Only bugs heard the call
They don't hear me at all
And now I talk in my sleep
When winter comes I'll be way up ahead
'Cause right now it seems so cold
I need her in my arms baby set my alarm
'Cause otherwise I'd sleep til sleeping was dead
And when I get home to my baby
She gonna wear my grandma's ring
And hand in hand we will tell a man
I do
I do
I definitely do
But I won't get drunk without her
And I won't do her no harm
'Cause she's the sweetest blackberry wine
From here to there
From here to there
From here to there
County line
County line
County line
County line
County line
County line
County line
County line
I've got a job
I've got to move this paper
I guess it's all the same to you
But I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you.
It never works
You say you'll call me later
And then you never ever do.
I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you.
Just another cup of coffee,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
I always knew
Yeah, I always knew
You were a liar.
I'm not a king, I'm not a cop.
I'm not here to punish you.
When I really can't see anymore of what the fuss is all
about
It's not my career
To wait and do you favors
I guess it's really nothing do
When I'm running late
You call the undertaker
Because you've got so much shit to do
I can't sit around and wait
Can't sit around and wait for you.
Just one more cigarette,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
I always knew
Yeah, I always knew
You were a liar.
I'm not a king, I'm not a cop.
I'm not here to punish you.
When I really can't see anymore of what the fuss is all
about
Just another cup of coffee,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
Just one more cigarette,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
I guess I really will
Even rich men ask for more,
Well I ain't poor
But I'm a beggar for your love
And enough it ain't enough
You can call me crazy
You can call me anything you like
Even gluttons got to eat,
Well I ain't weak
But I hunger for your love
And enough it ain't enough
Well I'd pawn my heart if I thought you'd break it
Sell my soul if I thought you'd take it
But every smile and conversation lets me know that you're only in it for love
I intend to keep a friend in love
Please remember, I don't pretend in love
Even kings they ask for more,
Well I ain't sure
But I'm a pauper for your love
And enough it ain't enough
You can call me crazy
You can call me anything you like
Even rivers ask for rain,
Well I ain't sand
But I'm a desert for your love
And enough it ain't enough
Well I'd pawn my heart if I thought you'd break it
Sell my soul if I thought you'd take it
But every smile and conversation lets me know that you're only in it for love
I intend to keep a friend in love
Please remember, I don't pretend in love
I intend to keep a friend in love
Jackie wants a black eye
Some proof that she's been hit
And John wants the answers
But the questions just don't quit
And we're sitting in the rain
And we're feeling like the weather.
You could say that we're alone
But we're lonely together
We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.
Jackie is jumping in the quicksand
But it isn't what you think.
She's safe because she knows
The more you fight, the more you sink
And John is following the black cloud
To keep him from the sun.
So he bends over now
Something has finally begun.
And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.
And we've been hurting so long
That our pleasure is our pain.
Are we madly in love
Or are we madly insane?
When yesterday's love defines you
And today that love is gone
Tomorrow keeps you guessing
The roller coaster is rolling on.
And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.
And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
It – Dr. Dog
It’s dark, it’s light
It’s today and it’s tonight
And it’s big and it’s small
It’s the one and it’s the all
It’s a mountain it’s in the breeze
It’s the lock and it’s the keys
And it’s me and it’s you
And it’s the things that we didn’t do
It’s all in how you look at it
It’s alive and it’s dead
It’s the water and it’s the riverbed
It’s the love and it’s fear
It’s all the things that didn’t get you here
And it’s a curse and it’s praise
And it’s a future full of yesterdays
And it’s the silence in a song;
It’s the sound of your voice when you sing along
It’s all in how you look at it
It’s the fire it’s the ice
It’s a personal hell it’s a paradise
And it’s joy and it’s pain
It made the desert it made the rain
And it’s the hunt and it’s the prey
It’s coming closer as it goes away
And it’s real and it’s the lie
It’s the answer and the question when you wonder why
It’s all in how you look at it
It’s no go it’s all right
It’s the kiss and it’s the fight
It’s in the image it’s the eye
It’s stickin’ with you as it passes by
And it’s the bottom and it’s the sky
It’s alarming it’s a lullaby
And it’s cruel and it’s kind
It’s really nothin’ it’s in your mind
It’s all in how you look at it
It’s all in how you look at it
I'm gonna love you till the day I was born
and I'm gonna call you
so keep your ear to the horn
what's the news are you sad?
ain't the groom or the dad
but I'm the boy who loves to love you
and I'm gonna miss you
till the day i come home
I'm always a-roming
even when I'm in Rome
but what's the use if it's sad
I'm only following dad
I'm on the road and dreaming of you
you are the reason I'm living
you may be all that I love
every bit as forgiving
as the lord up above
There was a secret you heard
you told me every word
but I just gotta tell you
what's the word for darkness in the light
what's it called when sunshines every night
I don't know how but I just got to tell you
what's the word that means more than a word
what's better than the best thing ever heard
Well I don’t think it’s odd
To stand before god
And solemnly swear when there’s love in the air
And I don’t think it’s weird
When the one thing you fear
Is losing the one thing that’s holding you dear
Well I don’t think it’s strange
I don’t think it’s insane
It turns the world around
All the birds keeping singing
And the bells keep ringing
And the heart keeps bringing you home to
California
Where the warm sun shines
California
Hear the wind blowing chimes
Californ-i-a
Though you’re far away
Your love is here today
True love in your heart
Like a flame in the dark
May you have may you hold
Till death do you part
‘Cause two of a kind
It ain’t easy to find
Coming out of the gloomy
And led by the blind
It don’t take much to see
That what’s meant to be
Is right in front of me
When the birds keeping singing
And the bells keep ringing
And the heart keeps bringing you home to
California
Where the warm sun shines
California
Hear the wind blowing chimes
Californ-i-a
Though you’re far away
Your love is here today
We’re sitting on a real celebration
Thank heavens what a fine situation
Shoot the cannon blow the horn
Well, I set fire to an apple tree
And I put it back out like a bad memory.
Yeah, I washed my hands in the flood.
Well, I took a sip of the trouble I've stirred
And I spit it back out like a four letter word.
Yeah I lost my head in the fight.
Well, I sat up high on the walls we built
And I felt just like a fool on stilts.
But I just can't get down.
Olives and a pair of eyes
Are floating in my glass.
And nothing ever seemed so strange,
But this I know will pass.
I've seen as far as the eye can see.
And I blew my mind in the lottery.
Yeah, I lost my chance.
Well, I've been told about the fiery skies.
And I've told my fair share of lies,
But I believe in mine.
Well, I've known folks as smart as dogs
And I've known folks like bumps on logs
And they're all fine by me.
Blue skies and my share of love
Are somewhere in the past.
And nothing worth anything
Is strong enough to last.
Well, I've done my time for the ills I've caused
And I've paid my dues in the bets I've lost
And I've got room enough to cry.
Well, I've seen out as far as my eyes can see
And I've tried my hand at the mystery.
Yeah, I walked in the land of the blind.
Yeah I made my bed in which I lie
And I burned the bridge to the other side.
And I'm standing in the light.
I'm all bottled up
Floating in the deep blue
And you're an open book
Anyone could read you
I'm losing my voice
Barking up the wrong tree
When you can't be yourself
There's just too much to be
Let's get on with it
You have got too much time
And I don't want to stay here
Where the sun don't ever shine.
So say the word and open up the blinds
Well it came like a dream
But it went just as fast
Like a dream
Left out in the trash
She said "I know what you mean,
But I don't know who you are.
Ah, we're just two of many; fractions of a part.
Ah, we're just two of many; fractions of a part."
They said it couldn't be done,
But you went out and did it.
But it was more than you were looking for it
And there ain't no way to get it
I'm only guilty, I admit it
I'm only guilty, I...
Excuse me, Forgive me.
I only wear blue.
Excuse me. Forgive me.
I only wear blue.
I don't want to fight.
I don't see no point, we will never get it right.
So, what do you think in the middle of the night,
When you're all alone'
Will you pick another town,
And pick up and leave once you've burned your bridges
down
Until the point when you're sleeping on the ground
And the whole world is out of your reach'
Well you learn how to talk.
Like a baby, you learn to walk the walk,
But in the end it's just you in the dark
Did you learn who you are'
Well something broke that I can't seem to mend.
'Cause somethings break before they bend
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away.
When you tell a lie,
Can you look in the mirror and see it in your eye'
Who to do you fool with the things that you hide'
Is it for your sake or mine'
Well I can't wear your shoes
Nah they just wouldn't fit I've got too much to lose
By walking so fast when you can't pick and choose.
the people you walk on
Well I know an old band
And I know your face like the back of my hand
And I hope that maybe you will understand
That I don't know who you are anymore
Anymore
Well something broke that I can't seem to mend.
Cause somethings break before they bend.
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
away
I hope there is love at the end of your day to take you
I…I can’t fly
Just look at me
It ain’t even a god damn possibility
Oh and I…I know that Saturdays, they are busted
They’re over when you wake up
And immediately you’re drunk
Oh I…oh I love so she can break my heart
Love’s over when it’s ending
But it’s ending from the start
Oh I [mm-mm]…I can’t fly
Just look at me
Ain’t even a god damn possibility
Oh, but when I was younger
Oh those souls, they seemed so real
But now I’m just a little bit
[Older!]
Oh, and now I’m just a little bit
[Older!]
And I know, Lord I know, that they lie
Oh I…I know parties, they are a drag
The girls all think you’re no good
When you want them so bad
Oh and I…I can’t fly
Just look at me
It ain’t even a god damn possibility
But when I was younger
Those souls seemed so real
But now I’m just a little bit
[Older!]
And now I’m just a little bit
[Older!]
And I know, Lord I know, that they lie
Oh why do they do it?
Oh why do they lie?
Oh and why do I keep asking myself and wondering why?
When I know that they thought that it was true
Ooohh, they thought it was true
Oh why do they do it?
Oh why do the lie?
Oh and why do I keep asking myself and wondering why?
I walk with you everywhere I go
But I don't see why you know.
I sing your prays like a long song bird
But I don't supposes you heard.
I... my voice... my lungs
But I'm standing on the tip of my toe
And all I see on that looks the same
A picture in a frame!
Chorus:
Oh, what's all...
Look out and see
My time, my time, my time is to be
I fight for you, our love is war
The battle of Baltimore
I took you back then,
I'll take you down the road
You're with me on my own
Chorus:
Oh, what's all...
Look out and see
My time, my time, my time is to be
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
And we're slow to acknowledge the knots in our laces
Heart it races
And we go back to where we moved out to the places
Heart it races
I bought it in a can and stirred it with my fingers
Singin' boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Threw it out the window
Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter
With your boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Legs like little splinters
Legs like little splinters
And we're slow to acknowledge the knots in our laces
Heart it races
And we go back to where we moved out to the places
Heart it races
I sold it to a man and threw him out that window
He went boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Made his wife a widow
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone...[repeats]
Made his wife a widow
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races aloooooone
Legs like little spiders
Legs like little spiders
Boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Boom da da da da da da boom dat dat dat da da
Oh, oh, my love
Don?t you leave me
'Cause I don?t wanna learn how to die
Oh, oh, my love
And oh, my my
You know I can't get over
'Cause I can't even seem to get by
Oh, oh, my my
And oh, my land
(Oh, my land)
Now it ain?t beneath me
(Ain?t beneath me)
'Cause I got my head in the sand
Oh, oh, my land
And you know my eyes
(Know my eyes)
No, they deceive me
(They deceive me)
Seeing but I can?t understand
Oh, oh, my eyes
Take a choo-choo train rollin' away
Another choo-choo rain wash it away
When we're apart
Take a choo-choo train rollin' away
Another choo-choo rain wash it away
When we're apart
'Cause you're a part of my heart
When I'm apart from my heart, my heart
Oh, oh, my God
(Oh, my God)
He listens to me
(Listens to me)
And I ain't even talking out loud
Oh, oh, my God
And He says my son
(Says my son)
Now, listen to me
(Listen to me)
And listen while the listening?s good
You?re not my son
But you know my love
(Oh, my love)
No, it ain?t easy
(It ain?t easy)
But it ain?t the type to give up and die
That?s not my love
Take a choo-choo train rollin' away
Another choo-choo rain wash me away
When we're apart
Take a choo-choo train, lock me away
Another choo-choo train, wash me away
When we're apart
'Cause you're a part of my heart
And I'm apart from my heart, my heart
From, from, from, from
From, from, from
From, from, from
From, from, from, from
From, from, from
(My heart)
if i told you all my secrets they'd be lies
if i die a happy man, it's 'cuz i finally learned to die
i've lived a fool's life, i've lived a fool's life
now i'm dying
wanted you to turn and walk back in
oh, they have come here by mistake
but i'll take what i can take
i've lived a fool's life, i've lived a fool's life, baby
and now i'm dying
would you say dark has sunlight?
(sun in dark and light)
have i ever done anything right?
i ought to kill me
(i haven't got the right)
and do you mind if we come along?
(i wouldn't mind at all)
would you please sing that song you just sung?
(waa-waa-waa)
oh life is just some living with an end
i would've done so many things
you would've done if you were me
i've lived a fool's life, i've lived a fool's life, baby
and now i'm dying
i'm dying!
i'm dying!
i'm dying!
I try not to think
Of all the little things
And the diamond ring
I bought for you.
But the songs I sing
I wrote for you
And it's true
ooo-oooo-ooooooo
There's a lot of schemes
I want to try
But my dreams don't include you and I.
Your bleary, weary, teary eyes sing the blues
ooo-oooo-ooooooo
There's so many times I tried to forget.
So many rainy days that we haven't lived through yet.
But when a sunny one comes along it's love
A lot of schemes I want to try
But they don't include you and I.
Your bleary, weary, teary eyes sing the blues.
There are so many times I try to forget.
So many rainy days that we haven't lived through yet.
When a sunny one comes along
The light shines in my eyes
And I know it's love.
It's an easy beat of nothing
And we don't need no guitars.
We can run and sing and wreak our cars.
Be careful of the judge inside
His gavel and his stand collide.
But he's only guilty of what's wrong.
Now you can take a feather and pull it from your hat.
You murder all the liars who say they're about to die.
Oh die, die, die, die.
You know that you'll die, die, die, die
I won't let you die, die, die
Oh.......
They tell you time and time again
It's now or never
But a bird flying out with the breeze
It's a damn good reason
For the change of season
We all lost our dog now
To the hunter and the fog now
Either it's asleep or it's lying
Well, there are many things that I would love to turn you on to
Underneath the sun, but we are cool
Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool
You know that we're cool, cool, cool
Oh.......
They tell you time and time again
It's now or never
But a bird flying out with the breeze
It's a damn good reason
For the change of season
Just take what you can
Like a chicken in the pan
You're bound to drop it
Out in the cornfield beneath
Hangman's Tree
Is a rock with some initials
And beneath it is me
I need all your forgiveness and most of your love
You see, the hangman
You saw hanging
That wasn't who I was
But nobody noticed
Nobody cared but me
Well, I knew she'd been unfaithful
But he knew she had to pay
So I grew to be more like him
With each passing of each day
But I slipped out on some side road
I thought things I'd never dared
So I went to the toolshed
Put shlack in my hand
Oh, but nobody noticed
Nobody cared but me
Oh, oh, ohhh..
Well, I came to Dutchman Falls
With my hatchet and my dog
Well, she must have raised her hands
I must have cut her down like cake
And you know the man I was
He left me long enough
Was sad enough to say
Now greed it were a virtue
and pride it weren't a sin
I'd have no need for redemption
It turns out cigarettes can kill you
'cause when you didn't come back
every time that I thought of you
I smoked a whole pack
I was up to about seventeen packs a day
I was refueling too
about every hour or so
I drank a bottle of white mule
I wasn't thinking about turquoise
I wasn't thinking about gold
I wasn't thinking about thinking
or about getting old
got to be so I didn't care
if I was leaving or loving
oh, what I was
and what I was becoming
I don't want to in your arms
I just want to die
don't want to die in you arms
I just want to die
and like a marionette doll
oh, manned by a fool
I went into the chicken shed
started looking for tools
well I worked for a month
build some sky and some clouds
and I built some myself some angels
with trumpets so loud
well they played hallelujah
and I knew I was done
I walked through a golden gate with pearl inlays
saw a never setting sun
well I knew I was dead
I couldn't do no more harm
well I built myself a heaven
where you died in my arms
well you died in my arms when I died
well you died in my arms when I died
well you died in my arms when I died
An army of ancients can rise from the ground
And tear every nation apart
And I'd still be sitting there counting my cards
Wondering when will it stop, oh
The oceans and forests could collide into one
And might leave this world in a spark
And I'd still be sitting there twiddling my thumbs
Wondering when will it stop
Oh, how did the fox get the raven, the crow?
Oh, I got it, oh, yeah, oh yeah
Why at the creek did the dog lose the bone?
Oh, I got it, oh yeah, oh yeah
The man can come back on his fiery thrown
To measure the failures at heart
And I'd still be whistling Dixie alone
Wondering when will it stop, oh
I don't wanna wake up, I don't wanna move
Ask you to assume and stick to the boot, I'm sorry
Well, I'll take what I want in the dawn's early light, oh
How did the fox get the raven, the crow?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Why did the hen pick grains in the snow?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Why did the brother berries go?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Wind took the rest but the kids came along
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Why did the mouse help the bees with the floor?
Well how're the mountains off the harbor?
And how far are you from shore?
And when your ship
Oh when your ship comes into port
Would you call?
Oh would you call?
In that cabin in Montana
Was that donkey getting drunk?
Well it's been hell back here in Philadelphia, yeah
And York ain't what it was
Now you know grandpa's washing dishes
He does it when he can
Trying to get this fire started
And I could really use a hand
The dog is barking out back
He thinks he's in the band
Trying to get this fire started
And I could really use a hand
You know I dreamt where
We're at the station
And you asked me if you could go
You know I never really had the chance
To say no
Well it's night time in Alaska
I hear it's dark until the spring
Well it's been hell back here in Philadelphia, yeah
And York ain't what it was
Now you know grandpa's washing dishes
He does it when he can
Trying to get this fire started
And I could really use a hand
The dog is barking out back
He thinks he's in the band
Trying to get this fire started
And I could really use a hand
Well I dreamt where
We're at the station
And you asked me if you could go
You know I never really had the chance
Oh no
Ain't it strange
How everybody says I love you
Ain't it a shame
How a word can tell you more than words can say
I need you here
Ain't it strange
'Cause I'm always thinking of you
Ain't it a shame
How a thought can catch the breeze and blow away
I need you here
Oh but I know how bad it can get
But I don't mind
Baby I don't mind
But I know how soon you'll forget me
But time keeps blaring
Baby time takes care of me
Ain't it strange
How a man who lives for nothing can change
'Cause if he stays the same he'll die a million days
Year by year
There's a drain
At the bottom of the ocean
And when it rains
We'll get close to where the water meets the sky
For you and I
Oh but I don't know how far this could go
But I don't mind
Baby I don't mind
There's no use in saying
That you've been straying
But even strangers know how strange it can be
We're only getting old
'Cause that's what we are told to do
But they sang to get through
But what's that got to do with us
Adeline
I want you like no other
But I don't have the time
To make sure
That your all mine
All the time
Well not all the time
I must keep in mind
That this time you're finally here
And if you want me to shut up and sing
I can to that
And if you want me to
I can be true
Every day, every day, every day
Adeline
You look just look like your mother
Well she was one of a kind
But now she's gone
And you're in your prime
Day by day
I feel just like a baby in your arms
Like I don't need nothing at all
And if you want me to shut up and sing
I could to that
And if you want me to
I can be true
Every day, every day, every day
(Doo doo doo doo doo da dada da...)
And if you want me to shut up and sing
I can to that
And if you want me to
I can be true
Every day, every day, every day
Glaring is nice at the sun
If you stare well you might go blind
Feelings are fine when they're fun
If they're bad well you might just die
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Eating's no good if you choke on your food
So you chew it slow
Sleeping's the best if you rest
If you don't then you're in the dark
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah tonight you might be all alone
If you don't know anything
It's alright if you don't think so
'Cause dying's like hanging around
At a funeral that no one goes to
Hang up the phone there's still meat on the bone
Don't you know you got a lesson to learn?
I'm pulling you out of the blue
You can take a clue and begin with the ABCs
ABC ABC
Robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
Yeah robins and whales
Tying dog's tails
The streets can talk so
You should listen
'Cause tonight you might be on your own
I'm on loan, like a christmas tree
Chop me down and dress me up
What if I wind up in a gutter
Or a garbage truck.
Turn the clocks back to a memory
Turn the memory to stone
Skip that stone across the brandy wine
And go back home
There's a bird you named
Who left your shoulder long ago
There's a ball you threw
It hit the ground a long time ago
A long time ago, A long time ago
Let me go...
I woke up from a fairy tale
Washing curtains in the sink
Living ever after happily
What would mother think?
I say goodbye to you
You and your mother too
And when the train arrives
When everybody cries
I'll ride the winded air
That blows your stormy hair
And blows your cares away
And waits for yesterday to say
I'm coming Home
waiting, don't be crazy
don't you know that we had the chance to take a chance
waiting, imitation
i know you feel it now but you're not sleeping underground
yeah, yeah, yeah
cuz when the night sky turns into day
but the blues just get in the way
you should quit when the quittin' is right
don't let it get boring
yeah quit when the quittin' is right
don't let it get boring don't don't don't
lay down and raise your right hand
i swear you'll never die when we're just lyin' there in bed
roll on rollercoast on
make it alright, take a chance to learn to fall
yeah, yeah, yeah
cuz when the night sky turns into day
but the blues just get in the way
you should quit when the quittin is right
dont let it get boring
no you can go under the knife
don't let it getting boring
don't let it
lalalala
say yah say yah
And were slow to acknowledge the knots in our laces
Heart it races.
And we go back to where we moved out, to the places
Heart it races.
I bought it in a can. Stirred it with my fingers. Singing
Oom dada oom dadadada
Threw it out the window
Lately you been tan, suspicious for the winter.Thinking
Oom dada oom dadada
Life's like little splinters
Life's like little splinters
And we're slow to acknowledge the knots in our laces.
Heart it races.
And we go back to where we moved out, to the places.
Heart it races.
I sold it to a man, and threw him out that window.
He went, oom dada oom dadada
Made his wife a widow
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
Heart it races alone
I never really had a broken heart
I always played it kinda close to my chest
Love for me's just been a walk in the park
It doesn't really matter
I never really mattered
I never really had a broken heart
Such a shock to me
What looks to me like people going through the motions
But when it's over their hearts are broken
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
Freedom from love
Freedom from the heartache
Freedom from the heartache
Freedom from the heartache
Freedom from the heartache
I never really had a broken heart
You don't believe me, just look at my chest
The way some people like to run and hide
I never really, really
I never really
I never really had a broken heart
I've never really ever been undone
It's just playing house
Two can do it, you can do it two
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
He really loved her, but I don't believe it oh no
I'm fine on the shelf
She really loved him, I couldn't see it though
What a strange day
maybe I was dreaming
nothing seemed entirely awake
what uncertain light
What a strange night
it's dancing with the candle
its atmosphere is---and drunk
you can cut it with a knife
what a strange life
even as it's passing
its hard to see it happening at all
like a shadow on the wall
what a strange god
if everything is nothing
then why is nothing ever what it seems
what a hidden kind of love
what a strange word
just because you told it
don't mean you told anything at all
its better from a mime
and what a strange line
wrapped around in letters
a drawing for a symbol for a sound
its never right before its wrong
what a strange song
a heat to beat the rhythm
a brain to move the melody along
a tune of everybody's choice
what a strange voice
coming from the speaker
recorded on the twentieth of may
I tip my cap to the heavy, heavy rain
I wave hello when I see a snake go by
I ain't a fighter, never been in a fight
Can't get no answers from the other guy
So let's just clear the air
I'm over here, I'm over there
I am the youngest of a family of spiders
I got a web of my very own weaving
I know where I belong and nothing gonna beat it
So I ain't going home just because I'm leaving
So let's just clear the air
I'm over her, I'm over there
Well, the last time that I got lonely
I didn't even know your name
Once and again for the first time
Yeah, it's only but it ain't the same
I remember everything you told me
I remember you walking away
I felt it on the moment that I met you
And that felt like a place that I should stay
So let's just clear the air
I'm over her, I'm over there
We were around long before my birthday
We'll be around to put flowers on my grave
Me and you got a history of history
Me and you, two continuous waves
So let us fill the air
I put on my clothes like a body guard
I put the dogs on patrol in my own back yard
I don't want to fight, but I'm constantly ready
And I don't rock the boat, but its always unsteady
There's an elephant in my head
And I tiptoe around it
There are egg shells on the floor
Therefor I never touch the ground
It's like that old black hole
No matter how you try
You set out each day
Never to arrive
I got my eye on the prize, but it looks just like the mystery
And it all goes by on the lonesome trail to victory
I'm drawing the blinds; I've got my own four walls
Man the show really starts once the curtain falls
Take this thorn from my side
Fix this chip on my shoulder
Time is racing with the clock
And I ain't getting any older
It's like that old black hole
No matter how you try
You set out each day
Never to arrive
I put on my finest thread
And I wrap up my body tight
With the sun in my eyes
I step into the night
Like a mystery in the dark
Oh its just another kind of light
I don't expect you do believe me, but everything is alright
I don't make rules for a living
I don't do tricks for a dime
I was born on a good day - deaf, dumb, and blind
Who am I to tell the truth
Oh, I don't even know what it is
Well I don't know how to say it
But I know that I can show you
I said I don't know how to say it
But I know that I can show you
I tied my boots up tight and I head straight to bed
There's a pistol and a crystal underneath my pillow
There's a tender heart inside that ugly armadillo
These are tears of joy cried the weeping willow
There's a spirit in the air, there ain't to way around it
I was not prepared to lose it all the moment that I found it
It's like that old black hole
No matter how you try
You set out each day
I'm aware of the danger
I think it's ok
I was never that young
I was born old and grey
Alone and in shambles
It's alright, it's ok.
The storm cloud has broken
The haze burned away
I was 23 miles from the Chesapeake bay
I'd worn through my shoes
Always walking away
Seems like all of my troubles roll and tumble this way
The bottle has broken, the ghost has escaped
Oh no, I can't walk around with my feet off the ground
And when they hit, although we are strangers
Run away, run away, run away
I have
I didn't talk much to strangers
I'd bled my friends dry
Hard, hard living yet I was hardly alive
But I kept on rolling and now I know why
The storm clouds have broken a hole in the sky
Well get away from the shelter
Get away from the storm
Get away from the mountains
Get away from the shore
Get away from the hang-ups, they destroy the mind
Get away from the darkness
Get away from the light
Oh no, I can't walk around with my feet off the ground
And when they hit, although we are strangers
Run away, run away, run away
I have
Well get away, get away, get away
There's a darkness around you I can't explain
And the heart break surrounds you like the rain
You destroy all that's good here at your will
There's a part of me though that loves you still
You're a vampire baby, no reflecting at all
You never think what you do really hurts
You're always giving me maybe, if I get something at all
Leaving me in the dark, oh what a nerve
There's a black mask in shadows behind your veil
You're as tempting and savage as Marcellus Shale
If you knew what you wanted I'd give mine
But I'm no grave robber baby, I can't know your mind
You're a vampire baby
You never think what you do really hurts
You're always giving me maybe, if I get something at all
Leaving me in the dark, oh what a nerve
Somehow, some way, some day, somehow we will get along dear
Dawn is always dark
Somehow, some way, some day, somehow we will get along
You're a vampire baby, no reflection at all
You never think what you do really hurts
You're always giving me maybe, if I get something at all
Leaving me in the dark, oh what a nerve
Hey, save upon the undertaker bill
Throw me in the ocean where the water turns still
My blood will rust and dust to dust
Hey, save upon the undertaker bill
Throw me in the backyard, out behind the still
Just sort me out, or let me rot
If I was a goner before I came into the room
I was a goner before I came into the room
Simple things that I -------
So I'll bend right down and Ill tie my shoe
I was born a boy but became a man
And gettin' older is what I had to do
Oh and learn the things I already knew
Hey save upon the undertaker bill
Throw me to the wolves, let em have their fill
My bones will bust, don't make no fuss
If I was a goner before I came into the room
I was a goner before I came into the room
Simple things that I -------
So I'll bend right down and I'll tie my shoe
I was born a boy but became a man
And gettin' older is what I had to do
Oh, I don't wanna waste time, I don't wanna wait here
Deciding whether we should stay or leave
Why you wanna go now? I don't wanna go now
Even though my friends are on and the lights are on
Oh, you keep saying nobody cares if I'm here
Except me but baby that's it
I don't wanna let go, people they get so old
I hate when people say, "Those were the days"
Oh, what are these then?
I really should have stayed home,
So many people I don't really know anymore
And I got nothing to say but I don't know
I just get so bored
Over and over I get impatient and angry
And I feel like I've gone soft
It's such a drag I just get dumber and dumber
I can't talk, I can't talk
I don't wanna let go, people they get so old
I hate when people say, "Those were the days"
Oh, what are these then?
Why you wanna go now? I don't wanna go now
Even though my friends are on and the music's on
Oh you keep saying nobody cares if I'm here
At first I wasn't sure but now I have no idea.
And it's a feeling I ain't never had that also feels familiar.
And the present ain't dead and the future's got room for the living.
But I'm certain now for a long, long time ago.
And I don't mind where I'm going, I just don't like you so near.
Let me off at the corner I can walk from here.
I was promised no surprises on this one day of the year.
But it comes as no surprise to me what brings you here again.
We're under attack and I'm going back to the country,
Where the neon signs are stars falling down.
And the president's dead and the prison's got room for forgiveness.
But it's over our heads and way past the point of a lie.
And I don't mind where I'm going, I just don't like you so near.
Let me off at the corner, I can walk from here.
I was promised no surprises on this one day of the year.
So it comes as no surprise to me what brings you here again.
There's a man in the street with a gun in his hand
And he swears that he's willing to kill.
Right from the start, what a miserable part,
And a secret disguised as a thrill.
There's a deal gone down, was it worth it?
Are things according to the way that you planned?
Are you forgetting that love is the tiniest glove
Me and my girl gotta get to heaven.
We'll get there on a 747.
But I'd be happy just as well if we ended up in hell
'Cause she has shown me hell before.
She has shown me hell before
And I kept coming back for more.
Yeah, I kept back for more.
Me and my girl got to stick together.
We've got the kind of love like the weather.
Well, I'll be shining all day long,
Even when the sun is gone,
'Cause she has shown me rain before.
She has shown me rain before
And I could use a little more.
I don't know why we do the things we do, the things we do, we do.
I don't know why we do the things we do, the things we do, we do.
But I can do a little more.
Yeah, I could use a little more.
Me and my girl we are perfect for each other.
I can be her baby and she can be my mother.
And I don't think it's all that bad when I gotta be her dad
'Cause I have met her dad before.
Yeah, I have met her dad before
And I know I can give her more.
Yeah, I know I can give her more.
Me and my girl gonna make it right.
We got the kind of love that can put up, up a fight
And I don't ever scream or shout even when she knocks me out
'Cause she has knocked me out before.
She has knocked me out before
And I kept giving up for more.
Yeah, I kept giving up for more.
I don't know why we do the things we do, the things we do, we do.
I don't know why we do the things we do, the things we do, we do.
No, I don't know why we do the things we do, the things we do, we do.
I'm sleeping under carpet in a closet full of bone
In a body of boiling water
I'm scratching on the surface, I'm blind as can be
I am a trace
I am a gesture, in the heavy heavy light
They say that I'm a river
They say that I am one
Will I be the last to know?
So beyond the lines of mercy, I'm waiting for my turn
Someday my prince will come, in the heavy heavy light
The sea is within me and that's because I said so
In love with the word, am I sound?
Am I right?
The sea is within me and that's because I said so
In love with the word, am I sound?
Am I right?
The sea is within me and that's because I said so
In love with the word, am I sound?
Am I right?
The sea is within me and that's because I said so
Love, love
I wish I gave only love
The truth don't stop
It makes you move
Round and round
Like the moon
It's coming down
The truth don't stop
It's really coming
The truth don't stop
It's falling hard
The truth don't stop
Another day
The truth don't stop
Thunder and lightning
The devil's done
I paid my dues
But he just won't quit
He don't like to lose
It's coming down
The truth don't stop
It's really coming
The truth don't stop
It's falling hard
The truth don't stop
Another day
The truth don't stop
Thunder and lightning
Let the rain fall
Let the rain fall
Let the rain fall
Let the rain fall
The one is big. The other small
The winners' feet are short
.........trails the wolves are following
never never ever ever ever ever ever swallow it....
Oh it feels strange.........
It produces a similar call
No factory blare
.........cloud around it
Never ever ever ever ever stop to hound it.
For a cure.......
Oh black
or maybe red
or black
or maybe red
The one is big. The other small
The winners' feet are short
.........trails the wolves are following
never never ever ever swallow it....
Oh it feels strange.........
It produces a similar call
No factory blare
.........cloud around it
Never ever ever ever ever stop to hound it.
For a cure.......
for a cure
Oh black
or maybe red
or black
or maybe red
or black
or maybe red
or black
or maybe red
or maybe red
My heart, it ain't running right
Won't you give it a kick
Will you be my handy man?
Will you do the trick?
I count the days as they pass me by
My tock is a nervous tick
Won't you free my hands of time?
Won't you do the trick?
All my marbles gone down the drain
You could say I'm a lunatic
Won't you set my mind at ease?
Will you do the trick?
I burnt the candle on every side
Long since run out of wick
Will you be my flame tonight?
Will you do the trick?
I been split down the middle
Call a doctor quick!
I'm in need of a better half
Will you do the trick?
I just can't find my way all alone
Man this fog is so thick
Won't you shine your light for me?
Will you do the trick?
I've thrown everything at the wall
But nothing will stick
Won't you hand around a while?
Won't you do the trick?
I could build you a home on high
I could lay each and every brick
Will you be there by my side?
I'm not a jealous man
Oh but I am
I can't help it baby
So would you help me baby
Tell me that I'm your only man
Cause' if you love me babe
You'll love it when I say
You've got to be mine
Nobody else can ever have you
You've got to be mine, all mine, all the time
What did I say baby, the first time
Nobody else can ever have you
I heard you call my name, down by the river
You know that I will succeed baby
You know, I will deliver you
You got to keep your eyes
On that very, distant prize babe
It's my honor, It's my only fate.
You've got to be mine all mine.
Now when I saw that you were scheming, you know it hurt me bad
And when I saw that, you were cheating, you know it only made it worse
And now, now that you've left me
I don't think, no I don't think
Well on the other shore, there's a hook for all your hang-ups
A pier full of disasters, and a word for everything
You had to be there, I know it's somewhere
Where all of us have grown, and understood
Well on the other shore, there's a week that's filled with weekends
A crick that trickles bourbon in your cup
There's always free time, it's never bed time
Your friends are around or sleeping in
Your friends are around or sleeping in
Your friends are around or sleeping in
Where nobody's famous and nobody cares
Where everyone's broke, but nobody's scared
Oh man, oh man, oh man
Well on the other shore, there's a week that's filled with weekends
A crick that trickles bourbon in your cup
There's always free time, it's never bed time
Your friends are around or sleeping in
Your friends are around or sleeping in
Where nobody's famous and nobody cares
Where everyone's broke, but nobody's scared
Oh man, oh man, oh man
Where nobody's famous and nobody cares
Where everyone's broke, but nobody's scared
Well I am the ancient warrior man
And I hail from the ancient warrior clan
I invented the computer man
Hubcaps and soda cans
Well the holy ghost, he owes me everything he knows
And everything he don't, you understand?
Well I think you can
Well the world at most is a homemade crypt
I made from my rib in a lightning trance
In a fevered dance
Well I am the ancient warrior man
And I hail from the ancient warrior clan
I invented the computer man
Hubcaps and soda cans
The roads of gold
I carved hieroglyphs into the Dover cliffs
I'm a self-made man with my own bare hands
The haunted ghost
They begged for the man with the hammer in his hand
To ring the bell and send him back to hell
Holy roller, do you know her?
I invented the Krav maga
Speak in a Vandalic Yanamamö patois
Holy roller, do you know her at all?
Holy roller, do you know her?
Gonna need another ride into town
Does she have another jockey at home?
Holy roller, do you know her
Well I am the ancient warrior man
And I hail from the ancient warrior clan
I invented the computer man
She's a big girl now and she can't be your baby anymore
Sha-na-na-na-na she's a big girl now
She had such wild expectations when she was very young
But you couldn't stand to see her happy or having fun
But she's a big girl now and she can't be your baby anymore
You had her doing all the dishes, had her mopping the floor
You had your dinner on the table when you walked through the door
But she's a big girl now she can't be your baby anymore
She could have been anything that she wanted
She could have had anything at all
But you broke her down man, you nearly undid her
You made her feel so very small
You made her call you daddy, changed the color of her hair
And when you stayed out very late you had her waiting on the stairs
But she's a big girl now and she can't be your baby anymore
Everybody needs a hand to hold on
and a deal to get sold on
There's a mad man loose without a doubt
and he's calling you out
Yeah he's calling you
Come on in, its cold outside
and we've got room for more
Shut the door
going home
going home
going home
Everybody wants to kill their brother
Put the blame on another
Wake up, wake up this house is on fire
and we're down to the wire,
Yes we're down to it
Come on it it's cold outside
And we've got room for more
Shut the door
going home
going home
I been singing for so long
I go from door to door
But it ain't the song I'm singing for
I've painted every town
The colors I ignore
No it ain't the change I'm looking for
Mouth of the river, spit out the sea
Shake the hands of time
Turning the century
I been fishing off the dock
Every beach and every brook
And it felt the same without the hook
I been humbled by the maker
I been given all I gave
And I don't expect, no I ain't asking to be saved
I found the combination, I've got the key
Standing at the door
Turning the century
Mouth of the river, spit out the sea
Stand for something more
