spring comes slowly
to this old frame
still i'm frozen
i still live alone
in time memories fade
sense numb
one forgets how it feels
to have loved
completely
love well young man
while you still can
once your leaves turn
you won't love again
is it special when you're lonely
will you spend your whole life
in a studio apartment
with a cat for a wife
the seasons when they call you
do you barricade the door
are you stubborn stubborn
stubborn to the core
is it your way or the highway
then the longest winter is on her way
you called her without knowing it
what makes you think
that it won't grow back
in a day or two
husbands in winter
they know the truth
but what can they do
i don't like girls the way they are
so shave their legs
and make them look like movie stars
then we can pretend it's natural
put on whatever makes you attractive
if it's not you then do it for the sake of fashion
your friends like a certain you
that's who you've got to be
junior high legs
blonde hair gone brown
from removing it
waxing since thirteen
wisdom from a beauty queen
her tiara diggin deep in her head
i'm starting to think that i'm kind of shy
or at least i'd like to be
winter legs give me heart attacks
so take it off with lasers
so it never comes back
The impact
The aftershave
The European ciggarettes
The taxi
The alcohol
That lingers on your breath
The lipstick
The street lamp
The woolen overcoat
The front desk
You tell yourself
It isn't over yet
Second best, oh, second best
I can learn to live with this
Plus, I really need a rest
After all, what's wrong with second best
What's wrong with second best
The motel
The distances
Cave into kisses, cold and wet
Familiar exchanges
Like needle pulling thread
The empty movements that once were so inspired
Desperate attempts to fan the flame without the fire
The matress creaks beneath
The symphony of misery and cum
Still, we lie jerking back and forth
And blurring into one
Second best, oh, second best
I can learn to live with this
Plus, I relaly need a rest
After all, what's wrong with second best
all the time you were burning my letters
you were only acting the part
you think with out me you'll get on much better
but you don't even know your own heart
come home darling come home quickly
come home darling all is forgiven
so come home quickly
i treated you as if you were a princess
you treated me like a cop
i gave you boundaries to save you from certain death
dangling from the end of a rope
but you're still playing for a love you'll never find
outside these arms of mine
the whole town is one step behind you
with the hangman on call
they've got the judge and you're convicted without a plea
dad dad why did you let that man
push you around like that
you should have beat him down
down to the ground
down to the ground for that
he said son you're still young
and you always jump the gun
there's real people in the big big trucks
that you flip off when the get in your road
you get so hacked but you pay no mind
to the great big sign that says oversize load
you really think they can go as fast
as you in your 87 trans am
they know you're in a terrible rush
they're going just as fast as they can
dad dad i really don't understand
what driving big trucks has to do with that man
you should of taught him a lesson about being rude
You said that you would not have me last summer
And you said that you would not have me last spring
But I hoped that you would change your mind by august
Especially when I bought that diamond ring
But you still said no, you wouldn’t have me
You wouldn’t have me
You still said no, no, no
I heard that you’ve been sleeping with your old friends
And I heard when each one left and broke your heart
I told you then that I would never leave you
And I told you that I loved you from the start
You still said no
You would not have me
You still said no, no, no
Even though you haven’t any answers
Still think that you don’t need anyone
To save you from the mess that you’ve created
And even when I gave my only song
You still said no
You wouldn’t have me
You still said no, no, no
the plants and the factories are perfectly run
the workers and bosses are living as one
people are equal people are good
people are working as hard as they should be
it's food for my family and clothes for my kids
the class war is over and everyone wins
it's such a simple plan
to take it like a man
but i'm not sure i can
we fought for a decade corruption and greed
it gave me a purpose a reason to breathe
but now that it's over now that we've won
it's back to my bedroom alone with a shot gun
to think of my family no longer compels me
if at first you don't succeed
try, try again
if i were you i'd give up
the path is too narrow
the way is too steep
save your applause
for the end of the show
count it a blessing that your're such a failure
your second chance might
engine severs lower legs
feel my bruised heart beating
spinal cord remains intact
still sending and receiving
laying back on shoulder blades
cargo rushing past
missing limbs beneath the cars
twitching on the tracks
click clack now handicapped
north am transcontinental
i remember as i bleed
certain tales of bravery
a man who's legs were trapped beneath
a fallen evergreen tree
he decided he would chop them off above the knee
to sacrifice his shins and feet to set his torso free
the luxury of having been spared the hard part
you'd think would be enough for me to pull this off
but i'm left to bleed to death
now all the man i've ever been
officer
please don't haul me in
though i'm drunk again
i can explain
i swear to you
for a week i have
been completely dry
until tonight
he's been such a good example
everyhing he's done for me
i couldn't bear to let him down
monday night
brother sat me down
very graciously
and explained
if i'm going to help you
i must make it very clear
brother that i love you
but certainly i hate your sin
so you see you can't arrest me
i swore i'd be careful not to
if you could really see
then you would ask of me
she knew the well was far too deep
for him to wet his lips
but something told her that he spoke
of so much more than all of this
when he spoke she wanted to believe
the things he said
but who could this man be
that she might never thirst again
her heart raced
could he be the one we've waited for
the poison makes its way through my body slowly
into the pleasure centers of my brain
if you were here i would admit that i'm an asshole
but now it's over and i can't stay sober
though it isn't like i've tried
on the front porch or on an airplane on vacation
or out for dinner in a nearby town
i was so proud just to have you sitting with me
but now it's over and i can't stay sober
pour and swallow follow one drink with another
i'll keep on til you agree to come back over
or until there are x's on my eyes
my old man always swore that hell would have no flame
hunger drives me
it's got me by the reigns
i let it wreck me
time and time again
i decided
to never ride again
i don't know
what happened
dad i broke my promise to you
if you're wondering where i've been
i thought i knew what i was doing
but i was wrong again
i understand son
the fairer gender
they always turn my head
from sheer embarassment
old friend
your horse is ready to ride
when morning comes
from this church town
where damning rumors drip
from holy tongues
it won't go away
the fever
to find a scapegoat fast
and fix the blame
i know
you never meant to leave
the way you came
looking down
from their stained glass steeples
they'll never know
why you had to run
ride as fast as you can
roll me over i wanna wave at the kids
i can't say i prescribe cause i don't know what it is
i'm down at the track i'm just calling to check in
if you start without me say my name as you begin
it's not like it wasn't all for you
but like evrything i do it's misunderstood
take a message i'm on my way out of town
but the wording's important so make sure you write it down
there's money behind every picture in the place
sincerely your husband on my way to the next race
if it's once i got it
all the way to grandma's house
i stayed on the narrow path
but my brother wandered off
deep into the woods
bitten twice by rattle snakes
tangled up in poison oak
he fell down and broke his legs
into a great ravine
when i arrived at grandma's house
she made us tea and cake
she asked me where my brother was
i said i don't know and ate
when i get to heaven i'll be greeted warmly
surrounded by angels
as jesus takes my hand
i'll receive a mansion
on the river jordan
and a crown of diamonds
for a race well run
i won't ever lock my doors
i will trust my neigbors
confident that they desreve
the volunteers were tired
heads were hanging low
the news had spoiled their appettite
for stuffing envelopes
twelve points was an awful lot to be down in the polls
with only two weeks to go
shouldering the phone
loosening his tie
his running mate on pricks and pins
hovering beside
the candidate wrote furiously as if to save his life
then hung up the phone and spoke with great conviction
when you're nothing but a boyfriend
dangling by a thread
keeop in mind the bottom line
diamonds are a girls's best friend
inches from the goal
one thing on his mind
to get behind her desk and make
some big decisions
power can be such a tease
you're always wantingmore
Here we have our dust free dining set
We guarentee it won't collect a spec
Freeing up the children to instead
Grow into your molding
Heed more of your scolding
Go early to their new self-making beds
It seems like you'd be tired of losing face
Like you'd want to put the children in their place
The more you have to tell them to do their chores
The more you run the risk of being ignored
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your father drank a little
You're on liver number two
Progress has a way of feigning ease
Convenient new inventions bait the tease
For, though it is impossible to cure
A husband bent on cheating
The oxygen's depleting
A child who's always bragging
A wife's persistent nagging
We're equipped to live as though it were
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your fatehr drank a little
Paramedics brave and strong
Up before the break of dawn
Putting poker faces on
Broken bodies all day long
The neighbors heard a fight
Someone had a knife
It must have been the wife
Husband's lost a lot of blood
He wakes up screaming "Oh my God
Am I gonna die, am I gonna die?"
As they strapped his arms down to his sides
Times like these they've been taught to lie
"Buddy just calm down. You'll be alright"
Several friends came to his grave
His children were so well behaved
As the priest got up to speak
The assembly craved relief
But he himself had given up
So instead he offered them this bitter cup
"Your gonna die
We're all gonna die
Could be twenty years
Could be tonight
Lately I have been wondering why
We go to so much trouble
To postpone the unavoidable
Have you ever seen and idealist with grey hairs on his head
Or successful men that keep in touch with unsuccessful friends
You only think you did
I could have sworn I saw it too
But as it turns out
It was just a clever act for cigarettes
'Cause if it isn't making dollars
Then it isn't making sense
If you aren't moving units
Then you're not worth the expense
If you really want to make it
You had best remember this
If it isn't penetration
The it isn't worth the kiss
We're so sorry sir
But you did not quite make the cut this time
And we'd appreciate it if you cleared you stuff on out by five
Don't take it personal
Everyone knows you did your best
If it makes it easier
You should look at it from our perspective
'Cause if it isn't making dollars
Then it isn't making sense
If you aren't moving units
Then you're not worth the expense
If you really want to make it
You had best remember this
If it isn't penetration
Wouldn't it be so wonderful if everything were meaningless
But everything is so meaningful
And most everything turns to shit
It's Priceless when you said you had to work late
When we both know you're at a motel
Here's the thing that's so much more depressing
Than the infidelities itself
Darling, you are so unoriginal
Each move, more obvious
Than the one before it
You know I've always said that I would kill you
If I ever caught you stepping out
But now I see I did not know the half of
What hatred and regret were all about
Darling, you are so unoriginal
Each move more obvious
Than the one before it
I guess I could be bigger but I'd rather make you pay
Darling you are so unoriginal
You'll see that I can be so unoriginal
Just like you
blood stains on the carpet
blood stains on my hands
drag her toward the kitchen
hide the evidence
oh the toil a lie can bring
that quitters never know
but lies can be the perfect things
if they never show
the crisis posed a question
just beneath the skin
the virtue in my veins reply
that quitters never win
This line is metaphysical
And on the one side, on the one side
The bad have lived in wickedness
And on the other side, on the other side
The good have lived in arrongance
And there's a steep slope
With a short rope
This line is metaphysical
And there's a steady flow
Moving to and fro
Oh, look you earned your wings
Are you an angel, now
Or a vulure
Constantly hovering over
Waiting for the big mistake
Oh, my God, what have I done?
Oh, my God, what have I done?
Wouldn't you love to be
On the cover of a magazine?
Healthy skin, perfect teeth
Designed to hide what lies beneath
I feel the darkness growing stronger
As you cram light down my throat
How does that work out for you
you got drunk
drunker than you'd ever been
you hailed a cab and passed out cold
before you told the driver where to go
so he drove you around chicago
you woke up sicker than you'd ever been
you threw up and shit the bed
and there was no one there to clean you up
and the room was spinning all around
make a fist and take a deep breath
close your eyes and count to ten
just keep swinging 'til you're over it
the mess you left had got you feeling pretty bad
Crazy people know
the special place to go
when the pressure is on.
Neurons re-align
'til the feeling is fine
or the trouble is gone.
They're in the business of inventing saviours.
There's always trouble
so tell yourself again
that help is on the way
and safety abounds, that safety abounds.
When you need some
kind of guarantee
that you're protected
you start to trust
the things that
deeper comfort brings
before you've checked it.
You might be waiting for a long time.
There's always trouble
so tell yourself again
that help is on the way
I'm feeling independent,
I made it through another day,
having a wonderful time.
I haven't felt the sickness,
I think I may have scared it away,
looks like I'm gonna be fine.
My friend down on the corner
says it's gonna be alright,
he's handing me a needle,
he sells me a fix,
he says I'll see you here tomorrow.
I'm feeling self-sufficient,
it's nice to finally be in control,
I'd have it no other way.
I do it when I want to
let the good times roll,
each and every day.
My friend down on the corner
says it's gonna be alright,
he's handing me a needle,
he sells me a fix,
and says I'll see you here tomorrow.
My friend down on the corner
says it's gonna be good times.
Pats me on the shoulder,
and sells me a fix,
such an awful, tragic night
though i've only done what's right
even with my conscience clear
i can't help this flood of tears
i've got my eye on hte finish line
though i've been striving for their good
i will be misunderstood
even my own darling dear
misconstrued what was so clear
give the time i think she would have understood
that it was for the greater good
soon i will meet her at our mansion in the sky
leaving this wicked world behind
it's strange that it should end this way
having no idea that his youngest son was dead
the farmer and his sweet young wife slept soundly in his bed
in the shadow of the mountain as the cattle hung their heads
grazing only feet from where the broken body lay
and would lay undiscovered for another several days
when the farmer would find vultures at their banquet in the hay
the killer traveled eastbound in a golden brown sedan
weighing his most recent deviation from the plan
counting down the hours til the sun came up again
hired to hit the farmer by the farmer's asshole son
he had not yet decided between poison or a gun
dear unlock the door
you're acting like a child
when you've said it to yourself
we are at war
how dare you turn on me now
right when i need you most
i wish i could have seen their faces when they heard the news
now that's the sort of smack that leaves a bruise
the victory is ours at last
i beat them at their own dirty game
they pervert the words of godly men
for their own selfish gain
i took their wrong and i took their lies
and i made them right, i made them right
oh, look who it is
it's my supportive wife
and she thinks she's going to squeal
hey where do you think you're going?
don't you walk away from me
you put down that telephone
[Instrumental]
Be Thou my vision,
O Lord of my heart.
Naught be all else to me,
save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought,
by day or by night,
waking or sleeping,
Thy presence my light.
Riches I heed not,
nor man's empty praise,
Thou my inheritance,
now and always.
Thou and Thou only,
first in my heart,
High King of heaven,
my Treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven,
bands with managers are going places
bands with messy hair and smooth white faces
you don't believe when i say
it won't be alright
vans with fifteen passengers are rolling over
my jail shoes on
the well kept cemetary lawn
both of them weeping
their one good son now was gone
the irony to see my dad down on his knees
crying out to jesus
but lord i've always done what's right
and all the while
the good lord smiled
and looked the other way
when we were kids
i did my best to make them proud
it just wasn't in me
i could not fly straight to save my life
their big success is now their biggest failure
their golden child has been dethroned
their reputation is now in ruin
we barely ever fight
she knows that i love her
at first we made it every night
but i don't want to bug her about it
she just has a funny way
of loving me
pair of ticket stubs in the desk
a movie i've never seen
i probably shouldn't ask
it sounds so accusing
she must have forgot to mention
girl's night out
the breakfast cereal talked
more than we did all day long
i asked her for a walk
but she had to be on her way
so i told her that i knew
she'd been stepping out
she swore that she could explain
she swore that it would not happen again
she swore that she could explain
arizona curled up with california
then she tried to hide the whole thing from new mexico
who knew before he saw them making out in yuma
that she was loving someone new
but california not california how could you
the bully loved her cactus
the underdog her pine
but she would only love one at a time
new mexico had always hated california
and though he knew that arizona wore the pants
he got loaded then he started throwing punches
the poor injun never had a chance
scissors cut paper
paper covers rock
rock crushes scissors
And can it be
That I should gain an interest in my savior’s blood
Died he for me who caused his pain
For me who scarred his perfect life
Amazing love, how can it be
That you, my god, should die for me
And you left your fathers,
Floating so free, so infinite, your grace
You emptied yourself of all but love and bled for ours
Helpless race
Amazing love, how can it be
That you, my god, should die for me
Amazing love, how can it be
That you, my god, should die for me
Boldly I come before your throne
To pray your mercy immense and free
No greater love will there be, no
For oh my god, it found out me
Amazing love, how can it be
That you, my god, should die for me
Amazing love, how can it be
That you my god, should die
That you my god, should die
That you, my god, should die for me.
This is how we mulitply
Pity that it's not my wife
The friction and skin
The trembling sigh
This is how bodies move
With everything we could lose
Pushing us deeper still
The sheets and the sweat
The seed and the spill
The bitter pill yet undiscovered
Gideon is in the drawer
Clothes scattered on the floor
She's arching her back
She screams for more
Oh, my sweet rapture
I hear Jesus
Calling me home
Finally a chance to breathe
Reaching for the the fallen sheets
Collapsing in a glowing heap
We've gone too far
We've done too much
We have to quit it
Just one more kiss
Just one more touch
Please ten more minutes
This feels so good
Just barely moving
The tensiojn building
Our bodies working
To reach the goal
Oh, my sweet rapture
I hear Jesus and the angels singing
Halleluiah
The sun shines
and leaves blow
and my hope like autumn
is turning brown.
And I know it seems like
I'm always falling down.
But it does not matter to me although it seems like it should.
It's because I know I'm understood when I hear Him say
"Rest in me, little David and dry all your tears, you can lay down your armor and have no fear cause I'm always here when your tired of running, and I'm all the strength that you need".
It's up hill
both ways,
tomorrow I swear
I won't act this way.
And I know it seems like
that is what I always say.
But it does not matter to me although it seems like it should.
It's because I know I'm understood when I hear Him say
"Rest in me, little David and dry all your tears, you can lay down your armor and have no fear cause I'm always here when your tired of running, cause I'm all the strength that you need."
You know I want to be like Jesus,
but it seems so very far away,
i could hear the church bells ringing
they pealed aloud your praise
the members faces were smiling
with their hands out stretched to shake
it's true they did not move me
my heart was hard and tired
their perfect fire annoyed me
i could not find you anywhere
could someone please tell me the story
of sinners ransomed from the fall
i still have never seen you
and some days i don't love you at all
the devoted were wearing bracelets
to remind them why they came
some concrete motivation
when the abstract could not do the same
but if all that's left is duty
i'm falling on my sword
at least then i would not serve
an unseen distant lord
if this is ony a test
i hope that i'm passing
cause i'm losing steam
and i still want to trust you
It's so priceless when you say you have to work late
When we both know you're at a motel
Here's the thing that's so much more depressing
Than the infidelity itself
Darling, you are so unoriginal
Each move more obvious than the one before it
You know I always said that I would kill you
If I ever caught you stepping out
Now I see I did not know the half of
What hatred and revenge were all about
Darling, you are so unoriginal
Each move more obvious than the one before it
And I guess I could be bigger but I'd rather make you pay
Darling, you are so unoriginal
We were walking, holding hands
With our bare feet in the sand
And the seagulls overhead
When I borke the spell and said
"I could never divorce you
Without a good reason
And though I may never have to
It's good to have options"
But for now, I need you
But for now, I need you
But for now, I need you
But it was only in my head
Because no one ever says
What they really mean to say
When there's so much at stake
So I told her I loved her
And she told me she loved me
And I mostly believed her
sunken ships rest
upon the ocean floor
where i've made my home
to dodge the draft once more
there once was a time
one could flee to the north
but canada's not what she used to be
boycott the war
well she could not afford to
thanks to the new american queen
swim with me and we'll escape
all the trouble of the present age
finally free
the mermaids teach us
how to breath beneath
the line that now divides
sunken ships rest
upon the ocean floor
where i've made my home
to dodge the draft once more
there once was a time
one could flee to the north
but canada's not what she used to be
boycott the war
well she could not afford to
thanks to the new american queen
swim with me and we'll escape
all the trouble of the present age
finally free
the mermaids teach us
how to breath beneath
the line that now divides
Ultra-violet rays wash over
All the boys and girls
As their moms lay tanning by the pool
Oh, look, their dad's arriving home
All the children hug his neck
Unaware of their inheritance
All the experts say you ought to start them young
That way they'll naturally love the taste of corporate cum
God bless the indian summer
God bless the indian summer
God bless the indian summer
Don't you just love the sun
Doesn't it make you feel good all over
It's my pleasure to announce
In conjunction with the fed
And my recent popularity
Thanks in part ot mother nature
It will never rain again
It should do wonders for the GNP
If you're just joining us now
You've missed a brilliant speech
We go now live to the streets
To find out what the voters think
He's worked a miracle
I just now bought a brand new car
i don't want to believe that all of the above is true
but i could be persuaded if you were to give me proof
why don't you come over thursday maybe we can talk it through
as if some new information were possible to comprehend or introduce
after all you and i are nothing more than foregone conclusions
you were to busy steering the conversation toward the lord
to hear the voice of the spirit begging you to shut the fuck up
you thought it must be the devil trying to make you go astray
besides it couln't have been the lord because you don't believe he talks that way
too close to call yet
Here we have our dust free dining set
We guarentee it won't collect a spec
Freeing up the children to instead
Grow into your molding
Heed more of your scolding
Go early to their new self-making beds
It seems like you'd be tired of losing face
Like you'd want to put the children in their place
The more you have to tell them to do their chores
The more you run the risk of being ignored
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your father drank a little
You're on liver number two
Progress has a way of feigning ease
Convenient new inventions bait the tease
For though it is impossible to cure
A husband bent on cheating
The oxygen's depleting
A child who's always bragging
A wife's persistent nagging
We're equipped to live as though it were
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your father drank a little
You were born in KC, Missouri to a girl who wasn't married
After your birth she brought you to the nursery
Kissed your head and told you not to worry
And then quietly she turned and slipped away
In the elevator her heart began to pound
To the rooftop in her slippers and her gown
On the edge, she took one last look around
Then closed her eyes and pushed away
Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
So gracefully
Twelve flights down, nearly naked on the ground
Skin and tragedy always attract a crowd
So it was when the policeman came around
He took more than fifty eyewitness accounts
Each one in awe for they'd never seen a girl so sad and beautiful
Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
Speeding toward the ground
Through the air without a sound
I want to fly this helicopter.
And will it be enough?
Me and my wings are very fragile.
And is that what you want?
And I'm so scared that I might crash this bird.
I feel like such a little girl.
This time there is no net to catch me when I fall.
Jesus, please protect me now.
I do the thing that I don't want to.
I am so very tired.
My thoughts have wings and they don't obey me.
What's a boy to do?
And I'm so scared that I might crash this bird.
I feel like such a little jerk.
This time there is no net to catch me when I jump.
Jesus, please forgive me now.
Please have this burden.
Please have this burden.
Please have this burden.
Calling all rednecks to put down their sluggers
Turn their attention from beating the buggers
Pick up machine guns and kill camel fuckers
Backwoods nation...
Calling all doctors of spin and the smoke screen
To whip the new hateriots into a frenzy
Of good versus evil ignoring the history
Of the Backwoods Nation
Ain't it a shame
When due process
Stands in the way of swift justice
Calling all frat' boys
To trade in their hazing
Their keggers and cocaine
And casual date raping
For cabinet appointments
And rose-garden tapings
A hole that big
I'd never seen before
in the tummy of a good ol' boy who always wanted more.
Then just yesterday
I saw him satisfied.
It seems he'd met the hole fixin' man, much to his surprise.
But are you for real?
Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, you fixed my friend can you fix me?
Hey Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, I'm as broken as a boy can be,
so how 'bout fixin' me?
And all the charms
that never were enough
it seems the hole was always twice as big no matter what it was,
but to see him now
is almost to believe
that maybe Mr. Hole Fixin' Man might have what I need.
But are you for real?
Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, you fixed my friend can you fix me?
Hey Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, I'm as broken as a boy can be,
so how 'bout fixin' me.
Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, he says you died on Calvary.
Hey Mr. Hole Fixin' Man, if you've got proof I will believe,
so how 'bout fixin' me.
Won't you please,
won't you please.
you're up with the sunrise
and down when the work's been done
with excellence industry
dilliegence naturally
i would like to be you
just for a few habit forming years
laziness cuts me like fine cutlery
i need a miracle someone to help me help myself
sweet jesus i need you
forgive me this sin
not hookers or heroin gambling or gin
deep green hills whose shoulders fade into thick grey
tall wet grass whose flesh makes fools of grazing sheep
whose fleecing makes a fool of me
who shall i blame for this sweet and heavy trouble
for every stupid struggle i don't know
i could buy you a drink
i could tell you all about it
i could tell you why i doubt it and why i still believe
i can't say it like i sing it
i can't sing it like i think it
i can't think like i feel it
and i don't feel a thing
...why i still believe it
why i need it
and what the pharisees can't see
we'd have more drinks
and speak of so many things
a white ghost
making his way up the west coast
trying to focus his high hopes
on a vagina or two
he's taking his chances
meanwhile
back in his living room
bright smiles
are watching his toddler run speed trials
over his grandmothers rug
and nature advances
up the interstate
he's been awake
and pretty drunk for three whole days
no one wants to stop
until they get to where they're going
i'll get to where i'm going
pretty soon
so he takes another drink
he's watching the scenery bleed
into each similar scene
it isn't as sweet
as it had been in his dreams
it's faster
to buy cigarettes and some cold bear
if you don't raddle the cashier
by asking her back to your room
she's calling security
a cars on fire in the parking lot
and nobody wants it to rain
but god isn't listening
so all the windshields glisten
the water and oil mix
causing the fire to spread
to five or six
innocent automobiles
waiting in the nearby spots
oh what a cruel god we've got
so he takes another drink
he's watching the scenery bleed
into each similar scene
it isn't as sweet
i'll take something to believe
something with long sleeves
cause it's unpredictable
now jesus said he'd fill my needs
but my heart still bleeds
he's just noy physical
now why can't i see
if i look up and the sky's not there
is there any reason that i should be scared
when a promise is a promise i know
now we've established lack of sight
maybe vision's the right word
for what i need
cause i can't see with human eyes
lord knows i've tried
to follow where he leads
from what i've seen so far
i can't believe my eyes
If only the rules were
built upon philosophy that I embraced
I'd hug your neck and kiss your face,
but it's very obvious
that your ideals are not for me.
You'll tell me what to do
but you will see that I do as I please.
Cause I want to
do it my way,
and I want to fly,
I want to
do it my way,
cause I want to fly.
The problem with rules is
they alienate the criminals when whose to say
if what they did was wrong that day.
If you'd open your mind up
you'd see that there is nothing that's always wrong.
No matter what you say,
it's just not true that there's only one way.
Cause I want to
do it my way,
cause I want to fly,
I want to
do it my way,
and I want to fly.
I hope we have ourselves an understanding.
I hope we have ourselves an understanding.
It's weird to think of all the things
That have not been keeping up with the times
It's ten o'clock the sun has just now
Begun to set the western hills on fire
And I hear that you don't change
How to you expect to keep up with the trends?
You won't survive the information age
Unless you plan to change the truth
To accommodate the brilliance of men, the brilliance of men
Some folks think we're better now
Social evolution's new synthetic will
Will keep us on a straighter path
As better men use brand new math
With no wrong answers
I'm just a little bit worried
Do you have some sort of plan?
Have you been finally defeated
By the cunning of these fully evolved men?
And I hear that you don't change
How do you expect to keep up with the trends?
You won't survive the information age
Unless you plan to change the truth
It's weird to think of all the things
That have not been keeping up with the times
It's ten o'clock the sun has just now
Begun to set the western hills on fire
And I hear that you don't change
How to you expect to keep up with the trends?
You won't survive the information age
Unless you plan to change the truth
To accommodate the brilliance of men, the brilliance of men
Some folks think we're better now
Social evolution's new synthetic will
Will keep us on a straighter path
As better men use brand new math
With no wrong answers
I'm just a little bit worried
Do you have some sort of plan?
Have you been finally defeated
By the cunning of these fully evolved men?
And I hear that you don't change
How do you expect to keep up with the trends?
You won't survive the information age
Unless you plan to change the truth
and when his tiny head emerged from hair and folds of skin
i thought to myself if he only knew he would climb right back in
i do
now that my blushing bride has done what she was born to do
it's time to bury dreams and raise a son to live vicariously through
the sperm swims for the egg
the finger for the ring
if i could take one back
Satellites mediate for us
The days events through fiber optics.
I hope we can change the saying.
I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope.
I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope.
Clear as a bell are the short breaths
That you take when you're distracted.
Same as the way that you roll your eyes
When I've asked too many stupid questions.
My faith in zeroes and ones to host our romance,
Rests on hope you gave that I've some claim to your heart.
I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope.
I wouldn't mind but you are my only hope.
Clear as a bell are the short breaths
That you take when you're distracted.
Same as the way that you roll your eyes
When I've asked too many questions.
I will call you in three weeks,
I saw in your bedroom, the drawers had been emptied. Looking for answers but you won't admit it now. You don't need a reason, that's what you tell me but I still don't buy it. You drink yourself silly night after night.
It makes me feel so good to always tell you when you're wrong. The big man that I am to always have to put you down, put you down.
Then there's your girlfriend, she opens her legs and gives your life meaning. Is that what you love her for? The angel is always looking down, he's perfect without frown, the bully always wins.
It makes me feel so good to always tell you when you're wrong. The big man that I am to always have to put you down, put you down.
At least in my dreams
when I'm sleeping it seems
that the needle is full endlessly, but you keep on waking me.
I'm almost there, it's on the tip of my tongue
and it never goes away, it never comes to stay.
The chances are slight
that I won't shoot up tonight,
but the sensation that's waiting beneath is a kick in the teeth.
I'm almost there, it's on the tip of my tongue
and it never goes away, it never comes to stay.
I'm almost there, it's on the tip of my tongue
