Everclear Filmography

• Summerland: Live from the Ogden Theatre
  2013, role: actor , character name: Themselves
• The 26th Annual American Music Awards
  1999, role: actor , character name: Themselves
• MTV Revue with Everclear
  1998, role: actor , character name: Themselves

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Annabella's Song - Everclear
• Ataraxia (Media Intro) - Everclear
• Amphetamine - Everclear
• Everything To Everyone - Everclear
• Ateraxia - Everclear
• Hating You For Christmas - Everclear
• Father of Mine - Everclear
• Like A California King - Everclear
• I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear
• You Make Me Feel Like A Whore - Everclear
• The Twistinside - Everclear
• Invisible Stars - Everclear
• Return To Santa Monica - Everclear
• In A Different Light - Everclear
• Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear, 1994-2004 - Everclear
• Culver Palms - Everclear
• The Vegas Years - Everclear
• Thrift Store Chair - Everclear
• The Honeymoon Song - Everclear
• White Men In Black Suits - Everclear
• Why I Don't Believe In God - Everclear
• So Much For The Afterglow - Everclear
• Sunflowers - Everclear
• Chrysanthemum - Everclear
• How To Win Friends And Influence People - Everclear
• A Beautiful Life - Everclear
• BLACKJACK - Everclear
• Loser Makes Good - Everclear
• Invisible - Everclear
• Nervous & Weird - Everclear
• Malevolent - Everclear
• Wonderful - Everclear
• One Hit Wonder - Everclear
• Fire Maple Song - Everclear
• Evergleam - Everclear
• She Likes Me For Me - Everclear
• The New Disease - Everclear
• Wishing - Everclear
• Normal Like You - Everclear
• Tiger In A Burning Tree - Everclear
• Volcano - Everclear
• Boys Are Back In Town - Everclear
• Unemployed Boyfriend - Everclear
• Her Brand New Skin - Everclear
• Jackie Robinson - Everclear
• Broken - Everclear
• A Shameless Use Of Charm - Everclear
• White Noise - Everclear
• Volvo Driving Soccer Mom - Everclear
• TV Show - Everclear
• The New York Times - Everclear
• Sunshine (The Acid Summer) - Everclear
• Science Fiction - Everclear
• Otis Redding - Everclear
• I Want To Die A Beautiful Death - Everclear
• Learning How To Smile - Everclear
• Now That It's Over - Everclear
• Brown Eyed Girl - Everclear
• Here We Go Again - Everclear
• AM Radio - Everclear
• Everclear - Pat Green
• Static - Everclear
• BEAUTIFUL DREAM - Everclear
• Everclear - Everclear
• 13 Years - Everclear
• I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Everclear
• The Golden Rule - Everclear
• Search & Destroy - Everclear
• I'm On Your Time - Everclear
• Heroin Girl - Everclear
• My Sexual Life - Everclear
• Rock Star - Everclear
• POCAHONTAS - Everclear
• Overwhelming - Everclear
• Out Of My Depth - Everclear
• The Good Witch Of The North - Everclear
• Songs From An American Movie pt-II - Everclear
• Slide - Everclear
• Short Blonde Hair - Everclear
• Misery Whip - Everclear
• Local God - Everclear
• Clean - Everclear
• Everclear - Roger Creager
• Hater - Everclear
• Now - Everclear
• Portland Rain - Everclear
• Taste Of Hell - Everclear
• The Drama King - Everclear
• Under The Western Stars - Everclear
• Your Arizona Room - Everclear
• Annabella - Everclear
• Here Comes The Darkness - Everclear
• Chucklehead's Lament - Everclear
• Carolea - Everclear
• Separation - Everclear
• Shine - Everclear
• Kill The Sun - Everclear
• Eleanor Young - Everclear
• The Color Pit - Everclear
• Kill Jerry Garcia - Everclear
• Happy Hour - Everclear
• Hateful - Everclear
• How Soon Is Now? - Everclear
• Lame - Everclear
• DETROIT - Everclear
• Don't Change - Everclear
• Drunk Again - Everclear
• For Pete's Sake - Everclear
• Connection - Everclear
• Deep In, Empty Out - Everclear
• Our Lips Are Sealed - Everclear
• Bad Connection - Everclear
• The Boys Are Back In Town - Everclear
• Speedracer - Everclear
• The Joker - Everclear
• Search And Destroy - Everclear
• Santa Baby - Everclear
• Southern Girls - Everclear
• SIN CITY - Everclear
• The Swing - Everclear
• 1975 - Everclear
• American Girl - Everclear
• All Fucked Up - Everclear
• Blondes - Everclear
• Baby Talk - Everclear
• Glorious - Everclear
• What Do I Get? - Everclear
• Pennsylvania Is... - Everclear
• Nervous And Weird - Everclear
• The Laughing World - Everclear
• Sparkle - Everclear
• Sick And Tired - Everclear
• Sick & Tired - Everclear
• Electra Made Me Blind - Everclear
• Chemical Smile - Everclear
• Your Genius Hands - Everclear
• Trust Fund - Everclear
• Anita Sonic Love - Everclear
• Slow Motion Daydream - Everclear
• Everclear - American Music Club
• I Am Better Without You - Everclear
• Falling In A Good Way - Everclear
• Heartspark Dollarsign - Everclear
• Be Careful What You Ask For - Everclear
• Santa Ana Wind - Everclear
• Rocket For The Girl - Everclear
• Promenade - Everclear
• When It All Goes Wrong Again - Everclear
• Queen Of The Air - Everclear
• Santa Monica - Everclear
• Strawberry - Everclear
• Summerland - Everclear
• Ataraxia - Everclear
• Aces - Everclear
• Nehalem - Everclear
• Pale Green Stars - Everclear
• Welcome to the Drama Club - Everclear
• New Blue Champion - Everclear
• Songs from an American Movie, Vol.2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude - Everclear
• Sparkle and Fade - Everclear
• Song From An American Movie pt. 1 - Everclear

I see you roll your eyes
You know it makes me smile
You are like the sun to me
Bright as liquid fire
I feel so powerless
To hold you up above the world
You are quite a lot of trouble
Such a pretty little girl
Such a pretty little girl
You know I'm never home
I'm always miles and miles away
I feel I'm runnin' out of time
Say the things I need to say
Call you on the telephone
You will not talk to me
Yeah you just don't understand
You are my everything
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone
You are never alone
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone
You are never alone
I like to watch you play
When you don't know I'm there
See you in your sleep at night
Reach out and touch your hair
I wanna make this world
Be just how you want it to be
Yeah you just don't understand
You're my everything
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone

Today, medical science recognizes
That some folks aren't helped by relaxing exercises
In cases of difficult tension and nervous apprehension
Doctors are now prescribing medicine
It makes those who fear they're about to quit
Feel like they're ready to begin
Bidding their darkened spirits goodbye

She came out west to find the sun
She lost her name but found a new one
Amy goes to school all day
But at night in the neighborhood they call her Amphetamine
She is perfect in that fucked up way
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she used to be happy with the girl inside
She looks so bored sometimes
And she has that super pale skin and those soft green eyes
She looks like she could have been happy in a better life
She came out west just to break away clean
From her family and her friends and a little girl's dream
All she wants to do every night
Is to sit beside my window and listen to the sirens
She is perfect in that fucked up way
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem
And she looks like she should have been happy in another life
In another life
She came out west just to break the spell
After three long years in a marriage from hell
Six months clean living sober and right
Her doctors tell her everything will be alright
Yeah, you just take your pill
And everything will be alright
She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like a magazine girl
She looks like a teenage anthem
Like she used to be happy in another world
She looks like a teenage anthem
She is happy with the girl inside
She looks like a teenage anthem
And looks like she could have been happy in another life
In another life
Happy in another life
Met her at a party and I took her home
She is the saddest girl that I have ever known
She wakes up in the middle of the night
Just to tell me everything will be alright
Amy smiles at me and tells me everything will be alright
I tell myself the same damn thing
Everyday

You put yourself in stupid places
Yes I think you know it's true
Situations where it's easy to look down on you
I think you like to be the victim
I think you like o be in pain
I think you make yourself a victim almost every single day
You do what you do
You say what you say
You try to be everything to everyone
You know all the right people
You play all the right games
You always try to be everything to everyone
Yeah you do it again
You always do it again
You say they taught you to read and write
Yeah they taught you how to count
I say they tought you how to buy and sell your own body by the pound
I think you like to be their simple toy
I think you love to play the clown
I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down
Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and fall
Yeah why don't you ever learn
Spin around and fall down
Do it again
Come on now
Do that stupid dance for me
You do what you do
You say what you say
You try to be everything to everyone
You jump through the big hoop
You play all the right games
You try to be everything to everyone
Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah you do it again
Spin around and fall down
Do it again

"Today, medical science recognizes
That some folks aren't helped by relaxing exercizes.
In cases of difficult tension,
And nervous apprehension,
Doctors are now prescribing medicine.
It makes those who fear they're about to quit
Feel like they're ready to begin.
Bidding their darkened spirits goodbye

Thanks for the Christmas card
I don't want to hear about your new job now
I don't want to hear about your new boyfriend
I don't want to hear about it all working out for you
No, I don't want to hear it now
I don't want to hear about your swinging new place
I don't want to hear how everyone thinks it's great
I just want to sit in our apartment and hate you
Yes, I will be hating you for Christmas
You can have the Christmas tree
Remember when we bought it at the store down the street?
Remember when I found that cheesy color wheel?
I don't want to think about the lights on your white skin
No, I don't want to think about it
I don't want to think about last year at your dad's
You said it was the best sex that we both ever had
I don't want to think about my face in your soft hair
I will be hating you for Christmas
I must be losing my mind
There's gotta be a better way to deal with the pain
There's gotta be a better way to deal with the hate
Wish that I could find some way to make you go away
Wish that I could have a drink and make you fade
I wish that I could have myself a drink and make you fade
I wish that I could have a drink and make you go away
Yeah make you go away
Wish that I could make you go away
I will be hatng you for Christmas
Yeah I will be hating you for Christmas

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been?
You know I just closed by eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
Yeah, when I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away
I remember blue skies walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That's so hard to reach
Father of mine
Tell me where did you go?
Yeah, you had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see?
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me
I was ten years old
Doin' all that I could
It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy
In a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then
And I guess I never will
(Then he walked away)
Daddy gave me a name
My daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
Daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
My daddy gave me a name
Oh yeah
Yeah
Daddy gave me a name
Daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
Daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
My daddy gave me a name
Yeah
Yeah
Oh yeah
Father of mine
Tell me where have you been?
Yeah, I just closed by eyes
And the world disappeared
Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep?
With the children you abandoned
And the wife I saw you beat
I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now I'm a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear, I'll never let her know
All the pain I have known
(Then he walked away)
Daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
My daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
My daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
My daddy gave me a name
(Then he walked away)
Yeah
(Then he walked away)
Yeah
(Then he walked away)
Oh yeah

I see you have made yourself a brand new life
Such a cool blue star with a bright new shine
I see you wear your checkered past just like a shining suit of gold
I know you think you look so special
I am told you have found yourself a brand new time
Watch the world stand still as the years go by
I know you think you are so new and different
But it makes no sense to me
There is nothing new about you
Just another self-made man
There is nothing new that I can see
Enjoy it while you can
I know you think you look so special
What makes you think you are so special?
What makes you think you are unique?
I see you smile and I get angry
As i watch you go colossal
Like a California king
All these Californians, coming up here
and changing everything;
They're just a bunch of carpetbaggers
and I wish they'd all just go
I hear you gave the world a brand new voice
Such a happy melody with a new wave whine
Yeah I see you hide behind your own noise
I think I've seen enough
I will find you in the crowded room
I will knock you off your feet
I will burn you just like teenage love
I will eat you just like meat
I will break you into pieces
Hold you up for all the world to see
What makes you think you're better than me?
What makes you think you're better?
What makes you think you are complete?
What makes you think you are the only one immune to falling down
Why can't you see
I see you fall and I get happy
I will watch you burn like fire

Mmm, aa, yea
Here is the money that I owe you
Yes so you can pay the bills
I will give you more when I get paid again
I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas
Oh I know we will never look back
Yea, ah
You say you wake up cryin'
Yes and you don't know why
You get up an' you go lay down
Inside my baby's room
Yea I guess I'm doin' okay
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe he actually thinks
That I am really alive?
I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Yes I will
Yes I know all about that other guy
The handsome man with athletic thighs
I know all about the times before
With that obsessive little rich boy
They might make you think you're happy
Yea maybe for a minute or two
They can't make you laugh
No they can't make you feel the way that I do
I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Yea I will buy you a new life
Ohh, yea
Oo, I know we can never look back
Yea, no
Oh, will you please let me stay in the night?
Will you please let me stay in the night?
No one will ever know
Yea, yea
Oo, I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Oh yea,I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life
I will buy you a new life

I take your word like it was gospel, I'm so eager to please
Yeah I like it when you talk to me
It feels so good inside your shadow, it's the place I need to be
Yeah you know I need to climb you like a tree
There is this place inside where all the good things die
Sometimes I feel like a whore
I hate the way I am around you, I'm so nervous and weird
Sometimes I feel like I'm breathing underwater
You treat me like I am on fire, like I'm something to eat
You make me hate what I see when I see me
Yeah I dream of the day when I learn how to make you pay
Someday I'll teach you to beg, someday, someday
Yes I live for the day when I can hear you say
You make me feel like a whore
Yes I dream of the time when I can make you mine
Maybe then I'll feel half alive, more alive, so alive
There is this place inside where all the good things die

We have been sleeping with the lights on
Just about every night
Because we are afraid of what the dark might bring
I know, I know it's just a childish fear
That grows and grows wild in the middle of me
I'm gonna get a new tattoo
Black and stretching around my arm
Like a life that is visible and real
I know, I know it's stupid and immature
I just want to give shape to the face
That twists inside both you and me
Breathing fire doesn't look good on a resume
Neither does anything else we do
We got to get ready for the real world
Yeah yeah we got to grow up
You know I like to die for awhile
Everyday in the afternoon
I like to let the arms of a bar wrap around me tight
I'm just going to sprawl in the front booth
Big drink above my head
Cross eyes and smiling as I watch the world go twisting by
I don't want to die with you,
Or live in the same dark room
I don't want to see your bloodshot eyes no more, no more
I just want to take this girl
all curls and big brown eyes
Man I can't take the pain of wanting her, needing her
I know the secret of your soul
And I just don't want to know

I wish my life was like a John Hughes movie
Good times and easy on the dark side
I wish my life was like a John Hughes movie
Bright lights, always looking for a better life
We were looking for each other
In the bars on the west side
We were looking for the summer
When it's cold outside
This is going to be good
Life is coming up aces
Everything is coming up aces
We found a way to make money out of
Broken boys and difficult girls
Reality is wonderful
We were... waiting
For the world to begin
Things are so much better now
I have a good reason to
Want to get wasted again
We were slumming for a buzz
In a place that used to be the old school
We were happy for the pain of being
Lame enough to want to look cool
I really think that this is going to be good
Life is coming up aces
Everything is coming up aces
We can make a good living out
Of broken lives and empty hearts
Ain't this entertaining watching people fall apart
We were wasting time waiting
For the world to begin
Things are so much better now
I have a good reason to
Want to get wasted again
Black... , white trash
There isn't any limit to the shame
These people have
Good people do bad things
Have sex with an ex in the bathroom
On their wedding day
Pretty faces with no soul
Everybody needs a chance to
Win themselves a better life
Everybody wins a better life
Everybody wins a better life
Everybody wins a better life
Everybody wins a better life

Love of mine
Someday you will die
I will be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light,
Or tunnels to gates of white,
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
And Catholic school,
As vicious as Roman rule,
I got my knuckles bruised
By a lady in black
And I held my tongue
As she told me "Son,
Fear is the heart of love,"
So I never went back
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
At the time your soul embarks
Then I will follow you into the dark
You and me
Have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes
Are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

5 AM on a Sunday morning
Walking uptown
With the rain in the snow
When I saw you
It came without a warning
A face I had never seen
A feeling I had never known
Moving slow in the early morning
Making love in the quiet of the day
The world was waiting to take us to a new place
We knew that we were changing
We knew that we would never be the same
I know
I would do it all over again
At the end of the day
When we are alone
I get that feeling when I see your face
And I know
You'll be there at the end of the day
Two years later we are living together
We built our dream house on a hill by the sea
We could see the shadows that were growing in the distance
We were hiding
We were blind to what we did not want to see
I know
I would do it all over again
At the end of the day
When we are alone
I get that feeling when I see your face
And I know
We will be together
5 years gone by we have turned into strangers
We never talk since you went away
Now I find myself walking in circles
I keep looking for you everywhere
Keep waiting for the end of the day
I know
I would do it all again
At the end of the day
When I'm all alone
I get a feeling that I can't explain
If I knew then what I know now
Wouldn't change a thing if I could somehow
I would do it all over
Over and over again
I hope and I pray
We can do it all over again
I know
We will be together someday
At the end of the day
We will be together
At the end of the day
We will be together someday
At the end of the day
We will be together

Hollywood girls need a pretty silver star
They can hide in the bottom of their breakdown
Hollywood girls need a secret they can hide behind
The buttons at the bottom of their purse
Hollywood girls need a pretty silver star
They can hide in the distance and the makeup
Hollywood girls need a simple little lie
They can count on when they don't know which is worse
Everyone you meet is like the princess of the underground
Yeah, everyone you meet is either kissin' ass or going down
Hollywood girls have those movie star eyes
That they use when they lie about their boyfriends
Hollywood girls have those innocent eyes
That they use when they lie about it all
Hollywood girls do whatever they want
Without the knowledge that they're running out of good time
Hollywood girls do whatever they want
Without the knowledge they can never have it all
Make yourself a promise that you don't intend to keep now
You can either work out with your trainer
Or just catch up on some sleep
You can always find a classy way to sell yourself cheap
True love will never mean a thing to me
I'm just looking for a ride in a stolen car
True love is not what it pretends to be
I just wanna have sex with a movie star
I don't wanna think about tomorrow now
I don't wanna think about tomorrow
You wanna make yourself some promises you don't intend to keep
You could maybe get yourself a facial
While you catch up on some sleep
You can buy yourself a new dress when you need a new distraction
You could find yourself an actor when you need some empty action
I know the words don't mean a damn to me
I wanna walk away when everything falls apart
I know I'm just like everyone I meet
I just wanna have sex with a movie star
True love will never mean a thing to me
I'm just looking for a ride in a stolen car
True love is not what it pretends to be
I just wanna have sex with a movie star
Sex, oh, I just wanna have sex
I just wanna have sex, I just wanna have fun
I don't wanna think about tomorrow
I don't wanna think about tomorrow now

I heard the truth about you
And it doesn't really read at all
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
A scared woman in a private hell
Hushed voice like electric bell
Strange talk about edgar cayce
And the long lame walk of the dark 70's
I heard the truth about you
Yeah, you
Mama they woke me up
I was deep in an idiot sleep
I was just 8 years old
I heard big words with a horrible sound
Mama they called my school
To tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
I wish I believed like you do
Yeah, you
In the myth of a merciful god
In the myth of a heaven or hell
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
Sometimes it gets so much I feel like letting go
Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard
I ran away, went looking for you
Back to culver city and the old neighborhood
Need to know if you were really gone
Need to know if you were gone for good
I ran through the projects at night
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
Hide from my brother-in-law
Hide from the things he'd say
He said you weren't losing your mind
He said you just needed a rest
He said you'd be coming home soon
He said the doctors there would know what's best
He said that maybe I could go live with them for a while
I heard the truth about you
I know the truth about you...
Yeah, they woke me up
I was just 8 years old
Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it all go...

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that I oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
Yes, I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
If I write a letter it won't get there in time
I'll only reach you, baby, on the telephone line
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and I won't be back
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
Telephone call, telephone call, telephone call
Can you hear me at all?
Oh, Can you hear me at all?
Can you hear me at all?
Can you hear me at all?
Oh, can you hear me at all?

Baby go to bed and put out the light
We both know if we talk anymore
We're gonna end up in a great big fight
You can have your way again
Yeah, you believe what you wanna believe
You can walk all over me tomorrow
But tonight can we both just pretend to sleep
I think we're headed for a big fall
I think we're headed for a bad time
Ooh yeah you're gonna go downstairs
And sit in that chair you like
Gonna put a John Prine record on
I think we need to slow it down for a while
Yeah I wish we had never bought a king size bed
Yeah only damn thing that it's ever been good for
Plenty room for the real good sex
I lay in bed in the dark and all that I can see
Yeah, is the distance that grows between us
You seem so far from me
I think we're headed for a real big fall
Yes we're headed for a bad time
Yeah gonna go downstairs
Sit by myself all alone in the middle of the night
Gonna put a John Prine record on
Yes we need to slow it down for a while
Gonna go downstairs
Smoke cigarettes in a thrift store chair tonight
Gonna put a John Prine record on
Yeah we need to slow it down for a while

One, two, three
Two, two, three
You know I love you baby
And I know you love me too
But the fun that day
Didn't start until
We left on our honeymoon
Stepped off the plane into a warm sunny day
Then we got leid together
The sun shines down on a lonely town
Where the fish all smile 'cause they know us
Our wedding day was warm and sunny
Our friends and family came from out of town
We said I do, then ate some food
And smiled 'til the sun went down
We'll take the zodiac, the Cadillac
Around the north shore and then we'll head back
The sea turtles come to greet us
So let's get loaded tonight
We'll drink on the flight
Back home, the honeymoon is over
You know I love you baby
And I know you love me too
But the fun that day
Didn't start until
We left on our honeymoon
We're on our honeymoon
We're on our honeymoon
The fun that day
Didn't start until

One, two, three, four
I am just a boy working in a record store
Yes I moved to San Francisco just to see what I could be
I am a loser geek, crazy with an evil streak
Yes I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me
She is just a girl, she is doing what she can
She dances topless
When she's not playing in her band
Such a pretty girl, happy in an ugly place
Watching all the pretty people doin' lots of ugly things
I think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes I think it's getting better almost everyday
I could give a damn for what those people say
All I want to do is lose myself in your room
All you want is just a slow fuck in the afternoon
I still see those scary guys when I am all alone at night
I kiss the ring you gave me then I swing with all my might
I think it's getting better for the two of us
I think it's getting easier for you and me to agree
That the white men in black suits
They are diminishing
Yes I think they are diminishing
Yes I think they diminish you and they diminish me
I think they are diminishing
You know sometimes I hear those people say
Yeah she takes a bus
Over to the north side of the city
She goes to work stripping for the rich white men
All the words they give her
Make her feel so soft and pretty
She wears them but they never ever seem to fit
Yes I think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes I think it's getting better in the worst way
I refuse to be afraid of almost everyone
Afraid of all the things they do or the words that they say
Let's live the way we want to live and hope they go away
Ooh I really hope they go away
Ooh I really hope they find a nice place
I hope they find it somewhere
I hope they go away
I can still hear all those people say
I can still hear all those people say
I can still hear all those people say
I can still hear all those people say
I can still hear all those people say
I can still hear all those people say

I heard the truth about you
And it really doesn't read at all
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
A scared woman in a private hell
Hushed voice like electric bell
Strange talk about Edgar Cayce and the long lame walk of the dark 70's
I heard the truth about you
Yeah you
Mama they woke me up
I was deep in an idiot sleep
I was just eight years old
Heard big words with a horrible sound
Why'd they have to call my school
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
I wish I believed like you do
Yeah you
In the myth of a merciful god
In the myth of a heaven and hell
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
Sometimes it gets so much I feel like letting go
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go
Letting it all go
I ran away, went looking for you
Back to Culver City and the old neighborhood
Need to know if you were really gone
Need to know if you were gone for good
I ran through the projects at night
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
Hide from my brother-in-law
Hide from the things he'd say
Said you weren't losing your mind
He said you just needed a rest
He said you'd be coming home soon
He said the doctors there would know what's best
Said that maybe I could go live with them for a while
I know the truth about you
I know the truth
Mama they woke me up
I was just eight years old
Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it go

This is a song about Susan
This is a song about the girl next door
This is a song about the everyday occurances that make you feel like letting go
Yes I think we've got a problem
So much for the afterglow
This is a song about Susan
This is a song about the way things are
This is a song about the scary things you see from the corner of your eyes
Don't you wonder why?
We never talk about the future
Ee never talk about the past anymore
We never ask ourselves the questions to the answers that nobody even wants to know
I guess the honeymoon is over
So much for the afterglow
I remember we could talk about anything
I remember when we used to want to hang out
We never talk about the future
We never talk about the past anymore
We never ask ourselves the questions to the answers that nobody even wants to know
Oh well oh well oh well
So much for the afterglow
Oh well oh well oh well
Yes I guess we need the drama

I know where you go when you want to fall
Why do you want to be broken?
I know where you go when you want to fall
Yes your friends they tell me everything
Yes I know where you go
Yes I know what you do
Yes I know the awful things you say and who you say them to
Yes I know where you go
Yes I know what you do
I know how you feel, you get crazy inside
They say it runs in the family
I know just how you feel when you get crazy inside
Your mom she said that you are just like me
I can see it in your eyes
I can see your shaky hands
Yes I think you think i'm stupid
You don't think I understand
Yes I see you and I see myself when I was a younger man
When you were a child
You were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
I remember you painting
Sunflowers in your room
I know where you go when you want to fall
Hey don't you want to be happy?
I know where you go when you want to fall
Your useless friends, they tell me everything
Everything
I see you run around in circles
I see you digging your own hole
I see you fight the fights you just can't win
I see you losing self control
What it does to me deep down inside I hope you will never know
When you were a child
You were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
Painting flowers on the wall
I remember you happy
I remember it all
All I want to remember
Pretty pictures on the wall
I remember you happy
I remember it all
All I want to remember

Yes I hate the way I feel and it makes no sense
Five months gone and all I got
Pretty pink flowers on my chain link fence
I don't like what it means
Cause I know there's more to come
I can't go home without
Chrysanthemum
I walk around lost and I don't know why
I don't see the faces or the places I should recognize
It's like that dream where it feels like home but it don't look right
Yes I will look everywhere tonight
I will not stop till I make things right
And I can't go home till I see the sun
I can't go home without
Chrysanthemum
No I can't go home without

It's a beautiful day
If you look up in the air
you can see the sky
It's a beautiful day
if you stare at the sun
you will burn your eyes
I do not believe in the lucky numbers
I do not believe in wishing on a star...
to tell you the truth
people love to tell you things that will break
your heart
yes people love to break your heart
people love to break your heart
i do not believe in the things that i cannot see
I do not believe in the pretty disguise...
to tell you the truth
I know they want me to believe that they
know whats best for me
yes, you know that its true
people love to hit you when you close your eyes
people love to hurt you when you close your eyes
and you will never see it coming
it's a beautiful day
it's a beautiful day
look up...the sky is down
it's such a beautiful day
look up...the sky is down
it's a beautiful day
look up...the sky is coming down
its a beautiful day
look up...the sky is coming down
its a beautiful day
look up in the air

You seem to make the same mistakes everyday
Sometimes its hard to open your eyes
You want to be the only cake on the table
Yeah, you say you don't like surprises
You want to find a pretty little place to stay
You just don't want to live and leave
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to be with you
I really hate how you push me away
I do not like it when you shut me out
I say I love you but I really don't know you
I want to change you but I don't know how
I want to leave when it gets ugly and cold
I want to leave but I have no where to go
I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I don't care where we go
I don't care where we go
You seem to make the same mistakes all the time
Sometimes it's not too hard to understand why
You say you hate the things you have done
Yeah, you have been running with your back to the sun
You want to find a place where you don't have to hide
You say you're just happy to be alive
I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, I just want to be where the sun shines down
Yeah, yeah
I just want to be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just want to find a beautiful life
I just want to be where the sun shines down
I just want to find a beautiful life
I want to be where the sun shines down
I want to be where the sun shines down
I don't care where we go
I don't care what we do
As long as I can be with you

scary john gets his strong arm on
he can break me and make me
happy with his blackjack
scary john has the heavy hand on
he smiles without his eyes
nice and easy with his blackjack
don't tell me that
you didn't see this coming down
please dont say that this
isn't what you wanted now
scary john gets his strong arm on
he can break me and make me
happy with his blackjack
scary john
always knows what's goin on
he is everywhere
happy with his blackjack
please don't tell me that
you didn't see this coming down
please don't say that this
isn't what you wanted now
this is your american dream
everything is simple in the
white and the black
you will never need to see the grey anymore
you will never have to be afraid
when you are happy with the blackjack
i hope you are happy with the blackjack
scary john
he wants to kill my song
he doesn't like the fact
i'm not happy with the blackjack
i don't want to hear the words
he has to say
please don't tell me that
you didn't see this coming
please don't tell me
that this isn't what you asked for
be careful what you ask for
this is your american dream
everthing is simple in the
white and the black
you will never need to see the grey anymore
you will never have to be afraid
when you are happy with the blackjack
i hope you are happy with the blackjack

I hate waking up, it means that I have to die again tonight
35 years old and I'm still sleeping outside
Yeah I think I know your face, I don't want to know your name
I won't give in, I'm not like that, I won't give in
You say it's Christmas Eve, that don't mean nothing to me
Just another fucked up day, just another waste of time
You wonder why I live like this, man you just won't understand
I won't give in, I'm not like that, I won't give in
You smart-ass college fuck
Act like you think you're tall
I was just like you
More pride than you could know
You think you pity me
Hey I'll kick your ass if you pity me
I won't give in, I'm not like that
No I won't give in to you
You college boy act like you think you're tall
I won't give in, I'm not like that

I will live, I will live
Maybe for a year or two, maybe for a year
I will die, I will die, I can rest secure in that
I am awful sure that this thing ain't no accident
And I just can't believe that AIDS is just some act of God
I will reach for you, I will reach my hand
No one will reach for me, no one will touch my skin
Yes I will accept, I will accept my pain
I don't deserve to die like this, no one deserves to die like this
Sometimes I get so mad I just want to break the world
I will not be denied, I will not be ignored
I'm not invisible anymore
I will not be denied, I will not be ignored
I'm real, I won't go away
I am not invisible anymore

You know I want to be the way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I would break in half if you said it loud
Splinter out of myself just like mercury
I think it's better now than how it used to be
You were lying in bed and I would levitate
I think it's better here than where we used to be
I wish I could go out into the Oregon sun: to be alive in the day
I'd smile at everyone
I remember you back in '83
You were dressing insane, you were my everything
You were so different from all those other girls
A blind Electra in drag, so cool and casually lame
I think I'm better now than how I used to be
Always nervous and weird, scared most of the time
I think it's better now than how it used to be
Always up in the night, afraid to live in the day
Afraid of being afraid
Now I sit alone when you're not around
I read aloud just to hear a friendly voice
I see you scary dolls, they all look at me
From the corner of my eye I see them shake their heads
You know I want to be the way you me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you

Maybe I went too far this time
I just go crazy when she says no
Angel turns away pulls her dress back down
Slowly washes her face
Takes the bus to her job downtown
She said, I'm OK, don't worry about me
Now she thinks for herself, hey what just happened to me?
I told him that I thought it was over, I told him that I wanted to leave
He used to touch me so nice when we first met
I never dreamed he would hit me, I never dreamed he would hold me down
She said, don't worry about me, I won't worry about you
I don't want to be friends
She said, I'm OK
Just leave me alone
She said don't worry about me, I won't worry about you
She said, I'm OK, don't worry about me
I don't want to be friends
Just leave me alone

Hey, ain't life wonderful?
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Isn't it wonderful?
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Life is so wonderful
Isn't everything wonderful?
Isn't it wonderful now?
I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope it's over when I open them
I want the things that I had before
Like a star wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again
Hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
They say bad words that make me wanna cry
Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it's all okay
I laugh aloud so my friends won't know
When the bell rings I just don't wanna go home
Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now
No, I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
No, I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna hear you say
You both have grown in a different way
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just want my life to be the same
Just like it used to be
Some days I hate everything
I hate everything
Everyone and everything
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
No, please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
No, please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
Everything is wonderful now
Everything is wonderful now
Everything is wonderful now

Loopy says he likes it up on top
Yes he knows if he ever lets go
The pretty machine will swallow him whole
He has no fear
He has no sense of shame
He will not stop until everybody everywhere wants to know his name
The one hit wonder
He likes the big time
He says he wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home all bitch and whine
He knows if he ever even gets the chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he sure does like the good life
Yes he knows all those women who scheme
Are just pretty pictures in the pretty machine
He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets a chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them
I will say it again
They cannot hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he likes it up on top
He prays to god and he hopes like hell
That the pretty machine
They will never fail
He has no fear
He doesn't really even have the time
He knows that the world is in love
With the pretty machine
The one hit wonder
He likes the big time
He wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home scream, bitch, and whine
He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets a chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
He knows if he ever even gets to play
He will stomp like god to make the monster say
They can't hurt you unless you let them

Turn away from the pain you don't want
Turnin' down to avoid them when they call
Strange words I heard a long, long time ago
I wish I could go back to a summertime
I knew more than twenty years ago
Lay between the sheets
Lie underneath the maple tree
Now I can't smile
Lyin' down in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk
Listen to your grandma sing those country songs
She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years
We'd lay in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around
I can't smile
Now I live alone
And you're so far away
Yeah, I call you every year
Just around the holidays
I still see you in the night
Lyin' above me in the grass
I can't smile
Turn away from the pain you don't want
Turnin' down to avoid them when they call
I can't believe this letter that says you died
I think I'm gonna go back the the house in North Carolina
And lay in the back yard
Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me
I can't smile
I don't know what's happened to me

Evergleam and I know why God is good and Jesus loves me
Heaven lives and I know where
Sounds to me a not so easy chair
Falling free and living down
Stringing out and over happy
Evergleam and I know why it isn't real and I'm not going to break
Don't die, don't give in, no way no way
Please don't leave me
Evergleam and I know how pulling hair and breaking voices
Giving in won't stop the noise
Spinning wills don't give you choices
Take away the spark inside, you take away the shining prize
Evergleam and I know how it isn't real and I'm not going to break
I'm not going to break
Evergleam, everywhere, ever weird, everyone
I'm not going away, I'm not going away
I won't see you there
I'm not going away, I'm not going to break

She don't care about my car
She don't care about my money
And that's real good because I don't got alot to spend
But if I did it wouldn't mean nothin'
She likes me for me
Not because I look like Tyson Beckford
With the charm of Robert Redford
Oozing out my ears
But what she sees
Are my faults and indecisions
My insecure conditions
And the tears upon the pillow that I shed
She don't care about my big screen
Or my collection of DVD's
Things like that just never mattered much to her
Plus she don't watch to much t.v.
And she don't care that I can fly her
To places she ain't never been
But if she really wants to go
I think deep down she knows that
All she has to say is when
She likes me for me
Not because I hang with Leonardo
Or that guy who played in "Fargo"
I think his name is Steve
She's the one for me
And I just can't live without her
My arms belong around her
And I'm so glad I found her once again
And I'm so glad I found her once again
And I'm so glad I found her once again
Gazing at the ceiling
as we entertain our feelings in the dark
The things that we're afraid of are gonna show us
what we're made of in the end
She likes me for me
Not because I sing like Pavarotti
Or because I am such a hottie
I like her for her
Not because she's phat like Cindy Crawford
She has got so much to offer
Why does she waste all her time with me
There must be something there that I don't see
She likes me for me
Not because I'm tough like Dirty Hairy
Make her laugh just like Jim Carrey
Unlike the Cable Guy
But what she sees
Is that I can't live without her
My arms belong around her
And I'm so glad I found her once again
Found her once again
I'm so glad I found her once again

I heard the news today
All about your new disease
This is what you said you wanted
When you walked away from me
I heard the news today
Yeah i know what your friends all say
That i'm gonna go to hell, they're all probably right
I just wanna go to hell my way
I just wanna do it my way
I heard the news today
All about your new romance
There is always gonna be someone better than me
I guess i never had a chance
Yes i heard the news today
You were livin' by the sound of the bell
I still believe that life gets better when you tell the world to go to hell
Oh i don't wanna play your game
I don't wanna live that way
I don't wanna do what you tell me to do
I don't fit inside the box you've made
No i don't wanna play your game
No i will never live that way
I don't wanna do what you tell me to do
I just want to do it my way
Yes i heard the news today
You've got scars on your hands and knees
You never would have been so ovbious when i was a new disease
Yes i heard the news today
You were livin' by the sound of a bell
I still believe that life gets better when you tell the world to go to hell
Oh i don't wanna play your game
I don't wanna live that way
I don't wanna do what you tell me to do
I don't fit inside the box you've made
No i will never play your game
No i will never live that way
No i don't wanna live like you want me to live

Standing outside your door
I look crazy to the world
I have been to this place before
The right guy for the wrong girl
I wish I could wake up from a dream that
I just don't want to believe
Now I'm sitting here waiting for you
And I know you're walking away from me
I don't want to say the words
That everyone seems to know
I put you in every room with me
You are everywhere I go
I wish I could wake up from a dream that
I just don't want to believe
That I gave a beautiful freak like you
Power and control all over me
Please don't leave me
Please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Wishing don't count for much
When that thing you won is gone
I refuse to believe in luck
Not when it comes to my love
I wish I could wake up from a dream that
I just don't want to believe
That all the bad things I've done in my life
Are coming back to torture me
Please don't leave me
Baby please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Please don't leave me
Baby please don't go
I don't know how to be alone
One Two Three
You walked into my life
Like you walked into a crowd
I obsessed on how you obsessed on me
I wish that I could see what you saw in me
All the things you said you liked so much
And other things you say you hate
Yeah now all I want to do is start over again
And all I want to do is try to make you want to stay
I'm sorry this sounds so lame
But you... way too late
Just tell me what I need to say
That'll make you want to stay
Please don't leave me
Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't tell me that it's time for you to go
Please don't leave me
Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't tell me that it's time for you to go
I don't know how to be alone
I don't know how to be alone
I don't know how to be alone
Please don't be cruel
Please don't do to me

Yeah they said you called me maybe yesterday
I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone
You wouldn't even know me since you went away
The Prozac doesn't do it for me anymore
Yeah you ought to take your medication every day
Be a good dog, live life in a wonderful way
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too
I heard those stupid people talk about you again
I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad
Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed
It doesn't mean that you're sad
You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress, black mascara
Like you're queen for the day
I will never be normal like you
You walk around oblivious to everyone
I see you walking slow and simple underneath the big black sun
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now every day
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be complacent
I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be sedated
Yes I get closer to the place inside
Where I can be normal too, I can be normal too

A friend of mine woke me up to tell me about his dream
All the lights in the world went black
He felt like a tiger in a burning tree
He was like he was led for something
That he did not wanna see
His life looks better...
He lives like a tiger in a burning tree
... a woman from the city in the South
She lost her cow when the bottle fell out
She sold her life to the deep blue sea
She left a message for the world to see.
She knows better what it's like to be
A tiger in a burning tree!
Close your eyes and take a deep deep breath
Blow out the candles in that...
I was a child that...
I broke him into pieces, set him on fire
Swept him under my bed.
I never learned how to play nice with all the other kids
I never learned how to draw... line, the devil will
Close your eyes and take a deep breath
You're making the world so much better than this
Now close your eyes...
And you can tell me what it feels like

I like it here, in this quiet room
We can turn off all the trouble when we do what we do.
I like it here in the middle of the day,
We can hide inside each other when we need to get away
From rest of world
We need to get away from the world outside.
Way from the world,
Meet me by the place where we can hide
Somewhere they can't find us
Somewhere under volcano.
We can hide inside a volcano
We can find the good life on the inside.
I like the crazy way you look at me,
Without the grudge we can be what we were afraid to be.
I remember what it's like to be cleaner than...
I remember what is that makes me need to get away.
Away from of world
We need to get away from the world outside.
Way from the world,
We need to find a place where we can hide, yeah
Somewhere they can't find us
Where my chain... back to wild
They may let us out this time, oh.
I made the mistake, I paid the price
I walked away clean, you know I did my time.
You've been waiting for years, waiting for me.
Waiting the lead so we can find a dream
We can live under volcano with no trouble around
We can lose ourself inside a dream.
In the middle of the northern sound.
Get away
We need to get away from the world
Get away from the world.
We got to get away, oh oh
Get away from the world
We got to get away, oh oh
Way from the world
You know we got to go by the place where we can hide
Oh, somewhere we can hide.

Look who just got back today
Them wild eyed boys that had been away
They haven't changed, that much to say
Yeah, even then I still think all them cats are great
They was askin' if you were around
How you was and where you could be found?
I told them you were livin' downtown
Drivin' all those old men crazy
The boys are back in town
Oh I said, "Boys are back in town"
The boys are back in town
There was this chick who used to dance a lot
Every night she'd be on the floor shakin' what she got
I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean she was steamin' hot
Remember that time over Johnny's place
Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face
Yeah, we just fell about the place
If that chick don't want to know, forget her
The boys are back in town
Yeah I said, "Boys are back in town"
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
Spread the word around
Yes, she's back in town
Yes, spread the word around
Yes, she's back in town
Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
The drinks will flow and blood will spill
And if the boys wanna fight, you'd better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are gettin' warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long till summer comes
Now that the boys are here again
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back, the boys are back
The boys are back in town
Spread the word around, spread the word around
Oh, oh, oh, the boys are back in town again
Yeah, they hangin' down at Dino's
The boys are back in town again
The boys are back in town again
The boys are back in town again

''Hi, this is Peggy. Leave me a nice message or I'll kill ya."
''Hey Peggy, it's me.
You are never going to believe what happened to me today.
I'm sittin' at the unemployment office, waitin' on my loser of a caseworker,
in one of those nasty chairs,
when from out of nowhere, this total stranger walks right up to me,
sits down, then leans over and says something like,
This is gonna sound a little obsessive.''
This is gonna sound a little obsessive
This is gonna sound a little bit strange
I have one thing to say
Before I turn and I walk away
This is gonna sound a little impulsive
This is gonna sound a little insane
I know you don't know me yet
But you and I, we will be together someday
Someday
I know, I know, I sound like I'm on drugs
Listen to me when I say
That ever since when I first saw you
Sittin' on your car outside
You asked for a cigarette
I couldn't stop starin' at your eyes
Ever since when I first saw you
Looking bored in that plastic chair
With the lights of the office around you
Those blond streaks, they look so pretty in your black hair
You look cool and alternative with that disaffected stare
Yeah you want people to think that you just don't care
Hey you can be with me
Yeah 'cause I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're perfect
Who will always make you come
Hey you can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe he said that to me?
To me, of all people! I can't even remember the last time a guy took me out
on a date and actually paid for it!?
This is gonna sound a little bit out there
This is gonna sound a little insane
I keep having the same dream
You will be the mother of my children someday
Someday
I heard you sleep with that obnoxious guy
I know he is in that famous band
You look so sad when you are with him
Yes I never see him reach to hold your hand
Yeah you can be with me
Yes I will treat you like a queen
I will go to all those chick flick movies
That I really don't want to see
Yeah you can be with me
No I will never let you down
I will never make out with your girlfriend
When I know you're not around
Yes you can be with me
Yeah I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're special
I will always make you come
You can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe this? I mean, can this be for real?"
"Then he takes my hand, writes down his number, and just walks away."

She is everywhere I am
Yeah when I don't want her to be there
I kinda want to leave in a hurry
She's walking on the city
Heavy in her monster boots
I hear her calling my name
I hide behind the people that I want to be
I hear her calling my name
I can see the future when she tells me how it's going to be
She is perpetual Kathy
All shake and happy in her brand new skin
She is perpetual Kathy
She is always the same
She is everything that I'm not
Strong and happy with the sound of the rhythm inside
I do not want to be a broken record,
But I don't want to live in the shadow of a twelve-step
I hear her calling my name
Next thing you know I think I'll want to be a better man
I hear her calling my name

Luther Jackson Green lived in the apartment above me.
We smoked cigarettes on the stairs, tell me stories that the white boys
Never hear.
Like when he found this sign, he moved North in 1949.
On his 10th birthday daddy took him to town to the Jackie Robinson play.
It was a picture perfect day, in the sunshine and the hate.
He didn't understand why all those people would say such awful things.
His daddy said pay no attention to them, turnaround and watch the man play.
The one black man in the baseball field was better in every way.
My daddy said if you wanna win in this world, you gotta beat em at the
Wrong game.
Luther Jackson Green went to law school in 1963.
In the summer between he worked in Alabama with Martin Luther King.
He met a girl on a summer night; he fell hard when they saw each other's
Eyes.
There were people in town that really didn't like that he was black and she
Was white.
They found her in the ditch, a little outside of town; some stupid man was
Blastin about it,
So Luther beat him down. He looked him in the eye, spit in his face and
Turned and walked away.
He knew he was better than all the hate!
He knew he was bigger than all the pain!
He knew that there's a time to fight and a time to walk away!
He knew until he changed the rules, ohh yeah they beat em at the wrong
Game!
He never did lose that feeling inside.
You could hear it in his voice; you could see it in his eyes.
Luther moved out West to live, when his wife passed away.
He lives right next door to his son, so he can watch his grandchild play.
Luther Jackson Green, watched election night with me.
We put a black man in the White House, a thing he never thought he'd see.
Even though he never cried, I could see tears in his eyes.
He had dreamed about this moment, every single day of his life.
Yeah Luther died that night in his sleep, but he lived long enough to see,
America become the kind of place he always wanted it to be.
He said you could never forget the day, that we beat em at the wrong game!
Yeah just like Jackie Robinson. (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta be bigger than all the hate! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta be better than all the pain! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta find a better way! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )
Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Jackie Robinson! )

I wish I could push a button and make the pain all go away
I wish I had the magic words but I don't know what to say
I wish I could take the wasted years and throw them all away
And it might sound easy for me to say
You are going to find a way to fix what's broken
Fix what's broken
You say you like people with fire, but you don't like it when you get burned
Broke about a thousand hearts, now you don't like it when it's your turn
You wonder when you're going to figure out all the lessons that you need to learn
And it might sound simple for me to say you will learn someday that
All you need is love
All those big dreams that were so important, they don't mean anything now
All you need is love
All those hard times when people hurt you, they don't mean anything now
All you need is love
Love is all you need to fix what's broken
Love is all you need to fix what's broken
You turn sunshine into chaos everywhere you go
Now your girl has got a brand new life with a guy you used to know
She got tired of the drama you make when life gets too slow
And it might sound simple for me to say you will heal someday now
All you need is love
All those big dreams that were so important, they don't mean anything now
All you need is love
All those hard times when people turned on you, they don't mean anything now
All you need is love
All those happy endings that never happened, they don't mean anything now
All you need is love
Love is all you need to fix what's broken
Love is all you need to fix what's broken
Love is all you need
Now, enough is enough
Enough is enough
The time is going to come when you stop feeling sorry for yourself
Yeah, you were broken when you were young and you never got over it
You were damaged when you were young, and now you take it out on everyone
The time is going to come when you say that enough is enough
The time is going to come when you stop beating yourself up
Stop beating yourself up
Stop beating yourself up
The time is going to come when you see that all you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is lov, love, love, love, love, love
The time is going to come when you see
All you need is love
All you need is love
Love is all you need to fix what's broken

He was rolling in the rumor that he was the loser king for a day
She was kinda cross-eyed
She was damaged in a beautiful way
He was addicted to her body
When she opened up her legs and her heart
She was good at all the simple things
She was addicted to the subtle way he'd rip her apart
It was a shameless use of charm
She was delighted with the promise of a life of being bored and annoyed
He was happy with the pictures that he painted with distortion and noise
He was a sex-addicted user with a certain kind of flair
He did really not care that she was dumb and unaware
She was strong when they were naked and alone in the dark
It was a shameless use of charm
Everybody says they're looking for the fairy tale
No, they are just looking for a way to fall
Everybody says they are looking for the true love lost
True love lost
He was big, bigger than the life she knew
Back when she was good with being slow and confused
She was clean
The best thing he had ever seen
She looked just like those girls he saw in Playboy magazine
They were lost
They were looking for the easy dream
Living high on borrowed time and running low on self-esteem
They were lost
They were helpless to the rush
It felt just like a white drug
Everybody says they're looking for the fairy tale
No, they are just looking for a way to fall
Everybody says they're looking for the happy ending
No, they are just looking for a way to fall soft
Just like anyone, they are just like everyone
They were looking for the easy way to have it all
Everybody says that they are looking for the true love lost
True love lost
True love lost

All the people that you know, they say you're ready to break down
All the people that you know, they say you're ready to fall
I hope you know that you are better than you think you are
I hope you know you that you will never really try
I hope you know you that you are never unknown
You got a good friend on the inside
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
(When you fall down)
All the people that you know say you live in white noise
Yeah, all the people that you know they say you're living in hell
They don't know anything
I hope that you know that you are better than they say you are
I have to say that you are stronger than you know
I have to say that you are smart enough to handle any stunt anyone could pull
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
I want to catch you when you fall down
When you fall down
All the people that you know, say you're ready to break down
All the people that you know, say you're ready to fall
I have to say that you are better than they think you are
Have to say that you are better than them all
Have to tell you that you never need the answer
When you need someone to call
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need a hand to help you turn it all around
Whoa-oh
I just need to be there when you need to come down
Woah-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
You know I used to be a bad girl
I got busy in the bathroom at my high school prom
Yeah I used to be a dancer at the local strip club
But now I know my right wing from my wrong
Yeah, yeah
I really used to be a bad girl
I had a threesome with my sister and her boyfriend Tom
I know I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom
Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
I really used to be a bad girl
I got busted for possession of my wizard-shaped bong
I used to love to do the things they tell me not to do
But now I'm different--now I sing a new song
I really used to be a bad girl
I got gang-banged in the bathroom at my high school prom
Yes, I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom
Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I wonder where all the porn stars go
'Cause when you need one, they are never around
I think they moved out to the suburbs
And now they're blonde, bland, middle-class Republican wives
They all have blonde, bland, middle-class Republican children
Blonde, bland, middle-class Republican lives
Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I think I know where all the porn stars go
They all become Volvo-driving soccer moms

I walk around in the market, late at night
I walk around in the empty aisles
And I don't know why
I need to be, close to the light
So I walk around in the middle of the night
I drive around in the neighbourhood
I want to lose my house
I drive around on the freeway,
I guess I want to lose myself
Turn the key, turn the dial
Listen to the radio and just drive for a while
Yeah, I got no place to go
I wish I could come home
To a life that looks like a TV show
Wish I could see my television family waiting for me
Where no one fights, no one screams
No one lies, and no one leaves
I don't care how the story ends
I want to feel like I'm living again
I drive away from the city
Need to see the sky
Drive away from the bad things
That made me close my eyes
Leave it all, in the past
Drive away going nowhere fast
Yeah, I got no where to go
I wish I could go home
To a life that looks like a TV show
Wish I could see my television family waiting for me
Where no one fights, no one screams
No one lies, and no one leaves
I don't care how the story ends
I want to feel like I use to feel
I want to feel like I'm living again
Whoa, I'm living again
Whoa, I'm living again
Whoa, breathing out and breathing in
Whoa, I'm living again
Walking away from the circle
Need to find myself
I think I need to start over
Need to start making sense
Breathe out, breathe in
I wish I could start all over again
I wish I could do it all over again
I wish I could come home
To a life like the one that I use to know
I wish I could some day see everything back the way it use to be
Where no one cries, no one screams
No one hits you, and no one leaves
Everybody knows how the story ends
All the bad guys lose and the good guys win
I wish I could do it all over again
Ooh, I want to feel some day I can really start living again
Whoa, I'm living again
Whoa, I'm living again
Whoa, I'm living again

It makes no sense to me
Yeah, I was living in a different world when I heard the news
I keep having the same bad dream
And it makes me want to hurt all the people who have done this thing to you
When I see your face, I can see you smile
Read all about you in the New York times
When I see your eyes, I can see your light
When I think about what happened
It makes me crazy
It makes no sense to me,
This eye for an eye thing,
It has gone too far
I don't know anyone who doesn't hurt inside
I would like to believe we could learn from this
And maybe some day we can make things right
I want to believe in this world
I want to believe in this life
I want to believe in a world that does not seem real
When you read between the lines
When I see your face, I can see you smile
Read all about you in my New York times
When I see your eyes, I can see your light
When I read about the world
It makes me crazy
I want to believe in this world
I want to believe in this life
I want to believe in a world that does not seem real
When you read between the lines
Gotta read between the lines
Whoa, gotta read between the lines
I really want to believe I can make things right
I want to believe I can learn to feel alright inside
I want to believe I can learn to make things right
Oh, I want to believe in this world
I want to believe in this life
I want to believe in a world that does not seem real
When I read the New York Times
I see your face, I see your smile
Read all about you in the New York Times
I can see your eyes, I can see your light
When I think about what happened
It just makes me crazy
When I close my eyes
You seem so alive
I really think about you
I want to believe we can make things right
I want to believe
I want to believe
I want to believe
I want to believe
Oh, I want to believe in this world
I want to believe in this life
I want to believe in a world that does not seem real

Roll and tumble with your big heart falling
You're rolling tumbling alone
Beats forever what your dirty hand's holding
You reach for something you will never know
Heard you singing in a Taco Bell bathroom
Heard you singing a Cheap Trick song
Yeah, we sang Surrender all the way the county line
When I listen to that music
It makes me think of summertime
Yeah, that acid summer
We were wasted and happy
We were laughing in the sunshine
(Sunshine)
Twist and turn with your bright eye shining
Twist and turn in the california sun
Wait forever for the life you dream of
You wait for something that will never come
You twist and turn in the slow motion daydream
You twist and turn in your own sweet hell
I don't get too close to the fire anymore
But when I think of you now, it makes me think of summertime
Yeah, that acid summer
We were wasted and happy
We laughing in the sunshine
Laughing in the sunshine
Laughing in the sunshine
Laughing in the sunshine
In the sunshine
Twist and turn with your bright eyes shining
Twist and turn in the california sun
Wait forever for the life you dream of
You wait for something that will never come
You twist and turn in the slow motion freefall
You twist and turn in your own good time
I can't watch you twisting and turning anymore
No I never thought a good time would turn into a lifestyle
No I just can't watch you wait anymore
But when I think of that summertime
It always seem to make me smile
(Smile)
Yeah, that acid summer
We were wasted and happy
We were laughing in the sunshine
(Go!)
We were laughing in the sunshine
(Go!)
Laughing in the sunshine
(Go!)
Laughing in the sunshine

(It's just like science fiction
Who knows what the fuck they're talking about
There's always one in every crowd)
There is always one in every crowd
You can hear the voices when you're alone
They sound like metal on metal obxious and loud
Don't let go
don't listen to the sound of all the people you know
Slowly falling apart
And falling down now
(Everything is falling down now)
When I think I'm alone
I watch the news on my girlfriend's tv
It's like a bad B movie
sometimes I can't comprend
all the stupid things that I see
don't let go
you Can't believe your eyes
When everything they show you
Just makes you want to cry
and you don't even want to know
That you need to remember
that life is always getting better
So don't let go
There is always one in every crowd
You see them when you think you're alone
It all just seems like science fiction
No one knows what they're talking about
So don't let go
don't listen to the sound
of all those people you know
Slowly falling apart And falling down now
i think You need to remember
Life is always getting better

Do you remember when we were hungry?
Do you remember when we were cold?
Do you remember when we were happy?
Do you remember? Do you remember?
Do you remember when we were lucky?
We were livin' the life almost every night
I would wrap you in my thin white arms
Sit and watch the stars glide
Yeah, do you remember when we were the losers?
Do you remember when we were the lame?
Do you remember when we were the lepers?
Do you remember? Do you remember?
Do you remember when we were strung out?
Eatin' top ramen, macaroni and cheese
We would get so lost in that basement room
Let the Otis Redding sing us to sleep
I wish I had one more life
I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I dont wanna be blind
I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be (blind)
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be (blind)
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind
I wish I could be like all my heroes
I wish I could be like all yours too
I wish I could sing like Otis Redding
I wish I could play this guitar in tune
Do you remember when we were hungry?
Do you remember when we were cold?
Do you remember when we were happy in a way
No one outside could ever know?
I wish I had one more life
How I wish I had one more life to live
I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside of this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be (blind)
I don't wanna be wasted
No, I don't wanna live inside of this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I dont wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I dont wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I dont wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind
No, I don't want to be blind

Everybody here in the small town
Looks used and abused today
Everybody here is looking outside
Man, seems like nothing ever changes
Everybody they just want to have a good time
Everybody they just want to forget
Everybody wants to feel like they did when the sky looked good
And the world was perfect
I don't care
I just want to die pretty
I just want to get lost in the motion
I just want to get lost in my beautiful self
I just want to get lost in the city
I don't want to live forever
I want to die a beautiful death
Yeah, I got to get the hell out of this town
Everybody's looking upside down
Everybody is looking for the same thing
Really seems like nothing ever changes
Everybody they just want to buy a slow ride
Everybody they just want to get buy
Everybody wants to feel like they did when the sky looked high
And the world was simple
I don't care
I just want to die pretty
I just want to get lost in the motion
I just want to get lost in my beautiful self
I just want to get lost in the city
I don't want to live forever
I want to die a beautiful death
I want to die a beautiful death
I just want to die a beautiful death
I just want to die a beautiful death
I just want to die pretty
(Oh, oh)
I just want to die pretty
Just want to die pretty
Sometimes I just want to die
I just want to get lost in the moment
I just want to get lost in the city tonight
I just want to get lost inside myself
I don't care about nothing
I just want to get lost in the motion
I just want to get lost in my beautiful self
I just want to get lost in the city
I don't want to live forever
I want to die a beautiful death
I want to die a beautiful death
Yes, I want to die a beautiful death
I just want to die a beautiful death

Five miles outside of Vegas when we broke down
Threw my keys inside the window and we never looked back
Got all drunk and sloppy on a Greyhound bus
We passed out, all them losers they were laughing at us
I will never let them break your heart
No I will never let them break me
We got lost in Phoenix, seemed like such a long time
Seven months of livin' swimming on those thin white lines
Did some time for sellin' acid to the wrong guy
Life just keeps on gettin' smaller and we never ask why
Why there is no perfect place, yes I know this is true
I'm just learning how to smile
That's not easy to do
I know there will come a day
When we can leave and just go runnin' away
We was broke outside of Philly when the storms came
I was working in New Jersey, hitchin' rides in the rain
You was happy talkin' dirty at that phone sex place
Life just keeps on gettin' weirder for us every day
You say there is no perfect place, I say I know this is true
We are just learning how to smile
That's not easy to do
We both live for the day
When we can run away
Oh baby we can leave and run away
Yes we can leave this place and run away
We can leave it all behind like we do every time
Yes we both live for the day
When we can leave and just go runnin' away
No I will never let it break your heart
No I will never let it break me
Five miles outside of Vegas, five years down the line
We got married in the desert and the sunshine
I can't handle how the hell it happens every day
When you smile and touch my face
You make it all just go away
Yes I know there ain't no finish line, I know this never ends
But I'm just learning how to fall, climb back up again
I know there is nothing perfect, I know there is nothing new
We are just learning how to live together, me and you
You know I live for the day
When you say "Baby let's just run away"
Oh baby we can leave and run away
Yes we can leave this place and run away
Baby we can leave and run away

Yeah right!
One, two, three, four
Break down, shake for me
Nothing ever is the way you want it to be
Nothing even tastes right now that it's over
Break down, shake for me
Don't write words unless you want me to read them
Nothing really matters now that it's over
Maybe we can be friends
Now that we're older
We can have fun like we did in the early days
Now that it's over
Yeah right!
Break down, shake for me
Nothing ever seems the way it ought to be
Nothing ever seems right now that it's over
Yeah, now maybe we can be friends
Maybe we can be closer
We can have fun like we did in the old days
Now that it's over
Oh yeah...
My bad dreams just don't seem the same
Baby without you
I wish you were willing to accept the blame
Yeah, for everything you do
My nightmares just don't scare me now
Baby without you, yeah yeah
I wish that I could find the words to tell
In the best way possible, you and your friends to go to hell
Yeah right!
Whoa, breakup time is never easy to do
Nothing ever ends the way you want it to
Nothing seems to make sense now that it's over
Yeah, now maybe we can be friends
Yeah, now that you're leaving
You can be nice to me
Maybe I'm dreaming
I am a lot better now than just okay
Maybe I am just wakin' up in my own way
Now that it's over
Now that it's over
My bad dreams just don't seem the same
Baby without you
I wish you were willing to accept the blame
Yeah, for all the shitty things you do
Nightmares just don't scare me now
Baby without you
I wish that I could find the words to tell
You to politely go fuck yourself

Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
I sing along when I hear it on the radio now
Hey now where did we go
Ooh yeah, days when the rains came
Way down in the hollow
Ooh yeah, playin' a new game
Laughin' and a runnin', hey, hey, hey
Skippin' and a jumpin', yeah, yeah
In the misty morning fog
Oh baby and our hearts a thumpin'
And you
My brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when
We used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
Hey, hey, hey
I sing along when I hear it on the radio now
Now that the years gone by
Yeah, now that I'm on my own
Saw you just the other day
Oh my, baby you have grown
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometimes I am overcome just thinkin' 'bout it
Makin' love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when
Yeah, we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
Hey, hey, hey
I sing along when I hear it on the radio

"Here we go again!"
You know I like to watch you sleep
No I don't wanna touch you, you'll get mad at me
No I don't wanna think about the bad times
Anyone could have a bad year
Now I don't want you to show me
Do not want you to know me
The way I used to be
All these good things we have
Would not mean a damn to me
And I don't wanna hear those words you feel you have to say
When you find out how I used to be
Back in the day
Yeah, you know I like the way you slide
Yeah, yes I like it when you do that slow glide
Now, please don't badtalk all those good times
Don't ask for answers, baby, that you do not want to hear
Now I don't want you to make me
Do not need you to break me
Of all my childish ways
I'm still the same, you know
Dumb, rock hard, and good to go
I still hear them voices calling me from back in the day
Oh baby can't you see there ain't no place I'd rather be
Then watchin' dirty movies
In that happy room with you
Sleepin' on a mattress in the corner
Eating Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head
Say here we go again
Now here we go again
I know you like the way I rock
Sometimes I just need to drown out all that bad talk
Yeah, I could not care less what your friends say
Someone's always talkin' shit about the old days
You do not need to remind me
That I left it all behind
Those things I used to do
I don't want that other life 'cause I am so in love with you
I can barely hear it calling me from back in the day
Oh baby can't you see there ain't no place I'd rather be
Then watching dirty movies
In that happy room with you
Sleepin' on a mattress in the corner
Eating Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head
Say here we go again
Yeah here we go again
Oh baby here we go again
I know, here we go...
Baby baby can't you see
Yes I know you got some doubts
I know you don't believe
I know you think I'm crazy
Yeah but I know you're just like me
When I hear that voice inside me
Makes me want to jump right in
Sayin' here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Here we go again
Let's go watch some dirty movies
Yes in that nasty little room
Sleepin' on the mattress while we eat that greasy Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head
Say here we go again

You can hear the music on the AM radio
The VCR and the DVD
There wasn't none of that crap back in 1970
We didn't know about a World Wide Web
It was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid
Wanna get down in a cool way
Picture yourself on a beautiful day
Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair
Just walkin' in style with a portable CD player
No, you would listen to the music on the AM radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a AM radio
Flashback, '72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hangin' out with nothing to do
Sometmes we'd go drivin' around
In my sister's Pinto
Cruisin' with the windows rolled down
We'd listen to the radio station
We were too damn cool to buy the eight track tapes
There wasn't any good time to want to be inside
My mama wanna watch that TV all goddamn night
I'd be in bed with the radio on
I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song
You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the AM radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a AM radio
I can still hear Mama say ?°Boy turn that radio down!?±
?°Aw, Mom. Not that show again! I don't wanna watch that show!
Can't we watch Good Times or Chico and the Man or something cool?
Turn it off!"
Things changed back in '75
We were all growing up on the in and the outside
We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted gettin' high in the back of my friend's van
I remember 1977
I started going to concerts and I saw the Led Zeppelin
I got a guitar on Christmas day
I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come from Santa Monica
and teach me to play
Teach me to play...
There isn't any place that I need to go
There isn't anything that I need to know
I did not learn from the radio
Yeah when things get stupid and I just don't know
Where to find my happy
I listen to my music on the AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco...

Every day at lunch in high school and all my senior year
Id drink my cup of cola with a touch of Everclear
I never had to study math, science, or history
Id have a chemical flash back to jog my memory
My junior year I swore I loved sweet Miss Sherri Ann
One night I put some Everclear in her Dr. Pepper can
Well I thought itd make her easy
She took it pretty hard
I took her home and rang her doorbell left her lying in the yard
Chorus
Tequila dries me out
Beer just makes me fat
Whiskey makes me nauseas
Now tell me who the hell needs that
So if youre thinking about drinking
Well the answers crystal clear
Its the invisible, intoxicating
Its called Everclear
I remember my church picnic
In the spring of 89
Yeah they had four fresh watermelons
Sliced right off the vine
When they bowed their heads giving grace for the food
Hey I pulled out my bottle and I soaked them melons good
Well they never knew what hit em
When that potion went to work
They had grandmas doing back flips
Grandpas looking up their skirts
They were singing hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs
Preacher said it was the best dang picnic
That the Baptists had ever thrown
Chorus
Tequila dries me out
Beer just makes me fat
Whiskey makes me nauseas
Now tell me who the hell needs that
So if youre thinking about drinking
Well the answers crystal clear
Its the invisible, intoxicating
Its called Everclear
When Im drinking Everclear
I think Im king of this whole world
Im bigger and badder than John Wayne
Cooler than Steve Earl
Until I wake up and Im face down in the hall
Hey Im completely naked for a reason I cant recall

I got a girl in sault ste. marie
Takes a bus every weekend just to come across the miles to me
Leaves her room in the shadow of the bridge
To spend two days life blind in my dirty bed
Doesn't asks questions, never talks down
About the things I do when she isn't around
Yeah I just about live in the bars around town
I lose myself in the voice of the crowd
Each and every day I need static
I don't wanna go home alone
I know a girl just outside of lacrosse
She meets me in milwaukee when the weather gets humid and hot
She leaves her husband and retarded baby girl
Just to walk for a while unencumbered in an easier world
No questions, never asks why
I walk the floor in the middle of the night and stare
Out the window of an ugly motel
At the neon signs outside
Think about the hell I sell
To make my static
I don't wanna go home, I don't wanna go home
I don't wanna go home alone...
Got a girl in saux st. marie
Takes a bus every weekend just to come across the miles to me
Leaves her room in the shadow of the bridge
Just to spend two days life blind in my dirty bed
Doesn't asks questions, never talks down
About the life I lead when she isn't around
Yeah, I just about live in the bars around town
Lose myself in the voice of the crowd
Walk around stupid and blind and proud
Each and every day I need static
I don't wanna go home alone...

Beautiful Dream
I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living in the sun
I wake up sad because I'm living in darkness
I know I'm not alone
I know I'm not the only one
I had a dream that I had no depression
I had a dream I had a smile on my face
I wake up hungry so I feed my obsession
I know I gotta leave
I know I gotta run away
Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it's a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to loose myself in the sunshine where I can be free
Yeah I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah but it's a beautiful dream
I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living for the day
I wake up sad in a perpetual emotion
I know I gotta leave here
I know I gotta run away
Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it's a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to loss myself in myself where I can be free
I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah a beautiful dream
Free inside a beautiful dream

Sometimes I need your sex
Like a junkie needs a hard drug
We are poison to each other
We are like opposites attract on crack
Sometimes you hit me in my sleep
We are poison to each other
We will never be friends
We are a bad movie that never ends
You call my house
Wasted late at night
Want to come over and get in my bed
Maybe you just want to fight
Please, please, please, baby
Leave me alone
I know you blame me
For a not so happy home
I cheated on you, you cheated on me
We will never be happy until
We see each other toothless
And crazy living on the street
You call my name
I kind of lose my mind
I just can't help myself
You are my favorite waste of time
You call my name
I crave the pain that only you can do
The voice inside it tells me
I am better without you
I am better without you
I am better without the shame
Yeah, the only thing I meant was sex with you
The voice inside it tells me
You are better without me too
I will never admit it to myself
I will never admit it to you
When I hear your name
It takes me back to the day we met
We didn't have to try so hard
We had nothing to forget
I hear your name
I think about the changes we refuse to see
Like the fact that I don't like you
And you don't like me
You call my name
I lose my fucking mind
I kiss my daughter goodnight
I drive to your house
And I set myself on fire
You call my name
I crave the pain that only you can do
I will gladly take the blame
If it will make you go away
I know I'm not the only one
That feels this way
My cat doesn't like you
She thinks I'm better without you
Your boyfriend says I'm awesome
He says I'm better without you
All our friends that knew us in the day
They tell me I am better without
All the games you play
I am better without you
I am better without you
I am better without the shame
You make me cringe when I hear
All the stupid things you say
I am better without the drama
I am better without you
(You are better without me too)
I am better without you
(You are better without me too)
I am better without all the hate
I don't want to see your face and
You don't want to hear my name
We will meet again someday
We will stand there face to face
You will smile at me, and I will smile at you

Woke up sweating in the sun
Sprawled across my big brother's grave
Shaking and drunk with sleep
I crawled to my feet and walked up into the shade
Of a young elm tree that must have been planted since the last we came
Vicki, my mom, and me, cleaned the dirt
From the plaque that says his name
Walking to my girlfriend's car
Came back down on me
Yeah, I guess I fell to my knees
To keep from falling face-first into the dream
The vision that had had me twisting out under the afternoon sky
I didn't know it then
But it was thirteen years to the day he died
He held his hand in me
Like brothers we walked
Through the colorless world of an alcohol dream
I talked for hours
Trying the break through the silence
That he held over me
Then he started away, turned his head
Keep it up so you can die like me
Ever since my brother odied
I've drifted all over from town to town to town
Every place I go it's always the same
I keep doing junk, I keep going down
My mama got religion and my sisters gave up
Man I just gave up too
I just died inside
Don't wanna die like george
Everybody says there's things to see
Everybody's pointing their fingers at me
I woke up driving
After another blackout from another bad drug
I can't shake this hell that I made for myself
For every other life I took
See my sister's son walk the line I walked
He's only sixteen
If he don't learn from my mistakes
He's gonna waste away

Love of mine
Someday you will die
I will be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light,
Or tunnels to gates of white,
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
And Catholic school,
As vicious as Roman rule,
I got my knuckles bruised
By a lady in black
And I held my tongue
As she told me "Son,
Fear is the heart of love,"
So I never went back
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
At the time your soul embarks
Then I will follow you into the dark
You and me
Have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes
Are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Oooh, he hit you in the sex hard
But pretty pictures and the baby steps
Oooh, he hit you with the small words
Easy going down, easy to forget
Oooh, he hit you where it hurts the most
In a place that it would never show
Oooh, he hit you with a silent death
You were asleep for that, no one cares about
Oooh, he hit you with a simple plan
A memory that you had never had
He hit you with a word that you don't understand
Until you strike the pain
Then everything different was bad
I don't care about the words you say
I don't care about the things you do
I don't care if you like it or not
We both know I am better than you
Pretty makes everything better
Pretty makes everything clean
Pretty makes everything a little bit easier
Pretty makes not pretty look pretty fucking obscene
It doesn't matter who your daddy is
It doesn't matter where you went to school
It doesn't matter how much money you make
I will always be... (You will always be...)
Oooh, yeah, it kind of sucks to be you, mmmm
I will always be the first in line
I will always be the last to hurt
I'm a game that you will never win
I'm a disease for which there is no cure
I'm a white guy
I am the king of the world
Power makes everything better
Power makes it all worthwhile
Power makes people do exactly what you want ‘em to
Power makes it all look black and white (black and white)
Oooh, money makes everything better (better)
Money makes the golden rule
Money makes everything easier

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey please help me out
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please plea for me
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey please strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy

I'm on your time,
Yeah you do that blue spark too,
I do those that i fought,
No one can push my buttons like you do.
My weak arms can't hope to hold you,
I'm on your time.
Yeah I'm on your time,
Yeah you really give me quite a muse,
I say "I wish that you could just get over yourself", yeah yeah,
You say we're in this for the abuse.
I'm a reckless mile behind you,
Baby you know I get so violent sometimes,
My weak arms can't hope to hold you,
I'm on your time.
Yeah we will never forget,
We will never forget,
We will never forget,
We will never forget,
What we do to each other,
We will never forget,
We will never forget.
Yeah we will never forget,
no we will never forget.
Oh I'm on your time,
You said we can't go on this way,
I say I wish that you could fix this broken thing in me,
Cause there'll be a happy happy day,
I'm a reckless mile behind you,
Baby you know i get so f**ked up inside,
My weak arms can't hope to hold you,
I'm on your time.
Yeah yeah yeah,
I'm on your time,
Woah woah woah,
I'm on your time.
We will never forget,
We will never forget,
We will never forget,
We will never forget,
What we do to each other,
We will never forget,

I used to know a girl
She had two pierced nipples and a black tattoo
We'd drink that Mexican beer
We'd live on Mexican food
Yes, I wish I could go back
Yes, back in time
Esther used to be the kind of girl that you would never leave
She'd do anything to give me what I need for my disease
She'd do anything
I can hear them talking in the real world
But they don't understand that I'm happy in hell
With my heroin girl
I am losing myself in a white-trash hell
Lost inside a heroin girl
They found her out in the fields
About a mile from home
Her face was warm from the sun
But her body was cold
I heard the policeman say
Just another overdose
Esther used to be the kind of lover you would never leave
She'd do anything to give me what I need for my disease

She lost her focus yesterday
She lost her focus in the sun
She sits and stares at it for hours
She says she likes to go outside
She gets hung up on the wind
She gets lost inside the happy noise
Sometimes I don't understand her
Sometimes I don't want to
Understand her
She says no no no no
She don't want no double life
She says I should know why
She seems happier at night
Her color TV and her chemical smile
I don't want to know the reason
I don't want to know the reason why
She says
Jesus owes her money
She says
That the angels are her friends
What in the hell does that mean?
She's got the chemical smile
People you know
Try to tell you things
Bad things that you don't
Want to know about
Tell you tomorrow what
You did today
Just remember, it's a small town
It's a real small town
She gets she's tired of
All the stupid boys
She can't wait until
They're done
She wants a man who can
Take his time
She wants someone
Who can make her come
Yeah, can you make me come
You always say you want a simple life
You and me both know that you are a liar
You always say you want a simple life
Hearing you talk just makes me tired
Swim in the heavy water
Buried in the sand
Happy hearts fall from my shaky hands
I can't hide my sexual life
He always says he wants to find a special one
But you watch his head go spinning around
He really wants anyone who'll give it up
He seems to forget he's in a small town
You always say
You never fuck around
You say this town
Is just plain full of liars
Yeah you always say
You never fuck around
Hey, hearing you talk
Just makes me tired
Swimming in the heavy water
Buried the sand
Happy hearts fall from
my stupid hands
I can't hide my sexual life

I don't want to be
a loser...no!...
I don't want to be
an almost was
I don't want to be a white trash
Working class chump
I don't want to be a loser anymore
That's why I want to be
a rock star
I want to be the king
I want to be on top, yeah
I just want to be a rock star
Yeah...
now I just want to be famous
I want to be the guy
That everybody wants
I want to be on TV shows
And wear designer clothes
I want a girlfriend who does
not drink beer
I want to drive a fast car
And sleep with certain
movie stars
I want to sing the songs
That all those little people
Want to hear
I just want to be a rock star
I want to be like all those
people up in first class
I just want to be a rock star
I want to tell the little people
They can kiss my ass
I just want to be a rock star
I just want to get laid
I just want to be a rock star
A different girl
For every day
That's why I want to be
a rock star
Be like all those guys
on the MTV
I just want to be a rock star
I want to make those girls on
the Real World
Fantasize about me
I just want to be a rock star
I want to be the king
I want to be on top
I just want to be a rock star
I just want to be famous
Everybody everywhere
wants to be famous
and everybody everywhere
wishes they could tell
Everybody everywhere
to go to Hell
I just want to be a rock star
I just want to get high
I just want to party like
a rock star
Until the day I die

Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Our paddles break the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man and the fields of green
And the homeland we've never seen
They killed us in our tepee
They cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the big guns and the wagon wheels come
Yes, and the night falls on the setting sun
They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little room at the top of the stairs
With an Indian rug and a pipe to share
I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And to find out how she felt
In the morning on the fields of green
In the homeland we've never seen
Yes and maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome and the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

It can come from out of nowhere,
hit you when you're safe and warm.
Take it easy, my star your time is gonna come,
your time is gonna come.
Yeah, you got those crazy blue eyes.
You got those crazy blues.
All those pretty smiles,
I can see them laughing at you.
Your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come.
I don't wanna be your punching bag,
your complacent little princess all tragic and sad.
I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me anymore.
Yeah, you say you got this bad thing, you say you've got it bad.
You have broken every heart of every friend you've ever had.
Yeah, the time is gonna come when all your friends just go away.
I wonder why you stick around, sometimes I wish you would leave.
You say you love me forever, then you spit on me.
Your time is gonna come,
I swear your time is gonna come.
I don't want to be your whipping boy.
Yes, your happy little loser, someone you can ignore.
I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me anymore.
I'm not gonna let you hurt me anymore.
I'm not gonna let you hit me anymore.
No, I will not let you kick me anymore.
I will not let you overwhelm me anymore.
It can come from out of nowhere.
I don't want to be your simple saving grace,
just another little victim with a happy face.
Someday, someday soon, somebody's gonna come,
I hope they do this to you.
I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me.
I will not let you hurt me anymore.
No, I will not let you hit me anymore.
I will not let you twist me anymore.

Out of my depth
Lost in the air
Falling faster
Like a broken elevator
Out of my depth
Lost in the dark
Waiting for the other shoe
To come down hard
I cannot communicate
Like I wish I could
I do not deal with my problems
Like I know I should
I am out of my depth
I am out of my league
Watching everything...just
Slip away from me
Something bad is
going to happen
I can feel it deep inside
There are shadows
all around me
Like a bad moon on the rise
I am in over my head
I am in too deep here
over my head
I guess I should keep my
opinions to myself
I guess I am out of my depth
Out of my depth
Right from the start
I feel like I was born
With an invisible heart
Out of my depth
Seems like everyday
I can't find the words
To make the good things
Come my way
I feel like I am faking it
I feel like I am wrong
I feel like I'm a guest
...like I just do not belong
I am out of my depth
Every single day
I just cannot find the words
To make my monsters go away
Something bad is
going to happen
I can feel it deep inside
There are shadows
all around me
Like a bad moon on the rise
I am in too deep here
over my head
I should seek
some professional help
Because I'm out of my depth
Yes, I'm out of my depth
And I am slowly going
out of my mind
Oh, go away
Make them go away
Someday I know
I will make them go away
Make them go away
Make them go away
Someday I know...I will make
my monsters go away
I am in over my head
I should seek
some professional help
I should keep my
opinions to myself
I guess I am out of my depth
I am out of my depth
Yes, I am slowly going

You pull me down
To the floor
Of our apartment
A little while later
We are laughing at our
carpet burns
I like the way that it
glows outside
As the room gets darker
How I wish we could stay
like this
While the rest of the
world turns
There has never been a time
When I didn't want to be
your boyfriend
There has never been a time
When I didn't want to know
your name
Free falling from a work
in progress
Free falling from a life on hold
There has never been a time
When I didn't want you
My good lover
Is my one good thing
these days
You help me keep it all
From slipping away
I swear I'm going to
Marry you
Someday (someday)
I am all alone
And it seems like
All I do is wait
We spend hours on the phone
But it's never the same
No, nothing good ever does
come easy
Nothing good ever comes
without a fight
I am all alone
And I wish I was home
With you tonight
Yes, my good lover
Is my one good thing
these days
You help me keep it all
From slipping away
I swear I'm going to
Marry you
Someday
My girlfriend is like
Magic in the hand
When I lose my sparkle
She's the one
that understands
I know I'm going to marry you
someday
I swear I'm going to marry you
someday
I swear I'm going to marry you...

Sometimes I get to a point where
I don't give a damn about
anything...anymore
Sometimes I get to a point where
I feel numb and I just don't care
Sometimes I feel like I just
don't care
I sit in my car
and listen to the radio
I think about the past
and it seems so long ago
I know the pain
is slowly going to fade
This life is going to get better
(Things are going to be better)
I wait until
my ex-wife has gone away
I walk around the house
Getting lost inside the old day
I see a picture where
everybody's smiling...
I know...
I got to keep it on the inside
I want to get lost
from my life sometimes
Sit on the side
and watch the world go by
I want to get lost
and I don't know why
Sometimes I want to get lost
and I don't know why
(Sometimes I want to get lost
and dream for a while)
Waiting for my little girl
Waiting on the school bus
We're going to the movies
Yeah just the two of us
Sit inside the dark and dream
for awhile
Our life is going to get better
(Yeah it's going to be better)
I wake up weird
in the middle of the night
I walk the floor
until my mind gets right
I think about the past
and it makes me want to cry
I know...
I got to keep it on the inside
I want to get lost
from my life sometimes
Sit on the side
and watch the world go by
I want to get lost in the dark
and dream for awhile
Just sit inside a dark room
and dream for awhile
The only thing that ever makes
sense to me
Is the words to a song from
an American movie
The only thing that ever made
sense in my life
Is the sound of my
little girl laughing
Alive and happy in
the summertime
I am just like everyone I know
I am afraid of things that I
don't know
I am afraid of ever really
being alone
I want to find myself a brand
new heart
I want to find a girl
and make a brand new start
I want to find a girl and get lost
in the dark
The only thing that ever makes
sense to me
Is the words to a song from
an American movie
The only thing that ever made
sense in my life
Is the sound of my
little girl laughing
Through the window of a
summer night
I sit alone in the backyard
Wishing I could be inside
Just the sound of my
little girl laughing
Makes me happy just to be alive
Sometimes I am happy

We were fading
Like the bottom
of a bad dream
We were heading south
Looking for a good time
Faces look so pretty
In the spotlight
All blown out
And bathed inside a
world of white
Sometimes I feel like I am
holding it together
Sometimes I feel like
everything is fine
Something I feel
Like I'm out of control
I feel like I am falling...
...like my life is on a slide
Slide!
It was sunny on the streets
Down there by the water
She was slightly out of reach
A rich man's only daughter
I think she slept with me
Just so she could piss off
her father
I am elastic
I am easy with the damage
I am estatic
I am hungry for the climb
Sometimes I feel
Like I am falling apart...
I feel like I am falling...
...like my life is on a slide
Slide!
I know it's wrong but
I just can't seem to act my age
I know it's wrong but I just
can't seem
To control my rage
My heart is racing and
I am losing my mind
Sometimes I feel like my life is
on a slide
Those faces look so scary
In the harsh light
All blown out
And bathed inside a world
of white
We were shining
Like the good part of a
bad time
We were laughing, happy
Just to be along for the ride
Sometimes I feel like I am
really lucky
I have made it through
Bruised and scarred
And half alive
Sometimes I feel
Like I'm out of control
I feel like I am falling...
...like my life is on a slide
Slide!
Yes I know it's wrong but
I just can't seem to act my age
Yes I know it's wrong but I
just can't seem to control my rage
My hear is racing and
I am losing my mind
Sometimes I feel like my life is

Hey I think this is
getting to me...
First class living
In a goldfish bowl
Just when I think
I have driven my life
Where I wanted it to be
It takes me to a place
That I do not want to go
All I ever wanted to do
Was to learn how to break
This world in two
To teach it all the tricks
I wanted it to learn
To teach it how to do
What I want it to do
No one really understands
Just how simple and plain
And predictable I am
Because all I ever wanted to do
Was to play guitar
In a rock and roll band
Now I'm just losing my hair
and I'm
Learning how to smile
Like I just don't care
No, I just don't care
(I hear them
under their breath)
(what they say...when they
think that I can't hear them)
I see them point and
I see them stare
There goes that stupid guy
With the short blonde hair
Yeah, I think this is getting to me...
First class living
In a goldfish bowl
Just when I think
I have driven my life
Where I wanted it to be
It takes me to a place
That I don't want to go
All I ever wanted to do
Was to learn how to break
This world in two
Teach it all the tracks
I wanted it to learn
Teach it how to do
What I want it to do
No one really understands
Just how simple and plain
And predictable I am
Because all I ever wanted
real bad
Was to play guitar
In a rock and roll band
Now I'm just losing my hair and
learning how to smile
No, I just don't care
(I hear them
under their breath)
No, I just don't care
(what they say...when they
think that I can't hear them)
I see them point and
I see them stare
There goes that stupid guy
With the short blonde hair

Walking wounded with a belly
full of pain
And a big bad attitude
We are shaking shadows for that
perfect dark room
Where we can do just what we
want to do
There is a place...
Where we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
the way we live
When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip
(yes...I said like a misery whip)
Walking hungry with a pocket
full of promise
And a big black song
in my head
I know the answers to
my questions
They are purple black and blue
And they are waiting for me in my bed
There is a place...
Where we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
they way we live
When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip
(I will say it again...
like a misery whip)
Stop!
I get no pleasure
When I'm going through
the motions
Of my mediocre day to day
I'm just an actor
Just like
Robert fucking Redford
When I say those stupid words
That they expect me to say
Yes we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like the dirty
things we do
Yeah
When we are all alone
In this house that we
call home...
I will fall down like a bitch
for you
I need you to hit me and
make me
Shake
I need you to hurt me and
make me
Beg for more
I need you to bend me and
make me
Break
I need you to make me feel like
I am your whore
I feel complete when
I feel sick inside
I need to feel like
I am real inside
I need to feel like
I am really alive
I need you to make me feel
I need you to hit me and
make me
Shake
I need you to hurt me and
make me
Beg for more
I need you to bend me and
make me
Break
I need you to make me feel
Like we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
the way we live
When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip
You will become my
misery whip

You do that Romeo
Be what you wanna be
Look like you runnin' in place
Do that stupid dance for me
Do that Romeo
That go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn
You look so stupid, happy, and numb
Be my Romeo
Please be my voice in this world
I can't sing the songs that you sing
I can't find the gorgeous words
Will you be my Romeo?
My go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so stupid
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yeah we do what we want
Be my Romeo
Tell me all about your love
Tell me all about your pain
Baited breath and rubber gloves
Be my Romeo
My go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so fuckin' stupid
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
Summer days can lead to the bad times
The world gets larger everyday
Yeah, yeah, the summer days can lead to the bad blood
That leaves me feelin' stupid, happy, and numb
Stupid, happy, and numb
I feel so stupid, happy and numb
Stupid, happy and numb
I feel so stupid
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys

I want you to stay the way you are, skinny legs and all
I know the time is coming when the boys will begin to call
I wish that I could hurt for you when you are learning how to fall
You are the reason that I am alive today
you are the reason that I have changed my life in a wonderful way
I can see the passion that is growing inside of you
I can see the sadness that throws a shadow down on everything you do
I wish I was the man you thought I was
Back when life was new for you
You don't know what it's like to feel a love like this
You don't know what it's like to feel this kind of helplessness
You don't know what it's like to be weak
I hope you never know
I don't want you to be like me
I want you to be clean
Clean
You are going to find a reason to hate me someday
You are going to find a reason to push me away
You are going to find reasons to blame me for your pain
I hope you never lose the magic that is big inside of you
I hope you never do the ridiculous things that I used to do
I hope you never know my disease
Never being good enough
I don't want you to be like me
I want you to be clean

Mike Ethan Messick
Everyday in lunch in high school,
And all of my senior year,
I'd drink my Coca-Cola with a touch of everclear.
I never had to study math, science or history,
I'd have a chemical flashback to jog my memory.
In my junior year I swore I loved sweet Miss Sherrie-Ann,
One night I put some everclear in her Dr. Pepper can.
I thought it'd make her easy, but she took it pretty hard,
I took her home and rang her doorbell, left her lyin' in the yard.
Tequila dries me out, and beer just makes me fat.
Whiskey makes me nauseous, tell me who the hell needs that?
If you're thinkin' about drinkin', then the answer's crystal clear,
Its the invisible intoxicant....its called everclear.
I remember my church picnic in the spring of '89,
They had 4 fresh watermelon sliced right off the vine.
When they bowed their heads giving grace for the food,
Hey, I pulled out the bottle, and I soaked them melons good.
Well they never knew what hit 'em, when the potion went to work,
They had Grandma's doin' backflips, Grandpa's lookin' up their skirts.
They were singing Hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs,
Preacher said it was the best dang picnic,
That the baptists had ever thrown.
Tequila dries me out, and beer just makes me fat.
Whiskey makes me nauseous, tell me who the hell needs that?
If you're thinkin' about drinkin', then the answer's crystal clear,
Its the invisible intoxicant....its called everclear.
When I'm drinkin' everclear, I think I'm king of this whole world,
I'm bigger and badder than John Wayne and cooler than Steve Earle.
Until I wake up and I'm face down in the hall,
Hey, I'm completely naked, for a reason I can't recall.
Well I'm kinda, sorta thinkin' that maybe I met a chick,
'Cause there's perfume in the air, and there's lipstick on my neck.
Well I hope that she was pretty and I hope that she was kind,
Enough to leave my clothes somewhere they're easy to find.
Tequila dries me out, and beer just makes me fat.
Whiskey makes me nauseous; tell me who the hell needs that?
If you're thinkin' about drinkin', then the answer's crystal clear,

"Yeah, live and let live mother fuckers. I'm going to do me, you do you.
You're all a bunch of haters."
I don't like the way that you talk to me
When you tell me how it's going be
And I don't like the way that you smile at me
When you tell me what is wrong with me
Sometimes I wish you would go away
Go away and never ever come back
I don't like the meaning that makes the things you do
It makes me want to hate on you
Yeah it's got me sad
I'm kind of stressed
You got me feeling anxious
I'm always depressed
And I don't want to play this game of tug of war
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
No I don't want to be with a hater
You are such a hater
I don't like the way that you never took the blame
For absolutely anything
And I don't like the way that you put me through hell
For all those things you do yourself
Sometimes I wish I could disappear
All the way into a happy new life
I don't like the way that you're always telling lies
You talk about me all the time
I hear you talk
You a such a bore
I see the way you look
I think you look like a whore
I know you know I know the way your working for
I don't won't to be with hater like you anymore
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don't want to be with a hater like you
Hater. Hater
I don't want to be with a hater like you
Hater. Hater
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
Anymore...
I don't want to play this game
No I don't want to play these games
Your a hypocrite
Yeah you lie to me
You use words you don't understand
You embarrass me
Yeah your beautiful in a ugly way
Hey the sex was never that good anyway
Its got me down
I am super stressed
I'm taking medication
I'm always depressed
I don't want to fight you in this tug of war
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don't want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don't want to be with a hater like you
I don't want to be with a hater like you
I don't want to be with a hater like you

Waste my time running in circles
Waste my time going bad on the vine
I spent the last year walking through the fire
Now I do believe it's my turn to shine
(Now it's my turn to shine)
Waste my time walking in rythym
Waste my time talking in rhyme
I spent the last year in a Mexican freefall
I do believe it's my turn to climb
I used to think I was born to know trouble
I used to think I was a born-again clown
I used to think I had everybody guessing
I looked like I was flying high when I was falling down
Now I am taller than I used to be
Now I am living again
Now I like where I have found myself
This is where I want to be now
Now this is where I want to be
Now this is where I want to be
Now this is where I want to be
I was falling free in Mexico
Living on those taco bars and sweet sunshine
Learning how to walk again in my own skin
Learning the art of losing my mind
I used to think I was born in a hurricane
I used to think I was jumping jack flash
I used to think I was a victim of circumstance
Beating up on everyone all the time
I should have been kicking myself
in my own ass
Now I don't worry about the future much
Now I don't think about the past
Now I'm learning how to laugh again
This is where I want to be now
Now I'm tired of the drama club
Now I'm sick with all the hate
Yeah, it's been one hell of a hard year
This is where I want to be now
This is where I want to be now

I stand out breaking in the Portland rain
I see the end there in your eyes as I watch you drive away
I walk back blind into my cold dreamhouse
And I think about the damage
I put the big light out
I sit down smoking on my basement floor
I hear footsteps up above me
They are right outside my front door
The only place that I want to be
Is watching you move up on top of me
The only sound that I want to hear
Is the rain against my window as you whisper in my ear
Baby, you know I love it when you call me baby
I go upstairs and find my twelve-year-old
She's got tears running down her face
Sitting sad at my piano
She sings soft words from that old Beatles song
And I think about my yesterday and all the things I did wrong
The only place that I want to be
Is watching you sweet dream in bed right next to me
The only sound that I want to hear
Is the rain against my window as I pull you near
Don't give up on me
Baby, can't you you see?
We could make this be the way it used to be
Don't give up on me
I wish I could make you see
That I am changing everyday, trying to build a better me
We could make this be the way it's supposed to be
Don't give up on me
I stand out in the rain where I watched you drive away
I never thought I would live to see
this fucked-up day
I stand out in the rain in the middle of the night
I wish that it could wash away the beast inside
The only thing I want to do is kiss you when I am coming deep inside of you
The only sound that I want to hear
Is the rain against my window as I hold you
Don't give up on me
Oh baby, can't you see?
We could make this be the way it used to be
Don't give up on me
I wish I could make you see that I am changing everyday
Trying to build a better me
We could make this be the way it's supposed to be

With you it's always lies, lies, lies
I know that you have lied to me so don't even try to play now
You said you didn't do those type of things, but you went and did them anyway
Now there is nothing you can say to me
There is nothing you can do now
The awful truth is that you broke my heart
And now I'm going to break yours, too
You get what you pay for
You gotta own what you sell
I know I will forgive you when I give you
Just a taste of hell
A little flavor of the pain that you gave me
A little taste of hell
All that trouble you have put me through, it will come back to you because...
I know you fucked around on me
I kind of caught you in the act
You made a choice to take us to this place, and now there is no going back
I don't want to be vindictive now
I don't want to make you sad
But you broke the rules of this game that we play
Now it's my turn to be bad
You know they say you get what you pay for
You gotta own what you sell
I think I'm going to like it when I give you
Just a taste of hell
A little flavor of the pain that you gave me
A little taste of hell
All the trouble you have put me through
It will come back to you
With the taste of hell
A little flavor of the pain that you gave me
A little taste of hell
Now all that trouble you have put me through
It will come back to you
There is nothing you can say to me
There is nothing you can do
You had to go and get some on the side
Now I'm going to go and get some, too
You get what you pay for
You gotta own what you sell
I am going to look like Satan when I give you
Just a taste of hell
A little flavor of the pain that you gave me
A little taste of hell
Now all the trouble you have put me through
It will come back to you
With the taste of hell
A little flavor of the pain that you gave me
A little taste of hell
Now all the trouble you have put me through

She left him a note on the dining room table
She finally had the last word the day that she went away
She left him a note
She hated confrontation
It was impossible to say to him everything she had to say
I am losing my mind, nothing seems right
I do not know who I am anymore
I am losing the fight
I hate my life
I wish that it was easier to be in love
She cries herself to sleep on the floor of her apartment
She found herself a new place about a half a mile away
She drinks herself to sleep
She gets lost inside the darkness
She is making up for lost time every night and every day
I am losing my mind, nothing seems right
I do not know who I am anymore
I am losing the fight because I hate my life
I wish that it was easier to be in love
You make me want to scream sometimes
No more drama, no more pain
We argue about the same things over and over again
No more drama; I cant take the constant strain
I don't understand why being with you is so goddamned hard
So hard
He found the note when he came home to the empty house
He knew that this was coming the first time he had seen her face
He walked right out the front door in no particular direction
He had to find the reason why these things always end this way
I am losing my mind, nothing seems right
I don't know who I am anymore
I am losing the fight because I hate my life
I wish there was an easier way
to be in love
I am out of my mind, nothing seems right
I don't know who you are anymore
I am losing this fight because I hate my life
And even though I'm leaving
I am still in love with you
I am still in love with you
I am still in love with you

Paint the stars in the sky
On the ceiling above our bed
Roll through the night with your blood
Beating hard like a drum inside my head
Paint the stars in the sky
That were shining on the night we met
If we can do this then we can do anything
Throw the clothes in a pile in the corner on the dirty wood floor
Open up the big windows and throw a chain on the double locked door
Open up to the flame
So strong, it feels so good even though we know that it's wrong
When we make love I feel complete, like I can do anything
We can lose ourselves to the far away sound of the noise of the boulevard
We can lose ourselves tonight underneath the western stars
The wind sounds just like the ocean
Blowing big through the trees in my backyard
I sit alone in a dark room smoking
And wondering where you are
You went away when the truth came down
The sex was not enough for you to make you want to stick around
You said that I made you feel weak
I made you feel like you couldn't do anything
I try to sing myself to sleep to the rythym of the sound of the boulevard cars
I lay awake with my eyes wide open underneath the western stars
Hard promises broken that should have never been made
You were cold in your anger
I was warm in the shame
I don't have any illusions of the good old days
If we make it through this then I know that
We can do anything
We can do anything
I'm going to walk all the steps and find a place where I can lie
Lay on my back in the grass and stare at the stars in the warm night sky
I'm going to find me a new blonde girl, hungry for the things that don't come easy in the real world
She will let me be myself
I know she will let me do anything
We can lose ourselves making love all night on a blanket in the neighborhood park
We can lose ourselves making love all night underneath the western stars
We can lose ourselves tonight underneath the western stars
Hard promises broken should have never been made
You were cold in your anger
I was warm in the shame
I don't have any illusions of the good old days
If I can make it through this then I know that I can do anything

Just another night in a bar somewhere
Just another blonde girl
Such a pretty blonde girl
I saw a light behind those cold dark eyes that you show to a cold dark world
Then something came over me
When I touched your face
It took me to a place that I've been afraid to go
Everytime we talk I find another piece of the puzzle of me
That I never really got to know
Sometimes it is so easy to believe that a broken thing can never be whole
Just another night in a hotel room
Just another bad dream
Can you believe? I had another bad dream
We were high on a hill above a big black cloud that turned into a swarm of bees
Then something came over me
Then you held my hand and they faded into summertime when you smiled at me
Every time we talk, I find another piece of the puzzle of me
That I never really got to know
Sometimes it is so easy to believe that a broken heart can never be whole
Give your heart to me, I will give my heart to you
If you believe in me, I'll do anything you want me to do
We can stay in bed until the sun turns into the moon
I will hold you and smile safe in your Arizona room
Inside your Arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do than be alone with you inside your Arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do than waste away the day inside your Arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do
There is nothing I'd rather do than spend the day alone with you
If you give your heart to me, I will give my heart to you
If you believe in me, I'll do anything you want me to do
We can stay in bed until the sun turns into the moon
I will hold you and smile safe in your Arizona room
Inside your arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do
Inside your arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do
We can waste away the day
We can waste away the day
Inside your arizona room
There is nothing I'd rather do

See you roll your eyes
You know it makes me smile
Yes you are like the sun to me
All bright as liquid fire
I feel so powerless
Hold you up above the world
Yeah you are quite a lot of trouble
For such a pretty little girl
I know I'm never home
I'm always miles and miles away
Here I'm runnin' out of time
Say the things I need to say
I call you on the phone
You will not talk to me
Yeah you just don't understand
You are my everything
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna
You are never alone...
I like to watch you play
When you don't know I'm there
I watch you in your sleep at night
Reach out and touch your hair
I wanna make this world
Be just how you want it to be
Yeah you just don't understand
You are everything to me
chorus

Here comes the darkness again
Think I'm gonna spend some time in hell
Here comes the darkness again
I got no one to blame but myself, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Thought a couple of drinks might help me forget
Here comes the darkness again
I got no one to blame but myself
Everybody says I'm wasting my time
I sit and listen to rejection on the telephone line
Everybody says the pain is gonna slowly fade
Yeah, I tell 'em on a really good day
I can see the light
But it's so far away
Here comes the darkness again
I thought another pretty girl could help me forget
Here comes the darkness again
I got no one to blame but myself, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Gonna spend some time in hell with my friends
Here comes the darkness again
I got no one to blame but myself
I got no one to blame but myself
Everybody says I'm living in denial
I tell 'em that this is the only way I can cope
Everybody says I'm living in fear of the future
Yeah, I tell 'em that my fear goes in to live with my hope
Oh, on a really good day
I can see the light
But it's so far away
Here comes the darkness again
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
I can see it burning super bright and strong
I can see a light is shining at the end of the tunnel
Sometimes I think this tunnel is a million miles long
Oh, on a really good day
I can see the light
But it's so goddamn far away
Here comes the darkness again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Here comes the darkness again
Guess I'm gonna spend some time in hell
Here comes the darkness again
I got no one to blame but myself

I'm the man you don't think about, when you think about love
A lame white devil from the bars uptown,
With a tattooed smile pulled tight around me like a killer's glove
I'm the man you don't want to know
I'm the one, I'm that ugly one
Walking slow death ten feet behind you,
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
You'll feel the presence of a crippled man inside my mind
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
You'll jump like danger at every face you see
Wherever you go hey, wherever you go
That reminds you, of a life like me
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
You'll know my name, you'll know what I am, for what I am
Yeah baby, I'm the man
That you will never want, when you want to have sex
Broken body and a misshaped head
Only bring to conscious mind the unclean smell of bitter sweat
I'm the man you will never make, when you want to make love
I'm just the man who holds your glance in violence
Wherever you go hey, wherever you go
You'll feel the presence of a crippled man inside my mind
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
You'll jump like danger at every face you see
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
That reminds you of a life like me
Wherever you go, hey, wherever you go
You'll know my name, you'll know what I am
Yeah, for what I am
Oh, baby, baby, I'm the man
Yes, I'm the man
I'm the man that you will never need, when you need to break down
I don't have the soft answers you need,
I have are questions and my shoulders just aren't strong enough
I'm the one you don't want to know
I'm the man inside every man
I'm waiting patiently and watching wherever you go
Hey, wherever you go. . .

She came to the coast from the show me state
With her daddy's blue eyes and her mama's blind hate
Guess she didn't know much but she knew the rules
What she needed to learn, she would find in l.a.
Not back in that school
Didn't wanna read about it
Guess she wanted to see
Carolea, she's carolea
Yeah, yeah, never quite sure what she wanted to be
Just a little girl alone in a big bad place
With a devious mind and a beautiful face
Ever since she was a baby she learned how to play
Wanted money in her hands from the easiest way
All her friends said, stop girl, you can't pay the price
But the hard way out don't appeal to the beast inside
She don't wanna hear about the better life
Guess she's ready to be
Hey, carolea
She never tells the truth to the folks back east
Truth about the drugs and the men she gets paid to please
Well they don't know
Yeah, they don't see
Yeah, that finally now after all these years
She's let the beast inside roam free

Wish I had the strength inside to make you go away
Wish I was immune
Ever since I met you drinking at the circle bar
I go where you will to keep from being ripped in two
I still smile when I think of 1986
You and me in that little room drunk on sex
And we'd fall asleep at every band we'd go to see
Easier to pass out then to deal with you and me alone
Sitting in the dark hearing john doe sing
About poor little girls and silver wings
Yeah baby something's gotta give
Wish I knew why you're so intent on breaking me
Act like a bitch possessed, yeah a bitch possessed
I've had it up to here with your crazy ever-changing moods
I just take your worst, while you just take my best
I've had enough, I've had enough
Yeah I need a break
You're always out screwing around while I'm hammerin' on the neighbor's door
Hoping they'll turn the led zepplin down
Yeah baby something's gotta give
Something somewhere's gotta give
Yeah baby something's gotta give
Yeah I think I need a break
Wanna break you from the inside out
That smug complacent smile is reason enough
I wanna cut the ties that bind my life
I wanna break you in your prime
Wish I had in me the power to make you disappear
Wish I had control
I just wanna walk away and never have to hear
About you, all the things you say that I don't really wanna know
Yeah, what you say, what you do, where you go
Everything I loved about you was just for show
Oh baby something's gotta give
Something somewhere's gotta give
Yeah baby something's gotta give
Yes I think we need a break
I need to separate

Shine
Shine
Open up your life and shine your light
Shine
Open up and show the freak inside
Words don't mean nothing
His words don't mean nothing
He has no shame
He will say anything
Just to get what he needs
He says he needs
The right girl
To heal his hurt
And change his world
He will say anything
To make her think
He is the man
She wants him to be
Shine
Open up your life and shine your light
Shine
Open up and show the freak inside
The girl had a good plan
To find herself a good man
The kind of guy that you hear about
But you never seem to meet
She hides
Behind those bright eyes
Fake smiles and sex
And white lies
Yeah
She is
Trying too hard
To be the way
That she thinks
She's supposed to be
Come on
Shine
Shine
Shine
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
I want to see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
Come on
Let me see you
Open up and shine your light
Open up and show the world
The freak inside
You are afraid to shine
To see what's deep inside
Go find your freak and let it drive
You are afraid to shine
To see what's deep inside
Go find your freak and let it glide
You sing the same old song
Been in the dark too long
There is so much more than meets the eye
Don't be afraid to shine
Go find out who you are inside
Just go and find your freak and let it fly
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
I want to see you
Shine
Shine
Come on let me see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
Come on
Shine
Let me see you
Open up and shine your light
Open up and show the world

It's good to have a window on the world
And to live deep in the heart of the beast in the sun
Night after night, I do the same damn thing
Do the weirdness dance, for those who can't
It's getting to the point where I can't take it anymore
Waking up at 3 pm
In a thrashed bedroom, sharp with needles and knives
Reach for the crutches that keep in motion
Vague memories that keep me alive
Like when she used to call me baby
All alone in our room, in the middle of the night
Kill the sun, yes, kill the sun
Kill the sun
Come on, come on, stop the light
Yes, I 've got sunshine
It's a suicide song in the back of my mind
Pure white evilwrapped around my eyes
Yeah I've got all the cities of light to live in
I don't even want no part
Hard is the fall
Cold is the bite
Kill the sun, yeah come on stop the light...

Eleanor young, eleanor child
Standing on a lonely hilltop in the appalachian wild
Eleanor sing, eleanor scream
Shout loud for your own green world
Doors don't open for the country girl
Oh, they lied to you
They sung to you songs you weren't meant to hear
They showed you life your eyes were never meant to see
Yeah, you should have seen right through
But you believed
Eleanor grow, eleanor cold
Midnight in a dim-lit diner, in the driving detroit snow
Eleanor yearn, eleanor learn
One child with no last name
Your boyfriend runs who do you blame
Oh, he lied to you
He did to you things they taught you were sin
He took from you the best that was within you
He showed you things your eyes should never have seen
And the saddest thing of all, baby you believed
Yeah, yeah, the saddest thing of all, you believed
Yeah mama you believed
Eleanor age, eleanor cage
See california on new year's day
Sun shines warm on the rose parade
Eleanor ache, eleanor break
Come out west with your last born child
I grew up scared, weird, and wild
Oh you lied to me
You hid from me knowledge I should have known
You kept from me the life that was my own
You shielded me from things I should have seen

Yeah, here you come again
I should have known you'd be around
Makes no sense to me why we're still alive
You've got weeks to live and I am on a spiral dive
When you finally die
Don't let me need you there
I know damn well you're not alone
Surrounded laughing by the death head grins
Of all my friends who've overdosed
Overdosed and died
And you know
That's the way we go
Back in your color room the shadows fall and break
We would waste away
Burning out, shooting up
I'm not gonna fall with you this time
I might not get up, I'm not strong enough
You know...
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm not gonna walk back into the pit for you
Yeah, not for you or anyone
I don't want the speed, I don't want the heroin
I'm not gonna break
I'm not gonna play your game
When you die alone in that pit of hell
Don't perpetuate the myth, don't romanticize
I'm not gonna watch you die again
I don't want to see
You know...
You don't wanna talk about it but you know
You sit and laugh at me
You'll die laughing
Yeah, you're all fucked up
Can't you see it's killing me...
I'm not gonna walk back into the pit...

I'm not gonna choke on your hard sell media dope
I'm not going out like that
I don't want to hear about the summer of love
I'm not going back in time
I don't want to even let love rule
I want to break the back of brotherly love
I don't want to go back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!
I wanna take the past and throw it away
I want to burn the bridge between then and now
I'm not going back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!
I don't want to sew the seeds of love
I want to punch marty balin in his eye
I don't wanna go back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!
(man, I don't have a quarter, leave me alone)
Don't want no dead blood on my hands
I wanna shake the flesh and bone
I don't wanna kill the myth
I wanna kill jerry garcia!
I wanna kick that skeleton in his teeth
I'd wanna kick pigpen if he were alive
I don't want to go back in time
I want to kill jerry garcia!

Hey, makes me wonder,
Why I just let them slip away,
I'd trade my family and my friends,
For an endless happy hour
I know, sometimes I talk too much
Hey, have a drink with me,
And I will tell you what I think,
Yeah I know I look like I am just some drunk to you,
But I know who I was,
And I know who I am
Hey, hey,
Hey makes me wonder,
How I just do it every time
Yeah, pushin', pullin',
Until they just slip and fade away
I still know who I am
Hey, Hey, Hey,
Hey, have a drink with me,
And I will tell you when I'm done,
Yeah, trade my family and my friends
For an endless happy hour

She is livin' far away from a lonely man in the San Francisco Bay,
He is dreamin' hard of a girl all claid in bad plaid and mad at the whole world,
All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,
She sleeps alone and wet with her phone in her face all tied up in her old bed,
She walks alone everyday up and down the rainy streets in her own weird way,
All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,
Hateful, yeah they're hateful to me

I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of the nothing in particular
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club
If you'd like to go
You could meet somebody
Who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry and you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen now
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See, I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Then they came on me
They dragged me from the bar
Still wet from sweat and beer
I bruise so prettily by men blinded by their fear
These men
Broke my back and made me lame
Then she said to me
I'd give you everything to make it like before
To make you love me like you used to
Make you love me more
She said to me
Your life is large but your mind is lame
I can't believe my eyes
When I see the truth and all the things I've done
And every place I'm queer
I never stay I run
I know now why I live in shame
Lame
It's hard to sleep at night

I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend
All bright-eyed and happy in pain
I am dreaming of a Michigan girl
See her come around
Fall down, break & scatter everywhere
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting
I am pleading for a Michigan dream girl
I am pleading for a Michigan girl
See her come around
Big lie wrapped inside her little glove
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting patient for me
I cover my ears
I clear my mind
She starts to fade
I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend
She's starting to fade
I am dreaming of a Michigan girl
I close my eyes
I see her waiting oh so patient for me
I cover my ears
I close my mind

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Yeah, things have been dark for too long
I don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
Yeah, don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
I found a love I had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message received loud and clear
I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness

Kathy please just go away
Don't let Hazel see you when you're high
Just take a walk to your sleazy bar
Come back after I've come down
Cross the street
On your knees
Makes me ashamed
It's hard to sleep
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away
Hey Kathy please give me a break
I told you not to come here when you're drunk again
I'm sober now just 30 days
All alone and working hard to stay that way
Cross the street
On your knees
Makes it hard
It's hard to see
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away
Kathy please, yeah yeah
I don't want to see you when you're down
Just leave me be and go away
You're not going to pull me down

We had a mutual friend and he said
You've been talking again
I'm not responsible for your life falling apart
I'm not responsible
You and me could have been the best friends
That we'd never had
You've done everything that you could to damage me, damage me
I'm walking away
I'm closing my eyes
I'm letting it go, letting it go
Hey I'm telling you now
I'm drawing the line
Don't say it again
Just keep it inside
It happened to me, in love with the same girl
Nobody's fault, yeah nobody's fault
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Yeah keep it in
You and me could have been the best friends
But we'd never had the best friends
I'm walking away, letting it go
I'm closing my eyes
I'm telling you now
I'm lonely again, just keep it inside
Hey, it happened to me, in love with the same girl
It happened to me, me over you
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Keep it in

All I want to do is get back to you
Connection, I just can't make no connection
But all I want to do is to get back to you
Everything is going in the wrong direction
The doctor wants to give me more injections
Giving me shots for a thousand rare infections
And I don't know if he'll let me go
Connection, I just can't make no connection
But all I want to do is to get back to you
My bags they get a very close inspection
I wonder why it is that they suspect 'em
They're dying to add me to their collection
I don't know if they'll let me go
Connection, I just can't make no connection

Yeah I hear the hum in my ear
It keeps me awake sometimes
I can deal with most everything
I'm out of my mind
When you're out of my side
I would give everything
Deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Why can't you talk to me
I hear your voice everywhere else
Oh, why do you have to be
Slumped and drunk
Just to say I am your friend
I'd give you everything
Yeah, I'm deep in and empty out
Oh, I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Everything means nothing to me
I remember now
You, not me
I remember now
You fail
Yeah, I remember now
You, not me
I remember everything, everything
Yeah, yeah
I remember everything, everything
I would give everything
Yeah, deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Anything to you
Everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing to me
It's true
My everything means nothing to you

Can you hear them
They talk about us
They're telling lies
Well, that's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
When we walk by
Then we must chose
In our defense
Silence
When you look at them
Look right through them
That's when they'll disappear
That's when we'll be feared
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Our lips are sealed
Hush my darling, don't you cry
Quiet, angel, forget their lies
Can you hear them
They talk about us
Telling lies, telling lies
That's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Yes, our lips are sealed

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that I oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
Yes, I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
If I write a letter it won't get there in time
I'll only reach you, baby, on the telephone line
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and I won't be back
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day?
Can you hear me?
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
I'd wish they'd fix the wires 'cause my baby don't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me, can you hear me at all?
Gotta get the operator make a telephone call
Telephone call, telephone call, telephone call
Can you hear me at all?
Oh, Can you hear me at all?
Can you hear me at all?
Can you hear me at all?

Look who just got back today
Them wild eyed boys that had been away
They haven't changed, that much to say
Yeah, even then I still think all them cats are great
They was askin' if you were around
How you was and where you could be found?
I told them you were livin' downtown
Drivin' all those old men crazy
The boys are back in town
Oh I said, "Boys are back in town"
The boys are back in town
There was this chick who used to dance a lot
Every night she'd be on the floor shakin' what she got
I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean she was steamin' hot
Remember that time over Johnny's place
Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face
Yeah, we just fell about the place
If that chick don't want to know, forget her
The boys are back in town
Yeah I said, "Boys are back in town"
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
Spread the word around
Yes, she's back in town
Yes, spread the word around
Yes, she's back in town
Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
The drinks will flow and blood will spill
And if the boys wanna fight, you'd better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are gettin' warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long till summer comes
Now that the boys are here again
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back, the boys are back
The boys are back in town
Spread the word around, spread the word around
Oh, oh, oh, the boys are back in town again
Yeah, they hangin' down at Dino's
The boys are back in town again
The boys are back in town again
The boys are back in town again

Here he comes, here comes speedracer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone
He's gaining on you so you better look alive
He's busy revving up the powerful mach-5
And when the odds are against him and there's dangerous work
You can bet your life speedracer will see it through
Go speedracer
Go speedracer
Go speedracer, go
He's off and flying as he guns his car around the track
He's jamming down the pedal like he's never coming back

Some people call me the space cowboy
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me maurice
'cause I speak of the pompitous of love
People keep talking about me, baby
Said I'm doin' you wrong
Well, don't worry, don't worry
'cause I'm right here at home
Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner
I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker, I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Ooo-eee baby, I'll sure show you a good time

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey please help me out
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please plea for me
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey please strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy

Santa baby, just slip a guitar under the tree for me
Been an awful good boy
Santa baby, hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue
Yeah, I'll wait up for you dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the girlies that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'd check off my christmas list
Santa baby, I want a yacht and really that's not a lot
I've been an angel all year
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, one little thing that I need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Come and trim my christmas tree
With some decorations bought at tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me too
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
Yeah, I don't mean on the phone
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, fill my stocking with a duplex, and checks
Sign your x on the line
Santa baby, now hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the girlies that I could've kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'd check off my christmas list
Santa baby, forgot to mention just one little thing, a ring
I don't mean on the phone

I been north, I been east to the California beach
There's only one place I know where to find you
And you southern girls got a way
With your words and you show it
You say hump and I'll jump, you say go and I know
Waste no time getting so close to you
And you remember the way to find out
That I wanted to thank you
Ooh, baby needs some brand new shoes
You get out on the street, you got nothing to lose
I feel you're crazy and everyone says it
Southern girls, you got nothing to lose
I've been up, I've been down
I've been weak, I've been strong
But I've never met someone like you
And you'll never know that if I found you I'd thank you
You say hump and I'll jump, you say go and I know
Waste no time getting so close to you
And all you southern girls got a way
With your words and you show it
Ooh, baby needs some brand new shoes
You get out on the street, you got nothing to lose
And I feel you're crazy and everyone says it, yeah
Southern girls, you got nothing to lose
Southern girls, you got nothing to lose
You might think this boy loves you, southern girl
You can make it hard, oh, so hard
I been north, I been east to the California beach
There's only one place I know where to find you
And you southern girls got a way
With your words and you show it
Ooh, baby needs some brand new shoes
Yeah, you get out on the street, you got nothing to lose
I feel you're crazy and everyone says it, yeah
Southern girls, you got nothing to lose
Yeah, southern girls, you got nothing to lose

Diamonds and dust
Poor man last, rich man first
Lamborghinis, caviar
Dry martinis, Shangri-la
I got a burnin' feelin' deep inside of me
It's been burnin'
But I'm gonna set it free
I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I'm gonna win in sin city
Ladders and snakes
Ladders give, snakes take
Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief
You ain't got a hope in hell, yeah that's my belief
Fingers Freddy, Diamond Jim
They're gettin' ready, cause I'm comin' in
So spin that wheel, cut the crap, and roll those loaded dice
Bring on the dancin' girls and put the champagne on ice
I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight

Never said I was innocent
I will burn in Hell for the things I've done to you
Never said I was anything good
I should die from the shame from what I put you through
Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
You know I just wanna help you forget
We are still living on broken glass
We are still numb because it just keeps happening
All your friends, they can kiss my ass
They only see the simple things that they wanna see
Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know I just wanna know that you're okay
You don't have to like it but the swing is in my hands now
Sometimes I think
The power is better than a hard drug
Sometimes I think
The power is better than anything
Sometimes I think
Letting go is just like giving up
Sometimes all I think I wanna do is die inside
All I wanna do is die inside
All I ever think about is you and me falling apart
Never said I was innocent
I will burn in Hell for the things I have done to you
Never said I was anything good
Na na na na
Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know I just wanna know that you're okay
Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
I just wanna help you forget
Sometimes I think
Letting go is just like giving up

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
Yeah, almost every time
Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Yeah, 1975
I see scratches and the idiot kids
I watched them getting high
Out in the cold blue sky
Watch and wonder as the asphalt babies burned
Dancing in the flame, laughing all of the while
I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Watch and wonder as they fade away
Dull, damaged, and blind
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind
Yeah, almost all of the time
Dull, damaged, and blind
Whoa, 1975
I'm not alive, 1975
I was not alive, 1975
I'd spend all my time wasted dull, damaged, and blind
1975

She was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinking that there was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on four forty one like waves crashing on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
She crept back in her memory
God, it's so painful when something that's so close

I am all fucked up
And I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place
All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I am dying on the inside
I want to be happy
But I don't know how
I am all fucked up
And it's always the same
I always get so close,
Then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame
I'm all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Think I would rather die
I am all fucked up
Yes, I am all fucked up
You're happy
when you are all fucked up
Yes, I am all fucked up
I am all fucked up
Yes, I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place
All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I'm dying on the inside
I want to be happy now
I am all fucked up
And it is always the same
I always get so close
then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame
I am all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Than I think I would rather die

You are a loser just like I was
You are a loser like the rest of your friends
You're a loser in the worst way
I think you're losing just to make up
Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
I see you dying in the highway
I see you climbing up the hill
I see your sunshine on your blonde hair
I see you worshipping the thrill
Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah I've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah I've seen the light
Light from another place
Now I know its not real
Yes I know it's not real
Yes I know it's not
Yeah I've seen the light
From another place

This is a song about Spike
He is a bad ass guy
Who just happens to be
A really good friend of mine
Everyone I know...yeah
Who knows Spike too
Would agree when
I say the words
That Spike is cool
The problem with
my friend Spike
He has fallen into
a true love with a nice girl
Who has gotta lot of tattoos
He always talks crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It's obvious now...
She has got him by the balls
She has got him by the balls...
She has got him by the balls
My weird little brother...James
And his ex-girlfriend
They would talk in those
ridiculous voices
We would all be hanging out
getting drunk in
the neighborhood
And they both would make
those ridiculous noises
He would always talk crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It is obvious now
They have got him by the balls
I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man
(they have got you by the balls)
I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man
(they have got you by the balls)
I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown up man
(they have got you by the balls)
You will never see me...
walking that walk
You will never catch me...
talking that babytalk
(you know it's true...
they've got you by the balls)
Which brings me back to Spike
A good guy to have in a fight
Unless he was
With his girlfriend
Obnoxious on Saturday night
You know he couldn't care less
What anyone thinks
He does not give a damn
No, because he has no shame
He looks so happy
Just like everything is fine
He is oblivious to the fact
That he has no spine
He always talks crazy
(you have no shame)
Whenever she calls
(you have no shame)
He talks like a baby
(you have no shame)
It is obvious...
they have got him by the balls
I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man
(they have got him by the balls)
I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man
(they have got him by the balls)
You will never see me...
walking that walk
You will never catch me
....talking that babytalk
(you know it's true...
they've got you by the balls)
I am not going to let it
get to me

You were shining in a white light
Like a fairytale movie star
Never really thought I would find Snow White drinking in a downtown bar
You were underneath the white light
Like a vision in a deep dark place
Never really thought I would fall for a country girl with an angel's face
Aww everything fades away
The world changes every day
When I think about you, it makes me want to say
Glorious
Glorious
You are glorious
We were walkin' in the white sun
Growing up and throwin' down loud
There was silver in our eyes and we didnt know why, the power of the north so proud
We were lost inside a long dark summer
Headed down a no where road
Looking for a light in the middle of the night, a place that felt like home
I know everything fades away
The world changes everyday
When I think about you, and what we had, it makes me want to say
Glorious
Glorious
You are to me
Glorious
Yeah this glorious life has never been what it seems
I was asleep when I was living the dream
Living the dream
I know I was living the dream
I think about the time in the city
Running away trying to live free
I could never believe that you wanted to be with me
We'd wait in the cold for the last bus home
Sleeping with your arms around me
The world is never what it seems to be
I was living the life when I should have been living the dream
Glorious
Should've been living the dream
Glorious
Should've been living the dream
Glorious
I know I never understood how much you would mean to me
Now I know I was living the dream
Glorious
I know I was living the dream
Glorious
I know I know I was living the dream
Glorious
I know this glorious live has never been what it seems

I just want a lover like any other, what do I get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I'm in distress, I need a caress, what do I get
I'm not on the make, I just need a break, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I just want a lover like any other, what do I get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
Well let me tell you now
(What do I get)
No love
(What do I get)
No sleep at night
(What do I get)
Nothing that's nice
(What do I get)
Nothing at all, at all, at all...
'Cause I don't get you

Jackson met a girl in a valley town
They fell into a teenage love she'd grow to hate
He's in prison now since he beat her down
He got her pregnant and she made it go away
Hey hey hey hey Pennsylvania
I got a card today from a girl I know
She used to live alone in Philadelphia
She had to leave the state for a choice she made
She says she feels just like a hostage in her home
Hey hey hey hey Pennsylvania
You can close your eyes, you can fall and die
You can hope your laws will make it go away
You can close your eyes but you can't make it go away
I just got a call from my uncle Mike
He said he left his wife and he's not going back
Said she changed her mind about a desire child
I asked him if he wants a placemat or a wife

you know I want to be
the way you want me to
big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I would break in half
if you said it
loud splinter out of myself
just like mercury
I think it's better now
than how it used to be
you were lying in bed
and I would levitate
I think it's better here,
than where we used to be
I wish I could go out into the oregon sun
to be alive in the day
I would smile at everyone
I remember you back in '83
you were dressing insane
you were my everything
you were so different
from all those other girls
a blind electra in drag
so cool and casually lame
I think I'm better now
than how I used to be
always nervous and weird,
scared most of the time
I think it's better now
than how it used to be
always up in the night
afraid to live in the day
afraid of being afraid
now I sit alone
when you're not around
I read aloud
just to hear a friendly voice
I see you scary dolls
they always look at me
from the corner of my eyes
I see them shake their heads
you know I want to be
the way you me to
big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I wish I could go out just to be alive in the day

Right now, day one, I fall soft
When I fall I always fall on you
Face first, head down, eyes closed
Arms out to break my fall, we fall down
Like a world of noise we get lost
Inside the length of our own time
And the laughing world will never forget
It's when you jam that I jet
I jet
I see, I want, I reach
I fail to hold the things that I need
I turn, I reach for you
Wanna touch our life before it fades
Like a burning car in the sun
We flame for the all in plain view
And the laughing world will never forget
It's when you jam that I jet
I jet, I jet, I jet
And the laughing world will never forget
Laughing world will never forget
It's when you jam that I jet

I remember when you seemed real shiny with the sweat of your voice
Shaky hands super loud and teenage mouth
We were all charmed and taken with your talk
Now I shudder when I hear the rhythm of your walk
Now I've got no place to go, I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in you
I have sinned the sin of wanting more
The belly fire pulls the spirit from the corporate whore
I'm embarrassed by the plaid you wear
If I were you I'd hide behind that stupid bleach blonde hair
Now I've got no place to go, I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in you
Yeah that simple minded sparkle that I thought I saw
Yes I have wondered why you changed
I liked it when you were super loud

I break every day
stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
all I need and crave
is a loud life with the power to fade
I am living because I keep it all inside
love won't work for me
I want women who are out of my reach
all I need for sure
is a big love with the power to make more
I am living because I keep it all inside
I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I'm afraid I'm going down
I blame my family,
their damage is living in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life
all I need I swear
is to go out with the power of a nightmare
I am living because I keep it all inside
I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone

I break every day
Stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of bein' sick and tired
All I need and crave
Loud life with the power to fade
I am livin' 'cause I keep it all in, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all in, keep it all inside
Love don't work for me
I want women who are out of my reach
I am sick and tired of livin' all alone
All I need for sure
Big love with the power to make more
I am livin' 'cause I keep it all in, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all in, keep it all inside
I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I'm afraid I'm going down
I blame my family
Their damage is livin' in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life
All I need, I swear
Go out with the power of a nighmare
I am livin' 'cause I keep it all in, keep it all inside
I keep it all in, keep it all inside
Yeah, I keep it all in, keep it all inside
I know I'm going to fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone
I keep it all in, keep it all inside
I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone

Shake that dust from the small town
I turn and follow the western wind down
Go and pack up my shiny things
And go, yeah just go
I'll find a new life in only L.A.
Yeah, stupid happy with everything
I pulled myself down so easily
I know, I know
Met Electra when livin' down
Saw her spinnin' around and around
Never knew much about her past
I knew enough that I didn't ask
I know, I know
Livin' isn't a simple thing, I know
No one said it's supposed to be, I know
Livin' isn't a simple thing, I know
No one said it's supposed to be
I know, I know
Livin' isn't a simple thing, I know
No one said it's supposed to be, I know
Livin' isn't a simple thing for me
I know ways to make it easier
I know
July she lied, July she lied
July, July, July
Livin' isn't a simple thing, I know
No one said it's supposed to be
Livin' isn't a simple thing for me

She lost her focus yesterday
She lost her focus in the sun
She sits and stares at it for hours
She says she likes to go outside
She gets hung up on the wind
She gets lost inside the happy noise
Sometimes I don't understand her
Sometimes I don't want to understand her
She says no, no, no, no, no, no
She don't want no double life
She says I should know why
She seems happier at night
Her color TV and her chemical smile
I don't wanna know the reason
I don't wanna know the reason why
She says, she says, she says, she says, she says
Jesus owes her money
She says, she says, she says, she says, she says
The angels are her friends
What the hell does that mean?
She's got the chemical smile
Yeah she's got a chemical smile
Yeah she's got the chemical smile
Baby's got a chemical smile

I have seen you shake
And I know what it cost you
I have heard your words
I am big on your noise
My eyes aren't big enough
'Cause I can't see your hands
I can't see what you hold
I am growin' now
As I watch you fade
Now I know what you know
And I'll break the chains that you have made
This chain you've made for me
Yeah, I will pull you down
I know I'll fail in style
I long to touch your genius hands
I am growin' now
As I watch you fade
Now I know what you know
And I'll break the chains that you have made
This chain you've made for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will pull you down
I know I'll fail in style
I will, I swear

I know a couple who are in love living in the best of times
A truer-blue love you will never know
Run from pain they'll never realize
Sheltered from it in a loving glow
Young and happy and oh-so politically correct
Just get it if you need it now
Just buy it if you need it in your life
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry 'cause it never will
I know a young girl living in the shadow of
The kind of life that she could never make
She takes it all and gives it back in love
To handsome artists in her native state
She is the angel of the loser and the disenchanted soul
Just get it if you need it now
Just buy it if it makes you happy
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will

I hear the sonic sound of brakes
As you whisper in my ear
I hold your head between my sweaty hands
And shout loud for all to hear
Anita say the word
I smell gasoline and I feel the heat
As we make love standing up
In the alley behind your street
Glow and crumble girl
I want you but I don't want your world
Anita say the word...
And I will walk with you almost anywhere
Back to al's bar, baby hand in hand
All them local boys will know that I'm your new man
Hey see anita, yeah she's my scary girl
All black blue eyes and blue blackened hair
I can taste the heaven waiting there
Shake and tremble, broken grace
I admit it, I'm in love, but out of place
Anita say the word...
And I will sleep with you in that misfit way
With the tv noise so loud it soothes my fears
And the flickering light bathes your face
I wake from the drugs and the fear
In the night outside the world reverberates
Blue shadows in our loft, downtown l.a.
Outside the world reverberates
I need the strength I see in her
I need the love I feel inside
We talk about leaving behind the hell we're in
We laugh about making it out alive
Yeah, see anita, yeah
She's my pretty girl
Blind eyes to the world outside
No more so than the rest of the world...
No more so, than any other girl
It makes no sense to me...

All the people that you know, they say you're ready to break down
All the people that you know, they say you're ready to fall
I hope you know that you are better than you think you are
I hope you know you that you will never really try
I hope you know you that you are never unknown
You got a good friend on the inside
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
(When you fall down)
All the people that you know say you live in white noise
Yeah, all the people that you know they say you're living in hell
They don't know anything
I hope that you know that you are better than they say you are
I have to say that you are stronger than you know
I have to say that you are smart enough to handle any stunt anyone could pull
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
I want to catch you when you fall down
When you fall down
All the people that you know, say you're ready to break down
All the people that you know, say you're ready to fall
I have to say that you are better than they think you are
Have to say that you are better than them all
Have to tell you that you never need the answer
When you need someone to call
Whoa-oh
I just want to be there when you need a hand to help you turn it all around
Whoa-oh
I just need to be there when you need to come down
Woah-oh
I just want to be there when you need to find your feet on the solid ground
Whoa-oh
I just want to catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
Catch you when you fall down
I want to catch you when you fall down

Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got places to go, people to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud
Hey brother, hey sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands
I'm walking in circles in a waiting room
For a welcome I don't feel in my soul
I watch the time pass, it pours in my glass
I drink it down, blood from a stone
Hey brother, hey sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands
Looking for love in all the wrong places
The sidewalks and the sky
Looking for something that no one can give me
And no one can help me buy
Oh brother, oh sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands
Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got nowhere to go, no one to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud

Sometimes I need your sex
Like a junkie needs a hard drug
We are poison to each other
We are like opposites attract on crack
Sometimes you hit me in my sleep
We are poison to each other
We will never be friends
We are a bad movie that never ends
You call my house
Wasted late at night
Want to come over and get in my bed
Maybe you just want to fight
Please please please baby
Leave me alone
I know you blame me
For a not so happy home
I cheated on you, you cheated on me
We will never be happy until
We see each other toothless
And crazy living on the street
You call my name
I kind of lose my mind
I just can't help myself
You are my favorite waste of time
You call my name
I crave the pain that only you can do
The voice inside it tells me
I am better without you
I am better without you
I am better without the shame
Yeah the only thing I meant was sex with you
The voice inside it tells me
You are better without me too
I will never admit it to myself
I will never admit it to you
When I hear your name
It takes me back to the day we met
Wwe didn't have to try so hard
We had nothing to forget
I hear your name
I think about the changes we refuse to see
Like the fact that I don't like you
And you don't like me
You call my name
I lose my fucking mind
I kiss my daughter goodnight
I drive to your house and I set myself on fire
You call my name
I crave the pain that only you can do
I will gladly take the blame
If it will make you go away
I know I'm not the only one
That feels this way
My cat doesn't like you
She thinks I'm better without you
Your boyfriend says I'm awesome
He says I'm better without you
All our friends that knew us in the day
They tell me
I am better without
All the games you play
I am better without you
I am better without you
I am better without the shame
You make me cringe when I hear
All the stupid things you say
I am better without the drama
I am better without you
(You are better without me too)
I am better without you
(You are better without me too)
I am better without all the hate
I don't want to see your face and
You don't want to hear my name
We will meet again someday
We will stand there face to face
You will smile at me, and I will smile at you

Jessie was the prom queen back in 1995
Honking super pretty like a goddess on the outside
She was sweet and funny, popular and cool
It's gotta be a drag when you're beak in high-school
She left college and she never went back
She posed for Playboy, made her think that she could act
10 years, looking for the luck
Chasing through the callie, but the laughing kinda suck
Now she's pushin 35, working at Starbucks
Oh well, oh well, no one...
Feeling's all the... Tiffanny and Mac
To send it through the kids... everything was
Not supposed of doing time... internet porn
All his little brothers back always talk smack
... never get back
He was drinking at the wrong play, at the wrong time
He said the wrong thing, to the wrong guy
He got himself stabbed in the one good eye
Life goes out when the pretty go away
The best thing you can get is when you're falling in a good way
Good enough is never enough, good enough is never enough
There is nowhere to go but up, there is nowhere to go but up
There is nowhere to go
Jennie found got, Timmy lost a leg, Andy... to the man she met
... strip club, making lot of dough...
Life goes out when the pretty go away
The best thing you can get is when you're falling in a good way
Life goes out when the pretty go away
The best thing you can get is when you're falling in a good way
Good enough is never enough, good enough is never enough
Good enough is never enough, good enough is never enough

Time stops when the whispers blare
The voices drop hard, but the eyes still stare
The world resolves into a death's head grin
Because I walk with pride with a black girlfriend
My mom said not to bring her around
'Cause she's black my family would put her down
I'll break the white-trash ties that bind
Trade a love so pure for a hate so blind
She said, she said
Forget the fact that I don't look like you
She said, she said
You're possessed with a power
Bigger than the pain
Time stops when we lie so close
In my room where we share what no one knows
From the day that we start
Until the day that we end
I know I know I know now
We will never find a place where we can just fit in
Me and my black girlfriend
She said, she said
Fend for yourself, you're alone
She said, she said
You are possessed with a power
Bigger than the pain
A power bigger than the pain

We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for
We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for
We will never die
Put your hope in the sky
To burn a perfect light,
Be careful what you ask for
I'm sorry we are living in the car
This isn't what you wanted
When you gave me your heart
I'm sorry I got lazy in need
This isn't what you wanted
When you married me
Life looks better when you waste the day away
Life looks better when you make it all again
Life looks better when you drink away the pain
Life looks better when you look away
We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for
We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for
I know you get mad at me
When your card gets denied
At the market down the street
I know that you wanna leave
Yeah this isn't what you wanted
When you married me
Life looks better when you waste the day away
Life looks better when you make it all again
Life looks better when you drink away the pain
Life looks better when you look away
We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for
We are broken bet
We never had a chance
We want what we don't have
Be careful what you ask for
You wanna believe
The world can be perfect
That anyone can be redeemed
The getter's always better than bad
That's where it all goes bad
Just when you think
That everything is gonna be alright
That's where it all goes bad
Just when you think
That everything is gonna be alright
That's where it all goes bad
We burn out in the dark
We are invisible stars
We are a question mark
Be careful what you ask for
No guess who's around
Be careful what you ask for
Even what I ask for
Be careful what you ask for
This isn't what I wanted to see
Be careful what you ask for
This isn't what I asked for
Be careful what you ask for
Life looks better
When you look the other way
Baby look the other way
Baby, do yourself a favor

I feel safe and sound the violence
Like I feel safe and sound from rollercoaster cars
I feel safe in the hills
Up, above it all sometimes
In the middle of the night, I can almost see the stars
Living in L.A. makes me think of you
I think about the good times and not the bad we used to do
Walked the streets at night
And I wander why I feel so bad
Walked the streets at night
The hills... remember why.
Living in L.A. feels like home in a brand new way
I am lack everyone I meet,
I have ghosts in mind they will never go away
I walked the streets at night
Don't understand why I feel so bad
I walked the streets at night
Questioning why I am the way I am
We come from the somewhere lost time... ago
We run from the... it's the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better world
Wanna find a better heart, so I can find me a better girl
Wanna find a place living inside of the...
Of the santa ana wind on sunny day.
Living in L.A. it's the worst coast where I've been here to understand
Can't explain this place, if you're not from here
You will never understand
I walk the streets at night
I think about all the lies that I've have
I walk the streets at night
I think about why I want the love that I can't have
We come from the somewhere... I never go
We found out the light is the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better sun
Wanna find a better world, I wanna find a better life
Wanna find a place living inside of the...
Of the santa ana wind on a beautiful day.
Yeah,
It is the super-things that I love about it here
Sunshine and mexican boose on Christmas day
Oh, and the... city is the only way I can fall asleep
I think I needed to leave to the last...
This is where I'm supposed to be.
Oh oh o-oh-oh
We come from the south we're lost here in the cold
We fight to the last, it's the only way we know
Wanna find a better sun, I wanna find a better shine
Wanna find a better world, I wanna find me a better life
I wanna find myself a place to hide inside my... in the rain
Of the santa ana wind on a day
I can almost see the future
I can almost see the blue sky in the middle of the day
Even though our hell is coming down me now

I wrote a love song for the wrong girl,
Guess I had to go to hell with her just to get to you
People talk bad about they don't know
People talk bad when they can't see the truth
Like the way my heart goes crazy when you walk in the room
You are the sad girl who lost a rocket
I had a dream about you about a year before we fell in love
You are still dragging the dream behind you
It is all that you can see
Even know it isn't real, it looks so big
But you can't see me
You are my everything, everyday
You ruin me for anybody else
You make all the old things blue
With the sound of your voice
And everywhere the way you move
You are my everything, everyday
You ruin me in all the right ways
When I break down you make me feel strong
When I loose my music, you help me find a new song
When I get my... I will spend it all to heal your world
I will build a rocket for the girl,
Someday, so please stop pushing me away
You gotta let go of the pain
Baby, you gotta let go
The way things used to be, oh
This life gets dark sometime
Good days can be hard to see
Now I'm good for you
You are perfect for me
You are my everything, everyday
You ruin me for anybody else
You make all the old things blue
With the sound of your voice
And everywhere the way you move
You are my everything, everyday
You ruin me in all the right ways
When I break down you make me feel strong
When I loose my music, you help me find a new song
When I get my... I will spend it all to heal your world
I will build a rocket for the girl,
I will build a rocket for the girl,
I will build a rocket for the girl,
I will build a rocket for the girl,

There was smoke in the air
Then it came around
And saw he was really alone
Memories look like blood in the water
Sweet and ugly thing, just like confetti in the rain
He was known for his bad time manner
He wanted to believe that people only hear what they see
He had a good time being the bad guy
He didn't wanna understand why
That old song makes him cry
I remember when it felt like we were walking with god
Little heaven when the sun goes down
Walking in hand in hand down on the promenade
He was alone, in a dark room overlooking the mall
With a gun in his hand, and no one to call
He was waiting for a reason... then run
Just like photos in a window, that turned blue in the sun
People used to call it a... down
Now with medicates can make it go away, yeah, yeah
We used to call it a mid life crisis
He just sits and looks and pictures themselves
On way back in the day
Remember when it felt like we were walking with god
Getting stupid in a stolen car
Making love in the... behind the promenade
Think I need to slow it down
Think I need to slow my all
I need to put the gun down
I feel so lost, I feel so out of control
I broke myself in pieces to make my name
I broke those people dumb enough to get in my way
Now I look in the mirror and I can't see me
I can just swallow the world
And still be hungry
Remember when it felt like we were walking with god
Holding in with my dad and my mom
Walking in the left to see the center
On the promenade
Na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na na
Remember when it felt like we were walking with god
Remember when it felt like we were walking with god
Remember, remember, remember
Remember when it felt like we were walking with god

Yes, I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the place
That I've been made in the world today
I get all sticky inside
When I close my eyes
And I open up wide
I see pictures in the clouds
So obscene I gotta laugh out loud
I look back to find my way
Reminisce and laugh about the good old days
Yeah, when I saw my brother above me
I remember the words he said
When you dream you hit bottom
Chances are good you're gonna wake up dead
I'll be up on top when the sky falls down
And it all goes wrong again
Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It all goes wrong.
Yes I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the sins
That I inflict on my own skin
I pay money to cut and burn
Pictures like the lessons that I need to learn
I see faces on the ceiling
I see them move, I hear them singing
I lay back in here by myself
I think about the time that I've spent in hell
When I saw my brother below me
I remember the words he said
When you leave you wake up happy
Then you'll sleep right in your own warm bed
I'll be singing in the rain when the bad dreams com
And It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh, I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh, Woh I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong
Where are you gonna be
When it all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down
Where are you gonna be
When It all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down on you
I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top when the sky falls down
And It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Woh, Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Again and again
I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong
Yeah, when it all goes wrong again
Aw, when it all goes wrong again
Oh, When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again

There is a dream I used to have
My dream swallowed me whole
There is a bridge where I hate to go
That is where I first saw her
High on the bridge I seen her red hair shining
There is a girl I never knew
She was my Aunt Virginia
They said that she, she just disappeared
They said I look just like her
High on the bridge I seen her dancing, waving to me there
She smiled and raised her head
Then she took to the air
There is a dream I can't escape
My memories come back to me
There is a hell I can't escape
My memories come back to me
I heard the truth about it
Pictures and headlines hidden away
I heard the truth about my real mom
Jumping from the bridge that day
Now I know why ever since I was 3 years old
Been having the same nightmare
Now I know the truth about Virginia

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your downtime
I don't want to be your stupid game
With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
I will try and shake away this disease
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
I am still dreaming of you face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away
I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fall back crutch anymore
I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die

Never been here, never coming back
Never want to think about the things
That happened today
Want to lay down on the warm ground
I think I'm going to need a little time to myself
Don't fall down now
You will never get up
Don't fall down now
I ask you for a slow ride
Going nowhere
You look like Satan
You ask me if I want to get high
Couple of bags down in old town
You tie your arm and
Ask me if I wanted to drive
Don't fall down now
You will never get up
Don't fall down now
Last thing I recall
I was in the air
I woke up on the street
Crawling with my strawberry burns
Ten long years in a straight line
They fall like water
Yes, I guess I fucked up again
Don't fall down now
You will never get up

Let's just drive your car
We could drive all day
Let's just get the hell away from here
For I am sick again
Just plain sick to death
Of the sound of my own voice
We could leave behind another wasted year
Get some cheap red wine and just go flying
We could do the things,
All the things you wanted to
No one cares about us anyway
I think I lost my smile
I think you lost yours too
We have lost the power to make each other laugh
Let's just leave this place
And go to Summerland
Just a name on the map
Sounds like heaven to me
We could find a town
Be just how we want to be
No one here really cares about us anyway
We could find a place
Make it what we want it to be
No one really gives a fuck about us anyway
We could live just like we want to live
No one here really cares about us anyway
We could be everything we want to be
We could get lost in the fall
Glimmer sparkle and fade
The sparkle and fade
Fall glimmer sparkle and fade
Forget about our jobs at the record store
Forget about all the losers that we know
Forget about all the memories that keep you down
Forget about them
We could lose them in the sparkle and fade
We could leave them behind in the sparkle and fade
Yeah sparkle and fade

Today, medical science recognizes
That some folks aren't helped by relaxing exercises
In cases of difficult tension and nervous apprehension
Doctors are now prescribing medicine
It makes those who fear they're about to quit
Feel like they're ready to begin
Bidding their darkened spirits goodbye

I wish my life was like a John Hughes movie
Good times and easy on the dark side
I wish my life was like a John Hughes movie
Bright lights, always looking for a better life
We were looking for each other
In the bars on the west side
We were looking for the summer
When it's cold outside
This is going to be good
Life is coming up aces
Everything is coming up aces
We found a way to make money out of
Broken boys and difficult girls
Reality is wonderful
We were... waiting
For the world to begin
Things are so much better now
I have a good reason to
Want to get wasted again
We were slumming for a buzz
In a place that used to be the old school
We were happy for the pain of being
Lame enough to want to look cool
I really think that this is going to be good
Life is coming up aces
Everything is coming up aces
We can make a good living out
Of broken lives and empty hearts
Ain't this entertaining watching people fall apart
We were wasting time waiting
For the world to begin
Things are so much better now
I have a good reason to
Want to get wasted again
Black... , white trash
There isn't any limit to the shame
These people have
Good people do bad things
Have sex with an ex in the bathroom
On their wedding day
Pretty faces with no soul
Everybody needs a chance to
Win themselves a better life
Everybody wins a better life
Everybody wins a better life
Everybody wins a better life

There is this rumor about
They say you're leaving Nehalem
Ever since our baby died
You've been seen with another guy
The whole damn town is talking now
They say you're leaving Nehalem
Hey don't you want me to go?
Hey don't you want me?
They say you're losing your mind
They say you're leaving Nehalem
You know how the bad words get around
Big noise in a hard small town
Tell me if you want me to go
Just tell me if you want me
They say you're leaving Nehalem
They say you're leaving me
Yeah, I know you need to break away
I don't give a fuck about what those people say
I hope you find everywhere you go
All the good things that you need to know
They say you're losing your mind
They say you're leaving Nehalem
There is this rumor out
They say you're leaving Nehalem

Amanda is in love with the sight of the moon
She's got pale green stars in her room
Right above her bed
Put them on the ceiling
Leave on the light
When the sun goes down then the stars might shine
Shining in the dark
Skinny little girl in her room alone
She's got hell to spare in her home
If you can call it a home
Doesn't want to be like anybody else
When no one is around she talks to herself
I can hear her in the night
Hey, hey yeah
It's hard on a girl
When the blood won't come when it ought to come
It's hard on a girl
When you try to walk around on the shaky ground
Hey, hey
Daddy's going away
Scared little girl watching Aladdin on TV
Amanda always cries when you yell at me
Yeah, please don't yell at me
Climb up all the stairs
Close the door
Doesn't want to hear us fighting anymore
Yeah, better call it a day
Hey, hey yeah
It's hard on a young girl
She thinks it's all her fault when it all goes wrong
It's hard on a grown man too
See my baby crying at the window calling out my name
Hey, hey
Daddy's going away

Shine
Shine
Open up your life and shine your light
Shine
Open up and show the freak inside
Words don't mean nothing
His words don't mean nothing
He has no shame
He will say anything
Just to get what he needs
He says he needs
The right girl
To heal his hurt
And change his world
He will say anything
To make her think
He is the man
She wants him to be
Shine
Open up your life and shine your light
Shine
Open up and show the freak inside
The girl had a good plan
To find herself a good man
The kind of guy that you hear about
But you never seem to meet
She hides
Behind those bright eyes
Fake smiles and sex
And white lies
Yeah
She is
Trying too hard
To be the way
That she thinks
She's supposed to be
Come on
Shine
Shine
Shine
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
I want to see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
Come on
Let me see you
Open up and shine your light
Open up and show the world
The freak inside
You are afraid to shine
To see what's deep inside
Go find your freak and let it drive
You are afraid to shine
To see what's deep inside
Go find your freak and let it glide
You sing the same old song
Been in the dark too long
There is so much more than meets the eye
Don't be afraid to shine
Go find out who you are inside
Just go and find your freak and let it fly
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
Let me see you
Shine
Shine
I want to see you
Shine
Shine
Come on let me see you
Shine
Shine
Shine
Come on
Shine
Let me see you
Open up and shine your light
Open up and show the world
The freak inside

I don't want to hear you say you're sorry
I don't want to hear you say we can start all over again
I think you must think that I am stupid
Well I might be stupid for the rest of my life
But I'll never be stupid to you again
I just want it all to go away
Yeah, just go away
Yeah
I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song
I don't want to hear your preaches
Cause I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new day
I'm not going to settle for less
I don't think things are going to change
I just want it all to go away
I don't want to hear about your damage
I don't want to hear you say that you think I'm damaged too
Because I know you know that the damage in me
Is from the horrible things you say and do
I know that the damage in me comes from the damage in you
I just want it all to go away
I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song
I don't want to hear your preaches
Cause I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new day
I'm not going to settle for less
I don't think things are ever gonna to change
I just want it all to go away
Yeah, just go away
Yeah, I don't want to talk about it
I don't want to hear your lies
I don't want to talk about it
And I dont understand why you do not realize
I don't want to hear you say you're sorry
No, I don't want to hear you say we can start all over again
Whoa, I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song
And I don't want to know your reasons
Cause I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new day
I can picture the lives without you
And I don't think things are ever gonna change
I just want it all to go away
I can see the light above me
The sound of a brand new song
I don't want to know your reasons

Yes, I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the place
That I've been made in the world today
I get all sticky inside
When I close my eyes
And I open up wide
I see pictures in the clouds
So obscene I gotta laugh out loud
I look back to find my way
Reminisce and laugh about the good old days
Yeah, when I saw my brother above me
I remember the words he said
When you dream you hit bottom
Chances are good you're gonna wake up dead
I'll be up on top when the sky falls down
And it all goes wrong again
Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It all goes wrong.
Yes I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the sins
That I inflict on my own skin
I pay money to cut and burn
Pictures like the lessons that I need to learn
I see faces on the ceiling
I see them move, I hear them singing
I lay back in here by myself
I think about the time that I've spent in hell
When I saw my brother below me
I remember the words he said
When you leave you wake up happy
Then you'll sleep right in your own warm bed
I'll be singing in the rain when the bad dreams com
And It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh, I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh, Woh I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong
Where are you gonna be
When it all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down
Where are you gonna be
When It all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down on you
I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top when the sky falls down
And It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Woh, Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Again and again
I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong
Yeah, when it all goes wrong again
Aw, when it all goes wrong again
Oh, When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your downtime
I don't want to be your stupid game
With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
I will try and shake away this disease
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
I am still dreaming of you face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away
I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fall back crutch anymore
I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die
Yeah watch the world die

The only thing that ever made sense to me
Is the words to a song from an American movie
The only thing that ever made sense in my life
Is the sound of my little girl laughing
Through the window of a summer night
I sit alone in the back yard
Wishing I could be inside
Just the sound of my little girl laughing