Evil S I yes to find a shore,
A beach that doesn't quiver anymore,
And we can crush some plants to paint my walls,
And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars
Was I? I was too lazy to bathe
Or paint or write even try to make a change.
Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch
And I don't have to love or think too much
Instant battle plans written on the sidewalk
Mental mystics in a twisted metal car
Try to amplify the sound of light and love
Christ is cursed of faders and maders
Might even take a knife to split a hair
Or even scare the children off my lawn
Giving us time to make the makeshift bombs
Every mess invested was a score
We couldn't use computers anymore
But it's difficult to win unless you're bored,
And you might have to plan for the weekend wars
Try to break my heart I'll drive to Arizona.
It might take 100 years to grow an arm
I'll sit and listen to the sound of sand and cold
Twisted diamond heart, I'm the weekend warrior
My predictions are the only things I have
I can amplify the sound and light and love
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,
When I open up my mouth,
There's a reason I don't win,
I don't know how to begin
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,
When I open up my mouth,
There's a reason I don't win,
I don't know how to begin
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,
When I open up my mouth,
There's a reason I don't win,
I don't know how to begin
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,
When I open up my mouth,
There's a reason I don't win,
I don't know how to begin
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,
I'm feeling rough I'm feeling raw
I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money
Find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris shoot some heroin
And fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars
This is our decision
To live fast and die young
We've got the vision
Now lets have some fun
Yeah, it's overwhelming
But what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices
And wake up for the morning commute?
Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I'll miss the playgrounds
And the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and
The weight of the world
I'll miss my sister miss my father
Miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom
And the time spent alone
But there is really nothing
Nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten
Life can always start off anew
The models will have children
We'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models
Everything must run its course
We'll choke on our vomit
That will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I said yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
I just shook the handshake
I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them
Take everything they can steal
People always told me
Don't forget your roots
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots
You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds and you watch it go
Your fairweather friends on a parachute binge get lost when the wind blows
The handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue
It tastes like death but it looks like fun
I was a loner
I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress
Rose to bring me happiness and wealth
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
You can call all the people you want
But it's you who's being used
Under your black eyes, honey
Right beneath your nose
A curse on all creation
Every single thing you know
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store
Little girl
You convince yourself that you want it, but you don't know
You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won't go
We're gonna keep you on the run
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
He spends his time
or maybe half of his time
or part of the time wandering
'round the creeks and cobble stones of hackney lanes
with a tear in his eye
as the children walk by, he's thinking of a song
then stops to paint a picture of a frown
walking around
Dan Treacy's smile
leaves you trying to decide who's the victim, what's the crime?
no rest for the mind
that's seen it all before
and I don't know where he lives
but he's a myth of a man
and TexasBob the cameraman
is off to fix his sit before the show
yeah, but where did he go?
to know when your time's up
you flip the glass and watch the hours quickening
oh oh oh oh oh
in the back of the station
fluorescent lights about to quit their flickering
well he speaks his mind
he says "what is crime?"
Dan Treacy's eyes
In the middle of the park
when the underground is dark,
he's a poet he's a lark
he starts thinking about a place that no one knows
and when the creeks run dry
he stays frozen in time
strange lights in the sky
start blinking
I can see the car outside but he's listening
he's listening
and he's making up his mind
He made his mind up
to get things done and overcome
He made his mind up
yeah he's gonna let it go
he made his mind up
in the park and at the station
he made his mind up
yeah, he's gonna get it done
he made his mind up
ooh yeah he's gonna get it done
he made his mind up
yeah, he's gonna let it go, uh oh
no matter the time
oh oh
when the creeps run by
oh no
he's making his mind up
oh oh oh oh
yeah he's gonna get it done whoa
oh yeah, when the creeks run dry whoa oh
yeah, he's gonna listen to his soul,
yeah, when the creeps walk by and say
"come here boy, look me in the eye"
bow to the heart, back to the beat of
Someone's telling the toll to me
I'm cut and I'm weeping like a rubber tree
but I don't care who's left behind
lost revelations that I'll never find
in the long hall pipes are whispering
blues prepared for anti-christening
somewhere there's an honest soul
to mirror teeth where neon lures troll
and what's extinct might come alive
a purple smoke in some internal shrine
with a long sigh let the hissing in
stones deformed by gentle kissing and
all the closed eyes start to glisten
but it feels like someone's missing
Sleep as the goer
The bridge that watches the light speed thru
And cries while the spirit stumbles
And inside missile for the protection of you
Maybe it's siletn
The voice can't bear anymore strain
But speak without even knowing
And streams outside in the direction of truth
There's no reason there's no secret to decode
If youc an't save it, leave it dying on the road
Wide open arms can feel so cold
So cold
Feel so cold
Balance the books, the ledges, the loons
The disappointed look on the faces
That squint at the moon
Let's see it with shadows enhance
And then vote to decide who'll advance
Silver jet plane, making a turn
Exciting the brain that expects it to crash and then
burn
It's not the life lesson I'd've guessed
If you're conscious you must be depressed
Or at least cynical
But someone might still eat the steaks
Even if they're tough
Spending the day
Chewing the fat
Floating away isn't roguh but it's not enough
Oh marianne, pass me the joint
The sandpaper's tan
Go-getters are surfing the point
And london's a cratch on the lens
It's over before it begins
Silk 'round her neck falls down to her shoulders
The older I get, the more I suspect there's a trick
But really there's no trip at all
That doesn't result in a fall
Or a faltering
But something might spit out the bait
Even if it's real
Rolling away
Missing a spoke
Close to the ground like a wheel but it's not enough
Holding th eline
Clutching the phone
Nobly wasting the night, but it isn't right
It's not right
Smelling for blood
Praying for rain
Running away isn't rough, but it's not enough
The low tide is telling me, when it's over,
To breathe in everything exposed
And comes back to cover me in a blanket
Being here's always changing tunes
The empty sky surrounds me but i can't see at all
Wide open arms can feel so cold
And you can sit beside me and tell me what it's
Worth
But I hope I die before i get sold
I hope I die before I get sold
I'd rather die before I get sold
If you find the soul that you lost
Frozen in a starry void
Take it within and hope the sight of blood
Can will signs of life to return
Back to the way that it was
Long before it made a noise
To keep on quietly reminding you
What's never created or destroyed
Wake as the swell peaks
The close-outs drowning the birds with roars
And howls scare the new unkindness
That picks and laughs at the carrion scene
Forces you see breath can always go into hiding
And wait 'til it passes over
When the world has turned
Paralyzed and wrong
Cold-blooded claws never offer
Anything at all
Past the point of love
Shattered and untied
Waiting to pick up the pieces
That make it out alright
But pieces of what?
Pieces of what?
Pieces of what doesn't matter anymore
Moonlight on my floor
Shining through the roof
They got the city surrounded
As if I needed proof
I forgot my fear
Feel it's on the rise
Buried by all of the pieces
Falling from the sky
But pieces of what?
Pieces of what?
Pieces of what we used to call home
Lay my dragon's teeth
And shallow water steel
At the Belgian gates
Why'd you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
Don't you know about the temperature change
In the cold black shadow?
Are you mad at your walls
Or hoping that an unknown force can repair things for you?
Pardon all the time that you've thrown into your pale grey garden?
If the ship will never come you've got to move along
Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed
start
The falling apart
Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder
The waves of black
If she's going under I can hold my breath till the sky comes back
Or drown like a rat, rat, rat
He's a rat!
To catch a monster
We make a movie
Set the tempo
And cut and cut it's brains out
It will inspire on the burning pyre
Half the distance
Half the motion
Communication
There's a place I'd like to go somewhere out west
It's not specific, and the pictures show it best
I know there's trees I know there's sand
And I know there's grass
I know it's somewhere in the past
There's a girl out there who's lookin' for it too
She's not sure when she'll go or exactly what she'll do
If I am doomed am I the first one or the last?
Am I just someone from the past?
No one has to hear, the sound of people
Laughing at their fears, and the ocean
And sun are always there, to make you happy
If you're feeling scared of the darkness
If I ever saw a ghost it'd change the way I think
I wouldn't gasp for air if ever I did sink
I wouldn't struggle, I'd just let it all out fast
And then start living in the past
If we hold the hand that rapes the hand
And everyone can feel the hand
And nothing's gonna change
It could be the time we're living in
We'll never feel so safe again
You were a child,
crawlin' on your knees toward it.
Makin' mama so proud,
but your voice was too loud.
We like to watch you laughing.
You pick the insects off plants.
No time to think of consequences.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
The water is warm,
but it's sending me shivers.
A baby is born,
crying out for attention.
Memories fade,
like looking through a fogged mirror
Decision to decisions are made and not bought
But I thought,
this wouldn't hurt a lot.
I guess not.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
A family of trees wantin',
To be haunted.
Control yourself.
Take only what you need from it.
Hear you forgot
So I can see your faces
The eyes are bright
How will I know if it's working right?
Light confuses
The tiny isles of bruises
The mangled life
I see the signs of aging
And if I try to feel it all
I am deceived
My minds affected
It's empty now
It's all laid down
I feel alright
My heart is racing
Turn the noise on
I'd like to feed my poison
Assembly lines
Killing the velvet warning
To the yard
It's just like striking matches
The polished lives
But its working in the blood (working in your blood)
But you know its not the same as love
Love is only in your mind (only in your mind)
Not your heart
i like the line between your belly and your thighs
(rolling on rolling on)
the smell of your hair the sparkle in your eyes
(rolling on rolling on)
smoke on your breath breathing hot and heavy back of
your neck shining on the chevy the moon was so big when
i drove it to the levy girl
(rolling on rolling on)
i found blood and i saw stars
all in the backseat of your car
and i told you it was love but you wont know the truth
im a young man in my prime but my hearts still filled
with fear
and it goes on clear
the clean dreams sexy limousine
jasons got the energy used to be a coke fiend
skinny brown arms coming out of your shirt
heart is in the right place brain is in the dirt
you live life like everyones an enemy
i found blood and i saw stars
all in the backseat of your car
and i told you it was love but you wont know the truth
im a young man in my prime but my hearts still filled
with fear
and it goes on clear
i found blood and i saw stars
all in the backseat of your car
and i told you it was love but you wont know the truth
im a young man in my prime thats right but my hearts
still filled with fear
and it goes on clear
and it goes on clear
Hey I found a whistle that hangs like a charm
and when my noose is tied I could blow it
and fall down into your arms
15 centuries of dissolution and grief
to return a yellow trickster and a thief
Yeah I found a whistle that works every time
that's when the trail escapes to nowhere
and the flood erases the crime
such conviction
to paint all the wall with the blood
of the young and the faithful and the good
Yeah I found a whistle as thin as a sheet
to split the dumbness of a vision
between asleep and a sleep
tiny axes
repeatedly raising the flag
all ignored, real emotion's such a drag
Hey I've got a pistol that's aimed at your heart
and on dark nights when the moon is right
I could show you
the head attached with a scarf
aerophane sorceress, at home obeying the fates
when it's gone, has it gone all the way?
This time
found a whistle
that works every time
Yeah, I found a whistle
that works
hangs like a charm
Yeah, found a whistle
that works every time
Yeah, I found a whistle
that works
closes my mind every time
a whistle
I've got it,
I've got it,
And there were future reflections
On the face and the hands
On a green colored island
On a primitive man
It was the future reflected
It felt familiar but new
A street was missing a building
The kids had something to do
There was a feeling the spirit was leaving
Red like a marker
So my tribe, with my knife
Cut the heart from a lonely life
I saw patterns on floorboards
Deep in the dust was a leader
Someone was walking on floorboards
Turned them from oak to cedar
He can assess the situation
I wrapped a string around my finger
Into the forest with the young ones
I don't expect to be a winner
But as long as you feel it
I'm a believer
My heart is phosphor
Sea rolls and death tolls
Break the surface don't break my bones
Off of the trail and off of your hands and
Onto a new plan
Is the cost to stay lost
Forever in an empty skin
Pale and thin
If it's good, or if it's fortune, I can't tell
But pieces come together for some reason just as well
Their guns couldn't see us
There's a sea outside my door
And one day I'll appreciate
The rush of blood and the washed out beat of the shore
And remember what it felt like
To be alone
Sitting in the sunlight
Mild apprehension
Blank dreams of the coming fun
Distort the odds of a turnaround
Gut screams out next to none
So turn it on, tune it in
And stay inert
You say "I've got the backbone"
the back way to escape the gun
Climbing a tree with a missing limb
And not saving anyone
And now it hurts to stay at home
and see flash the mirror ball's throwing mold
you can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold
see the flash catch a white lily laugh and wilt
but if you must smash a glass first fill it to the hilt
Plants, as far as i know are still,
still bending toward the light
and if we dance
until the heart explodes
it'll make this place ignite
and even if this hall collapses
I can stand by my pillar of hope it's just
a case of Flash delirium
Here's a growing culture
Deep inside a corpse
Ages stuck together
Takin it to the source
Timeless desperation
Pictures on a screen scream
"Hey people, what does it mean?"
Comfort keeps us nice
So quick to donate everything
die wolken drifting blinding smiles circling (einkreisen)
and time's tingling spines
attaching hands to floor
the rosy-tinted flash
The hot dog's getting cold
and you'll never be as good as the Rolling Stones
watch the birds in the airport gathering dirt
crowd the clean magazine chick lifting up her skirt
(why close one eye and try to
pledge allegiance to the sun
when plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone
geometric troops aligning
carried up to the burial mounds
my earthbound heart is heavy
your heartbeat keeps things light
with the violence forever threatening the night
and even if this hall collapses
I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust)
lines when I close my eyes and just
aim blindly at the sun
and hear love
when the ghosts start singing terrorizing everyone
geometric troops aligning
carried up to the burial mounds with gold
it's a heavy load but your
you rhythm makes it light and explode
like a violent star keeps threatening the night
and even if this hall collapses
I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust
that our heads won't bust
66 55 red battleships
40 earthlike planets
3 holes 2 tits
1 fork in its side
zero tears in their eyes
sue the spiders
sink the Welsh
stab your facebook
sell sell sell
undercooked
overdone
mass adulation not so funny
poisoned honey
pseudo science
silly money
all along the western front
people line up to receive
she got the power in her hand
to shock you like you won't believe
saw her in the amazon
with the voltage running through her skin
standing there with nothing on
she gonna teach me how to swim
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
all along the eastern shore
put your circuits in the sea
this is what the world is for
making electricity
you can feel it in your mind
oh you can do it all the time
plug it in, change the world
you are my electric girl
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
Hi-Fi fellas and Lo-fi chicks
Hair is how we take you there.
Bones is how we make it now.
Now I'm after a walking disaster.
We live life we live it large,
in control taking charge.
You are soft and we are hard.
You don't desire to step to our fire.
You're gonna know if you keep on asking questions!
you're gonna know real soon!
you say, "Hey, I never fall,"
as you're falling down.
Your blood is all around you now,
but you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" you get against the wall!
yeah YOU get against the wall!
It's just the way the city smells.
It's just the way the rain falls now.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
WE BE THE RITALIN CALM YOU DOWN.
It's just the way you talk so loud.
It's just the way the bones fall down.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
WE BE THE RITALIN CALM YOU DOWN, OK?!
WE LOV EYOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
WE LOV EYOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
WE LOV EYOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
WE LOV EYOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
WE LOVE YOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
WE LOVE YOU IN GLACIAL WAYS.
yeah, but
You're gonna know, if you keep on asking questions!
you're gonna know real soon!
you say, "Hey, I never fall,"
as you're falling down.
Your blood is all around you now,
but you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" you get against the wall!
Dead in the water
It's not a paid vacation
The sons and daughters of city officials
Attend demonstrations
It's hardly a sink or swim
When all is well if the ticket sells
Out with a wimper
It's not a blaze of glory
You look down from your temple
As people endeavor to make it a story
And chisel a marble word
But all is lost if it's never heard
But I've got someone to make reports
That tell me how my money's spent
To book my stays and draw my blinds
So I can't tell what's really there
And all I need's a great big congratulations
I'll keep your dreams
You pay attention for me
As strange as it seems
I'd rather dissolve than have you ignore me
The ground may be moving fast
But I've tied my boots to a broken mast
The difference is clear
You throw it in your cauldron
Rust and veneer, dusk and dawn
Steinways and Baldwins
You start with a simple stock
Of all the waste and salt to taste
But damn my luck and damn these friends
That keep on combing back their smiles
I save my grace with half-assed guilt
And lay down the quilt upon the lawn
So tired
Soul searching
I followed the sounds to a cathedral
imagine my surprise to find that they were produce by Brian Eno
past the gates
quite stark
the roses trimmed and the windows dark
I see the walls through a limestone crack
not red not blue not yellow but black
and all the space left for you
if the sky was synthesized you'd probably know
he taught me many things
the wisdom of o bleak stratagems
the prophet of a sapphire soul
presented through creative freedoms
and everything i say is true
cuz if i was telling lies it'd probably show
i can tell that he's kind of smiling
but what does he know?
we're always one step behind him, he's Brian Eno
Brian Eno
when I was stuck he'd make me memorize elaborate curses
tinctures and formulas to ditch the choir and flip the verses
my whole foundation came unglued
when i tried to humanize by ambient light
dipping swords in metaphors yeah but what does he know?
he's go the whole world behind him he's Brian Eno
Brian Eno!
he promised pretty worlds and all the silence
I could dream of Brian peter George St John Le
Baptiste De La Salle Eno
well all alone by the oldest stone where the shade
trees grow the creature by the water feature with a
ghostly glow making sure that time's preserved
well we reap what we sow he's go the whole
Riding in your tank like you own it, oh
You keep on riding in your tank like you own it, uh
I said you know I wanna check out your componients, uh
Girl, you know i wanna check out your componients
Bombing up the place like you own it, oh
You keep on bombing up the place like you own it, oh
I said you got the good stuff baby, won't you flaunt
it, oh yeah
You got the good stuff baby won't you flaunt it, gonna
flaunt it.
Said It's cool, you're tounching my hand
Yeah it's cool, its cool, where we riding too?
So come on sugar, you're touching my hand
Yeah it's cool it's cool, where we riding to?
So look out
I'm playing my guitar like I own it, oh
I keep on playing my guitar like I own it, yeah
I said you know you wanna check out my componients,
yeah
That's right you know you wanna check out my
componients
You're touching on my hand like you own it, oh
You keep on touching on my hand lik eyou own it, uh
I said you got the good stuff baby won't you flaunt it,
yeah
I said you got the good stuff baby won't you flaunt it
Gonna flaunt it, yeah
Said it's cool, youre touching my hand
Yeah it's cool
It's cool, where we riding to?
So come on sugar, touching my hand
Yeah it's cool, it's cool, where we riding to?
So come on
yeah come on
so where we riding to?
Yeah come on
so come on
Sometimes the windows combine with the seams
In a way
That twitches on
A peak at the place
Where the spirit was slain
Hey!
One foot leads to another
Nights for sleep, blue curtains, covers
Sequins in the eyes
That’s a fine time to dine
Divine who’s circling
Feeding the cards to the midwives
Love those alien days
The nonstop alien days
Ooh, the alien days
Must’ve skipped the ship and joined the team
For a ride
A couple hours to learn the controls
And commandeer both my eyes
Hey!
Be quick dear, times are uncertain
One month crawling, next year blur
Decades in the drain
Monograms on the brain
Decide what’s working
And what’s moved on to the last phase
The floodgate alien days
I love those alien days
Ooh, the alien days
When the peels are down
It feels like traveling in style
You don’t need wings to hover
Forty ton stones for a mile
And in the summer, virgin visions
Mindless humming
Numbers can’t decide
If the day’s supposed to smile
Today we find infinite ways it could be
Any worse
It’s a blessing and it’s also a curse
Those days have taught me everything I know
How to catch a feeling
And when to let it go
How all the scheming, soulless creatures
Can’t find dreamer’s honey in the hive
If it’s right beneath their nose
And when the light is new
The sky shows trembling cartoons
You don’t need smoke to cover
Most of the world in a gloom
But here comes racer number 7
Watch my fingers
Ripping out the lines
If it looks like we could lose
If it looks like we could lose
If it looks like we could lose
There comes a certain time when we should contemplate
the end of everything familiar as we know it
we will not follow the same path tomorrow as yesterday
Oh the way i slowly lose my mind
it just reminds me i should limit my
time on selfish things i don't need anyway
I don't know where im going
i don't know where i was
i just know that i need you wherever I end up
and if i lose my head you'll help me see where i should go
As simple as a message to me as can be (as can be)
i only want something to let me know you're here
Oh the way i slowly lose my mind
it just reminds me i should limit my
time on selfish things i don't need anyway
I don't know where im going
i don't know where i was
i just know that i need you wherever I end up
and if i lose my head you'll help me see where i should go
If my mind slowly disintegrates into something useless
will i still have your sweet embrace to keep me company?
Will i have still have that sweet embrace to keep me company?
I don't know where im going
i don't know where i was
i just know that i need you wherever I end up
I'm a melancholy man, that's what I am,
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground.
I'm a very lonely man, doing what I can,
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we're going to keep growing, wait and see.
When all the stars are falling down
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind,
A beam of light will fill your head
And you'll remember what's been said
By all the good men this world's ever known.
Another man is what you'll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery,
he doesn't think like you and me,
'Cause he can't see what you and I can see.
When all the stars are falling down
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind,
A beam of light will fill your head
And you'll remember what's been said
By all the good men this world's ever known.
Another man is what you'll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery,
(Melancholy man) he doesn't think like you and me,
(Very lonely man) 'Cause he can't see what you and I can see.
I'm a melancholy man,
(When all the stars are falling down)
that's what I am
(Into the sea and on the ground,)
All the world surrounds me
(And angry voices carry on the wind,)
and my feet are on the ground
I'm a very lonely man,
(A beam of light will fill your head)
doing what I can
(And you'll remember what's been said)
All the world astounds me
(By all the good men this world's ever known.)
and I think I understand
That we're going to keep growing, wait and see.
(When all the stars are falling down)
I'm a melancholy man
(Into the sea and on the ground,)
That's what I am
(And angry voices carry on the wind,)
All the world surrounds me
(A beam of light will fill your head)
I'm a very lonely man
(And you'll remember what's been said)
Doing what I can
(By all the good men this world's ever known.)
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
(Another man is what you'll see,)
That we're gonna keep growing
(Who looks like you and looks like me,)
Just you wait and see
(And yet somehow he will not feel the same,)
Oh, believe me, believe me, believe me!
(His life caught up in misery,)
I'm a melancholy man...
Lying in my room quiet late one night
Something I could see made me check my sight
Something very strange made me walk outside
So I walked outside like this real cool
Nothing to lose and I knew I should
Ever since she told me that I was no good
It was no good
I knew it would be
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
But it looks like you
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
But she looks like you
She looks like you...
It's the time of year when the flowers dies
It's the kind of night when a ghost will rise
Searching for a girl with the dancing eyes
Who can stay all day but leave next night
Instincts should have told me it would work out right
Now I'm very nervous I leave all my life
But I walk outside and I walk outside and it's
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
But she looks like you[x4]
She looks like you...
Listen to her voice go around my head
Comes to me at night when I'm in my bed
"Could be going crazy" is what they said
And what they said is I'm no good
Told me to leave you, I really think I should
Haunted by your face everywhere I look
But I walk outside and I walk to far and it's
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
But it looks like you
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
But she looks like you[x2]
Shadow...
Only a shadow
Only a shadow
all we ever wanted was everything
all we ever got was cold
get up, eat jelly
sandwhich bars, and barbed wire
squash every week into a day
the sound of drums is calling
the sound of the drum has called
flash of youth shoot out of the darkness
factorytown
Metanoia, reshaping the world
It can teach you
And reprogram you
It can show you the flood
That's trapped inside
This one's alive
The tail is breathing
And she's listening
Kill the serpent
Divide, disperse and grow
Into an oak
A silver lining on a black scale
Wicked hunter on three hooves he still rode
But where is the fourth?
You can climb there
To your lofty perch
It can teach you the fairytale of hurt
Mystic referee, don't look on me with scorn
I'm a child, I'm a lover being born
Satchidananda
Disregard the path I'm on
You can justify the action, should you bless
My ambition and my indecisiveness
Satchidananda
Let me know that you exist
Watch me tremble as I'm answering the phone
I am separate from everything you know
Mystic referee I promise to return
Once I've given up and lessons have been learned
Satchidananda
You can watch my fire burn
We were talking junk right,
Just before the show
This wild-eyed kid came up to the fence
He took one look at us, and he said:
"Help me,
Drummer,
Ticket,
Yeah!"
We didn't play his favourite song,
Now he'll never come to another show...
Hospitals and woods confirm
Red in the eyes of everyone
Parasites and lovers scrape the meat from bones
Turned into jade and tiger's eye
Save me some dark hair over a face like hers
She'll help the rain come to a pour
Bathroom floor of stone and tiles broke in two
Warm where they touch her porcelain
Timid skin I'm careful to untie this road
Wrapped in a knot indifferent
Lion's foot unearthing all the things I've seen
But never truly understood
Rotten wood from oceans that were never green
Crumbles beneath the canopy
Secretly
Let's pretend we never touched the sugar
Tonight, under rose
You won't find another wheel to roll
When autumn winds appear
We wear these fears on our right
It just wants to be surreal 'cause
All dressed in diamond image jeans
Mercury's found in old field
We miserable in love
And chance we walked
Right on in, into the streets of the city but
Watching people disappear
Without reaching out
Years and years
You're left by yourself
This is a call to arms to live and love and sleep together
We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever
Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout
Wave your hands, make it rain, the stars will rise again
The youth is starting to change
Are you starting to change?
Are you together?
In a couple of years
Tides have turned from boos to cheers
And in spite of the weather
We can learn to make it together
The youth is starting to change
Are you starting to change?
Are you together?
I just shook the handshake, I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them take everything they can steal
People always told me don't forget your roots
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots
[You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds and you watch it goYour fairweather friends on a parachute binge get lost when the wind blowsThe handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongueIt tastes like death but it looks like fun]
I was a loner, I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress rose to bring me happiness and wealth
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
You can call all the people you want, but it's you who's being used
Under your black eyes, honey right beneath your nose
A curse on all creation every single thing you know
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store
Little girl
You convince yourself that you want it, but you don't know
You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won't go
We're gonna keep you on the run
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
We got the handshake
I feel your racing heart
My liquid silver arms extended
These waves aren't far apart
Black gold in clawfoot tubs unchanging
I am fire, where's my form?
Whisper crimson I intrude
There's light beneath your eyes
New overtones in view
Endless form, endless time
If what they say is true
You are a shadow in fourth dimension
To float away with you
We see the corners where nothing happens
While we drifted we were one
Ceilings lifted walls were gone
You speak the language of the breeze
All your leaves were meant for me
The love that every person wants to be
Stuck together, I don't like revealing secrets
I'll live inside your lips if you won't laugh
My heaving hands on rotten fruit at last
Fallow fingers, there's a surface I can count on
She'd fit inside my heart and take it over
Till her cape got blown into my red lungs
Either there's a purpose
Or I'm heading out at breakfast
Take a drink, take a drag
One more coffee, ugly hat
No more mirrors, woolen bag
