Teach Me To Breathe
Sandman blow a little sand in my eye
Knock me out twice, make me wise
I have never slept a day in my life
I could not cry myself to sleep
Spending the day getting ready to go out wondering which
mask to wear
Twisting the crank in the oxygen tank whisper a prayer in
the air
Please teach me to breathe
Remind me how I can't remember
Please read me the theme
You've lost the plot the story's dismembered
I miss my mom. She misses me
I could never let her know that I am here
A sweetheart like me in a dump like this
Milkman give a little sweet stuff to me
Know I'd kinda like to go for a walk
Talk with myself and work it out
If I only just remembered to breathe I'd understand what
you see
Never Recover
When you said you didn't like me I thought
I cared
I realized I was just worried about myself
I had never dealt with myself and I was so damn scared
I felt like nothing to everybody else
Seems like I'll never recover from losing
my lover
I just don't know what I'm gonna do
And I'm taking the blame and I'm so ashamed
Cause I'm sitting here thinking of you
So don't you ever call me
Don't you ever call me
Why'd you ever give that number to me
I never liked that machine
I think you know what I mean
I just don't have a message to leave
Seems like I'll never recover from losing
my lover
I just don't know what I'm gonna do
And I'm taking the blame and I'm so ashamed
Cause I'm sitting here thinking of you
Oh you gave me the strength
And you gave me that smile
I don't know how long ago I don't know how many miles
But I'm thinking of you
And how you knew what to do
And I know that you did it for me
Seems like I'll never recover from losing
my lover
I just don't know what I'm gonna do
And I'm taking the blame and I'm so ashamed
Cause I'm sitting here thinking of you
Faces &
Names
There was something in the air that day
Like gunpowder or sulfur
And soon a wild migration came from upstairs like a storm
I was at a costume party and although nobody noticed me
I mingled there stark naked All my emperor's clothes were
torn
And suddenly the sprinkler system ran the makeup down her
dress
And I must confess I had forgotten who I went to meet there
Something was not right right there
And there I saw you five years later like someone I'd never
seen before
And my life flashed before me and exploded into flames
Now I just sit back and laugh cause the only thing that's
changed
Are the faces and the names
So I thought I'd say hello but that building
it was burning
And you turned and ran away just like the vision I remember
Right then I got run over by a local politician
Who had said that segregation would be good for education
So there I was stark naked with a racist policitian in about
three feet of water in a building that was burning
We looked to find an exit then he said he owned the building
I was breathing in the suffocation blowing out the air
And my life flashed before me and exploded into flames
Now I just sit back and laugh cause the only thing that's
changed
Are the faces and the names
And had knocked myself unconcious at
the time I felt like drowning
When I came to I was rolling through emergency room doors
They left me in the waiting room with work related head-wound
victims
Wondering what happened and still bleeding on the floor
And sitting there my grade-school teacher stared at me and
said what happened son you could have been someone could
have been so much more
And I thought about that party and my fine fair-weathered
friends
And that burning building and those folks I'd never see
again
And my life flashed before me and exploded into flames
Now I just sit back and laugh cause the only thing that's
changed
Are the faces and the names
