ONCE
I admit it...what's to say...yeah...
I'll relive it...without pain...mmm...
Backstreet lover on the side of the road
I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode
I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes, I play...
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...
Oh, try and mimic what's insane...ooh, yeah...
I am in it...where do I stand?
Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat
I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat
I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet...I
pray...
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah...
You think I got my eyes closed
But I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time...
Ooh, once upon a time I could control myself,
yeah...
Once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Once, upon a time I could love myself, yeah...
Once upon a time I could love you, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Once (4x)
Yeah...once, once...yeah, yeah...
Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah...oww...
ALIVE [ver
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Son, she said, have I got a little story
for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a...
While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin', sorry you didn't see him, but
I'm glad we talked...
Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey...oh...
Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's
room
She said I'm ready...for you
I can't remember anything to this very day
'Cept the look, the look...
Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare...
I, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Hey I, boy, I'm still alive
Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah
Ooh yeah...yeah yeah yeah...oh...oh...
Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...
I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
EVEN FLOW
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made
of concrete, again
Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little better set a days,
ooh yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar,
ooh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane,
oh yeah
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away, yeah...ooh...
Oh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again...life again...life
again...
Kneelin', looking through the paper though
he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him
anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its
way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of
shame, yeah...
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away, yeah...
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead, lead him away...him away,
him away...
Yeah! Woo...ah yeah...fuck it up...
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away...
Ooh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead, lead him away...him away...him
away...
Yeah! Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, mommy, mommy...
JEREMY
At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops
with him on top
Lemin yellow sun, arms raised in a V
And the dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn't give attention
Oh, to the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world...
Jeremy spoke in class today... (2x)
Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Ooh, but we unleashed a lion...
Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast...
How can I forget?
And he hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin'...ooh, dropped wide open
Just like the day...oh, like the day I heard
Daddy didn't give affection, no...
And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today... (3x)
Woo... (14x)
Try to forget this...try to forget this...
Try to erase this...try to erase this...
From the blackboard...
Jeremy spoke in class today... (2x)
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in... (2x)
Jeremy spoke in class today...
Woo... (29x)
Woooooohhh...spoke in, spoke in...
Woooooohhh...uh huh, uh huh...
STATE OF LOVE AND
TRUST
Oh ...
State of love and trust as I busted down the pretext
Sin still plays and preaches, but to have an empty court,
uh huh
And the signs are passin', grip the wheel, can't read it
Sacrifice receiving the smell that's on my hands ... hands,
yeah
And I listen for the voice inside my head
Nothin', I'll do this one myself
Lay her down as priest does, should the lord
be a countin'
Will be in my honour, make it pain, painfully quick, uh
huh
Promises are whispered in the age of darkness
Want to be enlightened like I want to be told the end ...
end, yeah
And the barrel shakes and, a-directly at my head
Oh, help me, help me from myself
And I listen, from both sides of a friend
Nothin', I'll do this one myself
Myself ... myself
Yeah, yeah ...
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that's something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that's something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that's something
Wanna back, back it away, yeah
And I listen, oh, for the voice inside my head
Nothin', I'll do this one myself
Oh, ah, and the barrel waits, trigger shakes
Aimed right at my head, won't you help me
Help me from myself
Hmm ... state of love and trust, and a ...
State of love and trust, and a ...
State of love and trust, and a ...
State of love and ... yeah
ANIMAL
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five, against one
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
Torture from you to me
Abducted from the street
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
Why would you wanna hurt me, oh
Oh, so frightened of your pain...yeah...ooh...
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be... (2x)
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
Said one, two, three, four, five against
one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
GO
Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go out
on me now
Never acted up before, don't go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it
now
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on
Go...fuck...
Once fastened, servile, now your getting
sharp
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a full on fucking god
No...time...suck...my...Please...
Don't go on me (4x)
Please...oh...
Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see...
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me (4x)
Please...Don't you want me...don't go on me...
Please...don't go on me..
DISSIDENT
She nursed him there, ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay
What to say...what to say
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past...a holy no...
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold, oh...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here
And to this day, she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said, what a waste
When she had contact...with the conflict...
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...oh...oh...
She gave him away when she couldn't hold...no...she
folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...
Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place, oh...
A dissident is here
REARVIEWMIRROR
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive...
I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive
Saw things (4x)
Clearer (2x)
Once you, were in my...Rearview mirror...
I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...
Saw things so much clearer }
Once you, once you... } (3x)
Rearview mirror }
Saw things so much clearer
Once you...oh yeah...
SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE
See this needle...a see my hand...
Drop, drop, dropping it down...oh, so gently...
Well here it comes...I touch the plane...
Turn me up...won't turn you away...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...whoa...
Pull it out...a paper sleeve...
Oh, my joy...only you deserve conceit...
I'm so big...a-my whole world...
I'd rather you...rather you...than her...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...whoa...oh...
You're so warm...oh, the ritual...when I
lay down your crooked arm...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...
Spin the black (5x) circle
Spin the black circle... (4x)
Spin, spin... (6x)
CORDUROY [ver
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The waiting drove me mad...you're finally
here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back...can't let you roam inside my
head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the firmest path...oh, and I must
refuse your test
A-push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
And I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
And I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's
changed
Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my tincture
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your breast...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free... (2x)
Can't be what you want because I'm...
I ain't s'posed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate
you...
NOT FOR YOU
Restless soul, enjoy your youth
Like Muhammad hits the truth
Can't escape from the common rule
If you hate something, don't you do it too...too...
Small my table, a-sets just two
Got so crowded, I can't make room
Oh, where did they come from? Stormed my room!
And you dare say it belongs to you...to you...
This is not for you (3x)
Oh, not for you...ah, you...
...scream...my friends...don't call me...
...friends, no they don't scream...
...my friends don't call...my friends don't...
All that's sacred comes from youth
Dedication, naive and true
With no power, nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you...don't you...
This is not for you (3x)
Oh, never was for you...fuck you...
This is not for you...
Oh, this is not for you...yeah, you...
This is not for you...
Oh, not for you...
Oh, you...
I GOT ID
my life's a shaken, my nails are bit off
been a month since i heard myself talk
all the advantage this life's got on me
picture a cup in the middle of the sea
and i fight back in my mind
never let's me be right
i got memories, i got shit
so much it don't show
ohhhhhh i walked the line, when you held me in that night
walked the line, when you held my hand at night
oh an empty shell, seems so easy to crack
got all these questions don't know who i could even ask
so i'll just lie alone and wait for the train
where i'm not ugly and you're looking at me
and i'll stay in bed...
ohh i could not see you
if just once i could feel loved
i'll stay back and mean it
but i walked the line, when you held me in that night
ohh i walked the line when you held my hand that night
ohhh i walked the line when you held me close at night
paid the price, never held you in real life
my life's a shaken......
HAIL, HAIL
Ah, is there room for both of us? Both of
us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all we've got?
I get the words, and then I get to thinkin'
But I don't want to think, I want to feel!
How do I feel? And how do I...
If you're the only one, well I'll never be
enough, yeah...
Hail, hail, the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
A-how I love you till the day I die...ah,
and beyond...
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rollin' thick and heavy...all the past we carry...
Oh, I could be new...you underestimate me...
If you're the only one, well I'll never be enough, yeah...
Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
I sometimes realize...I could only be as
good as you'll let me...
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand...
Yeah...
I find it on my run in a race that can't
be won, yeah...
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
If you're my only one...so good, you only one...
I want to be your one...enough, you won...your one...your
hun...
DO THE EVOLUTION
I'm ahead, I'm the man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah
It's Evolution Baby!!
I'm a piece
I'm the man
I'm the stocks on the day of the crash, yeah
On the loose, I'm a truck
I'm a rolling, til I'll flatten 'em out, yeah
It's heard behavior, uh huh
It's evolution baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, here's my coat
Yeah, yeah,
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but live iresponsibly
It's Evolution Baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
Here's my church, I sing in the choir:
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, admire my clothes
Everynight a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothin' on me
Nothin', why?
Because…it's evolution baby
I am ahead. .I am advanced!
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah!
I crawled the earth, but now I'm hot
I tried to chill but you cooled to fire
It's evolution baby!
It's evoultion baaaaby!
Do The evolution!
Come on, come on, come on…
SAVE YOU
I'm gonna save you fucker,....not gonna lose
you
Feeling cocky and strong,.. can't let you go,...
Too important to me
Too important to us,... we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall,... I'm right below you now
And fuck me if I say something you don't
wanna hear.. and fuck me
And fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear
Fuck me if I care,... but I'm not leaving here
You helped me when I was down,... I'll help
when you're down
Why are you hitting yourself,... c'mon hit me instead
Let's pick up your will,... it's grown fat
and lazy
I'm sympathetic as well,... don't go on me now
And I'm not living this life without you,
I'm selfist and clear
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be
without
My best friend,... wake up to see you could have it all
Cause there is but you,... and something
within you
It's taken control,.. let's beat it, get up let's go
Oh you're in your own world, let's see the
whole world
Let's pick up your soul
And fuck me if I say something you don't
wanna hear... and fuck me
And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
Please help,... me,... to help you,... help yourself
Help me, help yourself,... please want me
to,... please let me to
Help you
BLACK
Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed
everything...
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed
everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...
Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll
be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine
BREATH
Oh, tonight began with anything.
Shaft of a light. A warm breath and a scream.
Ah, yeah.
Oh, tamper if you like between the doors.
Oh yeah. Huh. Huh.
Oh, can't expect to go out, to go out with anything, anything
more.
Oh reach the door. A breath and a...
Oh reach the door. And a la la la la yeah.
Life ain't what it's worth.
A breath and a... Oh reach the door.
All these reaching hands out grabbing things.
Grabbing me.
Day in day out accumulating. Ah yeah.
Whoa. I suggest you step out on your porch.
Oh yeah. Huh. huh. Huh huh, yeah.
Run away my son. See it all. Oh see the world.
Oh reach the door. A breath and a...
Oh reach the door. Oha and a la la la la yeah.
Life ain't what it's worth.
A breath and a... Oh reach the door.
Come. Here it comes. There it goes. When
it comes.
Where it goes. Where it comes.
Can't see through the faith. Woah.
Ooh. Come. Here it comes. There it goes.
Grasp what you can.
Don't you know there's something inside your head, yeah.
Oh, if I knew where it was I would take you
there but there's much more
than this.
Ooh. Whoa, much more than this. Woh see the world. Much
more than...
Oh, much more than. Why?
DAUGHTER
You guys ready...
Alone...listless...breakfast table in an
otherwise empty room
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention
The, mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me...
She holds the hand that holds her down
She will...rise above...ooh...oh...
Don't call me daughter, not fit to }
The picture kept will remind me } (2x)
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be }
The picture kept will remind me }
Don't call me...
The shades go down (2x)
The shades go, go, go...
ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER
IN A SMALL TOWN
I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)
I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my
fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
(2x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (3x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...
IMMORTALITY [ver
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Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place
so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
A truant finds home...and I wish to hold
on...
But there's a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...
As privileged as a whore...victims in demand
for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...
A truant finds home...and I wish to hold
on, too...
But saw the trapdoor in the sun...
Immortality...
I cannot stop the thought...I'm running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live...
Ohh...
BETTER MAN [ver
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Waitin', watchin' the clock, it's four o'clock,
it's got to stop
Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech
As he opens the door, she rolls over...
Pretends to sleep as he looks her over
She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better
man...
She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better
man...
Can't find a better man (2x)
Ohh...
Talkin' to herself, there's no one else who
needs to know...
She tells herself, oh...
Memories back when she was bold and strong
And waiting for the world to come along...
Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone
She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better
man...
She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better
man...
She lies and says she still loves him, can't find a better
man...
She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better
man...
Can't find a better man (2x)
Yeah...
She loved him, yeah...she don't want to leave
this way
She feeds him, yeah...that's why she'll be back again
Can't find a better man (3x)
Can't find a better...man...
Ohh...ohh...
Uh huh... (5x)
Ohh...
NOTHINGMAN
Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
She once believed...in every story he had
to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...oh...oh...oh...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Oh, she don't want him...
Oh, she won't feed him...after he's flown away...
Oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...
Burn...burn...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Nothingman... (2x)
Coulda' been something...
Nothingman...
Oh...ohh...ohh...
WHO YOU ARE
Come to send, not condescend
Transcendental consequences to transcend...
Where we are...Who are we? Who we are...
Trampled moss on your souls...
Changes all, you're a part...
Seen it all, not at all...
Can't defend the command...
Take me a for a ride before we leave...
Circumstance, clappin' hands...
A-driving winds, happenstance...
Off the track, in the mud...
That's the moss in the aforementioned verse...
...miraculous...and a little...
Just a little time, before we leave...
Stoplight plays its part...
So I would say you've got a part...
What's your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are...
OFF HE GOES
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4...
Know a man...his face seemed pulled and tense...
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds...
So I approach with tact...suggest that he should relax...
But he's always movin' much too fast...
Said he'll see me on the flipside
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on...
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes...
He's yet to come back...but I've seen his
picture...
It doesn't look the same up on the racks...
We go way back...
I wonder 'bout his insides...
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size...
He's been taken...where, I don't know?
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope...
There he goes...
And now I rub my eyes...for he has returned...
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
For he still smiles...and he's still strong...
Nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit, that has
grown...
And now he's home, and we're laughing, like
we always did...
My same old, same old friend...
Until a quarter-to-ten...
I saw the strain creep in...
He seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen
next...
Before his first step...he is off again...
GIVEN TO FLY
He could have tuned in...tuned in..but he
tuned out
A bad time, nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out
He got up out of their way, ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean, had a smoke and tea
The wind rose up, set him down on his knees
A wave came crashin' like a fist to the jaw
Delivered him.. wings high, look at him now
Arms wide open with the sea as he's flung
Oh how...ohhhh...
He is flyin...ohhh....high....whyyy....ohhhh.....
He floated back down cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere...
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed
By a faceless man, the fuckers
He still stands...
And he still gives his love, he just gives
it away
The love he receives is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky...
A HUMAN BEING THAT WAS GIVEN TO FLY
Flying....ohhhh....high....flying.....ohhhh.....he Is....flying.....ohhhh.....
WISHLIST
I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could
go off
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hang on
The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds
Or fifty million hands up raised and opened toward the sky
I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited
for me
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger and all the news is good
I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood
I wish I was an alien at home behind the
sun
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal break that you depended on
I wish I was the verb to trust and never let you down
(Fades Out)
I wish I was the radio song, the one that you couldn't turn
up
LAST KISS
where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord
took her away from
me. she’s gone to heaven, so i’ve got to be
good. so i can see my baby when i
leave this world.
we were out on a date in my daddy’s
car. we hadn’t driven very far. there in
the road, straight ahead. a car was stalled, the engine
was dead.
i couldn’t stop, so i swerved to the
right. i’ll never forget the sound that
night. the screamin tires, the bustin glass. the painful
scream that i heard
last.
oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord
took her away from me. she’s gone
to heaven, so i’ve got to be good. so i can see my
baby when i leave this world.
when i woke up the rain was pourin down.
there were people standin all around.
something warm flowing through my eyes. but somehow i found
my baby that night.
i lifted her head, she looked at me and said. hold me darling,
just a little
while. i held her close, i kissed her our last kiss. i found
the love that i
knew i had missed.
well now she’s gone. even though i
hold her tight. i lost my love, my life,
that night.
oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord
took her away from me. she’s gone
to heaven, so i’ve got to be good. so i can see my
baby when i leave this
world.
NOTHING AS IT SEEMS
Don't feel like home, he's a little out...
And all these words elope, it's nothing like your poem
Putting in, inputting in, don't feel like methadone
A scratching voice all alone, there's nothing like your
baritone
It's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's
home
The little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
One uninvited chromosome, a blanket like the ozone
It's nothing as it seems, all that he needs, it's home
The little that he frees, is nothing he believes
Saving up a sunny day, something maybe two tone
Anything of his own, a chip off the cornerstone
Who's kidding, rainy day
A one way ticket headstone
Occupations overthrown, a whisper through a megaphone
It's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's
home
The little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
And all that he frees, a little bittersweet, it's home
It's nothing as it seems, the little that you see, it's
home...
LIGHT YEARS
I've used hammers made out of wood
I have played games with pieces and rules
I undeciphered tricks at the bar
But now you're gone, I haven't figured out why
I've come up with riddles and jokes about war
I've figured out numbers and what they're for
I've understood feelings and I've understood words
But how could you be taken away?
And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair...today just disappeared
Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar
We were but stones, your light made us stars
With heavy breath, awakened regrets
Back pages and days alone that could have been spent, together..
But we were miles apart
Every inch between us becomes light years now
No time to be void or save up on life
You got to spend it all..
And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair...you seem to like it here
Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar
We were but stones, your light made us stars
And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair...today just disappeared
Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar
We were but stones, your light made us stars
I AM MINE [ver
tradução]
The selfish they're all standin' in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind
The north is to south what the clock is to
time
There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life
I know I was born and i know that I'll die
The in between is mine
I am mine
And the feeling, it gets left behind
All the innocence lost at one time
Significant behind the eyes
There's no need to hide...
We're safe tonight
The ocean is full cause everyone's crying
The full moon is looking for friends at hightide
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied
I only know my mind
I am mine
And the meaning, it gets left behind
All the innocents lost at one time
Significant behind the eyes
There's no need to hide...
We're safe tonight
And the feelings that get left behind
All the innocence broken with lies
Significance, beetween the lines
We may need to hide
And the meanings that get left behind
All the innocents lost at one time
We're all different behind the eyes
There's no need to hide
MAN OF THE HOUR
Tidal waves don’t beg forgiveness
'CRASHED' and on their way
Father he enjoyed collisions; others walked away
A snowflake falls in may
And the doors are open now as the bells are ringing out
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
Goodbye for now
Nature has its own religion; gospel from
the land
Father ruled by long division, young men they pretend
Old men comprehend
And the 'SKY BREAKS' at dawn; shedding light
upon this town
They’ll all come ‘round
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
Goodbye for now
And the road
The old man paved
The broken seams along the way
The rusted signs, left just for me
He was guiding me, love, his own way
Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
As the curtain comes down
I feel that this is just goodbye for now
YELLOW LEDBETTER
Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat
Then you said 'I wanna leave it again'
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah
On a weekend wanna wish it all away yeah...
And they called and I said that I want what I said
And then I call out again
And the reason oughta leave her calm I know
I said "I know what I wear
Not the boxer or the bag"
Ah yeah
Can you see them
Out on the porch
Yeah but they don't wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know and I know
I don't want to stay...
Make me cry
Ooooh I see
I dont know there's something else
I don't come and I don't wave
Oh, I said, "I don't, I don't know whether
I was the boxer or the bag"
Ah yeah
Can you see them
Out on the porch
Yeah but they don't wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I don't want to stay at all
I dont wanna stay (3x)
I don't
Ohhhh
Yeah... oooh no no no no no
Ohhhhhhh oh oh oh oh
