I can't cry, I can't apply a word to sum
it up
Under stress I can't repress the moment it erupts
Hear the sound of paper drums and shredded paper voice
Got to turn up 'Keep Hanging On' as if I had a choice
Prairie fires and pitchfork choirs inspire as they create
Turn it up, It's too far down, until we can relate
Minnesota new day rising first day in the store
Take the couch at someones's house and wait around to score
Nervous children making millions: you
owe it all to them
Power trios with big-ass deals: you opened for them
I can see it all with my one good eye
For a start take to Grant Harts & call me when you die
Every
Bitter Drop
Behind, beneath, below a certain
Level of intoxication
Hidden like a joyful bundle
Prisoner of inebriation
If you had the chance
Would you realize
That every bitter drop
Is clouding up your eyes
And it's clouding up your eyes
The motive come of sympathy
And portrait from the empathetic
More than just a head is aching
Now you are apologetic
Wouldn't have the need to doubt you
If your trappings weren't synthetic
And if you had the chance
Would you realize
That every bitter drop
Is clouding up your eyes
And if you stop to think
Would you be surprised
That it's clouding up your eyes
And it's raining from your skies
You'll have to be the one
To let you know
What you already know
You'll have to be the one
To let you know
To let you know
Don't pretend the scapegoat's heavy
I see little stacked against you
Don't invent another venom
Self infliction will prevent you
By the time you get this message
Some poor notion might expect you
If you had the chance
Would you realize
That every bitter drop
Is clouding up your eyes
And if you stop to think
Would you be surprised
That every bitter drop
Is clouding up your eyes
And it's raining from your skies
It's clouding up your eyes
And it's draining your supplies
Flavor
of the Month
Can you hear it?-like an invitation
Can you feel it?-it's a revelation
(chorus)
The flavor of the month is busy melting in your mouth
Getting easier to swallow and harder to spit out
Can you hear it?-does the sound remind you?
Can you feel it?-it's gonna redefine you
(chorus)
Can you hear it?-like an invitation
Can you feel it?-a reverberation
(chorus)
Believe
in Something Other (Than Yourself)
Simple words might influence your view
But I can save your life if you allow me to
Remember the time right before you became
Something too despicable to even name?
I can relate, I went through that stage too
And I hope you're still around when you're 22
('cause) Nothing really matters--but yourself
Simple words might often miss the point
But here's two words you better not ignore
Do you really believe that any man is an island
Will if you do then you're about to be stranded,
man Nothing... Give another person just half a chance To
express himself It's easy to believe Believe in something
other--than yourself You wrote a letter (I) But I knew better
(you)
You can clearly (see)
Just what the effect is
Will you ever (be)
Be together (oh)
Enough to tell me (why)
Why does this have to happen to anyone?
Nothing...
BRIDGE
Simple words are often misconstrued
But occasionally somebody's advice is worth listening to
I've stated my case, now I'll return to my place
But there will come a day when black marks won't erase
Nothing...
Believe...
SUDDENLY
MARY
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
Were not I weary I would have caught her
I watched for a moment and scrambled in after
Words of disownment were drowned out with laughter
I awoke from a peaceful sleep and found my clothes under
the table
Aesop used to make me weep but now I'm part of Mary's fable
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
I found myself married to somebody's daughter
"Loving," she told me
"Is a question of bravery"
But when she started to hold me
It was closer to slavery
I got up for a bite to eat and found my clothes inside the
icebox
I used to stand on my own to feet but now I sit when my
new wife talks
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
She floated away with the ring that I bought her
She had convinced me that I was a failure
I burned all my clothing and found a new tailor
Suddenly Mary (repeat) Suddenly Mary's fine (repeat)
(Tape
change break)
I'll call you sister Carrie
but I'll never say it
Mute it to a whisper
And spin your solar sister
And magnet will deliver
An arrow from her quiver
I'll call you sister carrie but you'll never hear it
Fifty limits later
As time pulls down her fader
And nibbles off the fakers
Who roll under the breakers
I'll close my eyes and listen to you read the story
Knowning I'll soon be left behind
So won't you read sister carrie jean sister carrie
Always the patient one
I'll call you sister carrie I won't breathe a word
The frosting on the beater
The flag trips down the meter
You thought you could defeat her
You're lucky you could meet her
I'll close my eyes and listen to you read the story
But I'm already far behind
So won't you read sister carrie jean sister carrie
Always the patient one
I'll close my life and let you teach me a new story
Out of the pages of your mind
And magnet will deliver
So, spin, my solar sister
And you can read, sister carrie, read...
Here
we are--only been a couple of years
Maybe longer
Yes it's true--I'm no good at being the strong man
You're stronger
But I think--maybe you should take a good look
At my feelings
Can't you see--I'm another one just like you
A human being
I don't want to have to sacrifice to have to get along
I don't ever want to be the one to say I'm wrong
I may hate you sometimes, but I'll always love you
What did you say--it's so hard for me to remember
What you meant
How did it happen--was it preconcieved
Or a complete accident
I still recall--we were once happy together
Smiling faces
But things have changed--And now you're only happy when
I remember where my place is
I don't want to have to live up to your expectations
I don't ever want to be the one to end relations
I may hate...
Do you think you could treat me
Like somebody special
I can't be everything to everybody
Could I at least be something to you?
Don't look so surprised--I'm a little smarter
Than every other weakling
Say no more--I know exactly what you're going to say
Without you speaking
A familiar phrase--I've heard it said often before
Please forgive me
Don't be a fool--if I can't live with myself
How could you live with me?
Now that I'm filled with emotion you're dispassionate
You only live for yourself while I live to regret
But don't ever think that I could easily forget
Because I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
I said that I would but now I know that I won't
And the chance of being right is looking kind of remote
I may hate you sometimes (x3)
But I'll always love you
I may hate you sometimes but I'll always love you
(Sick
fucks)
Please
Return It
Now, now is the time
Time to reckon
Time to beckon, be surprised
Like a letter
I just sent it, please return it, just forget it
When we live the life we live
It's never ours completely
Not completely
Like a movie, like a style, please return it, please return
it
like a flavor, like a glance, please return it, please return
it
8, 8 is the hour
hour of our trials, ours too sickening to live
please return it
put it back, I take it back, I can burn it
When you let me live my life
You didn't do it completely but you were discreet
Like the year I spent comparing me to you
Like a servant, like a sewer
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
When you took me by surprise
That's half the fun of everything
Do you miss the point like I do?
In the certainty of friendships you can ask
Bring the balance back to you
In returning
Precious
Moments
The bloodlees toil
The endless foil
You'll never see your home again
Everytime you dial that phone
It rings like it's got no end
Life, what precious moments
And it's only getting worse
The mud filed cracks
Of rutted tracks
You'll never see you mother again
Everytime you dig that grave
Why do you bother to fill it in?
I hate to see what trials can be expected of the ordinary
Before you can recoil in horror
You'll discover life is life's destroyer
We've all got some blood for brothers
Why do we never share with other
Sisters pure -- the vein is sure
You'll never hear music again
That's enough
Don't waste your time -- I can't hear you...
(Brownie)
Throwaway
I remember giving up the gory details
And it left me tongue-tied (such an elementary sickness)
Now I don't want to think and I don't want to feel
I wasn't aware that this was part of the deal
When I put my finger on a greater expectation
But just my luck, I lack the patience of a statesman
And all of my language will fail to convey
That I'm terribly twisted around what I say
And the message I threw away
So I keep hiding and it only grows to hurt me
But time is wasting and I'm watching it desert me
I'm digging a hole and I'm making it deep
And I'm starting to question the hours that I keep
And the answer that I put to sleep
And so I'm writing with the hope that someone's reading
For all to likely runs the risk of me repeating
But I don't have the guts to prevent the decay
And I'm terribly twisted around what I say
And the courage that I threw away
I don't have it now
