B i o g r a p h y (by MacKenzie Wilson)
Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-'90s and soon signed to his Real World label. His debut, Big City Streets, was released in 1997 and was practically unnoticed. Not discouraged by industry politics, the native of Akron, OH, continued to make music and dove into his Earth-inspired abstract art. His eclectic brooding is similar to the likes of Leonard Cohen, Joe Henry, and the late Jeff Buckley. He doesn't stick to one sound, for his time spent with Gabriel exposed his musical styles to a global palette. Arthur participated in Gabriel's annual WOMAD shows and spent the latter part of the '90s on the road with residency tours in the Northeast and Northwest, which included opening dates for labelmates Ben Harper and Gomez. In 1999, Arthur released the seven-song EP Vacancy, in which he received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package, thanks to his design with co-art director Zachary Larner. Following brief critical acclaim, Arthur released his sophomore effort, Come to Where I'm From, on Virgin a year later. The album showed Arthur's musical fondness for basic country-rock and Americana. He spent summer 2000 headlining club dates across North America and additional opening dates with The The followed that fall. Two years later, Arthur issued the four-EP series Junkyard Hearts, a precursor to his third opus, Redemption Son. North American dates with Tracy Chapman followed in summer 2003, then one year later the critically acclaimed Our Shadows Will Remain appeared. After starting his own label, Lonely Astronaut (distributed by Sony), Arthur published a collection of his artwork entitled We Almost Made It, complete with a mostly instrumental accompaniment, The Invisible Parade, in the spring of 2006. A few months later fans were greeted with his fifth record, Nuclear Daydream, as well as a tour that featured Arthur with a full live band, something he had never done before. Arthur also provided vocals on "Sublime," from the Twilight Singers' iTunes-only five-song EP A Stitch in Time. In April 2007, he released Let's Just Be, his second album with his own label, with help from his Lonely Astronaut band
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Big city secret Mercedes Mikel K Good about me Daddy's on prozac Marina Birthday card Crying like a man Porcupine Dessert Haunted eyes Bottle of you
In the sun Ashes everywhere Chemical History Invisible hands Cockroach Exhausted Eyes on my back Tattoo The real you Creation or a stain Speed of light
Redemption's Son - 2002-05-20 -
Redemption's Son Honey And The Moon You Could Be In Jail / Dear Lord (Us release) I Would Rather Hide Innocent World September Baby Nation Of Slaves Evidence Buy a Bag Termite Song Permission Favorite Girl You Are The Dark In The Night Blue Lips You've Been Loved Let's embrace (European release)
Candy Store Blue Jays and Honey Bee Gone Without it Miracle False colored eyes Disposable Hands birn dirty Look over your shoulder Call a friend Nothing wrong with the city Don't be afraid
Our Shadows Will Remain - 2004-09-28 -
In Ohio Can't exist Stumble and pain Devil's broom Echo Park Even Tho Puppets Wasted Failed I am A smile that explodes Leave us alone All of our hands (Bonus track)
Nuclear Daydream - 2006-09-19 -
Too Much To Hide Black Lexus Enough To Get Away Slide Away Electrical Storm You Are Free Automatic Situation When I Was Running Out Of Time Don't Tell Your Eyes Don't Give Up On People Woman Nuclear Daydream
Temporary People - 2008-09-16 -
Temporary People Faith Say Goodbye Dead Savior Look Into The Sky Sunrise Dolls A Dream Is Longer Than The Night Heart's A Soldier Turn You On Winter Blades Drive Good Friend
Big City Secrets
Big city secret
You bounce against my rectangular light I fall asleep inside your spherical night And dream about coming together again As a fist comes from an open hand And how the tide crashes on morning sand And you say Hey I don't understand You and your big city secret How come we dance What makes us dance A fist thrown against fear's menacing face His blackened eyes become the dreams that you chase Blood on your lip is like chaos you taste It washes over you in some dramatic rush And on the diving board you can feel him push So you say Hey I don't understand You and your big city secret Big city secret How come we dance What makes us dance How come we dance What makes us dance I jump in the magnitude of your smile Leap from the board of my last chance Splash in the sea of your damnation As you remind me of your past Darling I thank you for this dance You say Hey I don't understand You and your big city secret Big city secret How come we dance What makes us dance How come we dance How come we dance How come we dance How come we dance
Mercedes
I been next to you for a lifetime i been watching you from the start Always trying to keep yourself put together Always needing to fall apart You wanna ride in my mercedes Tonight we'll dance outside along the seashore A quarter moon will paint our shadows on the cold sand You ask me how come we dance Well there is no reason at all I hope that you will burn down this old house And I hope that you will escape right through the front door Turn aournd when you're safe And talk about what they done to you Turn aournd when you're safe And watch this house burn to the ground Oh I hope that you will rise When you talk about what they done Oh I know you will rise When you watch yourself burn to the ground Oh I hope that you will rise When you talk about what they done Oh I know you will rise You wanna ride in my mercedes Everyday we are closer and far away Everyday we are closer and far away Oh I hope that you will rise When you talk about what they done Oh I know you will rise When you watch yourself burn to the ground Oh I hope that you will rise When you talk about what they done Oh I know you will rise When you watch yourself burn to the ground Oh I hope that you will rise When you talk about what they done Oh I know you will rise When you watch yourself burn to the ground Oh I know you will rise When you talk about it You will rise, you will rise You will rise
Mikel K
I've been watching you I liked you right away Cause you looked like you Might have something to say That I would want to hear Like you looked at me And liked me right away You're easy for me To bleed on I said you're easy for me To bleed on Well I'll follow you Anywhere you wanna go Cause you look like you Might already know A place we can be that feels better Than the hole I have inside of me You're easy for me To bleed on I said you're easy for me To bleed on You're easy for me To bleed on I said you're easy for me To bleed on You're easy for me To bleed on I said you're easy for me To bleed on You're easy for me To bleed on I said you're easy for me To bleed on
Good about me
It's monday morning You miss yesterday Tomorrow's coming again So fast it's already today You'll never get put down Growing into your face Moving to New York City You got a line on getting paid And you got two eyes that you always shade Chaos and beauty Trying to stay together on a razor blade Always trying to prove you're being saved When they ask you what's your church You say I dance When they say whatever happened to you You say I never had a chance I'm an open book Come in take a look at me I'm a boat that won't float Out at sea And when I try to compete for a seat On a more expensive train In the end you find out The pain's the same as when the train was plain You're never giving in And you're sure you will win As soon as you know how to begin And with spite you scream I'm moving my scene Away from all you backwards marching human beings And that includes you 'Cause I know what you seem to see And that includes you 'Cause I don't feel good about me Good about me around you
Daddy's on prozac
I'm in recovery My daddy beat his love into me Now I don't care about sticks or strones The name he called me brake my bones Put my daddy on prozac I don't think I want him back Make me feel dangerous I was raised in a family They look like the enemy to me And when you're raised in captivity Don't you know you never get free Put my daddy on Prozac I don't think I want him back Make me feel dangerous
Marina
Marina coming off of methadone Kickin and dreamin And she's sleeping and screaming Watching 90210 She'll be yelling at the screen Until the late night show I don't believe I'm alive she said Everyday has something new Aw baby with the moon I lie And with the sun I will rise It's all there in her eyes You don't know how hard I try Each time that Marina cries It's like she's got no disguise Marina is a human bicycle She's riding in the park Riding after dark Spinning her wheels to make a psark Hoping to change her blame into a plague She plays guitar She dreams and sings She writes a song about what it means That she never feels Much like a human being
Birthday card
She wrote her name with a heart Inside his birthday card Right beside the PS which read Please don't think I'm devious It's not that obvious In fact it's more of a mess You're what I find most beautiful But you're also what makes me the ugliest So i'm taking away all of the love I ever gave to you I think you should've known It was only ever on a loan And i'm running away I found myself a hiding place I've been uncomfortable looking in your eyes They always see right through my face And if you find your eyes You hunt me down 'Cause if I find my eyes I'll hunt you down And if you find your voice You hunt me down 'Cause if I find my voice I'll hunt you down He wrote his name with her heart On the back of a postcard Right beside the PS which read Please don't think this is malicious But ever since you left me I am a mess You made me happiest And now I'm lonely cause there was only you Touching your skin was like a showel through the ground I had no idea what I found A crown You crown me king Made me lion in your ring Training me with your see-through treasure And bribing me with your guilty pleasure You teach me how most things have no measure
Crying like a man
You must destroy All who you employ To protect your last invention Work hard its destruction Ignore your good intention You must ignore the wrong voice Whose voice A peculiar choice Well I'm sure You and I can't remember Living like a backwards trainwreck trying to disguise the deceit Intrinsic in our step When love's got us by the neck Why can't we just surrender I'll be quiet I won't wake you up Don't whine Drink wine Like turpentine Cleaning out your inside in line From your toes up through your spine Pretend you're a conductor Maestro without music God without man Me without you Holding your hand Falling like a leaf Crying like a man We silently confess through open eyes Setting fire to the web spun right behind In my mind's a spider And in your heart's a fly When you're meek you are malicious Somehow still suspicious Faithlessly religious
Porcupine
A porcupine Crawling out from inside of your mind Like you growing a crown of thorns But you're no messiah You think more like a spider 'Cause guilty hearts beat upside down Silver hubcaps replaced your eyes As you went spinning on a daydream down Forgiving the road every inch for miles If your tyres survive You know your heart will explode And if this song was a sponge Soaked in your blood Well then I guess the story would be told A fateful day You became a spider As I fed you blood from my nose Now you're just like me
Dessert
You're the dessert brought burning in Bourbon To smiles and glazy widening eyes Extinguished by the breeze of hungry applause And the grabbed forks shine Awake enough to see quivering lips reach toward your soft sweet heart Now loosening flesh in the spit of grinding teeth Still trying to distinguish yourself from a ghost Engulfed by the smile of swallowing
*** Thanx a lot to Leonor for this one *** Haunted eyes
Your eyes are as big as a quarter when they're shining Your fingers reach down in my stomach lining Your voice sounds just like an alley cat is crying I got the feeling you have never once stopped trying to undress me You make yourself into a mirror to reflect me I see my eyes are shallow stones In a prison made of bones Wrapped in a bag of skin Highlighted by the lines of repetition That all my fear's been carving Haunted eyes Sing in secret Haunted eyes Are huge and empty Haunted eyes Flutter just like butterfly wings Haunted eyes They always watch you breathing Drenching thunder rolls right by me I'm only visible when you're beside me And what I can't possess still remains inside of me Its violence coming out of your mouth now Is at once menacing and hard to see Oh but finally I think I see That you are fat and you are flat You are a star in a jar You're a monster with nothing who's been chewing On the worm your best friend your pet fish was pursuing You're the only witness so if you die I don't think I'm considered guilty of this crime I take it to bed with me each and every night The guilt wakes me up and shades my morning light Cause people break In fact I helped you to destruct I'll say anything you want but I can't reconstruct You only tell more lies in a darker shade of white Hurry up and punish me so I can feel alright Forever, if ever, only ever, never
Bottle of you
I squeeze the last bit of you Out of a bottle of your old shampoo It smells just like you Now I do too Rinse out my hair and wipe my eyes As your soap rolls in between my toes Dry myself off in the moonlight And I can touch you Every time I breath in through my nose I wish that I had faith in you I watched you breath into a heartbreak The night we first held hands Your eyes they switched from blue to green Then they went back to being blue again You say you never get to sleep 'Cause all your dreams are buried in the sand I could barely hear you crying Over the buzz of our electric fan I wish that I had faith in you You're a tether ball Fastened to the end of my head Who you are and who you want to be Are competing at opposite ends And when they hit you back and forth You squeeze tight around my neck Darling I can barely breathe But I know that you mean Absolutely no disrespect I wish that I had faith in you
Come to where I'm from
In the sun
I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in May God's love be with you Always May God's love be with you I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes 'Cause when you showed me myself I became someone else But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need I picture you fast asleep A nightmare comes You can't keep awake May God's love be with you Always May God's love be with you 'Cause if I find If I find my own way How much will I find If I find If I find my own way How much will I find You I don't know anymore What it's for I'm not even sure If there is anyone who is in the sun Will you help me to understand 'Cause I been caught in between all I wish for and all I need Maybe you're not even sure what it's for Any more than me May God's love be with you Always May God's love be with you
Ashes everywhere
I'll be silent in my solitude Can't find my smile or my gratitude I'm afraid of what I might do 'Cause there's no me If there's no me and you I wish that I could open up your eyes To feel the sun that burned in your mind I can't deal with what you have done Reincarnate I wonder who I might become With the potential of a loaded gun I could be as fresh as hard bubble gum I don't have nothing, now I want me some First some of you, then some of everyone Oh darling since you've been away from me I know how the pins feel in the bowling alley They say love is something you feel but never see When I see you I firmly disagree I'm just trying to be all that I can be Without destroying you Or joining the army Your ashes must be blowing everywhere 'Cause I could still feel you and you're nowhere near And though you didn't say so I can tell that you still care We could've had it all but then nothing is fair I still think about washing your hair I wish I could've washed away all of your despair
History
You're the shaded sun You're daddy's broken gun You're the loneliest moon You are a butterfly dreaming about your cocoon You're the only sound when I am blind So I label you mine You're the house you grew up in You're always just arriving at your end You're your mama's shit eatin' grin and your daddy's double chin You're the first pair of shoes you ever went to school in And you're the kid pretending she's in prison Behind the bars of a jungle gym Someone's gonna give you wings And you'll think it's what you need And you'll fly You'll be so high But you're history acts as your gravity Your history acts as your gravity Acts as your history acts as your gravity You're the only one you ever believe in You're the solution and you are the problem You're a rapist and your only victim You are fact and you are fiction You're the only one you've considered a friend And now you're alive Waiting for your life to begin Again You try to find you, you who is lost But your hooked to the rush of approaching chaos You're king for a minute but a fool for an hour Alone in your room You are a closed flower Dreams of your shadow you're going to destroy The way you handle yourself Like an unbreakable toy
Invisible hands
There are things we cannot know Invisible hands which guide the show from up above And sometimes you are forced to go Far away and shut the door On the one you love Well I don't know now where you are Your photograph sits like a scar against my wall Such a pretty face The sunshine in your eyes Taken on that day When all we had was love Shut the light on me Now Jesus he came down here just to die for all my sins I need him to come back here and die for me again Cause I cannot forgive myself for what it is I've done Avoiding your memory like a vampire does the sun And all I want's your love All I want's your love Shut the light on me
Cockroach
You're putting poison here You're putting poison here And now you're a cockroach Crawling on bones Pretending your war Has already been won You never give anything To any human being Unless they Give you something in return If you get burned You're gonna burn And when you finally go away I'm already gone And when you finally say what you say I'm singing this song Your heads in quite a fix The demon you never resist is coming And he's leaning against your front door The neighbors are asking you what it's all for And still you could never admit That maybe you could have prevented destruction As it came out of your very core My friend you are starting to become a bore And when you finally go away I'm already gone And when you finally say what you say I'm singing this song
Exhausted
I never sleep I've been awake for what feels like a year Cause when I dream My mind it puts a face to each one of my fears I'm exhausted by my imagination I close my eyes But I can still see the pain on your face It's your disguise You put your heart and soul on a plate I'm exhausted by my imagination The walls are bleeding cause I'm hallucinating Beneath the wheel I cannot slow its rotation down Down, down on my anger I got to get away from here But there's nowhere I can go Everyone I recognize looks at me like I am lost Walking down these dire streets I thought I heard you call my name But it's only in my head Or maybe it was just your ghost Up in the sky The clouds are dirty so soon it will rain I lost my mind After you told me that you went insane I'm a victim of my imagination These walls are talking but I'm hallucinating Beneath the wheel that will not slow its rotation down Down, down on my anger I got to get away from here But there's nowhere I can go Everyone I recognize Looks at me like I am lost Walking down these dire streets I thought I heard you call my name But it was only in my mind You were never there at all
Eyes on my back
I wish I had Open eyes On my back So I could see My life Going past Seems when It's good Everything Goes to fast And when its gone You can never Get it back Try and take a picture Through a dirty window Try to touch your shadow Fading when you follow I been alone For so long It's hard to track Down in a hole No one knows In the black I know that soon All the dogs Will attack I wish I had Open eyes On my back
Tattoo
I miss the days when you were in my world It seems like it was a lifetime ago We said our goodbye with tears And promised to not let the years get away But that's something you just have to say In my pain Is where I've tattooed your name Was it a dream Was it a dream Going round and round and round and round your heart Jeremy said he saw you out on second Ave And you looked like you could use some sleep You told him you sobered up But now you are giving that up 'Cause sometimes Love isn't stronger than wine In my pain Is where i've tattooed your name Was it a dream Was it a dream Going round and round and round and round my heart I wonder What you must think about me What I heard Is you consider me dead I guess that's fair of you I never was good to you I'm ashamed For making you feel all my pain When I sleep Sometimes I still think we speak Is it a dream Is it a dream Going round and round and round and round my heart
The real you
The real you I knew the real you I miss you I have to redeem myself Forever and forever You can hear it in my song You can see it in my eyes You can master me You can master me alive The real you I knew the real you I miss you Been down in my mind I feel like taking a razor blade And on my wrist Write an invitation I feel like taking a loaded gun And in my mouth Blowing up the ocean Come to where I'm from Come to where I come from The real you I knew the real you I miss you
Creation or a stain
Oh my guy, a guy in my head Telling me that I'm crazy Got a guy in my head Saying that I'm crazy An angry little guy punching all my scars Another little guy Tells me that I'm lazy A useless piece of shit with no love to give at all Now the smallest guy up there Thinks that I'm the greatest Tells me no one else could be as good as me And I listened to them all and was a disc jockey to consequences Bitter propagandist selling misery I built my cocoon, I got to get away A shell made out of wood and glue and cracking, it's okay No one sees me down there and no one's getting in I got a needle, powder, cycles and a quart of country gin I drink and shoot and smoke until the only voice I hear Is the one tells me those other people, don't let anybody near No don't let anybody near (x3) Oh now the telephone is ringing, the walls are falling down The city birds are singing, my soul's nowhere around I have made myself a monster I have damned myself again I have eaten all my children, I've tightened up my skin I'm a walking crucifixion, I'm a fucked-up memory Consuming all that's left of my mother's misery I'm sucking on Satan's tit She's milking me her poison flow I drink until I'm convinced there's no place left to go You know, there's no place left to go Oh no no there's no place left to go No no no I've no place left to go You know, there's no place left to go And I drink until the pain is dry You know it never is Sometimes tho', I guess I think that I'm the best Until the morning after when I wake up with the guilt Of burning down all the things my sacred hands have built And throwing out all the love you know I never felt Now, you know I never felt Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I never felt Yeah, you know I never felt Let's make our tortured Romeo's Personal hell can be unique You bring it on yourself Burn out when you might peak The Holy Ghost is exiled from your heart and from your soul If you control it it's no fun, and if it's fun you've lost control Your past is plagiarism Your symbols have dried up Your corruption's as confused As old lovers that you dug Like some hidden toxic fume Your soul dissipates It's the ozone of guilty acts Eroding all the things you hate There is bodies dancing, crazed Sexual heat Crazy in the orgy, the way starving people eat Regret weight overwhelms, entire bodies fall Bankrupt from the beaten Let's split one more eight-ball Blue as beggars, beaten, bleeding Tired eyes made of rust And we all know when it gets like this there's no one you can trust No, there's no one you can trust No no there's no one you can trust(x3) Some say the solution is locked in the sweat-box I wouldn't know I've never been there, I sold my keys to get a rock We sing along to forgotten AM radio stations And drink expensive wine, toast the friends that we left hanging Like prisoners in conceit We hurry through the cracks I know for sure don't trust no one who says they've got your back The windows all explode Outside the noise pollution booms Everyone's now hidden like cockroaches in dark rooms I've been brought back from the dead before, so anything can happen Obsessed with tragic endings, down and out like Eric Clapton These are my wild years, I'm trying to enjoy the pain The euphoria of dying Toxins wrestle in my brain We've all been leaders of corruption We've all been spiders on the wall Waiting for a hand to smash us or the doom of light to fall Is this guilt of just self-hatred Running wild, uncontained Leaking from a broken soul Is this creation or a stain Is this creation or a stain... (x5)
*** Thanx a lot to Raine for this one ***
Speed of light
Good night New Orleans Things are exactly as they seem But I'm nowhere around Hello Mexico You're where I was told to go If I don't want to be found There's no end to the winter Waking at the break of dawn In the middle of summer Living at the speed of light Someday we may See each other and look the other way But I'll love you just the same And if you hate your life Just remember there used to be a time When we could not feel a thing In my heart is a hunger I will never give away Just try and stop from going under 'Till the dawn of judgment day Living at the speed of light Living at the speed of light Living at the speed of light And burning your love on the way Burning your love away
Redemption's Son Redemption's son I don't know where we've been Could you tell me where we are again ? And Jesus is my only friend No one else knows who I am I know i'll never make it on the cross Spend my days looking for what my daddy lost He was too proud to have a boss Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost No one knows how he felt Hung himself in the county jail There are those who say he will burn in hell I don't think they knew him very well Angel of love Shine a light on us I was born to be Redemption's son Angel of love Shine a light on us I was born to be Redemption's son (Lord) Forgive us for what we've done Lord Forgive us for what we've done I don't know were we are Fearful eyes don't see very far Driving in my daddy's car Ashtray full of his cigars Is it real what I see? His ghost is riding next to me Till he's gone I won't be free From the burden of his misery I know I'll never make it on the cross Spend my days looking for what my daddy lost He was too proud to have a boss Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost All over the neighbourhood Mostly he was misunderstood In his heart the bad beat the good Used to be a time I'd have killed him if I could Angel of love Shine a light on us I was born to be Redemption's son Angel of love Shine a light on us I was born to be Redemption's son (Lord) Forgive us for what we've done Lord Forgive us for what we've done Lord Forgive us for what we've done Honey and the moon Don't know why I'm still afraid If you weren't real I would make you up, now I wish that I could follow through I know that your love is true and deep as the sea But right now everything you want is wrong And right now all your dreams are waking up And right now I wish I could follow you To the shores of freedom Where no one lives Remember when we first met And everything was still a bet in love's game You would call, I'd call you back And then I'd leave a message on your answering machine But right now everything is turning blue And right now the sun is trying to kill the moon And right now I wish I could follow you To the shores of freedom Where no one lives Freedom Run away tonight Freedom Run away Run away tonight We're made out of blood and rust Looking for someone to trust without a fight I think that you came too soon You're the honey and the moon that lights up my night But right now everything you want is wrong And right now all your dreams are waking up And right now I wish I could follow you To the shores of freedom Where no one lives Freedom Run away tonight Freedom Run away Run away tonight We got too much time to kill Like pigeons on my windowsill we hang around Ever since I've been with you You hold me up all the time I'm falling down But right now everything is turning blue And right now the sun is trying to kill the moon And right now I wish I could follow you To the shores of freedom Where no one lives Freedom Run away tonight Freedom Run away Run away tonight Freedom Run away Run away tonight Freedom Run away Run away tonight Run away tonight
*** Thanx a lot to Lucas & Cliff who corrected some mistakes *** You could be in jail Don't believe in dreams You are From a machine Oh don't You could be in jail Brainwashing you They control Everything that you do Oh don't You could be in jail They say they have the answer But no one knows a thing They say they know your way home Some place you've already been Don't believe in love They gave Without any blood Oh don't You could be in jail Taking what you made Say they will save you Giving back what you gain Oh no You could be in jail They say they have the answer But no one knows a thing They say they know your way home Some place you've already been I would rather hide Yeah yeah I know we're all insane When there's no one else around Yeah yeah I know we're all insane When there's no one else When there's no one else you can blame In the night I'm on my own Unglue my mind and burn my telephone I don't wanna go outside I don't wanna go outside Inside I would rather hide I feel a phantom fly from my fear (Ain't going nowhere) Follows the voice I sometimes hear (Ain't going nowhere) I don't wanna go outside I don't wanna go outside Inside I would rather hide Yeah yeah I know we're all insane When there's no one else around Yeah yeah I know we're all insane When there's no one else And there's no one left you can blame I think aliens abducted me I close my eyes if I want to see I don't wanna go outside I don't wanna go outside Inside I would rather hide I don't wanna go outside I don't wanna go outside Inside I would rather hide
*** Thanx a lot to Jon who corrected a mistake ***
Innocent world We don't know which way we're going Don't know where we are Find a way out, find a way Home is somewhere I'm missing When I look around Find a way out, find a way Hell has no reason to smile When you're living in an innocent world You once had a heart like a child Now it's buried under sadness and guilt We don't know which way we're going Don't know where we are Find a way out, find a way Home is somewhere I'm missing When I look around Find a way out, find a way Hell has no reason to smile When you're living in an innocent world You once had a heart like a child Now it's buried under sadness and guilt Don't run away Don't run away Don't run away now Don't run away Don't run away Don't run away now
*** Thanx a lot to LuAnne for this one ***
September baby Your holiness is gone Sometimes love will make you sad Until you know where you belong You'll dream of what you never had I can feel the falling leaves Filling up my vacant mind When I fall onto my knees And pray you don't leave me behind Summertime is over I don't owe you nothing When you say you're leaving I want you to hold on Summertime is over I don't owe you nothing I can see September's sun Sinking in the autumn sky If you want me to be gone I've left already in my mind Summertime is over I don't owe you nothing When you say you're leaving I want you to hold on Summertime is over I don't owe you nothing When you say you're leaving I want you to hold on
*** Thanx a lot to LuAnne & Francescka for this one ***
Nation of Slaves Live in a time where we're all gonna fall apart With chemicals rising up over the sun A nuclear mind in a machine with human heart Is the creation we're gonna become Nation of slaves, who all say that I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't Burned by the sun Burned by the sun Burned by the sun Burned by the sun Live in a time where we get fed the same idea Like junkies addicted to information You go to a new place and you never get anywhere And I already finished before you begun Nation of slaves, who all say that I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't Burned by the sun Burned by the sun Burned by the sun Burned by the sun I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you And I can't find my way without following you
Evidence I need a dream, I need a bigger dream Tell me if you know what I mean I wanna live, I wanna live in your camera Take a picture of my heart with ya You could have Evidence to know how I've been bad Make me sad Trying to find you in a world that's gone away I wanna sing, I wanna sing on your radio So you would know the way I feel I wanna die, I wanna die on your TV show And be reborn as something that's real You could have Evidence to know how I've been bad Make me sad Trying to find you in a world that's gone away World that's gone away Nobody's son I'm on the run under the gun I'm not having any fun What have I done, what have I done and what have I done I don't even know what I've done Cause you could have Evidence to know how I've been bad Make me sad Trying to find you in a world that's gone away World that's gone away (x8)
*** Thanx a lot to Raine & LuAnne for this one *** Buy a bag She won't hesistate To take me to dinner Or to pay for my money When I buy a bag I pay like everybody else She wears a nightgown In front of me Shows me her nipple Or that's just what I see But when I buy a bag I pay like everybody else The money makers are comatose The money makers they make the most And when they buy their bags They pay like everybody else All of their daughters are having fun They spend their evenings looking for guns And when they buy their bags They pay like everybody else It's okay to have fun with your mind Hang onto anything decent you find Cause when you buy your bag You pay like everybody else I been alone for a very long time Take care of yours Cause I take care of mine If I sell you a bag You'll pay like everybody
Termite song I'm gonna make it up As we go along I don't have any words to put into your song Looking through the junkyard of your heart I need to find an engine for my car I don't know where you are I don't know where you are When I drive When I drive around the bend Singing bye, bye, bye, bye And though I really tried I never have been good And for my missing heart I carve one out of wood Now I see the termites crawling into me After they are finished I wonder where you'll be I wonder where you'll be I wonder where you'll be When I drive When I drive around the bend Singing bye, bye, bye, bye You never have been young You never have been sane And though you say that you don't care In your eyes I see the shame Looking through the window of your mind I see a lonely shadow running out of time Running out of time Running out of time When I drive When I drive around the bend Singing bye, bye, bye, bye
Permission
I got a new job I got a new job And I don't need your permission To fade away I'm right behind you I'm right behind you And I don't need your permission To make my play On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (on the way down, on the way down) On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (on the way down, on the way down) I'm right inside you I'm right inside you And I don't need your permission To dig your grave I've got religion I've got religion And I don't need your permission To pray for you On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (on the way down, on the way down) On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (falling up, falling up) On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (on the way down, on the way down) On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up On the way down, you're falling up (falling up) Tell the darkness what you're thinking Tell the darkness what you see You got everything you wanted In the darkness you are naked In the darkness you are near You got everything you wanted Oh the world will never hear your pain Oh the world will never hear you cry Fly, the way you fly Fly, the way you fly Fly, the way you fly
*** Thanx a lot to Phalen & Patrice & Francescka & LuAnne for this one ***
Favorite girl In your version of this world You're everybody's favorite girl But that don't mean I'll be the victim Of any pain you are inflicting today I don't know what I should do I've been so happy Being unhappy with you But I've just had a revelation My heart's been dying of starvation and I need Somebody who will feed me And if salvation only comes when you fall Oh Lord It's so hard for me to believe Oh Lord I'm still waiting for you to call Oh Lord Trapped inside my memory Oh Lord Pretending to be Someone you know nothing about Oh I wish you were Someone I knew nothing about You're looking for any explanation Your words they only find a meaning in between What's real and what will only ever be Your dream And if salvation only comes when you fall Oh Lord It's so hard for me to believe Oh Lord I'm still waiting for you to call Oh Lord Trapped inside my misery Oh Lord Will salvation only come if I fall ? If I fall ? Your are the dark I'm up all night Against my will My medicine Won't let me feel Anything at all The doctor gave Me sleeping pills And I took one Then I felt all alone Sleeping like a stone And babe You were the light But now You are the dark I dream about The autumn leaves And you were one Falling in the sun Where are you now? A TV burns Our hollow room I cleaned it up Now I don't know what to do I'm just lying down And babe You were the light And now You are the dark I guess I live Up in my head I call you up But my phone is dead And I need too much The doctor said I need a cure But what I got He's not really sure I won't say much And babe You were the light And now You are the dark In the night And where we live Is where we hide Cause we can't forgive What's inside We have sweet love We have sweet love In the night Voices will fight Voices of the shadows And the runaways Running from love And every sorrow left behind And when we wake up It's already dark And I touch your face To feel your heart We have sweet love We have sweet love In the night Voices will fight Voices of the shadows And the runaways Running from love And every sorrow left behind Blue lips I prayed to god from hell Rung like a midnight bell Dancing naked in these streets Thought I was Jesus Christ As I dug out my eyes And threw them past the prison gate So I still can't explain What I had to do To try and make it Since your red lips turned blue Now I'm a hunted man Singing the song you sung Wearing the noose from which you hung I guess we lost the war The air I breathed before Only filled the dead man's lungs So I still can't explain What I had to do To try and make it Since your red lips turned blue The devil is the lord Of this confusing world Where all the wrong dreams come true I never needed light I never felt like I was right Did not deserve the love I knew So I still can't explain What I had to do To try and make it Since your red lips turned blue You've been loved You don't know how you feel Are you a dream? Are you for real? Cause you don't ever slow down To find what you lost or lose what you found No one's saying what you need to hear You've been loved You've been loved You've been loved You've been loved You've been loved You've been loved And so it's hard to admit Most days you feel like you don't exist Temptation sneaks past your fist Until the devil won't let you resist Oblivion is what you want But you've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way, All the way) But you've been loved (All the way) But you've been loved (All the way) But you've been loved (All the way) What you wanna do with your life? What you gonna do with your life? (Make it to the light) What you gonna do with your life? What you gonna do with your life? (Make it to the light) You've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way, All the way) You've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way) You've been loved (All the way)
*** Thanx a lot to Christophe who corrected some mistakes ***
Let's embrace
( US Release of redemption's son )
I think the world belongs to me I want to set you freer than free I want to touch you Come up to my place And then let's embrace And then let's replace Our fear with our faith And come up to my place And then let's embrace And then let's replace Our fear with our faith We are together now And love is our child Born from the unity Of our human heart I think the sun is shining on me I can feel it God's eyes are looking down onto me I will reveal it Come up to my place And then let's embrace And then let's replace Our fear with our faith And come up to my place And then let's embrace And then let's replace Our fear with our faith And come up to my place And then let's embrace And then let's replace Our fear with our faith And come up to my place And come up to my place And come up to my place And come up to my place
*** Thanx a lot to Jonathan for this one ***
Holding The Void
Candy Store
Tell me if you know the way to the candy store I guess we really should decide if I'm your pimp or your whore Cause if you give me a little all I need is some more Tell me if you have a key or should we break down the door You don't understand yourself at all You don't understand you're bound to fall Tell me if you know the way to the other side Tell me if you know the way to the end of time And could you help me get rid of my begging mind I'm calling out for you at the end of the line You don't understand yourself at all You don't understand you're bound to fall You don't understand you're bound to fall You don't understand yourself at all Blue Jays and Honey Bee
Waking up I wanna go back But it's too late Oh I'm still awake I wanna love you I wanna be nice But the weekend comes and the money and the drugs and the parasites Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees baby If I were you I would unscrew My head from the shoe (?) And forget what I knew I wanna love you I wanna be clean But the predators bite even when you dream at night it's the ugliest scene Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees baby Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Hey don't be sad My blue jays and my honey bees Gone Without it
Gone without it Gone without it Gone without it Gone without it Without it Without it Without it Got no possession, without it Got no possession, without it Got no possession, without it Without it Gone without it Miracle I I get by Without a miracle You You get by Without a miracle So we should compromise And we should stop telling lies You You get by Without a miracle I I get by Without a miracle So we should compromise And we should stop telling lies When will you leave? Where will you go? When will you leave? Where will you go? When will you leave? Where will you go? When will you leave? Where will you go? When will you leave? Where will you go? When will you leave? Where will you go? I I get by Without a miracle So we should compromise And we should stop telling lies False colored eyes Give up your lies And your false colored eyes You're buried alive Under your mind I don't care who you have left behind I don't care who you have compromised Give up your lies The things you despise Have you hypnotized Give up your disguise And the places you hide I don't care who you have compromised I don't care who you have left behind Give up your lies And I need an answer Am I here all by Myself, myself If you can surrender You will only hurt yourself Yourself Yourself Disposable
You lied to me Now I'll never see your face again You never knew you were my only friend Now you've just become disposable You needed love But don't you know that love and lies can't mix Eventually I saw through your tricks The way you get your fix off of other people's souls We were so young Out of control I bought the dream The one you stole So let's not pretend we're good No let's not pretend we're good I gotta go And I won't come back this way again I guess your disguise just got too thin And now I can see exactly who you are I hope for you Eventually you'll learn to follow through But when you do you won't be who I knew Back when we threw ourselves off of every single ledge We were so young Out of control I bought the dream The one you stole So let's not pretend we're good No let's not pretend we're good We were so young Out of control I bought the dream The one you stole So let's not pretend we're good No let's not pretend we're good We were so young Out of control I bought the dream The one you stole So let's not pretend we're good No let's not pretend we're good Hands birn dirty Help me to bury Feelings I can't stand Take me to wherever Take me by the hand Maybe I need it Maybe I'm a slave Hands are born dirty And I dig my own grave I can't wait another minute more Can't you see I've lost my self control? Sun will blind me Make it in the light Throw me from my window Hold me in the sky Maybe I need it Maybe I'm a slave Hands are born dirty And I dig my own grave I can't wait another minute more Can't you see I've lost my self control? I can't wait another minute more Can't you see I've lost my self control? I can't wait another minute more Can't you see I've lost my self control? I can't wait another minute more Can't you see I've lost my self control? Look over your shoulder Give me back oblivion Take away my need Someone's always chasing me Underneath the trees Look over your shoulder Look over your shoulder Everything around me now Everything I see Couldn't get much further from Where I wanna be Look over your shoulder Look over your shoulder And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing Look over your shoulder Look over your shoulder And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing Can't feel a thing And I can't feel a thing Call a friend Don't be paranoid You are a killer You're too serious Dancing with that corpse Could you call a friend? Could you love yourself again? Could you call a friend? Could you love yourself again? When you got it Feels good But without it You're so down So down So down It could all fall apart Any day of the week A circus marching through your mind Underneath all the dreams you used to seek I could call a friend I could love myself again Could you call a friend? Could you love yourself again? When you got it Feels good But without it You're so down So down So down When you got it Feels good But without it You're so down You're so down So down So down So down Nothing wrong with the city I don't need ghosts They're impossible to see Gimme what you got What's believable to me You are my host I come inside of you for free In you I'm lost Far beyond where you could see There's nothing wrong with the city There's nothing wrong with my love And if you think I'm so very very pretty Why don't you buy me a diamond ring? I don't need love It's disposable to me Your suffering is safe It's a habit that you keep Give me your ghosts They're impossible to see Hey let's hook up Yeah back to where we used to be There's nothing wrong with the city There's nothing wrong with my love And if you think I'm so very very pretty Why don't you buy me a diamond ring? I don't need ghosts They're impossible to see Gimme me what you got Oh it's believable to me You are my host I come inside of you for free In you I'm lost Far beyond where you could see There's nothing wrong with the city There's nothing wrong with my love And if you think I'm so very very pretty Why don't you buy me a diamond ring? I don't need ghosts I don't need ghosts I don't need ghosts Don't be afraid Don't be afraid Tonight Don't be afraid Inside Your mind You're on your own Tonight You're on your own Inside Your mind How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? Don't be afraid Tonight Don't be afraid Inside Your mind You're on your own Tonight You're on your own Inside Your mind How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real? How do I know if you're for real?
Our Shadows Will Remain
*** Thanx a lot to the Unofficial Joseph Arthur Website ***
In Ohio
In Ohio You were born You will die alone I'm gonna wait up (I'm) gonna wait up (I'm) gonna wait up For you Can't exist Well I can't exist When you disappear Disintegrating eyes Swallow everything Oh sister don't be scared A thousand times or more I've walked away alive On my feet again (Kill your light/life/lie?) I will wait for you mother I will wait for you father I will wait for you sister I will wait for you brother Well I can't exist So I can't explain How I lost a thousand dollars On the street again Sister don't be scared A thousand times or more I've walked away alive On my feet again Sister don't be scared A thousand times or more I've walked away alive On my feet again (Kill your light/life/lie?) I will wait for you mother I will wait for you father I will wait for you sister I will wait for you brother Stumble and pain
All your gifts come out of hell You brought them back for love Throw a bucket down into your well You fill it with your blood And you let it go With the greatest ease Cause something always stays the same And always seems With the need you never fill Try to leave before it come Like a man you've paid to kill Asking you what should be done And you let it go With the greatest ease Cause something always stays the same And always seems Sun down on a shady grin Shaking hands on a sinking ship Prostitute and a poison friend Telling you you'll never quit Devil's broom In a time when I can't get enough to make it Give me back half the sense that I used to have Waking up in the sun face down on the pavement Everything I own in a garbage bag Where are you? What did I do? Why can't you see? You mean everything to me To me Waking up in the tank, disorderly break-up And no one here will even tell me what I did With the guilt and the shame completely vacant It's hard to stay alive when you don't know how to live Where are you? What did I do? Why can't you see? You mean everything to me To me (?Aren't you coming back, I'll never/won't make it alone?) Since you gone ain't nobody else gonna save me Cause I can't trade a bottle for an empty room I just pray that the lord is gonna come down and take me Sweep me off this floor with the devil's broom Where are you? What did I do? Why can't you see? You mean everything to me To me To me You mean everything To me You mean everything You mean everything You mean everything You mean everything You mean everything Echo Park
Walking with you down through Echo Park The ghosts fill in the tree A fire never understands the spark The way it is with you and me Freedom Freedom Our love won't fade away Freedom Freedom Our love it won't fade away The children running through the greenest field The light of love pouring down And only you and I know how it feels When no one else is around Freedom Freedom Our love won't fade away Freedom Freedom Our love it won't fade away Freedom Freedom Our love won't fade away Freedom Freedom Our love it won't fade away Walking with you down through Echo Park The ghosts fill in the tree The fire never understands the spark The way it is with you and me Even Tho
I'm getting cold You used to have a heart Now I guess there's just a stone You said leave me alone But even tho I'm here You know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone We've got some time So let's walk hand in hand together And hold our heads up high Since I can't read your mind You've got to tell me what you're thinking I won't write in the sky I won't write in the sky We're getting old We've planted our seeds and now we wait for them to grow You say I never show You how I really feel or which way I'm gonna go Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone We've got some time So let's walk hand in hand together And hold our heads up high Since I can't read your mind You've got to tell me what you're thinking I won't write in the sky I won't write in the sky No one to hold The world will make a dream And a prayer out of our bones To find where we belong Our shadows will remain Even after we are gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Gone baby Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone Puppets Give less than I take Genuine as any fake I have no memory Every moment eternally I wanna try To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else I cut myself But no blood came And no one helped Strings that we can't see Puppet you Puppet me I wanna try To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else And you don't know What it's like to try To change where you go And break the lie And you never show What it's like inside To raise your low And break your pride Hearts crack like eggs As children pull the spider's legs Strays out in our yard Of buried bones and boulevards I wanna try To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else To get away from everybody else Wasted If you're not sorry for who you are Why are you sorry for where you've been? I know you carry a secret star The one you got from your invisible friend I met you walking in the New York night I said "Why are you walking so slow?" You said "I'm looking for a book I can write And after that I ain't got nowhere to go." (I'm) Wasted I need to find a place to cry Wasted I need to find a place to cry We stayed connected underneath the stones You told me all the places you come from I had a feeling I was being born Inside your world where my heart could never be more Wasted I need to find a place to cry Wasted You need to find a place to cry Wasted We need to find a reason why Wasted We need to find a place to cry If you're not sorry for who you are Why are you sorry for where you've been? I know you carry a secret star The one you got from your invisible friend (You're) Wasted You need to find a place to cry Wasted I need to find a place to cry Wasted You need to find a place to cry Wasted I need to find a place to cry Failed Now you're gone and I don't know why You removed yourself in the blink of an eye When the seasons change all you can do is cry Now you're gone and I don't know why Maybe I failed Maybe I failed Maybe I failed (What's it like where you are?) (What's it like to fall that far?) Now you're gone and I don't know why You removed yourself in the blink of an eye When the seasons change all you can do is cry Now you're gone and I don't know why Maybe I failed Maybe I failed Maybe I failed (What's it like where you are?) The way you were I loved you (What's it like to fall that far?) The way you were The way you were I loved you The way you were I am You live in a darkness Made out of your fear Look into the future Never are you here You are not a person Nor are what you see Beyond this world you live in Beyond your memory To find out what you really are You must wake up from this long night Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Your world is in danger But your world isn't real You see what is imagined Dreaming what you feel To find out what you really are You must wake up from this long night Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am I am I am I am You are beyond the sun and the stars You are the ever present light Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am Repeat the words I am I am I am A smile that explodes Too young to fall For a light I think I see Can't say for sure The plants have died My hair has grown From the thought of you Coming home Cause it ain't easy, uh Waking up at dawn To find I lost my crown If I found you there With flowers in your hair I'd hold you in my arms Till we came back down A smile that explodes I could never understand My room too small To get by without the help of alcohol Pin my arm to the wall Now I'm too gone to fight Not afraid to fall Cause it ain't easy, uh Waking up at dawn To find I lost my crown If I found you there With flowers in your hair I'd hold you in my arms Till we came back down A smile that explodes I could never understand I write one more Letter I won't send Except for across the floor Leave us alone He was cut and then there was no fear The dogs of hell were then unborn And like a ghost without an atmosphere His voice sang without a song Singing to the ships as the foghorns blow Shipping light where darkness hides The night was blind but it could see him go For in this dark his light survives Go away Leave us alone We don't know yet Who you are So far From home He stands before them as they judge his life His shadow reaching underneath He will fight he will reveal his knife They will question his belief They will shatter all his teeth Blood from his mouth and darkness he can see His suicide is love reborn And hanging from a noose in secrecy His mind and spirit will divorce Go away Leave us alone We don't know yet Who you are So far From home Don't run away Go away Leave us alone We don't know yet Who you are So far From home
All Of Our Hands Until we feed the starving, blood is on all of our hands Babylon is burning and there is no promised land Until we clothe the naked all of us are damned Dreams are just for savages calling themselves men And in time fire will rain down On our head The sky will open up And life will be bled We are all the same spirit, we are all the same love And still somehow we've chosen to slaughter the white dove There is only one energy just different sets of clothes For human being is to dress up and protect what no one knows So in time fire will rain down On our head The sky will open up And life will be bled All of us will fall into the same hole And all will reunite into the same soul The death that we allow is the death that is our own The murders we commit are committed in our home So in time fire will rain down On our head The sky will open up And life will be bled Murdered by indifference, murdered by our greed Murdered by our riches taken from the ones in need Murdered in our churches and murdered by belief We who just do nothing shall be murdered in our sleep In time fire will rain down On our heads The sky will open up And life will be bled Truth is just a word said to the ones who plead What will we get back when we plant a poison seed? Consumed by our consumption that can never be enough The hungry are attacking, they are swallowing our blood And in time fire will rain down On our head The sky will open up And life wil be bled The victims are now victimized and the world is inside out Everyone is terrified the faithful are in doubt Religion is a gimmick we want back the god they stole But everyone is fighting to go deeper in the hole Some believe salvation comes when the world is gone But we have been forsaken, there is nowhere we belong So in time fire will rain down On our head The sky will open up And life will be bled
*** Thanx a lot to Susana & Dave for this one ***
Nuclear Daydream
Too Much To Hide The needle says she'll tell you when she's through No sense now in trying to believe in you Too much to hide In your own two eyes Too much to hide In your own world There's some you know you follow into doom By yourself and in an empty room Too much to hide In your own two eyes Too much to hide In your own world Dream you're gone Dream you're gone, so far gone (So far, oh) Dream you're gone Dream you're gone, so far gone (So far, oh) Dream you're gone Dream you're gone, so far gone (So far away) Dream you're gone Dream you're gone, so far gone (So far away) I'm down here and walking with you still And part of me I guess always will Too much to hide In your own two eyes Too much to hide In your own world Be here now Black Lexus Your black Lexus has Two hundred thousand miles Underneath the missing roads You don't know where you're going Almost anytime Things lost just lighten up your load Maybe you're headin' out To LA See if they'll put you in a show First you'll check with the stars Read both your sign and mine In the back of the New York Post You can't find her You can't find her In the mirror everything's reversed And you can't find her You can't find her Everyday you feel a little curse Now your car's been towed You misread the sign Something left to do Must have slipped your mind Got no money left Guess you'll stick around And anyway the stars Said not to go right now But you can't find her You can't find her In the mirror everything's reversed And you can't find her You can't find her Everyday you look a little worse You can't find her You can't find her In the mirror everything's reversed You can't find her You can't find her Everyday you feel a little curse You can't find her You can't find her In the mirror everything's reversed You can't find her You can't find her Everyday you feel a little curse Enough To Get Away What's the difference from a Saturday night Where the light spreads dark around the drunk hearts In their headless hallways where bodies are put on the market place To happiness endlessly taking pills With the young going down I see nothing or nowhere I know what I've found Must be in paradise Next year we will live in the country With our money, by day the sky builds Doing our laundry and renting us some random machines Getting our religion and sex on the TV Assumptions made simply to get away Everyone old is already with me On tiny decks enjoying midsummer weather and friendly company And in their picture frames there you and I will be Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Bright drops of blood so my thoughts are I turn to lie down but sleep stays far I'm just an echo of the song going through my head The light behides the ghost But I'm the one that's dead And I think of who you be When you're here with me Maybe it's a spiritual disease Sliding through shoots of oblivion into infinity Back into our maker's hands No more rain or controversy Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Knowing what we've found Enough to get away Slide Away No matter what you want Do or say I hope you make it to Better days If you're a junkie heart Be reborn And every dime in bag Leave your home If they don't get to you Get to me We're gonna walk a path Ever free And stare into the sun Till we're blind Destroying every thought In our mind What you say counts What you say counts Till you fall down Black as the night you crashed apart Till every piece was gone No matter where you live Where you've been You found an open road And a friend If you're a peaceful soul Peace will come So don't you hide away What you've done What you say counts What you say counts Till you fall down Black as the night you crashed apart Till every piece was gone Slide away Now won't you Slide away Now won't you Slide away I want you all the way I want you Slide away Now won't you Slide away Now won't you Slide away I want you all the way I want you Slide away Now won't you Slide away Now won't you Slide away I want you all the way I want you Slide away Electrical Storm How do you live cold Before you're young You're so old You're born and then you die You're born and then you die And you are born Past the city and the thieves Past the wolverines and trees Until the sunrise In the electrical storm Last night with you When we turned blue I saw right through When we turned blue I can see you now You are me Anyhow You're born and then you die You're born and then you die And you are born Past the city and the thieves Past the wolverines and trees Until the sunrise In the electrical storm In the sunrise In the sunrise And we are born In the electrical storm In the sunrise In the sunrise And we are born In the electrical storm Last night with you When we turned blue Were you untrue When we turned blue When we turned blue You Are Free Time is moving on You and me You and me Suffering is gone You are free You are free I know I let you down Those days are over now I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was Time is moving on You and me You and me Suffering is gone You are free You are free I know I let you down Those days are over now I'm no longer who I was No longer who you thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who you thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who you thought I was I'm no longer who I was No longer who I thought I was I'm not afraid of nothing I'm not afraid of anyone I'm not afraid of losing myself There ain't no self to lose I'm not afraid of losing myself There ain't no self to lose I'm not afraid of losing myself There ain't no self to lose I'm not afraid Time is moving on You and me You and me Suffering is done Let it be Let it be When you feel you're strong You are free You are free Automatic Situation Automatic who you blame Like a moth into the flame Burn your wings, have scars to show Always gone before you go It's all down from here (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) The fall you prepared (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) Damaged pride in a twisted heart Little thief who was never caught Wanna give you what she earns Souvenirs of the wings she burns It's all down from here (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) The fall you prepared (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) It's all down from here (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) The fall you prepared (Automatic, Automatic, Automatic situation) When I Was Running Out Of Time When I was running out of time I turned it into a dream And you went drifting into my mind Things ain't the way that they seem I turn you into a dream And make it all go away You know your hair looks different when you wear it that way You've got a painted face and a body made of clay You are my super star They will fill you with big ideas They'll hang your heart in the sky I know you want to save the world How long have you been that high How long have you been that high And did you make it all go away You know your eyes look different when you look the other way You've got a cheating heart bleeding emeralds everyday You are a shooting star Things ain't the same as when we was young They hung us from shooting stars Let's tell the world we're doing fine I know how lucky we are I know how lucky we are To make it all go away You know this world is topsy-turvy in days like today We got a million souls looking for a place to stay Each one a shooting star Don't Tell Your Eyes Don't tell your eyes Don't tell your eyes Your eyes are mine Don't tell your mind Don't tell your mind Your mind is mine Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Don't tell your dream Don't tell your dream Your dream is mine Don't tell your sex Don't tell your sex Your sex is mine Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Jesus loves you more than you know More than you know Don't Give Up On People Give 'em one more chance One more thing to say I made a very big mistake Followed by a thousand days Don't give up on people Who want you to stay Satellites and moonbeams Signal dreams to play Last time I saw you Was in the sunless time of day Don't give up on people Who want you to stay Don't give up on people Who want you to stay Woman Woman Woman You make me feel Woman Woman Are you for real? Cause I don't know if I make it on without you I don't know if I could make it on my own back home Mother Mother Are you right here? Mother Mother I share your fear Cause I don't know if I make it on without you I don't know if I could make it on my own back home Sister Sister You're here I see Sister Sister You see through me Cause I don't know if I make it on without you I don't know if I could make it on my own back home Woman Woman Are you for real Woman Woman You make me feel Cause I don't know if I make it on without you I don't know if I could make it on my own back home Nuclear Daydream You can hold your needle You can point your gun You can shoot and kill me Or you could let me run But I won't ever cry for you anymore The days when I would die for you are now gone If there's a plan then tell me If you know who you are A princess or a mummy A flower or a scar So I don't have to cry for you anymore The days when I would die for you are now gone Are now gone What's it like to lose control Are you even here at all This is a nuclear daydream It's my atomic bomb I already lost my passage I already lost our home So I won't ever cry for you anymore The days when I would die for you are now gone There's only dreams and numbers And wishes left unsaid In all the burning letters Underneath our bed Saying I won't ever cry for you anymore The days when I would die for you are now gone Are now gone Are now gone Are now gone
Let's Just Be
*** Thanx a lot to http://www.coldestsea.net for these lyrics ***
Diamond ring [You know it] I wanna go out But not really I keep droppin' the bucket Until it's dry Until it's dry I wanna go out But not really I keep stuffin' the muskett Until you cry Until you cry You could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring I wanna go out But not really I keep droppin' the bucket Until it's dry Until it's dry [Come on] I wanna go out But not really I keep stuffin' your muskett Until you fly Until you fly I say you could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring [ Baby yes, Baby yes-saaa (?) ] I say you could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring I say You You could be my diamond ring Good life There is a ghost in each of us Before we're ever born There is a ghost in each of us And all must learn mourn Muhammad Ali He said what's on his mind Muhammad Ali Could change the course of time There is a ghost in each of us Before we hit the grave There is a ghost in each of us A ghost we each must save Muhammad Ali Spoke in poetry Muhammad Ali Gave all to you and me There is a ghost in all of us Who runs when we're asleep There is a ghost in all of us A diamond you can't keep Sometimes I want to take you home Sometimes, sometimes I want to be alone To wake up from the good life To fix up from the dull night Sometimes I want to take you home Sometimes, sometimes I want to be alone To wake up from the good life To fix up from the dull night To wake up from the good life To fix up from the dull night Oh, let's go You Let's go Rock And roll To wake up from the good life To fix up from the dull night To wake up from the good life To fix up from the dull night Precious one Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman in the evening sun Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman you're my precious one Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman after all we've done Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman when I'm on my run Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home Comin' home Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman in the evening sun Taste you like a woman Taste you like a woman you're my precious one Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home Comin' home Spacemen Wake up sister Sister come on You know it's for you (x2) Come on brother Give us your song It's all you can do (x2) Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah So come on mother You could be wrong In fact now you are The light in the star Come down father You could be strong So come on I say come on Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah Here come the spacemen Out of the sky Ah Ah Here they come now Here they come So come on Take me home Take me home Look good on your own Take me home Look good I can see the sun I think the evening's done Take me home You look good on your own Sometimes it's good To say goodbye Before you make it To the end of time Yes, sometimes it's good To say goodbye Before you make it To the end of time Take me home Take me home Look good on your own I can see the sun I think we just begun Please take me home You look good Sometimes it's good To say goodbye Before you make it To the end of time Sometimes it's good To say goodbye Before you make it To the end of time Take me home I can see the sun Take me home Chicago You're my best friend I need you until the end No, you I will never betray Don't run away from yourself Or follow anyone else No, you never have to be a slave If they don't play you in chicago Oh no no no And if they don't save you when you're lonely Only you Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you Could see your light, see your light, see Your mirror is destroyed I see you now trying to avoid The truth of who you really are The heat will stay with the flame So your beauty never will change To me you will always be a star And if they don't play you in chicago Oh no no no And if they don't save you when you're lonely Only you Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you Could see your light, see your light, see Some turn lunatic Others learn how to forget This world to which they just don't belong I wonder who you will be A dream with no memory A beggar looking for one magic song And if they don't play you in chicago Oh no no no And if they don't save you when you're lonely Only you Could see your light, see your light, see your light, you Could see your light, [see what I see] see your light, [see what I see] see your light, you Could see your light, [see what I see] see your light, [see what I see] see your light, you Cockteezzze We could be free You and me But i'd rather be a Cockteezzze Hey, get on your knees and pray with me I don't care what you wanna believe We could be free You and me But i'd rather be a Cockteezzze Hey, get on your knees and pray with me I don't care what you wanna believe Let me get witcha, witcha one time Witcha, witcha one time One time Oh hey, hey, hey We could be free You and me But i'd rather be a Cockteezzze Hey, get on your knees and pray with me Oh, I don't care what you wanna believe Be free You and me But i'd rather be a Cockteezzze Get on your knees and pray with me I don't care what you wanna believe Let me get witcha, witcha one time Witcha, witcha one time One time Oh hey, hey, hey Lonely astronaut Here comes the rain Falling down like ecstasy I feel your pain Raining now inside of me Far from where we're going Away from where we've been Everything we lost out here One day must be lost again (2x) The moon will rise Worship lonely astronauts To our surprise We can never get the light we lost With the weight of our emotions Which are gone before they end Are they here just to remind us Of everything we've lost again Everything we've lost again When you cry your eyes are hollow (4x) Send out the probe To help us find eternity It won't return Or no one will be left to see The stars are in their solitudes The light it comes from them By the time it hits our open eyes All of it is lost again (2x) We disappear Into one another's mind And reappear With faith in something new to find We are resurrecting our history so thin With graduatin' needs to fill The love we'll only lose again (2x) When you cry your eyes are hollow (4x) Cocaine feet You can feel Numb in your bones You and I live Without anyone Cocaine feet Wrecked cities in the dark Another dirty street Where you don't belong Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through No matter what I put you through Your brown head Has too many thoughts Your brown bed Has too many spots Where have you been And who have you been with Who did you kill And who did you kiss Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through No matter what I put you through Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through Don't you ever put me down on the white line No matter what I put you through No matter what I put you through No matter what I put you through No matter what I put you through Let's just be Let's just be Be what you be You and me Let's just be Let it bleed And let it be Let it bleed And let it be Let's just be Be what you be You and me Be what you be Let it bleed And let it be Let it bleed And let it be Let it be Let's just be Let it be/bleed You and me Let it bleed And let it be Let it bleed And let it be
Shake It Off Shake it off Shake it off Shake it off I can barely hear you talk Shake it off I can barely(/nearly/really) hear you walk Shake it off I can barely(/nearly/really) hear you walk Take it down One time In my mind It's blind If I find The time to rewind Take it down In my mind One time It's blind I wish I could find The time to rewind Shake it off Shake it off Shake it off There really ain't no/that much to say or talk Shake it off Shake it off Shake it off There really ain't much to say or talk Shake it off Shake it off Shake it off There really ain't that much to say or talk Lack a vision Because you lack a vision You've been Blinded by love I say a prayer for a stranger Oh he was The last soul I see(n) I want to tell you something But I Can barely speak I turn out the lights I know I won't sleep I love you And I always will I want to Come back home, can I come back home I hold you Like I never will I want to Come back home, can I come back home In the eyes of a stranger I saw The last part of me I knew then for certain We are Never gonna be free I think of what she told me Well I Know some things you can't teach Like when you hold me And I Stay out of reach I love you [everything's different] And I always will [nothing has changed] I want to [like a pocket of marbles] Come back home, can I come back home [at end of the day] I hold you [I pick out my favorite] Like I never will [and I give it away] I want to [everything's different] Come back home, can I come back home [nothing has changed] Because you lack a vision You've been Blinded by love
Gimmie Some Company I love you, I love you, I love you... Give it a little bit Give it some light Give it a little bit of your time Give it a little bit Give it some thought/(fire) Give it a little bit of your life Gimmie some company Let me know what you're thinking of We can walk by the sea I can hold your hand in mine Gimmie a little kiss Gimmie a smile Gimmie a moment before you decide Give it a little bit Give it some light/life Give it a little bit of your time, your time, your time Gimmie some company Let me know what you're thinking of We can talk easily I can hold your hand in mine
I Will Carry You/They say love is a lonely word When it goes unheard And if those thoughts they aren't spoken for And the bags that she packed Are there by the door I will carry them For you I will carry them For you I will carry them For you My love You say I could be free But I don't think you see me With the way/weight I absorb You put on me and so much more I will carry it For you I will carry it For you I will carry it For you My love You/They say love is a lonely word When it goes unheard Those thoughts they aren't spoken for And the bags that she packed Are there by the door I will carry them For you I will carry them For you I will carry them For you My love
*** Thanx a lot to Vincent for this one ***
Yer The Reason Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Yer the reason I just wanna stay Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Won't you do something to get in my way I take a listen inside myself Just to find an old romance I saw the walls starting to fade And watched the sun turn into a blaze/flame/grave (?) And I tell them what you're doing And I tell them what you say And I tell them how you live here When you move me into the grey/grave Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Yer the reason I just wanna stay Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Won't you do something to get in my way [ (you k)now like solo here and keep this rollin' then we're going to sing a verse then we're going to do a chorus it's going to be a single verse here it comes, right ] Could I tell you if I care Could I tell you anything Could I tell you to come home And would you come home with me Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Yer the reason I just wanna stay Yer the reason I don't wanna go home Won't you do something to get in my way Won't you do something to get in my way Won't you do something to get in my way Won't you do something to get in my way Won't you do something to get in my way Won't you do something to get in my way
Star song You got a lot of nerve, dear To treat people that way You need to find a lover Who could hear what you could not say Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away You set the world on fire But you never got away You want to take it higher But you ain't got a place to stay Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away You need to find a dream That could give what you could not pay Cuz you got the ears of the world now But you ain't got a thing to say Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away Need a little time away, dear Need a little time away
Temporary People
Temporary People Hanging out with the temporary people Till I find my way Back to you And it's so easy to be swallowed by this evil Cause it's all I know How to do But you do not care about yourself Or anyone else Anyone else I can't stop blaming myself And nobody else Nobody else There must be twenty five different people Living inside me All the time And some of them are always reaching for the needle Just to try and calm This vicious mind But you do not care about yourself Or anyone else Anyone else And I can't stop blaming myself And nobody else Nobody else We're sad you wanna go (I know you're still alive) Wanna go Away We're sad you wanna go (I know you're still alive) Wanna go Away We're sad you wanna go (I know you're still alive) Wanna go Away We're sad you wanna go (I know you're still alive) Wanna go Away
Faith Faith Comes in little waves I don't need To give myself away I said faith When it comes you have to pay It's the pain Which makes you believe You could take everything away from me You could take everything away from me Here I stand Naked and alone Covered up By only flesh and bone I can feel All your little stones Beating me Back into my hole You could take everything away from me You could take everything away from me You could take everything away from me (first your love and your sympathy) You could take everything away from me (then your pain and your company) When I came There was nothing I could lose So why should I pretend That there's something I could choose When I go It'll be like no one was here Nothing to love And nothing left to fear You could take everything away from me (first your love and your sympathy) You could take everything away from me (then your pain and your company) You could take everything away from me (first your love and your sympathy) You could take everything away from me (then your pain and your company) You could take, you could take... Still won't have it, still won't have it all ... Still won't have my soul
Say Goodbye If you're gonna leave, you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You should say goodbye I know it's getting harder every time you cry But you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You left on a cold afternoon Leaving winter in the month of June You're here for a while, but now you're gone too soon Like a hidden flower that forgot to bloom If you're gonna leave, you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You should say goodbye Can't help but be a liar, saying we'll never die But you should say goodbye you should say goodbye You burnt the sun and broke the moon I can still see you lying in an empty room The letter you left me was laced with your perfume Like a butterfly trying to fly back into her cocoon If you're gonna leave, you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You should say goodbye Can't help but be a liar, saying we'll never die You should say goodbye you should say goodbye If you're gonna leave, you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You should say goodbye If you're gonna leave, you should say goodbye You should say goodbye You should say goodbye
Dead Savior We are born alone and weak Back to black old and meek Our time here is so short Right to life or abort I don't know or who could say When all that comes will go away Some are victims, some are slaves Some are sunshine, some are graves Some are lost, some are found Some are tight and some unbound Could you ever come back through Without becoming back and blue Your words are hollow, your voice is noise You practice lines for all the boys You play with people just like games You're good with faces but you're bad with names Nothing's true if nothing's not You're never colder than when you're hot Well There really ain't no more surprises Like a dead savior One that never rises You got two faces, one is death You taught yourself to steal their breath The other face lights the room Like the mask of love and doom Who are you? Or who could say? But very few can ever get away The scared were never born that way But slowly made from day to day From night to night, from year to year They swallowed almost every tear The flesh will kill the spirits hold And most will do what they've been told Well There really ain't no more surprises Like a dead savior One that never rises You hang with priests, you hang with thugs On mountain tops and under rugs You change your name every day No one knows who you are that way You read the signs with empty eyes And give your love to alibis Get me back, get me in With you it's either the saving or the sin I've been bought but you've been sold Never hotter than when you're cold Well now I want to disappear And get myself away from here Well There really ain't no more surprises Like a dead savior One that never rises
Look Into The Sky People are hypnotized Lost in the city of the damned Dreaming rivers of deceit and lies As the shake one another's hand People fill you with poison tongues Slithering snakes in the world of sorry sons Loose lips sink ships but you know you're not the only one On the bottom of the ocean is the story of what we've become So don't believe them Look into the sky Look into the sky Look into the sky And ask for him People fill you with their lies Try to notify your next of kin See the lost children in their eyes Before you decide if you want to be like them So don't believe them Look into the sky Look into the sky Look into the sky And ask for him Look into the sky Look into the sky Look into the sky And ask for him He's your real friend People will fill you with their noise To try to make you feel as bad as them Bribe you with silk and expensive toys On the rooftops of hate and sin So don't believe them Look into the sky Look into the sky Look into the sky And ask for him Look into the sky Look into the sky Look into the sky And ask for him He's your real friend
Sunrise Dolls Memories of a world torn up You never had it so you lose yourself On the way to the dream you cut Out of the mind of the one you held I never thought that you weren't tough But you never could take anybody's help So memories of a world torn up, it's torn up You never had it so you lose yourself And I Walking through the city to survive And I Walking through the city to survive I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive Memories of a world torn up Across the bottom of a raging sea Your empty promise in my empty cup Keep the distance between you and me I never thought that you weren't tough But you never could take anybody's help So memories of a world torn up, it's torn up You never had it so you lose yourself And I Walking through the city to survive And I Walking through the city to survive I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive Sunrise dolls Sunrise dolls And I Walking through the city to survive And I Walking through the city to survive I'm alive, I'm alive And I Walking through the city to survive And I Walking through the city to survive I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive Sunrise dolls Sunrise dolls Sunrise dolls Dream Is Longer Than The Night Kiss me in this long goodbye Hear the new born angels cry Watch the greed of night just die A heart is wider than the sky You question me I ask you why You drop me off heavy and high And as I fall a dream to fly Fills my head a wish to lie For sleep to come we all rely A heart is wider than the sky Heavy too we try and try A dream is longer than the night You get it wrong til it is right It breaks you open and still you fight A dream is longer than the night A dream is longer than the night In its darkness the only light Out of blackness bursting white A dream is longer than the night Our love is stronger than this war You want so little
Heart's A Soldier You can't get to Brooklyn riding on the uptown train You're gonna be a crook until you stop dealing in cocaine Still you provide for your family any way that you still can And you remember when they told you you would always be the man The way we prey On each other, on each other Go on, show a little faith in me Go on, show a little faith in me You know the times are tougher, tougher than they've ever been before Because the streets are rougher, rougher than the bedroom door You try to change the weather even though you know it's a mistake Because the heart's a soldier, even though you know it's gonna break The way we prey On each other, on each other Go on, show a little faith in me Go on, show a little faith in me It's a real tough life when you're searching for ecstasy Go on, show a little faith in me Sometimes the path to freedom is the one that no one else believes Sometimes to rise above them you have to get down on you knees Try to pray For each other, for each other Go on, show a little faith in me Go on, show a little faith in me It's a real tough life when you're searching for ecstasy So go on, show a little faith in me Turn You On She opens every door Never calls you by your name And when you say it's time to go She looks at you like you're insane But when she hears you play She tries to sing along She gets up and dances on the chair And makes you laugh When she sings You say I don't turn you on Until it's time for me to go She only cries at night When the children are gone She gets up to wipe away her eyes In the blue light of the dawn Laying on your chest She's like a tiny cat Brought up and broken on the street You know she's the only one That even knows where you're at You say I don't turn you on Until it's time for me to go She says crawl over here I got something else to say Pouring whisky in your coffee cup She says I swore you liked it that way She tells you how to stay alive Acting like she's cleaning up your place You could see every single star in the sky Written on the expression of her lonely face You say I don't turn you on Until it's time for me to go You say I don't turn you on Until it's time for me to go
Winter Blades Shine on someone Shine on your grave Shine on someone Shining on a winter blade Find a woman you can trust One that you can touch Quit shining lights Into winter blades Quit shining lights at the sun And trying to run Find a gamble with a hunch Some kind of free lunch Quit shining lights Into winter blades Quit shining lights at the sun And trying to run Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Learn to walk without a crutch When you're broke, you got too much (?) Quit shining lights into winter blades Quit shining lights at the sun And trying to run Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Shine on someone Shine on your grave Shine on someone Shining on a winter blade Shine on someone Shine on your grave Shine on someone Shining on a winter blade Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Love keeps tumbling down onto us Drive Did we go too far To come back here again Don't know who you are But I know where you've been In the wild wind That comes with the setting sun When you lose your skin Where all the shadows run Where we go Only you can drive People we know Almost all have died Whatever you could see Wherever you could hide Don't know who you'll be But I'm going to enjoy the ride Of your punishment And its ongoing attempt To show your nakedness In order to pay your rent Where we go Only you can drive People we know Almost all have died Where we go Only you can drive People we know Almost all have died Try to follow fate Like a fly on the empty sand When you're running late With your skirt hacked around his hand And now the eagle's gone As the long cries of hatred bloom When the winter come Into the loneliest room Where we go Only you can drive People we know Almost all have died Where we go Only you can drive People we know Almost all have died Good Friend In a hungry time In the middle world Pearls before swine In the dark a girl Where are you this time I consider you to be A good friend of mine In a haunted life Will you take my call I can't win this fight Unless you take a fall Where you are this time I consider you to be A good friend of mine I consider you to be A good friend of mine I consider you to be A good friend of mine I consider you to be A good friend of mine
The Graduation Ceremony
Out on a Limb Sometime No matter when I wanna see you See you again I wanna hold you Just like the wind At night Blowing Across the land When you're searching for a friend As I'm hanging out on a limb In plain sight Time won't run away from me Like you always do Say you will tonight And they can't see what we've been through Faded memories Blame us too but that's alright Walking Across the floor Hiding behind the door Your shadow just disappears without light Baby you're still a slave I wanna give you what you gave But there's nothing in your grave tonight Time won't run away from me Like you always do Say you will tonight And they can't see what we've been through Faded memories Hey are you still alright Time won't run away from me Like you always do Stay with me tonight Sometime No matter when I wanna see you See you again I wanna hold you Just like the wind At night Blowing Across the land When you're searching for a friend As I'm hanging out on a limb In plain sight Horses I don't wanna hold you hostage I wanna set you free If I could I'd pay your ransom And give your eyes to see You know my love, it will follow If you only follow me Your eyes will open up so easily I don't wanna make you suffer Or fill you up with shame What I want is to protect you Give you shelter from the rain If you take my hand and maybe Even take my name We won't have anyone else left to blame See how the horses run Round the track Until the winner come Wait for the sound of his gun And then the horses run I guess I was only dreaming I'm here all on my own I remember how you left me Homeless in my home But you said I had it coming 'Cause I've always done you wrong But I was finding out where I belong See how the horses run Round the track Until the winner come Wait for the sound of his gun And then the horses run See how the horses run Round the track Until the winner come Wait for the sound of his gun And then the horses run
Almost Blue Playing with your toy soldiers You don't know what they're for So you just make lots of noises Decide who wins the war Now you're playing with matches Even though you've be warned That something evil could happen You don't care 'cause you're bored In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue In the middle of summer It's only you and your friends Each of you trying to go under But hoping it never ends You finally make it to winter And all rejoice in the snow Crawling over each other There's nowhere else you can go In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue And you're never going back to there No you're never going back again Until you're blue And you're never going back to there No you're never going back again Until you're blue In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue In your hideaway Almost new Almost blue
Someone to Love In the time of my dying I was making promises I couldn't keep Lying to you, you and me Held by my addiction Everything I thought I needed I couldn't keep If I was to get myself free You gotta let somebody Into your heart You gotta let somebody Feeling your heart Someone to love Someone to love Someone to love I came to live in your shelter 'Cause there's never a day when I'm not afraid Looking for an answer Mentally I was no more than a slave Will you help me surrender You said I have to become a dancer And started shooting at my feet You gotta let somebody Into your heart You gotta let somebody Feeling your heart Someone to love Someone to love Someone to love I did believe in your answer But you said I've still got a long way to go 'Cause the day won't remember What the years dying for you to know Who you are Once you find out you're probably already gone too far To ever find your way back home You gotta let somebody Into your heart You gotta let somebody Feeling your heart Someone to love Someone to love Someone to love...
Watch Our Shadows Run You betrayed me You were the only one I let inside If anyone could save me You were the only one To survive All my deceit In the darkness of a dead end street Here comes the sun Watch our shadows run It's a war No one ever won And I betrayed you I was the only one You let inside If anyone could save you I was the only one To survive All my deceit On the corner of a crowded street Here comes the sun Watch our shadows run It's a war No one ever won Here comes the sun Watch our shadows run It's a war No one ever won
This Is Still My World Voices whisper hieroglyphics In the alleys of the sun As borderline schizophrenics Haunt my blue dawn With my chute on Leave a trail of your genius And god's will be done See if you can see through this I'm not the only one I'm not his only son Never mind your details I'll just shout out the sun And if you come chasing darkness Maybe I'll run I won't run away This is still my world I won't run away This is still my world I won't run away Anymore Anymore Telephone ringing widows In the silence puppet strung I could cry for you forever But I'm too young And besides you make me nervous 'Cause I held you so strong Maybe I've been wrong here All along I won't run away This is still my world I won't run away This is still my world I won't run away Anymore, anymore Anymore, anymore
Over The Sun When I lie to you Life tears us apart I hope you know I loved you As much as you let me through And when I yell at you You're already gone I hope you know I loved you As much as the night is long The sun will fade away The sun will fade away I'll run to you every day Over the sun, over the sun When I cheat on you You're still all I see I hope you know I loved you As much as I need to be free The sun will fade away The sun will fade away I'll run to you every day Over the sun On my way to your light Over the sun On my way to your light Over the sun On my way to your light...
Face In The Crowd Mostly you get what you want That's the way it is Until you put on a front Which goes something like this You want everyone to look at you Until no one looks away Everyone to look at you Now they want you to stay But you turn back now Just another face in the crowd Yeah you turn back now Just another face in the crowd Mostly they think you're free And you love yourself Until you no longer see You're just like everyone else You want everyone to look at you Until no one looks away Everyone to look at you Now they want you to stay But you turn back now Just another face in the crowd Yeah you turn back now Just another face in the crowd And just like before You still want love Take your foot out of every door And rise above There's no where to get away In an open space And no price left you could pay To avoid your own face And you want everyone to look at you Until no one looks away Everyone to look at you Now they want you to stay But you turn back now Just another face in the crowd Yeah you turn back now Just another face in the crowd...
Midwest There's nothing to do in the midwest but dream Like spiders on the walls of abandoned factories Setting fire to the trash, dance beneath the fog When the cops come we run like hell Stealing from our souls born cheap out here A dream that can't compete up against the fear Of never getting away And there's nothing to do in the midwest but dream There's nothing to do in the midwest but dream Into the earth and out of the past We plug in our guitars and begin to feed off the spirits in the air Flying in our minds, the sound we try to hear Is so many years from ever being defined But there's nothing to do in the midwest but dream But dream
Gypsy Faded I am ready and I'm letting go now That is what I am doing That's what this turmoil has been all about That and the rumors of who you been screwing I'm not burying my head in the sand I say this with peace love and understanding I'm glad you're in some kinda peaceful place now But darling you were definitely the last one of us standing When you Gypsy faded on us I needed to say goodbye But you Gypsy faded on us I guess there's always a chance of us coming back together But that seems unlikely in this hand of weather I just never saw it coming so forgive me the shock Of becoming a stranger walking down my own block I'm getting over it though you are fading from my view And soon I hope you will be gone as I have been gone for you I do however want to say that I wish you the best Past the anger of betrayal and the need to second guess When you Gypsy faded on us I needed to say goodbye But you Gypsy faded on us I don't feel you anymore We were holding phantom hands I don't feel you anymore We were holding phantom hands I don't want stir this all back up But leavin' in Vegas proved extra painful for me It's easier to deal with things like this when they're clear Whereas once I was blind, I can finally see And like that old saying goes When you let your bird fly If she comes back to you She's really yours and free But this time you didn't come back So I guess you weren't mine I still love you of course But I let go of the need When you Gypsy faded on us I needed to say goodbye But you Gypsy faded on us When you Gypsy faded on us I needed to say goodbye But you Gypsy faded on us
*** Thanx a lot to Piperbones Jones for this one ***
Call Pick up your phone I know you're home I've been your friend And I need you now Last time we spoke It was all good But with the passing of time Things get misunderstood Put down your walls Put down your walls And call Sometimes friends rust When they forget how to trust We hurt the most The ones we truly love I've been your friend And I need you now Just like you needed me then And I came through somehow Put down your walls Put down your walls And call
Love Never Asks You To Lie November twelfth and it is a nice night to pretend That nothing will come at me like you did again I could see it in your eyes and felt it in your touch That you were as close to the truth as anything ever was Heard you cry Love never asks you to lie Take off your evil disguise I could see clear through your eyes Western Union, Cadillacs, bankers and ice cream Breaking windows, singing spirituals, ring like memories At the graduation ceremony, setting our sights free There is never gonna be another you and me Heard you cry Love never asks you to lie Take off your evil disguise I could see clear through your eyes And they say it's gonna shoot you Shoot you down When you walk around the corner Of this ghost town You know, they say it's gonna shoot you Shoot you down Heard you cry Love never asks you to lie Take off your evil disguise I could see clear through your eyes Heard you cry Love never asks you to lie Take off your evil disguise I could see clear through your eyes
Acts
Modern Times The modern times are coming after us I got no time to sit around and cuss The modern times are coming after you You got nowhere to hold your heart It's true When we dream we still laugh with the stars anyway It's our time to come through this life until we pay It's our time The modern times are coming after me I got nowhere to hide my destiny The modern times are coming after them They got no way to start it all again When we dream we still laugh with the stars anyway It's our time to come through this life until we pay When we dream we still laugh with the stars anyway It's our time to come through this life until we pay It's our time! Darkness
In this dark place where I'm born Finally all I can do is pray That everything you give to me I will find the strength to give away And if I'm being listened to My mind is like a cat, born to stray The skies that have abandoned you Are falling on your head and turning gray The body that imprisons you Will be the dust of skin and bone And blow across this holy land As if you were always already gone And as your spirit drifts away With a new day coming on The body that imprisons you Will be the dust of skin and bone In this dark place where I'm born (all alone) x3 In this dark place where I'm born Finally all I can do is pray That everyting you give to me I will find the strength to give away And if I'm being listened to My mind is like a cat, born to stray The skies that have abandoned you Are falling on your head and turning gray (I'm on my way) x6 In this dark place where I'm born (all alone) x2 And if I'm being and listened to as the night Becomes the day The day becomes the night again And I'm still and always in the way. My mind is like a rat Across the floor Needs a place to stay In this dark place where I'm born (all alone) x3 The Disappearing Ones Where do they go When they Disappear The People that you used to know Where do they go When their Midnights are over And they're Naked still wearing all their clothes With faces falling down All around like snow Each one sings a song Only they could know Only they could know Where do they go Floating On the horizon Still looking for another star And Where did you go And who are you hypnotizing Till they Don't know who you really are With Faces falling down (faces falling down) All around like snow Each one sings a song (each one sings a song) Only they could know Only they could know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Where did you go With your Voice out there somewhere Speaking as though it was for me As I sit here in silence Watching faces fall And Shatter all around my feet With Faces falling down (faces falling down) All around like snow Each one sings a song (each one sings a song) Only they could know Faces falling down (faces falling down) All around like snow Each one sings a song (each one sings a song) Only they could know Only they could know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! x4 What You Can't Control Linda When your eyes are cold Do you remember Who you cannot hold Are you living Like you lost your will Do you surrender What you cannot feel x3 Linda When your eyes are light Are you dreaming Are you lost in flight Or are you buried In the darkest hole Will you surrender What you can't control x6 Every time you turn around You think someone will be there following you But there ain't no one around Just a past you can't see through And a big sky getting Ready to fall on you Linda You know you drink too much And your friends Are ones you never even touch When you're walking Down that lonely hall Will you surrender anything at all Anything at all x2 What you can't control x9 Every time you turn around You think someone will be there following you But there ain't no one around Just a past you can't see through And a big sky getting Ready to fall on you Hollow Girl Little Girl I know your hollow Well I don't care when you're wrong Cause I don't belong here Without love Anymore So get off the floor And fix yourself In the mirror No one cares when you're gone Cause you don't belong here Without love Anymore So get off the floor Find a little bit of hope When there ain't none Get your head out of the rope From where you hung When they've got you by the throat Just give them love And you'll rise above Little girl I know you're lonely But no one cares what you've done Cause you don't decide dear What you want here Anyway So just walk away And rid yourself Of your poison It's only mixed up in your mind When you give it time You will burn In it's flame With yourself to blame Find a little bit of hope When there ain't none Get your head out of the rope From where you hung When they've got you by the throat Just give them love And you'll rise above I won't hurt you I won't hurt you I won't hurt you I won't hurt you Find a little bit of hope When there ain't none Get your head out of the rope From where you hung When they've got you by the throat Just give them love And you'll rise above x2 I won't hurt you I won't hurt you I won't hurt you I won't hurt you Walking In New York Walking through New York All these people come and go Some just fall away Some are just too slow Some ring in my head In the buildings where we raged In the nightrs that wouldn't die Or let themselves be caged Walking through New York On torn up avenues The spirits show their faces The mystics and the zoos You're way too far (stop!) Walking through New York (stop!) x3 Walking through New York The blood beneath your feet The downtown city street Is swallowing you whole You bark when morning comes You're way too far (stop!) Walking through New York (stop!) x3 Look Out! When they will test your faith You know their lies are coming up When they say that they want your money You know their lies are coming up Hey Look out Look out Look out Look out When they test your faith You know their lies are coming up When they say that they want your money You know their lies are coming up Hey Look out Look out Look out Look out New Tracks You say God is on your side How do you know? When all you want is to survive And a place to go I've been wanting to see you But acting tough In the silence we speak through You've had enough You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon A way to make it out soon The city snows keeps falling It's covered white The dirt came clean this morning A blanket through the night Could we make some new tracks? Places we've been before Could we find our way back? Thru each other's door You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon A way to make it out soon With your back up against the wall You learn to fly or else you still might fall You still might fall You still might fall You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon You'll find A way to make it out soon x2 Throw You To The Pack Make your morning come alive Make your morning come Just one bee left in the hive Black out every sun Make your moment come alive Make your moment come Just one feeling left to hide Black our every sun They throw you to the pack They throw you to the pack They throw you to the pack Make your morning come alive Make your morning come Just one bee left in the hive Black out every sun Make your moment come alive Make your moment come Just one feeling left to hide Black our every sun They throw you to the pack They throw you to the pack They throw you to the pack Williamsburg I still can't walk through Williamsburg Without Looking for her there Every woman with fallen eyes And darkneess in her hair I see someone that she might be But I am still not sure I stare at her arms, waist and hips And remember what was pure But when she finally turns around I know that it's not her For she is someplace far away And not this caricature Don't tell me I don't love you Don't tell me you're alright Don't tell me I don't love you Don't tell me you're alright On tired souls, my weary eyes Keep looking but still can't see Her beauty of her touch now Or the way we used to be You know I still can't walk through Williamsburg I have to leave this place To go somewhere she'll never be A ghost without a face And practice my amnesia And practice letting to Cast her in forgotten lands Where all is buried down below Don't tell me I don't love you Don't tell me you're alright Don't tell me I don't love you Don't tell me you're alright Cause I know you're not And you know I do And you know it's always true Letting Go Of Will Everyone's a stranger Everyone's a friend Some put you in danger Some will help you mend Broken hearts and winos Blues and creeks and starts You stumble down the path You're following your parts The deflation of the ego The letting go of will Letting go of will x3 You let go of your will Instinct of survival The need to hunt and kill Animal just suffers But spirit praises him As you dance to win back time Your light becoming dim None can help you counter None can help you run Alone you choose to suffer While brandishing a gun You point it out the window You point it at the mirror You shoot the empty night Unload it on your fear Letting go of will x3 You let go of your will Temptation leaves you hollow None can fill the void The shots that ring Ring and swallow Ships that you've deployed Come back to the shore Come back to the capture Chasing after love While bargaining the rapture Everyone's a stranger Everyone's a friend Some leave you in danger Some just bring the end Some will say I love you still Letting go of will x3 You let go of your will Letting go of will x3 You let go of your will Cherries In The Snow Did I thank you For coming here to visit me I've been lonely Up all night, every night You're my witness Everything I've ever owned It's in boxes It's all down To skin and bone My favorite lipstick It's called Cherries in the Snow And there'll be footprints Everywhere you ever go 'Cause it's over when the saints Are gone And they tell me that I'm late Coming home So look for me when the fates Are throwing stones And I'll talk to you From the cherries in the snow From the cherries in the snow I was a singer I could sing with you right now I'll be with you every chance Every chance You're my witness Everything I've ever owned It's in boxes It's all down to skin and bone 'Cause it's over when the saints Are gone And they tell me that I'm late Coming home There'll be footprints Everywhere you go I'll be talking to you From the cherries in the snow From the cherries in the snow From the cherries in the snow From the cherries in the snow
Redemption City
Travel As Equals In the dark of grave yard chatter In the light of freedoms call In the heat of any matter We travel as equals or not at all Bloom disgust and class divide I saw it written on the wall The only way we can survive We travel as equals or not at all You can't be in greater comfort As my pain prevents your fall The truth will come and tell us brother We travel as equals or not at all Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin And when we get to where we're going Past the divide past the stall Past the wind that's always blowing Travel as equals or not at all In your way(?), you found a way free In your way, you found a way, follow me Give it up, give it up Give it up to your destiny In your way, you found a way free And you might have a greater income Or you might be dumb and dull But either way I won't leave you Travel as equals or not at all So help me too in my slumber If I'm blind in madness hall If I'm deaf amongst the thunder Travel as equals or not at all Lift the way forget the ransom Free the chain and kick the ball Let our love take us higher Travel as equals or not at all And down the road and through the sky And on the tracks, hear the gull Fly above us, without worry Travel as equals or not at all I hope your road takes you homeward And may you always outrun the law If I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all Yes if I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all Yes if I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all In your way(?), you found a way free In your way, you found a way, follow me Give it up, give it up Give it up to your destiny In your way, you found a way free In the dark of grave yard chatter In the light of freedoms call In the heat of any matter We travel as equals or not at all Bloom disgust and class divide I saw it written on the wall The only way we can survive We travel as equals or not at all The only way we can survive We travel as equals or not at all The only way we can survive We travel as equals or not at all Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin In your way(?), you found a way free In your way, you found a way, follow me Give it up, give it up Give it up to your destiny In your way, you found a way free In your way, you found a way free In your way, you found a way free
Wasted days Here is my voice of wild damnation Here is my goodbye song Here is my suicide bleeding eternal Here is nowhere to belong Here is the vein cut wide and grinning Here are the misery teeth Here is the drunk in the still room spinning And the light in the widow's grief Here is your will of rot but frozen Stuck as if death won't care Here is your life lost and sitting Just floating like pollution in air Here is denial in skulls electric Still buzzing and from the chair Death row blunders, fat man switches The surge which will spike your hair Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Here is rebellion which death affords me Out of step with these times Feel free as you drink from the blood I give you Swallow my love and my crimes Here is a shadow a blitzkrieg a warlord Here is a saint and a nun Here is a rapist a rodent a Buddha Forgetting the things he has done In these wasted days With your broken memory You find a higher place In a separate world In these wasted days You hum a fragile melody But you lost your way And now you just can't see Have you a dream or perhaps a nightmare Have you a gun or a rose Have you a name or are you transparent Invisible without yourr clothes When you are naked When you are hungry When you are free to be gone Have you a will Have you a reason Have you a voice or a song This is rebellion A bleeding a beauty This is what will be ignored The morals around us call out for violence Like comfort of those who are bored Suck back your hostage Light up your handle Give all your donkeys away For when you are here undone and spinning There is nowhere you can stay In these wasted days With your broken memory You find a higher place In a separate world In these wasted days You hum a fragile melody But you lost your way And now you just can't see So look into me, look into rebellion Here I just speak to your soul Tragedy's yearning the strength to surrender Knowing it's all just a hole So look into me, look into rebellion Here I just speak to your soul Tragedy's yearning the strength to surrender Knowing it's all just a hole Tell me the truth And show me the sky Tell me you're coming baby Tell me goodbye Burn in the fire As you're saving your soul Then make believe you've got it all under control Tell me to call then show me the line Feel how they fall one by one into your eyes Tell me you see then show me you're blind Tell me you're free as you drop kick your mind Tell me the truth And show me the sky Tell me you're coming baby Tell me goodbye Burn in the fire As your saving your soul Then make believe you've got it all under control Tell me to call then show me the line Feel how they fall one by one into your eyes Tell me you see then show me you're blind Tell me you're free as you drop kick your mind
*** Thanx a lot to Frank for this one *** Mother Of Exiles Is there a mother of exiles Is there a father of truth Is there a shepherd to take us Through the darkness of youth Are there words that bring salvation Is there a sky that never falls Is there a voice, which moves love That knows the hollow of your calls Is there light that sings your heart song Is there hearts in ghosts that haunt Do shadows ever whisper As they die from the weight of want Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Did I ever really need you Or was it an illusion born of time Will you fade from my memory Could I recover my lost mind Is this road never ending From this life and beyond Are we always somewhere sending The signal moving on And if love itself can't save us What use the cry of man If love itself can't save us What is the master plan The sky is always falling My will is dying here The voices always calling Behind the waves of need and fear Give up now surrender What are you and where Who are you deceiving When you pretend to care A night owl and a carcass A widow and a snake A fire burning nothing Except the will to need and take A fire reaching higher It may even lick the sun God can feel its heat now As all his humans run From desire to desire From need to bleeding need With mouths still opened skyward The mother still must feed Is there a mother of exiles Is there a father of truth Will anyone find her way home Or to the heart and soul of youth Yer Only Job Your only job is to be free Free to live inside a tree Free to see the way you see If it's strange then let it be Your only job is to be free Free to laugh, free to sing Free to think, you might be king Or you might fly or swim the sea You have it all when you are free But freedom puts the fear in some And they will tell you not to run And not to dream, all you see Inside the open world of free For freedom follows no command It has no feet, no arm or hand It has no language, it has no rhyme It has no clock, no goal or time For freedom is it's own reward It's own protection without a sword Without a fight, freedom stands Holding on with phantom hands Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin To your heart of the sky Winter lips, mountains cry Freedom holds, the world above The reach of death, the reach of love I don't wanna waste your time Come on baby take me home I don't wanna waste your time I don't wanna waste your time Come on baby take me home I don't wanna waste your time Freedom is it's own reward Distorted power singing chord Freedom lifts the stars in space Freedom is an angels face The planets bouncing rubber balls Freedom bouncing off your walls You catch and throw and catch some more Freedom opens every door Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin And just remember to be free And you will be the same as me And I will be the same as you Sniffing flowers freedom glue Stuck to stars which shoot through skies The twinkle twinkle in your eyes The bed of love on which you sleep The day of hope, the one you greet The night of dreams both big and small The call you hear down freedoms hall Come home now for home your in One day gone, the next begin It's a circle like wheels which ride The waves of oceans freedom tide Welcome home you never left Maybe lost freedom theft But you got found freedom bee Buzzing for eternity And freedom is the light you see Enlightened soul turning key Others see and may wake up Inspiration freedom cup Drink the nectar of the soul Freedom is an endless hole Which opens up in the sky It's a circle you and I We are one, we are free I am you and you are me Yes we are one when we are free For I am you and you are me Yes we are one when we are free For I am you and you are me I don't wanna waste your time Come on baby take me home I don't wanna waste your time I don't wanna waste your time Come on baby take me home I don't wanna waste your time... I Miss The Zoo I miss the drunk, I miss the fiend I miss the simplicity of addiction and the scene I miss wandering aimlessly in half dead sewers With rats for eyes chewing on forgiveness and the will to apologize I miss the return of no return as I burn in avalanche of white snow and yellow cocaine I miss talking to brick walls while following the grain And human dolls as I plagiarize myself like a dummy Stuffed with counterfeit money for Cairo and black honey I miss illusions begging to be chased Even as they disappear into me erased Until there is no one or nothing but the chase And a powdery ghost with no face or faith And the woman of my dream disappearing without grace Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo I miss evolving into a cloud of blue marijuana Blown from the lips of hookers and pimps As they smack each other down in alleys for the dammed but mighty With no one but the weak around and the beautiful unsightly I miss numb Neanderthals marching in rows of living dead From my wisdom teeth to Spain and back again in my head I miss salvation in syringes and angels of mercy In blooms of smoke numbing rain which drinks when thirsty I miss glasses full of spirits who without tongues speak to me of napoleons wild nights I miss staying up for days and becoming a psychic pretzel flying kites Chewed on by a Zulu heading with toads to mars A mysterious prison and one without bars I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo I miss waking in the arms of strangers like puppies Just born in the pound to a dead mother with eyes sealed shut Looking for a tit to suck and other dangers When only the night before laughter was the only pursuit Even as knives carved up our backs and demons sat like Buddhas eating fruit Meditating on hate forever in our minds I miss exposing my bones and the need that rewinds Even my burning home, even my gutted inner child Even my dead grandfather beneath the ground that's wild Even my criminal family, even my weedwacker thoughts Whipping a thin plastic string to cut the ears of others as I sing I miss van Gogh's revenge, I miss his nightly binge I miss spiders surrounding my bed and lifting me as if an effigy Or a Dead King or a prophet of doom A Jesus for the apocalypse wearing dirt like perfume Or a mother for Satan or a ghost for all the children of abuse And taking me into the fire watching me burn like a goose As they sing in spider voices There goes creation, there goes the moon There goes the butterfly wanting a cocoon I miss being a bloom and a goon ??? too soon, in the afternoon A doctor of regret Hanging onto guitar strings in tune And hanging by a belt wrapped around some pipe to nowhere and felt My lips too wrapped around what appears to be stained glass As religious figures dress like rocks with class Burn into gas to the center of my brain The euphoria of dying and being born all at once While wearing the hat that reads 'dunce' I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo I Miss The Zoo No Surrender Comes For Free Your pupils are almost always pinned Fly like you will the shape of the wind Skating on ice at once thinning and thinned You wait to fall thru to do it again Your eyes are like pins stabbing my neck Vampire needs on trains that you wreck Your heart is a ghost or barely a speck Play every game and load every deck Your pupils so small go high to the end Internal worlds fall and dreams just descend Disguised all the time an enemy's friend Relationships die and never will mend Under your skull clouds of pure bliss As you give in to the vampire kiss A cut in your heart appears on yer wrist Giving to time the denial of this No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free Pills just dissolve in bellys of dust And float to your eyes emotion you trust Like Bob Dylan said life is sad and a bust But to get by you face what you must Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin All your lies can't save you now A selfish world that broke somehow Over the moon you jump like a cow As leaches of thoughts squirm under your brow Tricks licks kicks and dicks All get bought and sold and mix Words break bones like stones and sticks As you run out of veins to fix Shattered eyes still smiles wide Under clouds you love to hide You'd rather die than swallow pride As walls build up and up inside But no surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free That's right A cloudy demon with angel breath Floating forward backward death Nothing to gain and nothing left Just the evidence of theft From yourself you stole what's true If it could work I'd do it too Follow the lonely line of you Until there's no way to come back through Bleeding eyes and holy toes Blissful fingers where no one goes The things you've done no one knows But what you hide still always shows Touching on epiphany But no surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free Follow you or follow me Follow you or follow me No surrender comes for free If they could see the things you see No surrender comes for free If they could see the things you see No surrender comes for free Follow you or follow me No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free No surrender comes for free That's right Night Clothes The sun is out, I got no shades The moon in my pocket, I got it made Riding my bike for a free guitar Sweating in leather, my eye is the scar Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin She scratched me awake Must've been a bad dream Blood for a tear And a kiss for a scream Night clothes Say a prayer for my sister Drink my coffee down The jukebox is blaring An old fashioned sound The street kids are walking With books made of junk With words drinking on them Until they are drunk Voices in echoes Stir into noise The soundtrack of chaos Girls beating boys Night clothes I'm in my nightclothes Still from the night before Too many layers And I can't reach the floor All the time floating On a bike made of wings Sweating and laughing As my lost angel sings Deep in hells kitchen With hookers and saints Workers of metal And gypsies with paints Spraying on people On city brick walls Who somehow can listen When euphoria calls The world is a flood Of music and light Of day bleeding backwards In the folly of night The city must be Where gods like to hang Their monkey hearts beat Like drums in the rain In my nightclothes ??? Here in my city I'm blessed and I'm cursed Not nearly the best But close to the worst Blessed are the meek The rodents, the slaves For we are still close To exploding the graves To dance here with death And music and light Through agony days And the freedom of night In my nightclothes I'm in my nightclothes And the coffee is gone To move through the veins Of this old city's song The laughter the music The tears are the words The melody suspended Like wires and birds Floating and changing Resolved to be free The light that's in you Is in them and in me In my nightclothes I'm in my nightclothes Still from the night before I'm in my nightclothes Still from the night before Redemption City Redemption city Is where I live Redemption city I got nothing to give Bide my time And find you to forgive Redemption city Is where I live Redemption city Is where I come from Redemption city The beat in every drum Redemption city The blood that's in my veins Skyscrapers and sewers And love that flows down drains Redemption city Buildings falling down Redemption city Skulls stuck in the ground Redemption city Night gives into dawn As evil fills the streets The love keeps moving on Redemption city I fell but now I'm free Redemption city In you there's no more me Redemption city I breathe in your air As destruction and revolution Are building everywhere Maybe you wanna come home Maybe you wanna get away Maybe you wanna go out You'll find redemption Real redemption Redemption city Sons and daughters save Redemption city Built in every grave Redemption city The light in every cave Freeing every soldier Every master now a slave Redemption city Morning paper trains Redemption city Nectar and the stains Redemption city Blood on every hand The cold rain in each eye Killing every man Redemption city No place left to park Redemption city Not safe after dark Redemption city The fire from each spark Shooting from the blackness Born from every heart Redemption city Blood runs through the streets Redemption city Where saints drink wine with freaks Redemption city Salvations naked here And Satans in the cold speaking with his fear Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Redemption city His fear is made of doves Redemption city Sobered up his buzz Redemption city Now Satan's falling down And the people come to stab him And put him in the ground Maybe you wanna come home Maybe you wanna get away Maybe you wanna go out You'll find redemption Real redemption Redemption city Is where I live Redemption city I got nothing to give Bide my time And find you to forgive Redemption city Is where I live Redemption city Is where I come from Redemption city The beat in every drum Redemption city The blood that's in my veins Skyscrapers and sewers And love that flows down drains Maybe you wanna come home Maybe you wanna get away Maybe you wanna go out You'll find redemption Real redemption You'll find redemption Real redemption You're Not The Only One Darkness descends On everyone Eventually And still you keep past the hyenas Wearing idiot suits Past the reformers with holy pursuits You're not the only one trying to hold on To a kiss from yesterday To a moment surrendered When you were sure there was something more to say And you're not the only one With clothes so tattered The eyes look sideways and then beyond To thoughts of where you once came from Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin You're not the only one Dead still from the beginning Spinning a tribute to what could be But you can't get happy through misery And you're not the only one You're not the only one Down streets no shadows ever go And still you keep moving Past the shady cameras and artillery whores You're not the only one Against breaking skies and fall away floors You're not the only one Warped and wasted With poison bought from yesterday And you're not the only one Drunk and holy Aware of all that's come before And what would come to stay You're not the only one In a slumber of booze and dreams And even high ideals But who are you Still a no one Still a mark Still a seed And who are you You're not the only one And who are you You know you're not the only one Who are you You're not the only one
So Far From Free Tell me how you woke up to your heart Through the lines strung across your face Beating' down the walls keeping us apart And trying to fill all the empty space You are So far from free So far from free You are So far from free You are So far from free In the end this matter is extinct So burn all that was said In your tired head Bleeding from the same wound when you seek A faster way to heal To bribe the sun to shine You are So far from free You are Far from free So far from free
Surrender To The Storm
I surrender to the storm I surrender to the storm... Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin I surrender to love reborn I surrender to the storm I surrender to love reborn I surrender to the storm
Fractures I float like an old piece of wood on the Hudson I may have a purpose But it's mysterious to me I wait in dark corners for instruction Get on my bike Peddle over bridges Along rivers and wind back where I started And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And in the breaks, along the fractures And in the breaks, all along the fractures Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin I go fishing A giant rod with a string and a hook I work into the cracks With no idea what I want back Standing on my heart Like a world in turmoil Alone with God A vagrant A figment An idiot With no thoughts or ideas Something tugs on the string And I keep floating down the river Riding over bridges Advancing the myth called surrender All bones break All skulls crack and turn cold In moments of strength or weakness I ask for help And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And so in moments of weakness or strength I ask god for forgiveness and guidance Then I fall asleep And meet him somewhere along the fractures And in the breaks, along the fractures And in the breaks, all along the fractures Free Freedom I see you here Locked outside I want you in Come inside I've been lost A scattered ghost No kind being A shadow host You my guest I haunt you now You the best Still here somehow Love and light and sin again Our limitations Breathe us in And breathe us out Swallowed whole No salvation Found below In the head Or in the soul Wandering always Takes its toll London Paris New York you All the cities We been too And back and forth And here and there All to say I really care And see your moon And see your glow The way you walk And what you show And what you don't And what you hide Sometimes you're gone And still inside And still inside I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Make believers In the sky In the earth Pass us by Mother father Slave and king All of us Should finally sing Freedom freedom All around Freedom freedom Falling down Freedom freedom Under love Freedom freedom Up above Freedom freedom Me and you Freedom freedom Red and blue White and black Yellow grey Take it all To give away Freedom in Freedom out In a whisper Freedom shout Freedom head Freedom soul Bury freedom In a hole Watch it grow Manifest Everyday You arrest Freedom locked In a cage Swallowed keys The turning page In the eyes The leper sage In the broom Sweeping rage Freedom need Freedom cure Give us dreams Make us pure Make us you In the sea Give us wealth Make us free Free the freedom That you'd be If you could Get yourself free Free the freedom That you'd be If you could Get yourself free Free the freedom That you'd be If you could Get yourself free Free the freedom That you'd be If you could Get yourself free Free the freedom That you'd be If you could Get yourself free I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go I finally find a way to go Touched There is a twist in everything Waking up at night With a headache in a penthouse That doesn't belong to you Waking up with no one But your own infringment on everything And yeah you're a celebration A diamond ring But sometimes it just doesn't mean a thing You get up and have your coffee Buy your canvas, throw yourself against a wall That in some strange instances becomes a sky Or a vision or a tear A kind of hallelujah dawn This mess, this eternity of an existance It's either a dull thud or an electric explosion We all breathe in clouds of smoke We see lights and then nothing at all We all want peace as we rampage down streets of chaos But in the distance When I reopen my blinded eyes When I conjure up the will to believe again I know we are already home Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Me and my folks Ocean waves against our feet Can anyone be talk to walk on water The secrets are whispered in the ocean air You blessed little children happy to be dancing together Can you be so bold as to truly look into one another's eyes To relax into each other Somethings don't have to be explained You just feel and automatically Know we are here to heal These wounds are deep These wounds are eternal Touched touched... We approach death Like wounded warriors Arms crossed Head bandaged We approach death When the wild call Sings broken melodies To fractured ears As sunlit shadows Blend evil fruit motions Which rise from the street And wreck torpedo hearts Windmills spin eternally Electric hearts beat endlessly And the pulse of life Surrenders to no one Who am I I'm touched
Follow The way I fall The way I follow you Nowhere, nowhere And I lost something A long time ago A long time ago A long time ago Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin The way I fall The way I follow you Nowhere, no where And I lost something A long time ago A long time ago A long time ago Kandinsky The whole world shakes me down The Holy Ghost in rags I've been burning up this town And flipping tiny bags Zeus gave a blade Apollo stuck him up I committed to the fade But then drank another cup It's a dirty song that runs For your fingers in your chest Trying to feel for bombs and guns Or a heart without a vest Bullet proof, good or not Wrecked the weekend coming now I will see you at the spot With my murdered sacred cow Shadows are red inside Shadows they dream in rainbows Shadows cave into fountains of color When we close and avert our eyes Shadows recognize our poverty Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Kandinsky is in my room So is Edgar Allan Poe The shadows dream in color And that is their final revenge When we go under It's nothing but art deco black and white Andy Warhol submarines Frying fish of the ages Shadows are red inside Shadows dream in rainbows Shadows cave into fountains of color We close and avert our eyes Shadows recognize our poverty And even pray over us With minds full of grey And rapid eyes scanning the bottom of the ocean On the middle of the day Kandinsky is in my room Smoking a brown cigarette And I ignore him and read my orange book Until suddenly he says ‘hey' And as I look up He turns into a shadow So that the cigarette falls And the smoke rises slow Filling the space where his body once was Filling the space where his body once was Filling the space where his body once was Humanity Fade We are connected to the main frame Connected to the wire Connected to the human brain Of roses and fire We are connected to cyber space Connected to death The only thing we never feel Is the weight of our breath Out here in the country With the night coming on Connected now to nothing Like dogs in a storm Apocalypse is coming Here come the undead Marching in chaos Like the thoughts in your head We are connected to the main frame With our souls plugged in Our spirits are now digital We were electrical skin We are figments of the Internet It's hand reaching out Bleeding through our eyes In the heart of our drought Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin The desert here is empty Our cure is disease Our god is on a screen The sky on its knees The rain of pollution The fog of ideas There is no absolution Just crocodile tears Here comes the revolution No army to beat No big bomb exploding Or cyanide to eat Computer domination A world without bounds A soul in mutilation Like the silence of sounds Here come the revolution Electronically made The death of evolution The humanity fade Humanity fade Humanity fade
It Takes A Lot To Live In The Moment It takes a lot of time to live in the moment To become a thing of no thing To bleed into emptiness And be sucked into the cosmos To reverse aging And be born again into the arms Of mother sucking at life And infinitely charged an infant It takes a lot of time to live in the moment To believe without belief To suffer without grief To steal the riches without being a thief By taking it all The construct The identity The ego And lighting it up with fluid and a match And as it burns Throw it to the cops of soul who catch Arrest it and kick it back Into the center of the sun Burning out black hole teeth Laughing and chewing the moment It takes a lot of time to live in As it takes a lot of time to live in the moment Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Where dark is light And blindness sight And where wrong is right And the day is night And there is no more I, or you, or time Or future Or need to nickel and dime Or skin Or bones Or thought of rhymes Just the evil low-end buzz of consciousness fuzz Blossoming rose to the nose of eternity eternal And the vast never-was Sucking all the fire from the old sun And lighting up the new one For the generations to come Who have so much time to live in the moment It takes a lot of time to live in the moment I Am The Mississipi Along the edge of the mississippi A thousand hearts bleed My heart looking for something to execute In the mississippi Up against its current My heart so alive Submerged in the airless dark Who could hold me here Who could hold me down Sitting on the edge of the mississippi River of slaves River of bones I have been down here Across generations A lifetimes ago I was sold amongst the thieves I don't ignore the cries I hear them I am conscious along the mississippi I hear the footsteps of ghosts I hear them scream behind me I see their boats sink Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin But I am very alive She draws me to her breath She whispers with her voice Her comfort is all I want or need Alone on saturday night Me and the mississippi Two rivers flowing together Flowing internal A river of darkness A river of light Blend as one Together against the impossible Ends we face Our lunatic charm She can never claim me Nor I her We flow together eternal We flow together as one And I am the mississippi
The Ballad of Boogie Christ
*** Thanx a lot to Lonelyastronauts & Helen for these lyrics ***
Currency Of Love I have no real currency But the currency of love I have no one to trust But the Lord up above I have no one that fits Like a hand in a glove I have no real currency But the currency of love Sideways and broken Confused upside-down With you in my circus I go from strongman to clown I have no real weapon But a fist or a shove I have no real currency But the currency of love I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake How hollow are you How unaware Your laws have been broken Now no one is there But in a moment of worship You become a dove With nothing to offer But the currency of love Alive at the station Dead on a train With both of us ravaged In the winds of your pain How hollow are you How unaware Your laws have been broken Now no one is there Lost one more struggle I broke every rule To become a monster In the coat of a fool Trying to find diamonds In a world of mud What else could we want for But the currency of love The currency of love The currency of love The currency of love The currency of love The currency of love The currency of love I ain't got no money I ain't got no money The currency of love The currency of love The currency of love...
Saint of Impossible Causes I need the saint of impossible causes The saint of no return I need the saint of scented candles That never really burn I need the saint of laughter I need the saint of tears I need the saint detective Who can find my stolen years I need the saint of needing I need the saint of loss The one who gave up wanting His heart to trash to toss I need the saint of longing I need the saint of will I need the saint of killers Too afraid to kill I need the saint of music I need the saint of love Only they can save me Reaching out for you I need the saint of weapons That never hurt no one But struggle towards perfection To obliterate the sun I need the saint of drinking Wine and ice-cold beer Is there any saint of thinking Beyond the reach of fear? The saint of our desire Is sitting here with me He says you ain't no Buddha There ain't no mystic tree You could sit forever And never understand The mind of the creator Moving mountains in your hand (I know what you're thinking and you're right) I need the saint of music I need the saint of love Only they can save me Reaching out for you I need the saint of music I need the saint of love Only they can save me Reaching out for you I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I need the saint of healing And I need the saint of health I shot the saint of money And beat up the saint of wealth The saint of twisted memory The saint that sets us free I saw them run together They look like you and me For the saint of falling skies And the saint of heavy rain The saint of bored encounters Was making fun of all my pain You are a tiny man, he said With language thumbing low A hitcher in the whirlwind Just like the saint of snow (and then we set up the causes / a saint of impossible causes ?? I need the saint of music I need the saint of love Only they can save me Reaching out for you I need the saint of music I need the saint of love Only they can save me Reaching out for you Only they can save me Reaching out for you Only they can save me Reaching out for you
The Ballad of Boogie Christ Christ would wear cowboy boots Christ would have sex Christ would eat pizza And cut black jack decks Christ would be sober But christ would be fun Christ would get over On those trying to run Christ would love hip hop Metal and soul Christ would bring chaos The breath of control Christ would be rocking Christ would be free He'd say there's no difference Between you and me This is the ballad of Boogie Christ Toss my salad And feed me your rice Christ baked potatoes Christ chewing gum Christ without pathos Saying “yum yum” Christ in the middle Like the monkey with balls Christ picking up When euphoria calls Hello, dear father Hello there, my son How have you been? Well, I gotta run OK I love you See you real soon Maybe September Maybe next June I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This is the ballad of Boogie Christ Toss my salad And throw wedding rice Christ would be careful Christ would be brave But Christ, he would never Be anyone's slave Christ is here now Christ is beyond Christ would watch Rocky And On Golden Pond Christ would relax And Christ would get mad Christ would help answer If judgment is bad Well, no and then yes Well, yes and then no Nothing is easy But it's simple to glow Just walk away From fear and deceit Never surrender But never compete Cheer for your brother Your rival, your friend And help their survival To beat you again This is the ballad of Boogie Christ Toss my salad And feed me some rice Give and give freely All that you can Help show the worried What it is to be man Christ would be handsome Christ would be gross Christ would buy butter And make you some toast Christ would be savage But Christ would be true He'd say if you want him Then look inside you Yes, Christ would be savage But christ would be true He'd say if you want him Then just look in you This is the ballad of Boogie Christ Toss my salad Throw wedding rice This is the ballad of Boogie Christ Toss my salad Throw wedding rice
I Used to Know How To Walk on Water I used to know how to walk on water I used to be so unafraid I could save the weakest tyrant And I could knight the proudest slave I could give riches to beggars And give love to the one who hates I could tempt a whore so frozen And I could torture the strength of fate I used to know how to walk on water A king of kings they knew me well I could give sight to blind men And make a mute man sing in hell But now I watch with awe and wonder Doubt has now befallen me I ask the lord to show me mercy And to give me sympathy Forgive me now, my useless thunder When I was such a dynamo I am here and I am humble For I know not which way to go I used to know how to walk on water I could give a dead heart life I could murder the joy of satan And make his mistress be my wife I would be a dream of cowards And they would never resemble me I could see them doubt me under As I set each one free Now I just sit and wonder What illness has befallen me A sicker mind makes me surrender To this world of vacancy I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Forgive me now, my useless thunder When I was such a dynamo I am here and I am humble For I know not which way to go I used to know how to walk on water Now I sink in the dirt No kind sun or holy laughter Seems to reach beyond the hurt I used to know how to walk on water I used to be at peace with love And all its strength and all its power Would lift me up so high above A burning star, a holy wonder Women would rush to be with me But now I'm lost inside the thunder Of pain which holds insanity Forgive me now, my useless thunder When I was such a dynamo I am here and I am humble For I know not which way to go Forgive me now, my useless thunder When I was such a dynamo I am here and I am humble For I know not which way to go
Wait For Your Lights If you like the way you feel I'll leave you alone Tell me now, the things you'd steal If you had a home I guess it's pain, the skin you're in Burning thru time I'd like to see your face again In the sunshine I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And though now your brother's gone He still sits with you The little girl you used to be So proud and so true Walking thru the city streets They bow down for you I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on I'm gonna wait for your lights To come on
I Miss The Zoo I miss the drunk I miss the fiend I miss the simplicity of addiction And the scene I miss wandering aimlessly In half-dead sewers with rats for eyes Chewing on forgiveness And the will to apologize I miss the return of no return As I burn in avalanches Of white snow and yellow cocaine I miss talking to brick walls While following the grain And human dolls as I plagiarize myself like a dummy Stuffed with counterfeit money For Cairo and black honey I miss illusions begging to be chased Even as they disappear into me (erased) Until there is no one or nothing but the chase And a powdery ghost with no face (Or faith) And the woman of my dreams disappearing without grace I miss the zoo I miss the zoo I miss the zoo I miss evolving into a cloud Of blue marijuana blown from the lips Of hookers and pimps As they shake each other down In alleys for the dammed but mighty With no one but the weak around And the beautiful unsightly I miss numb Neanderthals marching In rows of living dead From my wisdom teeth to Spain and back again (in my head) I miss salvation in syringes and angels of mercy In blooms of smoke numbing rain Which drinks when thirsty I miss glasses full of spirits Who without tongues speak to me of Napoleon's wild nights I miss staying up for days and becoming a psychic pretzel Flying kites Chewed on by a Zulu heading with toads to Mars A mysterious prison And one without bars (at least those kind of bars) I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I miss the zoo I miss the zoo I miss the zoo I miss waking in the arms of strangers Like puppies just born in the pound to a dead mother with eyes sealed shut Looking for a tit to suck And other dangers When the night before laughter was our only pursuit Even as knives carved up our backs And demons sat like Buddhas eating fruit Meditating on hate forever in our minds I miss exposing even my bones And the need that rewinds Even my burning home Even my gutted inner child Even my dead grandfather Beneath the ground that's wild Even my criminal family Even my weed whacker thoughts Whipping a thin plastic string To cut the ears off others As I sing I miss van Gogh's revenge I miss his nightly binge I miss spiders surrounding my bed And lifting me as if an effigy Or a dead king A prophet of doom A Jesus for the apocalypse Wearing dirt like perfume Or a mother for Satan Or ghost for all the children of abuse Taking me into the fire Watching me burn Like a goose As they sing In spider voices There goes creation There goes the moon There goes the butterfly Wanting a cocoon I miss being a bloom And a goon Waking up too soon in the afternoon A doctor of regret Hanging onto guitar strings in tune And hanging by a belt Wrapped around some pipe to nowhere and felt My lips, too, wrapped around What appears to be stained glass As religious figures dress like rocks with class Burn into gas To the center of my brain The euphoria of dying and being born all at once While wearing the hat that reads “dunce” I miss the zoo I miss the zoo I miss the zoo
It's OK to Be Young / Gone She puts her dust under your fingers And plays your strings And moves with lust in the shadows Of empty kings She says, “You lack imagination” You dream her there She lifts your heart up like a candle Burning near It's ok to be young Before long You'll be gone You'll be gone It's ok to be gone Before long You'll be young You'll be young I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake She's like the nighttime always bleeding Into the light And like the love you always need now To be right She says, “Give up now surrender” With empty hands You hold them up over your shoulder As she commands It's ok to be young Before long You'll be gone You'll be gone It's ok to be gone Before long You'll be young You'll be young It's ok to be young Before long You'll be gone You'll be gone It's ok to be gone Before long You'll be young You'll be young She says, “You lack imagination” (x 4)
Still Life Honey Rose If I say I can't explain Left my soul in Africa Heard my name across idiot cries Left my soul and went after your goodbyes With the still life honey rose inside With the still life honey rose "Let me out," said the man to the child "How could you?" he asked, with his fist waving in the sky Angry eyes and an idiot tongue Don't you despise all the things you have done to you ? With the still life honey rose turning blue With the still life honey rose I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down He went back, his wife she had gone His family left, his home was now torn And though quite old, a coward he was Through the heat and the cold, apart from all that he loved With the still life honey rose up above With the still life honey rose I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down I'm gonna chase you down
Black Flowers There's nothing much for us here Peace comes in the acceptance of this Old ways break off into new loves Which quickly reveal themselves as fucked up as the old ones Dreams cascade like fires in polluted wind All around a will that's not yer own Who is this animal body What is this place And why am I going through these stations of disgrace Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) We are meant to be disillusioned This is the road of evolution We are meant to watch dreams fall away like the toys of a child Where as they once encompassed the world They now become useless They now become trash This is how we grow up If growing up is what you want We blossom into death Like black flowers who bow before an alligator sun Black flowers who crumble as children sing in the summer breeze To no one I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake (They are growing to take you down) Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) There's nothing much for us here Peace comes in the acceptance of this Old ways break off into new loves Which quickly reveal themselves As fucked up as the old ones Dreams cascade like fires in polluted wind All around a will that's not yer own Who is this animal body What is this place And why am I going through these stations of disgrace Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) Black flowers (They are growing to take you down) The King of Cleveland We were holy knights Lit up pretty good on the big streets You were the King of Cleveland Playing blues in the back seats From biker bars to limousines You had a manager as pretty as she was mean And I was in high school Just checking out your scene In the half-life You had the flesh she had the knife Yeah, you had the flesh She had the knife She said C-c-c-cause you are A superstar I will cut you She said C-c-c-cause you are A superstar I will cut you (and she cut you) The King of Cleveland Fell with a thud A heart as big as the ocean Just sank in the mud Of suffering and alcohol You smoked a joint every time she would call Burning it down Until you did fall And just kept falling In the dirty east Everyone feeding until you found out You're the feast And everyone's bleeding the hallelujah son The Holy Spirit undressing you in front of everyone Hollow girls blooming over your shoulder Until you are done In the half night Erasing your past In the half-life A crystal falling into glass We were only half right A house of love, a flashing light With the crazier rain, comes the crazier night The King of Cleveland Waking up in the half-life And maybe she had the flesh and you had the knife I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Still she said C-c-c-cause you are A superstar I will cut you She said C-c-c-cause you are A superstar I will cut you (and she cut you) C-c-c-cause you are A superstar We were holy knights Lit up pretty good on the big streets You were the king of Cleveland Playing blues in the back seats
Famous Friends Along The Coast You never knew your way back home You lost yourself and begin to drown Inside a cage With photographs and lights of glass And memories of when your style Was all the rage Working in the diamond mines The things you lost Down the line Come creeping back And when you try to get some sleep The spirit world has prepared Its attack You look in the mirror and see the eyes No one can keep you realize You are a ghost With famous friends along the coast You dissolve but somehow still Propose a toast To victory To wings that fly Through misery Swallowing your alibi To learning how not to try To figure out Who you'll be In the night Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Now you've been here once before You let the leper through the door And fell apart He gave to you self respect You were huge and then just a speck Of his heart Well, the darkness knew it's OK to be like that You got away And bought the shirt You disappeared into make believe So no one knew just how much You really hurt I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Now they want you to mop the floor To clean the blood that keeps on pouring From your head But everything just fades to black There ain't no map and everyone you meet is dead The crucifix, the hand grenade Only you know which one is gonna save you The dancin' bones and the faded bomb Somehow you must know you're gone And disappear Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here It's over now Get yourself away from here
All The Old Heroes Come over old stranger, let go of your dagger You stagger and then you are saved To wander in danger, a babe in the manger Forgetting mistakes that you've made Eyes like mine blinking And endlessly drinking Letting the warlords inside Falling like mice into fires of ice In death we find places to hide All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how All the old heroes, young babies without mothers Left to die on apocalyptic streets And where are these words from who spoke them before? Coming down like flashes of heat I'm never frightened, for death I still welcome Death I have seen you before I gave you my keys, my windows, my creeds But soon I will give you much more All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how Love is a fix, a suicide wrist Blood with an unending flow To purify lands and soak in the sands Of places that we'll never go Jesus come calling We'll be here and falling Praying for your hand to show Catch us in mercy, drink us when thirsty Each of us falling like snow All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Each one a cathedral The last junkie needle Stained glass from blood that is old And in that cathedral, with the angels of nighttime Pained in a window so cold They see through your victims your painful musicians Playing the saddest of songs But nobody singing, just a ghost without dreaming A voice that could right all the wrongs All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how Goodbye, sweet diamond the sky in the north wind Is falling on lepers and snakes Hello, young mercy, both blessed and thirsty For solutions to so many mistakes Without your lover, your tired wonder The south rain threatens to pour On skulls like crashing in sunlight basking Ignoring the strongest of calls You cannot save them without their consent Your voice of mercy to them I have sent You spoke through me You, a good man Grew up to listen and give me your hand Your voice of mercy so strong and so true It comes out in cascades without residue Of darkness or lies or doubt or untruth It's pure like the wind, the rain, and the youth All the old heroes are like children to you now As you go to burn their shame away Without knowing exactly how All the old heroes are like children to you now As you go to burn their shame away Without knowing exactly how
Blue Lights In The Rear View Do you want to make a run with me I know a place that don't have security Tell my woman to settle down In an hour we'll be leaving town They won't find us ‘til we're in the ground I want to buy you a diamond ring I want to fly you to the sun and the sea Come on darling, settle down I got this whole thing figured out In an hour we'll be leaving town Hey now baby it's time to go Grab the silverware and the big fur coat Now that we're moving, I think we're safe The night will hide us until the day By then we'll be so far, so far away I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I think I see blue lights in the rear view mirror My heart is beating fast and full of fear But I won't let them chase us down I'd rather have them chase us into the ground Dear Lord where is your blessing now I'm sorry darling, I let you down I guess this dream was something the devil found But I'll tell the judge that you did not know What we were doing or where we would go And when I've done my time I hope you show Maybe Yes Is God a stripper? Is God a noose? Is God a drunkard on the loose? Is God a vulture? Is God in bones? Is God a beggar sucking stones? Is God a dealer? Is God the knife? Is God the footsteps past your life? Is God for ransom? Is God for sale? Is God a crime without a jail? Is God in murder? Is God a saint? Is God the form in Picasso's paint? Is God a convict? Is God a worm? Is God a lesson you can't learn? Well maybe, maybe yes Maybe, maybe yes I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Is God in fucking? Is God in lust? Is God in daring not to trust? Is God rebellious? Is God a punk? Is God a junkie in need of junk? Is God a savior? Is God a lie? Is God the sorrow that cannot cry? Is God unholy? Is God disease? Is God surrender upon your knees? Is God unkind? Is God unsure? Is God a bastard? Is God impure? Is God salvation? Is God the light? Is God the love which haunts the night? Well maybe, maybe yes Maybe, maybe yes Is God the moon? Is God the sun? Is God too soon? Is God no fun? Is God a ghost? Is God a song? Is God unsure which side he's on? Is God a him? Is God a her? Is God real sharp? Is God a blur? Is God a Christian? Is God the hate? Is God a Muslim? Is God our faith? Is God a Hindu? Is God a prayer? Is God a Buddhist or underwear? Is God the devil? Is God the beach? Is God the ocean, or out of reach? Is God our need? Is God repair? Is God our heart? Is God our hair? Is God the blackness? Is God too much? Is God our kindness? Is God our crutch? Is God the wind? Is God the road? Is God a bomb that won't explode? Maybe, maybe yes Maybe, maybe yes Is God a sinner? Is God so great? Is God overrated? Is God the bait? Is God the fish? Is God the air? Is God too clumsy to really care? Is God a monkey? Is God a fool? Could God surrender the golden rule? Is God a human? Is God a fly? Is God an asshole? Is God the sky? Will God accept me? Is God prepared? I Am The Witness The world is in me I am not in the world Of pleasure and pain where you hang hope and fear Desire is the fire burning you in hell Reaching out for nothing, building you a jail oh no Since before the first birth and until the last death I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain And we are one The world is in me I am not in the world I am already dead so there's no way I can die For nothing I live so I am fearless of life I am not a person or a product of time I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness There is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain And we are one I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness I am the witness, I am, I am the witness Travel As Equals In the dark of graveyard chatter In the light of freedom's call In the heat of any matter Travel as equals or not at all Bloom disgust, class divide I saw it written on the wall The only way we can survive Travel as equals or not at all You can't be in greater comfort As my pain prevents your fall The truth will come and tell us brother Travel as equals or not at all And when we get to where we're going Past the divide, past the stall Past the wind that's always blowing Travel as equals or not at all Your way, you find a way free In your way, you find a way follow me Give it up, give it up, give it up to your destiny In your way, you find a way free I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Now you might have a greater income Or you might be dumb and dull Either way I won't leave you Travel as equals or not at all So help me too in my slumber If I'm blind in madness hall If I'm deaf amongst the thunder Travel as equals or not at all Lift the way, forget the ransom Free the chain, kick the ball Let our love take us higher Travel as equals or not at all And down the road and through the sky And on the tracks you can hear the gull Fly above us without worry Travel as equals or not at all I hope your road takes you homeward May you always outrun the law If I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all Yes, if I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all If I'm with you we will always Travel as equals or not at all In your way, you find a way free Your way, you find a way follow me Give it up, give it up, give it up to your destiny In your way, you find a way free Your way, you find a way free Your way, you find a way free Your way, you find a way free Holding The Void She lives in a world of her own making She floats like she will soon be hung She takes the wind from his creation And forgets the way that peace will come She blames the world for all her problems She forgets herself in everyone She sees the dark side of their nature And wants the darkness to destroy the sun I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake She whispers symbols and hieroglyphics She stands beneath the moon and sea She says she kills the one who loves her And then she points her gun at me I gave her vision in all her bullets I gave her words which calmed despair I gave her love against her shoulder I buried diamonds in her hair I said I love you to her shadow Even as her figure walked I blamed my sadness on her words Remembering the way she talked The shape of masters long forgotten She formed without the need to say So I knew, and then in silence Understood that I would pay Her fragile grace inside deep yearning Her eloquence with what she wore The way she woke up like a virgin The way she lay down like a whore Battle scars and sweet oblivion She whispered all these things to me And when she left me in the shadows I could no more seem to see In the darkness I destroy her In the darkness I'm destroyed Without a season Or a lover I slip myself Into the void She lives in a world of her own making She floats like she will soon be hung She takes the wind from his creation And forgets the way that peace will come She blames the world for all her problems She forgets herself in everyone She sees the dark side of their nature And wants the darkness to destroy the sun In the darkness I destroy her In the darkness I'm destroyed Without a mission Or a cover I attempt To hold the void Without a season Or a lover I slip myself Into the void Without a mission Or a cover I attempt To hold the void Missy Baba Give it over, every single pearl On your shoulder, the weight of the world Plastic stranger, burning in the sand Hidden danger under every man And you Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep With you I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Foreign country The alien and the friend Always hungry Hungry for the end Missy baba Kissing all the dirt Missy baba Holding all the hurt For you Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep Now I want to go to sleep With you Akron Skies Underneath my world There is no room to cry The house comes crashing down Almost every night Underneath Akron skies When he comes back home My stomach will collapse My sister she will hide Both of us are trapped Underneath Akron skies And you'll never get away And you'll never get away And you'll never get away And you'll never get away I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Underneath my bed My favorite place to hide Pretending to be dead They think I'm outside Underneath Akron skies And you'll never get away And you'll never get away And you'll never get away And you'll never get away Junkies And Limousines You made a fool of me By wasting all my love And now I'm all you've got And I'm not near enough Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave I made a fool of you By wasting all your love And now you're all I've got And you're not near enough I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Junkies like riding in limousines Tinted windows and the smell of gasoline Cheap champagne pouring memories All the rest will be days like these Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave You made a fool of me By wasting all my love And now I'm all you've got And I'm not near enough Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Junkies like riding in limousines Tinted windows and the smell of gasoline Cheap champagne pouring memories And all the rest will be days like these (yes they will) Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave Go sister, go sister, into your grave We Began To Dance Again She thinks no one knows she's using drugs She sweeps her pain under burning rugs And like the rain and bugs that buzz She flies all over and never was She thinks no one knows she's lost out here A voodoo doll with a wooden tear A book of matches and a burning spoon Hippy oil instead of perfume We began to dance again, we began to dance again We began to dance again, though there was no song I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake She plays guitar just like the greats And in the night she dares the fates To take her home where she ain't been To blow her name across the wind She'll let you down just to pick you up She'll disappear but wish you luck She stays detached, it's just her way An egg un-hatched on a holiday We began to dance again, we began to dance again We began to dance again, though there was no song We began to dance again, we began to dance again We began to dance again, though there was no song Whisper Of Whispers How many warning shots must he fire Into the emptiness of crescendoing skies Just like Beethoven conducting goodbyes With orchestra strings and notes made of fire Which burn in the eyes like a truth from a liar How many wars must he wage in your head As misery's chief just lays there as dead With the spike in his arm And a bullet in his brain Like a seed of repulsion Which brings its own rain How many skies must he rip from the clouds And let them hang empty against nothing at all As he says your name and you write on the wall His voice growing louder you ignore every call How much joy must you forsake for pain Your stupidity flows like the noose of cocaine A string made of powder you hang in the sky Strung by your nose, sniffing goodbye I know you will make it I know you will finally fall And hear him call Paranoid eyes of blood and mistrust The disease of fools and bankers of lust Corruption just bleeds from your every pore Like destruction which feeds a leech on a sore How much salvation must he offer for free Against your denial of who he must be Against your betrayal of his heart so free Which forgives and relieves all your misery I know you will make it I know you will finally fall And hear him call How much deceit must you force him to take As he waits around for you to be awake Into the blossom reaching through who you are From under the pavement into each falling star How much disease must he embrace and then cure Like a leper of gold, eyes white light and pure Crushing your sickness which cannot be contained Into your sheets, bloody and stained I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Float from your womb, aborted and gone Like the echo of voices in the silence of song How many missions must he endlessly take Until others are with him, alive and awake To rise to his level, as real and as true To be a beast in the jungle instead of the zoo How many liars must he first strike down With the weapon of words and the mercy he found I know you will make it I know you will finally fall And hear him call House Of Your Love In my hopes and dreams A light will shine and I will make it home Into the house of your love And in your hopes and dreams The darkness will lift itself into ecstasy In the house of my love So you don't have to slip away You don't have to slip away Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever In this wasted life No one else should tell you what your dreams are about I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake In my hopes and dreams Forgiveness will be the only memory In the house of your love And in your hopes and dreams Compassion will go on for eternity In the house of my love So you don't have to slip away Oh no No you don't have to slip away Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever Oh whatever you want Whatever In The City There Is Grace There's a slither but no snake As you wake up cold again Homeless in the house you make A dream preparing you to send To a whisper with no voice The message clearer than before As you walk without a choice Through the richness of the poor There's a begging under wealth The rich are vagrants too As with sickness in good health The sky is faded blue And so lover with no warmth We lay now in the arms of death I can taste the air you breathe As you breathe without a breath In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake There's a calling with no ears No message is received As with falling through the years Of the lies that you believed Now just death can change your mind But maybe then you still will live As they take it all away So that you may finally give There's a sun without a light In the darkness beating down As your bones fill up with death Dancing skeletons around There's a moon without a night And a knife without a blade A gun that just shoots roses And tattoos that will not fade In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace There's a savior with no damned There's a saint who always sins There's a candle with no flame And beginnings without ends There's a hunger no one feeds There's a sleep that will not wake There are eyes that will not close And there is gold you cannot take There is beauty in the cold There is freezing when it's hot There is youth born in the old When the truth is all they got There are roads that just keep going There are cars that never stall When the voice inside your heart Speaks to those who hear the call In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace Give away your hunger Give away your pain Keep with you the wonder That saves you here again The love it just keeps growing In the light and all around The truth as loud as thunder Shakes the world without a sound So give away your pain And give away your hunger To the battle of the ocean And the epic child's wonder There is beauty all around In the city there is grace There is love without an end From the one without a face In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace (hey grace) In the city there is grace (hey grace) In the city there is grace (hey grace)
Lou
Walk On The Wild Side Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey, honey, Take a walk on the wild side" Candy came from out on the Island In the back room she was everybody's darling But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head She says, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" And the colored girls go "Doo do doo do doo do do doo..." I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay A hustle here and a hustle there New York City's the place where They said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" I said, "Hey, Joe, Take a walk on the wild side" Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets Looking for soul food and a place to eat Went to the Apollo You should've seen them go, go, go They said, "Hey, sugar, Take a walk on the wild side" I said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" All right Jackie is just speeding away Thought she was James Dean for a day Then I guess she had to crash Valium would have helped that bash Said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side" I said, "Hey, honey, Take a walk on the wild side" And the colored girls say, "Doo do doo do doo do do doo..." Sword Of Damocles I see the sword of Damocles is right above your head They're trying a new treatment to get you out of bed But radiation kills both bad and good, it can not differentiate So to cure you they must kill you, the sword of Damocles hangs above your head I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Now I have seen lots of peoples die from car crashes or drugs Last night on 33rd street, I saw a kid get hit by a bus Bus this drawn out torture over which part of you lives is very hard to take To cure you, they must kill you, the sword of Damocles above your head That mix of morphine and Dexedrine, we use it on the street It kills the pain and keeps you up, your very soul to keep But this guessing game has its own rules, the good don't always win And might makes right, the sword of Damocles is hanging above your head It seems everything's done that must be done from over here, though things don't seem fair But there are things that we can't know, maybe there's something over there Some other world that we don't know about, I know you hate that mystic shit It's just another way of seeing, the sword of Damocles above your head Stephanie Says Stephanie says That she wants to know Why she's given half her life To people she hates now Stephanie says When answering the phone What country shall I say is calling From across the world I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake But she's not afraid to die The people all call her Alaska Between worlds so the people ask her 'Cause it's all in her mind It's all in her mind Stephanie says That she wants to know Why it is thought she's the door She can't leave the room Stephanie says But doesn't hang up the phone What sea shell sea is calling From across the world But she's not afraid to die The people all call her Alaska Between worlds so the people ask her 'Cause it's all in her mind It's all in her mind They're asking 'Is it good or bad?' It's such an icy feeling It's so cold in Alaska It's so cold in Alaska It's so cold in Alaska Heroin I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell you things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus' son And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made the big decision I'm gonna try to nullify my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death And you can't help me now, you guys And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that In a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man can not be free Of all of the evils of this town And of himself, and those around Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life Because a mainer to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off and dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jim's in this town And all the politicians making crazy sounds And everybody putting everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 'Cause when the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore Ah, when the heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Then Ithank God that I'm as good as dead Then I thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, be the death of me NYC Man It can only lead to trouble if you break my heart If you accidentally crush it on the ides of March I'd prefer you were straight forward You don't have to go through all of that I'm a New York city man, baby, and say "go" and that is that New York city man You just say "go" and that is that I'm a New York city man You just say "go" and that is that It's far too complicated to make up a lie That you'd have to remember and really why I wouldn't want to be around you If you didn't want to have me around I'm a M-A-N-N man You blink your eyes and I'll be gone M-A-N-N man You blink your eyes, honey, I'll be gone New York city man You blink your eyes, honey, I'll be gone Brutus made a pretty speech but Caesar was betrayed Lady Macbeth went crazy but Macbeth ended slain Ophelia and Desdamona dead leaving Hamlet in a play But I'm no Lear with blinded eyes, say "go" and I am gone I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake The stars have shut their eyes up tight The earth has changed it's course A Kingdom sits on a black knight's back As he tries to mount a white jeweled horse While a clock full of butterflies on the hour Releases a thousand moths You say "leave" and I'll be gone without any remorse No letters faxes phones or tears There's a difference between bad and worse I'm a New York city man Blink your eyes and I'll be gone New York city man, M-A-N You blink your eyes, honey, I'll be gone New York city, I love you Honey blink your eyes, I am gone New York city man, M-A-N Blink your eyes and I'm gone New York city, I love you Blink your eyes, I am gone Grain of sand, I love you Blink your eyes, I am gone New York city man, M-A-N Blink your eyes, I am gone Satellite Of Love Satellite's gone up to the skies Things like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I like to watch things on TV Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of Satellite's gone way up to Mars Soon it'll be filled with parking cars I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on TV Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of I've been told that you've been bold With Harry, Mark, and John Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday through Thursday With Harry, Mark, and John I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Satellite's gone up to the skies Things like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I like to watch things on TV Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of Love Dirty Blvd Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel He looks out a window without glass And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet And his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg He's got nine brothers and sisters They're brought up on their knees It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man But that's a slim chance He's going to the boulevard He's gonna end up on the dirty boulevard He's going out to the dirty boulevard He's going down to the dirty boulevard I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This room cost two thousand dollars a month You can believe it, man, it's true Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em That's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses Let's club 'em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard He's gonna end up on the dirty boulevard He's going out to the dirty boulevard He's going down to the dirty boulevard Outside it's a bright night There's an opera at Lincoln Center Movie stars arrive by limousine The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan But the lights are out on the mean streets A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel He's selling plastic roses for a buck The traffic's backed up to 39th Street The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming He's found a book on Magic in a garbage can He looks at the pictures And stares up at the cracked ceiling "At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear" And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard I wanna fly from the dirty boulevard I wanna fly, fly, fly, fly from the dirty boulevard Fly away I wanna fly away Fly away I wanna fly, fly, fly away I wanna fly away I wanna fly away I wanna fly away I wanna fly away I wanna fly away From the dirty boulevard From the dirty boulevard I wanna fly From the dirty boulevard Fly, fly, fly Pale Blue Eyes Sometimes I feel so happy Sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel so happy But mostly you just make me mad Baby, you just make me mad Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes Thought of you as my mountain top Thought of you as my peak Thought of you as everything I've had but couldn't keep I've had but couldn't keep Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake If I could make the world as pure And strange as what I see I'd put you in the mirror I put in front of me I put in front of me Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes Skip a life completely Stuff it in a cup She said, Money is like us in time It lies, but can't stand up Down for you is up Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes It was good what we did yesterday And I'd do it once again The fact that you are married Only proves, you're my best friend But it's truly, truly a sin Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes Linger on, your pale blue eyes Magic And Loss When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble You pass through a maze of self doubt When you pass through humble, the lights can blind you Some people never figure that out You pass through arrogance, you pass through hurt You pass through an ever present past And it's best not to wait for luck to save you Pass through the fire to the light Pass through the fire to the light Pass through the fire to the light It's best not to wait for luck to save you Pass through the fire to the light I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake As you pass through the fire, your right hand waving There are things you have to throw out That caustic dread inside your head will never help you out You have to be very strong 'cause you'll start from zero Over and over again And as the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire Lying straight ahead Lying straight ahead Lying straight ahead As the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire Lying straight ahead They say no one person can do it all But you want to in your head But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce So what is left instead You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you You have to start at the beginning again And just this moment This wonderful fire started up again When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly When you pass through, I'm better than you all When you pass through anger and self deprecation And have the strength to acknowledge it all When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic That let you survive your own war You find that that fire is passion And there's a door up ahead, not a wall As you pass through fire, as you pass through fire Trying to remember its name When you pass through fire licking at your lips You cannot remain the same And if the building's burning, move towards that door But don't put the flames out There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out Some loss to even things out Some loss to even things out There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out Men Of Good Fortune Men of good fortune Often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings Often can't do anything at all The rich son waits for his father to die The poor just drink and cry And me, I just don't care at all Men of good fortune Very often can't do a thing While men of poor beginnings Often can do anything At heart they try to act like a man Handle things the best way they can They have no rich, daddy to fall back on I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings Often can't do anything at all It takes money to make money they say Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way Anyway, it makes no difference to me Men of good fortune Often wish that they could die While men of poor beginnings Want what they have and to get it they'll die All those great things that live has to give They wanna have money and live But me, I just don't care at all Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Men of good fortune Men of poor beginnings Wild Child I was talking to Chuck In his Genghis Khan suit and his wizard's hat He spoke of his movie and how he was making a new soundtrack Then we spoke of kids on the coast And different types of organic soap And the way suicides don't leave notes Then we spoke of Lorraine, always back to Lorraine I was speaking to Phil who was given to pills and small racing cars He had given 'em up since his last crack-up had carried him too far Then we spoke of movies and verse And the way an actress held her purse And the way life at times could get worse Then we spoke of Lorraine, always back to Lorraine I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake She's a wild child And nobody can get at her She's a wild child Oh, and nobody can get to her Sleeping out on the street Oh, living all alone Without a house or a home And then she asked you, please Hey baby, can I have some spare change Can I break your heart She's a wild child She's a wild child I was talking to Betty about her auditions How they made her ill The life of the theater is certainly fraught With many spills and chills But she calmed down after some wine Which is what happens most of the time Then we sat and both spoke in rhyme Till we spoke of Lorraine, it's always back to Lorraine I was talking to Ed who'd been reported dead by mutual friends He thought it was funny that I had no money to spend on him So we both shared a piece of sweet cheese And sang of our lives and our dreams And how things can come apart at the seams And then we talked of Lorraine, always back to Lorraine She's a wild child Oh, and nobody can get at her She's a wild child Oh, and nobody can get to her Sleeping out on the street Oh, living all alone Without a house or a home And then she asked you, please Oh baby, can I have some spare change Now can I break your heart She's a wild child She's a wild child She's a wild child She's a wild child Coney Island Baby You know, man, when I was a young man in high school You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach And all those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel But you know, I wanted to play football, for the coach They said I was to little too light weight to play line-back So I say I'm playing right-in And I wanted to play football for the coach 'Cause, you know some day, man, you gotta stand up straight Unless you're gonna fall Then you're gonna die I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And the straightest dude I ever knew Was standing right for me, all the time So I had to play football for the coach And I wanted to play football for the coach When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour And you find that your soul, it has been up for sale And you getting to think about, all the things you done And you begin to hate just about everything But remember the princess who lived on the hill Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong And right now she just might come shining through It's the glory of love The glory of love The glory of love Just might come through And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off They're talking behind your back saying, man You are never going to be a human being And you start thinking again About all those things that you've done And who it was and what it was And all the different things you made every different scene Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer And just remember, different people have peculiar tastes And the glory of love The glory of love The glory of love Might see you through The glory of love The glory of love The glory of love Might see you through The glory of love The glory of love The glory of love Might see you through I'm a Coney Island baby, now I'm a Coney Island baby, now I'm a Coney Island baby, now I'm a Coney Island baby, now I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel And all the kids appeared and he has one made of two Yeah, but now, now Glory of love, the glory of love The glory of love, might see you through Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love Glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, now, glory of love, now Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through Oh, my Coney Island baby, now (I'm a Coney Island baby, now) I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel And all the kids and P.S. 192 Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you
Days of Surrender
Ghost Riding
*** Thanx a lot to Lonelyastronauts for these lyrics ***
Stumbling Down I can see you now Stumbling down the hall Before you change your mind And hit the ground starting to crawl With the countless thieves all starting to call out your name You'd better turn around And go back the way that you came You don't know me I'm not a common man Living in a common land But you should fear me Cause I know just who I am The gun that's in your hand The leper and the slave Are coming now to rip out your eyes The walls are coming down Like drums and crescendoing skies You gotta get away But really there's no where you can go And everyone can see The cracks that are beginning to show Always copy, always paste, shame on robots You don't know me I'm not a common man Living in a common land But you should fear me Cause I fit into your plan The gun that's in your hand Little one You lost the sun Nothing can save you now But mercy and some deviant grace And you can't recognize The liar who is wearing your face You don't know me I'm not a common man Living in a common land But you should fear me Cause I fit into your plan The gun that's in your hand Little one You lost the sun Little one You lost the sun Comfortable Nowhere to dream I sail away On the meadowlark On a razor blade Try To get comfortable Try To get comfortable Don't know where to sing The evening's changed I don't know who you are I don't care what you say Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Try To get comfortable Try To get comfortable Get comfortable Get comfortable Get comfortable On the wing And on a prayer No way to get away They're looking everywhere Try To get comfortable Try To get comfortable (We will come for your head young man)
Ghost Riding Don't take me Far from home I'm not safe And I need a place To call my own Ghost riding In the sun Rolling back We must attack Them on the run You and me We belong In midair And everywhere I hear the song Always copy, always paste, shame on robots I know, you know We're still young Pedal fast Against the grass Jump and run I know, you know They'll be gone Falling bikes Lonely hikes And setting suns So don't take me Far from home I've got my dream And everything When I'm alone Ghost riding In the sun Just let go You need to know Stop holding on I know, you know We're still young Pedal fast against the grass Jump and run I know, you know They'll be gone Jumping cracks saving mama's back In the dawn Ghost riding, ghost riding, ghost riding When I look at you, I look at you When I look at you, I look at you So don't take me Far from home I'm still afraid I know, you know We're still young Pedal fast Against the grass Jump and run I know, you know They'll be gone Falling bikes Lonely hikes And setting suns When I look at you, I look at you When I look at you, I look at you
Got To Survive I can see both sides Coming up over the wall Taking off your disguise I can see the child fall I know that you will pray That I could be more like you But I can't be that way To myself I must stay true Always copy, always paste, shame on robots We're gonna die So we've got to survive We're gonna die So we've got to survive For the dreams that will come For the life that we must live From our pain we all run To the light we have to give Maybe we'll be redeemed Maybe we can learn to fly We're gonna die So we've got to survive We're gonna die So we've got to survive We're gonna die So we've got to survive Oh, we've got to survive I'm on my way I'm making it Home I'm on my way I'm making it Home Stray Sing your song And sing it for me And I won't stray No I won't stray Love is real And I love you So I won't stray No I won't stray Sail away, sail away (If we don't run away, we both can make it) Sail away, sail away (If we don't run away, if we don't run away) Hold, hold on You have so much to live for So please don't stray No please don't stray Peace and love Are not cheap ideals So let's make love And let's make peace Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Sail away, sail away (If we don't run away, we both can make it) Sail away, sail away (If we don't run away, if we don't run away) And I won't stray No I won't stray
Stronger Man Don't be afraid Of a rising sun I can understand Your need to run But life is long And you may need a friend So don't be afraid I'll be a stronger man I'm a stronger man Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Now I can see You may need some proof To protect you now From the truth I washed the blood From both our hands Please don't be afraid I'll be a stronger man I'm a stronger man I'll be a stronger man I'm a stronger man Give you my love, you can have it for free Losing your love, you must find it for me Give you my love, you can have it for free Losing your love, you must find it for me I'll be a stronger man I'm a stronger man
Trouble Get away Summer Fatal wound You have one I don't care Hold on Tell the truth Yes you do So long, so long Hold on I'm gone, So long, so long Hold on, I'm gone so long so long Hold on (The way you fade away) I'm gone so long So long Hold on (The way you fade) Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Get away Summer You are young Heading down I can see Trouble Coming from afar I know who you are Wanting you I stay alone I stay alone Try not to pretend So long, so long Hold on I'm gone, So long, so long Hold on, I'm gone so long so long Hold on (The way you fade away) I'm gone so long So long Hold on (The way you fade) I can see I can see Trouble Coming from afar I know who you are NYC Freaks Dream inside of you Find your loneliness And dance with the blood That you kiss On a Saturday night Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Walk down empty streets No one there but me And you coming through Unglued On a Saturday night New York City Freaks All dance to the beats That the clubs banging on right now That's where we will meet Shake down on the street With the cops chasing us on down Where'd you hide the stuff No it's not enough Let's move til we prove That we 're free On a Saturday night You want me to trust But no one here Won't break you down for the crown To be king Of Saturday night New York City Freaks All dance to the beats That the clubs banging on right now That's where we will meet Shake down on the street With the cops chasing us all down
Kingdom In The Sky You gotta give a love To get a love In the eyes of love All you are is love Build a kingdom in the sky Build a kingdom in your mind Somehow you think You're not good enough Breaking down the heart Of the one trying to hold you Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Build a kingdom in the sky (Go up there) Build a kingdom in the sky (Go up there) Try to believe in everything In the ghost of dawn And the unborn king Learn to hope Learn to sing Forgive yourself You human being Some things we know Can't ever change Bless your heart and soul Find a way to rearrange them Build a kingdom in the sky (Go up there) Build a kingdom in your mind (Go up there) Build a kingdom in the sky Sky Sky In the sky (We're on our way) It's Violence I don't know what went wrong You invited me to be gone Which one of us is insane? (It's violence) Believing love comes from pain You say you're moving on I know you're not that strong In your eyes I see the freak As the demons all start to speak (I wanna live the kind of life where I can be free) And what they say has no name (It's violence) We can't escape the jail of our shame Always copy, always paste, shame on robots You say you're moving on I know you're not that strong You say you're moving on I know you're not that strong (It's violence) Moving on You're moving on (repeat) Dream Your Life Away I would walk away But I'm not home I'm an idiot For your love Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away There's no escape (There's no escape) From what's been done You live with it (You live with it) The world goes on Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away (I'm gonna wait to let you in I'm gonna wait to let you) Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Lover We've only just begun To discover The meaning of the sun Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away Dream your life away (I'm gonna wait to let you in I'm gonna wait to let you)
The Family
*** Thanx a lot to the Joseph Arthur Archives for these lyrics ***
The Family Sister S1usan By the time she was four She could climb up Just about any tree From the highway You could see our house She would look out As the cars drove past And the family Was always Glad you came Said the family Was always Glad you came We played football On the gravel drive I would take it long Every time In West Virginia The stakes were high The ball would fly through The sky so bright Always copy, always paste, shame on robots And the family Was always Glad you came Said the family Was always Glad you came We may never Pass this way again but I'll never let you down (no I won't) I'll always let you in I'll never let you down (no I won't) I'll always let you in The family Was always Glad you came Joseph Leon was taken first Mama Enid she lost her mind It was mercy that held them close And it was mercy that left us behind The family Was always Glad you came Said the family Was always Glad you came Endless mercy Hold me now Hold me now Hold me now Hold me now Hold me now Endless mercy
Sister Dawn Sister Dawn Take care of your young Don't do what they did And hide away, hide away, hide away Last night you were wrong When you raged at your youngest son When you grabbed him by his arm He hid away, hid away, hid away Hid away, hid away, hid away Sister Dawn Take care of your young You know our folks are getting old It's you and me, you and me, you and me Always copy, always paste, shame on robots You say you can't deal Twisted by the way they make you feel But they need you to be strong Don't hide away, hide away, hide away Hide away, hide away, hide away Sister Dawn Take care of your young Don't run away, don't run away Don't run away, don't run away All night long They run Oh girl All night long They run Oh girl
With Your Life I'm away Tonight The devil will pray For a fight I'm driving drunk But I still see the road My car is flipping And it still might explode But I'm known here To bite I'll throw your back Up against the wall Nobody here And nobody to call Well I'll shut off Your light I'm away Tonight The devil will pray For a fight The Will of God or man Nobody can know The jungle laws And the idiot show Well I'm watching For your knife Always copy, always paste, shame on robots You got no rights here You're just a kid Don't want to hear you Or about what you did So just leave now With your life
They Called Him Lightning They called him Lightning and he flew the war He was from Scotland, but he had to run to the shore America it saw his fortune grow He had a family and two sons he never would know I never knew him cause we barely spoke Disowned my brother over money, no one would joke His wife was drunk, but she still needed him He brought her money and another bottle of gin Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Now your mother gonna waste my time Saying What you are What you are She don't love nothing but a wasted spine On a dirty floor, on the killing floor You know most people they will never change They damn you young and we all just end up the same I'm driving drunk but I can find the end I'm looking for her in the eyes of some other friend She looks at you and she can see her face She looks at me and sees someone she wants to erase You know one day she's gonna lay me down You know one day she's gonna put me into the ground Now your mother gonna waste my time Saying What you are What you are She don't love nothing but a wasted spine On a dirty floor, on a killing floor Now your mother gonna waste my time Saying What you are What you are She don't love nothing but a wasted spine On a dirty floor, on the killing floor There's a darkness in the heart of man But you could be mine You could be mine There's a darkness in the heart of man But you could be mine, you could be mine
When I Look At You When I look at you I can see his face I can see his smile I can see his dream When I look at you I can see his trust I can see his hope And everything he lost Always copy, always paste, shame on robots When I look at you When I look at you Maybe you're the moon When I'm in the dark Maybe you're the voice In a hopeful song When I look at you When I look at you I can see the maze I can see the loss In this lonely haze Look at you I must When I look at you When I look at you When I look at you When I look at you
Wishing Well On a long-distance sunday We could go to the mall Look around but still don't buy much Can't afford a place to fall Oh, the wishing well Throw your coins in there Tell them what you want Oh, the wishing well I wonder who gets the money It's been sitting there for years Those old coins they don't rust tho Soaking in our dreams and tears Oh, the wishing well Throw your coins in there Tell them what you want Oh, the wishing well Just one dime will get you mercy (mercy) A nickel is worth a place to stay (come here) A quarter and you'll be forgiven For everything you couldn't say Oh, the wishing well Throw your coins in there Tell them what you want Oh, the wishing well Always copy, always paste, shame on robots I know you will Find your way You know you've got to hold on You always got to hold on I know you will Find your way You know you've got to hold on You always got to hold on I know you will Find your way To hold on, hold on I know you will Find your way To hold on, hold on
Machines of War Now I'm leaving to fly in a warplane Hitler's coming and he is a madman I'll be back though so care for our children Tell them Daddy has left to protect them now On a mission the sky is a blood field On a mission you see what our bones yield Raining bodies, the jet planes are falling I gotta go now the army is calling me Time is a jet away Wish you would lock the door See how our children play We are machines of war You copy you paste you lose Love couldn't make me stay I couldn't love you more Just watch how our children play We are machines of war The factory will give me my job back If I make it out of a casket If I make it I hope you'll be waiting With the kids and the love never fading out When you wake please give them a kiss now When you wake them please tell them I miss them And when I'm gone please show them my picture They are so young I hope they remember me Time is a jet away Wish I could give you more See how our children play We are machines of war Love couldn't make me stay I couldn't love you more Just watch how our children play We are machines of war
Ethel Was Born Ethel was born The day the Titanic sunk Her father drowned in the Portage Lakes Known to be a great swimmer His death was a suicide And when she died she was ninety-two years old Bill was from Glasgow He flew a fighter plane in the war But after the war he killed a man And ran away to America Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Ethel was born The day the Titanic sunk Her mother died when she was young She took over for her And took care of her Dad Until she ran away to New York City There she met a man named Bill He was fifteen years older than her And he already had a wife But he was soon to be divorced You and I, are gonna rain girl You and I, are gonna reign You and I, are gonna rain girl You and I, are gonna reign Like a cloud, in the sky Like a king and queen, getting high Like a cloud, in the sky Like a king and queen, getting high You and I, are gonna reign You and I, are gonna rain girl You and I, are gonna reign You and I, are gonna rain girl
You Wear Me Out You're their mother Start being one I'm their father But I can't hold it down alone You should see them When they ask for you What should I tell them Since I can't tell them the truth Yeah You wear me out You say you need them But you've been gone They have changed now Boy have they grown and grown I know it's speed That's turned you blue The pills you swallow Haven't they now swallowed you Yeah You wear me out You wear me out You wear me out Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Time won't turn around Time won't turn around Time won't turn around Time won't turn around For you Or them
Hold On Jerry Hold on Jerry, hold on Talking to the dead Endless highway mercy's song Well I sing to you Going home there's no one Gonna meet you there As your road keeps droning on and on The dead just come to you This life is complicated This death is overrated And your dream is turned to faded blue This love is obligated This time is thinly stated And your mind is agitated too Always copy, always paste, shame on robots Hold on Jerry, hold on The family needs you now As you come back to us all Well we come to you Going home to Mercy She's been loving you And you've been loving her so much She's in you now This life is complicated This death is overrated And your dream is turned to faded blue This love is obligated This town is thinly stated And your mind is agitated too This life is complicated This death is overrated And your dream has turned to faded blue This love is obligated This time is thinly stated And your mind is agitated too
You Keep Hanging On I love you more than my pain Says I should I love you more when you're rain Than the desert would You say life's in the past When we were strong But I would love you to stay Keep hanging on Always copy, always paste, shame on robots (You keep hanging on) Even when I tell you to go (You keep hanging on) Even when I ask you to leave (You keep hanging on) Even when I tell you to go (You keep hanging on) Even when I ask you to leave I see you on the other side Of your moon and your folded knife And I wonder How you came into my life I know sometimes you're cold inside But I still want you to be mine It makes me wonder Why you came into my life I love you more like a dream Than reality I love the way that you seem To be there for me You say love is a church And a crucifix It will kill us in time After saving us (You keep hanging on) Even when I tell you to go (You keep hanging on) Even when I ask you to leave (You keep hanging on) Even when I tell you to go (You keep hanging on) Even when I ask you to leave
The Flag Though you're gone You're still here In Jimmy's eyes And Linda's tears Your picture sits Upon the wall I think you'd say Don't give up Today I think I've had enough Without you here I'm not that strong There's no on else I want to touch 'Cause I wish you were near I wish you were near Always copy, always paste, shame on robots The army came They had your stuff It's in the basement With the flag We used to say In God We Trust But I'm not sure Anymore Today I think I've had enough Without you here I'm not that strong There's no on else I want to touch 'Cause I wish you were near I wish you were near
Daddy, The War Machine Here comes The war machine Here comes The war machine Daddy Has gone to war I know What that means He may die there and Never come home Fighting thosemen That want to kill us Daddy You were brave I miss you At your grave I wish you came home Mother was never the same Daddy I still Love you Always copy, always paste, shame on robots The war machine Here comes The war machine Here comes The war machine Here comes The war machine Here comes The war machine The war machine
Arthur Buck
I Am The Moment (one, two, one, two, three, four) Becoming free It's not as easy as I'd like it to be All these eyes that can no longer see In disguise Buried into the screens of insignificance But there's nothing to fear Just tune into the presence that's clear What's real is always nearer than near Just ask yourself am I aware And see what happens next I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you and you and you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you and you and you So take your time There is no need for you to rewind Or put a rope around the neck in your mind To get out You gotta go where you're blind and learn to see again But I'll give you a hand You're not wrong to always want to expand Or find a kind of spiritual plan To go beyond space and time And all of this predicament I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you and you and you Last time (last time) You asked me to surrender Last time (last time) You asked me to believe That we're beyond (we're beyond) Our thoughts and resolutions Yes we're beyond Everything I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you and you and you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you I am the moment Waiting for you and you and you Are You Electrified (whatever it is) Lift off cause we're going into outer-space It's about time to make this world a better place Hold back The fear always starts to cry But tell me right now have you ever just been satisfied? Hold on you can make it I see Why should you fall? Why should you fall? Well fall down But get up and then free Listen to the call Listen to the call Run run run run wide open Are you Electrified is your third eye open baby? And run run run where's your subway token? Let's just jump the turnstile cause the car doors open ain't they? And run run run baby they weren't joking The boogie man is coming and you know what he's hoping don't you? That I'll give away my dreams And you Well forgive but then you gotta get away Dump the toxic trash just to make it for another day Break out Cause they're coming to steal your time If you lose that pretty soon then you lose your mind Hold on you can make it I see Why should you fall? Why should you fall? Well fall down But get up and then free Listen to the call Listen to the call Run run run run wide open Are you Electrified is your third eye open baby? And run run run where's your subway token? Let's just jump the turnstile cause the car doors open ain't they? And run run run baby they weren't joking The boogie man is coming and you know what he's hoping don't you? That I'll give away my dreams And you Well look out said the man on our subway line Doors close behind us it's a problem for some other time Climb down Every thread in the spider web How many spiders did you let get up inside your head? Hold on you can make it I see Why should you fall? Why should you fall? Well fall down But get up and then free Listen to the call Listen to the call Run run run run wide open Are you Electrified is your third eye open baby? And run run run where's your subway token? Let's just jump the turnstile cause the car doors open ain't they? And run run run baby they weren't joking The boogie man is coming and you know what he's hoping don't you? That I'll give away my dreams Run, run, run, run, wide open Have you been terrified did you think you was broken baby? And run run run hell no I'm not joking The boogie man is coming and it's crack that he's smoking maybe? And run run run where's your subway token? Let's just jump the turnstile cause the car doors open ain't they? And I won't give up my dreams And you And you And you And you
The Wanderer Trouble comes When we're breaking But mistakes Are half the fun And where'd you learn To fall so good You thought you Were forsaken So maybe now It's time to run But you don't always have to wander Not the way you did before across the lonely world Some are coming Some are going But they don't have the same mistakes As you to overcome And though your cup keeps Overflowing With all the things You never did Or always done But you don't always have to wander Not the way you did before across the lonely world No you don't have to wander Not the way you did before across the lonely world Sometime (sometimes) Only sometimes (Only sometimes) Old lines (old lines sweep across your tired face) Old lines (old lies) Only old lies (only old lines... you don't know where you belong today) You don't always have to wander Before across the lonely world You don't always have to wander Before across the lonely world Forever Waiting Holy water Under every flood Don't you know your guards/gods are changing You don't have anyone at all You call it weakness To sell your love across the wall But now all your secrets Won't cover up The way you crawl Now you're leaving There's someone still bleeding behind No more leaching They all just reach out for your mind On the weekend You're forever waiting in line Waiting and waiting Tell me you begun To understand how people run Can't save everybody You're always Crawling after calling Woman in the fall Do you know anyone at all? Your weakness is what you haul But I believe you can change every morning Now you're leaving There's someone still bleeding behind No more leaching They all just reach out for your mind On the weekend You're forever waiting in line Waiting and waiting Always on the run Always on the run Always on the run Now you're leaving There's someone still bleeding behind No more leaching They all just reach out for your mind On the weekend You're forever waiting in line Waiting and waiting Now you're leaving There's someone still bleeding behind No more leaching They all just reach out for your mind On the weekend You're forever waiting in line Waiting and waiting Always on the run Always on the run Always on the run
If You Wake Up In Time Why Can't you see who's really gunning You blind For the cigarette you're bumming You cry 'Til you see the shadows running Inside The ghost is always coming You hate almost everyone So how come you wanna waste my time Confiscate the setting sun Holding hostage My peace of mind Dream 'Til you transcend where you're living And scream (If you wake up in time) Until you are forgiven They're gone (If you wake up in time) But the house is always haunted You're wrong (If you wake up in time) About everything you wanted You hate almost everyone So how come you wanna waste my time Confiscate the setting sun Holding hostage My peace of mind Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time If you wake up in time (If you wake up in time) Is this shadow or illusion (If you wake up in time) Love The waves of your confusion (If you wake up in time) You guess (If you wake up in time) On the ways that they've been using (If you wake up in time) Undress (If you wake up in time) Everything you are abusing You hate almost everyone So how come you wanna waste my time Confiscate the setting sun Holding hostage My peace of mind You hate almost everyone So how come you wanna waste my time Confiscate the need to run Holding hostage My peace of mind Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time Oh oh oh Save your life If you wake up in time If you wake up in time Summertime Summertime Everybody likes to think They're holding on And yet they're running out of chances Summertime Everybody likes to think They're holding on And yet they're running out of chances American Century They can't erase you Or break you down They can't erase you Or break you Oh when you needed more All you got was less Pass the church down at St. Mark's Place Where you tried to confess America back to civil war Did you want your coffee black or white Said the dog chasing his tail As the country disappears in the night So long to the American century So long to the American dream So long to the American century Where's the revolution in the streets? Oh when you needed love All you got was pain America just crumbling down In the nuclear rain Social media diplomacy Leaving Puerto Rico out in the dark (Will we come around?) Tax the middle and give to the rich As the devil eats the rest of your heart Singing So long to the American century So long to the American dream So long to the American century Where's the revolution in the streets? Oh no where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? They can't erase you Or break you down (or break you or break you or break you) They can't erase you Or break you down (or break you or break you or break you) They can't erase you Or break you Oh when you needed dreams All you got was fear Opiates instead of weed for the teens Ain't no captives here It used to be about what you could do But now it's all about what you can get (Will we come around?) Across a wilderness that's breaking us down Let's not become a land we live to regret So long to the American century So long to the American dream (Will we come around?) So long to the American century Where's the revolution in the streets? So long to the American century So long to the American dream So long to the American century Where's the revolution in the streets? Oh no where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Where's the revolution? So long to the American century So long to the American dream So long to the American century Where's the revolution in the streets? Oh no where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Oh no where's the revolution? Where's the revolution?
Forever Falling (I can show you) Listen Stop thinking One mind is blinking behind everyone Wishing You're dreaming The fire in your mind that ignites every sun I love the way you lost Cause I love the way you run Someone's always chasing your secrets Well let them the chase the false away And embrace who you've become You know you're much more than your weakness Changes are coming who's calling? Forever forever falling Changes are coming without warning You're always and forever dawning People get broken Broken wide open no way left to trust Hopeless devotion Faith in the silence between both of us I love the way you lost Cause I love the way you run Someone's always chasing your weakness Well let them the chase the false away And embrace who you've become They say you're only as sick as your secrets Changes are coming who's calling? (Who's calling?) Forever forever falling Changes are coming without warning (Who's calling?) You're always and forever dawning I don't even want to act like everything is just fine Oh oh oh oh oh Every morning I just thank the Lord that I'm still alive Oh oh oh oh oh Changes are coming who's calling? (Who's calling?) Forever forever falling Changes are coming without warning (Who's calling?) You're always and forever dawning Changes are coming who's calling? (Who's calling?) Forever forever falling Changes are coming without warning (Who's calling?) You're always and forever dawning You're always and forever dawning You're always and forever dawning You're always and forever dawning Before Your Love Is Gone (One, Two) Idiot child Fight for survival Where you play It's been a while Since you heard a voice turn the white light grey Desperate hollow Follow your rival Turn to clay Burning the Bible What the junkie inside of you might say Before your love is gone Before your love is gone away Before your love is gone Why can't you just ever stay Taking your chances Everything dances On delay There are no answers For the things that people do and say Hollywood ransom Building a mansion From the pain If you could handle Giving back your life Giving up your name Before your love is gone Before your love is gone away Before your love is gone Why can't you just ever stay Your lonely light is on But your broken night is gone If you only won the fight along the way You could say you got away All of your voices Hollow the choices Every day Pick different sources And give everything that you have away Witness the angel Giving us mercy When we pray Pray for survival And then sacrifice yourself to save Before your love is gone Before your love is gone away Before your love is gone Why can't you just ever stay Before your love is gone Before your love is gone away Before your love is gone Why can't you just ever stay Wide Awake in November Lost your sight But maybe now you can make it by candlelight Well it's alright But they will rob you if they think you might throw the fight Try to make it but you can't explain You gotta give it to yourself today And play your music on the gravy train No matter what the hangman might say Wide awake in November It's the second take That they remember To your sweetest mistake You surrender Surrender Surrender But you're wide awake In November Lost your mind With your soul butt naked guess they say you were blind There's so unkind But you can beat them if you're busy and you stay on your grind It's discipline that will clear the way It's discipline in your life that makes it stay And from your thoughts you got to separate Come into the right now or an elevated state Wide awake in November It's the second take That they remember To your sweetest mistake You surrender Surrender Surrender But you're wide awake In November So save your lonely line For the one you might need somewhere down the line ave your lonely line 'Til the one you can't find One more fool I was asleep when they disabled the golden rule And so uncool But to some what they love is just how much you can drool So meditate when you start your day And don't look into your phone to make a play It's just a crazy making crazy train Open up your third eye and stop being insane Wide awake in November It's the second take That they remember To your sweetest mistake You surrender Surrender Surrender But you're wide awake In November Can't Make It Without You Fear Is everywhere in the hearts of many You can't get very much if any Love When you're chasing ghosts around There're coming to you now for mercy Now that you realize You weren't that thirsty anymore The desert disappeared inside of you I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you No not anymore No not anymore Time Is an endless proposition You keep on talking But who's gonna listen to you now That you gave it all away Going home or going nowhere Wake up Like a gun shooting a blue flare Across the sky That lights up with your lullaby eyes I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you No not anymore No not anymore Are you coming? Coming out now to play? We'll go running Over the field to another day Give Until the world will come to you now You just be and live here breathing in your dreams 'Til they get inside of everyone They jump around like crazy children You do what you can to be just like them and love Everything that lets you believe I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you Oh I can't make it without you No not anymore No not anymore No not anymore No not anymore (repeats)
Come Back World Mona Lisa sits On a chair of rust Says she wants to quit But can't betray the dust Come back world Or are you already gone She loves the mountain light That sweeps the ocean floor From the feeling she gets Walking out the door Come back world Or are you already gone I'm gonna follow her Anywhere she runs If she opens her doors I'll bury my guns Come back world Or are you already gone Come back world Or are you already gone 'Cause it don't feel right When you're leaving Can't you ride a satellite And start receiving What is only in your mind To make it, you have take a look around If you break it, you can't get off the ground It's a lot like love and everyone's a hypocrite The promise of something hard to find To make it, you have to leave this world behind If you break it, you can't get off the ground It's a lot like running from everything Can't you ride Can't you ride Can't you ride a satellite tonight Can't you ride Can't you ride Can't you ride Can't you ride a satellite tonight 'Cause it don't feel right When you're leaving 'Cause it don't feel right When you're leaving 'Cause it don't feel right When you're leaving 'Cause it don't feel right When you're leaving
I'll Be Around When you can't find your way home I'll be around I'll be around a while And everyone you know has let you down I'll be around I'll be around a while When the night twists up just a snake I'll be around You know, I'll be around a while And your eyes are closed but your mind's awake I'll be around I'll be around a while Come on, baby, why don't you come over I'll protect with my heart And if you wanted to cry on my shoulder I'll hold you here in my arms When it seems like all is lost I'll be around I'll be around a while And you can't get yourself up off the cross I'll be around I'll be around a while And for all of your work, not much to show I'll be around I'll be around a while And you've been everywhere so now there's nowhere to go I'll be around I'll be around a while Come on, baby, why don't you come over I'll protect with my heart (I'll protect you with my heart, yeah) And if you want to cry on my shoulder (If you wanna cry, cry, cry) I'll hold you here in my arms (Hold you in my arms) When trouble comes and you're afraid I'll be around I'll be around a while When the double-cross has you double-faced I'll be around I'll be around a while (I'll be around I'll be around a while I'll be around I'll be around a while) Streetcar I'm riding on the streetcar, holding on Past the hourglass shop, where they're pawning off your store On Elysian Fields at the crack of dawn And one in the morning's when it feels Like you only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah I'm riding on the streetcar, without you Lately I've been wondering what I'm even holding onto But if I could change things, baby, you'd still be the one Sometimes I hear you whisper in the wind We've only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah We've only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah I'm riding on a streetcar, this one goes outta town Goes up into outer space, around the moon, and even underground But the last time, you and me chased the sun After I kissed you, you turned to me and said We've only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah We've only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You don't have to worry (I'm riding on the streetcar) You don't have to worry (I'm riding on the streetcar, baby) You don't have to worry (I'm riding on the streetcar I'm riding on the streetcar, baby) You don't have to worry (I'm riding on the streetcar I'm riding on the streetcar, baby) You don't have to worry Gonna make it back to you Gonna make it Gonna make it back to you I'm riding on the streetcar, holding on Past the hourglass shop, where they're pawning off your store On Elysian Fields at the crack of dawn And one in the morning's when it feels Like you only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah You only just begun Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Like you only just begun Tomorrow Today You're the bike riding through the park at dawn I'm the dog barking at you from the lawn I'm the football flying through the sky You're the look of hope in the child's eye And if you catch me You're gonna fall But it's a touchdown Afterall Loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today I'm the headlights passing through your hair You're the hitchhiker following the dam I'm the very next city past this county line You're the waitress at the diner telling me the time It's past midnight Guess I'll be getting on Start the engine And turn up this song Loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today When the morning comes We'll climb the wall And when the morning comes We'll hear the call Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, tomorrow, today, today, today Baby, loving you makes me believe in tomorrow Makes me believe in tomorrow, today Biggest Mistake You made The biggest mistake when you quit me, babe 'Cause we made The loneliest world less lonely then You shoulda known I was your best friend Even though you hardly let me in I could tell how you were running So I made The biggest mistake when I quit you, babe 'Cause we made The loneliest world much less lonely then I shoulda known you were my best friend Even though I hardly let you in You probably saw how I was running I don't wanna waste your time I don't know your pain I don't wanna waste your time I don't know what you want me for But I don't wanna waste your time I don't know your pain I don't wanna waste your time But I'm reaching If you're reaching out And if you're reaching Well, I'm reaching out I shoulda known you were my best friend Even though I hardly let you in You probably saw how I was running I don't wanna waste your time I don't know your pain I don't wanna waste your time I don't know what you want me for But I don't wanna waste your time I don't know your pain I don't wanna waste your time But I'm reaching If you're reaching out And if you're reaching Well, I'm reaching out You made The biggest mistake when you quit me, babe Make It True You got to give yourself permission To be who you are No one else'll take the mission Like flying to Mars You got to give yourself permission To open your heart And then you'll finally learn to listen To the sun and the stars You're one in a million You're once in a life You're one in a million The way you shine your light You save me I'll save you If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true (If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true) You save me I'll save you If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true (If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true) You got to give yourself permission To be who you are No one else is walking with you Down that boulevard You got to give yourself permission To open your voice And then you'll finally learn to listen You'll see you never had a choice You're one in a million You're once in a life You're one in a million The way you shine your light You save me I'll save you If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true (If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true) You save me I'll save you If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true (If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true If you learn to feel your dream) You can make it true (If you learn to feel your dream You can make it true) Seek And Find Don't let them take your mind Or blank it like a tape For your to rewind And if you're downtown, keep it light You might be out within the forest types Who'll bleed you out when you're outta sight Team up with the demons you fight If you're downtown, keep it light You might be out within the forest types Who'll bleed you out when you're outta sight Team up with the demons you fight 'Cause you know now, baby, you know (Don't run for cover from the darkness tonight) Oh-oh-oh It's not love they want, it's the truth (Don't run for cover (presence) from the darkness tonight) Don't know what you've done Was it worth it What you've done Don't know what you've done Was it worth it What you've done Don't let them taste your blood Or pour their dark energy Back into your flood And if you're downtown, keep it light You might be out within the forest types Who'll bleed you out when you're outta sight Team up with the demons you fight So at the next street take a right Keep the engine running, turn off the lights I'll be right back outta sight Don't run for cover from the darkness tonight 'Cause you know now, baby, you know (Don't run for cover from the darkness tonight) It's not love they want, it's the truth (Don't run for cover (presence) from the darkness tonight) Anything you want Anything you want, seek and find Anything you want Anything you want, it's your time Anything you want Anything you want, seek and find Anything you want Anything you want, it's your time Anything you want Anything you want, seek and find Anything you want Anything you want, it's your time Pale Fire It's just wrong the way you let them Treat you so bad They treat you like a fool Broken promises that they'll be cool Only thing they keep Is you locked up Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire You belong where you believe What you allow Is what you receive Open your eyes so that you can grieve If the ones you trusted most Oh, they ever deceived you Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire Give me back my pale fire On my way to hell Somehow I got free I was underneath your spell When she said this to me Let's get the waitress I think you need a cup of tea Just remember, you're in the matrix And it's on you to set them free You see the spider On that neon lamp Well it's not fair at all Anywhere but in your head What's up is down And what's down is up The choice is up to you I left the red pill by your cup Where is the waitress Let's pay the check, the meal is done Just remember, you're in the matrix And baby, you're the one So go back now to your roots I mean the ones before Your life even began Back when you were just pale fire Jumping from a distant star To another land Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire Fortune for the brave While you swim in shallow waters Fortune for the brave Give me back my pale fire Give me back my pale fire Mayor Of The Lower Eastside You still love rock 'n' roll Half of these people here would follow you home 'Cause you got the light Out on Avenue A Taxis are honking as the street people fight In the middle of the map You're the Mayor of the Lower Eastside I heard them saying, you, keep New York City alive Some people never get to leave The city is heaven here just shy of defeat Where the freaky people meet You got to remember how to breathe Even as days only seem to repeat Along with every street You're the Mayor of the Lower Eastside I heard them saying, you, keep New York City alive You're the Mayor of the Lower Eastside I heard them saying, you, keep New York City alive Somewhere With You Without your lights on, I can see everything I can see everything when I'm with you Now that the night's gone I still wanna dance and sing I still wanna dance and sing, somewhere with you So don't hide away Oh, don't hide away Don't hide away Your whole life So don't hide away Don't hide away Don't hide away Even for another night You couldn't escape them 'cause you couldn't see the track I guess you could hate them but your life's way too short for that So when they look at you, just say, "What you looking at" I wouldn't blame 'em though 'cause I see what they're looking at You're beautiful and free You're beautiful and free You're beautiful and free You're beautiful to me So don't hide away No, don't hide away Don't hide away Your whole life So don't hide away No, don't hide away Don't hide away Even for another night You couldn't escape them 'cause you couldn't see the track I guess you could hate them but your life's way too short for that So when they look at you, just say, "What you looking at" I wouldn't blame 'em though 'cause I see what they're looking at You're beautiful and free You're beautiful to me So don't hide away Don't hide away Don't hide away All of your life So don't hide away Don't hide away Don't hide away Even for another night Now that the night's gone I still wanna dance and sing I still wanna dance and sing, somewhere with you