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Songs: 1492, Hanging Tree, Los Angeles, Sundays, Insignificant, Cowboys, Washington Square, On Almost Any Sunday Morning, When I Dream of Michelangelo, Anyone but You, You Can’t Count on Me, Le Ballet d’or, On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago, Come Around, Untitled (Love Song), Start Again, Hospital, Mercy, Meet on the Ledge, Like Teenage Gravity, Amie, Coming Around, Ooh La La, All My Failures, Return of the Grievous Angel, Four White Stallions, Jumping Jesus, You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, The Ballad of El Goodo, Hanginaround, Hanginaround, Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby, Amy Hit the Atmosphere, Four Days, All My Friends, High Life, Colorblind, I Wish I Was a Girl, Speedway, St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream / Kid Things, With Love, From A–Z, Spaceman in Tulsa, Boxcars, Virginia Through the Rain, Under the Aurora, The Tall Grass, Elevator Boots, Angel of 14th Street, Bobby and the Rat‐Kings, Palisades Park, Earthquake Driver, Dislocation, God Of Ocean Tides, Scarecrow, Elvis Went To Hollywood, Cover Up The Sun, John Appleseed's Lament, Possibility Days, Hard Candy, American Girls, Good Time, If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead, Goodnight L.A., Butterfly in Reverse, Miami, New Frontier, Carriage, Black and Blue, Why Should You Come When I Call?, Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood), Holiday in Spain, Big Yellow Taxi, Round Here, Omaha, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Perfect Blue Buildings, Anna Begins, Time and Time Again, Rain King, Sullivan Street, Ghost Train, Raining in Baltimore, A Murder of One, Catapult, Angels of the Silences, Daylight Fading, I’m Not Sleeping, Goodnight Elisabeth, Children in Bloom, Have You Seen Me Lately?, Miller’s Angels, Another Horsedreamer’s Blues, Recovering the Satellites, Monkey, Mercury, A Long December, A Long December, Walkaways
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on white And in between the moon and you The angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right Well, I walk in the air between the rain Through myself and back again Where? I don't know Maria says she's dying Through the door, I hear her crying Why? I don't know 'Round here,we always stand up straight 'Round here, something radiates Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis And she walks along the edge Of where the ocean meets the land Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus She parks her car outside of my house And takes her clothes off Says she's close to understanding Jesus And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous 'Round here, we're carving out our names 'Round here, we all look the same 'Round here, we talk just like lions But we sacrifice like lambs 'Round here, she's slipping through my hands Woah oh oh Sleeping children better run like the wind Out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning She says it's only in my head She says, shh, I know it's only in my head But the girl on the car in the parking lot Says, Man, you should try to take a shot Can't you see my walls are crumbling? Then she looks up at the building Says she's thinking of jumping She says she's tired of life She must be tired of something 'Round here, she's always on my mind 'Round here, hey man, got lots of time 'Round here, we're never sent to bed early And nobody makes us wait 'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very late I, I can't see nothin', nothin' 'round here You catch me if I'm fallin', you catch me if I'm fallin' Will you catch me? 'Cause I'm fallin' down on you I said I'm under the gun, 'round here I'm innocent, I'm under the gun, 'round here And I can't see nothin', nothin' 'round here
Start tearing the old man down Run past the heather and down to the old road Start turning the grain into the ground Roll a new leaf over In the middle of the night There's an old man Treading around In the gathered rain "Hey mister if you want to walk on water Would you drop a line my way Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you'd better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door Start threading the needle Brush past the shuttle That slides through the cold room Start turning the wool across the wire Roll the new life over In the middle of the night There's an old man Threading his toes through a bucket of rain Hey mister you don't want to walk on water Cause you're only going to walk all over me Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you'd better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door Start running the banner down Drop past the color come up through the summer rain Start turning the girl into the ground Roll a new love over In the middle of the day There's a young man Rolling around in the earth and rain Hey mister if you're going to walk on water You know, you're only going to walk all over me Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you'd better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door Omaha Oh somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you'd better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door Oh, sweet Omaha Sunday morning, I'm coming home today
Sha, la, la, la, la, la, la Mmm Uh huh I was down at the New Amsterdam Staring at this yellow-haired girl Mr Jones strikes up a conversation With a black-haired flamenco dancer You know, she dances while his father plays guitar She's suddenly beautiful We all want something beautiful Man, I wish I was beautiful So come dance the silence down through the morning Sha la, la, la, la, la, la, la Yeah Uh huh Yeah Cut up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancin' Pass me a bottle, Mr Jones Believe in me Help me believe in anything 'Cause I want to be someone who believes Yeah Mr Jones and me Tell each other fairy tales And we stare at the beautiful women She's looking at you Ah, no, no, she's looking at me Smilin' in the bright lights Coming through in stereo When everybody loves you You can never be lonely Well, I'm gonna paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful Yeah, well, you know grey is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a grey guitar and play Mr Jones and me Look into the future Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women She's looking at you I don't think so She's looking at me Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a grey guitar When everybody loves me I will never be lonely I will never be lonely Said I'm never gonna be Lonely I wanna be a lion Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats We all wanna be big, big stars Yeah, but we got different reasons for that Believe in me 'Cause I don't believe in anything And I wanna be someone to believe To believe, to believe Yeah! Mr Jones and me Stumbling through the Barrio Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women She's perfect for you Man, there's got to be somebody for me I wanna be Bob Dylan Mr Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky When everybody loves you Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be Mr Jones and me Starin' at the video When I look at the television, I wanna see me Staring right back at me We all wanna be big stars But we don't know why, and we don't know how But when everybody loves me I wanna be just about as happy as I can be Mr Jones and me We're gonna be big stars
Sha, la, la, la, la, la, la Mmm Uh huh I was down at the New Amsterdam Staring at this yellow-haired girl Mr Jones strikes up a conversation With a black-haired flamenco dancer You know, she dances while his father plays guitar She's suddenly beautiful We all want something beautiful Man, I wish I was beautiful So come dance the silence down through the morning Sha la, la, la, la, la, la, la Yeah Uh huh Yeah Cut up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancin' Pass me a bottle, Mr Jones Believe in me Help me believe in anything 'Cause I want to be someone who believes Yeah Mr Jones and me Tell each other fairy tales And we stare at the beautiful women She's looking at you Ah, no, no, she's looking at me Smilin' in the bright lights Coming through in stereo When everybody loves you You can never be lonely Well, I'm gonna paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful Yeah, well, you know grey is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a grey guitar and play Mr Jones and me Look into the future Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women She's looking at you I don't think so She's looking at me Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a grey guitar When everybody loves me I will never be lonely I will never be lonely Said I'm never gonna be Lonely I wanna be a lion Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats We all wanna be big, big stars Yeah, but we got different reasons for that Believe in me 'Cause I don't believe in anything And I wanna be someone to believe To believe, to believe Yeah! Mr Jones and me Stumbling through the Barrio Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women She's perfect for you Man, there's got to be somebody for me I wanna be Bob Dylan Mr Jones wishes he was someone Just a little more funky When everybody loves you Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be Mr Jones and me Starin' at the video When I look at the television, I wanna see me Staring right back at me We all wanna be big stars But we don't know why, and we don't know how But when everybody loves me I wanna be just about as happy as I can be Mr Jones and me We're gonna be big stars
Just down the street from your hotel, baby I stay at home with my disease And ain't this position familiar, darling Well, all monkeys do what they see Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Down on Virginia and La Loma Where I got friends who'll care for me You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted I got an attitude of need Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings Beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from me It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday It doesn't get much worse than this In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings Beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from myself and me I got bones beneath my skin, and mister... There's a skeleton in every man's house Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody There's a dead man trying to get out Please help me stay awake, I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings Beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion baby Try to keep myself away from me
My friend assures me "It's all or nothing" I am not worried, I am not overly concerned My friend implores me "For one time only, make an exception" I am not not worried Wrap her up in a package of lies, send her off to a coconut island I am not worried, I am not overly concerned With the status of my emotions "Oh" she says "You're changing" But we're always changing It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love And I guess I'm going to have to live with that But, I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey or something in between And I can always change my name, if that's what you mean My friend assures me "It's all or nothing" But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned You try to tell yourself the things you try tell yourself To make yourself forget To make yourself forget I am not worried "If it's love" she said "Then we're gonna have to think about the consequences" But she can't stop shaking, and I can't stop touching her and This time when kindness falls like rain It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind "These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days" she says And I'm not ready for this sort of thing But I'm not gonna break and I'm not going to worry about it anymore I'm not gonna bend and I'm not gonna break I'm not gonna worry about it anymore No, no, no, no It seems like I should say "As long as this is love" But it's not all that easy so maybe I should just Snap her up in a butterfly net and just pin her down on a photograph album I am not worried, 'cause I've done this sort of thing before But then I start to think about the consequences That I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and This time when kindness falls like rain It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind And every time she sneezes I believe it's love and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing She's talking in her sleep (rain falls down) It's keeping me awake and Anna begins to toss and turn (rain comes falling down) And every word is nonsense but I understand and (rain falls down) Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing (rain comes falling down) Her kindness bangs a gong (rain falls down) It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away (rain comes falling down) It's chasing me away (rain falls down) She disappears and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
I wanted so badly Somebody other than me Staring back at me But you were gone, gone, gone I wanted to see you walking backwards And get the sensation of you coming home I wanted to see you walking away from me Without the sensation of you leaving me alone Time and time again Time and time again Time and time again I can't please myself I wanted the ocean to cover over me I wanna sink slowly without getting wet Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely And I'll walk on water every chance I get Time and time again Time and time again Time and time again I can't please myself So when are you coming home Sweet angel? You leaving me alone? All alone? Well, if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own I wish I was traveling on a freeway Beneath this graveyard western sky I'm gonna set fire to this city And out into the desert we're gonna ride Time and time again Time and time again Time and time again I can't please myself I can't please myself And I, I can't please nobody else And time again Time and time again Time and time and time and time again I can't please myself No, no, no, no
When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers And all other instruments of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to feed me 'Cause I've been here before And I deserve a little more And I belong in the service of the queen And I belong anywhere but in between She's been crying and I've been thinking And I am the rain king And I said, "Mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone" 'Cause I can't go outside, I'm scared I might not make it home Well I'm alive, I'm alive, but I'm sinking in If there's anyone at home at your place, darling Why don't you invite me in? Don't try to feed me 'Cause I've been here before And I deserve a little more And I belong in the service of the queen And I belong anywhere but in between She's been lying and I've been sinking And I am the rain king Hey I only want the same as anyone Henderson is waiting for the sun Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends After all the dreaming I come home again When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of dying, lay me down in a field of flame and heather Render up my body into the burning heart of God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to bleed me 'Cause I've been here before And I deserve a little more And I belong in the service of the queen And I belong anywhere but in between She's been dying and I've been drinking And I am the rain king Well I said that "I am the rain king" Well I said, "I, I, I, I, I, well I am the rain king", yeah
Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Pretty soon now, I won't come around I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly fallen to her knees Take the way home Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Where all the bodies hang on the air If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet Either way now, I don't really care 'Cause I'm gone from there I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly crawling on her knees She's down on her knees Down on her knees Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Where I'm just another rider burned to the ground I come tumbling down I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly crawling on her knees It's almost everything I need I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees I'm down on, down on my knees I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees
I took the cannonball down to the ocean, Across the desert from sea to shining sea, I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation, Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me, How do you do? she said, hey, how do you do? She buys a ticket 'cause it's cold where she comes from, She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow, Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness, Hold on to me darling, I've got nowhere else to go, How do you do? she said, hey, how do you do? hey, yeah. I took the cannonball down to the ocean, Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves, Love is a ghost train howling on the radio, Remember everything she said, when only memory remains. How do you do? she said, hey, how do you do? Hey how do you do? she said, hey, how do you do?
This circus is falling down on its knees The big top is crumbling down It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east Where you should be, no one's around I need a phone call I need a raincoat I need a big love I need a phone call These train conversations are passing me by And I don't have nothing to say You get what you pay for But I just had no intention of living this way I need a phone call I need a plane ride I need a sunburn I need a raincoat And I get no answers And I don't get no change It's raining in Baltimore, baby But everything else is the same There's things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard And I wish it was a small world Because I'm lonely for the big towns I'd like to hear a little guitar I think it's time to put the top down I need a phone call I need a raincoat
Blue morning, blue morning, Wrapped in strands of fist and bone, Curiousity, Kitten, Doesn't have to mean you're on your own, You can look outside your window, He doesn't have to know, We can talk a while baby, We can take it nice and slow. All your life, is such a shame, shame, shame, All your love, is just a dream, dream, dream. Well are you happy where you're sleeping? Does he keep you safe and warm? Does he tell you when you're sorry? Does he tell you when you're wrong? Well, I've been watching you for hours, It's been years since we were born, We were perfect when we started, I've been wondering where we've gone. All your life, is such a shame, shame, shame, All your love, is just a dream, dream, dream. Well, I dreamt I saw you walkin' Up a hillside in the snow, Casting shadows on the winter sky, As you stood there counting crows, One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for girls, and four for boys, Five for silver, six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. Well there's a bird that nests inside you, Sleeping underneath your skin, Yeah, when you open up your wings to speak, I wish you'd let me in. All your life, is such a shame, shame, shame, All your love, is just a dream, dream, dream. Open up your eyes, you can see the flames, flames, flames, Of your wasted life, you should be ashamed. Yeah. and you don't want to waste your life, baby, Oh, you don't wanna waste your life now, darlin' You don't wanna waste your life, baby, You don't wanna waste your life now, darlin' And, You don't wanna waste your life now, baby, I said, You don't wanna waste your life now, darlin' Oh, You don't wanna waste your life now, baby, Ahh, you don't wanna, you don't wanna waste your life now, darlin' Change, change, change, Change, change, change, Change, change, change. I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight fallin' down on me, I said I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me, I said I will walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight fallin' down on me, I said I will walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight. Change, change, change, Change, change, change, yeah, Change, change, change, oh, Change, change, yeah, Oh Change, change, change, Wo-ah Change, change, change, Oh Change, change, change, Change, change, change, Change, change, change.
All of the sudden she disappears, Just yesterday she was here, Somebody tell me if I am sleeping, Someone should be with me here, 'Cause I don't wanna be alone. I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand, And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult, What a big baby, won't somebody save me please, You won't find nobody home. All of these quiet battered voices, Wait for the hunger to come, We got little revolvers and stupid choices, And no one to say when we're done, Well I don't wanna bring you down. I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes, 'Cause I know there's little things about me, That would sing in the silence of, So much rejection in every connection I make, Can't find nobody home. I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes, 'Cause I know there's little things about me, That would sing in the silence of, So much rejection in every connection I make, I wanna be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep. I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand, And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult, What a big baby, won't somebody save me please, I can't find nobody home.
Well, I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many Who would stand beside you now Where'd you come from? Where am I going? Why'd you leave me 'til I'm only good for? Waiting for you, all my sins I said that I would pay for them If I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on The dead and dreaming Every night, these silhouettes appear above my head Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper Every time I fall asleep, every time I dream Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'til we're only good for? Waiting for you, all my sins I said that I would pay for them If I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on The dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book And suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms Well, I will not be an enemy of anything I'll only stand here Waiting for you, all my sins I said that I would pay for them If I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on The dead and dreaming I'm gone, I'm gone, I believe today I'm gone I'm gone, I'm gone, take me away, I'm gone I'm gone, I'm gone, gotta leave today I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone I'm gone
Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside, And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive, Well, I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you, It's getting cold in California, I guess I'll be leaving soon. Daylight fading, come and waste another year, All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear, Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn, When we see the early signs that daylight's fading, We leave just before it's gone. Yeah well, she said, everybody loves you, She says, everybody cares, But all the things I keep inside myself, They vanish in the air, If you tell me that you'll wait for me, I'll say I won't be here, I want to say goodbye to you, Goodbye to all my friends, Goodbye to everyone I know. Daylight fading, come and waste another year, All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear, Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn, When we see the early signs that daylight's fading, We leave just before it's gone. Daylight fading, come and waste another year, All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear, Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn, When we see the early signs that daylight's fading, We leave just before it's gone.
She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping She comes to me when I'm alone She comes to me, she holds my hand when I'm crying She comes to me, she shuts my eyes She brings me home But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore No, I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore She tells me when you look at me, she tells me when you're lying She tells me when you talk about me and she lays me on the floor She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked She tells me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore No, I'm not sleeping anymore, oh, anymore 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a.m. All alone again But I've been through all this shit before Spend my nights in self defense Cry about my innocence But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more, more I see her on the TV, I see her in the movies I see her in these animals that dance beside my bed I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley Yeah, I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore No, I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore No, I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping I'm not sleeping, no no no no no no no no I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping Anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore I said, "Rain, rain go away, come again some other day" 'Cause I got all this shit to say but I've gone back to find my way My sister's mother's favorite son lost among the chosen ones But I've got news for everyone 'cause I've gone out that door
I was wasted in the afternoon, Waiting on a train, I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth, Had disappeared again, I wish you were inside of me, I hope that you're okay, I hope you're resting quietly, I just wanted to say. Good, goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight, Good, goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight. We couldn't all be cowboys, Some of us are clowns, Some of us are dancers on the midway, We roam from town to town, I hope that everybody, Can find a little flame, And me, I say my prayers, Then I just light myself on fire, And I walk out on the wire once again, And I say. Good, goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight, Good, goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight. Well I will wait for you in Baton Rouge, I'll miss you down in New Orleans, I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable, And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between, But if you wrap yourself in daffodils, I will wrap myself in pain, oh, And if you're the queen of California, Baby I am the king of the rain, And I say. Good, goodnight Elisabeth, Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight, Good, goodnight Elisabeth, The moon, the satellites, Yeah well. Wouldn't you fall down on me now, Wouldn't you fall down on me now, Come, come fall down on me now, Wouldn't you fall down on me. 'Cause I'm all alone, you ain't coming home, You just settle down, down, down, in to bone, Yeah I said I'm all alone, you ain't coming home, We just settle down, down, down, in to bone.
Children in bloom cooking in the sun, Waiting for a room of our own, Leave my sister alone, 'Cause she don't deserve this, She is a flower and I am a flower, And we are all alone. I gotta get out on my own, I gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home, I gotta get out of this sunlight it's melting my bones, I gotta get up from this slumber and just get myself home. All these wasted dreams, Just waiting for the sun, To open up my heart to anyone, Bring me some rain, Because I'm dying, I'm dying, And I can't get this damn thing closed again. I gotta get out on my own, I gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home, I gotta get out of this sunlight it's melting my bones, I gotta get up from this slumber and just get myself home. Where's the fun house this year? The fairground's deserted, And the skies don't seem as near, Nicole's my oldest friend, But the altar is empty, And she'll never be a little girl again. I gotta get out on my own, I gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home, I gotta get out of this sunlight it's melting my bones, I gotta get up from this slumber and just get myself home, home. I can't find my way home, I can't find my way home, I can't find, I can't find, I can't find, I can't find, I can't find, I can't find my way home.
Get away from me, Just get away from me, This isn't gonna be easy, But I don't need you, believe me, Yeah, you got a piece of me, But it's just a little piece of me, An' I don't need anyone, And these days I feel like I'm fading away, Like sometimes, when I hear myself on the radio. Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change, Somewhere out in America it's starting to rain, Could you tell me one thing you remember about me, And have you seen me lately? I remember me, And all the little things, That make up a memory, Like she said she loved to watch me sleep, Like she said, it's the breathing, It's the breathing in and out and in and out. Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change, Somewhere out in America it's starting to rain, Could you tell me the things you remember about me, And have you seen me lately? You know what, I thought someone would notice, I thought ah, somebody would say something, If I was missing, well can't you see me? Come on color me in, Come on color me in, Come on color, come on, Come on come on, come on, Give me your blue rain, Give me your black sky, Give me your green eyes, Come on give me your white skin, Come on give me your white skin, Come on give me your white skin. 'Cause I was out on the radio starting to change, Somewhere out in America it's starting to rain, Could you tell me things you remember about me, And have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? no, no, no, no, Have you seen me lately?
Miller's angels in black and white, Welcome everyone in, Children dreaming of wrong and right, Wrapped in grace and in sin. They come out of the blue sky, They come out of the blue, They come out of the blue sky, But you never know, where they're gonna go, hey Romeo. Miller's fingers are travelling, Down the length of her thigh, But Miller's mind is still wandering, Staring up at the sky. They come out of the blue sky, They come out of the blue, They come out of the blue sky, But you never know, where they're gonna go, hey Romeo, No, you never know, where they're gonna go, hey Romeo. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't come around, Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't come around, Please don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't come around. Miller's angels are hovering, In between the earth and the sun, In the shadow of God's unwavering love, I am a fortunate son. They come out of the blue sky, They come out of the blue, They come out of the blue sky, But you never know, where they're gonna go, hey Romeo, No, you never know, where they're gonna go, hey, hey Romeo, No, no, no you never know, where you're gonna go, hey Romeo. Can't you hear me, 'cause I'm screamin' I did not go outside yesterday, Don't wake me please, don't wake me, I was dreamin' That I might just stay inside again today, Well I don't go out much these days, Yes, sometimes I stay inside all day. So leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone, Won't you leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone, Won't you leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone, Won't you leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me alone, Won't you leave me alone.
Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day, Tiyuri to win, perfect Dozen to place, Money is the matter that's been on her mind, Time ticks by her one race at a time. She's tryin' to be a good girl, And give 'em what they want, But Margery's dreaming of horses. Lookin' at a green sky, sun like a red eye, Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by, She's tired and lonely, Scared and depressed, Her visions of one day go racing the next. She's trying to be a good girl, And give 'em what they want, But Margery's dreaming of horses. Margie doesn't say anything all the way home, So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone. Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and, TV dinners and letters she won't send, and, Every race night is shot through with sunlight, Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for, Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and, Boys who can't tell one girl from another, So she takes her pills, careful and round, One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down. But she's trying to be a good girl, And give 'em what they want, But Margery's dreaming of. Trying to be a good girl, And give 'em what they want, But Margery's dreaming of horses.
Gonna get back to basics, Guess I'll start it up again, I'm fallin' from the ceiling, You're falling from the sky now and then. Maybe you were shot down in pieces, Maybe I slipped in between, But we were gonna be the wildest, the wildest, The wildest people they ever hoped to see, Just you and me. So why'd you come home, To this sleepless town, It's a lifetime commitment, Recovering the satellites, All anybody really wants to know is, When you gonna come down, When you gonna come down. Your mother recognizes, all your desperate displays, And she watches as her babies, drift violently away, 'Til they see themselves in telescopes, Well listen, do you see yourself in me? We're such crazy babies, little monkey, God we're so fucked up, you and me. So why'd you come home, To this faithless town, Where we make a lifetime commitment, To recovering the satellites, And all anybody really wants to know is, When are you gonna come down, down, down, down, down, down, When are you gonna come down. She, she, she sees shooting stars and comet tails, She's got heaven in her eyes, She says I don't, I don't, I don't need to be an angel, But I'm nothing, I'm nothing if I'm not this high. But we only stay in orbit, For a moment of time, And then you're everybody's satellite, I wish that you were mine, Wish that you were mine. So why'd you come home, To this angel's town, Well it's a lifetime's decision, Recovering the satellites, All anybody really knows for sure is, That you're gonna come down, That you're gonna come down.
All dressed up and no place to go, Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face, around me, I know all the wrongs and rights, And I just want a little light to fall, on me. Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in, Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? Well I'm all messed up, that's nothing new, Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes, I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming, But all I ever need is everything. Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in, Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? Just get the world off your shoulders, And close your pretty blue eyes, Hey monkey, what's life without, An occasional surprise? Got nowhere but home to go, Got Ben Folds on my radio right now, I'm in trouble for the things I need, Hey monkey, don't you want to be needed, too? Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in, Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? Hey monkey, where you been? Hey monkey, where you been?
She is trapped inside a month of grey, And they take a little every day, She is a victim of her own responses, Shackled to a heart that wants to settle, And then runs away, It's a sin to be, fading endlessly, Yeah, but she's alright with me. She is leaving on a walkaway, She is leaving me in disarray, In the absence of a place to be, She stands there looking back at me, Hesitates and then turns away, She'll change so suddenly, She's just like mercury, Yeah, but she's alright with me. Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds, For the things that die before their time, For the restlessly abandoned homes, The tired and weary rambler's bones, And stay beside me where I lie, She's entwined in me, crazy as can be, Yeah, but she's alright with me, She's alright, she's alright with me, She's alright with me, She's alright with me, She's alright with me.
A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you would The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls All at once, you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California I think you should Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two A.M And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower Makes you talk a little lower About the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself To hold on to these moments as they pass And it's one more day up in the canyon And it's one more night in Hollywood It's been so long since I've seen the ocean I guess I should
A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you would The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls All at once, you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California I think you should Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two A.M And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower Makes you talk a little lower About the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself To hold on to these moments as they pass And it's one more day up in the canyon And it's one more night in Hollywood It's been so long since I've seen the ocean I guess I should
I've gotta rush away She said, I've been to Boston before And anyway, this change I've been feeling Doesn't make the rain fall No big differences these days Just the same old walkaways Someday, I'm gonna stay But not today
She sat right down on the sofa Said, "Where have you been?" I've been waiting for you 'Cause last night, I had something so good These days get so long, and I got nothing to do I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town for way too long We spend all day getting sober Just hiding from daylight, watching TV We just look a lot better in the blue light Well, you know I gotta get out Well, I'm stuck so tight weighed by the chains that keep me Hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town too long I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town for way too long Well, everybody trip This girl listens to the band play She says, "Where have you been?" I've been lying right here on the floor, right here on the floor Well, I got all this time to be waiting for what is mine To be hating what I am after the love has faded Hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town for way too I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town For way, way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long
She sat right down on the sofa Said, "Where have you been?" I've been waiting for you 'Cause last night, I had something so good These days get so long, and I got nothing to do I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town for way too long We spend all day getting sober Just hiding from daylight, watching TV We just look a lot better in the blue light Well, you know I gotta get out Well, I'm stuck so tight weighed by the chains that keep me Hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town too long I been hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town for way too long Well, everybody trip This girl listens to the band play She says, "Where have you been?" I've been lying right here on the floor, right here on the floor Well, I got all this time to be waiting for what is mine To be hating what I am after the love has faded Hangin' around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town for way too I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bumming around this old town For way, way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long Way, way, way, way too long
Well, I woke up in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts the most I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast Well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame And though I'll never forget your face Sometimes I can't remember my name Hey Mrs. Potter, don't cry Hey Mrs. Potter, I know why but Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me? Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said And the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl will linger inside of your head And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead When I see you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed Hey Mrs. Potter, don't go I said, hey Mrs. Potter, I don't know but Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me? All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone But I need someone to help me sleep And so I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem But I'd sure like to find out So why don't you climb down off that movie screen Hey Mrs. Potter, don't turn Hey Mrs. Potter, I burn for you Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me? When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor And orders another, well, I wonder what he did that for That's when I know that I have to get out 'cause I have been there before So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars You can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Oh, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Hey Mrs. Potter, I won't touch you Hey Mrs. Potter, it's not much but Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me? Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me? Hey Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me?
Ready, three, four If I could make it rain today And wash away this sunny day Down to the gutter, I would Just to get a change of pace Things are getting worse But I feel a lot better And that's all that really matters to me Amy hit the atmosphere Caught herself a rocket ride Out of this gutter and She's never coming back, I fear But any time it rains She just feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long And meanwhile the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come There has to be a change, I'm sure Today was just a day fading into another And that can't be what a life is for The only thing she said was she feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long And meanwhile the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come I wanna know, I wanna know I wanna know, I wanna know I wanna know, I wanna know I wanna know, I wanna know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know All I really know is, I want to know And all I really know is I don't want to know
All I want is something good, It gets harder every time, She is leaving here tonight, Take a breath, take your time, Spread your wings and rise. Make a mark upon the wall, Paint your face and pass the time, Close your eyes and she ascends, Hold your breath and ease your mind, Forty thousand times, Time, faded into the night. They descend and then they climb, Feathers falling through the night, Have you seen Ohio rise? It has been four days and nights. All I want is something fine, It gets harder every time, She is sleeping far away, Take a breath, take your time, Spread your wings and rise, Rise through the black Ohio skies. They descend and then they climb, Feathers falling through the night, Have you seen Ohio rise? It has been four days and nights, nights.
Thought I might get a rocket ride, When I was a child but it was a lie, That I told myself when I needed something good, At seventeen, had a better dream, Now I'm thirty-three and it isn't me, But I'd think of something better if I could. All my friends and lovers leave me behind, And I'm still looking for a girl, One way or another, I'm just hoping to find a way, To put my feet out in the world. Caught some grief from a falling leaf, As she tumbled down to the dirty ground, Said I should have put her back there if I could, But everyone needs a better day, And I'm trying to find me a better way, To get from the things I do to the things I should. All my friends and lovers leave me alone, To try to have a little fun, One way or another I just wish I had known, To go out walking in the sun, And find out if you were the one. Does it make you wanna come a little closer now? And did you wanna dance with me? Did you wanna hum a little harder now? Can you see her waiting there? Can you see her? because I'm almost there, Can you see her waiting there for someone like me? All you want is a beauty queen, Not a superstar but everybody's dream machine, All you want is a place to lay your head, You go to sleep dreaming how you would, Be a different kind if you thought you could, But you come awake the way you are instead. All my friends and lovers shine like the sun, I just turn and walk away, One way or another I'm not coming undone, I'm just waiting for the day, All my friends have, All my friends have.
All my friends got flowers in their eyes But I got none this season All of last years blooms have gone and died Time doesn't give a reason Hey baby, do you ask yourself sometimes What you need to be forgiven? Everything that you've ever done wrong Is the reason that I'm driven Straight to you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I get my ends and my beginnings mixed up too Just the way you do Thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two Waiting for the trains that just never come Beginning to believe in The disappearing nature of the people we have been We have begun to change into the worst kind of people So unkind Oh apologies, no apologies, this apology Doesn't describe the way it feels to feel for you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I find myself slowly disappearing too Just the way you do Thought if I told you You might want to help me to remain with you I just wanna stay for a little while I wanna stay for a little while There's a night life falling down on me I just feel like a change Beneath the sun in the summer, A sea of flowers won't bloom without the rain But oh, this desert life, this high life Here at the dying end of the day I wasn't made for this scene baby But I was made in this scene And baby it's just my way I don't wanna go home alone, I wanna come on home to you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I line my sky with all the silver I can use Just the way you do Thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two
I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am taffy stuck and tongue tied Stutter shook and uptight Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine I am covered in skin No one gets to come in Pull me out from inside I am folded and unfolded and unfolding I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine I am fine I am fine
The devil's in the dreaming, He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone, With nothing to believe in, You dive into the traffic rising up, and it's so quiet, You're surprised and then you wake. For all the things you're losing, You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change, I'm going down to Hollywood, They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find, Crawling round my brain. I wish I was a girl, so that you could believe me, And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep, I wish for all the world that I could say, Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days. The devil's in the dreaming, You see yourself descending from a building to the ground, You watch the sky receding, You spin to see the traffic rising up, and it's so quiet, You're surprised, and then you wake. For all the things I'm losing, I might as well resign myself to try and make a change, But I'm going down to Hollywood, They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find, Crawling round my brain. I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me, And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep, I wish for all the world that I could say, Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days. In one of these dreams, you forgive me, It makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home, How could anyone else have changed? All these wrong conclusions that leave you alone, How could everyone rearrange? How could everyone else have changed? What I see, I believe. For all the things I'm losing, I might as well resign myself to try and make a change, Well, I'm going down to Hollywood, They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find, Crawling around my brain. I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me, And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep, I wish for all the world that I could say, Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days. But I can't sleep at night, No I can't sleep at night, Well I can't sleep at night, But I can't sleep at night.
Two, three, four. I get so nervous, I'm shaking, Gets so I got no pride at all, Gets so bad, but I just keep coming back for more, I guess I just get off on that stuff. I'm thinking about taking some time, I'm thinking about leaving soon. I got some things I can't tell anyone, I got some things I just can't say, Well they're the kind of things no one knows about, I just need somebody to talk, to me. I'm thinking about leaving tomorrow, I'm thinking about leaving on my own, I think I been wasting my time, I'm thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out. In all this time, The bottom line's you don't know, How much I feel, You say you see but I don't agree, You don't know, Don't know how I feel. I'm just trying to get myself some gravity, You're just trying to get me to stay, Sometimes I sit here looking down upon Los Angeles, Sometimes I'm floating away. I'm thinking about breaking myself, I'm thinking about getting back home, I think I been waiting for way too long, I'm thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out.
Staring out of his window as the world rushes by, Arthur Robinson closes the glass and replies, I dream of ballerinas and I don't know why, But I've seen Cadillacs sailing. And I was born on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, But Maryland and Virginia have faded away, And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today, So I am endlessly waiting. And the comet is coming between, Me and the girl who could make it all clean, Out there in the shadow of a modern machine, Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream. Carrie's down in her basement all toe shoes and twinned, With the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins, From where you think you'll end up to the state that you're in, Your reflection approaches and then recedes again. Yeah but the comet is coming between, Me and the girl who could make it all clean, Out there in the shadow of the modern machine, Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream. Well I have dreamed of a black car that shimmers and drives, Down the length of the evening to the carnival side, In a house where regret is a carousel ride, We are spinning and spinning and spinning and now. There's a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell, There's a girl in a basement coming out of her shell, And there are people who will say that they knew me so well, I may not go to heaven, I hope you go to hell. Yeah but the comet is coming between, Me and the girl who could make it all clean, Out there in the shadow of a modern machine, Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream, In his dream, St. Robinson in his dream, Some people are never quite what they seem, Oh come on baby, come on darlin', come on, Lets just get into my car and drive, Oh come on lets just get into my car and drive, Just don't always do the same thing over and over.
On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summers Where my shadows used to be And she is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something altogether different Never just an ordinary girl And in the evenings on Long Island When the colors start to fade She wears a silly yellow hat That someone gave her when she stayed I didn't think that she returned it We left New York in a whirl Time expands and then contracts When you are spinning in the grips of someone Who is not an ordinary girl And when you sleep You find your mother in the night But she stays just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake The morning covers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again You send your lover off to China Then you wait for her to call You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summers back in a letter And I hide it from the world All the regrets you can't forget Are somehow pressed upon a picture In the face of such an ordinary girl And when you sleep You find your mother in the night But she stays just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake The morning showers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Again and again, again and again, again And it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Again and again, again and again, again And it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Go ask her to come around And see me late after dark Don't ask me to come around Then wait to see if there's a spark Go ask her to come around And see me late after dark Don't ask me to come around Then make me wait to see the spark Go ask her to come around Late and see me after dark Don't ask me to come around Then wait to if there is a spark Go ask her to come around Late and see me late after dark Don't ask me...
She comes out on Fridays every time, Stands out in a line, I could've been anyone she'd seen, She waits another week to fall apart, She couldn't make another day, I wish it was anyone but me, I could have been anyone you see, She had something breakable just under her skin. American girls, all weather and noise, Playing the changes for all of the boys, Holding a candle, up to my hand, Making me feel so incredible. She comes out of closets every night, But then she locks herself away, Where she could keep everything from me, I could have been anyone you see, She's nothing but porcelain underneath her skin. American girls, all weather and noise, Playing the changes for all of the boys, Holding a candle right up to my hand, Making me feel so incredible. Little shivers shaking me every day, But I could get the same thing anywhere, So if she goes away, well, It's all right and I'm okay, Hey, she said, come back again tonight, And I said I might, I might, I might, She said well that's all right, If it's alright, if it's alright with you, Then it's alright, it's alright with me. I waited for an hour last Friday night, She never came around, She took almost everything from me, I'm going through my closet, Trying on her clothes, almost every day, I could've been anyone you see, I wish it was anyone but me, There's nothing but pills and ashes under my skin. American girls, all weather and noise, Playing the changes for all of the boys, Holding a candle right up to my hand, Making me feel so incredible. If I made you cry, please tell me why, 'Cause I'll try again if you let me try, American girls all feathers and cream, Coming into bed so edible. American girls oh, American girls, American girls, oh, oh, oh, oh, American girls oh, American girls, American girls, oh, oh, oh, oh, You make me cry, You make me cry, You make me cry, Yeah, you made me cry, You make me cry, Hey, miss American girl, oh, Oh, oh, yeah.
The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes, He don't know what to do, He just wants to look good for you, So he rushes in to tell you what he did today, But he can't think of what to say, I think you listen anyway. He wants to have a good time, Just like everybody, He doesn't want to fall apart. You watch him as he stutters over what to say, It's just a little game you play, It's no easier for you some days, You wish that you could tell him it'll be okay, But you feel a little shy these days, 'Cause everybody goes away. Oh, you just wanna have a good time, Just like everybody else, You don't want to fall apart this time. I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in, Well darling, if it's shit came out, Then I suppose that it's shit went in, Even though I couldn't say, I've been the places that you've been, You know he made my heart real strong, Even if he made my head real thin. I wanna have a good time, Just like everybody, And I don't want to fall apart. Oh I wanna have a good time, Just like everybody else, And I don't want to fall apart this time, So would you please invite me in. Oh, I really love the red haired girls, I'm just another boy from Texas, C'mon and take a spin, Oh, I got a brand new set of wings. Oh, I really love the red haired girls, I'm just another boy from Texas, C'mon and take a spin, Hey, I gotta brand new set of wings. Man I sure do love them red haired girls, I'm just like all the boys from Texas, C'mon take a spin, Hey little girl I got a brand new set of wings.
Got a message in my head, That the papers had all gone, Richard Manuel is dead, And the daylight's coming on, I've been wandering through the dark, Now I'm standing on the lawn. If I could give all my love to you, I could justify myself, But I'm just not coming through, You're a pill to ease the pain, Of all the stupid things I do, I'm an anchor on the line, Of a clock that tells the time, That is running out on you. Well it was cold when I woke, And the day was halfway done, Nearly spring in San Francisco, And I cannot feel the sun, You were sleeping next to me, But I knew that you'd be gone. If I could give all my love to you, I could justify myself, But I'm just not coming through, You're a pill to ease the pain, Of all the stupid things I do, I'm an anchor on the line, Of a clock that tells the time, That is running out on you. Take some time before you go, Think of Monday's coming down, And the people that you knew, The ones that aren't around, You've been fading day to day, I've been moving town to town. If I could give all my love to you, I could justify myself, But I'm just not coming through, You're a pill to ease the pain, Of all the stupid things I do, I'm an anchor on the line, Of a clock that tells the time, yeah. If I could give all my love to you, I could justify myself, But I'm just not coming through, You're a pill to ease the pain, Of all the stupid things I do, I'm an anchor on the line, Of a clock that tells the time, That is running out on you.
I said goodnight L.A. 'Cause I'm awake in my room I've been up for 38 hours And it don't look like sleep's coming soon 'Cause I could break like a bird Or I could swallow the sea It seems like the daylight is coming And no one is watching but me But I don't mind the dark Discovering the day 'Cause the night is a beautiful bright blue and gray What brings me down now is love 'Cause I can never get enough And what brings me down now is love 'Cause I can never get enough of love And it's a dangerous time For a heart on a wire Shuttle from station to station Noisily not knowing why So I put my head on the ground And the sky is a wheel Spinning these days into things that I've lost But you can keep all the years But I don't mind the days Gone rolling away 'Cause all this sunlight feels warm on my face today But what brings me down now is love 'Cause I can never get enough And what brings me down now is love 'Cause I can never get enough, never get enough Never get enough, no no, never get enough, no oh no And still I can never get enough of love And what brings me, brings me down now is love 'Cause I can never get enough of love I can never get enough of love I can never ever get enough I can never get enough of love
Mary Anne, you're better than the world They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl I said Mary Anne, you're better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl Had a lot of girlfriends I should have known them Click your heels and count back from three Do you wanna go back? You should have known that The butterfly in reverse here is me But Mary Anne, you're better than the world They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl I said, "Mary Anne, you're better than the world" They did a lot of things right on this girl Where'd you wanna go to With nothing beside you But webbing and curfews and rain? And everything that hurts you Is locked up inside you Like butterflies with wings And other perfect things We go swimming in the sunshine Dangling from clotheslines Separate and fall into me But did you ever seen me? Me absolutely? Me, but all you, but still me? Mary Anne, you're better than the world They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl I said, "Mary Anne, you're better than the world" They did a lot of things right on this Did a lot of things right on this Did a lot of things right on this girl
Guess I think I feel alright, You come circling through the light, The skyline baby, is bright tonight, One more perfect rendezvous, Sundown paints the shadows through, Daylight aiming on what we do. It looks like darkness to me, oh, Drifting down, into Miami, Miami. Can I say? I wish that this weather would never leave, It just gets hard to believe, That God sent this angel, to watch over me, 'Cause my angel, she don't receive my calls, She says I'm too dumb to fuck, Too dumb to fight, too dumb to save, Well, maybe I don't need no angel at all. It looks like darkness to me, oh, Drifting down, into Miami, She could pull the sun right through me, oh, Coming down, into Miami, Miami. Make a circle in the sand, Make a halo with your hands, Make a place for you to land. The bus is runnin', it's time to leave, The summer's gone, so are we, So come on baby, let's go shut it down, In New Orleans. Come on baby, Let's go shut it down, in New Orleans, Oh yeah, come on baby, come on baby, Let's go shut it down, in New Orleans, Come on, come on, come on, Come on, come on, come on, Let's go shut it down, in New Orleans, Oh yeah, come on baby, come on baby, Let's go shut it down.
Come on children mind the gap. Miracle people with marvellous hair, And the knack to do anything better than anyone, I got a home with electrical air, And I live in a world smaller than anyone's, I got a line on the new frontier, I got a line on the new America, All of the people are vanishing here, I could be huge if I could just get. From the outside of everything to the inside of you, From the outside of everything to the inside of you. Purest aluminium people are walking, The streets of London so hysterical, Nobody here gets a word that I say, And the problems I'm told, Are more than medical, I got a friend from the new frontier, And Galen, she says, this is not America, You need a girl with electrical hair, And the word that you wanted was aluminium. From the outside of everything to the inside of you, From the outside of everything to the inside. I was in bed with the girl at the end of the world, She said, I'm going home, you should come home too, But I'm at the end of a new frontier, Here at the edge of the flat earth ending, I'm getting off to get lost in the air, At the end of the world where the light is bending. From the outside of everything to the inside of you, From the outside of everything to the inside of you, From the outside of everything to the inside of you, From the outside of everything to the inside. To the inside of you, To the inside of you, To the inside of you, To the inside of you.
If anything, it should have been a better thing, From underneath you staring at the ceiling, There's another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards, That hides inside of all this tension that I'm feeling. But it's all inside of you, Yeah it's all inside of you. Surprise, surprise, I miss your hair, You miss my eyes and all this solitude is my confidence eroding, So we slide inside of someone's mouth and someone's eyes, Until there's a sound of something intimate exploding. But it's all inside of you, Yeah it's all inside of you, Oh it's all inside of you, Yeah it's all inside of you. I wish that I was anaesthetized and sterilized and then, We wouldn't have this evidence congealing, Surprise, surprise, another pair of lips and eyes, And that is the consequence of actually feeling. It was all inside of you, It was all inside of you, It was all inside of you, It was all inside of you.
Fading everything to black and blue, You look a lot like you'd, Shatter in the blink of an eye, But you keep sailing right on through, Every time you say you're learning, You just look a lot like me, Pale under the blistering sky, White and red, black and blue. You've been waiting a long time, You've been waiting a long time, To fall down on your knees, Cut your hands, Cut yourself until you bleed, But fall asleep next to me. Wait for everyone to go away, And in a dimly lit, Room where you got nothing to hide, Say your goodbyes, Tell yourself we'll read, A note that says, I'm sorry everyone, I'm tired of feeling nothing, goodbye, Wash your face, dry your eyes, oh. 'Cause you've been waiting a long time, You've been waiting a long, long time, To fall down on your knees, Cut your hands, Cut yourself until you bleed, But fall asleep next to me. And have a dream I'm falling down, On my face, I scrape my knees, I scrape my hands until they bleed, Cause you're fast asleep next to me. Next to me, next to me, next to me.
It's one thirty in the morning That's alright by me When you're just waiting by the phone Well, I should give a little warning But I need the things I need I'm not proud to need a hand But I just don't understand So why should you come when I call I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Ain't necessarily a bad thing To believe the things I say 'Cause you can make yourself feel good You know it's really not a good thing To give everything to me I'm just waiting for the show 'Cause I got nowhere to go So why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own 'Cause nothing makes me feel so good But gets me high So I sleep at night And that's enough and everything's alright I feel nice I'm so sorry in the morning You could believe what you believe I'm used to waking up alone And if you think about it Anyone you think about is a better love than me But if you've not fallin' quite asleep I might call tonight If that's alright Why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Ohh, why should you come when I call? Ohh ho ohh ho Ohh, why do I go when I go? Ohh ho Why should you, why should you come when I call? Ohh ho ohh ho Why should you come, why should you come when I call? Hmm
Is everybody happy now? is everybody clear? We could drive out to the dunes tonight, 'Cause summer's almost here. I've been up all night, I might sleep all day, Get your dreams just right, Let 'em slip away, I might sleep all day. When the roads are clear, We'll head on out of here, If you're coming back, I'll see you in the morning, I'm just staring at, The ceiling staring back at me, Just waiting for the daylight, To come crawling done on me. And I've been up all night, I might sleep all day, Get your dreams just right, And let 'em slip away, I might sleep all day. Oh, it's too late to get high now, Oh, it's too late to get high now. Fix your hair just right, Put your jeans on tight, Wear a dress, so I can get it off real easy, 'Cause I've been thinking I'd, Like to see your eyes, Open up real wide the minute that you see me, If you don't come through, I wouldn't wait for you, I understand that everyone goes disappearing, Into the greatest grey, That covers over everyday, And hovers in the distance, And the distance and the distance. I've been up all night, I might sleep all day, Get your dreams just right, Let 'em slip away, I might sleep all day. Oh, it's too late to get high now, Oh, it's too late to get high now, I said baby I'm not alone, I said baby I'm not alone, it's too late, Oh, baby I'm not alone, I said Baby I'm not alone, it's too late, Oh, only wanna get high, it's too late, Oh I Only wanna get high, I said it's too late, It's too late, oh.
Got no place to go But there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin And if I bring a little music, I could fit right in We got airplane rides We got California drowning out the window side We've got big black cars, and we got stories How we slept with all the movie stars I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drink my worries down the drain And fly away to somewhere new Hop on my Choo-Choo I'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit If you, dress me up in pink and white We may be just a little fuzzy 'bout it later tonight She's my angel She's a little better than the one that used to be with me 'Cause she liked to scream at me Man, it's a miracle that she's not living up in a tree I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane And fly away to someone new Everybody's gone They left the television screaming that the radio's on Someone stole my shoes, but there's a couple of bananas And a bottle of booze Oh well, Happy New Year's baby We could probably fix it if we clean it up all day Or we could simply pack our bags And catch a plane to Barcelona 'cause this city's a drag I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Flush my worries down the drain And fly away to somewhere new Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane Fly away to someone new Fly away to someone new Fly away to someone new
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Ooh, bop-bop-bop Ooh, bop-bop-bop (na-na-na-na-na) They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them No, no, no Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Ooh, bop-bop-bop Ooh, bop-bop-bop (oh-oh, na-na-na-na-na) Hey, farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples Leave me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Hey, now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot Ooh, bop-bop-bop (why not?) Ooh, bop-bop-bop Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door sway And a big yellow taxi took my girl away Now, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Hey, now, now, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Hey, hey, hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot Ooh, bop-bop-bop Ooh, bop-bop-bop I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it? Why you wanna give it all away? Hey, hey, hey Now you wanna give it, ah, she wanna give it 'Cause she's giving it all away, now, now I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it? Why you wanna give it all away? 'Cause you're giving it all, giving it all away, yeah, yeah Why d'you want me? Why do you want to...? (She's giving it all away, hey, hey, hey) La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot La-la, la-la-la, na-na-na-na, na-na-na
I'm a Russian Jew American, Impersonating African Jamaican, What I want to be is an Indian, I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end, I guess I bought a gun, 'Cause it impresses all the little girls I see, And then they all wanna sleep with me. Oh where did we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us, And then drowns us in the end, Where are these people who impersonate our friends? Say come again, come again, come again. Into the dark Italian underground, With disco lights and disco sounds, And skinny girls who drink champagne, Then they take me on their knees again, And pull me up and out the door, To railway cars and tranny-whores, And mornings spreading out across, The feathered thighs of angels. Oh were did we disappear, To the silence that surrounds us, And then drowns us in the end, Will they try to push you out to keep you in? I say come again, come again, come again. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, In 1493, he came home across the deep blue sea, In 1494, he did it with the girl next door, In 1495, he barely made it out alive, In 1964, these sailors left me at the door, In 1970, some people got their hands on me, And I'm the king of everything, And I'm the king of nothing, nothing, And I am the king of everything, I am the king of nothing. Oh where did we disappear, To the silence that surrounds us, And then drowns us in the end, Where are these people who impersonate our friends? I say come again, come again, come again. Oh where did we disappear, To the silence that surrounds us, And then drowns us in the end, Where they try to get you out to get you in, And all these people who impersonate our friends, Say come again, come again, come again, Come again, come again.
She brings a friend so we won't have to be alone, I fear I might lose my composure without warning, I am a child of fire, I am a lion, I have desires, And I was born inside the sun this morning. This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree, This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree. They say, good evening, when they don't know what to say, They say, good morning, when they wish you would go home, You open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside, And then you freeze to death alone. This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree, This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me. She calls a waitress when it's time for her to go, And I know everyone's eventually leaving, I got a pair of wings for my birthday, baby, And I will fall down through the sun this evening. This dizzy life of mine is hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree, This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me, For me, for me, for me, for me. This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me, for me, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me, For me, for me, for me, for me, This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me.
Dancing like the night time down in Nashville, But I seem to know the ghosts who like to run, I got a call to go, to a late night picture show, So I traded in the darkness and I'm already there, I'm already there and I'm trying, to make some friends. So if you see that movie star and me, If you see my picture in a magazine, Or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV, Well honey, I'm just trying, To make some sense outta me. I left a lot of ghosts in San Francisco, And now you wanna say you see through me, Well, what you want to see ain't your memories of me, So I could turn around tonight, but I'm already there, I'm already there and I'm just trying, to make some friends. So if you see that movie star and me, If you should see my picture in a magazine, Or if you fall asleep while you're watching TV, Well honey, I'm just trying, To make some sense of Los Angeles. Boston gets cold this time of year, Seems like each day just leaves me numb, I gotta get outta here and go walking in the sun. Well if you see that movie star and me, If you should see my picture in a magazine, Or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV, Well honey, I'm just trying to make some sense, Honey, I'm just trying to make some friends, But baby, I'm not trying to make amends, For coming to Los Angeles, Oh, Los Angeles. No more Boston, no more Nashville, no more Oakland, Oh baby, come on out to the city, Come on, take a walk down Sunset with me, Oh, we gonna get drunk, find us some skinny girls, And go street walkin' Street walkin' baby, oh, in Los Angeles, Street walkin' baby. Hey man, it's a really good place to find yourself a taco.
Colored rubbers and a bedroom set, I wouldn't know it, if it hit me, You take a little step and then it feels like love, I think I better get a little of it in me, Give me a kiss, I think it feels like love, Give me a kiss I think it feels like sunshine, C'mon baby, well light me up, I wanna look into your eyes until I go blind and. You think that you can do without me, I can't do anything at all, You think that you can do without me, But I don't believe in Sundays, And I don't believe in anything at all. Your mother made you in a parking lot, My mother made me out of flesh and wire, Try to remember what you might forget, I try to remember everything, Try to remember so you don't disappear, Try to remember so you don't fade away, Your mother made you out of smoke and rain, Your mother made you in a fire that's faded. You think that you can do without me, And I can't do anything at all, You think that you can do without me, But I don't believe in Sundays, And I don't believe in anything at all. I wanna touch you for the things I'm losing, I wanna touch you for my self-respect, Give me a reason or I might stop breathing, Give me a reason why I'm soaking wet, Gotta stop breathing 'cause the sky is falling, I might go out and watch the moon explode, Give me directions to the highway crossing, I'll go lie down in the middle of the road and. You think that you can do without me, I can't do anything at all, You think that you can do without me, But I don't believe in Sundays, And I don't believe in anything at all. I don't believe in Sundays, And I don't believe in, I don't believe in anything, in anything, And I don't believe in, I don't believe in anything, in anything, And I don't believe in, I don't believe in anything, in anything, And I don't believe in at all.
Can you see me, up on the building, From down on the pavement or out in the crowd, Can you see me through the glare of the lamppost, I'm walking a tightrope into the moon. I don't want to feel, so different, But I don't want to be insignificant, And I don't know how to see the same things, Different now. Oh, could you see me, I'm one in a million, I am Icarus falling, out of the sun, Could you see me fall in the light of spotlights, And jackknife through night as black as a bedroom, And white as a lie. I don't want to feel, so different, But I don't want to be insignificant, And I don't know how to see the same thing, Different now. Diving through the dark, While the night turns blue, Are you aware of your intentions, 'Cause I wear my intentions so clear. If you see me, wading through water, Oh, come drown in the river right in front of the world, Hey, you can wash your face and hands in the stream of my anger It's as bright as white paper, as dark as a girl. I don't want to feel, so different, But I don't want to be insignificant, And I don't know how to see the same things, Different now. I don't want to feel, so different, But I don't want to be insignificant, And I don't know how to see the same things, Different now, now, now.
Cowboys on the road tonight, Crying in their sleep, If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand, And some promises to keep, Who wanted to change the world, What's as easy as murder? It's all headlights and vapor trails, And Circle K killers. And I know I could look at anyone but you now, I could fall into the eyes of anyone but you now, now, now, now, So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now, Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now. This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not, This is a list of the things that I should have seen, But I'm not seeing the look in your eyes, As his fingertips lit on your neck and it made you shiver, I'm just turning away from where I should have been, Because I am not anything, oh anything, oh. The president's in bed tonight but he can't get to sleep, 'Cause all the cowboys on the radio are killers, And I believe she loves you, 'Cause you never make her feel like anything, She said I wouldn't feel a thing, But I can feel, oh I can feel. And I know I could look at anyone but you now, I could fall into the arms of anyone but you now, now, now, now, So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now, Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now. This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not, This is a list of the things that I should have seen, But I am not seeing the look in your eyes, As his finger's unzipping your dress and it makes you shiver, I'm just turning away from what I shouldn't see, Because I am not anything, oh anything, no. Everyone's in bed tonight but nobody can sleep, 'Cause all the satellites are watching through our windows, She says she doesn't love me like she's acting, But it's as if she isn't talking, 'Cause Mr. Lincoln's head is bleeding, On the front row while she's speaking, I said come on all you cowboys, All you blue-eyed baby boys, Oh, come on all you dashing gentlemen of summer, I'll wait for you where Saturday's a memory, And Sunday comes to gather me, Into the arms of god who'll welcome me, Because I believe, oh I believe. And I know I could look at anyone but you now, I could fall into the eyes of anyone but you now, now, now, now, So come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now, Come on, come on, come on, oh come on through now. This is a list of what I should have been but I'm not, This is a list of the things that I should have seen, But I'm not seeing you look at me, So please won't you look at me? 'Cause I'm not seeing you look at me, Oh I will make you look at me, Or I am not anything, Oh anything, no no no, no no no.
I sold my piano, it couldn't come with me, I locked up my bedroom and I walked out into the air, When nothing I needed was left there behind me, I walked out through the shadows of Washington Square. I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley, And I heard the songbirds of Ballyporeen, But I loved like a fountain and it left me with nothing, Just memories of walking through Washington Square. Now I live in the shadows, where light is electric, And time is a number, that rests on a wall, And nobody knows me, my friends and my family, Are as far from this city as Washington Square. So cover this warm night in a blanket of starlight, And I'll follow this freeway out into the air, In case you should wander and wanted to find me, I'm traveling homeward to Washington Square, I'm traveling homeward to Washington Square, Washington Square, Washington Square.
Take a message to your head, Just stay beside her in the bed, You were so stupid to believe in, Things you couldn't see then, Make them all you want. If you haven't got the reasons, Just make up any reason, Then picket 'til it's torn. Take it all away, You took your coat today, But they all go back, In the morning. Make a time to find your way, I got a little further today, Wash your eyes clear of anything, Just make them empty circles, Dress yourself in black, or grey, I'm hungry like a wild waif or only child, This lithium is heroin to me. It makes all withdraw, All the anger lost, But it all keeps, Coming back in the morning. You keep yourself too clean, You dig yourself a dream, That we won't be coming home alone. Not this time, Not this time, Not this time, Not this time.
Well you know I don't like you but you want to be my friend, Well there are bodies on the ceiling and they're fluttering their wings, It's okay, I'm angry but you'll never understand, When you dream of Michelangelo, they hang above your hands. And I know that she is not my friend, And I know 'cause there she goes walking on my skin again, And I can't see why you wanna talk to me, When your vision of America is crystalline and clean, I want a white bread life, just something ignorant and plain, But from the walls of Michelangelo, I'm dangling again, And I know that she is is not my friend, And I know 'cause there she goes walking on my skin again and again. Saturn on a line, A sun afire on strings and wires, To spin above my head and make it right, But any time you like, You can catch a sight of angel eyes, All emptiness and infinite. And I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed, I see god upon the ceiling, I see angels overhead, And he seems so close as he reaches out his hand, But we are never quite as close, as we are led to understand. And I know she is not my friend, And I know 'cause there she goes walking, walking, walking, And I know that she is is not my friend, And I know 'cause there she goes walking on my skin again and again. Oh my my, oh lord no, yes she's walking on my skin again and again.
I'm always thinking, of someone new, I'm never sitting, okay with you, There's always something, else on my mind, There's always something, I can't find. You think about anything you can, I think about you, I'll think about anything it's true. I'm almost perfect, some of the time, I'm also sinking, some of the time, I'm almost ready, yeah it's almost true, For almost anyone but you. You think about anything you can, I think about you, I think about everything it's true, true, true. I'm always sinking, beneath the sand, You're holding nothing in your hand. You think about anything you can, I think about you, But I'll think about anything it's true, true, true, True, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true.
If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea, I'll sail the world to find you If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see, I'll be the light to guide you Find out what we're made of When we are called to help our friends in need You can count on me like 1 2 3 I'll be there And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2 And you'll be there Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah Wooooh, Wooooh Yeah Yeah If you toss and you turn and you just can't fall asleep I'll sing a song Beside you And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me Everyday I will Remind you Ohh Find out what we're made of When we are called to help our friends in need You can count on me like 1 2 3 I'll be there And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2 You'll be there Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah Wooooh, Wooooh Yeah Yeah You'll always have my shoulder when you cry I'll never let go Never say goodbye You can count on me like 1 2 3 I'll be there And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2 You'll be there Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah Wooooh, Wooooh You can count on me cos' I can count on you
Wasted time running scared When all a love needs is to be believed in All those springs come and gone Past like trains of boxcars leaving But I would be lying if I didn't tell you the truth They will leave you, they will leave you So come now Let's go dance to the siren's song Come now Leave your damage behind and gone Some are lost to you Wasted time running scared All that I need is to believe in Something like a summer And I know you need somebody just like I do And all of these foxes go down in their barrows to hide They will leave you, they will leave you behind So come now Let's go dance to the siren's song Come now Leave your damage behind and gone Just come now Let's go down to the dance floor Come now Lose your mind at Le Ballet d'Or Some are lost, some are leaving Some are lost, some are leaving But I'm not going at all I'm not going anywhere at all Some are lost to you We've wasted time running scared Now autumn's fire is ashes on the breeze And it spins away like dust on pearls As winter comes to usher in the evening But all of these drummers go stand on the hillsides alone They will leave you, they will leave you at home So come now Let's go dance to the siren's song Come now Leave your damage behind and gone So come now Let's go down to the dance floor Come now Lose your mind at Le Ballet d'Or Just come now Come on let's get out while the getting's good Just come now There's no one left in the neighborhood
A picture of Amsterdam, bare trees under glass, Framed in the gray and white afternoon light, Of a winter long past, When I was a riser, to Dublin I'd roam, She was a bareback rider, some miles from home. Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me. She's a carnival diver, hung in the sky, Cutting through time like a memory, Strung on a wire, The color of anything, fades in the air, She is the film of a book of the story, Of the smell of her hair. Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me. When everything's over and everything's clear, When everyone's older and no one is here, I try to remember a girl on a wire, Tumbling and diving above Stephen's Green, Like a kite on the air. Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Oh come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me, Come back to me.
Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been, Little pieces blowing gently on the wind, They have flown down California, they have landed in LA, Little pieces slowly settling on the waves. I'm one of a million pieces fallen on the ground, It's one of the reasons we say goodbye, We'll still come around, yeah we will come around. I have waited for tomorrow from December 'til today, And I have started loving sorrow along the way, And I am calling from some city and I won't be there too long, Well, I could wait and I could waste away, But what comes back is I hear you say we're gone. For all of the times that I go spinning up and down, When all of the things have died between us, Well we'll still come around, yeah we will come around. After I've been missing for a while, And you hear that summer's song, Haven't all the fading lines lingered on? What I know is, she's going, When you know it, it's all right, So you put yourself between you and your pride, If you wait for what's coming and you listen to her lies, Then she'll say the things you need to hear, And the only one who'll disappear is you. And one of the million lies she said, Is all of the things you love are dead, But I've seen what she thinks is love, And it leaves me laughing so we'll still come around. Yeah we will come around, When you're gone we will, we will, we will, We will come around, When you're gone, we'll still come around, When you're gone, we will come around.
If tonight's the night, then today's my day That I should hang it all on display. Yours was just a losing game, And I decided that I should play. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Felt the wind's direction beginning to change. Clouds so softly full of rain. The Summer fell and the Winter sprang. Now it's all a feeling I can't get back again. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Cloudy thoughts against a clear blue sky. When the feeling came, I felt like getting high, With no sense to try to find my peace of mind. 'Cause maybe I was born to win, dissatisfied. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget. Throw your arms around my neck, I won't be soon to forget.
I don't know if you can hear me, I'm feeling down and can't think clearly, Even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me. Some things I'd change but it's too late, I'd take the past and make it straight, And even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me. Even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me. I'm sorry for the things I've said, But some thoughts just won't leave my head, And even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me. Even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me. Even though it's complicated, We've got time to start again, I don't know if you can hear me.
Hospital bound, so you know there will be treatment. Hey alright, it's too late ot put up a fight. Hospital gowns, so you know you should be sleepin' Wide awake, there's some pills that you shouldn't take. Honest to God, X is always an unknown I said alright, Y gets buired in the bones. I said honest to God--if you don't get it off your chest You don't have to stay around, you don't have to solve for X. I'm afraid I found it's eternally unequal-- Hey alright, it's too late to put up a fight. On the way back down, finally a sequel, Hey alright, in a hospital room tonight. Is it alright, and your exit's always an unknown It's hard to hold on too tight, cuz I got buried with your bones. And I said honest to God, if you don't get it off your chest-- All your reason gone tonight, you don't have to solve for X. Hospital bound, so you know there will be treatment Hey alright, in a hospital room tonight. Hospital gowns, so you know you should be sleepin' Wide awake, there's some pills that I shouldn't take. And I said alright, X is always an unknown-- I tried to hold on too tight but I got buried with the bone. And I said honest to God, I got to get it off my chest I don't want to stick around, cuz I don't need this sufferin'.
I got a feeling of unrighteousness, Bitter cold and hollow bitterness, Down the road, I walk with loneliness, Mercy will follow me I'm told. My sister sang, songs so sweet and sad, 'Bout a man, who's love I never had, There's a train, bound for Gillian? Mercy will follow me I'm told, Mercy will you follow me, Mercy will you follow me, 'Til my final breath at last I take, Mercy will you follow me, Mercy will you follow me, 'Til the chains of this old world I finally break. Under this skin, there lies a heart of stone, It's growing old, so very far, from home, But a heart of gold, I may someday own? And mercy will follow me, I'm told, Mercy will you follow me, Mercy will you follow me, Until the final breath at last I take, Mercy will you follow me, Mercy will you follow me, 'Til the chain of this old world I finally break, 'Til the chains of this old world I finally break, 'Til the chains of this old world I finally break.
We used to say that come the day, We'd all be making songs, Or writing better words, These ideas never lasted, The way is up along the road, The air is growing thin, Too many friends who tried, Blown off this mountain in the wind. Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends, Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, If you really mean it, it all comes round again. Yet now I see, I'm all alone, But that's the only way to be, 'Cause you'll have your chance again, Then you can do the work for me. Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, When my time is up, I'm gonna see, see all my friends, Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, If you really mean it, it all comes round again. Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, When my time is up, I'm gonna see all, see all my friends, Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, If you really mean it, it all comes, all comes round again, Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, When my time is up, I'm gonna see all, see all my friends, Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge, If you really mean it, it all comes round again.
You're the kind of thing those sweetheart boys just talk about Such a pretty flame, still burning when the barlights all go out Well everybody knows your name 'round here, but that's alright And everybody learned your game 'round here, but that's alright You told me if i stayed 'round here, you'd find a good enough place to hide But i see you I see you So come on out tonight I had my courage up, but felt younger tryin' to fight the words So i put a record on, and you found something you ain't never heard Well, honey, everybody knows that song 'round here, but that's alright Ain't no such thing as waitin' too long 'round here, so that's alright And i told you if you stay down here you might wind up by my side And that's true That's true So come on out tonight And all my friends told me, "you don't need laws to tell That if it feels like fallin', boy, you probably already fell The whole table saw your hand, so you might as well just play it And you ain't fooling anyone, so you might as well just say it..." So, i guess i'm in love I guess i'm in love Some people get scared of those words 'round here, but that's alright Some people pretend they ain't heard 'em 'round here, but that's alright And you said you can't stay 'round here and that won't change because you made up your mind But i still see you I still see you So come on out tonight
I can see why you think you belong to me, I never tried to make you think, Or let you see one thing for yourself, And now you're off with someone else and I'm alone, You see I thought I might keep you for my own. Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you, For a while maybe longer if I do. Don't you think the time is right for us to find, That all the things we thought weren't proper could be right in time, Can't you see which way we should turn together or alone, I can never see what's right or what is wrong, 'Cause that take too long to see now. Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you, For a while maybe longer if I do. Come on now, Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you, For a while maybe longer if I do. Now it's come to what you want, you've had your way, And all the things you thought before just faded into gray, And can you see that I don't know if it's you or it's me, But if it's one of us I'm sure we both will see, yeah, Won't you look at me and tell me. Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you, For a while maybe longer if I, longer if I do. Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you, For a while maybe longer if I do. I keep fallin' in and out of love with you, Fallin' in and out of love with you, Don't know what I'm gonna do, I keep fallin' in and out of love with you.
Never see you coming around They know they got their heads screwed on I'm standing in the middle of town I know I might never come home Just standing where I am with all the people passing by me The sound of all these passers-by Mixed in with the bus and motor car I must be sure these are the signs 'Cause I've been here a million times before Just tell me when it's coming around Coming around I think I see you coming to town Hunting you down Bringing you round Tell me if I'm bringing you down 'Cause I was fine 'til you came along You tell me that the tears of a clown cloud That I'm confusing while abusing my mind So far away, I wanna be That's not as close to you and me The things they call our destiny Now why do you have to pick on me at all? My walls are coming down Just tell me when it's coming around Coming around I think I see you coming to town Hunting you down Coming around Coming around Ah Ah Just tell me when it's coming around Coming around I think I see you coming to town Just dragging you down Just tell me when it's coming around Coming around I think I see you coming to town Just dragging you down It's coming around, eh It's coming around
Poor old granddad, I laughed at all his words, I thought he was a bitter man, He spoke of women's ways. They'll trap you, then they use you, Before you even know, For love is blind and you're far too kind, Hey boy, don't ever let it show. I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was stronger. The can-can's such a pretty show, They will steal your heart away, But backstage back on earth again, All them dressing rooms are grey. They come on strong and it ain't too long, Boy they make you feel a man, But love is blind and you soon will find, You're just a boy again. And I said, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was stronger. When you want her lips, you get her cheek, Makes you wonder where you are, If you want some more and she's fast asleep, Leaves you twinkling with the stars. And I said, poor young grandson, There's nothing I can say, You'll have to learn, just like me, And that's the hardest way, ooh la la. Ooh la la, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I said ooh la la. I said, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was stronger. Said, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, Said, I wish that I knew what I know now, Ooh la la, ooh la la, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh come on ooh la la, ooh la la, oh now ooh la la, Yeah, yeah ooh la la, oh ooh la la. Everybody sing, I said, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was stronger. Said, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was stronger. Ooh la la, oh.
Addressing a prayer into the air In the shadows of satellites So nobody hurt loves not for words In a world at the end of its night Oh everyone that left me They're so easy to forget 'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet Your voice on the phone the blood from a stone These tears that I can't understand If I could heal would give I don't feel Or by silently giving my hand Well I'm sure I never loved you That would be too fierce and too correct But I haven't let my failures hit me yet It made my demon reveal its hour of living And may he not leave me broken May he leave me to be So wherever I'm bound my ear to the ground And my thoughts on their way back to you As eternity's slave, well you can write that on my grave When I'm finished resisting its truth While I'm shaking hands with darkness Its where the warm wind that I admit That I haven't let my failures hit me yet Yet while I'm shaking hands with darkness It is where the warm wind that I admit That I haven't let my failures hit me yet
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich, And welcome me back to town, Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor, And I'll show you how it all went down, Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels, And a good saloon in every single town, And I remember something you once told me, And I'll be damned if it did not come true, Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down, And they all lead me straight back home to you, So I headed west to grow up with the country, Out across those prairies with the waves of grain, And I saw my devil and I saw my deep blue sea, And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee. We flew straight across that river bridge, Last night at half past two, The switch man wave his lantern goodbye, good day, As we went rolling through, Billboards and truck stops pass by the grievous angel, And now I know just what I have to do, And the man on the radio won't leave me alone, He wants to take my money for something, That I've never been shown, And I saw my devil and I saw my deep blue sea, And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee. The news I could bring I met up with the king, His head an amphetamine crown, Talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt, And lighted out for some desert town, Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels, And a good saloon in every single town, Oh, and I remember something you once told me, And I'll be damned if it did not come true, Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down, And they all lead me straight back home to you, Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down, And they all lead me straight back home to you.
She had four white stallions coming around the bend Four strong angels at her command descend Four more seasons for all that's broken to mend I got four more reasons Why I can't go back there again She had skin like a statue milky white and pure Carved by an artist who's hand is demure Got a mind I like a saber razor sharp and sure God how I hate myself For still wanting her Damn these nights are dreaming, visions soft and sure 'Cause I wake to find there's nothing left of me in her Nothing more than a heart still at war She had four white stallions coming around the bend Four strong angels already sinned I got four good reasons for all that's broken to mend I got four more seasons for all that's broken to mend I got four more reasons why I can't go back there again I got four good reasons why I can't go back there again
Jumping Jesus my oh my He's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumping Jesus why oh why Take the time to get inside To get inside So what's a wall have so much yellow for? I don't know what it's for So what's a wall have so much yellow for? I don't know what it's for Jumping Jesus my oh my He's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumping Jesus why oh why Take the time to get inside Get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside While in a hammock in Odessa lives with his wife And his child on a house boat He likes sunflowers and big picture frames and Van Goghs Jumping Jesus my oh my He's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumping Jesus why oh why Take the time to get inside Oh get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, Get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside, get inside Lala la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaa laaaa laaaa
Clouds so swift Rain won't lift Gate won't close Railings froze Get your mind off wintertime You ain't goin' nowhere Oo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrow's the day My bride's gonna come Oh no, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! I don't care How many letters they sent Morning came and morning went Pick up your money And pack up your tent You ain't goin' nowhere Oo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrow's the day My bride's gonna come Oh no, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! Buy me a flute And a gun that shoots Tailgates and substitutes Strap yourself To the tree with roots You ain't goin' nowhere Oo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrow's the day My bride's gonna come Oh no, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! Genghis Khan He could not keep All his kings Supplied with sleep We'll climb that hill no matter how steep Just as soon as we get the hell up to it And Everybody says Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrow's the day My bride's gonna come Oh, no are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair!
Years ago my heart was set to live, oh, And I been trying hard against, unbelievable odds, It gets so hard in times like these to hold on, But guns remain to be stuck by, at my side is God, And there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round, Ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round. There's people around, who tell you that they know, There's places where they send you, and it's easy to go, They'll zip you up and dress you down and stand you in a row, But you don't have to, you can just say no, And there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round, Ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round. I been built up, trusted, I been broke down and busted, But they'll get theirs and we will get ours, If you can just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Years ago my heart was set to live, oh, But I been trying hard against, strong odds, It gets so hard at times like now to hold on, But I'll fall if I don't fight, and at my side is God, And there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round, Ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round, Oh there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round, There ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round. I'll hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Somebody screaming on Jim Jeffries' dreams Explode into a black fist and fall to the floor He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why But you can't go back there no more The future sounds so crazy, we all heard that song before Tomorrow's a name that changed from yesterday to blame When a train just don't stop here anymore I got starry eyed on a coaster ride Andy said, "Man, I need a break from the world outside" And these days my life just careens through a pinball machine I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt There's a photograph on a TV, black and white Andy says something to you Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like She says I forget myself sometimes, too But out past the doorways where we are sleeping Well, the white queen's creeping, the time cat's beeping Now I'm not breaking, the train's just shaking I never made it here before And there's a wide mouth spinning the girls around Till they can't take it any more I used to dream in the dark, in Palisades Park Up over the cliffs and down among the spark It's a long life full of long nights But it's not what I was waiting for Everybody's seen the horses driving down the shore It's a miracle they don't make them anymore So make up ladies, oh wake up baby You walked into the bar like some Saturday star Studs straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde Gin-tied and Asian, but well preserved Remember Annie outside your bedroom window Saying, "Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades" Keep going till we hit Reno, Nevada I don't see it all that much these days Still there are pages in back of the action stacks Where the white queen's creeping, the time cat's beeping The train's not breaking, the track's just shaking I never made it here before And there's a sky rocket turning the world around But still I can't take it any more And you carry that spark from Palisades Park Down over the cliffs and out into the dark It's a long life full of long nights But it's not what I was looking for Everyone dreams of horses flying round the shore It's a bad dream we're not having anymore Man, have you seen Andy? Hey man, hey man, have you seen him around? Hey man, have you seen my my my my my Andy? Hey man, have you seen him, have you seen him Have you seen him, have you seen him? Hey, have you seen Andy around? Dressed up in a pirate vest, all leathers and feathers and pearls Andy said, "Look at me, man, I'm cooking These hands are gonna figure out this whole world" He said, "Come outside, climb out your bedroom window Shimmy down the fire escape and say goodbye Come outside," Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie Changing all the time, my leopard spots to polka dots, just say goodbye Come outside, where maybe we can move to California Just meet me at the subway and say goodbye Come outside, the cops all think we're crazy If you steal, you'll just get married To a girl who'll never know you and then say goodbye" Hey man, have you seen Andy? I lost her in the cirque I was high as a kite on a lovely and white Man, you can lose anyone Hey, hey man, have you seen Andy? I don't know where she's gone Real love outlives teenage lust Oh, we could get wet and it keeps us warm Love is like angel dust Lovely sometimes changes us Sometimes we're not Have you been aching with trust or just Have you been waking yourself with lust? Have you been making us up or just taking us home? It's a long wait and a long life Cars frozen in flight All the traffic stops to stare At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada Where nothing but air and a pair of gray paper wings Andy thinks, "Man, I have got nothing to wear" We got nothing to wear We got nothing to wear We got nothing to wear We got nothing to wear
I was born again a little north of Disneyland Somewhere under Wonderland and Hollywood But then I had to go skipping and diving and bouncing back to New York City Straight through the heart of America where all the wild things grow I want to be an earthquake driver I want to be an aquarium diver I just don't want to go home I mean, I live alone but I am hungry for affection I just struggle with connection til the water calls me home Down into ocean among millions of other lonely people Drowning among the only people we are ever going to know I want to be an earthquake driver I want to be an aquarium diver I just don't want to go home I want to be like the people I see They run all over just like me I was saved but what keeps me awake Is I'm tied into the lightning line And I wanna be where the sun is shining All night just a waste of time I, I don't want to see people like me Just sleeping in, waking in, hoping in, hating in You look at me like I'm some kind of carnival attraction You say love's this abstraction, just some ghost that you chase Well, I am sorry friend, I am a blank space But the words you remember from whenever you saw my face I want to be an earthquake driver I don't want to be an aquarium diver I just don't want to go home I want to be like the people I see Hey man, they run all over just like me I want to thank for what keeps me awake This unplugged ears to the lightning lining I want to see if the sun is shining All night, chasing time I, I don't want to be with people like me Just creeping in, waking in, hoping in, hating in So what is the point of this famous self absorption? We turn ourselves into orphans and then spend out nights alone Living in fear of some kind of imaginary consequence Terror incognito, ob-la-di ob-la-da I want to be an earthquake driver I don't want to be an aquarium diver I just don't want to go home Truth is I don't want to be no earthquake driver And I don't want to be an aquarium diver I just don't want to go home Oh man, just don't want to go home No, I do not want to go home
I was an idiot in utero Somehow missed New Mexico Fell to earth in Baltimore I know Now they lay case in empty rooms Birthday cards and red balloons And me, I know, I know, I know, I know I invited Johnny Legs and Jackie-O Empty parties filled with people I don't know I am rich and in the radio I dream on my TV Dislocation, dislocation I'm fading out in stereo I don't remember me Dislocation, dislocation Telling lies and taking shots Getting laid in parking lots Getting high and getting caught, I know All my broken paper planes Parachutes and window panes I'm a shooting star gone novocaine, I know So I write to all the girly magazines Splash my passion on the pages in between I am rich and in the radio I dream on my TV Dislocation, dislocation I'm fading out in stereo I don't remember me Dislocation, dislocation Rising from the afterglow A dodo bird with polio And me, I know, I know, I know, I know I play with a rock and roll band on a subway It keeps me far away from the gamma rays We lit between the boom boom crash and the fade away, I know Come on wake up the congregation We will see the light tonight The spark the flash the bang the bite I know, I know, I know know know know know know know I am rich and in the radio I dream on my TV Dislocation, dislocation I could fade away in stereo And you won't remember me Dislocation, dislocation If they dropped a bomb on London Swallow LA with the sea Dislocation, dislocation Say a prayer for Oklahoma Say another one for me Dislocation, dislocation
Close the door on a short night Lift the lid on the daylight 6: 09 West Tennessee time And I buy all my days At the same place where the girl sells her nights to a God of Ocean Tides All night long writing poems to California Melodies of failure And the people I have thrown away Meanwhile somewhere west of Carolina In a congregation of strangers We are digging holes to China And we pray to our reflections In the water when it rises I said headlights pinned the highway down Jesus spins the world around And I spend all my tomorrows coming down Goodbye all my days I know I said I never loved you but I might just try again tonight Truck stops and river Gods Gas stations of the cross Following a ghost, following a ghost I pray the water wash away the memories and the cost And carry me south to the sea Along with your memories of me We are born in the water and I will return to thee Colored lights and birthday cakes Candle wax on paper plates Breathe the water Hush a bye, hush a bye You can see through water all the way up to the sky Gods of water, Gods of rain, cover up the sun again We are crossing at the Mississippi line And I tried all my days To love you just the way you hoped I might But I'm leaving here tonight I can't remember yesterday, I tried If I said I could, I lied
Mary steers clear of the men from space Back alley kid with an American face She wants the wine, he brings a case To carry them on through I said you know what I know about the bedroom boys Undercover Russians in a pink Rolls Royce They bang the drum, she sets the beat They carry Miss America out into the street She sings, "snowman, scarecrow, john doe, buffalo" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Snowman sideshow, do do, do do do I fell out of love in the snowbound days Riding the subway in a Valium haze I need the whites, she gets the blues It carries us on through All these American boys at the Park N Shop Selling their memories for a dollar a pop Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan Corners the market on American taste And says, "spaceman, scarecrow, peep show, freak show" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Punk rock video, do do, do do do All the sudden the light inside you dies Maybe you're going on alone Maybe you're going all alone She dreams of sunlight, sings of smaller things White sugar bowls and wedding rings You're going on from me alone You're going on, you're on your own She was married alive in a Moscow surgery Hoping to die in a cold war nursery All of the kids back home believe in much more than we do It's a memory play where the memory fades Into pictures you took, into records we played Spy versus spy, scarecrow and I Out across the darkness where the bomber jets fly Singing, "spaceman, smoke show, scarecrow, Geronimo" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Snowman peepshow, do do, do do do I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, oh hell no, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Listening on the midnight radio, do do, do do do
November promises it seems, Of broken February dreams That don't come true Until you remember me I don't remember you. Were you the one who liked to sing? Or just some other one. It's strange how hate remains and stays The same and we're always changing. We are driving on the ceiling There are aliens on motorcycles Riding in the radio While we destroy the world; I said, "oh oh - oh no no" The news is read, the future's dead, When Elvis went to Hollywood That's when everything went wrong. So long goodbye, It tastes of wedding cakes And the sound of nursey rhymes The ghosts of Roderick, Of Alex Chilten, of Victor Frankenstein The girl you always loved The one you have no memory of It's strange how hate remains To paper over the invasion We are driving on the ceiling There are aliens on motorcycles Hiding in the radio, While we devour the world I said - oh oh, oh no no The future said, the news is dead When Elvis went to Hollywood That's when everything went wrong. The god of Maine proclaims The last evacuation of a dream The gospel screams the sock of movie stars And girly magazines Spacemen too, from somewhere far away You have to say it's strange we prayed in vain, The rockets came and now we're fading. We are hiding on the ceiling There are aliens on motorcycles Riding from the radio, while they destroy the world. I said - oh oh, oh no no The paper said, the King is dead When Elvis went to Hollywood, That's when everything went wrong.
Colorado passes by like writing on a wall Headed eastward down to New Orleans Dipping into Texas as the stars are fading out There's still a lot of country in between When I left California I was 29 years old And the world just spun me around Now I watched Louisiana scroll across the window pane And I'm facing the direction I am bound Cover up the sun Let the river run Make that waters come Wash me away Me, Clifton and the king of cats We sat down in the road Pedro said, boys, we're three of kind He said I sat with river rats and I hung my hat with diplomats Had four brothers once upon a time He said they tore the country far away from the Rio Grande And the road just wore them down So they bought a house beside a lake, outside of New Orleans And they stared in the direction of the escalating sound Cover up the sun Let the river run Take this good man's son And wash him away Well Sister indeciperable is talking to a wall Back in New York city, she's a queen (in New York sh's a queen) Well, resurrector Genuflect, she saves the one she can't protect Keep the chapel pressed, if not Sistine She drinks Absinthe mixed with Kerosene to keep herself upright But the word still brings her down If you can't keep your shit together When God is on your side What chance do you have when he's not around? Cover up the sun Make that water run Let the river come To wash me away People of the Mardi Gras, in their Tuesday best Waiting for the South to rise again Children of Geronimo grieving for the West Feather dressed and marching their refrain Oh in the dark of Armstrong Park the marching bands ascend But they never make a sound Just a quiet prayer for communist square A silent conversation there With the night to rest our eyes in We just look to the horizon for a change Cover up the sun Let the river run I pray the water come and wash me away Color in the sky Make that diesel fly Oh, just lay me down to die and just take me away Yeah
I snook out the front door into winter and the world outside I stepped out the door to New York City, my hair was barely dry I could not remember where I was going, so I went back inside Nothin' happened in the elevator, nothing happening on the stairs Nothing ever happenin' when I am sleeping and I cannot stay there How'd you find a party when you're in your room? How'd you find the action man? The action is everywhere! And decide to climb outside your bedroom window, paint a picture on a clock Oh if you decide that you can't hide inside your mind Provide the slide to get you out Feels just like you're fallin' and you're goin' down And everybody luvs ya when you hit the ground I say a prayer, I say a prayer, I say a prayer to Pocahontas I pray to John Appleseed Oh, I cigarette the winter air, then I finna stare my way down 7th street Some chick yells Jesus luvs me more than I know but less than I need I play down the valley to the? and then I step off into the air Point my sunglasses east towards Jerusalem and then follow all the pharoahs there They're buildin' pyramids in the Western Square Drivin' in circles 'round the circus til the circles in the air My luv says come on Adam tell me what the hell is wrong with you She says, come on, Adam tell me, what the hell am I supposed to do! She says I could luv you, I could leave you But I can't live what you put me through I call the winter Maria cuz I do not know her face I call the endless sky Emilia cuz she stays with me from place to place I call the sun my luv Emanuel, she cradle me in her embrace I left, nothin' happening in the kitchen, nothing happening on the floor Nothin' happenin' in my bed, she don't sleep there no more Hard to find the bottom when you're in the air Hey man, how'd you find the circus, we have the circus is everywhere?
It was a cold 3am at JFK Guess you stayed cause you wanted to stay And we went from zero to everything all in a day And then Kennedy took you away I thought of a short road that was keeping you warm And the moments that make up your life till you wake up You sit on a swing in the dark with the girl And she tells you she wanted to kiss you And you know the worst part of a good day Is hearing your self say Goodbye to one more possibility day Goes on... And on. I go west but your weather has changed Your just scared I'm mistaken for strange When you want me to leave then you start to believe I should stay I gotta to get out of LA It seems like the short days are over Cause you just don't sleep in the daylight, so I don't sit up nights I lie on my back on top of a hill and your body is breaking the sky... Cause your shaking And the worst part of a good day Is knowing it's slipping away That one more possibility day Is gone. We were waiting for winter this year But you came and it never appeared Me and you, we know too many reasons for people and seasons That pass like they weren't even here Now living in smiles is better you say We carry the burdens of all of our days So scared that you'll leave... You're scared that I'll stay It's an impossibility day And we only saw half the ballet I said goodnight, goodbye It seemed like a good thing, so you know its a good lie You can run out of choices and still hear a voice in your head when you're lying in bed And it says that the best part of a bad day is knowing its ok The color of everything changes, the sky rearranges its shade And your smile doesn't fade into the phone call And one bad decision we've made And the worst part of a good day is the one thing you don't say And you don't know how but you wish there was some way So you pull down the shades and you shut out the light Because somehow we mixed up goodbye and goodnight And the one thing you won't say is everyone knows possibility days are impossible It just feels wrong... so wrong Still you're gone... long gone
I was trying to swim through an ocean of rain I was hoping to see California again All these memories run through me like blood in my veins In the quiet that covers the night like a blanket, I dream Well, I see mountains that stretch from Manhattan to Mars And I followed my comet down out of these stars Once more, crossing America west in my car I am friendless, endlessly resentful, bereft and I've been Trying to be what you need I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones And I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone I may leave you a lot, but I won't leave you alone 'Cause these words are the essence of me I send 'em with love, from A to Z Colorado collapses and Kansas secedes From the dreaming of millions who want to believe In the junk that they wished for but never received All the gifts of a Christmas returning to sender unseen I guess they aren't what you need Well, I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone I may leave you a lot, but I won't leave you alone What you see is just pieces of me But I send 'em with love, from A to Z So we left for the coast, and I wrote down this line So I'll stay in your thoughts when I'm out of my mind Curtis, blow me your trumpet, Chris, show me a sign Full of hope for the fatherless children now fathering children unseen If you come for the memories, I'll leave you this song Sing it all your tomorrows, for ever and ever and on If the meaning escapes you, the melody will roll on In the ember glow of one British cigarette And the downpour that cannot extinguish it I'd run headlong into the darkness if that's what you need Because you were everything I needed And I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones I can squeeze me a river right out of this stone And I may leave you a lot, but I won't leave you alone If I could be who I wanted to be I'd send it with love, from A to Z And I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone And I will leave you again, but I won't leave you alone If this dream is a memory retrieved Then I send it with love, from A to Z
Tu-ru-ru-tu-tu Tu-ru-ru-tu-ru-ru Tu-ru-ru-tu-tu Tu-ru-ru-tu-ru-ru You're a spaceman in Tulsa So you cover it up in clown white All these elegant boys make such delicate toys And they know it He says "I know you wanna believe in something But if you could just see all of the people in me" Then the shadows descend from his eyes to his hands Down to his naked All-American knees Doesn't anybody wanna be a rock n' roll queen? Dress yourself up in a diamond tiara Swishy little rake He says, "Man I'm gonna make 'em insane" I'm a painkiller And I'm a caterpillar They can't break you man (yeah, they can break you apart) Another well-nigh butterfly found on a bus out of town Turning into a motherfucking rock n' roll star (tu-ru-ru-tu-ru-ru, tu-ru-ru-tu-tu) Ally says she's one in a million Other people tend to agree From her fishnet luck to her platform Chucks She's a fading Miss American dream But her daddy couldn't keep his distance She says "You can't keep 'em away if you try" The saddest mistakes are the ones that we make Wishing away what's right in front of our eyes Doesn't anybody wanna be a rock n' roll queen? Leave 'em laughing when you wanna die Crazy little dreamer says "Man, I can't believe I'm still alive" I'm a painkiller And I'm a caterpillar They can't break you man (yeah, they can break you apart) Another well-nigh butterfly found on a bus out of town Turning into a motherfucking rock n' roll star Bobby, he's such a rock n' roller Says, "Everybody's somebody's I used to know Man, I was the toast of the town Back when everyone knew where to go I was a spaceman in Tulsa But if you could see behind my eyes I'm just an empty smile And a song I don't even know that I'm singing" Doesn't anybody wanna be a rock n' roll queen? Light your rocket and burn right out of town Crazy little fucker says "Man I guess I'll see you around" And I'm a painkiller Superfly caterpillar They can't break you man (yeah, they can break you apart) Another well-nigh butterfly found on a bus out of town Turning into a motherfucking rock n' roll star I'm a painkiller, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm a motherfucker rock n' roll star I'm a painkiller And I'm a caterpillar I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm a motherfucker rock n' roll star (tu-ru-ru-tu-tu) yeah, yeah I'm a motherfucker rock n' roll star (tu-ru-ru-tu-tu), yeah, yeah I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm a motherfucker rock n' roll star
Lovers cloaked in darkness caught between Kisses dipped in sex and Maybelline It's more fun than you thought it would be Just get it done where nobody can see 'cuz Mom and dad and a couple of kids Staring at the screen Makes it easier on you Makes it easier on me Man, we are numb, struck dumb Left out in the sun and We're sick of everything We'd give anything to be Almost anyone we see Cover all the posters with a warning Color-code the people for the sorting It's less fun than you thought it would be But what if that's the last thing you think about? Think about mom and dad and a couple of kids Just staring at the screen Makes it easier on you Makes it easier on me Man, we are dumb, white, left-swipe Stare at the sun types But we know everything We want everyone to be Just the same as me and me and me and Now we are all about God's love Flowers and Vaseline and Rubber gloves to cut the cancer from the nation Boxcars lined up at Grand Central Station Cut it deep if you want it to bleed Cut away the boxcars And memories until it's just Mom and dad and a couple of kids Staring at the screen Makes it easier on you Makes it easier on me Aw man, we could stay in touch But I think too much And you won't remember me If you knew what was in store You'd forget a little more Hey hey, can you hear the sirens? Mister, have you seen the news? By the time you hear the bells They may be ringing them for you I saw some matte black cat with a Rat-Kings tat Red leather dress, and a Kangol hat Running through this alley near Tompkins Square 'Til the Bats closed in and they left him there Oh man oh man oh man I guess I don't know what to do Try to close your eyes and ears If it's easier for you
You can hear the hotel humming She grabs her shoes and heads out in the rain Another chorus of the times you could and you could not refrain The sun undresses the horizon You grab your phone and text the lie That you're where you're supposed to be this time You watch the lightning flash across the windowpane But you can barely see the morning through the rain I carry distance like a burden My encumbrance and my strain Forty years across the sands Of your devotion and my shame So I'll blow a kiss across the garden Gethsemane, it seems to me Virginia's just a brick to ease the pain I'm hardly able to sort the sugar from the cane 'Cuz I can barely see the morning through the rain All my memories fit into a frame But I can barely see the morning through the rain The deluge urges me And the flood submerges me In her scent that lingers And her flavor on my fingers For every ark you fill There's a hole you never will inside So won't you call me Moses Oh won't you call my name Call me home Call me through the dark When I have lost my way Ginny, please receive me Trust me even when I lie Believe me when I say I'll try to change These clouds could wash me clean All my sin and all my shame But I can barely see Virginia through the rain All the world it runs in circles Between heaven and the drain But I can barely see Virginia through the rain I can barely see Virginia through the rain I can barely see Virginia through the rain
Here we go again Good morning, radio Believers, if you're listening on the line The siren sings for all The telegraph, a BackBeat for the times And in the underground The underground, is printing up the truth And I is watching over London Someone else is watching you (And on the radio they'll tell you what to do) Piece of fire then toss a match at you And then everybody sings We are revolving From night to morning And I wanna believe in something Spun out of darkness Somewhere under the aurora I try to believe in one thing Guess I felt so ashamed to see the people (Crying at a funeral, marching in the streets) And where is there a place for me among the millions Humming and humming and humming away? If I can make it through the night and just see the aurora I could maybe believe in something Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Here we go again All of the telephones are ringing 'Cause the king is on the roof Screaming the hit for all the passers-by To memorize Posed in a black collapsing universe of Lycra and the May A sad reminder of the things we fell in love with yesterday (A man on telly tries to tell me what is real) And it's alright, I like the way that feels And everybody sings We are evolving In night to morning And I wanna believe in something Spun out of darkness Somewhere under the aurora If I could believe in one thing Guess I felt so ashamed to see the people (Crying at a funeral, marching in the streets) And where is there a place for me among the millions Humming and humming and humming away? If I can make it through the night and just you see the aurora I could maybe believe in this one thing Smile is brighter than the sign She signs her dream for everyone She writes a letter to the editors of everything It says, "To all the sleepless, we are dreaming you From somewhere down the line The siren sings of occupation and a future in the mind The prophet propers no tomorrows We shall sing more yesterdays This band is free for all the groovers But the rest of you can pay" (And all the streamers, they will tell you where to go) Say goodbye So say goodbye Almost everybody waves We are dissolving The night to morning And I want to believe in something Strung out our darkness Somewhere under the aurora If I could believe in one thing I guess I felt so ashamed to see the people Crying at a funeral, marching in the streets And where is there a place for me among the millions Humming and humming and humming away? If I can make it through the night and just see the aurora Maybe I could believe in something Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Humming and humming and humming away Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Forever and ever and ever and ever and on Da, da, da, da, da Uh-huh Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Strong and strong and strong and strong again Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Da, da, da, da, da Again and again and, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Here we go again
"Come outside," she said to me As if I knew just what she'd say "Come outside, we'll watch tomorrow Pull the curtain on today" "Come outside into the tall grass And the old corn and the shit Come outside, oh child Into the wild and weep for it" And all along I know I don't know the why And it takes me through the meadows And I have got a rifle on my arm And the rabbit won't stop shaking but the life is gone And there is blood upon the clover Oh god, his eyes are open wide Staring up at me and infinity And the shrinking English sky And all along I tell myself I don't know thе why And as the idea ossifies I can't bеlieve it's mine I make a change He is wordless and silent And he says, "Just close my eyes" I have one eye open to the rain And one pressed to the ground again And I don't know why And I don't know why And I don't know why No, they don't know why No, they don't know why No, they don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know, know Oh, she takes a train to Paris For a weekend with a friend They take you places, trains and summers At 200 miles an hour That you've never been Did I ever say The way your breath Takes mine away? As I stare out at the grassland Past the living and the dead Matter forming and decaying A perpetual uprising Let there be a revolution And a light to lead us on Just a ball of souls revolving Spinning circles 'round the sun For the infinite and ageless For the meaningless and painless For the times we shook like rabbits, felt like children Made us ask this Can you see me? Can you see me? Oh, can you see me? Can you see me? Can you see me? Hey, can you see me? For I am changing But all the same things just come back to haunt me There are trains that can take a girl to Paris There are planes that could bring you home There are some of us get broken when we're children And you never get it back once that is gone And I don't know why No, I don't know why No, I don't know why No, I don't know why No, I don't know why
Bobby was a kid from 'round the town Kicks pumped up and head held down Underwater more than he was up He dreamed submarines in bottle green Imaginary flight machines But in blue jean flares he bubbled like a 7up Everybody wants to know you When you're the only one to know Shoot it up 'til you feel alive then play one more show Plug into the buzz and shake it 'til it turns around And you can't stop feeling The Paul Smith suits and the elevator boots astound And you can't help healing They want you and you want to With their lips on fire and your head unscrewed But it's time to whip another change and hit one more town Bobby doesn't know her name He holds on tightly just the same Sometimes one more night is all you need I met Alice near the Alamo One summer in San Antonio I remember her, I don't remember me Everybody wants to know you When you're the only one to know Anything to feel alive and play one more show Plug into the buzz and shake it 'til it turns around And you can't stop feeling The Paul Smith suits and the elevator boots astound And you can't help healing They want you and you want to With their hips on fire and your head unglued 'Til it's time to whip another change and hit one more town Alice knows the secret And she could tell you now If you want to 'Cause they want you Do you want to? I snake and sparkle, pant and glide And it's hard to feel and I can't get high And I don't always understand how to smile Man, kids get sick of bein' bottled up It drags you down 'til you throw it up Gotta get out of the house, take a ride on the radio dial And everybody wants to know you When you're the only one to know Yeah, everything that feels alive is in one more show Plug into the buzz and shake it 'til it turns around And you can't stop feeling The Paul Smith suits and the elevator boots astound And you can't help healing They want you and you want to 'Cause the kid's so clean with his soul shampooed And it's time to whip another change and hit one more town Oh yeah, it's time to whip another change and hit one more town And man, it's time to whip another change and hit one more town
Broadway traffic streaming light She came from California Runnin' from daylight into this endless electric twilight And when she dies a ghost is born Singing, "Get up, get up, get up Get up out of your memories Get out of the sunlight Get out of that sleeping western town" Got a little bit of runnin' for you now Got a little way to run To answer all our hopes and fears A king is leaving Union Square Did we leave the light on? (Did we leave the light on?) Does he need a light on? (Does he need a light on?) The king is screaming highway songs of blood and lies Of hope and wrong Did he leave the light on? (Did he leave the light on?) Does he need a light on? Yesterday when we get older We'll look back on all the times He had you puttin' a face on Instead of just walkin' away So paint your face black and blue again Wake up, wake up, wake up Wake up new and put on the clothes That make you feel like you're not broken He put a little bit of color in your eye You got a little bit of color To answer all our hopes and prayers An angel sang in Union Square Did she leave the light on? (Did she leave the light on?) Do we need a light on? The congregation came to stare To touch her dress, to pull her hair They tore her clothes and left her there Did she need a light on? (Does she need a light on?) Do we need a light on? (Do we need a light on?) Do we need a light on? (Do we need a light on?) Do we need a light on? The daydream nations won't come true The ghosts you made up ghosted you The angel learns to live with things That make her feel uneasy And after all the dreaming's done She screams, "Wake up, wake up, wake up This is a recording, a ghost of England Awake in a dream of America" You see him comin' out the corner of your eye You can hear him breathing when he runs The king of all our hopes and fears His train departing Union Square Just moved to somewhere south of here Did he leave a light on? (Did he leave a light on?) Her feathers stale with sex and beer The angel of the pavement cries "If God is dead, why am I here? Did he leave a light on for me? (Did he leave a light on?) Did he leave a light on for me? (Did he leave a light on?) Did he leave a light on for me? (Did he leave a light on?) Did he leave a light on for me?"
I'm an elevator kid pushing buttons when I wanna go home But my generation hasn't even got a name of its own We just buy what the TV sells And almost never stop wishing we were somebody else But tonight in the dark I can be myself When Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play We'll make 'em stay We'll make 'em play I'll play till the stars all fade We'll make 'em stay till dawn Make 'em play all night till the light Like we've never seen nothin' Like we'll we'll never see anybody ever again When the Rat-Kings go away We'll never be the same Z tried to edit Reddit instead it said it had eaten her phone She goes from Tinder to cinder Till she remembers she's a flame of her own You can almost lose your heart Hoping for something better till it tears you apart While the days get longer and this night won't start But when Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play We'll make 'em stay We'll make 'em play I'll play till the stars all fade We'll make 'em stay till dawn Make 'em play all night till the light Like we've never seen nothin' Like we'll we'll never see anybody ever again When the Rat-Kings go away We'll never be the same, again Ooh, again Now Joey's gotta run for the train Says he's trying to make it Back to the City by ten And Mike's on his bike with the motor running I told him trains were running all night right then In the moonlit town after the bridge fell down There were fires and we lost some power So we all dressed up for the ramble And ran those streets long past the witching hour I saw Dorothy in drag Taking the Tin Man for a ride And then Z the Cat said she knew where to go Then she kissed me without a thought Said "Sometimes memories are all that we got" "So come on boy, let's make some at the show" So there's some leather-wrapped Fender-strapped kid With a pick-finger twitch He's got a recipe for radio or rain I don't know which In the shadows when the lights are dowsed The cinder kids flare while they twist and shout We're the sparks in the dark That'll never go out So when Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play We'll make 'em stay We'll make 'em play Play till the stars all fade We'll make 'em stay till dawn Make 'em play all night till the light Like we've never seen nothin' Like we'll we'll never see anybody ever again When the Rat-Kings go away We'll never be the same again So say hey when the Rat-Kings When the Rat-Kings When the Rat-Kings go away Say hey when the Rat-Kings When the Rat-Kings When the Rat-Kings go away Say, when the Rat-Kings go (When the Rat-Kings go) When they go away Say hey when the Rat-Kings go away We'll never be the same, again Again Again Ooh, again Again
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