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Large fingers pushin' paint...
You're God and you got big hands...
The colors blend...
The challenges you give man...
Seek my part...devote myself...
My small self...like a book amongst
the many on a shelf...
Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all...
Sometimes I reach to myself, hear
God...
Ah, is there room for both of us? Both
of us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation? Is
that all we've got?
I get the words, and then I get to
thinkin'
But I don't want to think, I want
to feel!
How do I feel? And how do I...
If you're the only one, well I'll never
be enough, yeah...
Hail, hail, the lucky ones, I refer
to those in love, yeah...
A-how I love you till the day I die...ah,
and beyond...
Are we going to the same place? If
so, can I come?
It's egg rollin' thick and heavy...all
the past we carry...
Oh, I could be new...you underestimate
me...
If you're the only one, well I'll
never be enough, yeah...
Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer
to those in love, yeah...
I sometimes realize...I could only
be as good as you'll let me...
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Bandaged hand in hand...
Yeah...
I find it on my run in a race that
can't be won, yeah...
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to
those in love, yeah...
If you're my only one...so good, you
only one...
I want to be your one...enough, you
won...your one...your hun...
Come to send, not condescend
Transcendental consequences to transcend...
Where we are...Who are we? Who we
are...
Trampled moss on your souls...
Changes all, you're a part...
Seen it all, not at all...
Can't defend the command...
Take me a for a ride before we leave...
Circumstance, clappin' hands...
A-driving winds, happenstance...
Off the track, in the mud...
That's the moss in the aforementioned
verse...
...miraculous...and a little...
Just a little time, before we leave...
Stoplight plays its part...
So I would say you've got a part...
What's your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are...
Up here in my tree, yeah...
Newspapers meant enough to me, yeah...no...
No more crowbars to my head, yeah...
I'm trading stories with the leaves
instead, yeah...
Wave to all my friends, yeah...
They don't seem to notice me, no...
All their eyes trained on the street,
yo, oh...
Sidewalk cigarettes and scenes, yeah...yeah...
Up here so high I start to escape
Up here so high, the sky I scrape
I'm so high, I hold just one breath
here within my chest
Just like innocence...
I remember him, yeah...
I swore I knew everything, oh yeah...
They say knowledge is a dream, yeah...
He's growing up just like me, yeah...
I'm so light, the wind he shakes
I'm so high, the sky I scrape, yeah...
I'm so light I hold just one breath
and go back to my nest
Sleep with innocence...
Up here so high, the bars they break...
Up here so high, the sky I scrape...
Had my eyes peeled both wide open,
and I got a glimpse...
Of my innocence...got back my innocence...
Baby, got it...still got it...
Don't it make you smile? (2x)
When the sun don't shine, it don't
shine at all...
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile? Yeah...
When the sun don't shine, it don't
shine at all...yeah...
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already, yeah...I miss you
always...
I miss you already, yeah...I miss
you all day...
This is how I feel...
I...I miss you already, yeah...I miss
you always...
The crooked heart swells all around,
yeah...I miss you all day...
The crooked heart swells around, yeah...
Don't it make you smile? (2x)
The crooked heart swells around...
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4...
Know a man...his face seemed pulled
and tense...
Like he's riding on a motorbike in
the strongest winds...
So I approach with tact...suggest
that he should relax...
But he's always movin' much too fast...
Said he'll see me on the flipside
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on...
There he goes with his perfectly unkept
clothes
There he goes...
He's yet to come back...but I've seen
his picture...
It doesn't look the same up on the
racks...
We go way back...
I wonder 'bout his insides...
It's like his thoughts are too big
for his size...
He's been taken...where, I don't know?
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept
hope...
There he goes...
And now I rub my eyes...for he has
returned...
Seems my preconceptions are what should
have been burned...
For he still smiles...and he's still
strong...
Nothing's changed, but the surrounding
bullshit, that has grown...
And now he's home, and we're laughing,
like we always did...
My same old, same old friend...
Until a quarter-to-ten...
I saw the strain creep in...
He seems distracted and I know just
what is gonna happen next...
Before his first step...he is off
again...
HABIT
See it happen to a couple of friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Taking off for what's an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about
It's not your way...not your way...
It's not your way...yeah...
Another habit, sentence him up with
you
Another habit, says he's long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self...
It's not your way...not your way...
It's not your way...
Never thought you'd habit...
(3x)
I never thought you, never thought
you...
Never thought you'd habit...
(3x)
I never thought you, never, never
thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...
(6x)
Speaking as a child of the nineties...
Never thought you'd habit...
(3x)
I never thought you, never thought
you...
Never thought you'd habit...
(3x)
I never thought you, never, never
thought you...
Never...never me...never you...never
me...
Watched from the window with a red
mosquito...
I was not allowed to leave the room...
I saw the sun go down, and now it's
comin' up...
Somewhere in the time between...
I was bitten...must have been the devil...
He was just payin' me...
A little visit, a-reminding me of
his presence...
Lettin' me know...he's a-waitin' for
me...
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior...
While you're climbing up slippery
hills...
Two steps ahead of him, punctures
in your neck...
Hoverin' just above your bed...
(2x)
I was bitten...must have been the
devil...
He was just paying me...
A little visit, reminding me of his
presence...
And lettin' me know...he's a-waitin'...he's
a-waitin'...
Up there...yeah...
If I had known then what I now know... (4x)
Drive down the street, can't find the
keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk so I can curse my ass
for being dumb
I make a right after the arches, stinking
grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare
like I'm a dog
I've been goin' to Lukin's...I gotta
spot that Lukin's...
I knocked the door at Lukin's...opened
the fridge...
Now I know life is worth...
I find the key, but I return to find
an open door
So fucking freezin', they jump out
the car, everybody wants some
I find my wife, I call the cops, this
day's work's never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing
a fucking gun
Do you see the way that tree bends?
Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays...a
lesson to be applied...
Are you gettin' something out of this
all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone, redigesting
past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive
yourself, oh yeah...
Makes much more sense to live in the
present tense...
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked your hands and studied the
lines?
Have you the belief that the road
ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin'
harder
To find an approach and a way to live...
Are we gettin' something out of this
all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting
past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize...
You're the only one who cannot forgive
yourself, oh...
A-makes much more sense to live in
the present tense...
You'll be...going out with radio...
Going out with disco...going out like
bacchanal...
I'll be...going out with telephone...
Going out alone...to the radar zone...
It's all just inadvertent, imitation,
and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation...
If it's just inadvertent, simulation,
a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin'
it?
I'll be...playing with my magazine...
Using up my Listerine...Like Ovaltine...
And you'll be...you're dippin' in
your battleship...
For the latest tip...for the latest
dream...
It's all just inadvertent, imitation,
and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation...
If it's just inadvertent, simulation,
a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin'
it?
If it's just inadvertent, imitation,
a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin'
it?
What's got the whole world fakin'?
(4x)
What's got the whole world fakin'
it, yeah?
A man lies in his bed in a room with
no door
He waits, hoping for a presence; something,
anything to enter
After spending half his life searching,
he still felt as blank
As the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely
nothing
So, is he?
When he was six he believed that the
moon overhead followed him
By nine, he had deciphered the illusion,
trading magic for fact
No tradebacks...
So this is what it's like to be an
adult
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I'm open... (2x)
Come on in... (4x)
I'm open... (2x)
Come on in... (4x)
I'm open...
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets
and no covers he decides to dream...
Dream up a new self for himself...
I'm wishing you a-well...mind at peace
within yourself...
Covers up, I cast you off...I'll be
watching as you breathe....
I'd lie still, you move, I'd send
you off around the bend...
I hold your head deep in my arms...my
fingertips they close your eyes...
Off you dream, my little child...there's
a sun around the bend...
There's a sun around the bend...
All the evenings close like this...all
these moments that I've missed...
Please forgive, won't you, dear?
Please forgive and let me share with
you around the bend...
You're an angel when you sleep...
How I want your soul to keep of and
all around the bend...