No Code
Sometimes
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, dear God
Hail, Hail
Oh, 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'
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
How do I feel?
How do I?
If you're the only one will I never be enough, yeah
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah
Oh, how I'd love ya till the day I die... and beyond
Are we goin' 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 under-estimate me
If you're the only one will I 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.
Black lining,
On the run, in a race that can't be won, yeah
Oh, Hail, 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 one
Who You Are
Come to send
Not condescend
Transcendental consequence
Is to transcend, where we are
Who are we? Who we are
Trampled marrs on your souls
Changes all, you're a part
Seen it all, not at all
Can't defend, fuck the man
Take me for a ride, Before we leave
Circumstance
Clappin' hands
Guidin' winds
Happenstance
Off the track, in the mud
Patch the marrs, in the aforementioned verse
Just a little time, Before we leave
Stop light plays its part
So I would say you've got a heart
What's your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are
In My Tree
Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah
No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm tradin' 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 seen the tempted
It's up here so high I start to mistake
Up here so high in the sky, i scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
A deep breath in my chest
Just like innocence
I remember when, yeah
Swore I blew everything away, yeah
Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah
It's growin' up just like me, and yeah
I'm so light, the wind he shakes
I'm so high up in the sky, I scrape, yeah
I'm so high I hold just one breath
To go back to my nest...sleeping innocence
Up here so high the boughs may break
Up here so high in the sky I sway
And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence... Really got it... Still got it
Smile
Don't it make you smile? (2X)
When the sun don't shine
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
Oh, when the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all, yeah
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already
I miss you always
I miss you already
I miss you all day
This is how I feel
Ah, I miss you already
I miss you always
Three crooked hearts... Swirls all around her
I miss you all day
Off He Goes
One...Two...One...Two
Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's movin' much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes
He's yet to come back
But I seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
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 changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown
And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we 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 going to happen next
Before his first step, he's off again
Habit
See it happen to a couple of friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Takin 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
Another habit says he's in love with you
Another habit says he's long over due
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'd, never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (6X)
Speaking as a child of the 90's
Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never never thought you'd
Never... Never me... Never you... Never me
Red Mosquito
Giant one, might he find
Watched from the window
Little 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
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting
Red man's your neighbor
Call it behavior
And while you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of you, punctures in your neck
Hoverin' just above your bed (2X)
I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting
He's waitin'... Hopin'... Yeah
If I had known then, what I know now (4X)
Lukin
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'm gone to Lukin's... I gotta spot at Lukin's
Unlock the door at Lukin's. . . open the fridge
Now I know life's worth
I find the key but I return to find an open door
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered by raping my son
I find my wife. I call the cops. This day's work's never done.
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
Present Tense
Do you see the way that tree bends?
Does it inspire?
Leanin' out to catch the sun's ray
A lesson to reapply
Are you getting 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
Your the only one, you can forgive yourself, Oh
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
And approach... Ain't no 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
Your the only one, you can not forgive yourself, Oh
Ah, makes much more sense to live in the present tense
Mankind
You'll be goin' out with radio
Goin' out with disco
Goin' out like bacchanal
I'll be goin' out with telephone
Goin' 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
Usin' up my listerine
Like ovaltine
And you'll be dippin' in your battleship
For the latest tip
For the latest drain
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?
It's all 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
I’m Open
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 deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
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 in (4X)
I'm open (2X)
Come in (4X)
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream...Dream up a new self...For himself
Around the Bend
I am wishing you a well
Mind at peace within yourself
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watchin' as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend
I hold you deep in my arms
My fingertips, they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend (2X)
All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me, 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
On and on around the bend
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