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ONCE
I admit it...what's to say
I'll relive it...without pain
Backstreet lover on the side
of the road
I got a bomb in my temple
that is gonna explode
I got a .16 gauge buried
under my clothes...I play.
Once upon a time I could control myself
Once upon a time I could lose myself
Oh try and mimic..what's insane
I am in it...where do I stand?
Indian summer I hate the heat
I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat
I got my hand in my pocket
so determined
discreet...I pray.
Once upon a time I could control myself
Once upon a time I could lose myself
Once upon a time I could love myself
Once upon a time I could love myself
Once
Once
Once
EVEN FLOW
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little betters any days
Oh, head down, faces that he sees don't look it ain't that familiar
Oh, girlfriend he can't have when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah
Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Life again
Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read
Prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather or that winters on its way, yeah
Oh, ceilins people fall between all the legal halls of shame
Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah
ALIVE
Son, she said
Have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy
was nothin' but a....
While you were sittin'
Home alone @ age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin'
Sorry you didn't see him
But I'm glad we talked...
I...I...I'm still alive (3x)
Oh she walks slowly
Across a young man's room
She said I'm ready...for you
I can't remember anything
to this very day
'Cept the look...the look...
Now I can't see,...I just stare...
I...I...I'm still alive (4x)
Is something wrong
she said
Of course there is
You're still alive
she said
Do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so,...if so...
Who answers?
Who answers?
I...I...I'm still alive
I...I...I'm still alive
I...I...I'm still alive
I...I'm still alive
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
WHY GO
She scratches a letter
into a wall made of stone
Maybe someday
another child
won't feel as alone as she does
It's been two years
and counting
Since they put her in this place
She's been diagnosed
by some stupid f**k
And mommy agrees
Why go home?
Why go home?
Why go home...
She seems to be stronger
But what they want her to be is weak
She could just pretend
She could play the game
She could be another clone
Why go home?
What you taught me
Don't come visit
Put me here
Mommy dear
BLACK
Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Ooh, and all I taught her was, everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all, that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh, the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I'm spinning
Oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away...
And now my bitter hands
Cradle broken glass
Of what was everything
All the pictures had
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
All the love gone bad
Turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see
All that I am
All I'll be...
Yeah
Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine
(not sure?)
mm-hmm no yeah no
mm mmmm no nonono yeah yeah
we-
we belong
we belong together
together
oooh ooh
we-
we belong
we belong together
oh yeah
JEREMY
At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemin yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
Dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn't give attention
To the fact that mommy didn't care
King jeremy the wicked
ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little f**k
But we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recessed lady's breast
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin'
Dropped wide open
Just like the day
Like the day I heard
Daddy didn't give affection
And the boy was something mommy wouldn't wear
King jeremy the wicked
ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Try to forget this...
Try to erase this...
from the blackboard.
OCEANS
Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Guide me towards you
Know something's left
And we're all allowed to dream
of the next time we touch
You don't have to stray
Two oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring
The sea will rise
Please stand by the shore
I will be...
I will be...
there once more.........
PORCH
What the f**k is this world running to?
You didn't leave a message
At least I could have
heard your voice one last time.
Daily minefield
This could be my time
How 'bout you?
Would you hit me?
Would you hit me?
All the bills go by
and initiatives are taken up
by the middle
There ain't gonna be any middle any more
And the cross I'm bearing home
ain't indicative of my place
Left the porch
Left the porch
Hear my name
Take a good look
This could be the day
Hold my hand
Walk beside me
I just need to say...
Hear my name
Take a good look
This could be the day
Hold my hand
Lie beside me
I just need to say
What can I take? (?)
I just want to be
I know that I would not ever touch you
hold you
feel you
ever hold
never again
GARDEN
The direction of the eye
so misleading
The defection of the soul
nauseously quick
I don't question
our existence
I just question
our modern needs
I will walk...with my hands bound
I will walk...with my face blood
I will walk...with my shadow flag
into your garden
garden of stone
After all is done
we're still alone
I won't be taken
yet I'll go...
I will walk...with my hands bound
I will walk...with my face blood
I will walk...with my shadow flag
into your garden
garden of stone
I don't show...
I don't share...
I don't need
what you have to give...
DEEP
On the edge
Windowsill
Ponders his maker
Ponders his will
To the street below
He just ain't nothin'
But he's got a great view...
On the edge
Know-nothin' town
Feelin' quite superior
The aged come
To the sky above
He just ain't nothin'
But he's got a great view...
On the edge of a
Christmas clean love
Young virgin from heaven
visiting...
to the man above her
She just ain't nothin'...
She doesn't like the view
Doesn't like the view
Doesn't like the view...
But he sinks himself deep.
Can't touch the bottom
In too deep
Can't touch the bottom
Can't touch the bottom
In too deep
Can't touch the bottom
Can't touch the bottom
In too deep
Can't touch the bottom
Can't touch the bottom
Deep...
RELEASE
I see the world
Feel the truth
Which way to go
Windowsill
I see the words
On a rocking horse of time
I see the birds in the rain
Oh dear Diane
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
Oh dear Diane
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll wait up in the dark
For you to speak to me
I'll open up
Release me
Release me
Release me
Release me
GO
Oh please don't go out on me..
Don't go out on me now
Never acted up before..
Don't go on me now
I swear I never too it for granted..
Just thought of it now.
Suppose I abused you..
Just passing it on
Once fastened servile..
Now your getting sharp.
Moving oh so swiftly..
With such disarm.
I pulled the covers over him..
Shoulda' pulled the alarm..
Turned to my nemesis..
A full on f**king god (???)
Pleeeeease... don't go on me
Pleeeeease... don't go on me
Pleeeeease... don't go on me
pleeeeease... don't go on me
Please don't go on me
Please don't go on me
Please don't go on me
Don't go on me
Don't go on me
Don't you want me
Don't go on me (x2)
ANIMAL
Torture from you to me (Torch her from me to me ?)
Abducted (abduct it?) from the street
I'd rather be.. I'd rather be with..
I'd rather be with an animallll
Why would you wanna hurt me
So frightened of your pain
I'd rather be.. I'd rather be with..
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be.. I'd rather be..
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be.. I'd rather be with..
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be.. I'd rather be with..
I'd rather be with an animal.
DAUGHTER
Alone..
Listless..
Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room.
A young girl..
Violins (ance)..
Center of her own attention.
Mother reads aloud, child
Tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud.
The shades go down
Its in her head (inside her head?)
Painted room
Can't deny there's something wrong.
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me
She holds the hand.. that holds her down
She will... rise above
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter
Not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me
GLORIFIED G
Got a gun
'Fact I got two
That's ok man cuz I love God
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly
when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Don't think
Dumb is strength
Never shot at a living thing
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a
Always leave (keep?) it loaded
Always leave (keep?) it loaded
Always leave (keep?) it loaded
DISSIDENT
She nursed him there
over a night
I wasn't so sure
She wanted him to stay
What to say.. what to say
But soon she was down
Soon he was low
At a quarter past.. a holy no
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold.. she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never.. the safest path
Oh.. a dissident.. a dissident is here
And to this day.. she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said.. what a waste
When she had contact.. with the conflict
There was meaning
But she sold him to the state
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold.. she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh.. a dissident.. a dissident is here
She gave him away
When she couldn't hold.. no.. she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh.. a dissident.. a dissident is here
Couldn't hold on.. she couldn't hold
She folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place
A dissident is here
W.M.A.
He won the lottery
When he was born
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue
Trained like dogs
Color and smell
Walks by me to get to him
Police man
Police man
He won the lottery by being born
Big hand slapped a white male 'merican
Do no wrong
So clean cut
Dirty his hands
It comes right off
Police man
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Police man
Jesus greets me.. looks just like me
Do no wrong
So clean cut
Dirty his hands
It comes right off
Police man
Police man
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Police man
Police man
BLOOD
Spin me 'round
Roll me over
f**kin' circus
Stab it down
One way needle
Pull so slowly
Drains and spills
Soaks the pages
Fills there sponges
Its my blood
Its my blood
Painted big
Turn it into
One of his enemies
Its my blood
Its my blood
Its my blood
Stab it down
Fill the pages
????????????
??? of my enemies
REARVIEWMIRROR
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings
Made me wise
I'm not about to give thanks
or apologize
I couldn't breath
Holdin' me down
Hand on my face
Kiss the ground
Enmity guaged
Knotted by fear
'Posed to endure
What I could not.. forgive
I seemed to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface
Most defiled
Head at your feet
Fool to your crown
Fist on my plate
Swallowed it down
Enmity guage
Knotted by fear
Tried to endure
What I could not forgive
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Clearer
Clearer
Once you.. were in my
rearviewmirror
I gather speed
From you f**king with me
Once and for all
I'm far away
Hardly believe
Finally the shades
are raised.
Saw things so much clearer
Once you.. once you..
rearviewmirror
Saw things so much clearer
Once you.. once you..
rearviewmirror
Saw things so much clearer
Once you.. once you..
rearviewmirror
Saw things so much clearer
Once you
RATS
They don't eat
Don't sleep
They don't feed
They don't seethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger ones feet
They don't push
Don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
f**k to procreate til they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend
They don't scurry when something bigger
comes their way
Don't pack themselves together
and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take whats not theirs
They don't compare
They don't scam
Don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones breed
They don't scurry when something bigger
comes their way
Don't pack themselves together
and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take whats not theirs
They don't compare
They don't scurry when something bigger
comes their way
Don't pack themselves together
and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take whats not theirs
They don't compare
Rats
They don't compare
Rats
They don't compare
Ben... the two of us need look no more
Ben... the two of us need look no more
Ben... the two of us need look no more
Ben... the two of us need look no more
Ben... the two of us need look no more
ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN
I seem to recognize.. your face
Haunting familiar yet
I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought
to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up
with me
All these changes taking place
I wish I'd seen the place
but no ones ever taken me
Hearts and thought they fade
fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints
are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall
for I'm not my former
Its hard when your stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all
Small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream.. hello
My God its been so long
Never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are
and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade
away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away
LEASH
Troubled souls unite
We got ourselves tonight(?)
I am a fuel.. you are friends
We got the means to make amends
I am lost.. I'm lucky
But I'm by your side
I am right by your side
Young lover I stand
It was their idea
I proved to be a man
Take my f**king hand
It was their idea
I proved to be a man
Will myself to find a home
a home within myself
We will find a way
We will find our place
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
Get outta my f**kin' face
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
Get outta my f**kin' face
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
Get outta my f**kin.. face
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
We are young
Drop the leash
We are young
Get outta my f**kin' face
Drop the leash
Drop the leash
Get outta my
Drop the leash
my
delight
delight
Delight in our youth
Get outta my f**kin face
INDIFFERENCE
I will light the match this mornin'
So I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent
But soon light will be gone
Oh I will stand arms outstretched
Pretend I'm free to roam
Oh I will make my way through one more day
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make
I will hold the candle
'til it burns up my arm
Oh I'll keep takin' punches
'til their will grows tired
Oh I will stare the sun down
Until my eyes go blind
Hey, I won't change direction
and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make
I'll swallow poison until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out
'til it fills this room
How much difference
How much difference
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make
BETTER MAN
Waiting, watching the clock
It's four o'clock it's got to stop
Tell him, take no more,
She practices her speeches
He opens the door
And she rolls over
And pretends to sleep
As he looks her over
She lies and says she's in love with him
Can't find a better man
She dreams in color, she dreams in red,
Can't find a better man
[repeat twice]
Talking to herself
There's no one else
Who needs to know
She turns herself on
Memories back when she was
Smooth and strong
And waiting for the world
To come along
She swears she knew that
She swears he's cool
She's lies and says she's in love with him
Can't find a better man
She dreams in color, she dreams in red,
Can't find a better man
She lies and says she still loves him
Can't find a better man
She dreams in color, she dreams in red,
Can't find a better man
[repeat twice]
She loves him
She don't want to leave this way
She pleads him
That's why she'll be back again
Can't find a better man
[repeat thrice]
SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE
See this needle...a see my hand...
Drop, drop, dropping it down...oh, so gently...
Well here it comes...I touch the flame...
Turn me up...won't turn you away...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...whoa...
Pull it out...a paper sleeve...
Oh, my joy...only you deserve conceit...
I'm so big...a my whole world...
I'd rather you...rather you...than her...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...whoa...
Oh...
You're so warm...oh, little one...
My lady, you're cookin'...oh...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...
Spin the black (5x) circle
Spin the black circle... (4x)
Spin, spin... (6x)
BUGS
I got bugs,
I got bugs in my room,
bugs in my bed,
bugs in my ears,
their eggs in my head,
bugs in my pockets,
bugs in my shoes,
bugs in the way, I feel about you
Bugs in my window, trying to get in,
They don't go nowhere
Waiting, waiting
Bugs on my ceiling, crowded the floor
Standing, sitting, kneeling,
A few block the door.
And now the questions:
Do I kill them?
Become their friend?
Do I eat them?
Raw or well done?
Do I trick them?
I don't think they're that dumb.
Do I join them?
Looks like... that's the one.
I got bugs on my skin,
Tickle my nausea,
I let it happen again,
They're always taking over.
Aw, see they surround me I see
See them deciding my fate,
Ah, that was just once,
What was once up to me, but now it's too late.
I got bugs in my room, one on one,
That's when I had a chance,
I'll just stop now,
I'll become naked
and let them all become one.
CORDUROY
The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your riches back...can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the varmints back...oh, and I must refuse your test
Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood then I'll be wed...
I'm already cut off and I'm dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed
Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my teacher
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your breast...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free... (2x)
Can't be what you want because I'm...
I ain't s'posed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
IMMORTALITY
Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place on me or her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on...
But there's a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...
As privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...
A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on, too...
But saw the trapdoor in the sun...
Immortality...
I cannot stop the thought...I'm running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live...
Ohh...
LAST EXIT
Life's a game of chess..."Look ma, watch me crash"...
No time to question...why'd nothing last...
Grasp and hold on...we're dyin' fast...
Soon be older...and I will be last...
Let the ocean swell, dissolve 'way my past
Three days maybe longer, won't even know I've left
Under your tounge...I'm not content...
I will give you what...you're not s'posed to have...
Under my breath...I swear by sin...
For better or for worse...a best we began...
Let the sun climb, oh, burn 'way my mask
Three days maybe longer, shed my skin at last...shed...shed...
Let the sun shine, burn 'way my mask
Three days maybe longer, won't even find me here
Let the ocean dissolve 'way my past
Four days, never stronger
Let my spirit pass...
Ooh...
This is, this is... (3x)
My...last exit
NOT FOR YOU
Restless soul, enjoy your youth
Like Muhammad hits the truth
Can't escape from the common rule
If you hate something, don't you do it too...too...
Small my table, a sits just two
Got so crowded, I can't make room
Oh, where did they come from? Stormed my room!
And you dare say it belongs to you...to you...
This is not for you (3x)
Oh, not for you...ah, you...
...scream...my friends...don't call me...
...friends, no they don't scream...
...my friends don't call...my friends don't...
All that's sacred comes from youth
Dedication, naive and true
With no power, nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you...don't you...
This is not for you (3x)
Oh, never was for you...f**k you...
This is not for you...
Oh, this is not for you...yeah, you...
This is not for you...
Oh, not for you...
Oh, you...
NOTHINGMAN
Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shaped prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...oh...oh...oh...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Oh, she don't want him...
Oh, she won't feed him...after he's flown away...
Oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...
Burn...burn...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Nothingman... (2x)
Coulda' been something...
Nothingman...
Oh...ohh...ohh...
PRY, TO
P-r-i-v-a-c-y, it's priceless to me (4x)
P-r-i-v-a-c-y (4x)
SATAN'S BED
It's not all been said...been said and done...
I've never slept in Satan's bed
Although I must admit...still visits my place
Uninvited, as you know, he don't wait
Funny how he always seems to fit in
Funny how I always want to give in
Sundays, Fridays, Tuesdays, Thursday, the same
Sometimes the special guest, he don't like to leave
Already...in love... (3x)
Already...
Who made, who made up, made up the myth
That we were born to be covered in bliss?
Who set the standard, born to be rich?
Such fine examples, skinny little bitch
Model, role model, roll some models in blood
Get some flesh to stick, so they look like us
I shit and I stink, I'm real, join the club
I'd stop and talk, but I'm already in love
Already...in love... (3x)
Already...
Never shook Satan's hand, look see for yourself
You'd know it if I had, that shit don't come off
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both
Jump off a cliff, don't need your help so back off
I'll never suck Satan's dick
Again, you'd see it, you know, right round the lips
I'll wait for an angel, but I won't hold my breath
'Magine they're busy, think I'm doing okay...
Already...in love... (6x)
Already...
TREMOR CHRIST
Winded is the sailor, drifted by the storm.
Wounded is the old man he left all bloodied on the shore.
Gorgous was his savior sea's son, drowning in his wake.
I barely taste the salt of her tears, but I just plain fade.
Little secrets, tremors, turn to quake.
The smallest oceans still get big, big waves.
Ransom: pay the devil; he whispers pleasing words.
Triumphant are the angels if they can get there first.
Little secrets, tremors, turn to quake.
The smallest oceans still get big, big waves.
Oh, decide
Take the child.
Take my time.
Not my life.
Wait for signs.
Believe in lies to get by.
It's divine.
Oh, you know what it's like.
Turns the bow back towards him,
Drops the line.
Puts his faith in love and Tremor Christ.
WHIPPING
Don't need a helmet, got a hard, hard head
Don't need a raincoat, I'm already wet
Don't need a bandage, there's too much...blood...
After a while, seems to roll right off...hmm...
Whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
Don't need a hand, there's always arms attached
Oh, don't get behind, I can't fall back
Why must we trust all these rusted rails?
They don't want no change, we already have
They're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
Don't mean to push, but I'm being shoved!
Ohh, I'm just like you, think we've had enough
I can't believe a thing they want us to...oh...
Oh, we all got scars, they should have 'em too...
Oh, they're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
They're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping...yeah...they're whipping...
SOMETIMES
Large fingers pushing paint
You're God and you've 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
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 thinking
I don't wanna think I wanna feel
How do I feel?
How do I?
If your the only one, will I ever be enough?
Hail, Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
How I love you to the day I die, and beyond
Are we going to the same place?
If so can I come?
It's egg rolling thick and heavy
All the past we carry
I could be new
You underestimate me
If your the only one, will I ever be enough?
Hail, Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
Sometimes realize
I could only be as good as you'd let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Bandaged hand in hand
I find it on the run in a race that can't be won
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
If you're my only one
So could you only once
I want to be your one, enough
You won, you're one, you're one
WHO YOU ARE
Come to send
Not condescend
Transcendental consequence
Is to transcend
Where we are
Who are we
Who we are
Trampled moss on your souls
Changes all
Your apart
Seen it all
Not at all
Can't defend f**ked up men
Take me for a ride before we leave
Circumstance
Clapping hands
Driving winds
Happenstance
Off the track in the mud
That's the moss
In the aforementioned verse
Just a little time before we leave
Stop light
Plays it part
So I would say you've got a part
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
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, oh, oh
Sidewalks, cigarettes, and scenes, oh, yeah
Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high the sky I scape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
Deep within my chest
Just like innocence
(mumbling)
I remember when, yeah
Swore I knew everything, oh yeah
They say knowledge is a tree, 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
I'm so high I hold just one breath
Go back to my nest
Sleeping innocence
Up here so high the boughs they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse
Of my innocence
I've got my innocence
Still got it, still got it
SMILE
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
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?
When the sun don't shine
It don't shine at all
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
I miss you already
I miss you always
Three crooked heart swirls around
(check out the card for this 3 hearts and swirls)
I miss you all day
OFF HE GOES
1, 2, 1, 2
Know a man, his face seem 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 moving much to fast
Said he'll see me on the flipside
On this trip he's taking for a ride
He's been taking too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes
He's yet to come back
But I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder about his insides
It's like his thought 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 have should have been burned
For he still smiles, and he's still strong
Nothing has 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's seems to 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
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
Another habit says it's in love with your
Another habit says it's love's 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
RED MOSQUITO
Watched out the window with a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up
Somewhere in the time between
I was bitten, must have been the devil
He was just paying me a little visit
Reminding me of his presence
Letting me know, he's awaiting
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior
While your climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck
Hovering 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
Lettin' me know, he's awaiting, he's awaiting
If I had known then, what I know now (4x)
LUKIN
Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own f**king 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 going to Lukin's
I gotta spot at Lukin's
I knock the door at Lukin's
Open the fridge
Now I know life is worth
I found my keys but I return to find an open door
Some f**king freak who claims I fathered by rape her love son
I found my wife I call the cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a f**king gun
PRESENT TENSE
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 getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, oh
Or you can come terms and realize your the only one who can forgive
yourself 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 getting harder
To find an approach and a way to live
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, oh
Or you can come terms and realize your the only one who cannot forgive
yourself, oh
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
MANKIND
I'M OPEN
AROUND THE BEND
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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 inadvertant simulation a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it?
I'll be playing with my magazine, using up my listerine, like ovaltine
You'll be dippin' in your battleship, for the latest trip for the latest dream
It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
WHAT'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD FAKING IT?
IF IT'S JUST INADEVERTANT SIMULATION A PATTERN IN ALL MANKIND
WHAT'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD FAKING IT?
WHAT'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD FAKING? (5X)
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door
He waits hoping for a present something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He's alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?
When he was six he believed that moon overhead followed him
By nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact
No tradebacks
So this is what it is like to be an adult
If he only knew know what he had known then
I'm open (2x)
Come on in (4x)
I'm open (2x)
Come on in (4x)
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 lie still, you move I 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 fear
Please forgive me won't you dear
Please forgive me and let me share
With you around the bend
Your an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
Up and all around the bend
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