Black Lab--Your Body Above Me

WASH IT AWAY

Wash it in the sea
Let it soak all night
Wash it in the sea
Let the saltwater wash it away

Soak it in bleach
till it's white on white
soak it in bleach
till the blood just washes away

hang it in the wind
let it blow all night 
hang it up high
let the high wind blow it away

hang it in the wind 
let the sun burn bright
hang it in the wind
till the blood just washes away

i have waited wasted years for the child that's come and gone today
say what about this wasted fear?  
how can i just turn and wash it away?

If I can then I will wash it away
if she can then she will wash it away.
If I can then I will, wash it away
if she can then she will, wash it away.

Forty years spent one by one
Forty years of life just slipping away.  
What I'd give for a firstborn son.
Forty years of blood just washing away.

I have waited wasted lives
I have waited long enough I'd say
Say what about this wasted child?
How can I just turn and wash it away?

If I can then I will, wash it away.
If she can then she will wash it away
I I can then I will, wash it away
If she can then she will
Wash it away

Send me an angel.
Send me the ghost that i was
Send me an angel
Send me the ghost that i was
That I was
That I am
I will wash it away
She will wash it away
If I can then I will, wash it away

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 


SHE LOVES ME

creep down to the waterline you’re twisting away.
the game is over you can’t keep twisting away.
buy myself a rose at the end of the day.
please believe me you can’t keep twisting away.

she love me she loves me not.
whether she knows it.
she loves me she loves me not.
whether it’s suicide.

shake the bottle out you’re shaking it clean.
you shake no you can’t keep twisting away.
crack me open do you know what I mean?
you shake shake you’re twisting away.

she loves me she loves me not.
whether she knows it.
she loves me she loves me not.
whether it’s suicide.

slip outside of your mind.
slip the far side over the ice.
slide you’re taking it on.
slip I hope you’re not already gone.
she loves me. 
she loves me.
she loves me not.

X-RAY

how come you never look at me no more?
take it easy, babe. 
go slow now.
how come you never touch me anymore?
take it easy, you don’t want to know now. 

how come you never break the skin no more?
take it easy, babe.
don’t go now.
how come you never let me in no more?
take it from me, I’ll break it to you slow now.

she looks through me like an x-ray.
like a fire burning out of the fireplace. 
she looks through me like an x-ray.
I’m saying all the right lies to the wrong face.

how many faces can you fake, boy?
how many lies?
how many know now?
say how can you never make a choice?
I’ll break it to you slow, now.

she looks though me like an x-ray.
like a fire burning out of the fireplace.
she looks through me like an x-ray.
like a surgeon come tearing at my heartbreak.

don’t be seen with me. 
she sees everything.
she looks through me like an x-ray


TIME AGO

I watch your window for hours
Moon has set down without us
All by ourselves riding in the front seat
Watch the sun come up
All by ourselves we would run

Remember?  It was so long ago.
Remember, baby
It was a long time ago

Feel you hand close beside me
Hear the high way behind me
All by ourselves we made love 
Under the sleeping moonless night
All by ourselves we would run

Remeber?  It was so long ago.
Remember, baby
It was a long time ago

I couldn't stop you crying 
Or stop myself from fighting back
I tried but never hard enough
Don't you remember, love?
All by myself I can see it like it's right before my eyes
By myself time goes by

Remember? It was so long ago.
Remember, baby
It was a long time ago....


CAN'T KEEP THE RAIN

is there something you’d like to do tonight?
I got some bridges to burn.
I’d like to fly away tonight for whatever it’s worth.
keep the salt out of my eyes can you keep the heat in the air?
maybe I’m making the whole thing up.
maybe you’re not even there. 

I called your machine just to hear your voice.
I know you were listening when all I could hear was noise.
and all of the demons around my bed call your name like they want you 
dead.
but I can’t keep the rain from getting in.
one more night.

I set fire to the car tonight to keep from running away.
I needed something loud and bright to keep the memory at bay.
sometimes I shout a lot
there’s things I know how to say.
sometimes I get scared I just get carried away.

I called your machine just to hear your voice.
I know you were listening when all I could hear was noise.
and all of the demons around my bed call your name like they want you 
dead.
but I can’t keep the rain from getting in.
one more night.
well i call your name just to hear the sound hang in the air as I walk 
around
but I can’t keep the rain from getting in.
one more night.


THIN WHITE LIE

you get me high one last time.
one more second to let you save my life.
‘cause I don’t need it anymore.
but o my darling, here we go.

you get me high in that long white summer dress. 
take it off outside in the long green grass and I don’t need it anymore.
but it feels so good, o my lord. 
we talk about it.
we take the long way ‘round.
come on angel.
there’s only one way out.
one way.
you can make it easy.
just walk away now baby.
one way.
make it easy on me.
just walk away now, please.

are you a siren? 
you call me out.
you make it hard on me.
it’s hard to turn you down.
but I don’t need it anymore.
so keep your distance, o my lord.
we talk about it.
we take the long way ‘round.
come on angel.
there’s only one way out.


ANYTHING

it could have been anyone could have been a woman or a man.
must have swept her away made her forget who I am.
it could have been anyone could have slipped me a drug.
must have been a permanent dose to make me forget who she was.

it could have been anything could have been the time we spent alone.
maybe too much time together maybe too close to the bone.
it could have been anything any word I might have said.
just a look I might have given just the angle of my head (I forget). 

but we come we go.
we say that we know.
we don’t remember and we don’t remind each other.
we come we go
we say that we know.
we don’t remember.
and we don’t recognize each other.

it could have been anyone any rumor passed around.
someone made her doubt me made her head for higher ground.
it could have been anything any gesture or word. 
coulda been something I misstated something she misunderstood (I would).

we come we go 
we say that we know. 
we don’t remember and we don’t remind each other. 
we come we go
we say that we know.
we don’t remember.
and we don’t recognize that maybe this time things might work out right.
maybe this time she might catch my eye.
maybe something something anything could strike me blind and I might 
remember her and she might remember me this time.

it could have been anything anything the ring around her finger.
it could have been anything any piece that’s shattered on the way.
it could have been anything anyone she’ll take another lover.
it could have been anything anything anything anything.

we come we go.
we say we know.
but we don’t remember.
we come we go.
we say we know.
but we dont’ remember.
and we don’t recognize each other.


TEN MILLION YEARS

it’s such a simple thing.
I never feel this way.
I have nightmares I have dreams of you gone.
there is something in you I want today.
so hide the bones away beneath the yellow lines.
you’re scared of what you lose or what you might gain this time.

I love you more than I should.
I would wrap my heart in bands of rosewood.
I love you more than I should.
I would stay beside you here ten million years.

you see yourself in the mirror.
you see yourself at might.
you see yourself in the gutter, baby 
you see yourself like star shining bright.

I love you more than I should.
I would wrap my heart in bands of rosewood.
I love you more than I should.
I would stay beside you here ten million years.

every minute every hour every second you take me over.
everynight of every day that I wait I take I know I take 

but I love you more than I should.
I would wrap my heart in bands of rosewood.
I love you more than I should.
I would stay inside you here ten million years.


ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD

switch the children watch the women scream.
listen to the big machine. 
let’s have a party, let’s get some fireworks.
let’s see if we can we forget how the game goes.
marigolds gone to soldiers gone to seed.
listen to the big machine.

all the money.
all the money in the world.
all the money.
all the money can’t burn your big machine.

we wave our hands in bright white shades.
we wave our flags our billy clubs & spades.
help us now this is our hour of need.
listen to the big machine.

all the money.
all the money in the world.
all the money.
all the money can’t burn your big machine.


SLEEPS WITH ANGELS

she sleeps with angels way up high in the air.
she sleeps with angels she got angels in her hair.
they call her gabrielle from the way that she sings.
a lover come you ought to get you some wings.
she sleeps with angels up in the sky.
sleeping with angels you can’t help but get high.

when your bag gets heavy baby lay down your load.
get on your hands and knees and do like you been told.
you can ask for more or ask for less.
or you can just sleep forever in that big feather bed.
with the angels in their long white robes.
sleeping with jesus lord, sleeping with jove.

sleep with the angels mama never look back.
sleep with the angels while the sky turn to black.
you can sleep under ladders on the tracks of a train.
but sleeping in the clouds won’t keep you out of the rain.

BRING IT ON

you pound pound pound man it doesn’t get you anywhere.
I’m the one with the blond hair now I’m dyeing it blue black.
you take take take man does it get you hot.
you don’t know what you got.
now I’m taking it all back.
I’m going away.
I’m going away from here.

you fly fly fly yeah you think you’re super man.
well let me tell you clark kent.
I know who you are.
I’m going away.
I’m going away from here.

you’re bringing it on yourself.
you’re not that far not that far no you’re not that far from me.
you’re not that far away from me.
I’m going away.
I’m going away from here.
you’re bringing it on yourself.

GATES OF THE COUNTRY

april.
back in new york.
the 31st floor.
it seems somehow everything’s changed.
the kitchen too small.
plates on the wall.
the sound of machinery. 

may.
where have you been?
who were you running with?
wasn’t he someone you used to call home?
where is the ring?
where is the boy who went traveling alone?

she is much better without me.
she walks through the gates of the country.
hands at her side.
and I smile as I watch her walk by.
somehow I see there are ships in her eyes.
she is better off now.

june.
the curtain is shut.
the patterns are cut.
the maid who will wake you at dawn.
pulls out a chair.
pulls down your hair.
it’s just like you wanted.

july.
what’s going on.
what are you running from.
why are you sleeping alone on the floor.
some people change.
others hang on til they can’t anymore.

she is much better without me.
she walks through the gates of the country.
hands at her side.
and I smile as I watch her walk by.
somehow I see there are ships in her eyes.
she is better off now.

she is much better without me.
she walks throught the gates of the country.
her hands in the air.
and I smile as I watch her walk by.
somehow I see there are ships in her eyes.
she is much better now.