Semisonic--Great Divide

F. N. T.

Fascinating new thing
You delight me
And I know you're speaking of me
Fascinating new thing
Get beside me
I want you to love me
I'm surprised that you've never been told before
That you're lovely and you're perfect
And that somebody wants you

Fascinating new thing 
The scene makin'
Want a temporary saviour
Fascinating new thing
Don't betray them
By becoming familiar
I'm surprised that you've never been told before
That you're lovely and you're perfect
And that somebody wants you
I'm surprised that you've never been told before
That you're priceless and you're precious
Even when you are not new


IF I RUN

Morning comes and morning goes
Now it's me against the sun
The day goes by and darkness grows
And it's over before it's done

Well I know it'll be alright if I just get on the road
If I run I can free my worried mind
Yeah I know on the day I die I will lose my heavy load
But I wouldn't want to leave you behind

All my time keeps creeping on
Now I've grown into a man
But Mr. Child still wants to run
From the cradle to the van

Keep thinking it'll be alright if I just get on the road
If I run I can free my worried mind
Keep thinking of the day I die when I lose my heavy load
But I wouldn't want to leave you behind


DELICIOUS

You're delicious
When you call me
I've got nothing left to wait for
You're delicious
When you see me
I've got nothing left to pray for

hoo hoo yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah, yeah
hoo hoo yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah, yeah

You're delicious 
Come and feed me
I've got nothing left to cry for
You're delicious
Oh you sweet thing
You've got something I should open wide for

I would give my one last chance to you
Never to waste it
I would give my one last kiss to you
If you told me that you wanted to taste it

You're delicious
When you call me
I've got nothing left to sigh for
You're delicious
When you save me
I've got nothing left to die for


DOWN IN FLAMES	

It's not the pain I'm used to it
It's feeling like I'm already dead
I see from the ceiling a misty spirit
Rising from a place in my head
And I never even get to go down
Down in flames
I said friend you have a life to see
Why do you want to scare me so?
All this suffering's a mystery to me
I can't even pretend to know
So yu'll never even get to go down
Down in flames
We had plans to explore the stars
Be rejected by stage door guards
Mining for gold as the time unreels 
Not stifling behind suburban wheels
Not stifling behind suburban wheels
The plan was to burn up where the air was clear
We'd all wear our visors down
An arcwelder spark in the atmosphere
Not this man-sized hole in the ground
Now your father's face is frozen between anger and tears
Your mother's hair's amazingly gray
And I'm seeing these friends for the first time in years
It's icicle reunion day
and you never even got to go down
Down in flames
You never even go to go down
Down in flames

ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE

Over mountains
That's where my love lives
A long long ride to sunland
Here where I did this
Across the great divide
Alone (wondering open afraid and)
Arriving alive
Unknown (unknown unwise and unaided)
If I could I mihgt
Send my love on a plane ride
A black cross high in a blue sky
A green cross gliding on a million pines
Across the great divide
Alone wondering open afraid and
Arrive in a life 
Unknown (unknown unwise and unaided)
Across the great divide
Alone (wondering open afraid and)
Try to find a life
Unknown (unknown unwise and unaided)


TEMPTATION

I went to see temptation yesterday
In a fourplex out on the old high drive
Cause something in my life was runaway
Or maybe to prove that I am sitll alive
Temptation lives alone and she works all day
So I waited after five on her front porch
She arrived, parked her car and she walked my way
She smiled to see me standing at her door
Tell me now, how can pleasure be a sin
She turned the key in the lock and let me in
Ah...
Temptation showed me what I shouldn't do
Ah...
Temptation showed me what I shouldn't do
Somewhere in the world tonight
Two lovers are treating each other right
Somewhere in a lonely town
One lover waits an endless hour
Driving home in the dark I say this time will be the last
I know what I should never do
At least I'll keep temptation's photograph
Maybe hang on to her phone number too
Tell me now how pleasure can be a sin
Well I don't plan to tell anyone where I've been 
Ah...
Temptation showed me what I shouldn't do
Ah...
Temptation showed me what I shouldn't do


THE PRIZE

The night of a thousand verses
One thousand friends said have you heard
What we expected
We are all working late and 
Waiting to win a prize we don't deserve
And live to collect it
Can't you see I'm weary
Maybe this news can wait
the night of a thousand verses
One thousand strivers strain to hear
A voice that's left us
And the magazines still have to sell us
Twelve mastergeniuses a year
It's all so shameless
Can't you seem I'm weary
Maybe this news can wait
Can't you see I'm blurry
Maybe this news can wait
Maybe there was a message in it
I don't know where you hid it
Maybe there was a piece that will fit
I don't know where to fit it
Tell me what kind of prize can you get
Where you don't want to win it?
Can't you see I'm weary
Maybe this news can wait
Can't you see I'm blurry
Maybe this blues can wait


NO ONE ELSE

You're the movie star
Of my innerspace
Come to town awhile
Bring your quiet place
Show me how it's done 
With a wave of your hand
I'm destroyed and recreated
No one else can make me cry like you, you love
You're the only one
Who did everything right
Come to play with me
Come to change my mind
Sleepy valium
Low red light in the wine
I've been thinking about
the one you left behind
No one else can make me cry like you, you love
Laughing lost her way she caught a train
to far points north and left the phone bill
on the table in the sun
She'd had enough of her old self same face
same space she wanted wider fields where she could run
Come on then
Time is getting late
show me how you
Make it all right
No one else can make me cry like you
No one else can make me fly get me high
shine light inside and make me cry like you, you, love


BRAND NEW BABY

Time, you needed time out of the mainstream
Out on your only
Alone to find yourself somehow
So I'm a bit surprised to see you lately
Beside a brand new baby
But if it makes you happy now
I guess it's great
I guess you're not mind
Brand new baby beside you now, oh yeah
I guess that's great
You don't see me cryin'
And there's nobody to slow you down, oh yeah
If you're feeling sorry try to contain it
You don't need to save me
Don't waste your pity anyhow
And you might like to believe I'm devastated
To see you with your lovin' baby
Well if it makes you happy now
I guess that's great
I guess you're not mine
Brand new baby beside you now, oh yeah
I guess that's great
You don't see me cryin'
And there's nobody to slow you down, oh yeah
Seen you with your brand new baby
Sure it fazes me just to hear you laughing
Makes me just a little crazy but I guess it's a great thing
If it makes you happy now


FALLING

High above the midway lights
High above the rides, you me and the sky
The whole world looks small tonight
And you said we could never really fly
Well if you're right and we're nothing at all
Tell me why did I keep thinking about you calling
If you're right and we're nothing at all
Tell me why do you keep thinking that you're falling
Swaying, sighing at the skywheel top
Then you sya that I can never make you mine
Well lights, rings, constellations turn and stop
Kiss me once again and change your mind
If you're right and we're nothing at all
Tell me why did I keep thinking about you calling
If you're right and we're nothing at all
Tell me why do you keep thinking that you're falling


IN ANOTHER LIFE

Hold on tight to what you believe in
Hold on to whatever you need, oh yeah
Step inside the sweet illusion 
Of another life
Where it's enough to be well-meaning
And if you crash your plane, you can try it again, oh yeah
Well this time while you're believing
In another life
In another time
Too late I'm done waiting
I won't be there
In another life
In another time
You always believed we'd mend it later
In another life
In another time
Well I'm done waiting
When you finally tend to your blessings
You'd be mistaken to count on me, oh yeah
Because you believed we'd do our loving
In another life
Darling
Too late I'm done waiting
I won't be there
In another life
In another time
You always believed we'd mend it later
In another life
In another time
well I'm done waiting
If you come round to see me don't be surprised
Maybe I'm out waiting in another life
In another life.....


I'LL FEEL FOR YOU

If you're afraid to cry
Though you could use it once in a while
Nothing will cloud your eyes
You've been caught in one of those times
When nothing's real or getting through
And it seems like you've forgotten how to feel
Call me
I'll feel for you	
And some days you'll feel for me too
If you're afraid to smile
Though you could use it just to survive
There's nowhere you wnat to drive
And you're only staying alive 
Cos it's the thing to do
And it seems your bell's forgotten how to ring
Call me
I'll feel for you
And some days you'll feel for me too
If you're afraid to cry
Though you could use it just to survive 
There's nowhere you want to drive
And you're only staying alive
Cos it's the thing to do
And it seems your mouth's forgotten how to sing
Call me
Yeah
Call me
Call me
I'll feel for you
And some days you'll feel for me too