PEARL JAM
Ten (1992)
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 sixteen 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 and 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... (You think I got my eyes closed) (But I'm looking at you the whole fucking time) 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 you Once, once, once, once, once, once
Freezing, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again Oh feeling, maybe he'll see a little better, set a days Oh hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar Oh dark grin, he can't help when he's happy looks insane 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, life again Kneeling, looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read Oh praying, now to something that has never showed him anything Oh feeling, understands the weather of the winters on its way Oh ceilings, few and far 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, gently lead him away Him away, him away, yeah!
Son, she said, have I got a little story for you What you thought was your daddy was nothing but a... While you were sitting home alone at age thirteen Your real daddy was dying Sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked Oh I, oh, I'm still alive Hey I, oh, I'm still alive Hey I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, oh 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 Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare I, I'm still alive Hey I, but I'm still alive Hey I, boy, I'm still alive Hey I, I, I'm still alive, yeah Is something wrong? She said Well, of course there is You're still alive, she said Oh, and do I deserve to be Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers, who answers I, oh, I'm still alive Hey I, oh, I'm still alive Hey I, oh, I'm still alive Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
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 fuck, and mommy agrees Why go home? (x3) She seems to be stronger, but what they want her to be is weak She could play pretend, she could join the game, boy She could be another clone Why go home? (x4) What you taught me, put me here Don't come visit, mother Sting me Why go home? (x4) What you taught me, put me here Don't come visit, mother, mother Why go home? (x7)
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay Her lace 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 have 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 ever be, yeah! I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky But why? Why? Why can't it be? Why can't it be mine?
At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V The 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 (x2) Clearly I remember picking on the boy Seemed a harmless little fuck But we unleashed a lion, gnashed his teeth And bit the recess lady's breast, how could I forget? And he hit me with a surprise left My jaw left hurting, ooh dropped wide open Just like the day, oh like the day I heard Daddy didn't give affection And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear King Jeremy the wicked ruled his world Jeremy spoke in class today (x3) Try to forget this, try to forget this Try to erase this, try to erase this From the blackboard Jeremy spoke in class today (etc.)
Hold on to the thread The currents will shift glide me towards You know something's left And we're all allowed to dream of the next The next time we touch You don't have to stray The 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
What the fuck is this world? Running to, you didn't Leave a message, at least I could've learned your voice one last time Daily minefield, this could be my time by 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 I could not take a-just one day I know when I would not ever touch you Hold you, feel you Ever hold, never again
He don't wander in, don't wander in here She don't wander in here, don't wander in here 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 She don't wander in, don't wander in here She don't wander in here... 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, and we're still alone I won't be taken, yet I'll go 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 I will walk with my hands bound... I don't know, I don't care I don't need, need to live
On the edge of a windowsill Ponders his maker, ponders his will To the street below, he just ain't nothing But he's got a great view, and he sinks the needle Deep, can't touch the bottom Into deep yeah, can't touch the bottom Oh, on the edge of a know-nothing town Feeling quite superior, the aged come To the sky above he just ain't nothing But he's got a great view, and he sinks a burning knife Deep, can't touch the bottom... On the edge of a Christmas clean love Young virgin from heaven, visiting hell To the man above her, she just ain't nothing And she doesn't like the view, she doesn't like the view She doesn't like the view, but he sinks himself Deep, can't touch the bottom...
I see the world, feel the chill Which way to go, windowsill I see the world's on a rocking horse of time I see the birds in the rain Oh, dear dad, 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 dad, 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 (x3)
Vs. (1993)
Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go on me now Never acted up before, don't go on me now I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now Suppose I abused you, just passing it on Go! Fuck Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm I pulled the covers overhead, shoulda' pulled the alarm Turned to my nemesis, a fool not a fucking god No...time...suck...my Please, don't go on me Don't go on me (x3) Please...oh... Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see... Please, please, please... Don't go on me (4x) Please...Don't you want me...don't go on me... Please...don't go on me..
One, two, three, four, five against one Five, five, five, five against one Said one, two, three, four, five against one Five, five...five, five...five against one Torture from you to me Abducted from the street I'd rather be, I'd rather be with I'd rather be with an animal Why would you wanna hurt me, oh Oh, so frightened of your pain - Yeah 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 (x2) Said one, two, three, four, five against one Five, five...five, five...five against one One, two, three, four, five against one Five, five...five, five...five against one
Alone, listless, breakfast table in an otherwise empty room Young girl, violins, center of her own attention The mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it Tries to make her proud The shades go down, it's in 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 be The picture kept will remind me Don't call me... She holds the hand that holds her down She will...rise above...ooh...oh... Don't call me daughter, not fit to } The picture kept will remind me } (2x) Don't call me daughter, not fit to be } The picture kept will remind me } Don't call me... The shades go down (2x) The shades go, go, go...
Got a gun, fact I got two That's O.K. man, cuz I love god Glorified version of a pellet gun Feels so manly, when armed Glorified version of a pellet gun (4x) Double 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 (3x) Glorified version of a... Always keep it loaded (3x) Kindred to be an American... Life comes...I can feel your heart... Ooh...life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck... Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck... Like some...I can steal your heart form your neck... Glorified...glorified...
She nursed him there, ooh, 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, oh...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, oh...oh...oh... 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, oh... Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded... A dissident is here Escape is never the safest place, oh... A dissident is here
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 (2x) 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 (2x) Police stopped my brother again (3x) Police man (2x) Jesus greets me...looks just like me... Do no wrong, so clean cut Dirty his hands, it comes right off Police man (3x) Police stopped my brother again (3x) Police man (2x) Police stopped my brother again (3x) Police man (3X) All my pieces set me free...human devices set me free... All my pieces set me free... (2x) } (2x) Human devices set me free... (2x) }
Spin me round, roll me over, fucking circus Stab it down, one way needle, pulled so slowly Drains and spills, soaks the pages, fills their sponges It's my blood (2x) Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into...One of his enemies... It's my blood (3x) Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my life out Maker of my enemies... Take...my... Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...
I took a drive today, time to emancipate I guess it was the beatings made me wise But I'm not about to give thanks or apologize I couldn't breathe, holding me down Hand on my face, pushed to the ground Enmity gauged, united by fear Suppose to endure what I could not forgive I seem 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 gauged, united by fear Tried to endure what I could not forgive Saw things, saw things (x2) Clearer, clearer Once you were in my rearviewmirror I gather speed from you fucking with me Once and for all I'm far away I hardly believe, finally the shades are raised...hey Saw things so much clearer Once you, once you Rearviewmirror
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 one's feet They don't push, don't crowd Congregate until they're much too loud Fuck to procreate till 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 what's 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 bread 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 what's not theirs, they don't compare Rats...They don't compare (2x) Ben, the two of us need look no more (5X)
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 one's ever taken me Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x) I swear I recognize your breath Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising Me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former It's 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 (etc.)
Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh... I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side I am right by your side, yeah... Young lover I stand It was their idea, I proved to be a man Take my fucking 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... } (3x) Get outta' my fucking face } Drop the leash, we are young (2x) Oh, get outta' my fucking face... Drop the leash, drop the leash... Get outta' my, my... Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww... Get outta' my fucking face...
I will light the match this morning, so I won't be alone Watch as she lies silent, for 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 in Hell... How much difference does it make How much difference does it make, yeah... I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm Oh, I'll keep taking punches until 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 Mmm, how much difference does it make..how much difference... I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room How much difference (2x) How much difference does it make (2x)
Vitalogy (1994)
Lives opened and trashed, "Look ma, watch me crash" No time to question, why'd nothing last Grasp and hold on, we're dying fast Soon be over and I will relent Let the ocean swell, dissolve 'way my past Three days, and maybe longer, won't even know I've left Under your tongue, I'm like a tab 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, and maybe longer, shed my skin at last Shed, shed Let the sun shine, burn 'way my mask Three days, and maybe longer, won't ever find me here Let the ocean dissolve 'way my past Four days, and not much longer Let my spirit pass! This is, this is... (x3) My last exit
See this needle, a see my hand Drop, drop, dropping it down, oh so gently Well here it comes, I touch the plane 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... You're so warm, oh the ritual When I lay down your crooked arm Spin, spin...
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? 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 (x3) 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 (x3) Oh, never was for you, fuck you (etc.)
Winded is the sailor, drifting by the storm Wounded is the organ he left all, bloodied on the shore Gorgeous was his savior, sees her drowning in his wake Daily taste the salt of her tears, but a chance blamed fate Little secrets, tremors turned to quake The smallest oceans still get big, big waves Ransom paid the Devil, he whispers pleasing words Triumphant are the angels if they can get there first Little secrets, tremors... I'll decide, take the dive Take my time, not my life Wait for signs, believe in lies To get by, it's divine, whoa! Oh, you know what it's like Turns the bow back towards him, drops the line Puts his faith and love in Tremor Christ
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 lightning, cursed the day he let it go Nothingman, Nothingman 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 shared prison cell One just escapes, one's left inside the well And he who forgets will be destined to remember Nothingman... Oh, she don't want him Oh, she won't feed him After he's flown away Oh, into the sun, into the sun Burn, burn, ah! Nothingman... Nothingman, Nothingman Could have been something, Nothingman
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 They're whipping (x4) 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 (x4) Don't mean to push, but I'm being shoved Oh, 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 They're whipping... (etc.)
P-r-i-v-a-c-y is priceless to me (x4) P-r-i-v-a-c-y (x4)
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 firmist path, oh, and I must refuse your test Push me and I will resist, this behavior's not unique I don't wanna 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 wanna be held in your debt I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed I'm already cut up and half dead I'll end up alone like I began Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my tincture I don't wanna take what you can give I would rather starve than eat your bread All the things that others want for me Can't buy what I want because it's free (x2) Can't be what you want because I'm... I ain't supposed to be this far Oh, to live and die, let it be done I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began (It's your move now) (I thought you were a friend) (But I guess I, I guess I hate you)
(All these...) 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 on 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 question's: 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 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 I see they surround me, I see, see them deciding my fate Oh, that which was once, was once up to me, 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 with the... I'll become one
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, Thursdays, the same Sometimes the special guest, he don't like to leave Already in love (x3) 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... (Follows torture, follows reward) (x2) (Oh, oh my butt) 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 OK Already in love...
Waiting, watching the clock, it's four o'clock, it's got to stop Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech As he opens the door, she rolls over 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 Can't find a better man, can't find a better man Talking to herself, there's no one else who needs to know She tells herself, oh Memories back when she was bold and strong And waiting for the world to come along Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone 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 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 Can't find a better man, can't find a better man She loved him, yeah, she don't want to leave this way She feeds him, yeah, that's why she'll be back again Can't find a better man, can't find a better man Can't find a better man, can't find a better man
Awooh...aye davanita...awooh...awooha... (x4) Jahooh...jahooh... (etc.)
Vacate is the word, engeance 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...
Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me
Don't you want people to love you? My spanking, that's the only thing I want so much... Spanking, that's the only thing I want so much... That's the only thing I want so much... Don't you want people to love you? My spanking, that's the only thing I want so much... That's the only thing I want so much... Why is that better than being hugged? Why is that better than being hugged? Because you get closer to the person... Closer to the person... Why is that better than being hugged? Because you get closer to the person... Closer to the person... Just like a person having sex feels cared for... We wanna be loved, so we have sex together... And they feel loved about that... And this is the way it makes me feel...loved... I want it, I dream about it, I think about it, I want it... Just like a girl wants sex with a boy, you know? It's the way I'll always be probably... My last one was born in the system... See, they're stupid, very stupid, those people over there... They're stupid... These people are so below mentality, honest to G-d, really... You know what I mean, he got the nerve to bug me... (2x) This mentality, honest to G-d, really... You know what I mean, he got the nerve to bug me... Honest to G-d, really... You know what I mean, he got the nerve to bug me... Bug me...bug me...he got the nerve to bug me... Everything seems so eight ball... (2x) And I, I don't know if that's my imagination, but, umm... Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me... And I don't know if that's my imagination, but, umm... Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me... (2x) Think they got me... Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...hmm... Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me... ...Know if that's my imagination, but, umm... Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me... She prides herself on her cleaning habits... (2x) Hey foxymophandlemama, that's me... She prides herself on her cleaning habits... (2x) It's a lovely stupid mop, it is... There's something really screwey about no streaking... Is it any old dumb mop? It streaks... Come on mop, no streaking mop... I don't mind mop the floor, my mop streaks, I don't like it... It's not me, it's the mop... Come, I bought some new mops... Go away you stupid, dumb old sponge mop... I don't believe it...now the floor looks beautiful... (2x) I don't believe it...old sponge mop... Dumb old sponge mop... (2x) Old sponge mop... Dumb old sponge mop... You're right, this mop's stupid... Dumb old sponge mop... I don't believe it...now the floor looks beautiful... That's why they call me mophandlemama... Now the floor looks beautiful... That's why they call me mophandlemama... (3x) In two weeks, before she could see herself not dressed... The twenty-third of May...you know she disturbed no one today... The manager told her to completely forget... If you ever go to bed, I'll kill you... Do I tell the whole world that I'm mentally ill? Go to the papers...yeah, why not? Drum roll... I want to show them that I can walk on my own without hands of theirs... And, I can still fantasize, but I keep it to myself... Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... I think I deserve to be loved, don't you? Very much so... Think I deserve to be loved... Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... I think I deserve to be loved, don't you? ...To be loved, don't you? But I keep it to myself... Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... I think I deserve to be loved, don't you? And, I can still fantasize, but I keep it to myself... Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... I think I deserve to be loved, don't you? Very much so... Do you ever think that you would actually, really kill yourself? Well, if I have thought about it real, uhh, real deep... Yeas, I believe I would... I have thought about it real, uhh, real deep... Yes, I believe I would... And, I can still fantasize, but I keep it to myself... Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... ...that I can walk without hands of theirs... } And, I can still fantasize, but I keep it to myself... } (2x) Keep it to myself...keep it to myself... } I think I deserve to be loved, don't you? } Very much so... Do you ever think that you actually would kill yourself? Well, if I have thought about it real, uhh, real deep... Yeas, I believe I would...
No Code (1996)
Large fingers pushing 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
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 thinking, 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 you till 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 Oh, I could be new, you underestimate me If you're the only one... 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 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
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, clapping hands Guiding 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
Up here in my tree, yeah Newspapers matter not to me, yeah 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 seen the tempted It's up here so high I start to mistake Up here so high in the sky Iscrape I'm so high I hold just one breath A deep breath in my chest, just like innocence I remember when, yeah I swore I blew everything away, yeah Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah It's growing up just like me, 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
Don't it make you smile? Don't it make you smile? When the sun don't shine, don't it make you smile? Don't it make you smile? Don't it make me smile? When the sun don't shine, 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 hearts, swirls all around her, I miss you all day
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 moving much too fast Said he'll see me on the flip side On this trip he's taken 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 '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 going to happen next Before his first step, he's off again
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 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 (x3) I never thought you'd, never thought you'd Never thought you'd habit (x3) I never thought you'd, never never thought you'd Never thought you'd habit (x6) (Speaking as a child of the 90's) Never thought you'd habit... Never - Never me, never you, never me
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 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 waiting, oh 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 Hovering just above your bed Hovering just above your bed I was bitten... He's waiting, hoping If I had known then what I know now (x4)
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 Lukings, I gotta spot at Lukings Unlock the door at Lukings, 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
Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire? Leaning 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 you're 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 getting harder to find and approach, ain't no way to live Are we getting something out of this? All encompassing trip You can spend your time alone...
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 faking it? I'll be playing with my magazine Using up my Listerine like ovaltine And you'll be dipping in your battleship For the latest tip, for the latest drain It's all just inadvertent imitation... It's all just inadvertent imitation, a pattern in all mankind What's got the whole world faking? (etc.)
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, I'm open Come in, come in Come in, come in Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers He decides to dream, dream up a new self, for himself
I am 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 you 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 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
Yield (1998)
Who's got the brain of JFK? What's it mean to us now? Oh, it's hard to trust but I can tell you this is no lie The whole world will be different soon The whole world will be relieved The whole world will be different soon The whole world will be relieved You, you've been taught, whipped into shape, now they've got you in line Stand behind the stripes, that will be yours so give it good mind The whole world will be different... Lend my name, the name they gave me The name I'm letting go The whole world will be different...
Plaque on the wall says that no one's slept here It's rare to come upon a bridge that has not been around Or been stepped on Whatever the notion we laced in our prayers The man upstairs is used to all of this noise I'm through with screaming And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it (x4) And echoes nobody hears... M-Y-T-H: it's, belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear We never listen voice inside so drowned out Drowned you are, you are, you are a furry thing And everything is you, me you, you me, it's all related What's a boy to do? Just be darling and I will be too Faithful to you
Here's a token of my open-ness, of my need to not disappear How I'm feeling so revealing to me, I found my mind too clear I just need someone to be there for me I just want someone to be there for me All the static in my attic shoots down my sliding door To the ocean of my platitudes, longitudes, latitudes, it's so absurd I just need someone to be there for I just want someone to be there for Someone to be there for I'll stop trying to make a difference I'm not trying to make a difference I'll stop trying to make a difference, no way 'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference I'm not trying to make a difference I''ll stop trying to make a difference, no way Ooh, let's call in an angel (x3) 'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference...
He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out A bad time, nothing could save him Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out He got up out of there ran for hundreds of miles He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree The wind rose up, set him down on his knees A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw Delivered him wings: "Hey, look at me now" Arms wide open with the sea as his floor, oh He's flying! Oh, high! Wide! Oh He floated back down ‘cause he wanted to share his key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed by faceless men, well fuckers, he still stands And he still gives his love, he just gives it away The love he recieves is the love that is saved And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky A human being that was given to fly Flying! Oh, high! Flying! Oh, he's flying! Oh
I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on the Christmas tree I wish I was the star that went on top, I wish I was the evidence I wish I was the grounds for fifty million hands up raised and opened toward the sky I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me I wish I was a messenger and all the news is good I wish I was the full moon shining off your camaro's hood I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on I wish I was the pedal break that you depended on I wish I was the verb to trust, and never let you down I wish I was the radio song, the one that you turned up I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I guess it never stops
Talk of circles, punching out Looking in, drawing circles down Falling off the South, marking ground Talking out of turn, drawing circles down Like Pilate, I have a dog (x2) Walks me out of town, still one's a crowd Making angels in the dirt, looking up, looking all around Like Pilate, I have a dog (x2) Stunned by my own reflection It's looking back, sees me too clearly And I swore I'd never go there again Not unlike a friend that lightly drags you down You down, you down, you down Like Pilate, I have a dog (etc.)
I'm ahead, I'm the man I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah I'm at peace with my lust I can kill ‘cause in God I trust, yeah It's evolution, baby I'm a beast, I'm the man Buying stocks on the day of the crash, yeah On the loose, I'm a truck All the rolling hills I'll flatten them out, yeah It's heard behavior, uh-huh It's evolution, baby Admire me, admire my home Admire my song, here's my clone Yeah, yeah This land is mine, this land is free I'll do what I want but I do irresponsibly It's evolution, baby I'm a thief, I'm a liar Here's my church, and I sing in the choir: Hallelujah, halleujah Admire me, admire my home Admire my song, admire my clothes An appetite for a nightly feast Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me Nothing, why? Because it's evolution, baby! I am ahead, I am advanced I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah I crawled the earth, but now I'm hot I tried to chill but you turned to fire It's evolution, baby (x2) Ahh, do the evolution Come on - Come on, come on
We're all crazy We're all crazy and we're
Sliding out of reverse into drive, this We will be turning right, then straight Off in the sunset she'll ride She can remember a time denied Stood by the side of the road, spilled like wine now She's out on her own and I'm high There's no leaving here, ask, I'm an ear She's disappeared They said that timing was everything Made him want to be everywhere There's a lot to be said for nowhere There's no leaving here, ask, I'm an ear He's disappeared There's no leaving here, ask, I'm an ear (Fuck it) we've disappeared
Clouds roll by Realing is what say or is it just my way? Wind goes by, low light Side-tracked, low light Can't see my tracks, your scent way back Can I be here all alone? Clear a path to my home Blood runs dry Books and jealousy tell me wrong, I will feel calm Voice blows by, low light Car crash, low light Can't wear my mask, your first, my last Voice goes by Two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way Wind rolls by, low light Eyesight, low light I need the light, I'll find my way from wrong What's real? The dream I see
I shut and locked the front door, no way in or out I turned and walked the hallway and pulled the curtains down I knelt and emptied the mouth of every club around But nothing's sound, nothing's sound I stayed where my last cap left me, ignored all my rounds Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls They're upside down I swallow my words to keep from lying I swallow my first just to keep from biting I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened, now I'm in hiding yeah, I'm in hiding yeah I'm in hiding yeah, I'm in hiding It's been about three days now since I've been a ground No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now It's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind I swallowed my first to keep from lying I swallowed my face just to keep from biting I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened, now I'm in hiding...
I had a false belief I thought I came here to stay We're all just visiting, all just breaking like waves The oceans made me, but who came up with me? Push me, pull me, push me or pull me out Push me, pull me or pull me out (x2) So if there were no angels, would there be no sin? You better stop me before I begin, but let me say If I behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground? Somewhere nice, make it nice, where the land meets my tide Push me, pull me or pull me out Push me, pull me (x2) Like a cloud dropping rain, I'm discarding all thought I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground I'm like an opening band for the sun Push me, pull me... I've had enough, said enough Felt enough, I'm fine
Don't you think you oughta rest? Don't you think you oughta lay your head down? Don't you think you want to sleep? Don't you think you oughta lay your head down tonight? Don't you think you've done enough? Don't you think you've got enough? Well maybe You don't think there's time to stop There's time enough for you to lay your head down Tonight, tonight Let it wash away, all those yesterdays What are you running from? Taking pills to get along Creating walls to call your own So no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things That we all do Let them wash away, all those yesterdays All those yesterdays, all those yesterdays All those paper plates, all those yesterdays You've got time, you've got time to escape There's still time, it's no crime to escape It's no crime to escape, it's no crime to escape There's still time so escape, it's no crime, crime All those yesterdays, all those yesterdays (etc.)
Binaural (2000)
There’s a girl on a ledge who’s got nowhere to turn 'Cause all the love that she had was just wood that she burned Now her life is on fire it’s no ones concern She can blame the world or prey till dawn But only love can break her fall, break her fall Yeah, only love can break her fall - Fall It’s like she lost her invitation to the party on earth And she’s standing outside hating everyone here Yeah, she’s her own disease, crying to her doll But only love can break her fall, break her fall Only love can break her fall, yeah Yeah fall. the world is her fall. break her fall Love, love, love can break her fall. who? Now only love can break her fall. Love, love, love can break her fall. fall Love, love can break her fall Only love can break her
It's out of my hands making your hands meet Stumble rises crumbling out of reach It's in the cards of destiny, your sanity in tow Designate my luck, resignate This power has no roots to guide, no role Trust me, rusted minds refuse to go Unwillingness is meaningless to walk away in vain Designate my will, designate my fill Ah resignate My will is crashing, synapses flashing slow Days like frame by frame, where do they go? Ah yeah, why fight? Forget it, cannot spend it after I go Roll them high Throw them again All God's dice Monkey driven, call this living? Too much thought it's overwrought a hole Yeah, minding yours, what's mine not yours, will finish us off Designate my life, designate my view Resignate my will, my will, my will I will resignate my god
The sirens scream wanton attention Time to take heed and change direction Time to take stock and make omissions Evacuation, evacuation Time to take leave all formal functions Time to plant seeds of a reconstruction No time this time to feign reluctance It’s like your waiting for a diamond shore to wash your way Bets put aside you’re evil, lets crawl into your face A vision vague or not raising a frightful wake you up Time for evacuation, evacuation Evacuation, evacuation Evacuation, evacuation There was a solemn man, watched his twilight disappear (in the sand) Altered by a falling eagle, a warning sign (sign) He sensed that worry could be strength with a plan he said Time for evacuation...
I’ve used hammers made out of wood I have played games with pieces and rules I undeciphered tricks at the bar But now you’re gone, I haven’t figured out why I’ve come up with riddles and jokes about war I figured out numbers and what they’re for I’ve understood feelings and I’ve understood words But how could you be taken away? And wherever you’ve gone and wherever we might go It don’t seem fair, today just disappeared Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar We were but stones, your light made of stars With heavy breath awakened regrets Back pages and days that could have been spent together but we were miles apart Every inch between us becomes light years now No time to be void or save up on life Oh, you got to spend it all And wherever you’ve gone and wherever we might go It don’t seem fair. you seam to like it here Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar We were but stones, your light made of stars And wherever you’ve gone...
Don’t feel like home, he’s a little out And all these words elope, it’s nothing like your poem Putting in, inputting in, don’t feel like methadone A scratching voice all alone, it’s nothing like your baritone It’s nothing as it seems, the little that he needs it’s home The little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it’s home One uninvited chromosome, a blanket like the ozone It’s nothing as it seems, all that he needs it’s home The little that he frees is nothing he believes Saving up a sunny day, something maybe two tone Anything of his own, a chip off the corner stone Who’s kidding? Rainy day, a one way ticket headstone Occupations overthrown, a whisper through a megaphone It’s nothing as it seems, the little that he needs it’s home The little that he sees is nothing he concedes, it’s home And all that he frees, a little bittersweet, it’s home It’s nothing as it seems, the little that you see, it’s home
There’s a light when my baby’s in my arms There’s a light when the window shades are drawn Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her Wash it off 'cause this feeling we can share And I know she’s reached my heart in thin air Byzantine is reflected in our pond There’s a cloud, but the water remains calm Reaching in the suns fingers clutch the dawn to pass Even out, it’s a precious thing to bear And I know she’s reached my heart in thin air Yes, I know she’s reached my heart in thin air It’s not in my past to presume, love can keep on moving in both directions How to be happy and true is quest we’re taking on together Take it on, on, on, on, on Take it on, on, on, on, on There’s a light when my baby’s in my arms And I know she’s reached my heart in thin air And I know she’s reached my heart in thin air And I know she’s reached my heart in thin air Yes, I know she’s reached my heart
All in all it's no one's fault, excuses turn to carbon walls Blame it all on chemical intercourse The swallowed seeds of arrogance breeding in the thoughts of ten thousand fools that fight irrelevance The full moon is dead skin, the one down here's wearing thin So set up the ten pins as the human tide rolls in Like a ball that's spinning Bombs dropping down, overhead on the ground It's instilled to want to live Bombs dropping down, please forgive our hometown In our insignificance "Turn the jukebox up" he said, dancing in irreverence. Play C-3, let the song protest The plates began to shift, perfect lefts come rolling in I was alone and far away hey, when I heard the band start playing On the lip they take off Bombs dropping down... Feel like resonance of distance In the blood the iron lies It's instilled to want to live Bombs dropping down, please forgive our hometown In our insignificance, oh in our insignificance
Oh, he deals them off of the top, ties them off Fills it up with his past, gets carried away Oh, half his life a hand me down wasted away Oh, he fills it up with the love of a girl Oh, he left it alone, drilled the pain with money to buy How he makes his getaway (x2) Oh, he chose a path, heavy the fall. quarter to four Fills his night with the thought of a girl How he makes his getaway (x3) Getaway
Have a drink they're buying, bottom of bottle of denial Big eye, big eye watching me Have to wonder what it sees, sin Progress laced with ramifications Freedom's big punch, oh Pull the innocent from a crowd Raise those sticks them bring them down If they fail to obey, ah if they fail to obey For every tool they lend us a loss of independence. I pledge my grievance to the flag 'Cause you don't give blood then take it back again Oh, we're all deserving something more Progress, taste it, invest it all Champagne breakfast for everyone Break the innocent when they're proud Raise those stakes then bring them down If they fail to obey, ah if they fail to obey Pledge your grievance to the flag 'Cause, don't give blood then take it back again Oh, we're all deserving something more (Have a, have a drink, drink) (x2) I wanna breathe part of the scene, I wanna taste everyone I see I wanna run when I'm up high, I wanna run to the sea I want life to be, I just wanna be I will feel alive as long as I am free
All my rivals will see what I have in store, my gun I've been harboring fleets in this reservoir, red sun And this nation's about to explode Your disciples are riddled with metaphors, well hung Better pony up and bring both your barrels full, not one As we release this unspeakable toll Every grain of sand equals all the stars around the world How's our mother to damn these contributors? With mud How will the man who made chemicals difficult? Shed blood How's our father supposed to be told? I don't know
Routine was the theme, he’d wake up wash and pour himself into uniform Something he hadn’t imagined being As the merging traffic passed he found himself staring down at his own hands Not remembering the change, not recalling the plan, was it? He was OK, but wondering about wandering Was it age by consequence or was he moved by sleight of hand? Mondays were made to fall, lost on a road he knew by heart It was like a book he read in his sleep, endlessly Sometimes he hid in the radio, watching other pull into their homes While he was drifting On a line of his own, off the line of the side, by the by As dirt turned to sand, as if moved by sleight of hand When he reached the shore of his clip on world he resurfaced to the norm Organized his few things, his coat and keys And he knew realizations would have to wait 'Till he had more time, more time A time to dream to himself, he waves goodbye to himself I’ll see you on the other side, another man moved by slight of hand
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he’ll get the girl, he’ll only get the mechanic What’s missing? He’s living a day he’ll soon forget That’s one more time around, the sun is going down The moon is out but he’s drunk and shouting, putting people down He’s pissing, he’s living a day he’ll soon forget Counts his money every morning The only thing that keeps him horny Locked in a giant house that’s alarming. The townsfolk they all laugh Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent Seem the more you make equals the loneliness you get And it’s fitting, he’s barley living a day he’ll soon forget That’s one more time around and there is not a sound He’s lying dead clutching benjamins, never put the money down He’s stiffening, we’re all whistling a man we’ll soon forget
Behind her eyes there’s curtains And they’ve been closed to hide the flames, remains She knows their future's burning But she can smile just the same, same And though her mood is fine today There’s a fear they’ll soon be parting ways Standing like a statue A chin of stone a heart of clay, hey And thought he’s too big a man to say There’s a fear they’ll soon be parting ways Drifting away, drifting away Drifting away, away, away
Riot Act (2002)
I wanna shake, I wanna wind out I wanna leave this mind and shout I’ve lived all this life like an ocean in disguise I don’t live forever, you can’t keep me here I wanna race with the sun down I want a last breath, I don't let I forgive every being, the bad feelings, it’s just me I won’t wait for answers, you can’t keep me here I wanna rise and say goodnight I wanna take a look on the other side I’ve lived all these lives, it’s been wonderful at night I will live forever, you can’t keep me here
I'm gonna save you fucker, not gonna lose you Feeling cocky and strong, can’t let you go Too important to me Too important to us, we’d be lost without you Baby, let yourself fall, I’m right below you now And fuck me if I say something you don’t wanna hear, fuck me And fuck if you only hear what you wanna hear Fuck me if I care, but I’m not leaving here You helped me when I was down, I’ll help when you’re down Why are you hitting yourself, come on hit me instead Let’s pick up your will, it’s grown fat and lazy I’m sympathetic as well, don’t go on me now And I’m not living this life without you, I’m selfish and clear And you’re not leaving here without me, I don’t wanna be without My best friend, wake up to see you could have it all 'Cause there is but you, and something within you It’s taken control, let’s beat it, get up, let’s go Oh you’re in your own world, let’s see the whole world Let’s pick up your soul And fuck me if I say something you don’t wanna hear, fuck me And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head Please help me to help you Help yourself, help me Help yourself, please want me to Please let me to, please let me to help you
Is this just another day in this God forgotten place? First comes love, then comes pain, let the games begin Questions rise and answers fall, insurmountable Love boat captain, take the reigns and steer us towards the clear, here It’s already been sung, but it can’t be said enough, all you need is love Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings Once you hold the hand of love, it’s all surmountable Hold me and make it the truth That when all is lost there will be you 'Cause to the universe I don’t mean a thing And there’s just one word I still believe and it’s love It’s an art to live with pain, mix the light into grey Lost nine friends we’ll never know, two years ago today And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret? And the young, they can lose hope 'cause they can’t see beyond today The wisdom that the old can’t give away, hey Constant recoil, sometimes life don’t leave you alone Hold me and make it the truth... Love boat captain, take the reigns and steer us towards the clear I know it’s already been sung, can’t be said enough Love is all you need, all you need is love Love, love
Light green to green, dark green, brown Every life is falling down Brown to black, it’s coming back Dies to be part of the ground Seed to seedling, root to stem Eyes, no eyes, there’s no difference Every life is looking in Swallowing seeds on the deathbed Dig a hole in the garden Everyone is practicing but this world’s an accident I was the fool because I thought I thought the world turns out the world thought me It’s all the other way round, we’re upside down Daddy’s gone up flames But this ain’t no movie This ain’t no book you can close When the big lie hits your eye Everybody’s practicing... Let the fluence sat it down, down, down Let the fluence sat it down There’s an upside of down The moon is rolling round the world
The mind is grey like the city, packing in and overgrown Love is deep, dig it out, standing in a hole alone Working for something that one can never hold A place in the clouds, good place to hide, oh my oh So I'm flying (away, away), driving (away, away) Finding, hoping, ways I missed before, I missed before The TV, she talks to me, breaking news and building walls Selling me,what I don't need, I didn't know soap made you taller So I'm riding (away, away), hiding (away, away) So much talk it makes no sense at all, my sense is getting cold So I'm hiding (away, away), driving (away, away) Passing old friends I won't know at all, won't know at all It doesn't hurt when I bleed, but my memories they eat me I've seen it all before, bring it on 'cause I'm no victim Dying (away, away)
The selfish they’re all standing in line Faith in their hope and to buy themselves time Me, I figure as each breath goes by I only own my mind The North is to South what the clock is to time There’s East and there’s West and there everywhere life I know that I was born and I know that I’ll die The in between is mine, I am mine And the feeling, it gets left behind Oh, the innocence broken with time We’re different behind the eyes, there’s no need to hide We’re safe tonight The ocean is full cause everyone’s crying The full moon is looking for friends at high tide The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrows denied I only know my mind, I am mine And the feeling, it gets left behind...
I have not been home since you left long ago I’m thumbing my way back to heaven Counting steps, walking backwards on the road I’m counting my way back to heaven I can’t be free with what’s locked inside of me If there was a key, you took it in your hand There’s no wrong or right, but I’m sure there’s good and bad The questions linger overhead No matter how cold the winter, there’s a springtime ahead I’m thumbing my way back to heaven I wish that I could hold you, I wish that I had Thinking ’bout heaven I let go of a rope, thinking that’s what held me back And in time I’ve realized, it’s now wrapped around my neck I can’t see what’s next, from this lonely overpass Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives Choosing the shiny ones instead I turned my back, now there’s no turning back No matter how cold the winter, there’s a springtime ahead I smile, but who am I kidding? I’m just walking the miles, every once in a while I’ll get a ride I’m thumbing my way back to heaven Thumbing my way back to heaven I’m thumbing my way back to heaven
This broken wheel is coming undone And the road's exploding But you're keeping me strong Rolling along with you Love is a tower and you're the key Leading me higher when you let me in Keeping us close, so close, on down the line Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun with no one knowing But you're keeping me strong, moving along with you You are a tower of strength to me The darkening hour sees light again Again Ooh ah, oh wah, ooh ah, oh wah You are, you are, you are, you are Love is a tower of strength to me I am the shoreline but you're the sea The sea You are, you are, you are, you are
I want for to lay down, I’m waiting ’till sundown I’m searching the haystacks, water is sunshine, wait for the moment The moment between us, the fire is made now, hot to the touch I wanted to get right, I wanted to get right I wanted to get right with you Bakers dozen parades, stand and debate Out single file, nine in a row, swear if you must Keeping your boots on, float with the now, hot to the touch Concrete underground, cast out everyday, the dregs of society Underbelly, inside of me, rejoice and follow thee I wanted to get right...
G-R-E-E-D (x3) It's a disease and they're all green It emminates from their being Agitation with occupation And like weeds with big leaves Stealing light from what's beneath Where they have more, still they take more But I know, then I don't There's a stoway with my throat It's deceiving, I don't believe him We can scream out our doors Behind the wall a fat man snores In his dreams he's choking on leaves Well, I guess there's nothing wrong with what you say But don't sell me, "there can't be better ways" Tell the captain this boat's not safe and we're drowning Turns up he's the one making waves, waves, waves I said there's nothing wrong with what you say Believe me, just asking you to sway No white or black, just gray, can you feel this? World with your heart and not your brain G-R-E-E-D (x2)
Tell me what I wanna hear This suits too good to be true, my dear Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me Tell me lies, tell me Help me, help me, help me Help me, help me, help me Storybook keeps from hurting me, you see Shell of the man from the sea Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me Tell me lies, tell me Tell me why, tell me why, tell me Tell me why, tell me Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me Tell me lies, tell me Help me... Reservoir of hate and fear, invisible in repair A hundred theives, cast a spell, this is hell Help me... The man they call my enemy, I’ve seen his eyes He looks just like me, a mirror The more you read, we’ve been deceived Everyday it becomes clearer, clearer Clearer, clearer, clearer, clearer Not my enemy, no not my enemy Don’t speak for me, no not my enemy
How does he do it? how do they do it? Uncanny and immutable This is such a happening tailpipe of a party Like sugar, the guests are so refined A confidence man, but why so beleagued? He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike Drilling for fear, makes the job simple Born on third, thinks he got a triple Blackout weaves its way through the cities Blackout weaves its way through the cities Blackout weaves its way... I remember when you sang that song about today Now it’s tomorrow and everything has changed A think tank of aloof multiplication A nicotine wish and a columbus decanter Retrenchment and foolishness What’s the buckos? The raves have not a clue The immenseness of suffering and the odd negotiation, a rarity With onionskin plausibility of life and a keyboard reaffirmation Blackout weaves its way...
Climbing on a mountain, floating out on the sea Far from lights of a city, the elements they speak to me Whispering that life existed long before breed Balancing the world on its knee Don’t see some men as half empty see them half full of shit Thinking that we’re all but slaves, there ain’t gonna be No middle anymore, it’s been said before The haves be having more, yet still bored Won’t someone save? Won’t someone save the world?
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It's a hopeless situation and I'm starting to believe that this hopeless situation is what I'm trying to achieve But I try to run on, it's all or none, all or none Here's the selfless confession leading me back to war Can we help that our destinations are the ones we've been before? I still try to run on, but it's all or none, all or none To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please But I still try to run on, you know I still try to run on But it's all or none, all or none