Soul Asylum - Closer To The Stars (2006) by Soul Asylum (보컬) on maniadb.com

Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to?
You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly
How is this going to affect you?
Do you think it might wreck you?
Your friends might reject you
Say you took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be

Hooked on glossy pictures
and drugs I’ve never seen
We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine
One day she just walked into that magazine
I wonder if she’ll ever come back
And they all said she would crack
They said her mind was one track,
Said she took it too far
You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars
...

Every time you move your lips
Let me give you a few tips
Yesterday you were too young
Tomorrow you will be too old
To regret all the things
you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ?
Somebody you wanna show your muscle?
Second hand excuses never went too far
What’s this scene you’re making?
Your ideas have been taken
We’ll seek when you awaken alone
in someone’s car
You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking
They said you were faking

You said you want to be want to be
want to be want to be
Closer to the stars...

Closer to the stars

The aim of my time is to fill up my mind
And when it gets too full I forget
Now if I'm late and I'm making you wait
Then there ain't one thing around that's even funny

Seein' things clearly and I thank you so dearly
Everything's so true to life when you're not living
When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way
put it all in bags, just call it charity

You just can't go back
You just can't go back
Everybody's going their own way
Each one is gonna make his day
It's more than amusement now
You're just killing time

(Just killing time) You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back

Fifteen years later caught in time's incinerator
Yesterday's worries are today's
But the good times are so near just sitting back and drinking beer
You know I'm halfway down the road but I know that I still ain't there

Seeing things clearly I thank you so dearly
Everything's so true to life when you're not living
When it's all a drag that's when you give it all the way
put it all in bags, just call it charity

You just can't go back
(Just killing time) You just can't go back
Everybody's going their own way
Each one is gonna make his day
It's more than amusement now
You're just killing time

I said "Hey brown girl I seen tears through the window of the junk shop downtown"
Selling trinkets from your far off homeland, did the Promise land let you down?

I said "hey young boy I notice that you ain't afraid to walk next to me"
"Old man, you look like you're dying, is that all you want is a quarter from me?"

Sometimes I feel like a stranger, I feel like a stranger

I'm just another face in a faceless crowd, I'm just another king in a headless crown
I'm so alone. Y'know I live here in this city, but this place it just ain't nobody's home

Now how many times do I got to tell you?
There's no such thing as a man made world
Now how many times do I got to tell you?
There's no such thing as a man-tamed girl

Sometimes I feel like stranger, I feel like a stranger

I want to buy some flowers for my mother, if I only had a chance
You see, I got a happy family, but that's oh so far away
You see, I've got it all here inside me, but I just can't seem to get it out
But I know with a little imagination we can work this whole goddamn thing out

Oh don't make me feel so strange, I feel like a stranger

Folks tell jokes in clouds of smoke
Making sure life won't decay
Fancy flags fly in your face
Fall polluting in my space
Pounds of sounds from shotgun rounds
Music of the hit parade
No your fathers, fathers, fathers
He's got nothing left to say
On the day you walked away
Another world, another day

The bank keeps draggin' me down, gonna rip it from my heart
Drown and shut out the sound, comedy's about to start
World's been draggin' me down, prepare your inner child
I keep draggin' me down, let me run before I walk

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, it's only pain

But it's draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

My mom's been draggin' me down
Everytime I stop to think
Mom you're pushing down, my hands are startin' to stink
World's been draggin' me down, don't die I'm warnin' you
I keep draggin' you down
Can't even help myself

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain

World is draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Ahh, ahh, c'mon make me smile
Hey, hey, I'll be- I'll be alright in a while
Hey, hey, it's not like I have some special infection
I just want that good 'ole-fashioned affection

One, two, draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

It's only water, it's only rain, it's only teardrops, only pain

Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Stop draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down
Draggin' me down, draggin' me down, draggin' me down

Uuuhh

What are you doing here in my nightmare? (In my nightmare)
Stepping back into the stupidness gets me nowhere (Gets me nowhere)

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell
Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares?
And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down

Wake me up and let me go (from) somebody I used to know
From somewhere in my nightmare.
Don't you remember the years we got nowhere? (We got nowhere)

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell


Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for your dreams in my nightmares?
And you're playing with a different joker, but there's always one more sucker
And you're tied to the tracks but the train broke down
Trapped at the top of the merry-go-round
But it won't let you down.

Look at you now - You look like an angel in hell
Look at you now - Drown in your wishing well
Look at you now - All those strories and there's no one to tell
Look at you now
Do you think you can find a place for my dreams?

Now you're mad and leaving home
'Cause you say there's no one there for you to talk to
Isn't it nice to go outside
When you know there is no place you have to walk to
You can live alone inside a crowded room
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Put on your frown to go downtown
You have come a long long way
Even though you have no idea where you're going
You ain't done a godamn thing all afternoon
Your confidence is sinking like a lead balloon
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't go on I can't go on
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
All the things you held so high
Are you surprised to find that now they add to nothing
Now you're growing old and bored


Do you think that maybe you could teach me something
There is nothing that you really can assume
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Why don't you just tell someone
It's not like you're the only one
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
I can teach you how to drive
You can teach me how to lie
Hush my darling don't you cry
This could be your lullaby

Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in
And there goes my hero with his head between his legs
And all this time I believed in him

Now, what is the sound of snow falling down
On the tombstone in the dead of the night?
And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound
Who speaks English when the watchman's not in sight?

And where will you be in 1993?
Still sitting in the same chair
Sinning is for sinners and I'm just a beginner
But I've never really been touched there

Hey ain't it strange how some things never change
Ain't it strange how nothing stays the same?
You were thinkin' I was distressed about some universe oppressed
But I was just depressed about my last pinball game

I've learned to accept and not to expect
The respect and neglect that I get
I've tried not to forget about what hasn't happened yet
And on this I place my last bet

Hey did you give what you get
Did you get what you give?
of your ??
Winning is for winners
And I know spring follows winter
But I've never really been touched there

You know it's hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice
And you can't find peace anywhere
Love's just not for lovers
Get off your high horse brother
Drop your fist and get out of here

In a town without a name
there is no shame
no blame to claim
one fine day the pilgrims came
and made new rules for an old game
And I'm waiting for the garbage man To take you away
And I'm searching for my playground
So I can go and play
So they built a big smoke stack
Built a railroad track
They made the dirt roads black
And they did it behind your back
And now you pay their tax
hoping something cracks
And I'm waiting for the garbage man
To take you away
And I'm searching for my playground
So I can go and play
From out of the dust came corrosion and rust
That made you look so cheap
There's nothing to have here
And nothing to hold here
And nothing that you can keep
Now understand this is no man's land
And its all that's left that's free
Where the kings of nothing rule my friend
And you can't make me leave
There's a billboard in the sky
Reflecting water in your eyes
This big city, this ghost town
Will come crawling to the ground
And I'm waiting for the hurricane To blow you away
And I'm searching for my twister
to twist you into shape
Now my speach is said and done
The circus came, I had my fun
And the wasteland has been won
And the building has begun
And I'm waiting for the earthquake To shake you down
And I see my mother nature Trying to drag you around
From out of the dust came
Corrosion and rust
That made you look so cheap
There's nothing to have here
And nothing to hold here
And nothing that you can keep
Now understand this is no man's land
And its all that's left that's free
Where the kings of nothing rule my friend
(Then you can't make believe?)

Make ure chillin
guts start spillin
its piece of a puzzle
piece of a trouble
is it somethin else?
ure sellin yourself
Im so wanting
without a clue
gotta find something better
something better to do
something so exciting
Im into something new
you piece together the whole thing
gives u something to use

maybe I should practice it one more time
maybe Im afraid what it might do
maybe it might upset someone
maybe that's what its supposed to do

pull it from the bottom
it begins to change
find another existance
thats what ure trying to say?

Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u off
Im not pushin u out
Im not pushin u

All of the lands are terribly restless
with tellin u what to do
but u go bak to the land


where ure defensless
they act just like me and u

look what u've dont to me
look what I've done to u
look what they've done to us
now were like noone else
theyre laughin at u
talkin about u
all these new things
all these new things
I found in use

and Im workin so hard
when I think it is real
everybody does once
just to see how it feels
its not a sensation
and its not for sale
so what can u call it now?

keep em gotten
theyll spoil u rotten
keep em gotten
keep em gotten
just another freak
be another freak
be a freak

This will be over
I hope you don't mind the pain
I wanna cut you
And let you force it out clean

It'd be a shot quick
I think I know how this works
Things will be better
Because they can't get much worse

And we will carry on
Carry… carry on

Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups
They're dead weight, they're made out of lead
And I can't carry the guilt and frustration
Of something someone else said

Now I'm just learning to carry myself
Carry myself on my own
Now I'm just looking to carry myself
Carry on, carry on, carry on

Whenever I see you
I know you think I don't know
That I could be you
And your thoughts they don't show

I want to trust you
I want to trust you so bad
I want to bust you
Stealing the few things we had

And we will carry on
Carry on

Now, I can't carry the weight of your hang-ups
They're dead weight, they're made out of lead
And I can't carry the guilt and frustration
Of something someone else said

Now I'm just learning to carry myself
Carry myself on my own
Now I'm just looking to carry myself
Carry on, carry on, carry on

(Now's the place to lose your faith
Keep the faith that reinstates the habits
That are forming what you feel)

This will be over

You've got eyes but they can't see
What's inside a tv and they never look at me
You won't know and you're never claim to show
That special feeling inside
Oh how time flies when its got nowhere to go
Up to the skies and it only goes to show
I've waited here for you a long, long time
I think i'd better go
Long way home (x4)
So now you studied the changes


Have you lost your way
Through all the strangeness
And you got no more to say
Long way home (x8)

Dying on a bed of roses in the middle of the night
Woke up in a cold, dark basement looking through candlelights

Up all night, silly kid come crashing down (just one more taker)
Like a ghost of a thousand miles crawling over me

Here's to falling off the world's dark side
Drifted it alone on a morning's tide
Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate
When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day

When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still
Could you see it in your heart to let me in?

Did he hand you the reigns of the morning news?
He lulled you asleep 'til the Aussie cat mews

When the leaves from the trees come crashing down (don't time pass slowly)
When the seasons don't change, they're spinning around

Here's to falling off the world's dark side
Drifted it alone on a morning's tide
Riding on an all-night train through a crystal gate
When the moonlight shines a path for a brighter day

When the ballrooms are all banging and the evening is so still
Could you see it in your heart to let me in?

Let me in

Shipwreck sailors searching for some fools gold
They're the local drunken boys
Been out drinking all night feeling alright
We watch them kill each other in a fight

Ship of fools, drunken hearts
Making yet another new start
Ain't it hard to play that part
When you've got a drunken heart

I can't change the world by complaining


You can't change it with a kiss
(Be no?) concentrating contemplating
No time to find out what we miss

Ship of fools ...