Here comes your drunken marionette Dragging his mess of threads There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Now come on lift me up I wanna dance by your tin cup A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue "Who will ignore me when you're gone" He says, "who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Here he comes Here he comes Be still the wooden heart that wouldn't ever part, with the drunken marionette
Been mainlining bad thoughts Been drinking things I wish I'd not Intoxicated with sad songs "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
They sing Auld Lang Syne I've got mutiny on my mind A guilty conscience means at least you've got one "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?" He says, "who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes Here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet For the drunken marionette
carry on and turn the lights low when you go in the hours left I hope you feel the things that I know I won't
what you give is what you get These days I worry about your debt Who carries evil out, evil will come "Who will defend you when I'm gone" He says, "who will defend you when I'm gone?"
here he comes here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet Here he comes here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark That hasn't happened yet for the drunken marionette
One, two boys by the river Down by the water Tellin' riddles in the dark With fireflies under the moonlight Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife Ever hear the one about the boy's big sister His best friend come along He tried to kiss her
(CHORUS): The only difference That I see Is you are exactly the same As you used to be One boy lives in a tower With bow and arrow And the artificial heart With his girl Late in the summer He loaded the cannon With a jealous appetite They say that children now They come in all ages And maybe sometimes old men die With little boy faces
(CHORUS)
You always said that you needed some But you always had more, more than anyone
Alone tonight in somebody's bed She gone and dyed her hair red She only went and did what she did 'Cause he would drive her home then There's lipstick on her new dress She hadn't even paid yet But it doesn't matter where the money went It wasn't how she paid her rent
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us
Now lookin' out across the city lights She thought they'd be a good pair Now he could make a living sellin' cars Maybe she could work there She's gonna pick a star in the night And pray to make it all right She tried so hard not to pick a kite She always prayed to heaven lights
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas It's see no, speak no, hear no evil about us The three Marlenas
Man, I think I'm gonna buy myself a Rolls Maybe a Chevrolet One where I can pull that top down Just let my radio play Now I'm headin' out on that highway I'm goin' right out of state Now I ain't lookin' back until I'm gone Right through heaven's gates
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas Ya see no, speak no, hear no evil among us The three Marlenas Three Marlenas Three Marlenas
So long ago I don't remember when That's when they say I lost my only friend Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease As I listened through the cemetery trees
I seen the sun comin up at the funeral at dawn long broken arm of human law Now it always seemed such a waste She always had a pretty face So I wondered how she hung around this place
Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
She said it's cold It feels like Independence Day And I can't break away from this parade But there's got to be an opening Somewhere here in front of me Through this maze of ugliness and greed I seen the sun up ahead At the county line bridge Sayin all there's good and nothingness is dead We'll run until she's out of breath She ran until there's nothin left She hit the end it's just her window ledge
Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
Well this place is old It feels just like a beat up truck I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn Well it smells of cheap wine n cigarettes This place is always such a mess Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn I'm so alone and I feel just like somebody else Man I ain't changed but I know I ain't the same But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin dreams I think of death it must be killin me
Hey Hey Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
New heaven over a brand new sky New breed of wonder on the vine Among the living There is new promise in this night
New arms to hold back the revolution New eyes to recognize what you've become New blood to recover A new will to honor all God's creations
All things are new again Within and without All things are new again
New shepherd roaming through the tall grass A new temple rising through the falling ash That buries the tracks Of millions of boots marching in packs
Clear water rolling through the dam's collapse Out to the harbor where they're sailing back New flag on the mast Without any secrets, without any past
All things are new again Within and without Sooner or later the ending begins Just then it can be said that all things are new again
New ghost returning to the earth beneath the haze New poets burning through the lines of every page I'm an unpainted portrait I am staring at a new sunset Without any memories yet
All things are new again Within and without Sooner or later the ending begins Just then it can be said that all things are new again Within and without Sooner or later every season ends Then forever it can be said that all things are new again
You'd have a wonderful day If you could see how lucky you are Now don't get carried away with your heart You're better where you are
You're not the only one Who's failed to hang on to a moving star Now don't be sorry, what's done now is done And this is who you are
These days feel numbered and long There's no one to speak of There's no one at all But you're not the reason that everyone's gone That's not how they are
There's no system to change No conditions are made No permissions to start Now don't go drawing lines in the sand That's not who you are
Sometimes a high wall, is just a wall Sometimes it's only there to make sure you feel small Or may be there to save you from the depths of a much deeper fall
The truth will not set you free It's okay to believe that you're not good enough God is not angry, not blind, deaf or dumb He knows how far you've come
Last night I dreamt one thousand lies I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes There in my slumber passing time Long live the world resting on its side
I walked the orchard with you Your hand in mine In the evergreens drinking wine I saw the snow fall in black and white From the auburn sky Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
Up through the earth and at dawn I came I crossed the kingdom through venom pouring rain In the vacuum of my own brigade Resurrected to make you mine again
Orpheus looked back once She sailed the underworld No second chances will be earned I have returned as a phantom now To walk the bow and stern Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
If we could do better I know that we would Maybe admit it now, we're not that good We keep the needle between zero and one You play your fiddle, baby, I'll play dumb
Into the pastures of our minds Goes my nearly beloved and I Blazing two parallel white lines Through this broken heart split open wide
Time may be on my side But it's mostly far behind I was the apple of your eye Now I'm the boy spinning on a wheel there Stuck with knives Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
Fire on the porch on a summer's night All of my things are there inside Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher I smell leaves and burning tires Dogs in the meadows barking wild Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done
I'm not drunk and I'm not sad There's nothing inside that I want back Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at Do you wonder how I am tonight Then don't lose time looking in my eyes Not every tear means you're gonna cry
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling There is nothing but dust In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart Beats a rattling drum Marching back up the steps Into the rays of the sun
Under crushing skies of grays Paralyzed with phantom pains Before this room became just a place Where I just sleep through endless days Spinning webs and carving names Where thoughts break up, exploding in space
But I once crossed a quarter mile Through black pools of razor wire And cut through steel With the edge of a file While singing rhapsodies in stride Hellbent and dignified Now my time has come Who you fooling and why?
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling There is eminent death To the promise I'm keeping
From the bottom of my heart Comes an army of one Marching back up the steps Into the rays of the sun
Pale-faced and hollowed eyes Buried under ruptured skies Not every smile Means I'm laughing inside Two-faced and compromised I've enraptured you with lies Everything means nothing And tonight everything is mine
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling I have buried so much In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart A battle will come Coming up from the depths Into the rays of the sun
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling Wrapped around tight With no sign of leaving
From the bottom of my heart A ballad is sung Through a whisper she comes Into the rays of the sun
I'm here by my window I am waiting for your parade I will salute you From above the crowd As you make your way You won the battle baby You've won the war I admit it now I could not give any more My condition is your reward I am a building Here without doors
The altitude is now Getting to me As they applaud you On the boulevard The whole valley looks like Someone's body All the people look like Little scars This day is taking Forever I will never say Never say never again The flesh around me Is only pretend Return to sender Every letter That is yours I am sure That I am a building Here without doors
Fire blazing On the overpass Cattle grazing In field of dead grass Last summer was earthquake weather By November This too should have passed I am not moving I am landlocked I am looking through A thousand windows spread across A thousand floors There in a landfill Where Eden was before But not anymore I am a building Here without doors
Did you see me waving to you from above Things are looking clear now My eyes are wide enough to see the way a sniper does Behind the barrel of a good gun
For worse or better I surrender It may not matter But I'm sadder than you'll ever know I am your inferno Here all in yellow With embers blowing north No sense in returning I'm not worried anymore I am a building that is here without doors
Feels like a ghost here in this room Well not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume All around me, all around you In from the window for a drag of your perfume
Let's move back to California Let's make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand This garden's only got four corners Back to your trenches back to California
The days keep coming and the years overlap Been crawling all over each other like wet cats Hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes I don't think it's half as a funny as I used to
Lets move back to CA Lets make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand Let's leave behind these maps and handguns We're on our way back to California We've got California in our eyes Come on catch us if you can with California in our eyes
Passing down through a valley full of lost sheep Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway Mercury rising and poppies in bloom This is the kind of thing that I can get used to
Lets move back to California Lets make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand There's still no shortage in creating bad blood We're on our way back to California We've got California in our eyes Come on and catch us if you can with California in our eyes As fast as we can Back to California, Come on catch us if you can, back to California fast as we can Back to California
Seems like the world's gone underground No gods or heroes Dare to go down Tear drops from a hole in heaven come Overhead like ravens Dropping down like bombs Through the mornings silver frosted glow God says nothing back But I told you so I told you so God bless the void Of my daydreams Back in the snow Making angel wings Slow motion dancing lights have gone Sail beneath the burning yellow sun I'm calling out to the deep ends of my bones Time says nothing back But I told you so I told you so Still waters rising in my mind Black and deep Smoke behind my eyes Last night I could not sleep at all I hallucinated that you were in my arms To be in your heart I filled my own Love says nothing back But I told you so I told you so I'm still here And climbing every rung If someone saw something Now Someone speak up Back over the rotted bridge I cross Open up these graves Let these bodies talk I'm Burried under leaves blood red and gold Death says nothing back But I told you so I told you so....
Quarter moon on a city grown thick With good advice that won't stick From the ballrooms to the suburbs And the abandoned mines Atlantis may be rising but we're all out of time
Colored lights on the fire escape bodies move behind drapes And the light is uneven and we're safer in pairs And we're no match for what is waiting For each of us out there
Whistle, baby while we walk don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it is time to exhale Wherever we were going We're already there
It's over the turnstiles and through the guardrails and into Washington Square Cause no amount of nightmares would ever compare To the thought of only silence in this ghost-filled air
Whistle, baby while we walk Now don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it's too late to prepare Why can't you see that, baby We're already there
Here comes your silhouette and more pillow talk Here comes the ticking of these clocks They say the quickest way to end a war is just to lose Another chamber locks and I already withdrew
Here comes the booming and the hunger of each night Here comes the burden of might this day was not divinely made to leave you impressed We may become someone someday, but we haven't yet
Whistle, baby, while we walk Now don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it is time to repair Whatever we were building Baby, we're already there
Tomorrow is gonna make you cry It's gonna to make you kneel Before it breaks you from inside Still pressing on Arm over arm Still trying to get both feet back onto the ground They are harvesting these fields in autumn. We're different now than when we started
I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby
There on the pavement Underneath the yellow moon I think of you And just how easily we bruise The folded address in my pocket i have stuffed Trying to believe for you That the bottom didn't drop I am on the platform Covered with dust I pray they take the both of us
I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby I am ready to come down To see us both somehow On the beautiful side of somewhere someday
> Permission now to let this thing land I'm too far gone to know where I am Conditions are worse than we planned Permission now to let this thing land Heading straight into the blackness Beyond the point of ever turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards Adam took the apple, I was not involved I'm not responsible for how lost we are Batten down the hatches, extinction calls But Adam took the apple, I was not involved Heading straight into the blackness Way beyond the point of ever turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards Maybe a rumble Maybe nothing more Maybe a thunder There before she blows Maybe not a big bang But just a little white noise Into the furnace of red twilight Threading like a needle through searchlights Fading further and spinning right Into the furnace of red twilight Heading straight into the blackness Too far gone, now there's no turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Cherry picking through the stars And falling cannonballs Waiting for the break of dawn To start its morning crawl Polluted rays of filtered light Tropical and warm Making shadows through The snow white resin covered skulls
Happy birthday to the war
Standing by the wall A rainbow made of stars Under seven different shades of grey Spreading out across the arc Days of wonder spent Out there killing time Now this may not leave a mark on me But I sure as hell was there
Caravanning on the moonlit Locust covered trail we came out like a stream of bats exploding from the well slipping through the whirlpools of trees and floating cars behind a winter coated mule down record breaking falls
Into oblivion's open jaws standing by the wall a rainbow made of stars under seven different shades of grey spreading out across the arc days of wonder spent out there killing time now this may not leave a mark on me but I sure as hell was there
Happy birthday to the war
Days of wonder spent by a rainbow made of stars under seven different shades of grey spreading out across the arc standing by the wall out there killing time now this may not leave a mark on me but I sure as hell was there
Educated under God to walk a neutral line give me neither poverty nor riches in my time take my body and my mind my heart is far behind with one dozen poems in my ear ricocheting wild
