Ben Folds

2011/09/24
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I can do this, really, I'm good enough
I'm as good as them, but don't take it from me
Ask my friends, ask my sister
They all think my stuff is great
Up there with any of them
I just need a break

I'm a genius, really, I'm excellent
Better than them, I kick their asses
All of them, even that guy
Who thinks he's fuckin' cool
Gets all of the attention
He doesn't sell shit does he

Some guy on the net thinks I suck and he should know
He's got his own blog

I'm a loser
I'm a poser
Yeah really
It's over
I mean it and I quit
Everything I write is shit

Hey, hey
It's a working day
Hey, hey
It's a working day

Every night around this time He has to sing 'Belinda' "Belinda, I love you Don't leave me, I need you" He tried to stop a while back But what is he without her? A one hit wonder with no hits is what he is And anyway He always hears how much it means to people There's a lot of fortysomethings Who wouldn't be in the world without it So now he does it with this lyric in his head Belinda, I loved you I'm sorry that i left you I met somebody younger on a plane She had big breasts A nice smile No kids either She gave me complimentary champagne No-one ever wants to hear the song he wrote for Cindy "Cindy, I love you I need you, don't leave me" And he can't blame them, they can tell His heart was never in it And Cindy never liked it but She never much liked him Belinda, I loved you I'm sorry that i left you I met somebody younger on a plane She had big breasts A nice smile No kids either She gave me complimentary champagne So every night about this time He feels the old self loathing While the old folks in the audience sing along And he smiles and waves the mic at them So they can do the chorus But he's not there, he's somewhere else He's with Belinda In the days before he made it all go wrong Belinda, I love you She gave me complimentary champagne She gave me complimentary champagne

So she stands and waits and waits at the school gate
They're late, they come, so dumb
In two cars when they agreed one
And it's gone wrong on her birthday
So they go to Joe's for pizza and ice cream
They sit and stare and Claire just wants to be 9 and a half
Next year she'll tell them she only wants world peace

But Claire, Claire baby
I wish you knew how this all got twisted
I wish you could see right inside us
In all of this stuff, the best of us that we can't get out

What's the point of this
What's wrong with two birthdays
It's cool at school
Her friends, they all have two birthdays
Oh geez, he just asked the waitress out on a date on her birthday

But Claire, Claire baby
I wish you knew how this all got twisted
I wish you could see right inside us
In all of this stuff, the best of us that we can't get to

Here's the cheque
They pay with two cards like they've never met
Goodbyes outside; it's cold in LA

Claire, Claire baby
I wish you knew how this all got twisted
I wish you could see right inside us
The best of us for most of us
Or what we were, you're all that's left
It used to be our birthday too

Man in a wheelchair, lobby of the Forrest
With frighters, hustlers, hard-up millionaires
Mobsters, cops, whores, pimps and Marxists
All human life is there

Man in a wheelchair listens to the chatter
Writes down all the insane crap he hears
He can’t move around but it doesn’t really matter
In the Forrest all you need is eyes and ears

And out they pour, the hits and the misses
“Turn Me Loose,” “Lonely Avenue”
And down in Nashville, Elvis sings “Suspicion”
Pomus/Shuman, 1962

And he never could be one of those happy cripples
The kind that smile and tell you life’s OK
He was mad as hell, frightened and bitter
He found a way to make his feelings pay

Back at the Forrest, in the steakhouse off the lobby
A diner gets three bullets in the head
Doc looks down, eating his linguine
Thinking up a lyric for the dead

And out they pour, the hits and the misses
“Turn Me Loose,” “Lonely Avenue”
And down in Nashville, Elvis sings “Suspicion”
Pomus/Shuman, 1962
1962

Fred Neil, Jack Benny, crazy Phil Spector
Pumpkin Juice and Eydie Gorme
Damon Runyon, Jr. and the Duke’s orchestra
All superhuman life was there

And he never could be one of those happy cripples
The kind that smile and tell you life’s OK
He was mad as hell, frightened and bitter
He found a way to make his isolation pay

And out they pour, the hits and misses
“Turn Me Loose,” “Lonely Avenue”
And down in Nashville, Elvis sings “Suspicion”
Pomus/Shuman, 1962

They even looked at each other once
Across a crowded bar
He was with Martha
She was with Tom
Neither of them really knew what was going on.
A strange feeling of never,
Heartbeats becoming synchronized
And staying that way forever.

Most of the time
It was just near misses,
Air kisses
Once in a bookstore, once at a party
She came in as he was leaving
And years ago, at the movies, she sat behind him
A six-thirty showing of 'While You Were Sleeping'
He never once looked around

chorus:
It's so easy from above
You can really see it all
People who belong together
Lost and sad and small
But there's nothing to be done for them
It doesn't work that way
Sure we all have soulmates
But we walk past them every day
Oh no

And it's not like they were ever actually unhappy
In the lives they lived
He married Martha
She married Tom
Just this vague notion that something was wrong
An ache, an absence, a phantom limb
An itch that could never be scratched.

{chorus}

Neither of them knew what was going on
A strange feeling of never,
Heartbeats becoming synchronized
And staying that way forever.

Who knows whether that's how it should be
Maybe our ghosts will in that vacancy
Maybe that's how books get written
Maybe that's why songs get sung
Maybe we owe the unlucky ones

{chorus}

Maybe that's how books get written
Maybe that's why songs get sung
Maybe we owe the unlucky ones
(x2)

Woke up this morning, what do I see
Three thousand cameras pointed at me
Dude says, "You Levi?"
I'm like, "Yes, that's me sir"
"Well you just knocked up the VP nominee's daughter"
So I tell him "No, you got it wrong mister,
Already got a girl and her name's Bristol"
They all laugh and say "Where you been, sonny?
Your mother in law's a heartbeat from the presidency"

So I say, "Mother in law? No, we aint getting married"
They say, "Soon you will boy, she just announced it"
I get on my dirtbike and ride to my girl's home
Gonna lay down the law
Tell her what's goin' on

I'm a fuckin' redneck, I live to hang out with the boys
Play some hockey, do some fishin' and kill some moose
I like to shoot the shit and do some chillin' I guess
You fuck with me and I'll kick your ass

So we talk and it turns out we don’t believe in abortion
And sex outside marriage is against our religion
And when I try to tell them I’m 18 years old,
They say “Levi it's too late, you’ve got to do as you’re told”

I'm a fuckin' redneck, I live to hang out with the boys
Get on the snowboard, do some fishin' and kill some moose
I like to shoot the shit and do some chillin' I guess
You fuck with me and I'll kick your ass

I know you
You think I don't but I do
I've been listening and I don't forget so I can do this
I can pass the test
You went to school in Chicago
Your mom's maiden name is Dupree
Your favorite actor is DeNiro
Your birthday's 03/08/83

C.H.I.C.A.G.O.
D.U.P.R.E.E.
D.E.N.I.R.O.

I know you
You think it's weird but it's not
You're all looking at it all upside down
It actually means I really love you
You used have a dog called Montey
You only drink chardonnay
Your sister's pet name is CeeCee
You have a thing for David Blaine

M.O.N.T.E.Y.
C.H.A.R.D.O.N.N.A.Y.
C.E.E.C.E.E.

And I know you

I know you
You think I'm blind but I'm not
I've been watching and what I've noticed is distraction, boredom and vacancy
I know your favorite dish (P.R.I.M.A.V.E.R.A.)
I know your favorite band (Polyphonic S.P.R.E.E.)
You spent a year in Barcelona (B.A.R.C.E.L.O.N.A.)
That asshole's name was Anthony

Turns out you never went to T.U.L.S.A.
To see your old roommate J.A.N.E.
I think my middle name is S.U.C.K.E.R.
And I was born yesterday

I don't know you
I thought I did but I don't
I wasn't listening to the right things
One day I won't even remember your face

They checked into the hospital New Year's Eve
Nothing to be done about that
Rainbows, daffodils; she's not naive
Symbolism's all crap

There's a big picture window in their room on the ward
With a view over Parliament Hill
But the view offers more joy than they can afford
When there's this much pain to kill

You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease
Hope comes near you?
Kick it's backside
Got no place in days like these

At dusk the darkness surrenders to color
As the fireworks streak the sky
And their window gives them the prettiest picture
Their useless luck makes her wanna cry

Then it turns midnight, the shitty old year spent
Another Mom gives her some sparkling wine
And she nearly gives in to the moment
But he'll still be sick in 2009

You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease
Hope comes near you?
Kick it's backside
Got no place in days like these

Just as she's thinking of pulling the blind down
A rocket bursts in front of her eyes
The city lit up; London's given a bright crown
And she tries and fails to stop spirits rise

You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease
Hope comes near you?
Kick it's backside
Got no place in days like these

You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease
Hope comes near you?
Kick it's backside
Got no place in days like these

Who'd look at that dump and see a home?
Why not move in somewhere easy?
Urinals where bedrooms ought to be
Who could be bothered,really?

You're really good at all that stuff
The nuts and bolts of living
Curtains, blinds and kitchen tables

I've got no time for dates and plans
No I'm too busy dreaming
You're the one with the attention span
You're not the free wheeler

Practical, practical
Amanda
Saved one life
And made two others
Practical Amanda

Who'd look at me
And see someone
That might be
Worth redeeming
Head and heart
And soul fucked up
Who could be bothered, really?

I've got no time for dates and plans
No I'm too busy dreaming
You're the one with the attention span
Practical Amanda

Practical, practical
Amanda
Saved one life
And made two others
Practical Amanda

I’ve only ever seen her name on a spine
But that’s enough, I want to make her mine

Never heard her voice, never seen her smile
But I’m in love with Saskia Hamilton…

Well she’s a poet, just like I want to be
But her passport alone is great poetry
And I'm in love with Saskia Hamilton.

She got more assonance than she knows what to do with
I’m in love with Saskia Hamilton
She got two sibilants, no bilabial plosives

Saskia Hamilton, Saskia Hamilton. Yeah! Right!
Saskia Hamilton, Saskia Hamilton.
Saskia, Saskia, Saskia Hamilton

Already got a girl but she sounds real bad
I’m in love with Saskia Hamilton
She got alliteration and her surname is Dagg

No hard consonants in my girl Saskia
Every single syllable sounds like Shakespeare
I’m in love with Saskia Hamilton

Gonna live with her and it’ll all be harmonious
How could it not be, when she’s that euphonious?
Gonna marry her and it’ll all be idyllic
AND MY TEACHER JUST TOLD ME THAT SHE’S DACTYLIC!

Saskia Hamilton, Saskia Hamilton. Yeah! Right!
Saskia Hamilton, Saskia Hamilton.
Saskia, Saskia, Saskia Hamilton

I see it all, I get it, I promise you I do
Your mom walked out on you when you were only two
You’ve grown up believing that this country hates the poor
You’re a dad three times over and you’re only twenty-four

The Christians on the radio, they act like you’re scum
Self-righteous condescending bastards, each and every one
I don’t read the Bible but I try to love you, man
Every flaw and violent act, I think I understand

But your dogs, your dogs, what’s fun about those?
And that tat on your neck, and that ring through your nose?
The weed, the junk food, the violent pornography
Don’t you think you’d want to be
Just a little bit more like me?

I still have high hopes you could join our community
There’s more of us than you now, but we’d welcome the diversity
You’re not white trash, like the other neighbors say
If you want to challenge stereotyping, join the PTA

At night, when your pit bulls are scaring our children
My wife, I’ll be honest here, wants me to shoot them
And sometimes I let my fantasies run

But that’s only at night, when I’m not really thinking
And you’re listening to Metallica in your backyard and drinking
The rest of the time I think we get along fine
I never judge you, I’m a live-and-let-live guy

But your dogs, your dogs, what’s fun about those?
And that tat on your neck, and that ring through your nose?
The weed, the junk food, the violent pornography
Don’t you think you’d want to be
Just a little bit more like me?

Army
by Ben Folds


Well I thought about the army Dad said, Son
you`re f~~king high And I thought, yeah there`s a first
for everything So I took my old man`s advice
Three sad semesters It was only 15 grand spent in bed
I thought about the army
I dropped out and joined a band instead
instrumental break
Grew a moustache and a mullet
Got a job at Chickfila
Citing artistic differences The band broke up in May
And in June reformed without me
And they`d got a different name
I nuked another grandma`s apple pie
And hung my head in shame oh no
Been thinking a lot today
Been thinking a lot today
Oh, I think I`ll write a screenplay
Oh, I think I`ll take it to LA
Oh, I think I`ll get it done yesterday
instrumental break
all right here we go 1 2 ,1 2 3
musical interlude
In this time of introspection
On the eve of my election
I say to my reflection
God please spare me more rejection
`Cause my peers they criticize me
And my ex wives all despise me
Try to put it all behind me
But my redneck past is nipping at my heels
I`ve been thinking a lot today
I`ve been thinking a lot today
I`ve been thinking a lot today
I thought about the army

Howard the strangest things have happened lately.
When I take a good swing at all my dreams,
they pivo and slip,
I drop my fists and they're back laughing.

Howard, my intention's become not to lose
What I've won, ambition has given way
To desperation and I lost the fight for my eyes

-Chorous-
Boxing's been good to me, Howard
Now I'm told, You're growing old
The whole time he knew, a couple of years
I'd be through, hs boxing been good to you

Howard, now I confess, I'm scared and lonely and tired
They seem to think I'm made of clay,
another day I'm not cut out for this, I just know what to say, I say.

-Chorus-

Well, sometimes I punch myself hard as I can
Yelling, Nobody cares, hoping someone
Will tell me how wrong I am Howard

-Chorus-

Brick
by Ben Folds Five

6am, day after Christmas
I pull some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs, to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowing slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowing slowly

They call her name at 7.30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down, to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for

Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me 'Son, it's time
To tell the truth'
She broke down
And I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying
Driving home, to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

Effington could be a wonderful effing place
I can see it from the highway
And I'm wondering
Are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars
Effing in their trailers in the back roads
And the parking lots
Of Effington
Making my way to Normal, Illinois

Maybe I should ditch this little white rental
On the interstate
And start a new effing life
In Effington

I could change my name, grow a beard, start a family
Or I could just keep on movin' on, movin' on, movin' on, movin' on
Not stop 'til I get to Normal

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

I've got this movie in my mind of Effington
And the soundtrack to it sounds like this:
(Dah dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dah daaaah)

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

And then the people who live in Normal
Can buy the movies that I'll make in Effington
That's what normal people do
Do normal people do it too, normal people do it too,
Normal people do it, people do it, people do it . . .

Hey, hey
Yee haw!

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington
In Effington, in Effington . . .

What I've kept with me and what I've thrown away
Know where the hell I've ended up on this glary random day
Where the things I really cared about, just left along the way
For being to pent up and proud

Woke up way too late feeling hung over and old
And the sun was shining bright, I walked barefoot down the road
Started thinking about my old man, it seems that all men
Wanna get into a car and go anywhere

Here I stand, sad and free
And I can't cry, I can't see
What I've done?
No, God, what have I done?

Don't you know I'm numb, man? No I can't feel a thing at all
'Cause it's all smiles and business these days and I'm indifferent to the loss
And I've faith that there is a soul somewhere that's leading me around
I wonder if she knows which way is down

Here I stand, sad and free
And I can't cry and I can't see
What I've done?
No, God, what have I done?

And I poured my heart out
And I poured my heart out
It evaporated, see

Blind man on a canyon's edge of a panoramic scene
Or maybe I'm a kite that's flying high and random dangling a string
Or slumped over in a vacant room, head on a stranger's knee
I'm sure back home they think I've lost my mind

Here I stand, sad and free
I can't cry and I can't see
What I've done?
No, God, what have I done?

He shouted out his last word
And he stumbled through the yard
And she shattered her last china plate
And spun off in the car
When he lunged onto the hood
She stopped to tell him she'd been wrong
He was thrown head over heels
Into the traffic coming on

But then
All is fair in love
Did you get my other letters
Sometimes I think I oughta call
Cause you know I often
Wonder if you open them at all
Every couple nights or so
You know you pop into my dreams
I just can't get rid of you
Like you got rid of me

Oh but I send my best
Cause God knows you've seen my worst
But then all is fair in love
All this breathing in never breathing out
I guess she made her way
Through the mob too late to hear him say
That he'd gotten all he'd wanted
A crowd to watch him bear the pain
He'd been keeping in
So what
All is fair in love

Fred sits alone
at his desk in the dark
there's an awkward
young ahdow that waits in the hall

he has cleared all his things
and he's put them in boxes
things that remind him
that life has been good

twenty five years
he's worked at the paper
a man's here
to take him downstairs
and 'I'm sorry,
Mr. Jones, it's time'

there was no party
and there were no songs
cause today's just a day
like the day that he started

and no one is left here
that knows his first name
yeah and life barrels on
like a runaway train

where the passengers change
they don't change anything
you get off
someone else can get on
and 'I'm sorry,
Mr. Jones, it's time'

the streetlight
it shnes through the shades
casting lines on the floor
and lines on his face
he reflects on the day

Red gets his paints out
and goes to the basement
projecting some slides
onto a plain white canvas

and traces it,
fills in the spaces
he turns off the slides
and it doesn't look right

yeah, and all of these bastards
have taken his place
he's forgotten, but not yet gone
and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones'
and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones'
and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones, it's time'

John Macrea of Cake y'all

(intro to Brick)
People have asked me what this song is about before - I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not cool to stop in the middle of a song, but I was just goning to tell you, uh, yeah, I was asked about it a lot, and I did'nt want to make a big hairy deal out of it cause I just waned the song, to speak for itself, but the song was about when I was in high school, uh, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and, uh, it was a very sad thing, and um, I didn't really want to write this song from any kind of political standpoint, or make a statement, I just wasnted to reflect, uh, what it feels like, so if anyone, uh, has gone through it before, then yeah

Take a walk
out the gate you go and never stop
past all the stores and wig shops
quarter in a cup for every block
and watch the buildings grow
smaller as you go

Down the tracks
beautiful McMansions on a hill
that overlook a highway
with riverboat casinos and you still
have yet to see a soul

Jesusland
Jesusland

Town to town
broadcast to each house, they drop your name
but no one knows your face
Billboards quoting things you'd never say
you hang your head and pray

for Jesusland
Jesusland

Miles and miles
and the sun goin' down
Pulses glow
from their homes
You're not alone
Lights come on
as you lay your weary head on their lawn

Parking lots
cracked and growing grass you see it all
from offices to farms
crosses flying high above the malls
A longer walk

through Jesusland
Jesusland

We'd hit the bottom,
I thought it was my fault
And in a way I guess it was
I'm just now finding out
What it was all about

Moved to the west coast away from everyone
She never told me that you called
Back when I was still, I was still in love

Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried
And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
I've been flying high all night
So come pick me up...I've landed

The daily dramas she made from nothing
So nothing ever made them right
She liked to push me and talk me back down
Until I believed I was the crazy one,
and in a way
I guess I was...

But I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye I tried
Treading a sea of a troubled mind
Had to leave myself behind
Singing bye-bye, goodbye I tried

If you wrote me off I'd understand it
Because I've been on some other planet
So come pick me up...
I've landed

And you will be so
happy to know
I've come alone,
it's over

But I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's by my goodbye I tried
Down comes the reign of the telephone czar
It's OK to call
Now I'll answer for myself

Come pick me up,
...I've landed

From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well
You'd never be yourself again

Saw you last night
Dance by the light of the moon
Stars in your eyes
Free from the life that you knew

You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
You're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round
Trading places with an angel now
Saw you last night
Dance by the light of the moon
Stars in your eyes
Free from the life that you knew
Saw you last night
Stars in your eyes
Smiled in my room

you took a trip
and climbed a tree
at Robert Sledge's party
and there you stayed
'til morning came
you were not the same after that

you gave your life
to Jesus Christ
and after all your friends went home
you came down,
you looked around
and you were not the same after that

you were not the same after that
you were not the same after that

you've seen them drop like flies
from the bright sunny skies
they come knocking at your door
with this look in their eyes
you've got one good trick
and you're hanging on,
you're hanging on to...

you took the word
and made it heard
and eased the people's pain and for that
you were idolized, immortalized
you were not the same after that

walking tall, you'd bought it all
you were not the same after that
'til someone died on the water slide
and you were not the same after that

you've seen them drop like flies
from the bright sunny skies
they come knocking at your door
with this look in their eyes
you've got one good trick
and you're hanging on,
you're hanging on to...

you see them drop like flies
from the bright sunny skies
(dropping form the bright sunny skies)
they come knocking at your door
(yep)
with this look in their eyes
(knocking with this look in their eyes)
you've got one good trick
(yep)
and you're hanging on,
you're hanging on...

(you see them drop like flies)
you're hanging on,
you're hanging on,
you're hanging on...

I said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back
Are all the dishes intact?
Let them be broken, broken

[Chorus]
It's easy to be
Easy and free
When it doesn't mean anything
You remain selfless, cold and
Composed

You've done me no favor
To call and be nice
Telling me I
Can take anything I like
You don't owe me to be so
Polite
You've done no wrong
You've done no wrong
Get out of my sight

[Chorus]

Come on baby now throw me
A right to the chin
Don't just stare like
You never cared
I know you did
But you just smile
Like a bank teller
Blankly telling me
Have a nice life
Come on baby now
Throw me a right
To the chin
Just one sign that could
Show me that you give a
Shit
But you just smile politely
And I grow weaker and I
Said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back

[Chorus]

Good morning, son.
I am a bird
Wearing a brown polyester shirt
You want a coke?
Maybe some fries?
The roast beef combo’s only $9.95
It’s okay, you don’t have to pay
I’ve got all the change

Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
And you’re so much like me
I’m sorry

Good morning, son
In twenty years from now
Maybe we’ll both sit down and have a few beers
And I can tell you ‘bout today
And how I picked you up and everything changed
It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you’d feel the same things

Everybody knows
It sucks to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
You’ll try and try and one day you’ll fly
Away from me

Good morning, son
I am a bird

It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you’d feel the same things

Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
Oh, we’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it

And you’re so much like me
I’m sorry

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns
The stumbles and falls brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it every day

And I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born 50 years before you
In a house on the street where you live?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a wide sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize

And I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have
Ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his 90s
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's
A strange way to tell you
That I know we belong

That I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

tomoonn6pence fromshootingstar



Think of me
Anyway you want
I can be
The problem if that's easier
In your head
Move the pieces around
Things I've said
Turn the memory upside down

And it makes it better I know
But sometimes it's hard to swallow

In time I will fade away
In time I won't hear what you say
In time, but time takes time you know

Tell your friends
The things they wanna hear and see
Start the drums
Band against the enemy

And in time I will fade away
In time I won't care what you say
In time, but time takes time you know

In your head
Move the pieces round
Things I've said
Turn the memory upside down

It might make it better, I know
But sometimes it's hard to swallow

In time I will fade away
In time I won't care what you say
In time, but time takes time you know
Time takes time you know

I want to ask you
Do you ever sit and wonder?
It's so strange
That we could be together for so long
And never know, never care
What goes on in the other one's head
Things I've felt but I never said
You said things that I never said
So I'll say something that I should have said long ago

You don't know me
You don't know me at all
You don't know me
You don't know me at all

You could have just propped me up on the table like a mannequin
Or a cardboard standup and paint me (Paint me anything)
Any face that you wanted me to be
See, we're damned by the existential moment
When we saw the couple in the coma
And it was we who were the cliche
But we carried on anyway
So sure I can just close my eyes
Yeah, sure, trace and memorize
But can you go back once you know?

You don't know me
You don't know me at all
You don't know me
You don't know me at all

You don't know me
You don't know me at all
You don't know me

If I'm the person that you think I am
Clueless chump you seem to think I am
So easily led astray
An errant dog who occasionally escapes
And needs a shorter leash
Then why the fuck would you want me back?
Maybe it's because

You don't know me at all
Ah, ah
You don't know me, you don't know me
Ah, ah

So what I'm trying to say is
What I'm trying to tell you is
Not gonna come out like I want to say it
'Cause I know you'll only change it
Say it

You don't know me
You don't know me at all
You don't know me
You don't know me at all

You don't know me
You don't know me at all
You don't know me
You don't know me at all
What?

"The answer you seek, my son, only poses more questions.
Ask many women why relationship has failed, each woman offer unique reason for demise.
One woman may say, "Man could not commit", or "Man is douche and is now free to make love to himself instead".
Another woman may say, "Man has changed" or even "Man no longer satisfactory lover".
But my son, ask many men same question all over the world - "Why has relationship failed?"
Each man, each time, will give same simple answer."

The bitch went nuts
She stabbed my basketball
And the speakers to my stereo
She called me cunt
But nothing prepared me for
What I found when I came home

Oh and I
Made my own bed
I'll lie in it
You lie in yours
You lie, you lie in yours
But they want more
They're at my door
With torches
Please leave me alone
You know just shut it just shut it just shut it

The bitch went nuts
She Photoshopped my face (Shopped his face)
Onto every boy who'd done her wrong
And as she burned them telepathically
Onto the brains of all her embittered drones

Oh now
Now they want more
They're at my door
With torches, scores and scores and scores
To settle with themselves
Who would have thought
I'd scorned them all
They've got a doll of me
They're burning, they're burning, they're burning
Their own memories

Why do they all go? (Go!)

The bitch went nuts, y'all
But everyone said she might
Oh, holy fuckin' shit
Seriously now
Now they want more
They're at my door
With torches, scores and scores
You would have thought
I'd scorned them all
They've got a doll of me
They're burning

Why do they all go? (Go!)

"The answer you seek, my son, only poses more questions.
Ask many women why relationship has failed, each woman offer unique reason for demise.
One woman may say, "Man could not commit", or "Man is douche and is now free to make love to himself instead".
Another woman may say, "Man has changed" or even "Man no longer satisfactory lover".
But my son, ask many men same question all over the world - "Why has relationship failed?"
Each man, each time, will give same simple answer."

The bitch went nuts
She stabbed my basketball
And the speakers to my stereo
She called me cunt
But nothing prepared me for
What I found when I came home

Oh and I
Made my own bed
I'll lie in it
You lie in yours
You lie, you lie in yours
But they want more
They're at my door
With torches
Please leave me alone
You know just shut it just shut it just shut it

The bitch went nuts
She Photoshopped my face (Shopped his face)
Onto every boy who'd done her wrong
And as she burned them telepathically
Onto the brains of all her embittered drones

Oh now
Now they want more
They're at my door
With torches, scores and scores and scores
To settle with themselves
Who would have thought
I'd scorned them all
They've got a doll of me
They're burning, they're burning, they're burning
Their own memories

Why do they all go? (Go!)

The bitch went nuts, y'all
But everyone said she might
Oh, holy fuckin' shit
Seriously now
Now they want more
They're at my door
With torches, scores and scores
You would have thought
I'd scorned them all
They've got a doll of me
They're burning

Why do they all go? (Go!)

I took her with me to the Christmas office party ? mistake
She did a line and started spouting all her liberal garbage
Bro, I'm so ashamed

I never heard such shit in all my life
I hoped one day to mold you into the perfect wife
But you blew my hopes sky-high

The bitch went nuts
Started talking 'bout politics
In front of all my bosses
Bullshit from the internet
The bitch went nuts
I'll never be a partner at this rate
Not with Jane fucking Fonda Jr. as my date

Oh no! Oh no, no! Oh!

It took me and a couple of men to restrain her
You should've seen her
When she freaked out and keyed John Franklin Jr.'s brand new Beamer

She called us bigots with her fist in the air
And as she did they all could see all her armpit hair
Now they think that I'm a fucking asshole

The bitch went nuts
Started talking about vegetables to the wives of my coworkers
Yeah, cruelty to animals
She thinks because she reads books she must be smarter
But now when I close my eyes, I'll be fucking Jimmy Carter

Oh no! Oh no, no! Oh no, no!

Couldn't you have just nodded and smiled
From nine to twelve P.M.
Instead of telling your conspiracy theories
To all my bosses
And all my friends?

The bitch went nuts (Nuts!)
Started putting down the Christians
And all about what the white man
Did to the Indians
How could I know that she never done blow before?
She shouted, "Fuck Dick Cheney!"
Then she puked on Franklin's floor

Oh no!
Oh no! Oh no, no! Oh no, no! Oh no! Oh right.

1, 2, 3

If you want to write a letter, write a letter
If you'd rather make a phone call, pick the phone up
Call me
But if you had to say it all with a pop song
Couldn't you at least have made me a good one?

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too

Was it just a simple rewind and erase?
Was your mind squeaky-clean in the first place?

If you gotta write an essay, do your research
If you got to
Stick your nose in a boy-and-girl fight, hear both sides first
Something wrong, being copied on her memo
In the form of a bad country demo

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too

Is there a funnel from her mind to your mouth now?
'Cause you don't edit anything; it just comes out

I gotta say (gotta say)
It's pretty gay, trading jabs with pop songs (Ahh)
So maybe next time we should just have a dance-off
Dance-off (Ahh)

Isn't there something in the Bible about forgiveness and love?
And more importantly about throwing stones and what your house is made of
You might reflect upon your own arrangement
In '94, getting blown in your basement
(While your wife slept!)

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you (Integrity)
She's brainwashed you (Family)
She's b-b-brainwashed you (Online rhyming dictionary)

1, 2, 3

If you want to write a letter, write a letter
If you'd rather make a phone call, pick the phone up
Call me
But if you had to say it all with a pop song
Couldn't you at least have made me a good one?

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too

Was it just a simple rewind and erase?
Was your mind squeaky-clean in the first place?

If you gotta write an essay, do your research
If you got to
Stick your nose in a boy-and-girl fight, hear both sides first
Something wrong, being copied on her memo
In the form of a bad country demo

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too

Is there a funnel from her mind to your mouth now?
'Cause you don't edit anything; it just comes out

I gotta say (gotta say)
It's pretty gay, trading jabs with pop songs (Ahh)
So maybe next time we should just have a dance-off
Dance-off (Ahh)

Isn't there something in the Bible about forgiveness and love?
And more importantly about throwing stones and what your house is made of
You might reflect upon your own arrangement
In '94, getting blown in your basement
(While your wife slept!)

She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you, brainwashed you too
She's brainwashed you (Integrity)
She's brainwashed you (Family)
She's b-b-brainwashed you (Online rhyming dictionary)

If you ever been brainwashed then you know all about, yeah
How it feels to be messed with till your insides fall out, yeah

'Cause when you're being fucked with to no end
Suddenly the walls are starting to
Close in, close in, close in

Because you're brainwashed, yeah
You are brainwashed
Because you're brainwashed, yeah, you
If only I can see behind those eyes
Why don't you pick on someone else your own size?
Yeah

I never was one for being mean to other people, no
Like when I was a boy and went to church
with the big steeple, yeah

But you have gone too far over the line
I wish if I'd had a button
Rewind, rewind, rewind

Because you're brainwashed, yeah
You are; you know it's true
Because you're brainwashed, yeah
Did you think that I would see through all those lies?
'Cause you're just offering a batch of shit pies

I gotta say it made my day
To be best friends with you
What happened to the person that I once knew?
You know it's true, yeah

I make a motion that we sit down
and talk this whole thing out
Or are you too much of a child
Still want to be a little Boy Scout?

"When friends like you who need some friends,"
someone once said,
"I'd rather put a bullet into my
big head, big head, big head."

Brainwashed
You know it's true, yeah
Because you're brainwashed, yeah
Believe me, yeah, can't you see?
Life has many possibilities

Brainwashed, yeah, brainwashed

Here in Cologne,
I know I said it wrong.

I walked you to the train
And back across alone
to my hotel room.

And ordered me some food,
And now I'm wondering why the floor has suddenly become a moving target.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

Says here an astronaut
Put on a pair of diapers
Drove eighteen hours
to kill her boyfriend.

And in my hotel room, I'm wondering
If you read that story too?
And if we both might
Be having the same imaginary conversation

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

(Ohhhhh-aah)
Weightless as I close my eyes
(Ohhhhh-aah)
The ceiling opens in disguise

Such a painful trip
to find out this is it.
And as I go to sleep
You'll be waking up

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

Here in Cologne,
I know I said it wrong.

I walked you to the train
And back across alone
to my hotel room.

And ordered me some food,
And now I'm wondering why the floor has suddenly become a moving target.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

Says here an astronaut
Put on a pair of diapers
Drove eighteen hours
to kill her boyfriend.

And in my hotel room, I'm wondering
If you read that story too?
And if we both might
Be having the same imaginary conversation

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

(Ohhhhh-aah)
Weightless as I close my eyes
(Ohhhhh-aah)
The ceiling opens in disguise

Such a painful trip
to find out this is it.
And as I go to sleep
You'll be waking up

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

Here in Cologne,
I know I said it wrong.

I walked you to the train
And back across alone
to my hotel room.

And ordered me some food,
And now I'm wondering why the floor has suddenly become a moving target.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

Says here an astronaut
Put on a pair of diapers
Drove eighteen hours
to kill her boyfriend.

And in my hotel room, I'm wondering
If you read that story too?
And if we both might
Be having the same imaginary conversation

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

(Four, three, two)

(Ohhhhh-aah)
Weightless as I close my eyes
(Ohhhhh-aah)
The ceiling opens in disguise

Such a painful trip
to find out this is it.
And as I go to sleep
You'll be waking up

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go
I will let go
If you will let go

Uh-oh!

Hey, Dr. Yin
Chain-smoking Chinese centenarian
Deck my back with pins
Connect the wires and plug me in

Uh-oh!

Hey, Love Master Z
Sexy online psychic overseas
When my bank card clears (yeah)
Tell me things I want to hear

Yeah, yeah

Well I might be dyin'
Or maybe I got too much time
I can't stop my mind
It's runnin' right
And these false teeth
And these plastic knees
It goes squeak, squeak, squeak
From the porch to the street

Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey

Hey Dr. Jack
Bend me like a pretzel till I crack
All my joints and bones
Beat me up and send me home

Hey!

I've got too much time
Baby may I might be dyin'
Got to help me fallin', doctor
Got to help me fallin', fallin'

Hey, Dr. Yang!

Uh-oh!

Hey, Dr. Yin
Chain-smoking Chinese centenarian
Deck my back with pins
Connect the wires and plug me in

Uh-oh!

Hey, Love Master Z
Sexy online psychic overseas
When my bank card clears (yeah)
Tell me things I want to hear

Yeah, yeah

Well I might be dyin'
Or maybe I got too much time
I can't stop my mind
It's runnin' right
And these false teeth
And these plastic knees
It goes squeak, squeak, squeak
From the porch to the street

Hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey

Hey Dr. Jack
Bend me like a pretzel till I crack
All my joints and bones
Beat me up and send me home

Hey!

I've got too much time
Baby may I might be dyin'
Got to help me fallin', doctor
Got to help me fallin', fallin'

Hey, Dr. Yang!

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

Effington could be a wonderful effing place
I can see it from the highway
And I'm wondering
Are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars
Effing in their trailers in the back roads
And the parking lots
Of Effington
Making my way to Normal, Illinois

Maybe I should ditch this little white rental
On the interstate
And start a new effing life
In Effington

I could change my name, grow a beard, start a family
Or I could just keep on movin' on, movin' on, movin' on, movin' on
Not stop 'til I get to Normal

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

I've got this movie in my mind of Effington
And the soundtrack to it sounds like this:
(Dah dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dah daaaah)

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

And then the people who live in Normal
Can buy the movies that I'll make in Effington
That's what normal people do
Do normal people do it too, normal people do it too,
Normal people do it, people do it, people do it . . .

Hey, hey
Yee haw!

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington
In Effington, in Effington . . .

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

Effington could be a wonderful effing place
I can see it from the highway
And I'm wondering
Are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars
Effing in their trailers in the back roads
And the parking lots
Of Effington
Making my way to Normal, Illinois

Maybe I should ditch this little white rental
On the interstate
And start a new effing life
In Effington

I could change my name, grow a beard, start a family
Or I could just keep on movin' on, movin' on, movin' on, movin' on
Not stop 'til I get to Normal

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

I've got this movie in my mind of Effington
And the soundtrack to it sounds like this:
(Dah dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dah daaaah)

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington, oh

If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team

And then the people who live in Normal
Can buy the movies that I'll make in Effington
That's what normal people do
Do normal people do it too, normal people do it too,
Normal people do it, people do it, people do it . . .

Hey, hey
Yee haw!

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington, in Effington
In Effington, in Effington . . .

Have you seen that dog?
I got to get him back
I had him tied to a tree
but he keeps getting out

He's probably running loose with the bitches
And when I catch him I'll give him some stitches
Oh I love him so much, aw, that stupid bitch is mine

Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh

They're talking down at the spa
Now the word is out (Ahh)
Goddamn I look like a tool
when he goes running a-rou-ou-ound (Ahh)
I'm gonna take him on Court TV
And show the world what he's done to me
Oh I'll drag his ass back home, back where his ass belongs

Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh!

He's my everything, he means the world to me
He's my hopes and dreams, fungible property

Sometimes I wonder why I put up with his shit
If I could I would become a lesbian
I know I said dead or alive, but really
Dead is fine

Just bring him here! Ha!

Errant dog
Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh!

Have you seen that dog?
I got to get him back
I had him tied to a tree
but he keeps getting out

He's probably running loose with the bitches
And when I catch him I'll give him some stitches
Oh I love him so much, aw, that stupid bitch is mine

Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh

They're talking down at the spa
Now the word is out (Ahh)
Goddamn I look like a tool
when he goes running a-rou-ou-ound (Ahh)
I'm gonna take him on Court TV
And show the world what he's done to me
Oh I'll drag his ass back home, back where his ass belongs

Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh!

He's my everything, he means the world to me
He's my hopes and dreams, fungible property

Sometimes I wonder why I put up with his shit
If I could I would become a lesbian
I know I said dead or alive, but really
Dead is fine

Just bring him here! Ha!

Errant dog
Errant dog
Errant dog
Unhh!

Called in sick one day
Stepped out my front door
Squinted up at the sky
And strapped on my backpack
Got into a van
And when I returned I had
Ex-wives and children
Boxes of photographs
And they gave me some food
And they didn't charge me
And they gave me some coffee
But they didn't charge me
And when I was broke, I needed it more
But now that I'm rich, they give me coffee

Eating an ice-cream cone
Texting with my thumbs
Flippin' off the asshole
Who pulled into my lane
Life could be longer than it's often cracked up to be
We get new cells every seven years
I feel seven today
It's a good day to die again

Now they save me my place
Over there in the corner
And I never get tickets
Yeah, I only get warnings
But when I was broke I needed it more
And now that I'm rich I get free coffee

Called in sick one day
Stepped out my front door
Squinted up at the sky
And strapped on my backpack
Got into a van
And when I returned I had
Ex-wives and children
Boxes of photographs
And they gave me some food
And they didn't charge me
And they gave me some coffee
But they didn't charge me
And when I was broke, I needed it more
But now that I'm rich, they give me coffee

Eating an ice-cream cone
Texting with my thumbs
Flippin' off the asshole
Who pulled into my lane
Life could be longer than it's often cracked up to be
We get new cells every seven years
I feel seven today
It's a good day to die again

Now they save me my place
Over there in the corner
And I never get tickets
Yeah, I only get warnings
But when I was broke I needed it more
And now that I'm rich I get free coffee

I want to live in a land where there's free coffee
And the beer flows out of the ground
The women are nice and they don't think twice
About kissing you and fooling around

I wanna live in a place where there's lots of diamonds
And the parties last till dawn
The fights don't hurt and there's chocolate dirt
And the weed is grown instead of the lawn

Is there such a place
Well I guess there could be
If we all could be so gentle
If we call could be so free
Coffee

Is there such a place
Well I guess there could be
If we all could be so gentle
If we all could be so free
Coffee

I wanna live in a place where there's free coffee
When they bury me in the ground
I'll have a smile on my face
I love life
In this free coffee town

Is there such a place
Well I guess there could be
If we all could be so gentle
If we all could be so free
Coffee

Tread slowly from the car to the spa
Like a weary war-torn refugee
Crossing the border with her starving child
It's a struggle just to get to shiatsu

Present the waitress with your allergy card
And tell all of your problems, leave no tip at all
Down at the shoe store with your friends
Speculate who might be fucking a guru

Rock on, rock on with your fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Spread the love around

Hard to remember how we managed before
We could afford real and nervous breakdowns
Or before the anthropology store
Was erected on Indian burial grounds

So really, don't you see a little of yourself
In the bathroom attendant that you just scowled at?
Or the child who's hiding inside
As you wipe the smile off a teenage movie star

Rock on, rock on with my fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Spread the love around, spread the love around, alright

You're gonna be alright, baby
You're gonna be alright, baby

Floating back from the spa to the car
State of bliss, and it wasn't the steam room
Sometimes life's not so bad
Now we know who's been fucking the guru

Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with your fashionable frown
Spread the love around, smile for us now
Do it upside down

Tread slowly from the car to the spa
Like a weary war-torn refugee
Crossing the border with her starving child
It's a struggle just to get to shiatsu

Present the waitress with your allergy card
And tell all of your problems, leave no tip at all
Down at the shoe store with your friends
Speculate who might be fucking a guru

Rock on, rock on with your fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Spread the love around

Hard to remember how we managed before
We could afford real and nervous breakdowns
Or before the anthropology store
Was erected on Indian burial grounds

So really, don't you see a little of yourself
In the bathroom attendant that you just scowled at?
Or the child who's hiding inside
As you wipe the smile off a teenage movie star

Rock on, rock on with my fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Spread the love around, spread the love around, alright

You're gonna be alright, baby
You're gonna be alright, baby

Floating back from the spa to the car
State of bliss, and it wasn't the steam room
Sometimes life's not so bad
Now we know who's been fucking the guru

Rock on, rock on with a fashionable frown
Rock on, rock on, spread the love around
Rock on, rock on with your fashionable frown
Spread the love around, smile for us now
Do it upside down

Why do we frown?
Is it something within us
Or in the world at large?
Maybe it's both, y'all

Sadness deep inside
Something we can't hide
We yearn for the past
But it's not there

And it makes me frown
Yeah, it makes me frown

You look at the news
Always giving me the blues
War, death and chaos
All around me now

The media's controlled
People do just what they're told
Just wanna stand up and yell
Is anybody out there?

'Cause it makes me frown
Yeah, it makes me frown

It's hard to find hope
But maybe we can learn to cope
By listening to one another
It's a trust thing

'Cause I know that you have feared
'Cause I know the end is near
But just lend an ear
And we can make it happen

'Cause it makes me frown
Makes everybody frown

Oh, I know it can get hard
When you look out your backyard
See the ozone falling
Apart before you

And recycling's a bitch
I've got just one wish
That his children won't grow up
In a freaking trash can

A piano's all I got
And I know that ain't a lot
Music has the power
To change the future

So what do you think
'Bout my message of hope?
Better get with the program
Before it's too late, y'all

So if you wanna start right now
You better take that fucking frown
Better turn it upside down

Just give in to love
Yeah, give in to love
Give it up for love
Amen to love

It's gotta be love
Or it'll make you frown
Ah, it makes us frown
Ah, it makes me frown
'Cause it makes me frown

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh

Start of the show
Hiroshima
And the people were shouting my name
As the house lights came down
And the spotlight followed me out
I waved hello to the crowd
As I busted ass off the front of the stage

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Maybe it was the rush of adrenaline
As the concrete rose to meet my face
Maybe it was the sheer embarrassment
That kept me conscious and standing
As I crawled back up onto the stage
and started pounding out the first song
There was blood on the keyboard
Oh my God

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
Check it out cause
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
They took them in Tokyo
And I brought em back with me to the USA

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

It's true
I fell
I hit my, my head, y'know
I mean not my head, my ankle
My ankle was black
But my head, I got a concussion
They took X-rays and asked the doctor
if he could tell whether I was..
Cause I don't speak Japanese
Does this song end?

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh

Start of the show
Hiroshima
And the people were shouting my name
As the house lights came down
And the spotlight followed me out
I waved hello to the crowd
As I busted ass off the front of the stage

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Maybe it was the rush of adrenaline
As the concrete rose to meet my face
Maybe it was the sheer embarrassment
That kept me conscious and standing
As I crawled back up onto the stage
and started pounding out the first song
There was blood on the keyboard
Oh my God

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
Check it out cause
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
They took them in Tokyo
And I brought em back with me to the USA

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

It's true
I fell
I hit my, my head, y'know
I mean not my head, my ankle
My ankle was black
But my head, I got a concussion
They took X-rays and asked the doctor
if he could tell whether I was..
Cause I don't speak Japanese
Does this song end?

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh

Start of the show
Hiroshima
And the people were shouting my name
As the house lights came down
And the spotlight followed me out
I waved hello to the crowd
As I busted ass off the front of the stage

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Maybe it was the rush of adrenaline
As the concrete rose to meet my face
Maybe it was the sheer embarrassment
That kept me conscious and standing
As I crawled back up onto the stage
and started pounding out the first song
There was blood on the keyboard
Oh my God

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
You wanna see what's in my head
Check it out cause
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
I got pictures of what's in my head
They took them in Tokyo
And I brought em back with me to the USA

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh
They're watching me, watching me fall

It's true
I fell
I hit my, my head, y'know
I mean not my head, my ankle
My ankle was black
But my head, I got a concussion
They took X-rays and asked the doctor
if he could tell whether I was..
Cause I don't speak Japanese
Does this song end?

It's just a thought
But where did it come from?
What does she do with it
If it comes back?

A note from his assistant
There by the telephone
She sees it again
As she turns out the light

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
She says you've got the number
It said Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's there, on her mind
As she closes her eyes

She believes there are things you should know about
When you've been married for 35 years
And her heart belongs
To a man that she hadn't seen
Since a magical night when the children were small

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
She says you've got the number
It said Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's there, on her mind
As she closes her eyes

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's probably nothing, yeah, nothing at all
But Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's all coming back
As she's reading old letters
That she'd hid in the closet
With her pictures she'd cherished
That she kept to herself
For a good 30 years . . .
Now she closes her eyes

It's just a thought
But where did it come from?
What does she do with it
If it comes back?

A note from his assistant
There by the telephone
She sees it again
As she turns out the light

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
She says you've got the number
It said Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's there, on her mind
As she closes her eyes

She believes there are things you should know about
When you've been married for 35 years
And her heart belongs
To a man that she hadn't seen
Since a magical night when the children were small

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
She says you've got the number
It said Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's there, on her mind
As she closes her eyes

Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's probably nothing, yeah, nothing at all
But Kylie is calling from Connecticut
It's all coming back
As she's reading old letters
That she'd hid in the closet
With her pictures she'd cherished
That she kept to herself
For a good 30 years . . .
Now she closes her eyes

Dr. Yang, help me mend this broken heart
You got to help me, doc, I don't know where to start
When she walked right out that door
And left me crying on the floor
She says she's only going to the store

Dr. Yang, what's the lovesick diagnosis?
'Cause she says she cannot cope with my neurosis
You would think I had chronic halitosis
Dr. Yang

Dr. Yang, now her voicemail box is full
If she won't call me I'm feeling like a fool
The last time I saw her in her car
I threw her shit out in the yard
Locked her out and headed to the bar

Dr. Yang, what's the lovesick diagnosis?
Cause she says she cannot cope with my neurosis
I could always hurt myself, doctor, she knows this
Dr. Yang
Dr. Yang

All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't get back my girlfriend

Dr. Yang, if you can't fix my heart in the end
Actually there is something you could do instead
Call my girlfriend from your number
Explain that you're a doctor
Tell her that I love her so
She hurt me more than she could know
And even with all your degrees
There's nothing you can do for me
Then she won't have to block my number any more

Dr. Yang, da da da da da
Dr. Yang, da da da da da
Dr. Yang, da da da da da
Dr. Yang, gonna kill myself tonight
Tell her that
Dr. Yang

Is this the way to normal
Is this the way to normal
Show me the way to normal
Show me the way to normal
Show me the way to normal
Is this the way to normal

You can blame it on the President
But what if it was you
Who was the White House resident
Or could you save the starving children
When there's so much else to do
With all the problems of the world
Coming down on you

So this is the way
This is the way to normal
Show me the way
Show me the way to normal
Alright

You can say my music's bullshit
In your uppity review
But if it was you here at this keyboard
With all the people waiting
To hear your next CD
And throw you in the garbage
Or hail your masterpiece

So show me the way
Show me the way to normal
This is the way
This is the way to normal
Alright

All these corporations poisoning our air
The children sad and hungry but they don't even care
Let's get together people
We've got problems here to solve
Let's make this world a better place
Before there is no world at -

Is this is the way to normal
Is this is the way to normal
Sh- Show me the way to normal
Show me the way to normal
Show me the way to normal
Show me the way to normal

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go

Long way to go,
Long way to go
Long way to go