Better Than Ezra

Everybody talking saying you will be walking
This neighborhood will never be the same
You said we'd understand
You found out what's happening now
So we all sat down and you broke the news

Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's just still life with Cooley

All your friends show on time
They come in bringing red wine
You said if it's over then we'll go in style
You better best take care keep one hand to your ear
So you're not left hanging when they're finally gone

Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's just still life with Cooley

Whatcha' saying?
You're going to stay of at St. Madigan's?
(reeled in again)
You're just fooling around fooling around, yeah

People hanging with their good friends
Listening to those old songs

Now Daddy don't love her anymore.
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore.
It's just still life
It's just still life with Cooley.

If they calm you down,
Then excite them
If they call you out,
Then ignore them.

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down

When they all believe,
You reject it.
When they all are for,
Be against it.

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down

If they call you out
They will tear you down
When your world falls in
Then they'll leave you dry

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down
Down, down, down

one more murder in this town,
don't mean a thing just lock your doors
and drive around.

one more murder in this town,
don't worry the rain will
wash the chalk marks from the ground

saturday night, shots ring out,
add one to the body count.
you come alive to see another's end.

plead it to a lesser count,
D.A. says without a doubt,
in 3-5 you're on the streets again.

one more murder in this town.
don't mean a thing .
you get accustomed to the sound.

one more murder in this town.
block off the street and .
wrap the crime scene tape around.

hosanna! hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!
hosanna! hosanna!
I can't feel a ting!

I can't feel a thing at all!

saturday night you're going out
parking lot, a figure come about
feel a piece click against your head.
pleading to his sympathy,

"take the car, I got a family"
you hear a laugh,
"It don't mean shit to me."

one more murder in this town

You come walking like someboby's lover
You come talking like somebody's friend
You wouldn't be here if I was unwilling
We both want the same thing

Pull
We both want the same thing

Brother, sister
Anoint me, absolve me
Take me with you
Below hell
You won't be here if I were unwilling
We both know what I bring

Pull
We both want the same thing

Around, surround
You subjugate me
Feel your pull
Effortlessly
Fuck me up
I'm begging you please
We both want the same thing

Pull
We both want the same thing

Your pain makes you beautiful, you love to lose control,
And mediocrity's rewarded so set your standards low.
In an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you.
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you.

Suck me in, I'm willing, I get off when you go on
Let me be your fate. Pour it on, pour it on.
In a country fair or union square, I implore you
In a shrouded face or a spray of mace, I implore you.
I implore you.

Cryptic? Elemental.
You transcend when you succumb.
One last shred of frailty left,
Embedded in our bones.
In an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you

So do it again, do it again, do it again. This is what it means
Particle.

So do it again, do it again, do it again. This is what it means
Particle.

One more murder in this town,
Don't mean a thing just lock your doors
And drive around.

One more murder in this town,
Don't worry the rain will
Wash the chalk marks from the ground.

Saturday night, shots ring out,
Add one to the body count.
You come alive to see another's end.

Plead it to a lesser count,
D.A. says without a doubt,
In 3-5 you're on the streets again.

One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing
You get accustomed to the sound

One more murder in this town
Block off the street and
Wrap the crime scene tape around.

Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing!
I can't feel a thing at all!

Saturday night you're going out
Parking lot, a figure come about
Feel a piece click against your head.
Pleading to his sympathy,
"Take the car, I got a family"
You hear a laugh,
"It don't mean shit to me."

One more murder in this town

Talking in her sleep again
Reciting lines start to end
But she's not crazy
(Knock on wood)
Just a little misunderstood

She takes a walk at 4AM
Wakes the neighborhood again
And I find myself recalling everything she used to tell me

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

She's waiting tables the next day
She pulls a double then on her way
To an audition in Hollywood, yeah,
A little misunderstood

We sit around the house
Waiting for the phone to ring
And I know she alone holds the key
To everything I want to be

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

Two years later you're a star
Who'd have thought we'd get this far?
But I'd give it all away if I
Could see you on that day again
When you quit work
And threw that coffee
At the manager jerk

You said, 'Close your eyes
I've got a surprise
A house in the hills
And a car that drives by.'

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts, don't it? Inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

I got a little bit of hope,
like a soap on a rope.
Sweeter than sour,
getting thinner by the hour.
Falling fast,
and I'm running out of gas.
Mugging on your sister, smart as Bobby Fisher.
Still I couldn't get arrested,
Though I got more hooks than Madonna got looks.
Just like that AC/DC song,
"Come on baby, shake me all night long."

All I wanna do,
Is stay till early in the morning.
(You know I love you baby).
And all I gotta say,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary, baby

Somebody push me through the door,
I've been sleeping on the floor.
31 flavors, listen to the neighbors through the wall,
At the debutante ball.
Cumba lada vista,
Got a Mona Lisa.
So much for the late rent, cause your money's spent,
And it's cold inside.
Just like that Barenaked Ladies song,
I'm "hot like wasabi when" I'm next to your body.

All I wanna do,
Is stay till early in the morning.
(You know I love you baby).
And all I gotta say,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary, baby.

Aint' love such a sweet thing.
Ain't love such a sweet thing.

(Con fuego baby)

All I wanna do,
Is stay till early in the morning.
(You know I love you baby).
And all I gotta say,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary baby.
All I wanna do,
Is stay till early in the morning.
(You know I love you baby).
And all I gotta say,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary.

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)







And the morning light was breaking
Slowly moving across the bed
He gets up without her waking
To the voices in his head

Through the shadows in the hallway
To the room they painted blue
And on the inside he is frightened
At a loss for what to do

Until he opens up his eyes
And the angels all look down

Even closer than this life
Closer than your faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

And he knows his life is changing
It's never easy letting go
For the first time you are mortal
As the child before you grows
And he wonders at the sight
Of the joy that he has found

Even closer than this life
Closer than your faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

And what would you intend to find?
Solitude? Your peace of mind?
Holding out for something less
Than touching the hand of God?

Even closer than this life
Closer than this faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

Closer than this life
Closer finally
Living for the only thing
You ever made complete
Oh, for the one thing
That you both did perfectly

Rain drops bead again
They make a tide pool
On your summer skin

Shoplifting corner store
I should have got,
Should have got some more.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
Baby I don't know.

God, how you look the same.
I recognize the face,
But not the name.

Pull over, never stop
A caramel-colored girl in a halter top.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(She said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From Friday till Sunday noon.
Stop! Start a letter,
Rent-A-Saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a Cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Could it be that hard
To never mind the rent
And then quit your job?

Flying, at what cost?
Shout outs to the ones we've lost.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?

Don't mind me. Me? I'm fine.
I just get a little lost sometimes.
But what I really meant to say,
I couldn't live without you another day.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(She said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From Friday till Sunday noon.
Stop! Start a letter,
Rent-A-Saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a Cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Are you just worried to see me?
Are you just worried to need me?

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From Friday till Sunday noon.
Stop! Start a letter,
Rent-A-Saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a Cadillac,
And we're rolling.
Yeah, we're rolling.
Me and you, we're rolling.

On a Sunday afternoon.

Yeah...

Allie woke up 8AM
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that ((REM)) song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And I fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
"No one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they're giving up."

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that ((REM)) song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When I got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And I went to my room.
Played that disc that you'd given me,
And I shut my eyes
Swear I could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that ((REM)) song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime

First thing I remember was lying in the sand
When a plague of seven horsemen
Came across the desert land
They had one good eye between them
They were burning up the sky
When I asked why they had come for me
The ugly one replied
He told me

Ah, you better recognize
Aw, you better recognize, son

Next thing I recall well
I was hanging from a cliff
When an angel came to rescue
Me and held me in her grip
She said, "Everyone who's ever loved you
Gets hurt in the end."
Then she smiled and said, "Forgive me."
As she let go of my hand
She told me

(You been living out of pocket, out of your socket)
Ah, you better recognize.
(You been leaning like a Pisa, a moaning Lisa)
Ah, you better recognize, son
(Hip hip for all the busted, we are entrusted)
Ah, you better recognize.
(You come a pleading, but it's too late
We can't hear you're on the list now!)
And let your dim light shine.

Always darkest before the morning light,
Lord knows you ain't that bright
Better let your dim light shine

Just before I hit the ground
I woke up in my bed
I was dazed and I was weary
And my heart was full of dread
When I looked at my reflection
I was horrified to find
There were seven horsemen next to me
The angel close behind
They told me

(You been living out of pocket, out of the socket)
Ah, you better recognize.
(You been leaning like a Pisa, a moaning Lisa)
Ah, you better recognize, son
(Hip hip for all the busted, we are entrusted)
Ah, you better recognize.
(You come a pleading, but it's too late
We can't hear you're on the list now!)
And let your dim light shine.

I can still recall
The way you looked that fall
In your favorite dress
The day before you left
And since that time
I wrote a simple rhyme

And I miss you and the things you do
The time we had, the good and bad
The day we met that I can't forget
Signed Sincerely, Me

Are you cross at your loss?
But could you be more obsessive
If I'd given you the chance
But since you asked, a reply but it's the last

And I miss you and the things you do
The love you fake, the heart you break.
The buzz you caught, and the times we fought
Signed Sincerely, Me.
Oh, my God, and don't forget P.S.
I moved away to a new address
It's far away and I think it's best
Signed Sincerely, Me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I confess, I was such a mess
I drove for fifteen hours
On this nasty Greyhound bus
Yes, I've returned.
(You'd think that I would have learned.)

But I miss you and the things you do
The times we had, the good and bad
The day we met that I can't forget
Signed Sincerely, Me

Could you really be a bitch like that?
Broke my door when you stole the cat.
Someone said that you even laughed
Signed Sincerely, Me

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I miss you...

The hope you give.
The life you live.
The cross you bear.
The way you swear.
The face you make
When you masturbate.
Our bed in the moonlight.
And the night we fought
You were so distraught.
And the lies I denied
Even when you cried,
God knows I apologize,
Signed Sincerely, Me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain goes, the sun returns.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.
You'd never go away.
You'd never go away.

Signed Sincerely, Me.

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)








I sit and watch your flowers wilting in the kitchen
I felt like I was one of them gasping for air.
I go from room to room hoping to find your
I play my music louder than you'd like me to

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out I want to get you,
Get you, get you in.

I understand that you are going through a hard time
But what you need to recognize I'm in one too
You say that maybe we should take some time apart
But you go your way, I'll get by, and you'll go get high
You just see if I mind.

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Why can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out I want to get you,
Let you, get you in.

Well I could be wrong I don't even know myself
And I must be strong when you're gone so long
I don't need to know reasons why.

What I wouldn't do for you.

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Why can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out I want to get you,
Let you, get you in.
I want to get you in.


무공해성 모던 록 사운드, Better Than Ezra


베터 댄 에즈라(Better Than Ezra)의 트래비스 맥넵(Travis McNabb)이 1969년 11월 19일 출생했다. '88년에 결성된 베터 댄 에즈라는 뉴올리언즈 출신의 3인조로 처음에는 4인조였지만 리드 기타리스트가 갑자기 사망하는 바람에 3인조가 되었다. '94년 그들은 자비로 데뷔앨범을 발매하는데 이듬해 [Elektra]와 계약을 맺으면서 싱글 'Good'이 좋은 반응을 얻게 되었고 앨범 [Deluxe]는 히트라고 할 만한 성공을 거두게 된다. 보컬리스트이자 작곡자인 케빈 그리핀(Kevin Griffin), 베이시스트인 톰 드루먼드(Tom Drummond) 그리고 드러머인 트래비스 맥넵은 '96년에 두번째 앨범 [Friction Baby]를 내놓았으며 2년 뒤에는 [How Does Your Garden Grow?]를 발매했다. 후자에 실려있던 'At the Stars'가 빌보드에서 선정한 '올해의 팝송 100곡'에 뽑히는 등 인기를 얻었지만 이 앨범으로 [일렉트라]와의 계약을 끝나고 다시 자비로 앨범 [Artifakt]를 발매한다. 이 앨범은 그간 앨범 미수록곡들과 콘서트 라이브를 모아 발매한 것으로 판매도 그들의 웹사이트인 www.betterthanezra.com를 통해 인터넷으로만 했다. 2001년에 이들은 소규모 인디 레이블인 [Beyond Music]과 계약을 했고 싱글 'Extra Ordinary'를 내놓았다. 방송에서 좋은 반응을 얻은 이 곡에 이어 2001년, 여름에 3년만의 새 앨범 [Closer]를 내놓았다. 그리고 2004년 라이브 음반 [Live at the House of Blues New Orleans]를 발표했지만 국내에는 소개되지 않았다.

Wake me up
Slap my face
Draw me closer in
To your embrace

Cause nobody wants to be the butt of every joke
And nobody wants to be the one to pull the rope
So you harden your shell
Slowly losing yourself

And now I'm close
But not touching
And I'm cold
But not freezing
And I'm only alive
Only alive
Briefly

Can you feel
Could you love
Are you further now from where you started
I bet you do enough just to get by
Don't you

Cause nobody wants to be the butt of every joke
And nobody wants to be the one who's full of hope
And a cop's light goes by
And the moon lights the night

And now I'm close
But not touching
And I'm cold
But not freezing
And I'm only alive
Only alive
Briefly

And you're a starlight that shines
For a moment in time
In time

Worn out in Juarez
Asking the dust for change
Worn out in Juarez
A punch drunk assassin
Getting caught in the rain

Driving all the way from Albuquerque
Living on Funyuns and beef jerky, yeah

Wearing the ages
Mining the seats for cash
Worn on the edges
Faded like a photo left too long on the dash

Busking all the way from Sarasota
Chasing mini thins with cherry cola, yeah

It's a dreamlife

Hitching all the way from Minnesota
Sunflower seeds in your scotch and soda

It's a dreamlife
Ah, it's a dreamlife

Worn out in Juarez
Worn out in Juarez

I got a little bit of reason
For everything I've done
I might just serenade the moonlight

And I get so lonely in this crowd
I want to scream but make no sound
And yeah I'm lost but maybe I'll be fine

Cause when I'm in over my head
I hear the words you said
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like I do
I do

And I couldn't bear to see you walk out
And leave it all behind
I couldn't bear to see the sunlight

And I love the sound of rain on tin
Your screen door beckoning me in
And yeah I'm mad but overcome with joy

Could it be so damn naive
To hope you could agree?
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like I do
I do

In a world that's cellophane
You get so lost I know you do
In a world that's cellophane

Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like I do
I do
Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like I do
I do

On a Tuesday in December,
When you walked out I remember.
You were smiling as you turned around,
In the hallway, you lingered in the doorway.
And still the words you said to me, make me think of how we used to be.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She said, You're just like the sun.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

In the back room of a mansion,
You are planning your deception.
Always calling, never phoning.
I'm a victim of another's war.
And still the words you said to me,
Come ringing in your silent symphony.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She says, You're just like the sun.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

And still it hurt so bad, (I thought I'd get one over on you),
You know, I hope you're sad, (you deserve it more than anyone).

I could give you one good reason.
You could be my winning season.
All the things we could have been, just fell away.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She says, You're just like the sun. I get so burned when you are close to me.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

You're a long walk in a rain storm
You're a cut that refuses to heal
You're a dull ache that I can't shake
You're a cold that's clogging up my head
Or a broke watch keeping time still
Till you pull me in pull me in
And I can't fight

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight

You're a stalled car in the desert
You're a song I can't get off my mind
And in a dire strait
With no hope at all in sight
You come rushing in rushing in
With a lifeline

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight

Pull me closer to your breast
I need you finally I confess
I'm drifting I'm drifting
I love you but I hate you too
God only knows what I could do
I'm drifting I'm drifting

Come on give me one reason
Come on find me in daylight
Come on give me one reason
Come on find me in daylight

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight
You'll find daylight

Girl, your daddy's knocking on your door
I hear your footsteps on the floor to me
Stumbling back to your room

Pain it is a thing I can't explain
I only feel it when you go away
I'm waiting for you to return

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

Hey, I know your mother's off at work
You say your daddy's such a jerk to you
Why can't they just all fade away

Girl, is that the way it's going to be?
I'm only happy when you're down on me
You can be my honeybee

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide it)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
It's only natural
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural
(don't fight it girl)
It's only natural
(don't hide it)
Is it the colour of your hair?
Is it the silly way you stare?
(don't fight it girl)
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

north light comes uninvited
through the window to where you lie
disjointed, dust and silence
quite at a loss

CHORUS:
i feel strange
i feel changed
i feel strange.....overcome...overcome by you

i fell in too deep
but i learned to swim
in an undertow
since i'm giving in

i feel strange
i feel changed
i feel strange...overcome...overcome

I'm a little bit wiser, I'm a little bit sadder
I'm a little bit less, you might have guessed
But if you could be staying
Tell me now, darlin', I think I'm fading
I swear I'll never trade your love for a lie

(CHORUS)

(overcome..overcome...
sometimes it helps me to give it up
in some ways you're never gonna get it
some nights i feel i'm gonna give it
sunlight...every night
overcome...overcome)

...hold still, come on and save me
...hold still, come on and let me
...hold still come on again...
...hold still, come on and let me
...hold still, come on and let me

Are you real?
Are you real or just a dream?
It's been so long I don't know.

I can feel,
I can feel you with me now,
Even though you're far away.

And some are special,
come back, racing through your mind.
You are special;
your light, your heat will never die.

I was lost.
I was lost and I found you.
I will know no further love.

People move,
come in close, and fall away.
Your love, you refuse to fade.

And some are special,
Come back racing through your mind.
You are special;
Your light, your heat will never die.

So regretful.
How could I ever be so blind?
You are special.
I thought I'd never lose my mind.

I was pulling far away;
you were begging me to stay,
and I thought I was losing you.
Funny how the opposite was true.

Real enough, whole enough,
I'd settle for a lie.

Some are special,
come back racing through your mind.
You are special;
your light your heat, will never die.

So regretful.
How could I ever be so blind?
You are special.
I thought I'd never lose my mind.

She was a midwestern prom queen
Got her boyfriend headed out West
They ended up in the valley
In a one room apartment
A disconnected phone
Yeah

Now five years later she's single
She's got two kids and a note
And if she gets a moment to herself
She can remember how everything used
To go her way
She says

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could
Have my American Dream

For twenty years he worked corporate
He planned to early retire
His CEO he stole a billion dollars
Now he's working at Denny's
Hoping for a raise
He thinks

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could
Have my American Dream

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm a little bit rebel
I'm a bit patriot
I can see they're both sides of the coin
But still it gets a bit rough
Everything is screwed up
I guess itis just the American way

Sometimes I wonder how you are
You're up in New York City with a family
I think I could have been your guy
It's just a moment in time that is slipping on away

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could have
My American Dream
My American Dream

Yeah, yeah, yeah

She was a midwestern prom queen
Got her boyfriend headed out West

We were standing in an empty room
The moonlight was falling
You were holding my hand when the car pulled up for you
And I could have spent a life with you
But those days were over
You were calling my name when your face faded from view

And wasn't it you who told me the sun would always chase the day
And wasn't it you who told me:

Angels fly in the air tonight
Saying wasn't it just like swimming out on the lake?
And stars collide and the air's alive
Or was it just like those promises that you made
On our last night?

I remember waking up with you
The days doing nothing
You meant more to me then than I think you ever knew.
But you were gonna be a doctor, movie star
A poet at a Nobel seminar
I hope the world never tore that out of you

Cause wasn't it you who told me the sun would always chase the day
Yeah wasn't it you who told me:

Angels fly in the air tonight
Saying wasn't it just like swimming out on the lake?
And stars collide and the air's alive
Or was it just like those promises that you made
On our last night?

And what ever happened to the things you loved
And the songs we played, and the indian days
Whatever happened to the things you gave away?
Like Harold and Maude singing
Like Harold and Maude singing

I was waving as you drove away
The sunlight was falling
You were writing backwards in a dusty window pane

Angels fly in the air tonight
Saying wasn't it just like swimming out on the lake?
And stars collide and the air's alive
Or was it just like those promises that you made
On our last night?

Kelly was a blackjack dealer
Living on the Gulf of Mexico
Kelly had a taste for guns and pills
He was looking for a mark to roll

Sara was a Kappa from Tulane
She was looking for a little change of pace
When a cop pulled them over on the interstate
Kelly blew that car away
(I heard them singing)

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River running over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you don't understand
It's a Southern Thing

Now when they held up a bank in Mobile
They finally made it on the evening news
She's a Georgia Peach never within reach
He's a felon from Baton Rouge
I heard Robert Johnson playing on a steel guitar
In the heat of the Delta sun
When Kelly drove them back up to Memphis
To finish what the King had once begun
(Come on and sing it now)

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River rolling over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you donit understand
It's a Southern Thing

If we ever get out of here
I want you to promise me
You'll go down to the Gulf
And swim
Deep in the sea
And you'll think of me
The way you used to sing
That silly song to me
Singing
M-I crooked letter crooked letter
Hump back hump back
Get a little closer
M-I crooked letter crooked letter
Hump back hump back
Get a little closer

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River running over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you don't understand
It's a Southern Thing

A Southern Thing

Here we go

I got with somebody's date
You're like a Soap Opera cover
My lover self-automates
Juicy

You say a-somebody say
You're like a salve for a leper
You're sweet for somebody's pain
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

I Gotta Delay

Mothers, children on the street
Can't get enough to eat
Off the record
Dishes fly
Don't know the reason why
Meet me in the check out stand
See who can be the lover man
Conscience bleeding in a song
Guilty as the day is long
Goodbye

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
I got to see that lie
You say what you're going to say
You got to know it's a bitter poison
Sapping all of your soul away

Yeah, Juicy
Juicy

Well they say your life was marked
And you were wondering if it would ever start
Stop

Sunlight on a razor blade
Three different souls
And the lives they made
I grew up in the 80's
In the pallisades
I was listening to Devo

And everybody catered to their needs
All voted most likely to succeed
Holly came out
And Billy got paid
But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

Cut to an interior view
Holly married well but so did you
One was black one was blue
I was watching the days go by
Could you be seen in a silly dream
Where Billy lives on Prozac and nicotine
Holly got her GED living in maternity
Nursing her broken heart for the love she lost

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

And the sky is blue
And so are you
Mary takes a drag off a cigarette
And the stereo is coming up behind her
Like she needs someone to remind her
That life is richer in a minor key
Bill and Holly disagree
But I don't think so

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

Sunlight on a razor blade
Three different souls and the lives they made
Well Holly came out and Billy got paid
But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid

I am bending
Made of steel
I am stumbling
Towards something real
How can you forget this feeling
Of standing straight while the world is reeling?

Don't leave me here alone
You're as close as it gets to home

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

I am hopeful
Full of doubt
And I am trying to work this whole thing out
So how can you just sit there sleeping
When your worlds on fire
And your chest is beating?

And I want to think you feel the same

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

In this moment
While you're breathing
If the future leaves you needing
Will you be the one who stayed?
As your life just slipped away?

Don't leave me here alone
You're as close as it gets to home

I'll be there if you fall
Love made suckers of us all

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

Here you are now
Fresh from your war
Back from the edge of time
And all that you were,
Stripped to the bone
I thought you­d want to know

That when you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

Lay down your guns
Too weak to run
Nothing can harm you here
Your precious heart
Broken and scarred
Somehow you made it through
I only ask that you won't go again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

So glad to see you smiling
So good to hear your laugh
I think that you've found you even
Missed yourself
I'm only asking this because I think that
Truth be told
Oh, you'll never go again
Again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless
Breathless

I got a little bit of reason
For everything I've done
I might just serenade the moonlight

And I get so lonely in this crowd
I want to scream but make no sound
And yeah I'm lost but maybe I'll be fine

Cause when I'm in over my head
I hear the words you said
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like I do
I do

And I couldn't bear to see you walk out
And leave it all behind
I couldn't bear to see the sunlight

And I love the sound of rain on tin
Your screen door beckoning me in
And yeah I'm mad but overcome with joy

Could it be so damn naive
To hope you could agree?
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like I do
I do

In a world that's cellophane
You get so lost I know you do
In a world that's cellophane

Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like I do
I do
Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that I do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like I do
I do

How can you be so warm?
How can you know what i feel?
Well, it's the way you move your hands,
And it's the way you understand.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm...

How can you throw everything you live for?
Well, it's the way we shake and sway.
Oh, and it's the passion that you play.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm...

Too many lost.
Links in a chain passed down through the years,
But ending here, if we just face the pain and the fear.

Who did you love before?
Who did they love before you?
But it's the way you move your hands
And it's the way you understand.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm...

Looking around the house.
Hidden behind the window and the door.
Searching for signs of life but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'm just too sure.
Maybe I'm just too frightened
by the sound of it.
Pieces of note fall down, but the letter said,

Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

Sitting around the house,
watching the sun trace shadows on the floor.
Searching for signs of life, but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'll call
or write you a letter.
Now, maybe we'll see on the Fourth of July.
But I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud.
Well, I'm not too sure and I'm not too proud to say.

Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

spoken: Yeah, you were so good.yeah you were so good, yeah that's
right...

There she is, white light
Descending like the color of rain
July or Fall
One thing will never change
Down and out you've found
This city has you on your back
You long for her
To take you away

And I
I want a Southern girl
I need a Southern girl
Well, I want a Southern girl

Scent of pine drifting by
Her hand traces lazy on your neck
Sunlight through the trees
Recalls a better time
Kids and dogs running by
She smiles as she drinks iced tea
Retire to the room
It's easy to see

That I
I want a Southern girl
I need a Southern girl
Well, I want a Southern girl

Take back the night
Claim your desires
Run 'till you crawl
In the morning you will find her there

And I
I want a Southern girl
I need a Southern girl
Well, I want a Southern girl

Well, she believes that I'd be better off without her.
And she believes in me.

Well, she believes that time can make things right.
And I want to believe that there's been a change in me.

And I hope that she believes.
Yes, I wonder if she sees the killer inside me.

The lights go down
And the clouds are building outside.
You close the door and turn the key,
But there's no place to hide.

And I hope that she believes.
Yes, I wonder if she sees the killer inside me.

The killer inside me.
The killer inside me.
The killer inside...

Where have you gone, my Rosealia?
Into the crowd, he'll never find you.
If you walk real fast, and you stay down low.
So many times, so many chances, this one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

What has he done, my senorita?
His kind of love is going to kill you.
Do you fake a smile when you dodge the blows?
So many times, so many chances.
This one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

Jealousy can rip your heart out.
And jealousy can turn a hand into a fist.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

You cleaned out your room and under your bed,
lay a picture long forgotten.
With a hand to your head,
you sigh out loud as your memory rushes over and
buries you.

A summer rain storm,
but the shed was dry
with a girl from Carolina.
And you held her so tight,
for the warmth that the rain denied,
as the timer slowed to a flash.
So alive, you listen to them when they say...

Cry in the sun.
When the devil beats his wife.
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun...
Hope I never see the price of my freedom.

We'd dance and sing out,
and trace the moon,
as it crawled across the night sky.
And covered in dew, a lover's pact:
Well, here's to now and don't look back.
And oh, how I tried to heed the words written here.

Cry in the sun.
When the devil beats his wife.
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun...
Hope I never see the price of my freedom.

For every one yeah
There's a person, place or time,
that brings you back and makes you feel alive.
Before your reason clouds your eyes,
When you could rule the world if you wanted to...
yeah.

Well, I hear you're living far away.
And that life's treated you well.
You know that we were young,
And this picture's old.
But I still can hear you say,
Through the pounding of the rain.
And oh, if you try,
Tell me, can you hear them say...

Cry in the sun.
When the devil beats his wife.
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun...
Hope I never see the price of my freedom.

Listen to them fight.
Hear your mother cry.
Weekend at your dad's.
They don't know what they do to you.
Teenager. Teenager...

Wrap yourself in black.
Listen to the Cure.
Love line won't call back.
They don't know,
they don't care,
they don't see,
but I do.

And if it feels good do it.
And if it tastes fine drink.
Well, there's a range of possibilities to find.
Teenager. Teenager...

No one knows your name.
No one hears your cry.
Fall in with the fringe
because they know what you're going through.
They do.

And if it feels good do it.
And if it tastes fine drink.
Well, there's a range of possibilities to find.
Teenager. Teenager...

No one's wrong,
no one's right.
It comes down on you.
And I have found, your life inside mine.

Hear your mother cry
Fade into the night.
When they ask you why,
They won't know, they won't feel,
They won't see,
But you will.

And if it feels good do it.
And if it tastes fine drink.
Well, there's a range of possibilities to find.
Teenager. Teenager...

Down by the dock
Hot blood in the sun
The body lays up against the reeds
The locals said the man had it coming
And it's time someone put him six feet in the ground

Where did she go that night?
Where did she sleep when the morning came?
To the summerhouse
To the summerhouse

Missus showed up
To I.D. the body
Then shed a tear as she hid a smile
The sergeant laughed and smiled in frustration
One life is lost while another one's found

Where did she go that night?
Where did she sleep when the morning came?
To the summerhouse
To the summerhouse

Hey, you've got a lot of nerve to show your face around here.
Hey, you've got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.
Well, I wish I could shake some sense into you and walk out the door.

But your skin is like porcelain.
Yeah, your skin is like porcelain.

Just the other day I felt I had you by a string.
Just the other day I felt we could be everything.
But now when I see you, you're somebody else.
In somebody's eyes and your skin...

But your skin is like porcelain.
Yeah, your skin is like porcelain.

I don't know what I'm saying.
Well, I don't know if you're there.
In the words you are feigning.
Do you even care?

Well I wish I could kill you,
savor the sight.
Get in to my car, drive into the night.
Then lie as I scream to the heavens above.
That I was the last one you ever loved.
Yes, your skin is like porcelain.

But your skin is like porcelain.
Yeah, your skin is like porcelain

Will you fight
For the cause?
Can you teach the savage mind
Their ways are wrong
Help them see
What they want and what they need?
And if we have to twist their arms
They know not what they do is wrong

And if you said I would go to heaven
Now, maybe I'll try
And if you said I would go to heaven
Now maybe I'll, maybe I'll, maybe I'll try

Heretics and hypocrites
Wear the same face throught the years
Of telling lies
And laying blame
Damn the fire then feed the flame
Don't dance, or sing, or try to think
Their image is planted in your head

And if you said I would go to heaven
Now, maybe I'll try
And if you said I would go to heaven
Now maybe I'll, maybe I'll, maybe I'll try

Ivy is just a dog
With a heart that's noble as
The greatest man
Who ever lived
Won't you please help her learn?
And if we have to twist her arm
She knows not what she does is wrong

And if you said I would go to heaven
Now, maybe I'll try
And if you said I would be a rich man
Now maybe I'll, maybe I'll, maybe I'll try

Maybe I'll try.
Maybe I'll try.

Well, there's a feeling in the air
Just like a Friday afternoon.
Yeah, you can go there if you want
Though it fades too soon.

So go on, let it be.
If there's a feeling coming over me,
Seems like it's always understood this time of year.

Well, I know there's a reason to change.
Well, I know there's a time for us.
You think about the good times
And you live with all the bad.
You can feel it in the air,
Feeling right this time of year.

Well, there's a football in the air,
Across a leaf blown field.
Yeah, and there's your first car on the road,
And the girl you'd steal.

So go on with yourself
If there's a feeling that there's something else.
Seems like it's always understood
This time of year.

Well, I know there's a reason to change.
Well, I know there's a time for us.
You think about the good times
And you live with all the bad.
You can feel it in the air,
Feeling right this time of year.

Well, there's a feeling in the air
Just like a Friday afternoon.
Yeah, you can go there if you want
Though it fades too soon.

So go on, let it be.
If there's a feeling coming over me,
Seems like it's always understood this time of year.

Well, I know there's a reason to change.
Well, I know there's a time for us.
You think about the good times
And you live with all the bad.
You can feel it in the air,
Feeling right this time of year

Heading out
Your heart beating in your head
Riding on
The Texas wind
Raise your feet
As you cross the state line

Waking up
The Mesa sun and the sky
All the way
To Tucumcari
And Santa Fe
Seems a stone's throw away

Coyote, coyote

Coming down
The Phoenix sun on your face
Turns it red by the afternoon
And to the right
The Grand Canyon is wide

Sing along
Needle skips in the wind
Count the stars
Of Death Valley
And in the dark
Barstow starts to fade

Coyote, coyote
Coyote, coyote

Yeah.

There's an angel on the stairs
(as if you'd even care)
When the lights go up,
and the sun has nearly gone down.

Did you see him on the street?
Did you pass him at your feet?
Did you think aloud, "How dare they
even look me in the eye'?

And he loves the girls.
And he loves the boys.
Going to make twenty dollars
before the weekends over.

So set him up,
Let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

Got a ticket to a show.
Going to see him take a blow.
When the drunk one said,
"Cat Sssstevens was the greatest singer!"

And did you kick him in the head?
Did you see the blood run down? Did you laugh at all when the
people walked right by and said aloud,
"You gutter punks are all the same.
" Probably make twenty dollars
'fore the weekends over."?

So set him up,
Then let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

Radio in my head.
Radio in that car.
Going down again,
he's going down again....

Anyway you look, anyway you talk it over.
It's easier to let it slip out of your mind.
But it rips your heart out.

Then it kicks your head in.
Just give him one more chance,
try to see the beauty in his world.
All the way in on my hands, in on my feet,
and shoulders. Going to make twenty dollars
before the weekend's over.

So set him up,
Then let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

God save the King of New Orleans.

Cut a tape of my favorite songs
Said what I can't face to face
I hoped that you would share all my thoughts
We are young and unimpressed,
with all you'd recognize.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing but a
Mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind

In my care we are superstars
Run you lipstick down your chin
While up ahead we saw such a crash
Right there a song became a soundtrack
for this space in time.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing but a
Mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind

Wonder is often lost
Jaded at such a cost
Age undermines you when you close your eyes.
We pass right by you.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing
But a mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind.

Rewind.
Yeah-eh-eh-eh-heh.

Are you lost?
Do you find life turning out
Not quite the way you planned?
Come around stay awhile

That's okay
That's all right
Couldn't get to sleep so talk about it.
Let's talk about it right now.

Here it comes on my head again
I guess I'm born to be the long lost friend.
(A-woo-oooh)
Friend
Long Lost Friend

Are you cold?
Is there no place better, safer, friendlier than this?
Call me up, I'm alone.

That's okay
That's all right
Rather it be me than go without it
So don't think about it right now.

Here it comes on my head again
I guess I'm born to be the long lost friend
(A-woo-ooh-hooo)
Friend
Long lost friend

I've given ballast
Held you up when you were falling down
What happens when I'm not around?

Friend?
Friend?
Long Lost Friend.

I still remember you dressed in grey.
Working undercover for the CIA
You were cursing Silber
Living in Back Bay
Sailing on the Charles when I heard you say

Let's go down to Normal Town
Right now
Down, Down, down

I washed you lover and scrubbed your face
Running from Miss Porter's you showed up one day
From a flat in South End where you made me strong
You said, 'We're burning out at both ends.'
So I came along.

Let's go down to Normal Town
Right now
Down, down, down

Hey! Wouldn't it be great
To never worry 'bout your future, never asking why?
Hey! Hey!
In a subdivision
Watching television
And our lives go by.

Let's go down to Normal Town.
Let's go down to Normal Town.

Right now
Down, down, down....

Strong hands
Big plans
All reduced to this.
Hard won freedom
How could you have missed?

Scared, are you?
You do it on your own
You do it all alone.
We all did.
Scared, are you?
Half the lines we make up dear
The best that we can do.

Everything you would be
Passed you like a ghost.
And kind words are scarce at best
When you need them the most.

Scared, are you?
You do it on your own
We all did.
Scared, are you?
Half the lines you make up here.
The best that we can do.

Hope brings you luck
Doors open up.
And if you should fall,
I'll catch you dear.
It must be!
It must be!

Scared, are you?
Finally on your own
You do it all alone
We all did
Scared, are you?
Half the lines you make up dear.
The best that we can do
And we do....

High stool sweet tarts
Equipped with green cards
Chomp their 401 k's
Semi-chocolate brie

Digging in Los Cruces
for an army drab container Carbon dating clothes for the last time they were washed

Shelby and Sheila
Onomatopoeia
Catch hang nail on Banlon
Shiver Martin Sheen

Preschool mothers
in Technicolor
Are fire bombing Dresden
Stanton, Harry Dean

Feeding line caught tuna to a neutered Bodhisattva Writhing peaches for the President Out on the White House lawn Beating Herbert Hoover With a leather tipped Pinada Thorn and Katy drink the milk tinted Amerasian Green RETURN, RETURN, RETURN
B A C

They say you're off
(A bit confused)
But when the day is done
I'll be with you
I like your eyes
They say you're true
The others whisper and lie

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

They say, 'your loss'
That your mind's diseased
But when you've finally won,
Tell me who always believed

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

Down way low
They never remember
Down way low
Down way low
You always remember
Don't let the words you hear
Leave your head.

The say you're gone
That you left today
But if you change your mind
Know I still feel that same way

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

Past the road to your house
That you never called home
Where they turned out the lights
Though they say you'll never know

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

When they pumped out your guts
Filled you full of those pills
You were never quite right
Deserving all the chills
They say the worst is over
Kicked it over and ran
Then they ask what went wrong
When they turn you on again
They turn you on again.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

Kick them right in the face
Make them wish they weren't born
And if they bring up your name
Well they'll say you won the war.
Baby burst in the world
Never given a chance
Then they ask what went wrong
When you never had it right

Oh, the letters have dropped off
Though they say you got them all
I finally figured out some things you'll never know.
Take back your life and let me inside
We'll find the door if you care to anymore.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting.

WWOZ is on in stereo
A string of flowers haloed around your head
Candle light
Ceiling fan
Curtains blow away and back again
Back again
Don't wake me, I think I'm in a dream

Sleeping is easy
I used to lay in bed for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn

Calling back and forth through heavy air
The barges sound their warnings in the dark
Peace comes like a trusted friend
As it starts to rain again fall away
Fall away
So don't wake me I think, I'm in a dream

Sleeping is easy
I used to lay in bed for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn
Sleeping is easy
I used to walk the streets for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn

Let go of your fear, let's grow old together
Find a place along the way
Let's reel through the years
Each makes the other better.
But what thoughts can I call allies
When this circle of ribs keeps working on its own?

Chorus

WWOZ's on in stereo. Well it's on in stereo.

And though you will say I'm wrong.
It's much easier with you along.
Sundays were made for this.
Seeing Bond give the villain a kiss

Holding your face in the glow
Play on, Play on
Happy endings

I thought that you'd like to know.
I'm finally letting her go.
You always said, 'Tell me when. . .
You're ready at last to begin.'

Learning to chance it again
Play on, play on
Happy endings

So let them all dissolve
And welcome a new resolve
Here's where the credits run
Riding off into the sun

And love is real
Reading your eyes in the glow
Play on, play on
Happy endings

We're all a scene in mona's dream...

A paris street.
A quiet stream.
Far away from Cabrini green.
Forgotten love at seventeen,
Where her children got a chance,
Not a dead end street.

Cause some got religion,
And some got drugs,
Some got money and,
Some got love,

All of her days in a dry-eyed haze,
Just another scene in Mona's dream.

Maybe I should drop you at your door
Leave tonight and vanish up the shore
Anywhere but here...
It's 3 o'clock
We're driving in your car
You're screaming out the window at the stars.
Please don't drive me home!

Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go
I've already learned enough to know that...
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo (repeat)

Tell me all the places we could go
And count the headlights passin' on the road
A long, long time ago

Blame us cause we are who we are
Hate us cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned enough to know that
Here we are
Forgein to their world
Straight and composed
Your sermons I can do without
And I've finally found that everybody loves to love you when you're far awaaaaay!

Could it be we've done something wrong?
And make it home to your place before dawn.
Please don't drive me home.
Please don't take me home!

Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned
I've already learned...
Enough to know that
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo

Calling from that porch again
Low dress blowing in the wind
(I should have known I'd regret it later)
But she blow like a Tsunami

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

Terra Cotta, window pane
Brown skin soaking up the rain
(I should have been a cynical writer)
But she don't care just where he be

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

She can move you!
She can move you!
What's your name?
Destiny.

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

'Calmly, like a razor
I got us on the door,'
Or 'I got a tape of 'Clerks'
Someone left the night before.'

So I come over later,
You're sitting in that chair
Smoking on your cigarette
Fingering you hair

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.

Twenty-nine and aimless
You bartend down on fourth
Your parents pay insurance
And the Parson's Audit course

Over-schooled and uninspired
Tust fund up your nose
All that wasted talent but, uh
Ain't that how it always goes?

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.
Yeah, yeah yeah

So long Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

(Come up higher, take a step higher)
Sometimes you understand
The reasons how you went astray
But least of all the answer,
That it hurts to watch you waste away.

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So long, Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

Along the edges, colors blur at seem familiar.
While you read your magazine,
I was counting all the markers.

And california seemed to draw you like a siren
From a postcard, or a letter, in a frame of film melting.

But under you, i hear your breath move in, out slowly.
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me.

A hollywood flat where we'd laugh about our fortunes
Well we held jobs in this bar down at 3rd and san vicente.
And ramen noodles at 4:30 in the morning,
When we barely could survive, i was never more alive.

Under you, i feel your blood flowing out slowly.
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me

You moved in slow degrees
A sudden memory
You're a leonard cohen song

But every now and then i'd swear i see you standing on a sidewalk, in a
Restaurant, from a taxi cab passing.

Under you i feel you moving in/out slowly
Under you let go completely feeling you take over me.

Take over me

so long, alison foley
So long, bye-bye

Don't fear,
Even though you're at a loss.
I'm numb,
A shell of empty thoughts.
But you glow,
You stretch and pull me out.
Does that trouble you?
Does that trouble you?

*Love me
Hate me
Make me live again
I need you around

Heal me
Hurt me
Make me live again
I want you around

So long,
I never had experienced
This bliss.
So how could i resist?
And i'm fine
A little light-headed.
Does that worry you?
I didn't mean to worry you.

*Repeat

Now, retreating from the light
I love it when we fight
It makes me think
At least you still care

Give up, you're not going anywhere
moonlight, illuminates your stare
and it's great, captivating you
does that trouble you?
i didn't mean to trouble you

*Repeat & fade

So i could ask you why you live your life
(disregard the pretense that you made).
Come alive, come alive, watch the city go by.
Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up

Your face is creased by the pillow case sheets,
The bedroom is a mess.
Can i get some room service please?
Are you lucid? drug induced?
Through bloodshot eyes the city come alive,come alive,come alive.

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

Outside, you feel like you were born with a kick-me sign
Taped permanently to your back.
I can relate, video tape,
You got a laugh when you fell face first on the floor.

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

Are you listening?
Are you breathing?
Give me something, i can believe in,
Because you give me soul
Illuminating everything!
Aw, push it boy, push it like you never should.

Understate.
You were great,
Summering out on the cape.
I said last night how i feel about you,
But you wouldn't recall no,
You don't recall anything do you?

Ah, how wonderful you are
Ah, how wonderful you are

I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note
Happy day mama,
Happy day,
Happy day,
Happy day mama!

Well, your photo stills
In your wallet with your unpaid bills
And you show it like it means something
You could never know the pain it brings

And here you are
Standing in our drive
(when absence suits you best)
Your letters and your cards
But no return address

Now you come around
Now you come around
Your familiar sounds
We are your beautiful,
We are your beautiful mistake.

Waiting for this day
Well I memorized the things I'd say
How you broke her when you disappeared
How I hear her say,

'You'd make your father proud.'
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget all a mother's tears

No, don't say a word
Leave while you still can
Put out your light

Now I guess you're going
A figure through the door
And your taillights faded
Like twenty years before

Cut me out of this role.
I can't play it anymore.
It must be something in the water here.

Give me up,
I confess.
I feel as though I'm living less.
The strangest gravity affects my way.
Because I was born incomplete,
Drowning in the brevity.
Kind of like a road you're travelling on.

Everything in 2's
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2's
You never knew
You'd make me whole again.

Someone said, someone wrote,
We're floating tethered to a rope.
So complicate me,
I could use the weight.
In how you move the scenery,
Lover, how you mirror me.
But stop me if you've heard it all before.

And now and again,
You find yourself over your head.
In a cynical time, in you I find
A reason to live.

Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore
It must be something in the water here.

I push the limits of good taste
Whenever i open my mouth
You got a worm in your ear
Like checkov from kahn

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low.

All the way from south dakota
Like a green leprachaun
She got a sun dress in heat
He got his latex gloves on

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low.

And if you ever come here
You're tweaking on the phone
"i got a new connection"
I never leave the light on

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low...

B) Coma

All the time,
A loss.
Black like you were blessed,
I was sobered blind.
Let you take me there
And laughed loud when they found
I was devoured. devoured.
Devoured.

You in your coat
Writing a note,
'Dear Sal, I hope you'll agree...'

Then catching a bus,
Just after dusk,
A one way trip to the city.

A cold water flat.
A hot plate,
A hat.
The want ads are strewn on the floor.
And you get so mad, when your ma and dad
Reflect when you look in the mirror.

But I see you there
Nude at the top of the stairs
(but so far away)
And I recall all
Your dreams and your schemes
Moving me.
The plans that we made,
A street serenade

You can't be like your brother and mike,
Content just to live and get by.
I hope that you're fine,
At 13th and 9.
Waxing or waning?
Your call.

But I see you there
A light at the top of the stairs
But so far away
And I recall all your
Hands and your plans moving me
The sense that it made
A street serenade.

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)








Past the road to your house
That you never called home
Where they turned out your lights
Though they say you’ll never know

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

When they pumped out your guts
And filled you full of those pills
You were never quite right
Deserving all the chills
They say the worst is over
Kicked it over and ran
Then they ask what went wrong
When they turn you on again
They turn you on again

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting


Kick them right in the face
Make them wish they weren’t born
And if they bring up your name
Well they’ll say you won the war
Baby burst in the world..
Never given a chance
Then they ask what went wrong
When you never had it right
No you never had it right

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting..

Oh the letters have dropped off
Though they say you got them all
I finally figured out some things you’ll never know
never..

* * *

Take back your life
And let me inside
We’ll find the way door
if you care to anymore...

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

I remember running through the wet grass
And falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting.....

Out of the streets
And into the room
The taste of your mouth
The smell of perfume
You're wrapped up in a big smile
The hands stop on the dial
So take me down
Check me in
To the palace hotel
We never sleep
You stayed in your room
Blame it on the candlelight?camera man?
You'll never stop
You sleep with the dead
You don't like what you can't keep
So get out, before too deep
To take me down
And drag me in
To the palace hotel
To the palace hotel
Oh yeah
That's another word for saying hello
Oh
That's another word for saying hello
Hellooo
Hellooooooo-lo-lo-lo
I dreamt
Of you in your coat
Woke up, a key and a note
I won't cry for you and me
You checked out while I sleep
So take me down
(Oh yeah)
And drag me in
To the palace hotel
To the palace hotel
To the palace
(Sha-la-la-la)
To the palace
(Sha-la-la-la)
To the palace
(Sha-la-la-la)
To the palace
(Sha-la-la-la)
To the palace
Lalalalalala
Oooh, oooohh, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la)
Oooh, oooohh, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la)

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)






Where have you gone, my Rosealia?
Into the crowd, he'll never find you.
If you walk real fast, and you stay down low.
So many times, so many chances, this one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

What has he done, my senorita?
His kind of love is going to kill you.
Do you fake a smile when you dodge the blows?
So many times, so many chances.
This one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

Jealousy can rip your heart out.
And jealousy can turn a hand into a fist.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)





How can you be so warm?
How can you know what i feel?
Well, it's the way you move your hands,
And it's the way you understand.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm...

How can you throw everything you live for?
Well, it's the way we shake and sway.
Oh, and it's the passion that you play.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm...

Too many lost.
Links in a chain passed down through the years,
But ending here, if we just face the pain and the fear.

Who did you love before?
Who did they love before you?
But it's the way you move your hands
And it's the way you understand.

And that's the reason that i'm asking.
That's the reason that i want to know.
And that's the reason that i'm asking,
And that's the reason that i'm

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)







Good
by Better Than Ezra



Looking around the house.
Hidden behind the window and the door.
Searching for signs of life but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'm just too sure.
Maybe I'm just too frightened?
by the sound of it.
Pieces of note fall down, but the letter said,?

CHORUS:
Aha, it was good living with you.?
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

Sitting around the house,?
watching the sun trace shadows on the floor.
Searching for signs of life, but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'll call?
or write you a letter.
Now, maybe we'll see on the Fourth of July.
But I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud.
Well, I'm not too sure and I'm not too proud to say.

CHORUS:
Aha, it was good living with you.?
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

spoken: Yeah, you were so good.yeah you were so good, yeah that's right...

Well how the times have changed
Looking back, it seems so clear now
Everything you wanted in your life
Everything is certain
Try and understand
Put a checklist on your wall
I am not what you think I should be
(Chorus)
But you're making amends
To your circle of friends
And you're trying to fit me to their mold
Yeah you're making amends
To your circle of friends
And you're trying to fit me to their mold
When you're trying to make decisions
When you try to water this thing down
Look up once in a while
You'll see it's not so clear
The things you believe in
Are the things that's worth keeping
Make a promise, stand right by your word
(Chorus, guitar solo, repeat chorus)
Your circle of friends
Your circle of friends
Your circle of friends

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)






Where have you gone, my Rosealia?
Into the crowd, he'll never find you.
If you walk real fast, and you stay down low.
So many times, so many chances, this one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

What has he done, my senorita?
His kind of love is going to kill you.
Do you fake a smile when you dodge the blows?
So many times, so many chances.
This one could be your last.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

Jealousy can rip your heart out.
And jealousy can turn a hand into a fist.

You say no, no, no, the fighting has left you tired.
You say no, no, no, but the fighting goes on.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.
Put on your mask, wearing your cape.
Put on your mask, my Rosealia.

Northern wind,
Chimney smoke,
Love and pain,
Joy and hope.

These are the days,
Of christmas.

Colored lights and mistle toe,
Cinnamon and nat king cole,
There's a miracle now
On 34th street.

At the airport families wait on queue,
And they shout as the loved one comes in view.
Well the kids are just happy 'cause they're out of school.

How wonderful life is, on christmas.

Sleigh bells and sing-a-longs,
The snow falls on the lawn,
There's a midnight mass,
For a birthday.

Hearin' tunes an laughter fill the room,
You forget all the thoughts that have troubled you.
Yeah I know times I hard, somehow you'll make it through.

How wonderful life is, on christmas.

All is quiet,
Holy night,


To awaken,
Morning light.
Let is shine!
Let it fill our lives with light.

Then as someone says 'santa claus was here,'
One by one by the tree we all appear.
Grandmother saved paper to use next year.

How wonderful life is -
How wonderful life is -
How wonderful life is,
On christmas -
On christmas.

Merry christmas eve

(at the airport families wait on queue"
Merry christmas eve

(as they smile and they cry as you fade from view)
Merry christmas eve

(well the folks are just happy 'cause they saw you)
Merry christmas eve

Merry christmas eve
Merry christmas eve

(how wonderful life is, how wonderful life is, how wonderful life is.)
Merry christmas eve

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)







Good
by Better Than Ezra



Looking around the house.
Hidden behind the window and the door.
Searching for signs of life but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'm just too sure.
Maybe I'm just too frightened?
by the sound of it.
Pieces of note fall down, but the letter said,?

CHORUS:
Aha, it was good living with you.?
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

Sitting around the house,?
watching the sun trace shadows on the floor.
Searching for signs of life, but there's nobody home.

Well, maybe I'll call?
or write you a letter.
Now, maybe we'll see on the Fourth of July.
But I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud.
Well, I'm not too sure and I'm not too proud to say.

CHORUS:
Aha, it was good living with you.?
Aha, it was good.
Aha, it was good living with you.
Aha, it was good.

spoken: Yeah, you were so good.yeah you were so good, yeah that's right...

Down by the dock, hot blood in the sun.
The body lays up against the reeds.
The locals said, the man had it coming,
and it's time someone put him six feet in the ground.

CHORUS
Where did she go that night?
Where did she sleep when the morning came
to the summer house?

Missus showed up to I.D. the body
Then shed a tear as she hid a smile.
The sergeant laughed and smiled in frustration.
One life is lost while another one is found.

CHORUS

Here we go

I got with somebody's date
You're like a Soap Opera cover
My lover self-automates
Juicy

You say a-somebody say
You're like a salve for a leper
You're sweet for somebody's pain
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

I Gotta Delay

Mothers, children on the street
Can't get enough to eat
Off the record
Dishes fly
Don't know the reason why
Meet me in the check out stand
See who can be the lover man
Conscience bleeding in a song
Guilty as the day is long
Goodbye

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
I got to see that lie
You say what you're going to say
You got to know it's a bitter poison
Sapping all of your soul away

Yeah, Juicy
Juicy