Catch 22

She wanted me to tell you to leave.
She wanted me to let you know that you don't understand her, she just needs some time to breathe.
She couldn't have told you better herself cuz she was in love with somebody else.
I don't know why I had to be the messenger boy.
I guess that somebody was me.

Don't know what you got till it's gone.
Don't know what you did so wrong.
Don't know what you got till it's gone.
Don't know why you did it so wrong.

She wanted me to tell her my fears.
She wanted me to let it all go.
I don't know why I said it. I just can't trust anyone, I knew she was true.
I never liked the sound of being alone much.
Just one touch to help with the coldness.
Persuasion was a trait the she held in her hand when she took mine, and I understood then.

Don't know what you got till it's gone.
Don't know what you did so wrong.
Don't know what you got till it's gone.
Don't know why you did it so wrong.

and I did you wrong.
You said I was just like him, but that's where you're wrong.
He never wrote you a love song.
It seemed like no sooner than I got my feet on the ground, the words slipped away.
and baby, I hear you.
know what you're saying and I feel it too.
You've got something I've never had.
The kind of love I can sing about
and you're hearing me now, hear me now.

10 o'clock I was gonna write a letter
but at 1 o'clock is when I opened up my eyes.
3 o'clock turned into 5 o'clock. I watched the day pass me by.
6 o'clock I was changing through the channels.
And at 8 o'clock the stationary called my name.
9 o'clock the time I stopped impossible that day I didn't speak.

Dear loving friend I meant to write
should've but the time just wasn't right.
Some things I'd rather leave unsaid
and I'm sorry that I did.
So here's a letter that I never sent
with all the words I never said.

I never wanted you to leave but you left said I never wanna hold you back but I want to hold you back.
I never wanted you to leave but you left said I never wanna hold you back but I want to hold you back.

Sincerely yours.

Run run run all you do is fucking run
but you'll never run away from yourself.
I know it's hard but you've been then before
and you know you're gonna be there again.
I don't care what the stars may say
because they always feed their bullshit to me.
It's kind of sad how you lost what you had
and you're never gonna have it again and so I say:

(chorus)
Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here.
I said
Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here.
i said Hey

Every other day you don't care what they say
because they always leave you two steps behind.
You try to smile and it lasts for awhile
but they always send you back to the start.
Eenie meenie miney mo they shoot down everyone you know
and then they leave you there all alone.
You wish they'd stop but they never give up
and you know deep inside that you're stuck
and so I say:

(chorus)
Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here.
I said
Hey Sergio, it's getting kinda hot in here.
I said Hey

Mostly I'm an optimist,
bore my bad news and still persist
goin on about my problems say,
what's wrong with our world today?

It may sound funny, but I'd give you all my money,
and keep on going without a doubt.

I never thought I would make it this far,
stumbling between every nightclub and bar.
Every time I seem to catch my big break,
the man call me up says there's been a mistake.

Who can I count on? What can I count on?
Where should I turn to? Why should I be with you?

It may sound funny, but I'd give you all my money,
and keep on going without a doubt.
The good times playin, sayin life is good,
it could be better, don't you dare go ahead and give out.

From day to day I could get so depressed,
but I've never paid someone to be oppressed
in my life when shit hits the fan,
I simply sit back and follow the plan.

It may sound funny, but I'd give you all my money,
and keep on going without a doubt.
The good times playin, sayin life is good,
it could be better, don't you dare go ahead and give out.

Who can I count on? What can I count on?
Where should I turn to? Why should I be with you?

It may sound funny, but I'd give you all my money,
and keep on going without a doubt.
The good times playin, sayin life is good,
it could be better, don't you dare go ahead and give out.

The good times playin, sayin life is good,
it could be better, don't you dare go ahead and give out.

Who can I count on? What can I count on?
Where should I turn to? Why should I

Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can't hear the noise below your room
take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
We'll Work it out and wake up in each others arms

Underneath its never over
looking back over my shoulder
looking back over my shoulder
underneath its never over
we always said we'd meet again
when we were ten years older

I hadn't thought about her in a while
until she showed up in a dream i had
laying listless in a bed
with a string of broken hearts
hanging from her fingers
I said, "lets take a drive with a pack of camel lights
into the middle of nowhere and talk about our lives

hear me say, listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one
its you i'm talking to

You can't take it back?
You can't take it back?
Thats bullshit
I took it and crushed it and painted it black
I swallowed the match
its burning at my insides

hear me say, listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one
its you i'm talking to

Close your eyes real tight
underneath the city lights
You can't hear the noise below your room
take a real deep breath
get those feelings off your chest
We'll work it out and wake up in each others arms

Underneath its never over
looking back over my shoulder
looking back over my shoulder
underneath its never over
we always said we'd meet again
when we were ten years older

listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up. Silence, Can't let it go, got to get it out
listen up, silence, can't let it go, got to get it out
chin up chin up till it touches the moon, sad and forsaken one
oooo its you i'm talking to

Sick and sad again
Sometimes I'd like the rain to end
Sick and sad again
Sometimes I'd like to stand on my own two feet

Went to the corner of second and main
And there was someone there who mentioned that they hoped
That it would rain forever, forever,
So they could drown in peace.
Went down to the hodskin p.l.
But there was nobody to answer when I rang
The doorbell forever, forever so now I'm sad all the time.
Sick and sad again.
Sometimes I'd like the rain to end.
Sick and sad again.
Sometimes I'd like to stand on my own two feet.
Today was the day but she threw it all away
And I could never understand
'Cause she was never one to play by the rules of the game
Her and me we're so the same
I try so hard and I never give in
And I am never satisifed until the day that I win against them
But I don't care I'll follow her to anywhere.
(But I don't care, I can fade away to anywhere-
don't stop 'cause you might get dropped)

Saw it on the television, heard it on the radio. This in truth, is not yet the end. Bus station, it's 4 a.m. Took a taxi to the city. Matt Ball left. Looking too familiar and I don't know how to feel. Not a penny in my pocket. I'm a stranger. Wanna get home. Spare some change, sir? Wanna get back home. Wanna get back home. 40 miles across the Hudson. Those train tracks. Get back. Can you smile? Here's another joke. Have you got another smoke? I'm broke. Sounds good, but I don't know.

(CHORUS) I don't know but it sure sounds good to me. I don't care because I still don't know. The way it is, the way it was, the way it's supposed to be. I don't know but it sure sounds good to me. I heard this city never sleeps. I heard this city never sleeps, but its eyes are half-closed. Not a passerby. Babycry. I suppose, that I'm selfish. Stuck and I don't give a fuck. Twenty one. Morning comes. I've heard and had enough. I have no friends It hurts so much to be alone. I wish this night would fucking end. I close my eyes and dream of home. (CHORUS) I wish this night would fucking end. I close my eyes and dream of home.

Broken homes as far as the eye can see.
Bird's eye view: An ocean surrounded by
cubicles and fast food restaurants with nothing
but standard utility vehicles and smog in-between.
No one knows who is in control but underneath
them lies a bottomless pit. Everyone clings to
the sides and they use one another to reach the
crown of it. It's getting oh so dark in here now.
He's grabbing at my ankles. I'm grabbing at his.
Don't let go! Until all that's left of dreams of Venus.
The appendix of a system that doesn't need us.
One machine tells the other not to feed us.
They only want more. We only want more.
We're all getting nowhere confused.
Which way is up? Which way is down? I'm falling down.
I wonder which moment I decided to care?
Decided to wear the burdens of thousands of years.
We all live life like the sun and the moon
fucking in the afternoon.
The light it doesn't get through but it gets by.
One machine tells the other not to feed them.
They only want more. We only want more. Just let go.
Please don't feed the machine.

It takes some time. You look at me. You don't like what you see.
I don't like who I am, I can change. I can change.

It takes some time. In your factory. If there's a recipe. Just tell me what to do and I'll
slowly rearrange.

It takes some time. So bare with me. You're always
there with me. Looking in the mirror. It's much clearer now. I hear you
now. It echoes in my ears, "I can change, but do I want to?" Nevermind.
Everytime. What you say? When you want it?

Find myself inside myself and no one else can find it for me. Find myself
all by myself and no one else can find it for me. (x2)
Find myself, by myself!

It takes some time. Too much time with you. I don't know what to do.
Taking time is wasting time and I'm not wasting away mine. Someone is
telling me, yelling and selling me to their whole crew. Rendez-vous.

It takes some time. So don't bother me. You don't like what you see.
Looking in the mirror. It's much clearer now. I hear myself it echoes in my
ears, "I can change, but I don't want to!" Fine the way I am. I can change,
but I choose not to.

It takes some time. But my watch is gone and all my
clocks are wrong. So I don't have the time to change. (I can't change for
you.) Or anyone. I think I'm enough fun the way that I am and I'm finding
new friends and I'm not gonna not gonna change who I am.

Find myself inside myself and no one else can find it for me. Find myself
all by myself and no one else can find it for me.
Find myself, by myself!

please go away.
won't you leave me alone?
i'm just so drunk and miserable.
you started with me,
you started with me.
(2x)

what's it gonna be?
what are ya gonna say
to set it all off?
it doesn't take much
these days, my dear.
you started with me,
you started with me.

it started with you,
you started with me.
it started with you.
it started with you,
it ends with me.
wait and see.

hey, look!
what's that sound?
everybody look what's goin' down.
it started with you,
it started with you.
you're so quick to forget
all the things that was said.
over and over again in my head.
it started with you,
it started with you.

it started with you,
you started with me.
it started with you.
it started with you,
it ends with me.
wait, and see.

things could've been easier
if it was all so much slower.
don't you think?
you think too much,
and you know too much.
i'm gonna have to kill you now.
take all your letters and postcards and pictures
and burn 'em and flush it,
forget it, i've forgotten.
i'll see you in hell!

reiterating
the blatantly obvious
throw me a curve,
be spontanious.
(2x)

i don't wanna play this game,
go home.
(4x)

Sad is the man who drinks with himself
To forget the day that precedes
From sad then to happy
From happy to bitter
That bitter old man is me

Hey (hey), drink it all away
I said hey (hey), drink it all away
And I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight

One for my headaches, 2 for the road
3 for my family and 4 for the show
5 for my sorrows, 6 for my wrongs
7 to hell with this song

Hey (hey), drink it all away
I said hey (hey), drink it all away
And I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight

Well everyone feels the need to belong
Everyone feels the need for a cause
The forces of nature are naturally strong
But where's the effect? where's the effect?

Hey (hey), drink it all away
I said hey (hey), drink it all away
Hey (hey), drink it all away
I said hey (hey), drink it all away
And I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight
Yeah, I dance for the light of the stars in the sky
And sleep all alone tonight

I love you.
I miss you.
Forgive me my ineptilude.
And I will change my attitude.
I'm whinning and pining for sweet embraces never known.
A harvest from a seed unsown.
Time is on my side and I understand my life.
Make a choice to move onward.
But I admit I can't commit and I will not decide.
Dim light shines brightly in pitch black.
Bright enough to find my own way back.
Push forward or you might lose your chances.
Or take less with me.
Regress with me.
And savor true romance.
Come take a walk with me but if you do there is no turning back.

I don't want to barge in on your secrecy see
dependency see it means nothing to me I
don't want to hear about your problems
and I don't want to listen to your apathy see
You're not like me see
You mean nothing to me
All your cash doesn't make you any greener.

I don't need anyone(x3) to tell me what to feel.
I don't need anyone(x3) to hate the world with me.
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
(wont have to worry again)
you'll never be alone.

I don't want to barge in on your secrecy see
dependency see it means nothing to me I
don't want to hear about your problems
and I don't want to listen to your apathy see
You're not like me see
You mean nothing to me
All your cash doesn't make you any greener.

I don't need anyone(x3) to tell me what to feel.
I don't need anyone(x3) to hate the world with me.
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
(wont have to worry again)
you'll never be alone.

Alone, In my room with a bucket full of phlegm
I don't need a music scene to tell me
who I am I should have got a warning
should have came a year ago should I
sent her a birthday card?
My conscience tells me no.

I don't need anyone(x3) to tell me what to feel.
I don't need anyone(x3) to hate the world with me.
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
Day in, day out It's not that bad.
I worry and I worry but you'll never have to worry again,
(wont have to worry again)
you'll never be, never be, never be alone.