Dishwalla

I have nev, I've never known such pure madness
And for her it's all she can see
I have nev, I've never known such pure madness
And for her it's all she can see

How she laid low, laid low on the floor
How she yelled no,
How she yelled with all of her heart, no
Still it's all she can see
How the pain ran deep

How she holds her eyes to the ground
What a waste of soul, what a waste
Never, never, never will she
Live without it, think about it
Can she live without it?
Never will she live without it
Still its all she can see
No more, no more,
No no no no no no no no more
Still it's all it's all
All she can see

Still it's all, its all
All she can see
Still it's all, it's all
All she can see
Still it's all, it's all
All she can see

You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through

It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied

It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

When I came here there was more.
Now I've come back to destroy,
and I've got nothing left,
and it's a shame what we've become,
when we hurt the ones we love,
and it's a place I can not go,
anymore.

When we collide we lose ourselves.
When we collide we break in two,
and as we push and we shove and we hurt the ones we love,
it's a hard mistake.
When we collide,
we break.

When the cold comes crashing down,
and the fight lost what it's about.
I could tell that you'd left.
It's a shame what we've become,
when we hurt the ones we love.
It's a place I can not go,
anymore.

When we collide we lose ourselves.
When we collide we break in two,
and as we push and we shove and we hurt the ones we love,
it's a hard mistake.
When we collide,
When we collide.

It's a hard mistake,
when we collide.

It's a mistake,
when we collide we lose ourselves,
when we collide we break in two,
and as we push and we shove and we hurt the ones we love,
it's a hard mistake,
when we collide,
when we collide.

It's a hard mistake,
when we collide, we break,
we break

Stay Awake

Staring at the wall because you know it understands
And boy you wonder about everything that could have been
It's getting later all the time but you're still wide awake
And boy you wonder, if you'll ever sleep again

Hey, hey, gotta stay awake
Don't let it slip away
Don't think that they're not waiting
Hey, hey, gotta stay awake
As your mind is peeled away
But they still seem to find you anyway

Sift your hands through broken glass
Through your shattered crystal ball and boy you wonder
If you'll ever see again

Cause every time you close your eyes
You know they're right behind you and you wonder
If you'll ever live again
Don't make a sound cause they're living all around
With their shiny eyes and their shiny minds
And they're living everywhere
Watching every move I make
Gotta stay awake

It's gonna take some time this time
To get myself in shape
I really fell out of line this time
And I really missed the gate

The birds on the telephone line
Are cryin' out to me
I won't be so blind next time
And I'll find some harmony

But it's goin' to take some time this time
And I can't make demands
But like the young trees in the wintertime
I'll learn how to bend

After all the tears we've spent
How could we make amends
So it's one more round for experience
And I'm on the road again
And it's goin' to take some time this time

It's gonna take some time this time
No matter what I've planned
Like the young trees in the wintertime
I will learn how to bend

After all the tears we've spent
How could we make amends
So it's one more round for experience
And I'm on the road again
And it's goin' to take some time this time

Everything about the world is sex
And it's a message, of popular culture
Telling all our children how to do it right
And all through their innocence you may ask yourself why?
Why the need?
Why the need to eroticize our children?

Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready

Just down the street in beautiful
There is attention, for a popular child
And it doesn't get much worse than that
In little beds in little rooms
Are the lost things, are the silver spoons
Why the need?
Can't you see all the damage that it's doing?

Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
They're not ready

Does it bother you to see her wrapped up?
Why the need?
And why the need to eroticize our children?

Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
They're not ready, no
They're not ready
They're not ready, no

Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
Oh our pretty babies
Oh how they're not ready
They're not ready, no
No my pretty
No my pretty
No my pretty baby
There my pretty baby, oh
No they're not ready no-no

Untie the hands that bind your mind
And be nice
She puts a gun against her ear
Inside against a gin and tonic sky
She's a star
She finds a place to lose her pain

Caged as she waits inside
Hate and she wants to die
And she wants, and she wants to live

Deny the problem never catches light
Rewind she pours herself some self respect

Caged as she waits inside
Hate and she wants to die
And she wants, and she wants to live
She wants, she wants to live
She wants
She wants, she wants to live
Away from this haze
Away back from this haze

Still she's caged as she waits inside
Hate and she wants to die
And she wants, and she wants to live
She wants to live

Caged as she waits inside
Hate and she wants to die
Get me back from this haze
Get me back from this haze
Get me back from this haze

Must have been mid afternoon I could tell by how far the child's shadow stretched out He walked with a purpose In his sneakers, down the street He had, many questions Like children often do He said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God?" "Tell me am I very far?" Must of been late afternoon On our way the sun broke free of the clouds We count only blue cars Skip the cracks, in the street And ask many questions Like children often do We said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God? "'Cause I would really like to meet her. And ask her why we're who we are. Tell me all your thoughts on God, Cause I am on my way to see her. So tell me am I very far - Am I very far now?" Its getting cold picked up the place How our shoes make hard noises in this place Our clothes are stained We pass many, cross eyed people And ask many questions Like children often do "Tell me all your thoughts on God? 'Cause I would really like to meet her. And ask her why we're who we are. Tell me all your thoughts on God? 'Cause I am on my way to see her. So tell me am I very far?" Am I very far now Am I very far now am I very far now

Bouncing and pounding
My head the backboard
I need release to let it flow
And I was ready
Really ready
I was ready to explode

Oh wasted time
Oh wasted time
Wasted time, wasted time
Wasted time

All these revisions
All of them written
And Broadway needs a song to sing
Sentences broken
As they are spoken
Feel the ink spill so unclean

Oh wasted time
Oh wasted time
Wasted time, wasted time, wasted time
Wasted time, wasted, wasted, wasted, wasted.

Dishwalla - Charlie Brown's Parents


I can't hear what you're saying
What you're doing to me
And can't you see
It would take the jaws of life to pry open your words
So pry open your words



I don't want to talk about Elvis
No I don't want to go on pretending, no
Because it feels like I'm talking to
Talking to Charlie Brown's Parents
It feels like I'm talking to
A lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision
Why he's a lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision, oh



Cause I can't hear what you're saying
What you're doing to me
Can't you see
It would take the jaws of life to pry open your words



I don't want to talk about Jesus
And I don't want to go on converting, no
Because it feels like I'm talking to
Talking to Charlie Brown's Parents
It feels like I'm talking to
A lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision
He's a lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision, oh



Cause I can't hear what you're saying
What you're doing to me
Can't you see
It would take the jaws of life to pry open your words



Why he's a lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision, hey
Why he's a lonely man without a vision
Stuffed his mouth with indecision, oh



Cause I can't hear what you're saying
What you're doing to me
Can't you see
It would take the jaws of life to pry open your words
To pry open your words
Pry open, pry open, pry open your words
Yeah, pry open your words
Pry, pry open your words
Pry open your words
Pry open your words

I have felt the comfort
Now what did I do to disappoint you?
Idle my emptiness
and it keeps returning to remind me

That I want to remain
A child with you forever
And hear as you lay before me
You tease me and tell me to stay
But what would you give
What would you give

I have given everything I could
But I don't think it really matters
Maybe nothing does
And how it keeps returning to remind me

That I want to remain
A child with you forever
And hear as you lay before me
you tease me and tell me to stay
What would you give?
What would you give?

I want to remain
A child with you forever
And hear as you lay before me
You tease me and tell me to stay
What would you give?
What would you give?
What would you give?
What would you give?

I come home late at night
On the floor to turn you on
I check for tint and Technicolor
Cause after you there is no other

Your brown hair is my connection
Connects my resurrection
And everyone else is just a harlot
A Star Search spokesmodel starlet

Miss Emma Peel
Black boots kick high at his face
One last look at the grace of
Miss Emma Peel
Catch the curve of your leather heel
Before he blacks out
That's another one down for
Miss Emma Peel
I sit beside her in the evening
And watch her rerun secrets by my ears
Cat eyes watch with British humour
Cause she's a mod-feel sixties savior

Your brown hair is my connection
Connects my resurrection
And everyone else is just a harlot
A Star Search spokes model starlet

Miss Emma Peel
Black boots kick high at his face
One last look at the grace of
Miss Emma Peel
Catch the curve of your leather heel
Before he blacks out
That's another one down for
For Miss Emma Peel
For Miss Emma Peel

Miss Emma Peel
Black boots kick high at his face
One last look at the grace of
Miss Emma Peel
Catch the curve of your leather heel
Before he blacks out
That's another one down for
For Miss Emma Peel
For Miss Emma Peel
For Miss Emma Peel
For Miss Emma Peel

Let it out let me pull the shades
Mix it up make it lemonade
I've no intention of living this way
No intention of living
Moisture
Moisture

A thousand miles across the sand
Burning blisters on my hand
Why did you take
Water from my well
I am dry
I sigh, take this torture from my head
How you said the sand would burn my hands
And how you said the sand would burn my feet again

Almost drowned inside your head
Crawled back to the shore instead
Why did you take
And drag me through your hell
I am dry
I sigh, take this torture from my head
How you said the sand would burn my hands
And how you said the sand would burn my feet again

Moisture
Moisture

Take this torture from my head
How you said the sand would burn my hands
And how you said the sand would burn my feet again
And how you said the sand would burn my hands
And how you said the sand would burn my feet again

I feel your fame
Fill your pocket
And I've tried to hock it
I fly the friendly skies
Meeting strangers
And my hands pass through many

You will believe
I won't deceive you
Too late cause it's a joke
For you've got the neck of an angel
Feel my hands as they choke

Come on down
Gather 'round
I'm your healer
Come on down
Now you're down
With the feeder

I've made the pitch
And you the purchase
Now who do you worship
And I'll be your whore
I'll go down, maybe
Just give me a chance

I will sell you lies
And you will thank me
Too late you've paid my bills
I crawl with flies
Move ahead
And to a million people I've lied

Come on down
Gather 'round
I'm the healer
Come on down
Now you're down
With the feeder

Come on down
Now you're down
I'm your healer
Come on down
Now you're down
With the feeder

so the lines are lost
on the smallest details
of the life that we tossed
pushed out over the rail

and the wounds run deep
through the one man so bad
he's fallen beneath
the touch of your hand

and it's all drawn out
theres nothing inside
and nothing to hold
nothing to find
its wearing me out
this feeling inside
i'm all drawn out

and the promise we break it
and the reasons we fake it
brings us farther apart
from the love that we make
as the poisonous tide leaves us gasping for air
we run for the past but we're already there

(chorus)

I'm all drawn out

it's all drawn out...
there's nothing inside
nothing to hold...
nothing to find..
all drawn out
theres nothing inside
nothing to hold
nothing to hide..

It's all drawn out.
It's all drawn out.
It's all drawn out.
I'm all drawn out...

How many times has this gone on?
Call 'cause it's just been too long
Say it's good to hear it's going fine
Check that you're still featured in my mind

Tell me what you want to hear
I'll play along
Tell me when you want me near
I'll play along
But only for so long

Show me scars where it began
And I will come with violins
I don't need a clock to know it's wasted time
What's your mood ring doing now?

Tell me if you want me near
I'll play along
Tell me what you love to fear
I'll play along
But only for so long
Only for so long
Only for so long
Only for so long

Tell me if you want me near
I'll play along
Tell me what you love to fear
I'll play along

Sign up for a lecture with a man in a trance
You'll see the saints are all a step below the masters
Listen and believe what you're going to receive
And maybe you'll avoid the next disaster

Pop Guru's got a message for you
And we're all following
Cause we're all following

Keep your power and your promise
And erase all your sins
And you can be all priestesses and healers
If they can be divine, then so can you
And so are all the prostitutes and dealers

Pop Guru's got a message for you
And we're all following
Cause we're all following

Pop Guru (8 x's)

While angels move like photons
The skeptics persist
If you want a past life you can have one
Swimming in the gene pool before we exist
Did you have your rubber gloves on?

Cause Pop Guru's got a message for you
And we're all following
Cause we're all following

Cause Pop Guru's got a message for you
And we're all following
Cause we're all following

Cause Pop Guru's got a message for you
And we're all following
Cause we're all following

Following (6 x's and fade)

I'm trying to learn to surf
I'll make them some pasta, get them a glass of wine
I like dressing up, especially when I go out dancing
I like to wear lots of very sparkly glittery things
I'm a big cat lover, I've got a pussy cat here
He's very striking, very handsome
I like dressing up, especially when I go out dancing
That's truly fantastic
The thing I like to do, but don't tell anybody, it's a secret, secret
It's a secret
I very rarely don't take something to the arrangement
Let's go, too
I'm trying to learn to surf
I love shoes, I've got so many shoes
(I love shoes, I love shoes, I love shoes)
I got lots of boots and big, big platform boots
Lots of sorts-of 60's zip-up boots and
Eclectic shoes, any excuse to dress up
I've got like loads of lorex
I've got nothing else to say
Hot pants and matching jacket

It's going to take some time this time
To get myself in shape
I really fell out-of line this time
I really missed the gate

Birds on the telephone line
Are cryin' out to me
And I won't be so blind next time
And I'll find some harmony

But it's going to take some time this time
And I can't make demands
But like the young trees in the wintertime
I'll learn how to bend

After all the tears we've spent
How could we make amends
So it's one more round for experience
And I'm on the road again
And it's going to take some time this time

It's going to take some time this time
No matter what I've planned
But like the young trees in the wintertime
I'll learn how to bend
After all the tears we've spent
How could we make amends
So it's one more round for experience
And I'm on the road again
And it's going to take some time this time
Yeah, it's gonna take some time,
yeah it's gonna take some time
(repeat lots, adlib & fade)

Staring at the wall because you know it understands
And boy you wonder about everything that could have been
It's getting later all the time but you're still wide awake
And boy you wonder, if you'll ever sleep again

Hey, hey, gotta stay awake
Don't let it slip away
Don't think that they're not waiting
Hey, hey, gotta stay awake
As your mind is peeled away
But they still seem to find you anyway

Sift your hands through broken glass
Through your shattered crystal ball and boy you wonder
If you'll ever see again

Cause every time you close your eyes
You know they're right behind you and you wonder
If you'll ever live again
Don't make a sound cause they're living all around
With their shiny eyes and their shiny minds
And they're living everywhere
Watching every move I make
Gotta stay awake