Fastball

Where did you leave your baby
Bleeding in her bed
Her ghost has come to stay
Oh, you can try, you can't chase her away

In the bar we sit like blackbirds
With our broken wings
Like clocks without their springs
Just like time doesn't mean anything

Won't you tell me
Which way to the top?
You know that I can't stay
Down here

We used to ride around in a broken down old car
But now I'm changing trains
Oh, and I'll hit all the notes in between

Mom and Dad are fast asleep now
But I'll be wide awake
A surfer in the break
Oh, just waiting for the perfect wave
And a place in the shade

Won't you tell me
Which way to the top?
You know that I can't stay
Down here

You better get it now while
The getting's good
Get it now while it's happening
You better get it now while
The getting's good
Get it now while it's happening

Won't you tell me
Which way to the top?
You know that I can't stay
Down here

Won't you tell me
Which way to the top?
You know that I can't stay
Down here

Freeloader Freddy got a cold chevy nova
Where he got the papers-don't know.
Got a line on sweet act, sheer heart attack
We're sticking close to the floor

How you feel, all right now
I'm king of the road
How you feel, red lights fading
King for an hour, I need another.

Freeloader Freddy knows all the ladies
Standing on the corner downtown.
Doing lines off the dash, own private stash
Oh, the word is getting around.

How you feel, all right now
I'm king of the road
How you feel, red lights fading
King for an hour, I need another.

I'm taking my time making it mine
I've got some people to see.
And you want to play, you got to pay,
Yesterday it used to be free.

How you feel, all right now
I'm king of the road
How you feel, red lights fading
King for an hour, I need another.

It ain't as easy as it looks
To grow flowers in the dirt
All my friends are living underground
Put away your wedding ring
Out on highway 63
Let all your worries
Take their place in line
They love to tear you down
Living in this sweet soul town
Fall into the sound
A place to hide and room to move
My electric boogaloo
Don't you worry
The circus is in town
They love to tear you down
Living in this sweet soul town
Fall into the sound

There's trouble on the subway
There's something on the track
There's a dead end waiting and
We can't go back
So take it to the highway
Head back and open wide
Step right up and take a nowhere ride
Chorus:
It's a nowhere road
It's a nowhere road
No matter where it goes it's a
Nowhere road
It's a nowhere road and I'm tired
It's a nowhere job and I'm fired
It don't matter what they say
You can't get there going this way
From L.A. to Miami
And all points in between
Look outside you get the same old scene
You take it to the highway
You travel far and wide
Caterpillars carving up the country side
Chorus
It's a nowhere road and I'm tired
Repeat

Try to stop the world spinning 'round
My phone bill will tell you she lives out of town
It's been a long long time but still I dream
Of warm sunny days on 12th and Lorraine
I wish you were here right now....but then
I know I should just leave you alone
I should just leave you alone
I know I should just leave you alone
I should just leave you along
The ground moved under me
I pushed her away with the things I'd say
God's face grew
Earthquake size
And I can't cross our great divide
I wanna live inside....but then
I know I should just leave you alone
I should just leave you alone

Sometimes I feel
Like I am drunk behind the wheel
The wheel of possibility
However it may roll
Give it a spin
See if you can sonehow factor in
You know theres always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say

*CHORUS*
Was I out of my head? Was I out of my mind?
How could I have ever been so blind?
I was waiting for an indication
It was hard to find
Don't matter what I say only what I do
I never mean to do bad things to you
So quiet but I finally woke uo
If your sad then its time you spoke up too

Living to get his freak on
Sporting his leopard skin thong
Charlie the Methadone Man
Plays Sunday nights in a rock and roll band
Charlie the methadone, the methadone man

Patience - the name of the game
Waiting on Dr. Kinkaid
Charlie the Methadone Man
Fills out the papers just as fast as he can
Charlie the methadone, the methadone man

When you're all alone
And you got nowhere to go
Better take it slow
Oh you get so tired of where you are

Kicking his lonely lit brain
Drinking to try and stay sane
Charlie the Methadone Man
Chases his tail just as fast as he can
Charlie the methadone, the methadone man

Kicking...

I've been thinking about the good old days
Decorated in a candy glaze
Each pretty ink blot panel
Tells a different tale
Each photo on the mantle
Sweet memories that will never go stale

I've been climbing up the walls again
Living with a memory that might have been
So pick me up on a weekday night
We could get together and ride around in
The black and white

I've been thinking about the good old days
My silly clothes and my silly ways
Each drunken drugstore purchase
Each chemical advance
Seven days a weekend
Every day the same old dizzy dance

Slow drag off a cigarette
Slow drag and I'm lying in my bed
All the world is sleeping like a baby tonight
I wanna lay you down
In the ground. Alright.

Slow drag and I can't get up now
Slow drag. You've been messing with my mind
All the world is sleeping like a baby tonight
I wanna see you dead
Laying in the muddy ground

You're nothing to me
Nothing to me
Nothing to me no more

All the world is sleeping like a baby tonight
I wanna see you dead
Laying in the muddy ground

You're nothing to me
Nothing to me
Nothing to me no more

I got a warm fuzzy feeling
When I saw you on TV
You were wearing a piece of me
And it breaks my heart to look around
And see the unimpressed
Who can't believe the emperor is dressed

Turn on my TV
I want to check some action
If you got no video
Well then folks don't wanna know
But with you up there to light the way
I can wear a smile as I survey
The faces in the dark
Waiting for you to hit one out of the park

We notice every tiny little detail
Every word we read we'll take to heart
But we never really understand
Until we realize
There are no lies
When you see that look in their eyes

What are we gonna use to fill the empty space
When you see her in the crowd...
Will you make your mama proud?
She can turn around and see the faces
Staring at her son
Climbing his way up to #1

I'm gonna get under your skin
Sooner or later
I'll find the key that lets me in
Sooner or later
Yeah cause you just can't keep me down
Yeah cause you just can't keep me down
I'm gonna take my time all right
Sooner or later
You gonna let me treat you right
Sooner or later
Yeah cause you just can't keep me down
Oh if you'd only give me
Time
Is really all that I need
To push it through
To make you see
I'll make you see
I'm gonna take my time all right
Sooner or later
You gonna let me treat you right
Yeah cause you can't keep me down
Yeah cause you can't keep me down
Time
Is really all that I need
To push it through
To make you see
I'll make you see
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later

You see this guy, this guy's in love with you.
Yes I'm in love, who looks at you, the way, I do.
When you smile, I can tell, we know each other,
very well. How can, I show you, I'm glad, I got to
know you. 'Cause I've heard some talk, they say you think
I'm fine. Yes I'm in love, and what, I'd do, to make you
mine. Tell me now, is it so, don't let me be, the last
to know.

Chorus: My hands are shaking, don't let, my heart keep breaking,
'cause I need your love, I want your love. Say your in love,
in love, with this guy, if not I'll just die.

Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do

Tell me now, is it so, don't let me be, the last
to know.

Chorus
If not I'll just die.

Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do

Once I had it all planned out
My dirty fingers moved about
To make a mess of everything around me
I don't claim to know my way
I still run in circles every day
Running around half blind
Life can be unkind
But it's better than it was
I complain very little because
It's better than it was

I get to remembering
We had alot more money then
To make a mess of everything around us
Now the money comes and goes a bit faster
Than my confidence grows
Everybody knows
There ain't nothing new about money woes

It's better than we ever could have
Wished it to before
It was bad a while ago
Better than this I know

It's better than it was

Well I don't wanna be President
Superman or Clark Kent
I don't wanna walk 'round in their shoes

'Cause I don't know who's side I'm on
I don't know my right from wrong
I don't know where I'm going to
I don't know about you

I'll be the rain falling on your fire escape
And I may not be the man you want me to
I can be myself, how 'bout you?

I don't wanna make you mad
I don't wanna meet your dad
I don't wanna be your dream come true

'Cause I don't know just what I've found
I don't know my sky from ground
I don't know where I'm going to
I don't know about you

I'll be the rain falling on your fire escape
And I may not be the man you want me to
I can be myself, how 'bout you

I'll be the rain falling on your fire escape
And I may not be the man you want me to
I can be myself, how 'bout you?
I can be myself, how 'bout you?
I can be myself
How 'bout you?

They made up their minds
And they started packing
They left before
the sun came up that day
An exit to
eternal summer slacking
But where were they going
Without ever knowing the way

They drank up the wine
And they got to talking
They now had
more important things to say
And when the car broke down
They started walking
Where were they going
without ever knowing the way

* Anyone could see
The road that they walk on
is paved in gold
And It's always summer,
they'll never get cold
They'll Never get hungry
They'll never get old and gray
You can see their shadows
Wandering off somewhere
They won't make it home
But they really don't care
They wanted the highway
They're happy there
today, today

The children woke up
And they couldn't find 'em
They Left before
the sun came up that day
They just drove off
And left it all behind 'em
But Where were they going
Without ever knowing the way

* Repeat

to moonn6epnce from shootingstar



Those days when our hearts were as big as the sun
turn around with a smile for everyone
that feeling's a memory
funny how it fades away

You won't see those pale grays returning to blues
the colors will wash out as I shrink in my shoes
and I won't always live and breathe
watch me as I fade away

We wake in the morning and work all day
we dress up in the evening with nothing to say
just like a candle burning bright
burning like forever then it fades away

Who on this planet would ever refuse
the chance of a lifetime to love and lose
when time is of no importance
have you seen it slip away?

We wake in the morning and work all day
we dress up in the evening with nothing to say
just like a candle burning bright
burning like forever then it fades away

We wake in the morning and work all day
we dress up in the evening with nothing to say
just like a candle burning bright

Let it bleed, until you run dry
Let it bleed, tomorrow's never gonna come
'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home
'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home
I can't take all of the bad days
When it rains, it's better not to go outside
'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home

'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home
Going all the way down, oh yeah
Going all the way down, it's coming down
Let it bleed, until you run dry
Let it bleed, tomorrow's never gonna come
'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home
'Cause the black rain is fallin' tonight
I can't find my way home
It's coming down

First Verse:
She, she belongs to me
But she doesn't know it
She comes walking down the street
She don't notice me

Chorus:
And she comes round
She know how to turn me inside out
Inside out, upside down
She's got the bomb

I'm twisted metal tongue
When I get around you
I stutter incomplete
I can't keep a beat

Chorus

She comes round my door
She gets me everytime
She doesn't even notice me
When she goes walking by

Repeat First Verse

Chorus

Repeat Chorus

You can talk to me about powder kegs
And how I'm sitting on one right now
You can warn me about candles
and whole things burning from the outside in
But don't tell me about true love
'Cause I don't think you really know
You need to pay the costs
You need to feel the loss
'Cause love is expensive and free
Love is expensive and free
Talk to me about appearances
I tell ya' lately they mean less and less
Do your best to keep me occupied
It's hard to concentrate, I must confess
Don't you tell me about heartbreak
'Cause it ain't written in the stars
You need to pay the costs
You need to feel the loss
'Cause love is expensive and free
Love is expensive and free
Love is expensive and free
Alright, you got me
Don't you worry 'bout my baby
Her eyes are open all the time
I could never bare to see her
Much less remove her from my mind
I didn't talk to you about true love
I didn't think you'd understand
You need to pay the costs
You need to feel the loss
'Cause love is expensive and free
Love is expensive and free
Love is expensive and free

I′m gonna get under your skin
Sooner or later
I′ll find the key that lets me in
Sooner or later
Yeah cause you just can′t keep me down
Yeah cause you just can′t keep me down
I′m gonna take my time all right
Sooner or later
You gonna let me treat you right
Sooner or later
Yeah cause you just can′t keep me down
Oh if you′d only give me
Time
Is really all that I need
To push it through
To make you see
I′ll make you see
I′m gonna take my time all right
Sooner or later
You gonna let me treat you right
Yeah cause you can′t keep me down
Yeah cause you can′t keep me down
Time
Is really all that I need
To push it through
To make you see
I′ll make you see
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later
Sooner or later