Sam Phillips

We're not lovers you and I
I can't think of reasons why
I should want you like that
I'm stranded by my passion
The whole idea fits us
like a suit gone out of fashion

As I said goodbye and drove away
things I'd like to hear you say
Rolled across my mind like clouds
in an unexpected flurry
I stumbled on a minefield
where desire was still buried

I don't want to fall in love - with the idea of
I don't want to fall in love - with love

Sentimental circumstance disguised
as fate with wild romance
Fools me into thinking you're the water
for my thirst
Not knowing what you're feeling for me
only makes it worse

I don't want to fall in love - with the idea of
I don't want to fall in love - with love

I don't know how to say goodbye to you,
I'm not good at things that I don't want to do,
Should I pretend that I don't care,
You don't feel what I feel is there,
I don't know how to say goodbye.

I don't know how to say goodbye to you,
I'm not good at things that I don't want to do,
Should I pretend that I don't care,
That you don't feel what I feel is there,
I don't know how to say goodbye.

A kiss,
I insist that we play this game of lovers
And a touch,
If I look away too much,
Would my feelings be discovered.

I don't know how to say goodbye to you,
I'm not good at things that I don't want to do,
Should I pretend that I don't care,
You don't feel what I feel is there,
I don't know how to say goodbye.

Would you be scared,
If I just stared,
And left you look inside me,
Should I smile and just walk away,
So my eyes can get jaded.

I don't know how to say goodbye to you
I'm not good at things that I don't want to do
Should I pretend that I don't care
Like you don't feel what I feel is there
I don't know how to say goodbye
Ohhhh
I don't know how to say goodbye
Ohhhh
I don't know how to say goodbye
To you
Ohhh to you
To you

Flame why do I come so close to you
Vain telling me what I shouldn't do
I saw you smoldering before
I let him burn me to the floor - flame

Flame why do you paralyze my soul
Pain if I hold you or let go
There's nothing bluer than your heat
You make the night bleed at your feet - flame



Break my fall into this wild fire of love
Stolen from dreams

Flame why do I dance so close to you
Stained with the longing of a fool
When fires rise the shadows fall
Over the edges where we crawl - flame

Pulling the trigger
A shot would fire then he'd wake
To red lips above him smeared
With scorn and stale restraint
She covered him with pity
Like a snake about to strike
And then pronounced him hopeless
When he wouldn't do as she would like

He's so sorry he can't feel remorse
He tries to keep the helpless ship on course
The blameless sky pales as a storm comes
Taking it by force


He's so sorry

Flashes of justice
After all she'd done for him
For the first time she was quiet
As he touched her moon pale skin
They found him hours later
He was talking to the gun
Saying father please forgive her
She has killed her only son

What do I do when I want to
Be as close as I can get to you
I feel like a cruel girl saying both yes and no
I want you to want me
I need to trust you though

What do I do when I fall through
Fears so long and dark that I lose you
I feel like a lost girl
Letting my torn heart show


If you're so far away boy
How will you ever know

I feel like a small girl
Falling beneath your form
If I set you on fire - will you keep me warm?

I saw black and you saw red
Crawled to separate corners
the line went dead I closed my heart up tore your love
for me to shreds

Tangled wires / love can't breathe
pulling tighter to my ruthless need
Don't look down I want you unconsolably

I can't stop crying

Stubborn distance closes in
with your assistance bitterly begin
To build a wall of silence cutting soul in two
Cloudy water in my eyes
I'm ashamed of words with secret knives
In dream I scream but you can't
Hear me calling you

I know that this heartache is
A speck in the sky of love
But it's all I feel around me

If I close my eyes
I'm afraid I won't wake up
If I stop and listen
I'm afraid I'll hear too much

Trying to hold on to the earth
Holding on for what it's worth

I've got a long black cadillac
marble hot tub in the back
Champagne waterfall
solid gold question mark twenty feet tall

Try to paint a world of shapes
Over the holes as we're falling
The tightened grip is our mistake
As we're trying to hold on to the earth

Looking for his name
wet on brave lips carved on road
Look for flame and mercy
Hope that tired hands can hold

She can't tell time it's not listening to her
When faith went blind I could see light
through her
Her vigils in the street left
my youth incomplete
Left meaning obsolete

Sleep I can't sleep / she can speak
But she can't tell time
Dream I can't dream / she can scream
But she can't tell time

She can't tell time she didn't get
what she deserved
When faith went blind she found the truth
but lost her nerve
When she won't act her age
the cat circles round the cage
Youth shrinks to tired rage

I can't hide the truth from you
in a closet of some kindness
Time will sharpen its blade
and it will cut you when you find it
I wish that I could lie to you baby

I've got what you don't want to hear
how do I tell you

I tried to hold my soul back
but its tide is so much stronger
Than the drifting feelings
we want to hold a little longer
I wish that I could lie to you baby

For far too long your lies protected you
Now I have to hurt you with the truth

We will find love someday
But the longer we hold on now
The longer it will be until we find it

Tonight I'll leave you there where I found you
Starting up the hill / an echo standing still
Love has turned on us like the wild
Listen to the scream / of our desperate dream
Did we say forever and what ever did we mean

Now my friend we're out of time
Someone take me out of time

I dreamed of eyes like his open windows
Secrets looking through / dark sky burning blue
But I kept them to myself / quiet pieces
To the urgent voice / violent with choice

Tonight I'll leave you there where I found you
Starting up the hill / an echo standing still
Our shadows cry for us as the dust moves
Time won't tell us why we let love go by

The violinist puts his violin away
Forbidden city broken into tonight
I use my blindfold to dry my tears
The stage is empty and tired of light

But when I do the fan dance
I'm all the red in China
I'm dialing life up on my telescope
Fringe and mathematics
Shaking down the curtain
To find the dragon parade

When I do the fan dance
Searchlights answer gunfire
Angels escort falling mercies
Hearts shut off like streetlights
But even in the blackout
I'll find my balcony rose

The violinist puts his violin away
Forbidden city broken into tonight
I use my blindfold to dry the tears
The stage is empty and tired of light

When I do the fan dance
I'm firecracker lightning
I burn with no trace up in the cold sky
I am broken open, waiting for inventions
Of light that see through to love

When I do the fan dance
I'm all the red in China
You write your questions on my skin
I'll be in your dark streets
To keep the lantern burning
Until your new world begins

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

My soul's a worn out road
Where you've left a trail of reminders
The sky forgets, turns black with pain
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

She read his palm, his heart and his head
We're on the same life line
I held one hand behind my back
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

When I took him like a vow in the dark
The future fell off me
This pain is all I recognize
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

Wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
Wasting my time

When I take a picture of the city, it disappears
It's only a photograph, the city is gone
The places I go are never there
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
I can only picture the disappearing world
When you touch me

He brought me the air of Paris in a bottle
The record caught the air of London, nineteen sixty-five
The places I go are never there
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
I can only picture the disappearing world
When you touch me, when you touch me
When you touch me

When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
Under normal, we change the wind
Facing every direction
Planted in the future, we live two lives
All to reveal a secret we can't hide
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
We search the sky, planets chasing the stars
Pulling toward deep affection
Weights and numbers measure a wound that won't heal
All to reveal a secret we can't hide
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes

Incinerator, what have you done this time?
I heard the air raid siren go off
To settle attraction, you like to subdivide
Don't you want shelter from your desire? A place to hide

Incinerator, this is not about sex
It's about a personal scent
You like to watch me and I like to disappear
Electrical contact, a broken Tass of the Stratosphere

Incinerator, go on and go right through me
Have your search and tell me what you find
That I'm made of fire and you'll never get to me
I don't have your number, 'cause I can't count to eternity

Incinerator

going down this road again
I finally know
there is no end to the good

love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

burning light inside my dreams
i wake up in the dark
the light is outside my door
l
ove is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

chasing every fragment i see
looking through you
love is looking for me
breaking open the clouds
i'm not stranded in time

love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

I'll be desperate, I'll be lonely
But I won't be ashamed
No isolation, no terror unnamed
You animated the dead to your dream
Say what you mean

Destiny's still locomotive desire
Magnets set on you and thrown into the fire
If you get branded and caught in between
Say what you mean

You'll despise and protect
You'll fool and you'll grouse
How hungry are you?
How much can you loose?

You know what I would do for you
'Til it gets too late
Just tell me straight

The secrets that you want to know
Are yours not mine
Longing may kill me
I can't keep my mind

On my destructions
My drugs and my dreams
Say what you mean

Now that I've worn out, I've worn out the world
I'm on my knees in fascination looking through the night
And the moons never seen me before
But I'm reflecting light

I wrote the pain down, got off and looked up
Looked into your eyes
The lost open windows, all around
My dark heart lit up the skies

And now that I've worn out, I've worn out the world
I'm on my knees in fascination looking through the night
And the moons never seen me before
But I'm reflecting light

Give up the ground under your feet
Hold on to nothing for good
Turn and run at the mean times, chasing you
Stand alone and misunderstood

And now that I've worn out, I've worn out the world
I'm on my knees in fascination looking through the night
And the moons never seen me before
But I'm reflecting light

I said I wanted to be alone
I said I wanted to be alone
I said I wanted to be alone
Alone, alone with him

He said he wanted to be alone
He said he wanted to be alone
He said he wanted to be alone
Alone with her

She said she wanted to be alone
She said she wanted to be alone
She said she wanted to be alone
Alone, alone with me

We can't fix what's broken so let's leave it here and walk on

I'll be right behind you



Love changes everything

I'm not sorry we loved, but I hope I didn't keep you too long



We're not experts

We are believers, ministers of silence

Let no man pull us under doubt

I'll always open my hands to you

I'll be right behind you

If I could write I'd set all the words free to follow you
Tell you wonder, tell you secrets and solitude
I've had to let go of so much, it's hard to hold on now
Something far off is pulling me and when I go this time
I don't think I'm coming back

I took your ring that never comes off and put it on
Sorry to lose you, sorry to keep you after you were gone
Nothing is small, nothing is unexpected, I want more
When I go this time, don't think I'm coming back

Desire's the element that I can't fight, dream is the arm of God
Girl's looking for themselves in your eyes, I'm looking for you
What's this supposed to be some kind of perfect, I want more
When I go this time, don't think I'm coming back
Coming back, coming back, coming back

My life fell through a hole in my pocket
I lost my solitude, I lost my balance
I lost my reverence and voice

Pieces of soap building up a mountain
Moving seeds of doubt

My life fell through a hole in my pocket
I can't see anything
Only this moment

I hear my heart breaking into faith
Pieces of soap building up a mountain
Moving seeds of doubt

My life fell through a hole in my pocket

Help is coming, help is coming
One day late, one day late
After you've given up and all is gone
Help is coming one day late

Help is coming, help is coming
One day late, one day late
After you've given up and all is gone
Help is coming one day late

Try to understand you try to fix your broken hands
But remember that there always has been good
Like stars you don't see in the day sky
Wait till night

For help is coming, help is coming
One day late, one day late
After you've given up and all is gone
Help is coming one day late

Life has kept me down
I've been growing on the ground
Now I'm coming up and when time opens the earth
You'll see love has been moving all around us, making waves

So help is coming, help is coming
One day late, one day late
After you've given up and all is gone
Help is coming one day late

Help is coming one day
Help is coming

Pictures steal our memories
Turn our minds to salt
History is written to say it wasn't our fault, wasn't our fault
Send us all your love and kisses
Come and join the dream that never ends
God will grant us all our wishes
Martinis and Bikinis for our friends

I got myself so tightly ound I couldn't breathe
I could feel the fire burning underneath

I wanted to get lost and love the questions there
Beauty and the truth I could breathe like air
Then I finally found the signposts in a strange land

Logic dances you from here to there not very far
Making sense can't tell you where you are

I wanted to get lost and love the questions there
Beauty and the truth I could breathe like air
Then I finally found the signposts in a strange land

i went to the sun it was too hot
i went to the moon it was too cold
went to the mountain it was too young
went to the ocean it was too old

is it the same rain that falls on a holy man
is it the same rain that falls on a liar's hand
is it the same rain that falls on me

i knew a man a refugee survival was his art
all that he held valuable he carried in his heart

is it the same rain that falls on the mountain's face
is it the same rain that falls on the prison gate
is it the same rain that falls on me

all the money in the world all the power it can buy
will not take your voice away
cannot own what you hold inside

is it the same rain that falls on a poor man's room
is it the same rain that falls on a rich man's tomb
is it the same rain that falls on me

baby i can't please you i can't please you

every time you start to critize
i can see the misery in your eyes
you say i make your pain
you're trying to turn the blame all around you

you take the words i say and make them mean
everything they don't baby youre obscene
you don't listen you don't hear
you're blinded by the fear that surrounds you

i know you say love when you mean control
you buy the truth and your heart is cold
so you live in shadows

you try to tell the world how it should spin
but you live in terror with the hollow men
who stun you with their lies
with fever in their eyes as they drown you

I saw you standing alone
I wondered if you wanted what you owned
Your magic ladders in the sky
Tie you to the place where angels fight

In the circle of fire
Circle of fire

Our madness envy and desire
Ring you with an unforgiving fire
You love them with a burning soul
By the time he sold the ashes they were cold

In the circle of fire
Circle of fire

Fingers crying for you
Sleeping on your doorstep for the proof
We love ghosts we want to see through
The blood and bones that hide us from the truth

In the circle of fire
Circle of fire

You circle the city from the sky
Watching children swallowing your lies
It breaks you but you will never fall
You've learned that love is greater than it all

In the circle of fire
Circle of fire

Shotgun alleys with lightning flowers
Under the eyes of fallen statues
Dry blood they've never seen

Pain is sharper when i suspect
That true love runs looking for us
Like a lion in our dreams

The strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love

You censor longing and organize beauty
Because you're afraid
You want it more than oxygen or light

You can't get there with your morals
Or without love
Lie down with me
The rules aren't always right

Strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love (2x)

Call it romance or nostalgia
The hunder behind our memories
We've buried it in code

The things we've wanted
When we get them are never enough
Never what they seem
But they lead us to the road

Strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love

we don't want lives of steel
we don't want hearts that feel
we want to live above it all

i feel you closing in
a target on my skin
i think you'll be there when i fall

we might get out of time
we might connect our minds
we might land beyond the wall when i fall

i might give love to you
i might step right on through
fear might keep me from it all

i climb so high to see
but the ground just teases me
i think you'll be there when i fall

i'm burning
when i fall
i fall
when i fall
i'm amazed by it all

control is letting go
and i'm the last to know
we might land beyond the wall
i might give love to you
i might step right on through
i think you'll be there when i fall

the camera angles and the name campaigns
the stare cuts and the latest extremes
the way we sell ourselves they way we spend our greed
how long it takes to hear our dreams

circle of change the world around you
the same changes
hold on to the voice inside you
the same changes

the borders and the flags how far our guns can shoot
fascist slogans and the movie of the week
popular opinion cars that drive you mad
what they pay assassins and a lucky streak

circle of change the world around you
the same changes
hold on to the voice inside you
the same changes
(hold on to your voice)
(hold on to your voice)

how much time is wasted how much time is left
what to censor and what to read
how hot the sun burns what does love require
how we run from the things we need

circle of change the world around you
the same changes
hold on to the voice inside you
the same changes

circle of change the world around you
the same changes
hold on to the voice inside you
the same changes
(the same changes)
(the same changes)

the trees are listening each time a missile's made
they hide three mystics the earth sends from her grave
to tell us the future has been stolen away
by diggers, drillers and sellers
but we won't stop 'till we're under a black sky

he took my picture int he cemetery sun
my body was tempted to crumble into one
reunion of dust until creation's done
returning ashes to ashes
we won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

the commerce the intrigue
self-slaughtered souls cry out to dead poor men
for a drink at the water hole
but their tongues will burn dry
as the day they were sold for
forests raped into deserts
we won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

he wants to keep in contact
he wants to buy the things he doesn't understand
he wants all the credit
he wants the rights to the soul of every man

i'm not above him but i want to go
down below the surface where he lives

fighting with fire
money's the only thing he has

he wants to get down to business
it's a long way down
but he'll go the extra mile
i wonder when all this started
who left him empty hearted when he was a child

i left my conscience like a crying child
locked the door behind me put the pain on file
broken like a window i see my blindness now

i need love
not some sentimental prison
i need god
not the political church
i need fire
to melt the frozen sea inside me
i need love

driving into town tired and depressed
like a flare the streetlight bursts into an s.o.s.
peace comes to my rescue i don't know what it means
i need love

silence and rage
the scars of a daughter
he gave me the knife
i held it in deep water

together we make the perfect question
there's never enough to go around
it's a cup with a hole and the love pours on the ground

wheel of the broken voice

talking to you hearing another
past covers truth and watches it smother

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
from uptight-short sighted - narrow minded hypocrytics,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic - psychotic-pig headed politicians,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

No short haired - yellow bellied
son of tricky dicky,
Is gonna mother hubbard,
Soft soap me,
With just a pocketful of hope,
Money for dope,
Money for rope,

I'm sick to death of seeing things
from tight liped - condecending -
mommies little chauvanists,

All I want is the truth,
just gimme some truth,

I've had enough watching scenes of
schizophrenic - ego - centric - paranoic -
prima - donnas,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth.

i left my conscience like a crying child
locked the door behind me put the pain on file
broken like a window i see my blindness now

i need love
not some sentimental prison
i need god
not the political church
i need fire
to melt the frozen sea inside me
i need love

driving into town tired and depressed
like a flare the streetlight bursts into an s.o.s.
peace comes to my rescue i don't know what it means
i need love

If I close my eyes
I'm afraid I won't wake up
If I stop and listen
I'm afraid I'll hear too much

Trying to hold on to the earth
Holding on for what it's worth

I've got a long black cadillac
marble hot tub in the back
Champagne waterfall
solid gold question mark twenty feet tall

Try to paint a world of shapes
Over the holes as we're falling
The tightened grip is our mistake
As we're trying to hold on to the earth

Looking for his name
wet on brave lips carved on road
Look for flame and mercy
Hope that tired hands can hold

I got myself so tightly ound I couldn't breathe
I could feel the fire burning underneath

I wanted to get lost and love the questions there
Beauty and the truth I could breathe like air
Then I finally found the signposts in a strange land

Logic dances you from here to there not very far
Making sense can't tell you where you are

I wanted to get lost and love the questions there
Beauty and the truth I could breathe like air
Then I finally found the signposts in a strange land

am I your pussycat? I know what's new
it's the oldest hat in the book
we can't get fast enough to go backwards
totake a second look

animals on wheels faster all the time

some want to leave us and go to another planet
and blow up the earth
they'd still be murderous, lying and they'd want it all

for whatever it's worth

famous is fast
you don't have to be talented or do good work or be smart
it's perfect for me
but everytime I go after it
my ideals run off with my heart

the trees are listening each time a missile's made
they hide three mystics the earth sends from her grave
to tell us the future has been stolen away
by diggers, drillers and sellers
but we won't stop 'till we're under a black sky

he took my picture int he cemetery sun
my body was tempted to crumble into one
reunion of dust until creation's done
returning ashes to ashes
we won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

the commerce the intrigue
self-slaughtered souls cry out to dead poor men
for a drink at the water hole
but their tongues will burn dry
as the day they were sold for
forests raped into deserts
we won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

Flame why do I come so close to you
Vain telling me what I shouldn't do
I saw you smoldering before
I let him burn me to the floor - flame

Flame why do you paralyze my soul
Pain if I hold you or let go
There's nothing bluer than your heat
You make the night bleed at your feet - flame



Break my fall into this wild fire of love
Stolen from dreams

Flame why do I dance so close to you
Stained with the longing of a fool
When fires rise the shadows fall
Over the edges where we crawl - flame

the first time he saw her was through a telescope
a misfit cactus filled with bottled hope

he answered like a sick man getting out of bed
suspicion and thirst curiosity and dread

the blindness in control
freeze the fatal bullet
as we're falling through a hole in time

one night he came home and found the house burning
through the frozen smoke he saw the earth turning

a curtain of silence fell on deaf ears
a dream from the past was echoing through the years

the blindness in control
freeze the fatal bullet
as we're falling through a hole in time

Two men with empty pockets put lipstick on a little girl
and another dream goes by
they make her ride the rockets
that fall into a sea of pearl
and another dream goes by

power stealing through
fading out of view
our cruel inventions

the beat generation all got on the morning train
and another dream goes by
they left me at the station
breathing dust from hopeless rain
and another dream goes by

un-invent the wheel of endless greed
let conscience run like a river like a dreamer

a world of elevators with music like magazines
and another dream goes by
magnetic separators divided by a wall of screens
and another dream goes by

he wants to keep in contact
he wants to buy the things he doesn't understand
he wants all the credit
he wants the rights to the soul of every man

i'm not above him but i want to go
down below the surface where he lives

fighting with fire
money's the only thing he has

he wants to get down to business
it's a long way down
but he'll go the extra mile
i wonder when all this started
who left him empty hearted when he was a child

if i said i believe my eyes
and science can move my soul
if i said i'm not afraid to die
and i don't need you

i'd be lying

if i said the way he looks at me
doesn't make me want to undress
if i said i could leave you now
and go where i could forget

i'd be lying

i've been lying all my life with silence
and i need to find the words to tell you

if i said i don't want what i don't have
and all the answers are enough
if i said i believe in myself
and that's enough

i'd be lying

Shotgun alleys with lightning flowers
Under the eyes of fallen statues
Dry blood they've never seen

Pain is sharper when i suspect
That true love runs looking for us
Like a lion in our dreams

The strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love

You censor longing and organize beauty
Because you're afraid
You want it more than oxygen or light

You can't get there with your morals
Or without love
Lie down with me
The rules aren't always right

Strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love (2x)

Call it romance or nostalgia
The hunder behind our memories
We've buried it in code

The things we've wanted
When we get them are never enough
Never what they seem
But they lead us to the road

Strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
Where our hearts break into love

if i said i believe my eyes
and science can move my soul
if i said i'm not afraid to die
and i don't need you

i'd be lying

if i said the way he looks at me
doesn't make me want to undress
if i said i could leave you now
and go where i could forget

i'd be lying

i've been lying all my life with silence
and i need to find the words to tell you

if i said i don't want what i don't have
and all the answers are enough
if i said i believe in myself
and that's enough

i'd be lying

you face the blue and wish the roof would open up
but arches of commerce have made the sky corrupt

go down

break the code of death for profit break the guns
break the silence of money break the greedy unison

go down

maybe someday you'll come back to me

find the mystical connection find the dreams
under cynical wreckage find the winding conscious stream

go down

maybe someday you'll come back to me

Two men with empty pockets put lipstick on a little girl
and another dream goes by
they make her ride the rockets
that fall into a sea of pearl
and another dream goes by

power stealing through
fading out of view
our cruel inventions

the beat generation all got on the morning train
and another dream goes by
they left me at the station
breathing dust from hopeless rain
and another dream goes by

un-invent the wheel of endless greed
let conscience run like a river like a dreamer

a world of elevators with music like magazines
and another dream goes by
magnetic separators divided by a wall of screens
and another dream goes by

in the middle of the night i'm growing secrets
holding the choice in my hand
my beating heart
some see an end i see a way out
starting with ashes i'm building fire

we're danced a long time
we've danced too long
out on the floor i'm thinking
i'm standing still

i want them to think i'm dead
turn off the noises that drug my brain
and make me buy
fashion is out of fashion
broken t.v. listens to the wind

we're danced a long time
we've danced too long
out on the floor i'm thinking
i'm standing still

when i turn to look they're making sex
carry obsession to market
i'm so confused
i'm burning in the shadows
you're the only fire made to match

we're danced a long time
we've danced too long
out on the floor i'm thinking
i'm standing still

black niagara
of control spilling down to culture mock
you can tell me
feet will land on the ground, safe, and walk

tripping over gravity
missing logic
tripping over gravity

hicks on fire
commuter virus has killed the balance ball
stained with heaven
always washing our legs won't move at all

tripping over gravity
missing logic
tripping over gravity

free thought pirates
neon fights flashing rights on concrete lace
sleepless tired
walls of print chatting cage on jokers face

tripping over gravity
missing logic
tripping over gravity

it wasn't what i had to drink
that kept me up all night
something you said made me think
i was up all night
i forgot my reservation
there's no room for doubt
i don't know how i got in
but you found me out

now i can't find the door
love is what i leave for
i can't find the door
(away from you comrade)

germany and japan
make me feel so poor
like seeing some new movie star
in a dress i wore
you'll notice that i changed the subject
i'm afraid of you
here must be some back way
or window i can climb out through

unlock this dark room
last time i knocked down the door
i've cornered fear with keys
from whispered core

now i can't find the door
love is what i leave for
i can't find the door

we lock the hurricane indoors
looking for shelter, we deny and ignore
afraid that our words bring clouds we talk in code
the thunder or cruel perfection covers love
and we're cold

the private storm
and our souls are worn from the tears
the private storm
and it rages on through the years

no warning the ground pulls out from underneath
we tiptoe through air until we see the blood on their teeth

time doesn't heal, the scars turn into wounds
as we walk lightly silent screams in the storm

building cage i can only study the blame
i can think of a word for myself but no name
question darts throw me to the dogs of progress
but they run from what really matters

raised on promises

to the furnace for shade to the dust for a drink
logic's mad and shame doesn't care what you think
the ocean's dry it's only a phantom that you fathom
but the flood comes from the desert

raised on promises

land of the known
free of the brave
they sell us ourselves
the center has moved and water bleeds from broken faces

raised on promises

the first time he saw her was through a telescope
a misfit cactus filled with bottled hope

he answered like a sick man getting out of bed
suspicion and thirst curiosity and dread

the blindness in control
freeze the fatal bullet
as we're falling through a hole in time

one night he came home and found the house burning
through the frozen smoke he saw the earth turning

a curtain of silence fell on deaf ears
a dream from the past was echoing through the years

the blindness in control
freeze the fatal bullet
as we're falling through a hole in time

in a white room, in a white head
in a cobweb of enterprise
where the dreams sleep and fears keep

that's where the colors don't go
that's where the colors don't show

in one take, no give
half live, half ignore
an endless chase in a small place

one world, one white flag
one shopping bag and restaurant
no surprise there
only lies there

i want your eyes to color my world
and see our endless longing

she married a gold mine with a time bomb
he went off to be legend
now her love's a corporation
and she's just post humorous

entertainmen
watch me
let me be your t.v.

he asked her to spread her magazines
all across his floor
he finally found his bathing beauty
and she was a girl worth wading for

my father loved to watch the blondes
burning down our street
so I learned to sing and to dance on water
at my mother's feet

my t.v. doesn't listen when I give it pieces of my mind
it keeps making everything the same size
pain is pleasure when it's televised

plastic is forever

artificial florists
sell you flowers that will never die
they cut down the real forests
for paper petals engraved with borrowed lies

am I your pussycat? I know what's new
it's the oldest hat in the book
we can't get fast enough to go backwards
totake a second look

animals on wheels faster all the time

some want to leave us and go to another planet
and blow up the earth
they'd still be murderous, lying and they'd want it all

for whatever it's worth

famous is fast
you don't have to be talented or do good work or be smart
it's perfect for me
but everytime I go after it
my ideals run off with my heart

big numbers go by
I close my eyes
I never count a large amount
my lucky number is below one
you never know when you might need a zero

the zero in my hand
is nothing to lose
it's hard to confuse power with love
love with power
everything that I'm not is all that I've got

I woke up with no place to sleep
didn't see the trap, fell in deep
you caught me, you were waiting there
I laid down on the table
you pulled up a chair

you're going to help yourself
to me

I give up
you watch my lips
like a pair of wrists that have never been slit
I give in
you use my need
all you want is whatever you see

I walked to the edge
stood over breaking ground to hear your voice
as the earth gives out under
my soul feels like a stone
it feels like a star (as Rilke might have said)

as I'm falling
I feel your hands holding on to me
as I'm falling
you're holding on

he said the moon looked like the battered face
of Jesus on the cross
then he laid me down
I wrap this longing around me
and wait for some sign of you
my balance is gone

look at how they've washed your brain
down the info t.v. drain
you're back before you ever came
to find out what you need

you try too hard, you try too soft
you're afraid of getting lost
as impostor number one
you left your record out in the sun
all the signs of life aren't clear and straight and always right

our ideas of perfect are so imperfect

love doesn't pay attention to
the metal teeth of ugly rules
he was everybody's fool
for squandering his love on her

Thomas when you told the truth
they electrocuted you
I'll pick up my zero and follow through
the perfect power world

lucky you were weak
giving in was your escape
we only had one chance to say no
but it's too late

take me out the back
alley blind and struck by a star
we've lost where we are
betwen us there's no near or far

where are you taking me
as you slide
where are you taking me
down inside

I've always wanted more
like the whore who poured perfume on his feet
diamonds in the street are just like glass
when they cut your feet
where are you taking me where love escapes
your movie screen
the same scene you always run
with a different woman and the same son

what was wrong with her
why did she pick a winner
he would leave her everynight after dinner

she would undress
make him nervous
but he would rather lay a bet

if it's action that you need
original sin
how original can you be
that's where I come in
I'll take you to a place

I'll show you every room
don't say a word
open every book to you
tricks you've never learned
I'll take you to a place

we'll go where the action is
if you don't know what to do
I'll look it up for you

we can sit or we can stand
I don't mind
I can sit down on your hand-two of a kind
we can play any game

painted smile but I don't feel the part
in dream I hold your kinfe over my heart
the edge is higher the closer I get
when I jump you move the net

I keep falling for this slapstick heart

hanging on your words
I thought I'd known
the rope is cut and I'm falling on my own
the comedy in the tragic disbelief
of only human

to make you laugh is there nothing I won't do
any pain I won't go through
lost my balance fell like rain
I half expected you to do the same
but you cried an ocean and broke my fall
that's when I knew I couldn't swim at all

She's not with you
Now, you think to much about her picking up new questions
You don't know, what you don't know could you never said?
And the quiet doubts about you will gather in your head

So, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out anyway
Oh, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out
Oh, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out anyway
Tell her, tell her

You can't find it
That's when she's gone looking for you and she leaves you too much room
And this may make you feel ignored, don't let it go
But you won't say you love her, she will see you in yours eyes, she'll know

So, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out anyway
Oh, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out
Oh, tell her what she wants to know, she'll find out anyway
Tell her, tell her

baby i can't please you i can't please you

every time you start to critize
i can see the misery in your eyes
you say i make your pain
you're trying to turn the blame all around you

you take the words i say and make them mean
everything they don't baby youre obscene
you don't listen you don't hear
you're blinded by the fear that surrounds you

i know you say love when you mean control
you buy the truth and your heart is cold
so you live in shadows

you try to tell the world how it should spin
but you live in terror with the hollow men
who stun you with their lies
with fever in their eyes as they drown you

The violinist puts his violin away
Forbidden city broken into tonight
I use my blindfold to dry my tears
The stage is empty and tired of light

But when I do the fan dance
I'm all the red in China
I'm dialing life up on my telescope
Fringe and mathematics
Shaking down the curtain
To find the dragon parade

When I do the fan dance
Searchlights answer gunfire
Angels escort falling mercies
Hearts shut off like streetlights
But even in the blackout
I'll find my balcony rose

The violinist puts his violin away
Forbidden city broken into tonight
I use my blindfold to dry the tears
The stage is empty and tired of light

When I do the fan dance
I'm firecracker lightning
I burn with no trace up in the cold sky
I am broken open, waiting for inventions
Of light that see through to love

When I do the fan dance
I'm all the red in China
You write your questions on my skin
I'll be in your dark streets
To keep the lantern burning
Until your new world begins

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

My soul's a worn out road
Where you've left a trail of reminders
The sky forgets, turns black with pain
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

She read his palm, his heart and his head
We're on the same life line
I held one hand behind my back
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

When I took him like a vow in the dark
The future fell off me
This pain is all I recognize
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

Wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
Wasting my time

When I take a picture of the city, it disappears
It's only a photograph, the city is gone
The places I go are never there
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
I can only picture the disappearing world
When you touch me

He brought me the air of Paris in a bottle
The record caught the air of London, nineteen sixty-five
The places I go are never there
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
I can only picture the disappearing world
When you touch me, when you touch me
When you touch me

When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
Under normal, we change the wind
Facing every direction
Planted in the future, we live two lives
All to reveal a secret we can't hide
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
We search the sky, planets chasing the stars
Pulling toward deep affection
Weights and numbers measure a wound that won't heal
All to reveal a secret we can't hide
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes
When we open our eyes and dream
We open our eyes

Incinerator, what have you done this time?
I heard the air raid siren go off
To settle attraction, you like to subdivide
Don't you want shelter from your desire? A place to hide

Incinerator, this is not about sex
It's about a personal scent
You like to watch me and I like to disappear
Electrical contact, a broken Tass of the Stratosphere

Incinerator, go on and go right through me
Have your search and tell me what you find
That I'm made of fire and you'll never get to me
I don't have your number, 'cause I can't count to eternity

Incinerator

going down this road again
I finally know
there is no end to the good

love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

burning light inside my dreams
i wake up in the dark
the light is outside my door
l
ove is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

chasing every fragment i see
looking through you
love is looking for me
breaking open the clouds
i'm not stranded in time

love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you
love is everywhere i go
looking through you

I'll be desperate, I'll be lonely
But I won't be ashamed
No isolation, no terror unnamed
You animated the dead to your dream
Say what you mean

Destiny's still locomotive desire
Magnets set on you and thrown into the fire
If you get branded and caught in between
Say what you mean

You'll despise and protect
You'll fool and you'll grouse
How hungry are you?
How much can you loose?

You know what I would do for you
'Til it gets too late
Just tell me straight

The secrets that you want to know
Are yours not mine
Longing may kill me
I can't keep my mind

On my destructions
My drugs and my dreams
Say what you mean

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

My soul's a worn out road
Where you've left a trail of reminders
The sky forgets, turns black with pain
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

She read his palm, his heart and his head
We're on the same life line
I held one hand behind my back
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

When I took him like a vow in the dark
The future fell off me
This pain is all I recognize
But the rain remembers your face
And the streets know your name

I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
I'm wasting my time, wasting my time
I've been wasting my time

Wasting my time
I've been wasting my time
Wasting my time