Well they say your life was marked And you were wondering if it would ever start Stop
Sunlight on a razor blade Three different souls And the lives they made I grew up in the 80's In the pallisades I was listening to Devo
And everybody catered to their needs All voted most likely to succeed Holly came out And Billy got paid But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid
All my rage Sits inside When even the finest things Are leaving you hollow And all my days Left behind And even the finest things Are leaving you hollow
Cut to an interior view Holly married well but so did you One was black one was blue I was watching the days go by Could you be seen in a silly dream Where Billy lives on Prozac and nicotine Holly got her GED living in maternity Nursing her broken heart for the love she lost
All my rage Sits inside When even the finest things Are leaving you hollow And all my days Left behind And even the finest things Are leaving you hollow
And the sky is blue And so are you Mary takes a drag off a cigarette And the stereo is coming up behind her Like she needs someone to remind her That life is richer in a minor key Bill and Holly disagree But I don't think so
All my rage Sits inside When even the finest things Are leaving you hollow And all my days Left behind And even the finest things Are leaving you hollow
Sunlight on a razor blade Three different souls and the lives they made Well Holly came out and Billy got paid But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid
I am bending Made of steel I am stumbling Towards something real How can you forget this feeling Of standing straight while the world is reeling?
Don't leave me here alone You're as close as it gets to home
Don't look down You might fall Life made rookies of us all In our finest year Don't wait up We'll be fine Somehow we might get it right In our finest year
I am hopeful Full of doubt And I am trying to work this whole thing out So how can you just sit there sleeping When your worlds on fire And your chest is beating?
And I want to think you feel the same
Don't look down You might fall Life made rookies of us all In our finest year Don't wait up We'll be fine Somehow we might get it right In our finest year
In this moment While you're breathing If the future leaves you needing Will you be the one who stayed? As your life just slipped away?
Don't leave me here alone You're as close as it gets to home
I'll be there if you fall Love made suckers of us all
Don't look down You might fall Life made rookies of us all In our finest year Don't wait up We'll be fine Somehow we might get it right In our finest year
Here you are now Fresh from your war Back from the edge of time And all that you were, Stripped to the bone I thought youd want to know
That when you feel the world is crashing All around your feet Come running headlong into my arms Breathless I'll never judge you I can only love you Come now running headlong Into my arms Breathless
Lay down your guns Too weak to run Nothing can harm you here Your precious heart Broken and scarred Somehow you made it through I only ask that you won't go again
When you feel the world is crashing All around your feet Come running headlong into my arms Breathless I'll never judge you I can only love you Come now running headlong Into my arms Breathless
So glad to see you smiling So good to hear your laugh I think that you've found you even Missed yourself I'm only asking this because I think that Truth be told Oh, you'll never go again Again
When you feel the world is crashing All around your feet Come running headlong into my arms Breathless I'll never judge you I can only love you Come now running headlong Into my arms Breathless Breathless
There's an angel on the stairs (as if you'd even care) When the lights go up, and the sun has nearly gone down.
Did you see him on the street? Did you pass him at your feet? Did you think aloud, "How dare they even look me in the eye'?
And he loves the girls. And he loves the boys. Going to make twenty dollars before the weekends over.
So set him up, Let him fall. Turn him over in your hands. God save the King of New Orleans.
Got a ticket to a show. Going to see him take a blow. When the drunk one said, "Cat Sssstevens was the greatest singer!"
And did you kick him in the head? Did you see the blood run down? Did you laugh at all when the people walked right by and said aloud, "You gutter punks are all the same. " Probably make twenty dollars 'fore the weekends over."?
So set him up, Then let him fall. Turn him over in your hands. God save the King of New Orleans.
Radio in my head. Radio in that car. Going down again, he's going down again....
Anyway you look, anyway you talk it over. It's easier to let it slip out of your mind. But it rips your heart out.
Then it kicks your head in. Just give him one more chance, try to see the beauty in his world. All the way in on my hands, in on my feet, and shoulders. Going to make twenty dollars before the weekend's over.
So set him up, Then let him fall. Turn him over in your hands. God save the King of New Orleans.
Cut a tape of my favorite songs Said what I can't face to face I hoped that you would share all my thoughts We are young and unimpressed, with all you'd recognize.
So play it all over Turn it wide. Now there is nothing but a Mix tape left behind Now it won't rewind
In my care we are superstars Run you lipstick down your chin While up ahead we saw such a crash Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time.
So play it all over Turn it wide. Now there is nothing but a Mix tape left behind Now it won't rewind
Wonder is often lost Jaded at such a cost Age undermines you when you close your eyes. We pass right by you.
So play it all over Turn it wide. Now there is nothing But a mix tape left behind Now it won't rewind.
I still remember you dressed in grey. Working undercover for the CIA You were cursing Silber Living in Back Bay Sailing on the Charles when I heard you say
Let's go down to Normal Town Right now Down, Down, down
I washed you lover and scrubbed your face Running from Miss Porter's you showed up one day From a flat in South End where you made me strong You said, 'We're burning out at both ends.' So I came along.
Let's go down to Normal Town Right now Down, down, down
Hey! Wouldn't it be great To never worry 'bout your future, never asking why? Hey! Hey! In a subdivision Watching television And our lives go by.
Let's go down to Normal Town. Let's go down to Normal Town.
Strong hands Big plans All reduced to this. Hard won freedom How could you have missed?
Scared, are you? You do it on your own You do it all alone. We all did. Scared, are you? Half the lines we make up dear The best that we can do.
Everything you would be Passed you like a ghost. And kind words are scarce at best When you need them the most.
Scared, are you? You do it on your own We all did. Scared, are you? Half the lines you make up here. The best that we can do.
Hope brings you luck Doors open up. And if you should fall, I'll catch you dear. It must be! It must be!
Scared, are you? Finally on your own You do it all alone We all did Scared, are you? Half the lines you make up dear. The best that we can do And we do....
High stool sweet tarts Equipped with green cards Chomp their 401 k's Semi-chocolate brie
Digging in Los Cruces for an army drab container Carbon dating clothes for the last time they were washed
Shelby and Sheila Onomatopoeia Catch hang nail on Banlon Shiver Martin Sheen
Preschool mothers in Technicolor Are fire bombing Dresden Stanton, Harry Dean
Feeding line caught tuna to a neutered Bodhisattva Writhing peaches for the President Out on the White House lawn Beating Herbert Hoover With a leather tipped Pinada Thorn and Katy drink the milk tinted Amerasian Green RETURN, RETURN, RETURN B A C
Past the road to your house That you never called home Where they turned out the lights Though they say you'll never know
I remember running through the wet grass Falling a step behind Both of us never tiring Desperately Wanting
When they pumped out your guts Filled you full of those pills You were never quite right Deserving all the chills They say the worst is over Kicked it over and ran Then they ask what went wrong When they turn you on again They turn you on again.
I remember running through the wet grass Falling a step behind Both of us never tiring Desperately Wanting
Kick them right in the face Make them wish they weren't born And if they bring up your name Well they'll say you won the war. Baby burst in the world Never given a chance Then they ask what went wrong When you never had it right
Oh, the letters have dropped off Though they say you got them all I finally figured out some things you'll never know. Take back your life and let me inside We'll find the door if you care to anymore.
I remember running through the wet grass Falling a step behind Both of us never tiring Desperately Wanting.
WWOZ is on in stereo A string of flowers haloed around your head Candle light Ceiling fan Curtains blow away and back again Back again Don't wake me, I think I'm in a dream
Sleeping is easy I used to lay in bed for hours I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn
Calling back and forth through heavy air The barges sound their warnings in the dark Peace comes like a trusted friend As it starts to rain again fall away Fall away So don't wake me I think, I'm in a dream
Sleeping is easy I used to lay in bed for hours I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn Sleeping is easy I used to walk the streets for hours I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn
Let go of your fear, let's grow old together Find a place along the way Let's reel through the years Each makes the other better. But what thoughts can I call allies When this circle of ribs keeps working on its own?
I got with somebody's date You're like a Soap Opera cover My lover self-automates Juicy
You say a-somebody say You're like a salve for a leper You're sweet for somebody's pain Juicy Aw, Juicy
Yeah, you got to live for your own You say you got all the sordid details Check-out retail Watch it sell Juicy Aw, Juicy
I Gotta Delay
Mothers, children on the street Can't get enough to eat Off the record Dishes fly Don't know the reason why Meet me in the check out stand See who can be the lover man Conscience bleeding in a song Guilty as the day is long Goodbye
Yeah, you got to live for your own You say you got all the sordid details Check-out retail Watch it sell I got to see that lie You say what you're going to say You got to know it's a bitter poison Sapping all of your soul away
Maybe I should drop you at your door Leave tonight and vanish up the shore Anywhere but here... It's 3 o'clock We're driving in your car You're screaming out the window at the stars. Please don't drive me home!
Blame us 'cause we are who we are Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far And who'd suppose that you would go I've already learned enough to know that... Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo (repeat)
Tell me all the places we could go And count the headlights passin' on the road A long, long time ago
Blame us cause we are who we are Hate us cause you'll never get that far And who'd suppose that you would go? I've already learned enough to know that Here we are Forgein to their world Straight and composed Your sermons I can do without And I've finally found that everybody loves to love you when you're far awaaaaay!
Could it be we've done something wrong? And make it home to your place before dawn. Please don't drive me home. Please don't take me home!
Blame us 'cause we are who we are Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far And who'd suppose that you would go? I've already learned I've already learned... Enough to know that Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Doo, doo
'Calmly, like a razor I got us on the door,' Or 'I got a tape of 'Clerks' Someone left the night before.'
So I come over later, You're sitting in that chair Smoking on your cigarette Fingering you hair
So I get drunk and stoned, Every time you come around.
Twenty-nine and aimless You bartend down on fourth Your parents pay insurance And the Parson's Audit course
Over-schooled and uninspired Tust fund up your nose All that wasted talent but, uh Ain't that how it always goes?
So I get drunk and stoned, Every time you come around. Yeah, yeah yeah
So long Allison Foley So long, bye-bye
(Come up higher, take a step higher) Sometimes you understand The reasons how you went astray But least of all the answer, That it hurts to watch you waste away.
So I get drunk and stoned, Every time you come around. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Along the edges, colors blur at seem familiar. While you read your magazine, I was counting all the markers.
And california seemed to draw you like a siren From a postcard, or a letter, in a frame of film melting.
But under you, i hear your breath move in, out slowly. Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me.
A hollywood flat where we'd laugh about our fortunes Well we held jobs in this bar down at 3rd and san vicente. And ramen noodles at 4:30 in the morning, When we barely could survive, i was never more alive.
Under you, i feel your blood flowing out slowly. Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me
You moved in slow degrees A sudden memory You're a leonard cohen song
But every now and then i'd swear i see you standing on a sidewalk, in a Restaurant, from a taxi cab passing.
Under you i feel you moving in/out slowly Under you let go completely feeling you take over me.
Don't fear, Even though you're at a loss. I'm numb, A shell of empty thoughts. But you glow, You stretch and pull me out. Does that trouble you? Does that trouble you?
*Love me Hate me Make me live again I need you around
Heal me Hurt me Make me live again I want you around
So long, I never had experienced This bliss. So how could i resist? And i'm fine A little light-headed. Does that worry you? I didn't mean to worry you.
*Repeat
Now, retreating from the light I love it when we fight It makes me think At least you still care
Give up, you're not going anywhere moonlight, illuminates your stare and it's great, captivating you does that trouble you? i didn't mean to trouble you
