We're wondering what you're thinking, Arthur Nix 'Cause ever since you rode your bike into that car, and were quickly Whisked away by ambulance, you've been so pensive and quiet Did your arm heal faster than your heart did, Arthur?
Oh, if we had the power to trap anything that could hurt A human being inside a jar we'd send it far from Earth and watch It explode in the sun to the cheers of everyone But, alas, that can't be done
So, Arthur Nix, we came to fix your bicycle Heavy things sure can come outa nowhere But when it's finished, we could take it for a ride You might need it to outrun what's on your mind
That cast you've got on your arm's full of names But when the doctors take it off you'll sure be glad And in camp you'll play Four-Square everyday Just remember to remember it can still be just as fun as yesterday
Heavy things can come out of nowhere - out of thin air - sometimes.
Kaye, are you even real? Do you think that maybe we could be lovers once in a while? Say something I can feel I am never here and it's impossible to heal Go ahead and understand me underneath this killer blue sky Go ahead and understand me please.
Kaye, are you even real? Do you think we'll ever figure it out, I'm running out of hope Say anything you feel Maybe you can do it for the both of us and I'll untie the rope
Kaye, out there in the world I am full of their hate, their crime In here we are both light and pure of heart Out there in the world I am left for dead don't help me In here it's like we can be pure of heart.
It's hard enough to breathe right here, let alone be right here, let alone here you say, "love." It's hard enough trying to be strong right now I try to be wrong right now I try to be anything that doesn't scare her away.
Kaye, are you even real? Do you think that maybe we could just stay here?
Days full of cherry wine, telling you something about yourself That someone could have just told you if they were honest, like cherry wine It brings you clarity and brings you spite and everything but what you really want And you're my cherry wine telling me something about myself I really don't want to know Why not drown me in this state of discontent?
Casey caught my sleeve when it was hard for me to be alone The hem of my sweater was just a couple of threads and when it Started to unravel you twirled them in your hand
Casey, hold my hand again when I can't turn away I'm longing for innocence, but now we know our age
Down at the mummers' play you brought your camera You turned to me and then I saw my reflection I saw myself just as I was when I lived life a little more each day Doin' everythin' I was doin' more fearlessly
Now we know..
Casey hold my hand again when I can't turn away I'm longing for innocence, but you're too young for me
I went out the door this morning Walked along the concrete cracked and aged by elements that don't discriminate and don't give warning And I walked alone
I went up to 16th St and looked into the windows of a restaurant The guy standing next to me said it looked pretty good so I proceeded to give him a bunch of reasons Why I didn't think the place could make it and he said, I think too much And I said, I know
I know my world is better than it seems and I try to be content with everything But even knowing doesn't stop your heart from feeling That's why I'm going where I'm going
Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll play Going down, going down, down to Josie's house and that's where I'll stay
I decided I'd be happier if only I could feel the cool, wet grass beneath my feet I had tried it while I thought of all the words to make this song complete
I went up to John St Park and there I met an old lady feeding ducks The back of her hand had been bleeding and she didn't even know it She told me I'd be more handsome if I smiled So we talked about the weather, she told me about her family and She said I should meet her granddaughter, and I smiled
The smell of people in the street I tasted life and life was sweet The sound of colors in the air Of breathing mist and choral fare Arriving anywhere in time, the feet are beating out a rhyme I turned my body toward the south, I'm going down to Josie's house
Dear Master Suzuki, I am writing you today You say my thoughts are paper tigers and I shouldn't be afraid But these tigers prowl my memories and they stalk me in my sleep Tell me, have you ever mourned a love in vain? Or is that the tiger that you tame when you can face him, unafraid?
'Cause everybody just wants to feel some love from someone, but love can leave you And everybody just wants to feel freedom, where it comes from, it's from inside you.
At the park Master Suzuki sits on a bench at the zoo near a cage And there he reads my letter beneath the lion's gaze He wonders why the lion's pacing when he's never seen the sky And so he writes me this reply, "oh, restless are we all until true freedom is realizied."
Help me please Memories Set me free "Then take my lead"
I can barely see you - I can barely feel you - your fading like the dirt on my TV I'm feeling kind of scared cause I never get to talk but there's really nothing good for me to say You're right to stay away - you're dangerous to me You push so cleverly just like no others You don't like other girls - you care about your friends - and you'd rather have been born as one of your brothers
Suddenly I am "the wrong" Suddenly I can't be strong Suddenly I am the man I never meant to be.
I barely know your name I barely know your name even though we have been living here for years I'd really like to talk but they took away my tongue and replaced it with a thousand lonely tears I'm sorry about your dad I wish he wasn't mean I really wish I didn't remind you of him I try my very best but the devil owns my mind and I haven't had the chance to show you who I am.
Won't you have another cup of tea? I really have enjoyed our time together And when I get on back to the prison, will you Wait for me? Until I return so suddenly.
Of my two best stories you're the one that I don't tell So don't worry, Josephina, you know that your secret's safe with me Oh, the mystery that surrounds you couldn't hide your heart of gold 'Cause you're so beautiful and shy and true And I'm the only one you told.
Whoah, Josephina, you know your secret's safe with me I think we can help each other...
But you're so quiet when you're talkin', I think your body tells me more The way your eyes ask, "can I tell him?" Your ankles say, "walk with me awhile" Oh, it starts with pins-and-needles moving through your head down to your toes Then you feel you start to float away.. and I'm the only one who knows.
I admit I'm fascinated I wear your secret, Josephina, like a sacred badge of honor Do you believe me? You know you can trust me I need your secret, Josephina
So you like guys in uniform I think I'll buy a uniform And maybe you will like me better Maybe I will like me better. And maybe I'll be stronger with my super x-ray vision Then I could see right through you Just like you could see through me, Mr super feelings boy
I know a policeman, he carries a gun He has superhuman strength He lives in the sun I know a policeman, he carries a gun He never feels helpless He never has fun Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, like me
So you like the way he looks I think I kind of look that way If I died my hair and grew a bit, and threw away the cape. Only to reveal the helpless little boy that can't destroy a fly with worthless x-ray vision
Oh, September girl, I am so scared today Already 28 and still haven't saved the world Woke up this morning to nothing I recognized Everything changed and I never saw it coming Now there are 5 billion disappointed souls scrapping around in my disappointed mind
And for the first time in my life I am afraid of changing because everything's changing without me
Oh September girl I am so scared for you You finally decided to live on without me Now I am forced to just swallow this heart for you to become the girl you already are Now there are five billion disappointed souls that'll just have to wait... 'cause I only dream for you
Maybe it's time for me to do The thing that I meant to do 'Cause your getting older and I'm getting older and even us good people die The gifted never stop seeing the world for the first time The good ones grow older, the poor ones grow older, the great ones are never forgotten.
Sleep in the grass in a blue field The fireflies blinking past Orion All sprawled out beside the bikes, the wheels still spinnin'.
I know a shortcut along the stonewall where Evergreen soldiers point their branches for a child-like mind, like yours and mine to follow.
C'mon, steal me C'mon steal me.
I drew a map so we can get home or maybe come back here in the summer But I'm not sure how to draw a path to get to moonlight.
So, tonight, these stars can shine as our halos and the pine trees watch over like guardian angels, Protecting a perfect love between twilight and all a lifetime of yearning.
I won't be awake for much longer So c'mon, steal me.
Something's familiar to me They don't have to know
Swift and contained and caught up in life so you never can land Your genius/beauty it hits me like dirt in the face and you can't understand All I have ever wanted was just to be able to stand on my own
You save all your problems for me, they don't have to know We can hide in the hilltops and graves, they don't have to know You come here on your own with cancers and perfume And five o'clock in the afternoon is heaven and endless
Cursed and betrayed and forced to be strong on these hard iron wings Wizards and scientists left on their own shouldn't play with these things Now we are running away and who knows what the future will bring, on our own We are left to survive on our own.
And the mausoleums perched so high above the city can be fun in the right amount of sun And a certain amount of technology has pricked your curiosity And a certain amount of persecution has curiously invaded your mind And I tried to be the hero but I screwed it all up in the end And now we're in the midst of this whole great global war When five o'clock in the afternoon is heaven and endless
They won't come here for me I covered up everything so carefully They got exactly what they deserved All I get is this guilt
I have sacrificed everything and now I am cursed by these iron wings But at least I am not alone While I watch the city burn below
Something's familiar to me They don't have to know
