Tell me where you are And I will jump into my car I won't slow down until you're in it I'm going to go faster than the limit My car is warm when the heat is on But I'm going to roll the windows down Till my hands are frozen to the wheel 'Cause I don't care about cold, I just care about you You
When you're in my bucket seat You can put on your favorite mp3 Pirated music for a pirate trip We're going to give the whole world the slip We'll take photographs and never Pick them up when they're developed We'll drive away knowing in some One-hour photo someone's staring at us
When you're in my bucket seat You can put on your favorite mp3 Pirated music for a pirate trip We're going to give the whole world the slip I only care about you You I only care about you You
I need satellite imagery Reconnaissance ability Intelligence gathered for me Agents in the field, reporting in But all you have given me Is the weather center on channel three
I'm going off the edge of a cliff Waiting for a complete stop I never see the accidents Only see the wreckage
I need advanced word of what's ahead Computer simulation modeling 3-D image technology Infrared capabilities But all you have given me Is the radio and this TV
I'm going off the edge of a cliff Waiting for a complete stop I never see the impact Only see the flames
I want to touch you in your cubicle I want to touch you in your space
I know it's not your home But since we never get to see our homes anymore Let's not waste any more time I want to take you on a date to the copy room We'll kiss by the fax machine After dinner, drinks at the water cooler Walk hand and hand down the hallway in between
All the cubicles and if it goes well, you'll ask me in You'll say, "Sorry it's such a mess," with a grin And you'll turn off your lamp and your fluorescent light And you'll pull me under the desk for the night
And when I wake up with a post-it note stuck to my face And the carpet burn taste in my mouth I'll say I want to write a cubicle love song 'cause a Cubicle love song will give us all something to sing along to While we try to get through Work our bosses are told by their bosses To tell us to do to avoid losses and layoffs You know we're all holding out for stock-option payoffs Or at least box seats to the playoffs Retirement is such a long way off What are we so afraid of? Let's get out of here Let's get out of here
I am here You are here We are here They are here Everyone is everywhere No one is nowhere We're all somewhere There is no out there You are here
You are here.
Somewhere a man sits alone in his car Propped up on concrete blocks in the back of his yard It doesn't drive but it's got a fresh battery And the radio works, it's on one-oh-two-three (102.3) The female DJ is introducing a track, She's saying this one goes out to the long commute back And then the song starts, she turns off the microphone And she says to herself, is anybody listening?
And I am here You are here We are here They are here Everyone is everywhere No one is nowhere We're all somewhere There is no out there You are here
Across the street there's a little girl Face pressed against the window staring out at the world She sees an airplane way up in the air She thinks that's so small, could get caught in my hair Just then the stewardess on the plane Says everybody feel free to lower your trays And the captain starts to move about the cabin Alright
I am here You are here We are here They are here Everyone is everywhere No one is nowhere We're all somewhere There is no out there You are here
I like to count the people across the street In their environment, just watching MTV Some tired excuse, oh it's sad to say we're all Staring at the same thing, ten feet away
Break it down
You are here
You are here I am here You are here We are here They are here Everyone is everywhere No one is nowhere We're all somewhere There is no out there You are here.
Ride 'em mower with my Walkman on On a football field-sized lawn Listening to my favorite song, I'm singing Probably out of tune But I might as well be on the moon One small step for me And a smaller step for mankind
Fill the sprinkler systems up With gasoline, suburbia Is on fire, set the children free
Our parents are forming a bucket brigade In the pools we've got it made She's got on her bikini Her legs are wrapping around me As my eyes fill with chlorine I can see her smiling down at me
Fill the water supply up With gasoline, suburbia Is on fire, set the children free
Like the copters pulling in the National Guard We just didn't want to rake the yards Growing older shouldn't be so hard They're taking into evidence our record collections They're trying to make connections Should take a look at their own reflections
We are filling up their coffee cups With gasoline, suburbia Is on fire, set the children free
Call me afraid, you can call me a coward Call me a sucker, say I'm just like a flower That's trampled underneath your boots as you Walk over everything in your path
Tell me I'm brave, you can call me a hero Say that I'm special, just like passenger zero Settling slow into my window seat To places I've never been
Don't look that way I didn't mean to hurt you Don't look that way Just smile for the camera
Section off my world, limit my movement Cut off all escape, you can leave me in ruin Just know the smallest space you leave me Will be enough room to keep me alive
Promise me success, you can promise me freedom Say that with one word, I can cut off the bleeding
Don't look that way I didn't mean to hurt you Don't look that way Just smile for the camera
Call me afraid, you can call me a coward Call me a sucker, say I'm just like a flower That's trampled underneath your boots as you Walk over everything in your path
Satellite dishes stretch across the countryside We stand up dazed as TV culture multiplies Politicians glide us through this sound-byte age of video Things always seem much better when you see them on a camcorder super slow-mo
No sensation, what sensation is this, a conversation To feel your body move is a cryptic, morse code realization An incantation, each imperceptible collision Through every ripple of electromagnetism Molecules stretch from me to you
From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you
With the clouds above our heads we rise upward a skyscraper My eyes, a telescope and a five-dollar observation tower I watch you speak but I can't hear your voice above the wind It's strange to be outside without the static blur of television
Understand and dreaming of a softened landing Followed by feet on the ground, still standing I can't communicate this condensed and heightened state Of satiation and each time I'm singing myself to sleep You're taking me back to beyond concentration Molecules stretch from me to you
From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you
37.6 KBps, faster than the speed of thought These laptop outpost strands, the wireless web the future bought But my face goes dark now, it means I'm just saving energy but still staring out Waiting for your fingertips to scream hello with a typewritten shout And you're pulling me closer with a modem cord I can hear your voice, feel your breath as I move from word to word But we never even had a choice To be anywhere but here in the middle of the noise Where molecules have always stretched
From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you From me to you, from me to you
You corner like a miracle car Everywhere I look you are Above the earth, below the stars I'd call this love if I could see that far Wrapped up in your plastic suit Dancing in your rubber boots Don't you know you can pollute me? Pollute me
You spin me like a merry-go-round Always up, always down Definately silence, definately sound Hundred percent, pound for pound Sheets of solid green velour Mirrored ceilings, mirrored floor Don't you know I've been waiting for you To pollute me
Your slasher film, you terrify Your love story, you death-defy Your shoot-'em-up, your cold drive-by You're a tragedy, laugh till I cry Sense-surround porno queen High-definition poetry And I only want to screen you So pollute me
You are an inferno, you are on fire Your smoke and your flames climb higher You light up the sky, you set the world blazing You're the heat that all of us are chasing If I told you I could put you out, I'd be a liar All I can do is throw myself into you
You make me a liar You make me a liar
You are a storm way out on the ocean Fifty foot waves rise up in slow motion In the middle of the day, you paint the whole world black Even the air around you is under attack Watching you, safe out here in the open All I can do is steer straight into you
You make me a liar You make me a liar
You are an angel, you are in the sky You light the world up when you open your eyes When you breathe you make the warm wind blow When your tears fall the flowers grow Nobody can reach you but I'm going to try All I can do is jump straight up to you
I'd been sick for the last three days Laid out in a deep flu haze But two bottles of Red Bull and a fistful of Aleve Pulled me together for New Year's Eve We were lucky to have a sitter And, baby, you know I'm not a quitter Plus we'd promised her twice her pay And she was going to get it whether we went or we stayed So in the only suit I own I watched you pull your dress on I said, "Eldridge," when the cabbie asked, "Where you heading?" An intimate dinner party for luminaries Our table was filled with Tony award winners and the lovers they carried I shouted to you, "You look incredible, your skin is glowing." You shouted back, "It's bronzer but thanks for not knowing." In the unisex bathroom I pulled you close for a kiss 'Cause you're the only thing in this world I can't resist And when we get old we're going to remember this
When we get old we're going to remember this
As the ball dropped fifty blocks uptown We were off by forty seconds with our countdown But everything's relative and our 3, 2, 1 felt real We can only believe the things we feel Then it was hugs all around the room While in other sunlit parts of the world, flowers bloomed For so many time zones this moment had passed And now it was here but we weren't the last Our friends in L.A. were still getting dressed People in Hawaii were still getting disco rest Pretending the best but expecting the worst All my life these celebrations have been so poorly rehearsed But when I turned and saw you I realized that this would be a first You give me balance while you make me unsteady You complicate the world but you make me ready I pulled you across the table for a kiss, 'cause you're the only thing I can't resist And when we get old we're going to remember this
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Jump into a cab on Allen Street Get a glare from the couple we barely beat Home free twenty blocks away The Aleve's worn off but I feel okay Call the sitter on the cell, everything's fine Our daughter went straight to sleep, sitter had a glass of wine Tell her we're almost there, she says, "Take your time." So the taxi keeps driving while I give you a kiss 'Cause you're the only thing in this world I can't resist And this is one of those moments I'm so glad we didn't miss When everything we've always wanted is right there in the palm of our fists And you're my only resolution and I don't need a list And when we get old we're going to remember this
After the gig he gets to talk to the girls while I'm moving the equipment back to 39th street And then it's 5:15, he slithers home and I flick on the light, I say, "Where the hell have you been?" He says, "We been sampling rare narcotics in the VIP lounge at Danceteria." He says, "We been slipping fingers on a lap dancing booty eyed groupie caught in stages of hysteria."
My stunt double is cooler than me
So then I'm walking down the street the next day when a girl I've never seen says, "You were so good last night." She says, "Come back to my hotel room, I want to do it, want to do it again with you, yeah, right now." But afterwards she looks at me, she says, "How could you have made me so impressed?" She says, "I've heard of Jekyll and Hyde, but the way you touched me--I was naked, your hands made me feel like I was fully dressed."
My stunt double is cooler than me No one seems to want me since he came along
Are you up? I'm going to come over and you can turn it up The music and the water, you can soap it up Standing in the shower and it's steaming up Wiping off my glasses 'cause they're fogging up Cover up the drain and you can fill it up Wait for the world to turn on
Let's get down, I'll find something on my iPod to slow you down Put your hand on the dimmer, turn the lights down Looking at your face you turn me upside down Standing on your bed until we both fall down Lying on the floor, we'll pull the blankets down Wait for the world to turn on
Break into a million pieces Scatter ourselves where the ocean freezes Some things never will be over Girl, you are my four leaf clover We both want it, we want it the same way We're ready to get ready and we're waiting for the world to turn on We're ready to get ready and we're waiting for the world to turn on
Fall to the floor, you're always looking for more, It's a quarter to six, but I've been up since four. We don't wake up without a yawn, get your bowl of cereal, turn your TV on. Sit down at the computer but I see the pile of bills, Round here it's everybody else's pockets but ours to fill. Wanna know what my last will and testament says? "All of this, to you." Wanna pick up my guitar but it's time to take you off to school. And there you are. And I drop you off but I forgot your change of clothes and your lunch And you look me up and down with a frown, Til you crack a smile -- Put me down, you say, aw, come on Daddy, you gonna pick me up from school today?
You got soul and you're always gonna be my girl. You got soul and you're always gonna be my girl.
At quarter to three.. Just when I'm starting to get creative, Time to catch a cab back down to 13th street. You're standing on the steps with your teachers, Lookng for me, saying All the other babysitters came already. Well I'm your dad and five minutes waiting for me can't be that bad. I want to take you to the zoo. I want to take you to the museum of natural history. And on the way, on the subway, somebody stands up, Starts screaming about how he's got God, And all the rest of us better start believe him.
You got soul and you're always gonna be my girl. Oh, oh.. you got soul and you're always gonna be my girl.
YOu fall asleep on the way back home; By the time your eyes open, I've carried you all the way To our door from the subway. And when you look up at me, I wondered just what you see. The last five years blew by so fast; Every second more these moments are passing. How much of this will you remember? Store your face in my mind forever With a free hand, find a key in my pocket, Stick it into the door to unlock it. Lay you down on the bed with your favorite pillow under your head. Just when I think you're back to asleep, you look up and then you say I need a glass of water.
You got soul and you're always gonna be my girl. You got soul and you're always gonna be my girl. Oh, oh.. you got soul and you're always gonna be my girl.
You've got to turn the trick that makes me tick I want to put you on, see if you fit So wrap your arms and legs around my arms and legs I need to know how long we can stay this way A hundred yards away, you make me explode Up close you're activating motherload Baby, I want to see if the sun shines where you are
I've held my breath since the day I was born I've felt all alone since the cord was torn But when you look at me I get a sharp intake I never bend and then I always break Even when I'm early I'm always too late You make me involuntarily not hesitate Baby, I want to see if the sun shines where you are
So don't doubt it We've lived without it Come on, shout it Oh, come on, scream it Act like you mean it We didn't dream it This is the feeling This is the real thing This is the reason
If your life ever flashes before your eyes I hope it's me that you see If they ever make a movie about you I hope there's a part about me and I hope it's a leading role Don't put it out, let it burn Pour lighter fluid on it, it only takes one spark
You've got to let it You've got to let it Come on, let it Yeah, you've got to let it
