Jukebox The Ghost

And after rearranging the furniture you slept alone
You awoke to find the war was finally done
You rubbed your eyes and squinted at the sun
Which was brighter and hotter and better lit up
The earth like a birthday cake
You were amazed you were still living
To celebrate this new beginning
Where the grass is a little greener
And the Earth is a little bigger
And the trees are a little taller
Due to air that's a little cleaner
And suddenly....

Voices rang out from the clouds
Bursting out in song
Speakers pumping loud

Keep on crying just to stop the water rising
To your brain composed of dirt
You keep on pissing to keep on drinking
You keep on eating to keep on shitting
Time will wear you down

You clap your hands inside
You were amazed that you survived
And the air that you were breathing
Gave you a supernatural feeling


And the sound of your heart beating in time
With the rhythm of your breathing
Mixed with the speed of the Earth spinning
Was precisely the same speed as earthquakes
Building beneath your feet
Awaking strangers that you need to see
The collision of a hurricane and a suicidal plane
Oh, God

It's only a matter of time [x4]

Until, suddenly...

A voice will ring out from the clouds
Bursting out in song
Speakers pumping loud

Keep on crying just to stop the water rising
To your brain composed of dirt
You keep on pissing to keep on drinking
You keep on eating to keep on shitting
Time will wear you down

It's only a matter of time

There's a dead man hanging, slumped over the steering wheel of an interstate
Runaway bursting into flames
And the devil was gently breathing, sleeping face-down in my
Apartment, and like all his friends I'm growing tired of his games...

And there's a homeless man arranging his hands, grooving to the beat
Radiating from a police scanner, who said "The air was feeling good to
Me, just as cool and ripe as air can be," and a woman who sincerely
Believes in UFOs and who can blame her when the stars are hanging
Overhead, dangling by a thread, floating ten thousand feet off the ground...

(This was a story told to me when I was just the age of 17, one which
God himself dictated to me, he said, "This is how all this shits gonna
Be when I blow your little planet into smithereens." It haunted my
Dreams like an accident on reply on a TV screen.)

She sees faces in her dreams--strange machines she'd never seen
Blueprints of submarines to reassemble in a time of dire need
And there were preachers in the desert, waving to the crowd
Dictating seven angry letters from a man up in the clouds

And there were 27 soldiers telling 27 lies
And a hole inside a hurricane with a pair of beady eyes
A pair of beady eyes looking down onto the pavement while the stars are gathered 'round


Because they all will want a front seat when shit starts going down
Because the sun is just a supernova turned the other way around!

There were strangers in the subway and men in limousines making deals and
Swapping photographs of cans of gasoline, and there are no angels in the woodwork
Or devils on the ground, and they are looking through a hurricane's tectonic wall of
Sound and a man who smokes his cigarettes the other way around and she is looking
In behind him from inside a wall of sound and she is dancing with the neon because
The air is feeling good against her arms and legs and fingertips are measuring the
Distance in the spaces in between me and you and all your friends when there's no
Time to load a weapon and no time to make amends and people frozen in their tracks
Staring at the sky at a hole inside a hurricane revealing...

A pair of beady eyes!
A pair of beady eyes looking down onto the pavement while the stars are gathered 'round
Because they all will want a front seat when shit starts going down
Because the sun is just a supernova turned the other way around!

This is not a test, this is the real thing...
This is not a test, this is the real thing...

I think that I would like
To invite everyone I've known
Dead and alive
To a street where we can be
Finally free

Well, they would come in droves
Wearing their hearts on their sleeves, oh no
How good it felt to have them worn
Just like they should

And everybody here wants to know
Did everybody say what a good day that it was
For everybody here who said what a good day it was?

Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they? Whoa.

Suddenly, we all got young
Running circles around ourselves
Just for fun
And oh, how good it felt
To be young and loved
And feel it in our bones



And everybody here wants to know
Did everybody say what a good day that it was
For everybody here who said what a good day it was?

Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they? Whoa. (2x)

We go there when we're in trouble
We got old and old age made us humble
You and I are alone

That it felt like this, we were never told
That it felt like this we were never told
And it scares us bad so we'll have to be bold
But there's still one thing that we need to know.

Did everybody say what a good day that it was
For everybody here who said what a good day it was?

Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they smile 'cause they like it,
Did they? Whoa.

Jump into that water and see for yourself,
Take a deep breath and hold it in, hold it in,
She's got a secret and she wants to tell,
But I made a promise to hold it in, hold it in,

Mabye I'm in love and mabye it's not to tell,
Only thing that I can do is hold it in, hold it in,
Was told that I'm a man now and I'm not allowed to cry,
Only thing that I can do is hold it in, hold it in,

Life is,
Oh my god if I tell him he'll tell her and then she will know I like her,
But good grief,
I don't think that I can take this heartbreak any longer,

I will not hold it in,

There's a couple with a baby and it's no secret why,
Neither one was able to hold it in, hold it in,

Kids in the streets, yeah, they're all gettin' high,
Everybodys screamin', hold it in, hold it in,

Life is,
Oh my god if I tell him he'll tell her and then she will know I like her,
But good grief,
I don't think that I can take this heartbreak any longer,

I will not hold it in,
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If there's a god he's embarassed and it's no secret why,
Only thing that he can do is hold it in, hold it in,

So I've written him a letter to be sent out to sea,
I'm lookin' for a bottle to hold it in, hold it in,

Life is,
Oh my god if I tell him he'll tell her and then she will know I like her,
But good grief,
I don't think that I can take this heartbreak any longer,

I will not hold it in

..When you hold yourself to me.

I think I'll go down in flames
Wouldn't ask you to join me
Cuz that would be insane, it you could warm your hands,
Yeah and stake out your place right here next to me.

They will come from miles away,
Cuz it's cold outside
And they need a place to rub on their hands and feet.
What better time and place than here?

Cuz you've become a fire in me
Ever since you turned eighteen girl
And then you said that love was,
Just some sort of passing thing.
You've become a fire in me
Ever since you turned eighteen,
And the cold ain't so cold
When you hold yourself to me.

They will come from miles away,
In your honor.
In their Sunday best of sleeveless shirts and winter coats.
Oh they've been waiting for this for years!

You can see it in their eyes,
There's a fire there.
But it's not that I'm on fire but it's deep inside.


They jump into the peppered sky.

Cuz you've become a fire in me
Ever since you turned eighteen girl
And then you said that love was,
Just some sort of passing thing.
You've become a fire in me
Ever since you turned eighteen,
And the cold ain't so cold
When you hold yourself to me.

You, you can see it in their eyes.
They're afraid that they'll catch fire.
They're filled, they're filled with gasoline.
Because it's what my heart desires.

All these little birds, are chirping in their homes.
Twenty feet above us they're where all footprints are heard.

You're wearing it down, you know when you walk like that.
We're not supposed to carry ourselves in the smalls of our backs.
And you're wearing it down, you know when you walk like that.
We're not supposed to carry ourselves in the smalls of our backs.
Yeah you're wearing it down, you know when you walk like that.
We're not supposed to carry ourselves in the smalls of our backs.

She recognizes the voice on the phone
But she can't recall his face
She hears knocking on her door at night
But he never leaves a trace
She's had seven thousand nights with the very same scene
Repeated again and again in her dreams:

A muffled scream, and a broken fall as the moonlight streams in from down the
End of the hall, it's just the stars stooping down to sing their goodbyes while a

Man with a briefcase and hollowed out eyes spoke...

Over and over again...
Over and over again...
Stranger things have happened in my time
Stranger things have happened in my time

Your heart's breaking in me
Like i aint been broke before
And it feels good,
It feels good...we should do this more.

I can't see your ears no more
I fell in love with you when your hair was still short
But now you've gone and matured
And I think someday you'll cut it
Like we cut it short.

I can still see your face
Although the years may have forced some change
And I know I'm no longer the same
And I hope I don't show it.
I hope I don't show it
But my heart's the same.

One by one they come and pass
In pairs of two we know we can't last
And I hope I don't show it (oooh)
But my heart's the same.

Promise, Promise Sweetheart
Fingers round in time
Fingers round each other
And all of this in time
But the cold aint so cold
When you hold,
Yourself to me.

He was struck by static in the heart
Shot by an appendage from a television tube
And knowing what it meant to be showered with sound
He became a believer, he became a believer
And now he's slamming down chords
And leading a crowd ten-thousand strong
They're shouting in unison, shouting in unison
And they're burning their draft cards
And desecrating photographs
Burnt through the heart by
Static through the heart, static through the heart...

A man crouches on the street with static in his eyes


And takes it as a sign from the gods above
To shout from the rooftops and write letters to the government
He's writing revelations for the showdown
And now he's slamming down chords
And leading a crowd ten thousand strong
They're shouting in unison, shouting in unison
"Mom and dad, wake from your slumbers,
We're gonna burn this motherfucker down because
Sometimes we burn and steal and rape and kill and sacrifice
Just to remind ourselves that we're still alive"

How much can you fit under your skin?
How much can you fit under your skin?
I wish you were dead babe I wish you were dead
I can fit two, I can fit two...

I can fit two people under my skin
Yea I can fit two people under my skin
And I will prove it if you will listen
You crawl up in there and join me within

I can feel your heart beating under my skin
And the beating of your heart is making me bleed from within
And if we cut open your heart, pour it in a cup
Do you think it'd be enough, do you think it'd be enough
To fill... my heart with music?

Oh no, not a chance in hell
Yeah I've heard you sing but it ain't too well
Heart melts, yeah you meant so well
But your song's no good round here

I can feel you breathing under my skin
I can feel you breathing under my skin
and each breath you take is a brand new begin
Each breath you take, brand new begin..ing
(Eng)land has a way of getting under my skin
And my family has a way of getting under my skin
And my family had a castle way back when
I would have lived there if they had more male children


To fill... my heart with music

Oh no, not a chance in hell
Yeah I've heard you sing but it ain't too well
Heart melts, yeah you meant so well
But your song's no good round here
Oh no, not a chance in hell
Yeah I've heard you sing but it ain't too well
Heart melts, yeah you meant so well
But your song's no good round...heeere no no no no!

I don't think there is anyone under your skin
Like a Cheshire cat I think that you are just a grin
And I can feel you laughing, under my skin
And the happy palpitations are making me... grin.

You know it fills my heart with music...
-Oh no, not a chance in hell
Yeah I've heard you sing but it ain't too well
Heart melts, yeah you meant so well
But your song's no good round here
- Oh no, not a chance in hell
Yeah I've heard you sing but it ain't too well
Heart melts, yeah you meant so well
But your song's no good round heeere no no no no!

Victoria approached me with a fire in her eyes
And I swear and I swear I was burning alive.
And now you're crying wolf out to the moon,
Yeah, is anybody there,
or am I just as scared as you?
And now you've given me a mission to do,
I've got to rearrange the stars so that they're not as far from you.

You are certainly my poison of choice
And I know you've had your fair share of boys
But you are certainly my poison of choice
And I when I drink you down,
My heart makes a sound like...This!

Victoria approached me with a fire in her eyes
And I swear and I swear, I was burning alive.
You are causing me physical pain,
It's like you're handing me a knife and from my insides
And without any shame

You are certainly my poison of choice,


And I know you've had your fair share of boys
But you are certainly my poison of choice
And when I drink you down,
My heart makes a sound like...This!

I came down without any sense of conviction, yeah
I couldn't tell if you were a bitch or totally bitchin'

Victoria has been crying, I can see it in her eyes
And a part of me is sad, but a part of me is having such a good time
I know that likely I am at fault
Oh but what the hell, I can't even tell if she's putting me on.

You are certainly my poison of choice,
And I know you've had your fair share of boys
But you are certainly my poison of choice
And when I drink you down,
My heart makes a sound like...This!