The first thing I remember was the friction in the room And that brown spinnett piano that never played in tune The cruel impatient tyrant, the frustrated malcontent The need to find the pieces, and the absence of cement No one ever told me about the right way to love And no one ever showed me what we're supposed to be made of So don't be too forthright about what you think that I should be And I'll willingly accept your low opinion of me The last thing I remember was the slamming of the door And the resonance of my imperfection broke the silence once more The selfish angry bastard who doesn't want to hear I tried to learn compassion you turned the other ear No one ever told me about the right way to love And no one ever showed me what we're supposed to be made of So don't be too forthright about what you think that I should be And I'll willingly accept your low opinion of me The worn out broken record who doesn't fit the mold The righteous independent, the mood so harsh and cold Momma never told me about the right way to love And daddy never showed me what we're supposed to be made of So don't be too forthright about what you think that I should be And I'll willingly accept your low opinion of me
There's a leaf in the sky and it's floating on by A new season dawns but something is gone There are days in the past and days waiting for me I don't need a visionary in order to see You can do what you want to me 'cause I don't have the energy To retreat or hold ground or barely to stand But I feel the sting from Fate's cruel hand Like a bond true and pure we're never quite sure Our choice in the play, it erodes away When you can't, can't compete it ends with total defeat You just let it go so nobody knows you're suffering You can do what you want to me 'cause I don't have the energy To retreat or hold ground or barely to stand But I feel the sting from Fate's cruel hand
I've got hope but I can't talk about the future I've got desire but I can't exercise it on my own Time won't solve this predicament Time won't solve this predicament I've got pain but to tell it hurts the one I love I've got strength but it attenuates every day Time won't solve this predicament Time won't solve this predicament Troubles never go away They just resurface on another day Troubles never go away They just resurface on another day I've got heart but now it's weakened by an empty space I've got soul but it's been soured by the bane of hate Time won't solve this predicament Time won't solve this predicament Troubles never go away They just resurface on another day Troubles never go away They just resurface on another day Time won't solve this predicament (x4)
The sun comes up with promise and my eyes burn open wide And the sting compounds the torture from the vacant hole inside My conscious recollection of the past events all seem To verify the emotion that now envelops me Dogged as a drone Stagnant as the stone Weathered and alone Living on the fault line There's no one here to listen, there's always room for more They pretend to give you your say before they slam the door There's very little patience, and very little love There's just your constant puzzlement for what you're guilty of Dogged as a drone Stagnant as the stone Weathered and alone Living on the fault line No one need deliver me from such a familiar place I've come to terms and work in this ribald downtrodden state It's subliminal friction under a kind veneer And a form of cold injustice that keeps me stationed here Dogged as a drone Stagnant as the stone Weathered and alone Living on the fault line Living on the fault line Living on the fault line
One day my life will be a chocolate shake and late night t.v But right now I'm afraid of everything that is going down Too many decisions Too much responsibility And no one is there to hold me When I fail Like the deer who knows he won't survive the winter so he runs in fear The drifts too deep, the browse too scarce, the able too strong to compete And I wonder if I was stronger when I didn't care if no one was there to hold me When I fail One day my life will be a chocolate shake and late night t.v
Blacktop pavement cover me Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller Spreading randomly There's a distant buzz, and low frequency It tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet And it shakes the leaves off of every tree, violently What pretension Everlasting peace Everything must cease Institution on the hill Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor To ignite a people's will There's a shadowed stain on the west facade It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud And the descendants find it oh so odd Oh so odd What pretension Everlasting peace Everything must cease Grave memorial hewn white stone Like the comforting caress of a mother Or a friend you've always known It evokes such pain and significance What was once is reduced to remembrance And the generations pass without recompense What pretension Everlasting peace Everything must cease Everything must Cease
Laws of gravity fight uncertainty But I sit here without a clue Life had separate meaning and I was only dreaming Someone else came to her rescue Now she's gone and I am too, but Maybe she will Want to have me near enough to feel unparted Maybe she will Ask me for some help to get her new place started Maybe she will See me around and want to take a mid-day walk Maybe just feel lonely and will want to talk With me In cold and darkest weather, the times we had together Come to me and I smile to sleep Then clouds dissipate and I soon re-awake To such a living tragedy I'm resolved to pondering Maybe she will Call me up to see if I am doing alright Maybe she will Remember the times when I would hold her so tight Maybe she will Think about the letters that I used to send Someday change her mind and want to find me again They all say I'm wasting my whole life away But I don't care because I have this candle from our courting days And it's almost gone But dim hope flickers anyway Maybe she will Look at those old pictures and get teary-eyed Maybe she will Feel my lonely heartbeat and hear me cry Maybe she will Help me shovel out of this misery One day say she's sorry for giving up on me Maybe she will
You have always lived like this You have always lived like this The ice blue chill The dark gray sky The frozen ground And the helpless feeling of insignificance You have always lived like this You have always lived like this Yeah The day's routine The day's unsure The day is done And the dreams of being somewhere you can't be The ice blue chill The dark gray sky The frozen ground And the helpless feeling of insignificance You have always lived like this You have always lived like this You have always fought the elements They take on different forms There has always been a struggle With the things you can't perform You will always fight the elements They are not in your hands You will always fight the elements Unless you understand Unless you understand Unless you understand that You have always lived like this You have always lived like this
Your arrogance It will surely bring you down Is there a judgement appropriate for you That you spit at others? That you spit at others? Look hard in the mirror then in ten years look again There will be lines, sags and rashes But you'll have come no further But you'll have come no further But you'll have come no further than where you are today Still helpless, all the while protracting Your imminent demise, and feigning superiority There will be a trail of those you have injured And made worse by your vicious acts of greed Without regard Without regard Without regard You piece of shit You piece of shit You piece of shit Look in the mirror There you'll see the light There will come a day There will be the truth of your ways
He wakes with the glow of adventure and hope The morning smells sweet and replete with opportunity He dressed into another day feeling lucky to be alive Though nobody follows him he's sure the future's bright Bring him back Someone's going to have to bring him back to earth He's getting out of hand His alacrity for life is more than people stand Bring him back to earth Discipline and toil, well it made her blood boil The finer things were impatient waiting discovery Like a bird in spring the sun made her sing With seeming inattention she was on to other things Bring her back Someone's going to have to bring her back to earth She's way too high Her alacrity for life ain't going to help her get by Bring her back to earth Who's it going to be? I can assure you It ain't gonna be me Bring them back Someone's gonna try and bring them back to land And I'll be there To catch them when they fall and send them up again Bring them back to earth Bring them back to earth