Elliott
Smith
1969-2003
Dead
Air (1993)  |
Cop
and Speeder (1994)  |
Mic
City Sons (1996)  |
Roman
Candle (1994)  |
Elliott
Smith (1995)  |
Either/Or
(1997)  |
XO
(1998)  |
Figure
8 (2000)  |
From
a Basement on the Hill (2004)*  |
*posthumously released.
Tracklists
Dead
Air
Still
Candyland
Mock-Up
Dirt
Bottle Rocket
Blackout
Stray
Can't Be Touched
Cannibal
Don't Look Down
Sands Hotel
Lowlife
Buick
Dead Air
Cop
and Speeder
Disappearing Ink
Bastard John
Flame!
Temper
Why Did I Decide to Stay?
Collect to NYC
Hitting on the Waiter
Busted Lip
Antonio Carlos Jobim
It's Not a Prop
Something to Lose
Sleeping Pill
Trap Door
Nightcap
Mic
City Sons
Get Lucky
Plainclothes Man
Low-Flying Jets
Rest My Head Against the Wall
The Fix is In
Eagle Eye
Cruel Reminder
You Gotta Move
Pop in G
Blue Highway
See You Later
Half Right
Roman
Candle
Roman Candle
Condor Ave.
No Name #1
No Name#2
No Name #3
Drive All Over Town
No Name #4
Last Call
Kiwi Maddog 20/20
Elliott
Smith
Needle in the Hay
Christian Brothers
Clementine
Southern Belle
Single File
Coming Up Roses
Satellite
Alphabet Town
St. Ides Heaven
Good to Go
The White Lady Loves You More
The Biggest Lie
Either/Or
Speed Trials
Alameda
Ballad of Big Nothing
Between the Bars
Pictures of Me
No Name No.5
Rose Parade
Punch and Judy
Angeles
Cupid's Trick
2:45 AM
Say Yes
XO
Sweet Adeline
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Waltz #2
Baby Britain
Pitseleh
Independence Day
Bled White
Waltz #1
Amity
Oh Well, Okay
Bottle Up and Explode!
A Question Mark
Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
I Didn't Understand
Figure
8
Son of Sam
Somebody That I Used to Know
Junk Bond Trader
Everything Reminds Me of Her
Everything Means Nothing to Me
LA
In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)
Stupidity Tries
Easy Way Out
Wouldn't Mama Be Proud
Color Bars
Happiness
Pretty Mary K
I Better Be Quiet Now
Can't Make A Sound
Bye
From
a Basement on the Hill
Coast to Coast
Let's Get Lost
Pretty (Ugly Before)
Don't Go Down
Strung Out Again
Fond Farewell
King's Crossing
Ostriches & Chirping
Twilight
A Passing Feeling
Last Hour
Shooting Star
Memory Lane
Little One
A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be
Free
Roman Candle
He played himself
Didn't need me to give him hell
He could be cool and cruel to you and me
Knew we'd put up with anything
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames
I'm hallucinating
Hallucinating
I hear you cry
Your tears are cheap
Wet hot red swollen cheeks
Fall asleep
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames
I want to hurt him
I want to hurt him
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
And make him feel this pretty burn
She took the
Oldsmobile out past Condor Avenue
And she locked the car and slipped past
Into rhythmic quietude
Lights burning
Voice dry and hoarse
I threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth
The chimes fell over each other
I fell onto my knees
The sound of the car driving off made me feel diseased
A sick shouting like you hear at the fairground
Now I'm picking up to put away anything of yours that's still around
I don't know what to do with your clothes or your letters
It'll make a whisper out of you
She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Avenue
The fairground's lit
A drunk man sits by the gate she's driving through
Got his hat tipped bottle back in between his teeth
Looks like he's buried in the sand at the beach
I can't think about you driving off to leave barely awake
To take a little nap while the road is straight
I wish that car had never been discovered
They took away the bottle and the hat he was under
That's the one thing that he could never do
And it'll make a whisper out of you
She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Avenue
Cops were running around the scene
Looking for some kind of clue
They never get uptight when a moth gets crushed
Unless a light bulb really loved him very much
I'm lying down
Blowing smoke from my cigarette
Little whisper smoke signs that you'll never get
You're in your Oldsmobile driving by the moon
Headlights burning bright ahead of you
And someone's burning out, out on Condor Avenue
Trying to make a whisper out of you
What a shitty thing to say
Did you really mean it?
You never said a word to me about what passed between us
So now I'm leaving you alone
You can do whatever the hell you want to
Naaaa, na, na, na, na, na
At a party he
was waiting
Looking kind of spooky and withdrawn
Like he could be underwater
The mighty mother with her hundred arms
Swept all aside
I hate to walk behind other people's ambition
I saw you waiting
Saint-like
With your warning
Leave alone
You don't belong here
He got nervous
Started whistling
Every thought a ricochet
Did you notice?
Well, I wondered
What's the worst thing i could say?
And I froze up and sighed
You remind me of someone's daughter
I forgot her
I forgot her name, ashamed
Go home and live with your pain
Leave alone
Leave alone 'cuz you know you don't belong
You don't belong here
And when I go
Don't you follow
Leave alone
Leave alone 'cuz you know you don't belong
You don't belong here
Slip out quiet
Nobody's looking
Leave alone
You don't belong here
Concrete hands
picked up the telephone ring
Do you know who you're talking to?
No, and I don't care who
She whispered quiet terror news
He didn't give a hoot
Said do what you have to do
All she had to do was speak
Mouthpiece to cheek
Please, say no more
I'm lying here on the ground
A strip of wet concrete
Her name was just a broken sound
A stutter step you hear when you're falling down
Killing time won't stop this crying
Killing time won't stop this crying
Killing time won't stop this crying
You better start watching what message that you send now
No more situations I only go in to be kicked out
He got knocked down leaning like he ran into a clothesline
And remembered a couple of words that hid a crime
You're just fine
You'll be just fine
But I'm on the other line
Killing time won't stop this crying
Killing time won't stop this crying
Killing time won't stop this crying
We arrived too
late
Our mouths were opening
I turned off the light
So come on night
You're a witness you
You've seen me interrupt
A good old fashioned fight
So come on night
Everyone is gone
Home to oblivion
Home to oblivion
Home to oblivion
Watched the dying day
Blushing in the sky
Everyone is uptight
So come on night
Everyone is gone
Home to oblivion
Home to oblivion
Home to oblivion
I know we're not
Illegitimate
In our hearing
So come on
So come on night
Two-dollar color
pictures from a photo booth
Dirty, stepped on lying out on the floor of their room
Faces fell long in the half-light
He looks all wrong but that's her all right
Look at him smiling, full of teeth
Clenched tight
He knew the one time with the army captain
He got one that whole deal before it happened
Said it's okay I knew exactly what you meant
When you said you were an accident
But when it's 3 am he wonders where in the hell she went
And he'll drive all over town
Drive all over town
And he'll drive all over town
Drive all over town
Until he tracks her down
He'll drive all over town
For a change
she got out before he hurt her bad
Took her records and clothes
And pictures of her boy
It really made her sad
Packed it up and didn't look back
I'm okay, let's just forget about him
The car was cold, and it smelled like old cigarettes and pine
In her bag I saw things she drew when she was mine
Like this one here
Her alone nobody near
What a shame, let's just not talk about it
No, it doesn't look like you
But you did wear cowboy boots
That's your fame
There's no question about it
Once we got back inside
With one ear to the ground
I was ready to hide
'Cuz I don't know who's around
And you look scared
It's our secret do not tell, okay?
Let's just not talk about it
Don't tell, okay?
Let's just forget all about it
Last call
He was sick of it all
Asleep at home
Told you off and goodbye
Well you know one day it'll come to haunt you
That you didn't tell him quite the truth
You're a crisis
You're a icicle
You're a tongueless talker
You don't care what you say
You're a jaywalker, and you just just walk away
And that's all you do
The clap of the fading out sound of your shoes
Made him wonder who he thought that he knew
Last call
He was sick of it all
The endless stream of reminders
Made him so sick of you sick of you sick of you
Sick of your sound
Sick of you coming around
Trying to crawl under my skin
When I already shed my best defense
It comes out all around that you won
And I think I'm all done
You can switch me off safely
While I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me
Yeah yeah you're still here but just check to make sure
All you aspired to do was endure
You can't ask for more ask for none
Knowing you'll never get that which you ask for
So you cast your shadow everywhere like the man in the moon
You start to drink, you just want to continue
It'll all be yesteryear soon
You start to drink, you just want to continue
It'll all be yesteryear soon
Church bells and now I'm awake, and I guess it must be some kind of holiday
I can't seen to join in the celebration
But I'll go to the service
And I'll go to pray
And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name
Like I was as good as she made me
And I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me
I'm lying here waiting for sleep to over take me
Elliott Smith
Your hand on
his arm
The hay-stack charm around your neck
Strung out and thin
Calling some friend trying to cash some check
He's acting dumb
That's what you've come to expect
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
He's wearing your clothes
Head down to toes: a reaction to you
You say you know what he did
But you idiot kid
You don't have a clue
Sometimes they just get caught in the eye
You're pulling him through
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Now on the bus
Nearly touching this dirty retreat
Falling out 6th and Powell, a dead sweat in my teeth
Gonna walk walk walk
Four more blocks plus the one in my brain
Down downstairs to the man
He's gonna make it all ok
I can't beat myself
I can't beat myself
And I don't want to talk
I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet
Whenever I want
So leave me alone
You ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay
No bad-dream
fucker's gonna boss me around
Christian brothers gonna take him down
But it can't help me get over
Don't be cross, it's sick what I want
I've seen the boss blink on and off
Fake concerns is what's the matter, man
And you think I ought to shake your motherfucking hand
Well I know how much you care
Don't be cross, it's sick what I want
I've seen the boss blink on and off
Come here by me I want you here
Nightmares become me, it's so fucking clear
Nightmares become me, it's so fucking clear
They're waking
you up to close the bar
The street's wet, you can tell by the sound of the cars
The bartender's singing Clementine
While he's turning around the open sign
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
Though you're still her man
It seems a long time gone
Maybe the whole thing's wrong
What if she thinks so but just didn't say so?
You drank yourself into slow-mo
Made an angel in the snow
Anything to pass the time
And keep that song out of your mind
Oh my darling
Oh my darling
Oh my darling, Clementine
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
Killing a southern
belle is all you know how to do
That and give other people hell
It's what they expect from you, too
But I wouldn't have you how you want
I don't wanna walk around
I don't even want to breathe
I live in a southern town
Where all you can do is grit your teeth
But I wouldn't have you how you want
How come you're not ashamed of what you are?
And sorry that you're the one she got?
Ain't nobody talking now
Nobody nothing's said
No one's about to shout
Nobody's seeing red
But I wouldn't have you how you want
You're killing a southern belle
Killing a southern belle
Killing a southern belle
Here in line
where stupid shit collides
With dying shooting stars
All we got to show what we really are
Is the same kind of scars
And looking at you all I see is
You're waiting for something
Single file, you're a murder mile
You idiot kid: your arm's got a death in it
If your choking up take this paper cup
But there's a price you'll pay
For trying hard to become whatever they are
And saying whatever they say
So help yourself to this bitter pill
Or somebody else will
Single file, you're a murder mile
You idiot kid: your arm's got a death in it
Single file
Single file
Single file
Single file
I'm a junkyard
full of false starts
And I don't need your permission
To bury my love under this bare lightbulb
The moon is a sickle cell
It'll kill you in time
You cold white brother riding your blood
Like spun glass in sore eyes
While the moon does its division you're buried below
And you're coming up roses
Everywhere you go red roses follow
The things that you tell yourself
They'll kill you in time
You cold white brother alive in your blood
Spinning in the night sky
While the moon does its division you're buried below
And you're coming up roses
Everywhere you go red roses
So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows
And you're coming up roses
Everywhere you go red roses
While the hands
are pointing up midnight
You're a question mark coming
After people you watched collide
You can ask what you want to the satellite
Cuz the names you drop put ice in my veins
And for all you know you're the only one who finds it strange
When they call it a lover's moon
The satellite
Cuz it acts just like lovers do
The satellite
A burned out world you know
Staying up all night
The satellite
Alphabet City
is haunted
Constantina feels right at home
She probably won't say you're wrong
But you're already wrong
You're already wrong
And you threw up whatever she shot down
Said show me around this alphabet town
Said show me around
There's a name you keep repeating
You got nothing better to do
And you're with someone who'll hear
You say it and just not mind
Her hand on your arm
Her hand on your arm
She put her hand on your arm
And told you her name you can't pronounce it
I'll show you around this alphabet town
I'll show you around this alphabet town
I know what you are
I just don't mind
I won't say you're wrong
I know what you want
And it's what I want
So let's go out
I'm ready to go out
I'll show you around this Alphabet Town
I'll show you around this Alphabet Town
Everything is
exactly right
When I walk around here drunk every night
With an open container from 7-11
In St. Ides heaven
I've been out haunting the neighborhood
And everybody can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With my head full of stars
High on amphetamines
The moon is a lightbulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
You think you know what brings me down
That I want those things you could never allow
You see me smiling, you think it's a frown
Turned upside down
'Cuz everyone is a fucking pro
And they all got answers from troubles they've known
And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do
Though they don't have a clue
High on amphetamines
The moon is a lightbulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone
And I won't come down for anyone
A low-riding
junkie girl
Rode down south to your little world like a dream
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
She kicked new york like a curse
And you traced her footsteps in reverse up to Queens
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to
You can do it if you want to be like me
I wouldn't need a hero if I wasn't such a zero
If I wasn't such a zero
Good to go
All I ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around
It's all I ever see around here
Some empty envelopes from some other town
It's all I ever see around here
I'm waiting for something that's not coming
Keep your things
in a place meant to hide
But I know they're there somewhere
And I know that's where you'll go tonight
I'll be thrown over just like before
The white lady loves you more
Need a metal man just to pick up your feet
It's a long time since you cared enough
For me to even be discrete
I know what this metal is for
The white lady loves you more
I'm looking at a hand full of broken plans
And I'm tired of playing it down
You just want her to do anything to you
There ain't nothing that you won't allow
You wake up in the middle of the night
From a dream you won't remember
Flashing on like a cop's light
You say she's waiting and I know what for
The white lady loves you more
The white lady
I'm waiting for
the train
The subway that only goes one way
The stupid thing that will come to pull us apart
And make everybody late
You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
And now I'm a crushed credit card registered to Smith
Not the name that you call me with
You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint
Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh I just told the biggest lie
I just told the biggest lie
The biggest lie
Either/Or
He's pleased
to meet you underneath the horse
In the cathedral with the glass stained black
Singing sweet high notes that echo back
To destroy their master
May be a long time till you get the call-up
But it's sure as fate and hard as your luck
No-one'll know where you are
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
Running speed trials still standing in place
When the socket's not a shock enough
You little child what makes you think you're tough
When all the people you think you're above
They all know what's the matter
You're such a pinball, yeah you know it's true
There's always something you come back running to
To follow the path of no resistance
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
Running speed trials standing in place
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
Running speed trials all over the place
You walk down
Alameda
Shuffling your deck of trick cards
Over everyone
Like some precious only son
Face down, bow to the champion
You walk down Alameda
Looking at the cracks in the sidewalk
Thinking about your friends
How you maintain all them in a constant state of suspense
For your own protection over their affection
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you can't finish what you start
Walk down Alameda brushing off the nightmare
You wish could plague me when I'm awake
And now you see your first mistake was thinking that you could relate
For one or two minutes she liked you
But the fix is in
You're all pretension
I never pay attention
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
If you're alone it must be you that wants to be apart
Throwing candy
out to the crowd
Dragging down the main
The helpless little thing with the dirty mouth
Who's always got something to say
You're sitting at home now
Waiting for your brother to call
I saw him down at the alley
Having had enough of it all
Said you can do what you want to whenever you want to
You can do what you want to there's no one to stop you
All spit and spite you're up all night and down every day
A tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away
Getting into the back of a car for candy from some stranger
Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smoldering anger
You can do what you want to whenever you want to
You can do what you want to there's no one to stop you
Now you can do what you want to whenever you want to
Do what you want to whenever you want to
Do what you want to whenever you want to
Though it doesn't mean a thing
Big nothing
Drink up, baby,
stay up all night
The things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay and drive them away
The images stuck in your head
People you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
Drink up, baby, look at the stars, I'll kiss you again
Between the bars where I'm seeing you
There with your hands in the air waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time, and I'll make you mine
Keep you apart deep in my heart separate from the rest
Where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot
The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
Start, stop,
and start
Stupid acting smart
Flirting with the flicks
You say it's just for kicks
You'll be the victim of your own dirty tricks
You got yourself to tease and displease
Doors swinging wide
You walked into hide
Looking at your feet
Failure's complete
Saw you and me on the coin-op tv
Frozen in fear every time we appear
I'm not surprised and really, why should I be?
See nothing wrong
See nothing wrong
So sick and tired of all these pictures of me
Completely wrong
Totally wrong
Go walking by
Here come another guy
Jailer who sells personal hells
Who'd like to see me down on my fucking knees
Everybody's dying just to get the disease
Hey hey hey hey
I'm not surprised and really, why should i be?
See nothing wrong
See nothing wrong
So sick and tired of all these pictures of me
Completely wrong
Totally wrong
I'm not surprised and really, why should i be?
See nothing wrong
See nothing wrong
So sick and tired of all these pictures of me
Oh everybody's dying just to get the disease
Everybody's dying just to get the disease
Everybody's dying just to get the disease
Got bitten fingernails
and a head full of the past
And everybody's gone at last
A sweet sweet smile that's fading fast
'Cuz everybody's gone at last
And you don't get upset about it
No not anymore
There's nothing wrong
That wasn't wrong before
Had a second alone with a chance let pass
And everybody's gone at last
Well I hope you're not waiting
Waiting around for me
Because I'm not going anywhere
Obviously
Got a broken heart and your name on my cast
And everybody's gone at last
Everybody's gone at last
They asked me
to come down and watch the parade
And to march down the street like the Duracell bunny
With a wink and a wave from the cavalcade
Throwing out candy that looks like money
To people passing by that all seem to be going the other way
Said won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
Tripped over a dog in a choke-chain collar
People were shouting and pushing and saying
And when I traded a smoke for a food stamp dollar
A ridiculous marching band started playing
And got me singing along with some half-hearted victory song
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
The trumpet has obviously been drinking
Because he's fucking up even the simplest lines
I'd say it's a sight that's quite worth seeing
It's just that everyone's interest is stronger than mine
And when they clean the street I'll be the only shit that's left behind
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
Won't you follow me down to the rose parade?
A wallflower
Punch talks to Judy
In a crowded corner where anybody can listen in
But they don't read page to page or speak easy
Now they're gonna go say the words
In the wrong order again
They walk in a circle
Through all the sidewalk scenes they used to be apart of one time
Now everybody just stares and whispers
Driving around up and down division street
I used to like it here
It just bums me out to remember
Can't you ever treat anyone nice?
I think I'm gonna make the same mistake twice
They draw the curtain
Wait for a call
Pretty lucky if they get any kind of response at all
Can't you ever treat anyone nice?
I think I'm gonna make the same mistake twice
I'm gonna make the same mistake twice
Someone's always
coming around here trailing some new kill
Says I seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill
And what's a game of chance to you, to him is one of real skill
So glad to meet you
Angeles
Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be made
Go on and lose the gamble that's the history of the trade
You add up all the cards left to play to zero
And sign up with evil
Angeles
Don't start me trying now
'Cuz I'm all over it
Angeles
I could make you satisfied in everything you do
All your secret wishes could right now be coming true
And be forever with my poison arms around you
No one's gonna fool around with us
No one's gonna fool around with us
So glad to meet you
Angeles
She's shaking
down
I'm absent and numb from shock
Reaching around for the hands of the clock
Should've lied
Lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up
Cupid's trick comes
Down to shake and deal
The stupid kick that makes me real
Should've lied
Lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up
She's shaking down
It's never over and done.
So, kick me, cane me
Then I'll know
Why
Lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up, it's my lie
Should've lit me up
I'm going out
sleepwalking
Where mute memories start talking
The boss that couldn't help but hurt you
And the pretty thing he made desert you
I'm going out now like a baby
A naive unsatisfiable baby
Grabbing onto whatever's around
For the soaring high or the crushing down
With hidden cracks that don't show
But that constantly just grow
I'm looking for the man that attacked me
While everybody was laughing at me
You beat it in me that part of you
But I'm gonna split us back in two
Tired of living in a cloud
If you're gonna say shit now you'll do it out loud
It's 2:45 in the morning
And I'm putting myself on warning
For waking up in an unknown place
With a recollection you've half erased
Looking for somebody's arms to
Wave away past harms
I'm walking out on center circle
The both of you can just fade to black
I'm walking out on center circle
Been pushed away and I'll never go back
I'm in love with
the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after
We broke up a month ago and I grew up I didn't know
I'd be around the morning after
It's always been wait and see
A happy day and then you pay
And feel like shit the morning after
But now i feel changed around and instead falling down
I'm standing up the morning after
Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later
And I could be another fool or an exception to the rule
You tell me the morning after
Crooked spin can't come to rest
I'm damaged bad at best
She'll decide what she wants
I'll probably be the last to know
No one says until it shows and you see how it is
They want you or they don't
Say yes
I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after
XO
Cut this picture
into you and me
Burn it backwards kill this history
Make it over make it stay away
Or hate'll say the ending that love started to say
There's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you spare
Sunshine for a brother Old Man Winter's in the air
Walked me up a story asking how you are
Told me not to worry you were just a shooting star
Sweet Adeline
Sweet Adeline
My Clementine
Sweet Adeline
It's a picture perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun
Fully loaded deaf and dumb and done
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Or any situation where I'm better off then dead
Everybody knows
which way you go straight to over
No-one wants to see you inside of me straight to over
I heard the hammer at the lock say you're deaf and dumb and done
Give yourself another talk this time make it sound like someone
The noise is coming out, and if it's not out now
Then tomorrow tomorrow
They took your life apart and called your failures art
They were wrong though they wont know till tomorrow
I got static in my head the reflected sound of everything
Tried to go to where it led but it didn't lead to anything
The noise is coming out, and if it's not out now
I know it's just about to drown tomorrow out
First the mic
then a half cigarette
Singing Cathy's Clown
That's the man that she's married to now
That's the girl that he takes around town
She appears composed, so she is, I suppose
Who can really tell?
She shows no emotion at all
Stares into space like a dead china doll
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
Now she's done and they're calling someone
Such a familiar name
I'm so glad that my memories remote
'Cuz I'm doing just fine hour to hour, note to note
Here it is the revenge to the tune
"You're no good,
You're no good, you're no good, you're no good"
Can't you tell that it's well understood
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
I'm here today and expected to stay on and on and on
I'm tired
I'm tired
Looking out on the substitute scene
Still going strong
XO, mom
It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong
Tell Mr. Man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
In the place where I make no mistakes
In the place where I have what it takes
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
Baby Britain
feels the best
Floating over a sea of vodka
Separated from the rest
Fights problems with bigger problems
Sees the ocean fall and rise
Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
Water pouring from her eyes
Alcoholic and very bitter
For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help until you start
We knocked another couple back
The dead soldiers lined up on the table
Still prepared for an attack
They didn't know they'd been disabled
Felt a wave a rush of blood
You won't be happy till the bottle's broken
And you're out swimming in the flood
You kept back you kept unspoken
For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help until you start
You got a look in your eye
When you're saying goodbye
Like you wanna say "hi"
The light was on but it was dim
Revolver's been turned over
And now it's ready once again
The radio was playing Crimson and Clover
London Bridge is safe and sound
No matter what you keep repeating
Nothing's gonna drag me down
To a death that's not worth cheating
For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
And I can't help until you start
For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art
You put yourself apart
I'll tell you
why I don't want to know where you are
I got a joke I been dying to tell you
A silent kid is looking down the barrel
To make the noise that I kept so quiet
I kept it from you, Pitseleh
I'm not what's missing from your life now
I could never be the puzzle pieces
They say that god makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
And give up the thing you love
But no one deserves it
The first time I saw you I knew it would never last
I'm not half what I wish I was
I'm so angry
I don't think it'll ever pass
And I was bad news for you just because
I never meant to hurt you
Future butterfly
gonna spend the day higher than high
You'll be beautiful confusion
Ooooh, once I was you
I saw you caught between all the people out making the scene
And a bright ideal tomorrow
Ooooh, don't go too far
Stay who you are
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
You only live a day
But it's brilliant anyway
I saw you in a perfect place
It's gonna happen soon but not today
So go to sleep and make the change
I'll meet you here tomorrow
Independence day
Independence day
Independence day
I'm a color reporter
Rose city on the 409
But the city's been bled white
White city on the yellow line
And the doctor orders
Drinking till he's trashed is just a waste of time
He drinks all night to take away this curse
But it makes me feel much worse
Bled white
So I wait for the F-train
White city on the yellow line
And connect through a friend of mine
White city to a friend of mine
To a yesterdaydream
Yesterday a dream was just a waste of time
'Cuz I'll have to be high to track the sunset down
And paint this paling town
Bled white
So here he comes with a blank expression
Especially for me 'cuz he knows
I feel the same
'Cuz happy and sad come in quick succession
I'm never going to become
What you became
Don't you dare disturb me
Don't complicate my piece of mind
While I'm balancing my past
Don't complicate my piece of mind
'Cuz you can't help or hurt me
The anger, being mean was just a waste of time
Like it already has, it may not seem quite right
But I'm not fucked, not quite
Bled white
Bled white
Every time the
day darkens down and goes away
Pictures open in my head of me and you
Silent and cliché all the things we did and didn't say
Covered by what we did and didn't do
Going through every out I used to cop to make the repetition stop:
What was I supposed to say?
Now I never leave my zone we're both alone I'm going home
I wish I'd never seen your face
Amity amity amity
amity amity amity amity caught stars in her arms
Hello Hello Kitty happy in New York City
Amity walking like a lucky charm
I'm a neon sign and I stay open all the time
So let's go, go go go
Amity amity God don't make no junk but it's plain to see
He still made me, he told me so: I'm good to go
I'm ready to go
Cuz you laugh and talk and 'cuz you make my world rock
I'm so, so so so
Amity amity amity amity amity amity amity good to go
Here's the silhouette
the face always turned away
The bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day
Couldn't figure out what made you so unhappy
Shook your head to say no no no
And stopped for a spell
And stayed that way
Oh well, okay
I got pictures, I just don't see it anymore
Climbing hour upon hour through a total bore
With the one I keep where it never fades
In the safety of a pitch black mind
An airless cell that blocks the day
Oh well, okay
If you a get a feeling the next time you see me
Do me a favor and let me know
Cuz it's hard to tell
It's hard to say
Oh well, okay
Oh well, okay
Oh well, okay
Bottle up and
explode over and over
Keep the troublemaker below
Put it away and check out for the day
And in for a round of overexposure
The thing Mother Nature provides to get up and go
Bottle up and explode seeing the stars
Surrounding you red, white, and blue
You look and him like you've never known him
But I know for a fact that you have
The last time you cried, who'd you think was inside?
Thinking that you were about to come over
But I'm tired now of waiting for you
You never show
Bottle up and go, if you're gonna hide
It's up to you, I'm coming through
Bottle up and go, I can make it outside
I'll get though becoming you
Becoming you
Becoming you
I got a question
mark
You got a need to always take some shot in the dark
I don't have to make pretend the picture I'm in is totally clear
You think that all things have a way they ought to appear
'Cuz you know, you know, you know, you know
You know, you know, you know, you know
You know I don't
I dream don't know what you mean
Panic called you out and took you in
Giving you an easy game and letting you win
You're giving back a little hatred now to the world
'Cuz it treated you bad
'Cuz you couldn't keep the great unknown from making you mad
'Cuz you know you know you know you know
You know you know you know you know you know
I don't
I dream
Don't know what you mean
Said your final word, but honesty and love could've kept us together
One day you'll see it's worth it after all
If you ever want to say you're sorry you can give me a call
Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
Everybody cares,
everybody understands
Yes, everybody cares about you
Yeah and whether or not you want them to
It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally
And a quiet lie that makes you wanna scream and shout
So here I lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun
Raining it's guiding light upon everyone
For a moment's rest you can lean against the banister
After running upstairs again and again from wherever they came to fix
You in but always fear the city's finest follow right behind
You got a pretty vision in your head
A pencil full of poison lead
And a sickened smoke illegal in every town
So here I lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
Here I lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
You say you mean well, you don't know what you mean
Fucking ought to stay the hell away from things you know nothing about
Thought you'd
be looking for the next in line to love
Then ignore, put out, and put away
And so you'd soon be leaving me along like I'm supposed to be
Tonight, tomorrow, and everyday
There's nothing here that you'll miss
I can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke
Trying to occupy space
What a fucking joke
What a fucking joke
I waited for a bus to separate the both of us and take me off far away from
you
'Cuz my feelings never change a bit I always feel like shit
I don't know why I guess that I "just do"
You once talked to me about love
And you painted pictures of a never-Neverland
And I could've gone to that place
But I didn't understand
I didn't understand
I didn't understand
Figure 8
Something's happening,
don't speak to soon
I told the boss off and made my move, got nowhere to go
Son of Sam, son of the shining path, the clouded mind
The couple-killer each and every time
I'm not uncomfortable feeling weird
Lonely leered, options disappear, but I know what to do
Son of Sam, son of a doctor's touch, a nurse's love
Acting on orders from above
King for a day
Son of Sam, son of the shining path, the clouded mind
The couple-killer running out of time
Shiva opens her arms now
To make sure I don't get too far
I may talk in my sleep tonight 'cuz I don't know what I am
I'm a little like you, more like son of Sam
I had tender
feelings that you made hard
But it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred
So when I go home I'll be happy to go
You're just somebody that I used to know
You don't need my help anymore
It's all now to you, there ain't no before
Now that you're big enough to run your own show
You're just somebody that I used to know
I watched you deal in a dying day
And throw the living past away
So you can be sure that you're in control
You're just somebody that I used to know
I know you don't think you did me wrong
And I can't stay this way for long
Keeping ahold of what you just let go
You're just somebody that I used to know
The imitation
picks you up like a habit
Writing in the glow of the TV's static
Taking out the trash to the man
Give the people something they understand
A stickman flashing a fine line smile
Junk-bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
The permanent installment of the daily dose
And you tell off when you tell it like it is
Your world's no wider that your hatred of his
Checking into a small reality
Boring as a drug you take too regularly
The athlete's laugh; the broken crutch
The first true love that folded at the slightest touch
Brought down like an old hotel
People digging through rubble for things they can resell
Happy holidays said sick savior
The leaving lover that I still favor
I won't take your medicine, I don't need a remedy
To be everything I'm supposed to be
I don't want nobody else
I can do it by myself
We're meant to be together
Now I'm a policeman directing traffic
Keeping everything moving, everything static
I'm the hitchhiker you'll recognize passing
On your way to some everlasting
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
I never really
had a problem
Because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her
This evening
So if I seem a little out of it, sorry
But why should I lie?
Everything reminds me of her
The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
And I gotta hear the same sermon all the time now from you people
Why are you staring into outer space crying
Just because you came across it and lost it?
Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her
Everything Means Nothing to Me
Someone found
the future as a statue in a fountain at
Attention looking backward in a pool of water wishes with
A blue songbird on his shoulder who keeps singing over everything
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
I picked up the song and found my picture in the paper the
Reflection in the water showed an iron man
Still trying to salute
People from a time when he was everything he's supposed to be
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
The gentleman's
in the lane spinning his hat on a cane
Stepping out, out for a change
Good morning all, it's a beautiful day
The general's winning the war that seems suicidal before you came along
Now I'll protect you as long as you'll stay
LA morning had to come, I'd be walking in the sun
Living in the day
But last night I was about to throw it all away
If patience started a band I'd be her biggest fan
Look at me, I'm talking to you
I don't want the lead in your play
The star's just a part of the scene, the gentleman in green
Paying off out on the street
I can't go home, it's not on my way
LA things I've never done, cars parked in the sun
Living in the day
But last night I was about to throw it all away
Last night I was about to throw it all away
Last night I was about to throw it all away
Last night I was about to throw it all away
In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)
He held his breath
to hold your hand
To walk the stair steps in pairs
Climbing up a slippery slope
I'm in love, love I hope
Don't go home, Angelina
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
Kissed you quick, feeling weird
Lonely, leeved, and disappeared
This is such a simple place
Passing time can't erase
Don't go home, Angelina
Paint tomorrow blue
Day breaks and every morning when he wakes he thinks of you
I'm alone, that's okay, I don't mind
Most of the time
I don't feel afraid to die
She was here passing by
Don't go home, Angelina
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
Got a foot in
the door
God knows what for
And he'll cut me down to size
Stupidity tries
Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries
Savannah Shoulder raised a cheer coloring the sky with ash
Because they found some privateer to sail across the sea of trash
The enemy is within
Don't confuse me with him
The truth is otherwise
Stupidity tries
And so I go from floor to floor looking for a port of call
Another drunk conquistador conquering the governor's ball
I couldn't think of a thing
That I hope tomorrow brings
Oh what a surprise
You'll take advantage
till you think you're being used
'Cuz without an enemy your anger gets confused
I got stuck on the side you know I never chose
But it's all about taking the easy way out for you I suppose
There's no escape for you except in someone else
Although you've already disappeared within yourself
The invisible man who's always changing clothes
It's all about taking the easy way out for you I suppose
While I watch you making mistakes
I wish you luck, I really do
With the problem, with the puzzle
Whatever's left of you
I heard you found another audience to bore
A creative thinker who imagined you were more
A new body for you to push around and pose
It's all about taking the easy way out for you I suppose
It's all about taking the easy way out for you I suppose
The question
is wouldn't Mama be proud?
There's a silver lining in the corporate cloud
And the pretty post that you're taking as an NCO
Of the great pretender?
I should sure think so!
Wouldn't Mama be proud?
"Can I take your order?" asked the heavenly host
Ticket to the jet stream blowing coast to coast
The long-stemmed glasses, a movie and a pleasant dream in mid-air
You gotta tell me quickly, cuz we're almost there
Wouldn't mama be proud?
Pointed out of the window at the sky gone black
Kid, you're on the right track
If I send you postcards from the side of the road
Photographs of moving parts about to implode
If I crawl to keep it together like you say you know I can do
To transmit a moment from me to you
Wouldn't Mama be proud?
Wouldn't Mama be proud?
Wouldn't Mama be proud?
I see color bars
when I come
Sergeant Rock broke the key off in the lock to where I come from
Sir, no sir, we have no power in the air
The battle's on the ground
Laying low again, high on the sound
Bruno S. is a man to me
You're just some dude with a stilted attitude that you learned from TV
You'll undo, but I'll be connecting everything
The traffic in my town
Riding high again, high on the sound
Everyone wants me to ride into the sun
But I ain't gonna go down
Laying low again, high on the sound
Activity's killing
the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road turning traffic away
There was nothing she could do until after
When his body'd been buried below
Way back in the day
Oh my, nothing else could've been done
He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone
Made his life the lie, you know
I told him he shouldn't upset her
And that he'd only be making it worse involving somebody else
But I knew that he'd never forget her
While her memory worked in reverse to keep her safe from herself
And oh my, nothing else could've been done
She made her life a lie so she might never have to know anyone
Made her life the lie, you know
What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me
What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me
What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me
Almost forgot
Started to say
Rode into the sun
Past everyone
Hallelujah, Pretty Mary K
I found faith in the infirmary
There's a soldier lying in bed
With a wound to the head
Calling out to Pretty Mary K
Here's what you get for things that haven't happened yet
I happened upon Pretty Mary K
But a soldier's uniform waved you away
I walk round the dock and talk to St. James
Though I'm already done
And ask everyone, "Have you seen her?"
Pretty Mary K
Have you seen her?
Pretty Mary K
Wish you gave
me your number
Wish I could call you today, just to hear a voice
I got a long way to go
I'm getting further away
If I didn't know the difference living alone'd probably be ok
It wouldn't be lonely
I got a long way to go
I'm getting further away
A lot of hours to occupy, it was easy when I didn't know you yet
Things I'd have to forget
But I better be quiet now
I'm tired of wasting my breath
Carrying on and getting upset
Maybe I got a problem, but that's not what I wanted to say
I'd prefer to say nothing.
I got a long way to go
I'm getting further away.
Had a dream as an army man with an order just to march in my place
While a dead enemy screams in my face
But I better be quiet now
I'm tired of wasting my breath
Carrying on, not over it yet
Wish I knew what you're doing
And why you want to do it this way, so I can't go the distance
I got a long way to go
I'm getting further away
I got a long way to go
I'm getting further away
I have become
a silent movie
The hero killed the clown
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Nobody knows what he's doing
Still hanging around
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
The slow motion moves me
The monologue means nothing to me
Bored in the role, but he can't stop
Standing up to sit back down
Or lose the one thing found
Spinning the world like a toy top
Till there's a ghost in every town
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Eyes locked and shining
Can't you tell me what's happening?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
From a Basement on the Hill
Pushy, preachy
Last stop for a resolution
End of the line, is it confusion?
So go, go see what's there for you
Nothing new, nothing new for you to use
I've got no new act to amuse you
I've got no desire to use you, you know
But anything that I could do, would never be good enough for you
If you can't help it then just leave it alone (leave it alone)
Leave it alone, yeah, just forget it
It's really easy
I believe I'll forget it too
Still you're keeping me around
Till I finally drag us both down
Pulling feathers out your hat
Yes I believe that's where it's at
You belong tagging along
And I belong in your zoo
So I wait for confirmation
That you're never gonna use your starting gun
Unless its me it sounds like being him just wasn't that much fun
Anything that I could do
Would never be good enough for you
If you can't help it then just leave it alone (leave it alone)
Leave me alone, yeah, just forget it
It's really easy
I'll just forget it too
Coast to coast, coast to coast
I'll do what I can so you can be what you do
Coast to coast, coast to coast
I'll do everything I can so you can be what you do
Coast to coast, coast to coast
Circuit rider comes every fifth Sunday
Oh my lord, I fell asleep one day
Anything that I could do
Is there anything that I could do
That someone doesn't do for you
That someone didn't do for you
That I have already done for you
I've been outside
Invited in
But I couldn't abide
Wouldn't miss it again
Burning every bridge that I cross
To find some beautiful place to get lost
I had true love
I made it die
I pushed her away
She said, please stay
Burning every bridge that I cross
To find some beautiful place to get lost
To find some beautiful place to get lost
Well I don't know where I'll go now
And I don't really care who follows me there
But I'll burn every bridge that I cross
And find some beautiful place to get lost
And find some beautiful place to get lost
Sunshine, been
keeping me up for days
There is no night time, it's only a passing phase
And I feel pretty, pretty enough for you
I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do
Sometimes is all I feel up to now
But it's not worth it to you
'Cuz you gotta get high somehow
Is it destruction that you require to feel?
Like somebody wants you, someone that's more for real
Sunshine, been keeping me up for days
There is no night time, only a passing phase
And I'll feel pretty, another hour or two
I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do
I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do
I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do
Ugly before
I met a girl
snowball in hell
She was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell
I got her to come on and move in with me
And I said I'd find a better place we could spend eternity
Don't go down
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
Her mama called me a thief
And her dad called himself commander-in-chief
I fought him off with my love
But I knew the sense of worthlessness she would have to raise above
Don't go down
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
Don't go down
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
She had a dream, woke up in shock
She had seen her own body outlined in chalk
I split the scene the globe been spun
And her ghost leaned down to kiss me with a message from the sun
Don't go down
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
Don't go down
Stay with me, baby stay
You get what
you see
I saw a rich fuck given charity
Saw an evil emperor wearing my clothes
They're far from the best
But they might suit you better than the rest
Just looking in the mirror
Will make you a brave man
I know my place
I hate my face
I know how I begin, and how I'll end
Strung out again
Was a parliament of owls
Flying over a city of canals
Floating on the body
Floating in the dalles
You get what you see
Some things they just change invisibly
I don't know where I'm going
I don't even want to know
I know my place
I hate my face
I know how I begin and how I'll end
Strung out again
Standing, smiling on some fantasy island
Waving at my lost reflection again
But a tide coming in
And I'm strung out again
Strung out again
The litebrite's
now black and white
'Cuz you took apart a picture that wasn't right
Pitch burning on a shining sheet
The only maker that you want to meet
A dying man in a living room
Whose shadow paces the floor
Who'll take you out in the open door
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
He said, really I just wanna dance
Good and evil matched perfect it's a great romance
I can deal with some psychic pain
If it'll slow down my higher brain
Veins full of disappearing ink
Vomiting in the kitchen sink
Disconnecting from the missing link
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy
The cold comfort of the in-between
A little less than a human being
A little less than a happy high
A little less than a suicide
The only things that you really tried
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
The king's crossing
is the main attraction
Dominoes are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear
Told me whiskey works better than beer
The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve
And every wave is tidal
If you hang around you're going to get wet
I can't prepare for death any more than I already have
All you can do now is watch the shells
The game looks easy that's why it sells
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
Are going to stand and deliver talk instead?
The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps a fat man feeding in Beverly Hills
I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity
And I get my check from the trash treasury
Because I took my own insides out
It don't matter 'cuz I've no sex-life
All I want to do now is inject my ex-wife
I've seen the movie and I know what happens
It's Christmas-time
And the needles on the tree
A skinny Santa is bringing something to me
His voice is overwhelming, but his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word
Open your parachute and grab your gun
Falling down like an omen, a setting sun
Read the part and return at five
It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive
But I don't care if I fuck up
I'm going on a date with a rich white lady
Ain't life great?
Give me one good reason not to do it
(Because we love you)
So do it
This is the place where time reverses
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses
Instruments shine on a silver tray
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me be carried away
Haven't laughed
this hard in a long time
I better stop now before I start crying
Go off to sleep in the sunshine
I don't want to see the day when it's dying
She's a sight to see, she's good to me
I'm already somebody's baby
She's a pretty thing, and she knows everything
But I'm already somebody's baby
You don't deserve to be lonely
But those drugs you got won't make you feel better
Pretty soon you'll find it's the only
Little part of your life you're keeping together
I'm nice to you, I could make it through
That you're already somebody's baby
I could make you smile if you stayed a while
But how long will you stay with me baby?
Because your candle burns too bright
Well, I almost forgot it was twilight
Even if I think that you are right
Well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight
You're wonderful, when it's beautiful
But I'm already somebody's baby
And if I went with you I'd disappoint you, too
Well, I'm already somebody's baby
Already somebody's baby
Everything is
gone but the echo of the burst of a shell
And I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
In the city I built up and blew to hell
I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
Still I sinned all the time
My request for relief
Down the dead powerlines
Though I'm beyond belief
In the help I require
Just to exist at all
Took a long time to stand
Took an hour to fall.
I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
Stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
Still I sinned all the time
My request for relief
Down the dead powerlines
Though I'm beyond belief
In the help I require
Just to exist at all
Took a long time to stand
Took an hour to fall
Here's the army
That you mowed to the ground
And the bodies you left lying around
Talking it out
The last hour
I'm through trying now
It's a big relief
I'll be staying down
Where no-one else gonna give me grief
Mess me around
Just make it over
Your opinion was the law of the land
A single thing that I couldn't always understand
I lived it out from hour to hour
The only thing that never really changed
You ran me all around
And dragged me down
At the end of the day
Don't keep me around
Just make it over
I've been thinking of the things that I missed
Situations that I passed up for this
One way love I took for ours
I'm through trying now
It's a big relief
I'll be staying down
I wasn't good at being a thief
More like a clown
Make it over
You'll make the
scene like you always do
Going up stream down the avenue
To fuck some trophy boy that you'll win tonight at the bar
So bad, so far
You'll make him sad, shooting star
When it was me
I was momentarily proud
Drunk on dreams
Now I'm glad I didn't say out loud
You said you'd be for real
But I don't believe that you are
So bad, so far
You make me sad, shooting star
You're distant and cold and a sight to behold
Everybody just sighs
But no one gets on with you very long
'Cuz you don't feel bad when you lie
I'm going to sleep now
Going back to find square one
Square two be where I can deal with the shit you've just done
It won't be soon
Say the least it's gonna be hard
So bad, so far
Your love is sad, shooting star
Your love is sad, shooting star
This is the place
you'll end up when you lose the chase
Where you’re dragged against your will
From a basement on the hill
And all anybody knows is you're not like them
And they kick you in the head
And send you back to bed
Isolation pulled you pass a tunnel to a bright
World where you can make a place to stay
But everybody's scared of this place, they're staying away
Your little house on memory lane
The mayor's name is Fear
His force patrols the pier
From a mountain of cliché
That advances everyday
The doctor spoke a cloud
He rained out loud
You’ll keep your doors and windows shut
And swear you'll never show a soul again
But isolation pushes you till every muscle aches
Down the only road it ever takes
But everybody's scared of this place, they're staying away
Your little house on memory lane
If it's your decision
To be open about yourself
Be careful or else
Be careful or else
Uncomfortable apart
It's all written on my chart
And I take what's given to me
Most cooperatively
I do what people say
And lie in bed all day
Absolutely horrified
I hope you're satisfied
Isolation pushes past self hatred, guilt and shame
To a place where suffering is just a game
But everybody's scared of this place, they're staying away
Your little house on memory lane
Your little house on memory lane
One more little
one
I'll go down stay down
Sleep the rest of the day
Dream new music to calm down
Stay down and keep evil away
I can hear you asleep
Changing your shape
Dissolved in some dream
As a new one appears
To take you along where you've never been
One, two, three, four, five, six--
The moonlight tonight seems to belong to me
'Cuz I even though some can't sleep
I need some company
One hit wouldn't hurt a bit at all
Slow down sleep
What's--
If it's good shit you won't know
And I won't know the fact that I'm dying
If I seem to be reckless with myself
It's the fault of no one
All things have a place
Under the moon as well as the sun
One more
Little one, I love you
A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to
be Free
I'm floating
in a black balloon
O.D. on Easter afternoon
My mama told me, "baby, stay clean"
There's no in-between
And all you ladies and you gentlemen
Between is all you've ever seen or been
Fit poorly and arrange the sight
Doll it up in virgin white
You disappoint me
You people raking in on the world
The devil's script sells
You the heart of a blackbird
Shine on me baby cause it's raining in my heart
Sun is rising on a chopping glare
Rain dropping acid blotter in the air
A distorted reality's now a necessity to be free
So disappointing
So first I put it all down to luck
God knows why my country don't give a fuck
Fuck
Shine on me baby cause it's raining in my heart
Shine on me baby cause it's raining in my heart
I'll fake it
through the day
With some help from Johnny Walker Red
Send the poison rain down the drain
To put bad thoughts in my head
Your two tickets torn in half
And a lot of nothing to do
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do?
A man in the park
Read the lines in my hand
Told me I'm strong
Hardly ever wrong, I said man you mean
You had plans for both of us
That involved a trip out of town
To a place I've seen in a magazine
That you left lying around
I don't have you with me but
I keep a good attitude
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do?
I know you'd rather see me gone
Than to see me the way that I am
But I am in the life anyway
Next door the TV's flashing
Blue frames on the wall
It's a comedy of errors, you see
It's about taking a fall
To vanish into oblivion
Is easy to do
And I try to be but you know me
I come back when you want me to
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do?
Because the world
is round, it turns me on
Because the world is round
Aaaaaaahhhhhh
Because the wind is high, it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Aaaaaaahhhhhh
Love is all, love is new
Love is all, love is you
Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
Aaaaaaahhhhhh
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh
