Stay tonight,
Let me hold you like I never did before.
Take my arms,
And let me hold you like I never did before.
And I should have tried just to talk about this,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know that I'm,
Still here,
So before you let me go...
Take my hands,
Let me touch you like I never did before.
Take my heart and let me love you,
Like I never did before,
Like I never did before.
And I should have tried just to talk about it,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know,
That I'm still here.
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
And we see ourselves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So before you let me go.
Before you let me go.....
Save the dance and let me spin you,
Till your world is turning round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
Save the chance and let me show you,
Just like you need a little more,
Just like you need a little more.
And I should have tried just to talk about it,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know,
That I'm still here.
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
Until we see oursleves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So much harder than before.
So before you let me go...
Before you let me go...
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
Until we see oursleves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So much harder than before.
But we wast it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
And now we bruise with every step.
When we're closing every door.
Can we make it easier.
Some time?
Some time...
don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
don't wear fear
or nobody will know you're there
just lift your head
and let your feelings out instead
and don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
on by, on by, on by...
you know love is better than this song
love is where all of us belong
so don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
and don't wear fear
or nobody will know you're there
you're there, you're there, you're there...
so don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
and don't wear fear
or no one will know you're there
you know love is better than a song
love is where all of us belong
belong, belong, belong...
There is something exciting about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling, leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you'll ever need
Sitting in the seat next to you
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beside us
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beneath us
Away, away
There is yelling on an engine
A constant rattling door
There is serious deep and mumbled
A conversation I'm not in
Flickering lights, shadows of trees makes me blink my eyes
It makes the land appear like a really old movie
-- CHORUS --
I've got a heart full of rubberbands
That keep getting caught on things
And I count
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
I drift off at eighty... something
And I count
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Out of time for music
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beside us
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beneath us
Mmm, there is something exciting about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you'll ever need
Sitting in the seat next to you
"It only hurts when I breathe"~ Greenwheel
"Love is a tower of strength to me"
"I wait up in the dark, for you to speak to me"
"I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
"I did what I had to do, if there was a reason, it was you"
"I hold the hand that holds me down... I will RISE ABOVE!"
"Shit, solo or something"~ Eddie Vedder
"The best way to change something that's around you, something you don't like, is to change yourself. And I don't think you want other people changing you, I think the only person that can change you is yourself. So if you ain't happy, if you're reading magazines about generation x-ers and thinking 'yeah, I'm one of them', well fuck that. Don't let anyone tell you who you are. No, no. No one can tell me who I am."~ Eddie Vedder (9/26/96)
i'm wishing you a-well
mind at peace within your cell
covers up, i cast you off
i'll be watching as you breathe
i lie still, you move
i send you off around the bend
i hold your head deep in my arms
my fingertips they close your eyes
off you dream, my little child
there's a sun around the bend (yes)
there's a sun around the bend
all the evenings close like this
all these moments that i've missed
please forgive me, won't you, dear?
please forgive and let me share...
with you around the bend
you're an angel when you sleep
how i want your soul to keep
on and on around the bend
would you be the wind to blow me home
would you be a dream
on the wings of a poem
and if you were walking through a crowd
you know I'd be proud
if you call my name out loud
do you suppose that I would come running
do you suppose I'd come at all
I suppsose I would
and if we were walking
down a dead end street
would you be the one to let our eyes meet
or would you just keep on walking
down to the turn around
'cause you know I'd be proud
chorus
and if I was gone from the land we know
would you be the dawn
and let your beauty still show
and if you were walking
and heard the cold night coming
would you call my name
'cause you know I'd come running
I love to see the cottonwood blossom
In the early spring
I love to see the message of love
That the bluebird brings
But when I see you walkin' with him
Down along the strand
I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
I love to see your hair shining
In the long summer's light
I love to watch the stars fill the sky
On a summer night
The music plays you take his hand
I watch how you touch him as you start to dance
And I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
We struggle here but all our love's in vain
And these eyes that once filled me with your beauty
Now fill me with pain
And the light that once entered here
Is banished from me
And this darkness is all baby that my heart sees
And though the world is filled
With the grace and beauty of God's hand
Oh I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
It's not all been said...been said and done...
I've never slept in Satan's bed
Although I must admit...still visits my place
Uninvited, as you know, he don't wait
Funny how he always seems to fit in
Funny how I always want to give in
Sundays, Fridays, Tuesdays, Thursday, the same
Sometimes the special guest, he don't like to leave
Already...in love...
Who made, who made up, made up the myth
That we were born to be covered in bliss?
Who set the standard, born to be rich?
Such fine examples, skinny little bitch
Model, role model, roll some models in blood
Get some flesh to stick, so they look like us
I shit and I stink, I'm real, join the club
I'd stop and talk, but I'm already in love
Already...in love... already... in love
...follows torture...follows reward...
Oh, oh my butt...
Never shook Satan's hand, look see for yourself
You'd know it if I had, that shit don't come off
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both
Jump off a cliff, don't need your help so back off
I'll never suck Satan's dick...
Again, you'd see it, you know, right round the lips
I'll wait for an angel, but I won't hold my breath
'Magine they're busy, think I'm doing okay...
Already...in love...
Already...
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.
Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one.
So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
As the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
The breath of the morning,
I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air.
I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing,
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement.
High up above, aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home.
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits,
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets.
They're all...
Uptight
Uptight
Uptight
Uuup.....
I wish that they'd swoop down, in a country lane,
Late at night when I'm driving.
Take me onboard their beautiful ship, show me the world as I'd love to see it.
I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.
I'd show them the stars, and the meaning of life.
They'd shut me away, but I'd be alright.
I'm aaalriiiight........alright.
I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who’s all dressed up like a union jack
And says, I’ve won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack
The telephone is ringing
I say, "hi, it’s me. who is it there on the line? "
A voice says, "hi, hello, how are you
Well, I guess I’m doin’ fine"
He says, "it’s three a.m., there’s too much noise
Don’t you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just ’cause you feel so good, do you have
To drive me out of my head? "
I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like
A flag stuck on my window screen
I said, hey! you! get off of my cloud
Hey! you! get off of my cloud
Hey! you! get off of my cloud
Don’t hang around ’cause two’s a crowd
On my cloud
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
(reality...is what i've seen...)
i had a false belief
i thought i came here to stay
we're all just visiting
all just breaking like waves
the oceans made me, but who came up with me?
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
so if there were no angels, would there be no sin?
you better stop me before i begin
but let me say: if i behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground
somewhere nice, make it nice
where the land meets high tide
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
like a cloud dropping rain
i'm discarding all thought
i'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground
i'm like an opening band for the sun
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
i've had enough, said enough, felt enough, i'm fine
see ya later
"You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
that old viscious screaming within
the talk of the building with the crash about
and broken glass it slides across his skin
they both cry till exhausted and wind up in each other's arms
it's a mindshaker meltdown
it's a spreading disease
i've seen it before girl, i hope they come after me
cause i'm a bad motherfucker, selfish and sick
you better say your prayers baby cause it's coming down quick
it's a mindshaker meltdown
it's a spreading disease
it's a mindshaker meltdown
i hope they come after me
he lost control, her voice like a fire alarm
realize he could've hurt his love without knowing it at all
it seems he transforms when she screams her song
possesed by a broken window and her crying for love
it's a mass jubilation, with jesters and thieves
a kind of group masturbation as they crucify me
cause i'm a hollywood dreamboy, a pinup in their eyes
i represent mama all you despise
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
she said to me, over the phone
she wanted to see other people
i thought, "well then, look around, they're everywhere"
said that she was confused...
i thought, "darling, join the club"
24 years old, mid-life crisis
nowadays hits you when you're young
i hung up, she called back, i hung up again
the process had already started
at least it happened quick
i swear, i died inside that night
my friend, he called
i didn't mention a thing
the last thing he said was, "be sound"
sound...
i contemplated an awful thing, i hate to admit
i just thought those would be such appropriate last words
but i'm still here
and small
so small.. how could this struggle seem so big?
so big...
while the palms in the breeze still blow green
and the waves in the sea still absolute blue
but the horror
every single thing i see is a reminder of her
never thought i'd curse the day i met her
and since she's gone and wouldn't hear
who would care? what good would that do?
but i'm still here
so i imagine in a month...or 12
i'l be somewhere having a drink
laughing at a stupid joke
or just another stupid thing
and i can see myself stopping short
drifting out of the present
sucked by the undertow and pulled out deep
and there i am, standing
wet grass and white headstones all in rows
and in the distance there's one, off on its own
so i stop, kneel
my new home...
and i picture a sober awakening, a re-entry into this little bar scene
sip my drink til the ice hits my lip
order another round
and that's it for now
sorry
never been too good at happy endings...
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
I'm riding down Kingsley,
figuring I'll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud,
so I don't have to think,
I take her to the floor,
looking for a moment when the world
seems right,
And I tear into the guts,
of something in the night.
You're born with nothing,
and better off that way,
Soon as you've got something they send
someone to try and take it away,
You can ride this road 'till dawn,
without another human being in sight,
Just kids wasted on
something in the night.
Nothing is forgotten or forgiven,
when it's your last time around,
I got stuff running 'round my head
That I just can't live down
When we found the things we loved,
They were crushed and dying in the dirt.
We tried to pick up the pieces,
And get away without getting hurt,
But they caught us at the state line,
And burned our cars in one last fight,
And left us running burned and blind,
Chasing something in the night.
Hey you caught me in a coma
And I don't think I wanna
Ever come back to this...world again
Kinda like it in a coma
'Cause no one's ever gonna
Oh, make me come back to this...world again
Now I feel as if I'm floating away
I can't feel all the pressure
And I like it this way
But my body's callin'
My body's callin'
Won't ya come back to this...world again
Suspended deep in a sea of black
I've got the light at the end
I've got the bones on the mast
Well I've gone sailin',
I've gone sailin'
I could leave so easily
While friends are calling back to me
I said they're
They're leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
And someone to tell me
What the fuck is going on
Goddamn it
Slippin' farther an farther away
It's a miracle how long we can stay
In a world our minds created
In a world that's full of shit
Help me
Help me
Help me
Help me
Bastard
Please understand me
I'm climbin' through the wreckage
Of all my twisted dreams
But this cheap investigation just Can't stifle all my screams
And I'm waitin' at the crossroads
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
Where are you?
No one's gonna bother me anymore
No one's gonna mess with my head no more
I can't understand what all the fightin's for
But it's so nice here down off the shore
I wish you could see this
'Cause there's nothing to see
It's peaceful here and it's fine with me
Not like the world where I used to live
I never really wanted to live
Zap him again
Zap the son of a bitch again
Ya live your life like it's a coma
So won't you tell me why we'd wanna
With all the reasons you give it's
It's kinda hard to believe
But who am I to tell you that I've Seen any reason why you should stay
Matbe we'd be better off
Without you anyway
You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
An there's no way out alive
An all this crass communication
That has left you in the cold
Isn't much for consolation
When you feel so weak and old
But is home is where the heart is
Then there's stories to be told
No you don't need a doctor
No one else can heal your soul
Got your mind in submission
Got your life on the line
But nobody pulled the trigger
They just stepped aside
They be down by the water
While you watch 'em waving goodbye
They be callin' in the morning
They be hangin' on the phone
They be waiting for an answer
When you know nobody's home
And when the bell's stopped ringing
It was nobody's fault but your own
There were always ample warnings
There were always subtle signs
And you would have seen it comin'
But we gave you too much time
And when you said
That no one's listening
Why'd your best friend drop a dime
Sometimes we get so tired of waiting
For a way to spend our time
An "It's so easy" to be social
"It's so easy" to be cool
Yeah it's easy to be hungry
When you ain't got shit to lose
And I wish that I could help you
With what you hope to find
But I'm still out here waiting
Watching reruns of my life
When you reach the point of breaking
Know it's gonna take some time
To heal the broken memories
That another man would need
Just to survive
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
Gonna save you fucker....not gonna lose you
Feeling cocky and strong.. can't let you go,...
Too important to me
Too important to us... we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall... I'm right below you now
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck if you only hear what you wanna hear
Fuck me if I care... but I'm not leaving here
You helped me when I was down... I'll help when you're down
Why are you hitting yourself... c'mon hit me instead
Let's pick up your will... it's grown fat and lazy
I'm sympathetic as well... don't go on me now
And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfist and clear
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
My best friend... wake up to see you could have it all
Cause there is but you... and something within you
It's taken control.. let's beat it, get up let's go
Oh you're in your own world, let's see the whole world
Let's pick up your soul
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
Please help... me... to help you,... help yourself
Help me help yourself... please want me to... please let me to
Help you
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
she motioned to me
that she wanted to leave
and go somewhere warm
where we'd be alone
but i do not know, what's going on
but i'm guessing it's an all night thing
it's an all night thing
if it's an all night thing
nobody is gonna make it end
and if it don't begin
don't worry that i'll take offense
and if it's an all night thing
and we fall like a tear falling to the ground
i'll never come around
and you'll never hear a word from me
if it's an all night thing
well i walked alone, feeling at ease
and falling like rain
into her scheme
she won't let on what that'll be
but i'm guessing
it's an all night thing
if it's n all night thing
nobody is gonna make it end
and if it don't begin
don't worry that i'll take offense
yeah if it's an all night thing
and we fall like a tear falling to the ground
i'll never come around
and you'll never hear a word from me
if it's an all night thing...
if the mother goes to sleep with you
will you run and tell Geraldo
if the mother bears your children without tears
without the usual costs of labor
if the mother goes to bed with you
will you run and tell the neighbors
will you hide behind that get up that you wear
or will you take the first ear that comes into contact with your blade
like Peter did on the hill
will you call her a freak?
will you call them freaks?
if the mother goes to bed with you
will you run and tell the papers
how she picked you from a line up in downtown philadelphia
with a cigarette hangin' out of your mouth and henry miller in your back pocket
you little fucker
if the mother goes to bed with you
in the bowels of the cathedral
will you render her asunder with what she really needs
or will you crash that beautiful silence with some talk about
finding yourself in your mother's arms
will you call her a freak?
will you call them freaks?
or will you call them Gods?
will you call them freaks?
you know your sperm is weak
you never looked, so high
to ever find her so low
you did not have to go, that far
to show her you were holy
now you know they're gonna come for you
and drag your silly name into the mud
if the mother bears your children without tears
and without the usual costs of labor
I like driving backwards in the fog, 'cause it doesn't remind of anything...
Pearls of swine bereft of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for the leaving I feel
(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
Friends and liars don't wait for me
I'll get on by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel
(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightening
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
Napoleon's mother couldn't make it to his coronation. But when he commissioned it, Napoleon told David to paint her in as if she were there, right in the center. Even though she couldn't be there physically he brought her into his life through sheer force of will. There to share in his greatness.
Do you know what my father gave me for my tenth birthday? A copy of The Will to Power. "Behold the Superman - man is something to be overcome." Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, they were the voices that nurtured me after my mother died. My father made every question a quiz, every choice a test. Second best was for losers, compassion for the weak, trust no one. Those were the lessons I grew up with.
The man of tomorrow is shaped by his battles today.
In life, the road to darkness is a journey, not a light switch.
Sentimentality is synonymous with vulnerability
It's like the German poet Rilke said - a person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship
and i wished for so long, cannot stay
all the precious moments, cannot stay
it's not like wings have fallen, cannot stay
but still something's missing, i cannot say yeah
holding hands are daughters and sons
and their faiths are falling down down down down
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
will i walk the long road the long road
cannot stay the long road
there's no need to say goodbye say goodbye
all the friends and family
all the memories going round round round
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
and the wind keeps roarin'
and the sky keeps turning grey
and the sun is setting
the sun will rise another day
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
will i walk the long road
we all walk the long road
will i walk the long road
we all walk the long road
"You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
tidal waves don't beg forgiveness
crash, then on their way
father, he enjoyed collisions
others walked away
the snowflake falls in may
and the doors are open now
as the bells are ringing out
cuz the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
goodbye for now
nature has its own religion
gospel from the land
father ruled by long division
young men, they pretend
old men comprehend
and the sky breaks at dawn
shedding light upon this town
we all come 'round
cuz the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
goodbye for now
and the road, the old men paved
the broken seams along the way
the rusted signs, they're just for me
he was guiding me, love, his own way
now the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
as the curtain comes down
i feel that this is just
goodbye for now
Would you knock a man down if you didn't like the cut of his clothes?
Could you put a man away if you don't want to hear what he knows?
Well, it's happening right here, people dying of fear by the droves.
And I know most of you either don't believe it's true
or else you don't know what to do, or maybe I'm singing about you, who knows?
It's incredibly sick, you can feel it as across the land it flows.
Prejudice is slick, when it's a word game it festers and grows.
Move along quick, it furthers one to have somewhere to go.
You can feel it as it's rumbling, let emotions keep a-tumbling,
then, as cities start to crumbling, mostly empty bellies grumbling here we go.
People see somebody different, fear is the first reaction shown.
Then they think they've got him licked, the barbaric hunt begins and they move in slow.
A human spirit is devoured, the remains left to carrion crow.
I was told that life is change and yet history remains, does it always stay the same?
Do we shrug it off and say, ‘only God knows?’
By and by, somebody usually goes down to the ghetto,
try and help, but they don't know why folks treat them cold.
And the rich keep getting richer, and the rest of us just keep getting old.
You see, one must have a mission in order to be a good Christian,
if you don't you will be missing High Mass or the evening show,
and the well fed masters reap the harvests of the polluted seeds they've sown.
Smug and self-righteous, they bitch about people they owe.
And you can't prove them wrong, they're so God damn sure they know.
I have seen these things with my very own eyes,
and defended my battered soul, it must be too tough to die.
American propaganda, South African lies will not force me to take up arms,
that's my enemy's pride and I won't fight by his rules, that's foolishness besides.
His ignorance is gonna do him in and nobody's gonna cry
because his children, they are growing up and plainly tired of putting up
with bigots and their silver cups, they're fed up, they might throw up on you, alright.
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
On another day c'mon c'mon
With these ropes I tied can we do no wrong
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I ever learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)
As I make my way c'mon c'mon
These better nights that seem too long
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)
sometimes you're the boxer...sometimes you're the bag...
If queen bodecia is long dead and gone
well the spirit in her children's children's
children still live on
But if you've lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long
because if it's gone for you then i too may lose it and that would be wrong
You know i've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
back into my my bad old ways
and it chars my heart to always hear you calling
calling for the good old days
because there were no 'good old days'
these are the good old days
and it's not about tenements and needles and all the evils in the eyes and the backs of thier minds
Daisy chains, and school-yard games. and a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
the arcadian dream has all fallen through
but the albion sails on course
so man the decks and hoist the rigging
because the pig-mans found the source
and there's 12 rude boys on the oars
(they're singing row row row)
I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me
If you've lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long
dawn breaks, i am alone
i'm awake, eyes unopened
half in the dark, half in the room
half in the light sealed by your womb
sail soon my eyes out in the dark
oceans of sighs, adrift in her bark
islands lay scattered, island won't talk
life hardly matters here in the dark
i want you in solitude
i need you in solitude
i want you in solitude
i haunt you in solitude
once a jester in circles of friends
spoke in whispers, starwords and gems
see through my scars, make them mend
adrift on her bark, once was a friend
sail away, i sail away, i sail nowhere, nowhere, nowhere
hear her laugh through the air
down from the past into my lair
i want you in solitude
i need you in solitude
i want you in solitude
i haunt you in solitude
"I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks."
and it feels so real I can feel it
and it tastes so real I can taste it
and it sounds so real I can hear it
but why can't I touch it
but why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it........
Comments
Let me hold you like I never did before.
Take my arms,
And let me hold you like I never did before.
And I should have tried just to talk about this,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know that I'm,
Still here,
So before you let me go...
Take my hands,
Let me touch you like I never did before.
Take my heart and let me love you,
Like I never did before,
Like I never did before.
And I should have tried just to talk about it,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know,
That I'm still here.
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
And we see ourselves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So before you let me go.
Before you let me go.....
Save the dance and let me spin you,
Till your world is turning round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
Save the chance and let me show you,
Just like you need a little more,
Just like you need a little more.
And I should have tried just to talk about it,
Waiting, ending.
I should have tried just to let you know,
That I'm still here.
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
Until we see oursleves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So much harder than before.
So before you let me go...
Before you let me go...
But we waste it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
Until we see oursleves no more.
When we're closing every door,
It's so much harder than before,
So much harder than before.
But we wast it every time,
Now my heart is on the line,
And now we bruise with every step.
When we're closing every door.
Can we make it easier.
Some time?
Some time...
Jason
just let your feelings roll on by
don't wear fear
or nobody will know you're there
just lift your head
and let your feelings out instead
and don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
on by, on by, on by...
you know love is better than this song
love is where all of us belong
so don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
and don't wear fear
or nobody will know you're there
you're there, you're there, you're there...
so don't be shy
just let your feelings roll on by
and don't wear fear
or no one will know you're there
you know love is better than a song
love is where all of us belong
belong, belong, belong...
Jason
There is something deep and pulling, leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you'll ever need
Sitting in the seat next to you
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beside us
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beneath us
Away, away
There is yelling on an engine
A constant rattling door
There is serious deep and mumbled
A conversation I'm not in
Flickering lights, shadows of trees makes me blink my eyes
It makes the land appear like a really old movie
-- CHORUS --
I've got a heart full of rubberbands
That keep getting caught on things
And I count
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
I drift off at eighty... something
And I count
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Out of time for music
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beside us
And I watch
Another white dash
Another white dash
Another white dash
Fly beneath us
Mmm, there is something exciting about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling leaving everything behind
Something about having everything you think you'll ever need
Sitting in the seat next to you
"Love is a tower of strength to me"
"I wait up in the dark, for you to speak to me"
"I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
"I did what I had to do, if there was a reason, it was you"
"I hold the hand that holds me down... I will RISE ABOVE!"
"Shit, solo or something"~ Eddie Vedder
"The best way to change something that's around you, something you don't like, is to change yourself. And I don't think you want other people changing you, I think the only person that can change you is yourself. So if you ain't happy, if you're reading magazines about generation x-ers and thinking 'yeah, I'm one of them', well fuck that. Don't let anyone tell you who you are. No, no. No one can tell me who I am."~ Eddie Vedder (9/26/96)
mind at peace within your cell
covers up, i cast you off
i'll be watching as you breathe
i lie still, you move
i send you off around the bend
i hold your head deep in my arms
my fingertips they close your eyes
off you dream, my little child
there's a sun around the bend (yes)
there's a sun around the bend
all the evenings close like this
all these moments that i've missed
please forgive me, won't you, dear?
please forgive and let me share...
with you around the bend
you're an angel when you sleep
how i want your soul to keep
on and on around the bend
Jason
would you be the wind to blow me home
would you be a dream
on the wings of a poem
and if you were walking through a crowd
you know I'd be proud
if you call my name out loud
do you suppose that I would come running
do you suppose I'd come at all
I suppsose I would
and if we were walking
down a dead end street
would you be the one to let our eyes meet
or would you just keep on walking
down to the turn around
'cause you know I'd be proud
chorus
and if I was gone from the land we know
would you be the dawn
and let your beauty still show
and if you were walking
and heard the cold night coming
would you call my name
'cause you know I'd come running
I love to see the cottonwood blossom
In the early spring
I love to see the message of love
That the bluebird brings
But when I see you walkin' with him
Down along the strand
I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
I love to see your hair shining
In the long summer's light
I love to watch the stars fill the sky
On a summer night
The music plays you take his hand
I watch how you touch him as you start to dance
And I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
We struggle here but all our love's in vain
And these eyes that once filled me with your beauty
Now fill me with pain
And the light that once entered here
Is banished from me
And this darkness is all baby that my heart sees
And though the world is filled
With the grace and beauty of God's hand
Oh I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
--Springsteen
I miss you Daddy.....10/12/07
I've never slept in Satan's bed
Although I must admit...still visits my place
Uninvited, as you know, he don't wait
Funny how he always seems to fit in
Funny how I always want to give in
Sundays, Fridays, Tuesdays, Thursday, the same
Sometimes the special guest, he don't like to leave
Already...in love...
Who made, who made up, made up the myth
That we were born to be covered in bliss?
Who set the standard, born to be rich?
Such fine examples, skinny little bitch
Model, role model, roll some models in blood
Get some flesh to stick, so they look like us
I shit and I stink, I'm real, join the club
I'd stop and talk, but I'm already in love
Already...in love... already... in love
...follows torture...follows reward...
Oh, oh my butt...
Never shook Satan's hand, look see for yourself
You'd know it if I had, that shit don't come off
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both
Jump off a cliff, don't need your help so back off
I'll never suck Satan's dick...
Again, you'd see it, you know, right round the lips
I'll wait for an angel, but I won't hold my breath
'Magine they're busy, think I'm doing okay...
Already...in love...
Already...
Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.
Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one.
So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
As the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.
The breath of the morning,
I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air.
I live in a town
Where you can't smell a thing,
You watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement.
High up above, aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home.
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits,
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets.
They're all...
Uptight
Uptight
Uptight
Uuup.....
I wish that they'd swoop down, in a country lane,
Late at night when I'm driving.
Take me onboard their beautiful ship, show me the world as I'd love to see it.
I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.
I'd show them the stars, and the meaning of life.
They'd shut me away, but I'd be alright.
I'm aaalriiiight........alright.
I'm just...
Uptight
Uptight
Uptight
Uptight
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who’s all dressed up like a union jack
And says, I’ve won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack
The telephone is ringing
I say, "hi, it’s me. who is it there on the line? "
A voice says, "hi, hello, how are you
Well, I guess I’m doin’ fine"
He says, "it’s three a.m., there’s too much noise
Don’t you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just ’cause you feel so good, do you have
To drive me out of my head? "
I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like
A flag stuck on my window screen
I said, hey! you! get off of my cloud
Hey! you! get off of my cloud
Hey! you! get off of my cloud
Don’t hang around ’cause two’s a crowd
On my cloud
i had a false belief
i thought i came here to stay
we're all just visiting
all just breaking like waves
the oceans made me, but who came up with me?
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
so if there were no angels, would there be no sin?
you better stop me before i begin
but let me say: if i behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground
somewhere nice, make it nice
where the land meets high tide
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
push me, pull me, or pull me out
like a cloud dropping rain
i'm discarding all thought
i'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground
i'm like an opening band for the sun
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
push me, pull me, push me, pull me
i've had enough, said enough, felt enough, i'm fine
see ya later
Mother Love Bone
that old viscious screaming within
the talk of the building with the crash about
and broken glass it slides across his skin
they both cry till exhausted and wind up in each other's arms
it's a mindshaker meltdown
it's a spreading disease
i've seen it before girl, i hope they come after me
cause i'm a bad motherfucker, selfish and sick
you better say your prayers baby cause it's coming down quick
it's a mindshaker meltdown
it's a spreading disease
it's a mindshaker meltdown
i hope they come after me
he lost control, her voice like a fire alarm
realize he could've hurt his love without knowing it at all
it seems he transforms when she screams her song
possesed by a broken window and her crying for love
it's a mass jubilation, with jesters and thieves
a kind of group masturbation as they crucify me
cause i'm a hollywood dreamboy, a pinup in their eyes
i represent mama all you despise
she wanted to see other people
i thought, "well then, look around, they're everywhere"
said that she was confused...
i thought, "darling, join the club"
24 years old, mid-life crisis
nowadays hits you when you're young
i hung up, she called back, i hung up again
the process had already started
at least it happened quick
i swear, i died inside that night
my friend, he called
i didn't mention a thing
the last thing he said was, "be sound"
sound...
i contemplated an awful thing, i hate to admit
i just thought those would be such appropriate last words
but i'm still here
and small
so small.. how could this struggle seem so big?
so big...
while the palms in the breeze still blow green
and the waves in the sea still absolute blue
but the horror
every single thing i see is a reminder of her
never thought i'd curse the day i met her
and since she's gone and wouldn't hear
who would care? what good would that do?
but i'm still here
so i imagine in a month...or 12
i'l be somewhere having a drink
laughing at a stupid joke
or just another stupid thing
and i can see myself stopping short
drifting out of the present
sucked by the undertow and pulled out deep
and there i am, standing
wet grass and white headstones all in rows
and in the distance there's one, off on its own
so i stop, kneel
my new home...
and i picture a sober awakening, a re-entry into this little bar scene
sip my drink til the ice hits my lip
order another round
and that's it for now
sorry
never been too good at happy endings...
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
figuring I'll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud,
so I don't have to think,
I take her to the floor,
looking for a moment when the world
seems right,
And I tear into the guts,
of something in the night.
You're born with nothing,
and better off that way,
Soon as you've got something they send
someone to try and take it away,
You can ride this road 'till dawn,
without another human being in sight,
Just kids wasted on
something in the night.
Nothing is forgotten or forgiven,
when it's your last time around,
I got stuff running 'round my head
That I just can't live down
When we found the things we loved,
They were crushed and dying in the dirt.
We tried to pick up the pieces,
And get away without getting hurt,
But they caught us at the state line,
And burned our cars in one last fight,
And left us running burned and blind,
Chasing something in the night.
Jason
Hey you caught me in a coma
And I don't think I wanna
Ever come back to this...world again
Kinda like it in a coma
'Cause no one's ever gonna
Oh, make me come back to this...world again
Now I feel as if I'm floating away
I can't feel all the pressure
And I like it this way
But my body's callin'
My body's callin'
Won't ya come back to this...world again
Suspended deep in a sea of black
I've got the light at the end
I've got the bones on the mast
Well I've gone sailin',
I've gone sailin'
I could leave so easily
While friends are calling back to me
I said they're
They're leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
And someone to tell me
What the fuck is going on
Goddamn it
Slippin' farther an farther away
It's a miracle how long we can stay
In a world our minds created
In a world that's full of shit
Help me
Help me
Help me
Help me
Bastard
Please understand me
I'm climbin' through the wreckage
Of all my twisted dreams
But this cheap investigation just Can't stifle all my screams
And I'm waitin' at the crossroads
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
Where are you?
No one's gonna bother me anymore
No one's gonna mess with my head no more
I can't understand what all the fightin's for
But it's so nice here down off the shore
I wish you could see this
'Cause there's nothing to see
It's peaceful here and it's fine with me
Not like the world where I used to live
I never really wanted to live
Zap him again
Zap the son of a bitch again
Ya live your life like it's a coma
So won't you tell me why we'd wanna
With all the reasons you give it's
It's kinda hard to believe
But who am I to tell you that I've Seen any reason why you should stay
Matbe we'd be better off
Without you anyway
You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
An there's no way out alive
An all this crass communication
That has left you in the cold
Isn't much for consolation
When you feel so weak and old
But is home is where the heart is
Then there's stories to be told
No you don't need a doctor
No one else can heal your soul
Got your mind in submission
Got your life on the line
But nobody pulled the trigger
They just stepped aside
They be down by the water
While you watch 'em waving goodbye
They be callin' in the morning
They be hangin' on the phone
They be waiting for an answer
When you know nobody's home
And when the bell's stopped ringing
It was nobody's fault but your own
There were always ample warnings
There were always subtle signs
And you would have seen it comin'
But we gave you too much time
And when you said
That no one's listening
Why'd your best friend drop a dime
Sometimes we get so tired of waiting
For a way to spend our time
An "It's so easy" to be social
"It's so easy" to be cool
Yeah it's easy to be hungry
When you ain't got shit to lose
And I wish that I could help you
With what you hope to find
But I'm still out here waiting
Watching reruns of my life
When you reach the point of breaking
Know it's gonna take some time
To heal the broken memories
That another man would need
Just to survive
Feeling cocky and strong.. can't let you go,...
Too important to me
Too important to us... we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall... I'm right below you now
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck if you only hear what you wanna hear
Fuck me if I care... but I'm not leaving here
You helped me when I was down... I'll help when you're down
Why are you hitting yourself... c'mon hit me instead
Let's pick up your will... it's grown fat and lazy
I'm sympathetic as well... don't go on me now
And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfist and clear
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
My best friend... wake up to see you could have it all
Cause there is but you... and something within you
It's taken control.. let's beat it, get up let's go
Oh you're in your own world, let's see the whole world
Let's pick up your soul
And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear
And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
Please help... me... to help you,... help yourself
Help me help yourself... please want me to... please let me to
Help you
that she wanted to leave
and go somewhere warm
where we'd be alone
but i do not know, what's going on
but i'm guessing it's an all night thing
it's an all night thing
if it's an all night thing
nobody is gonna make it end
and if it don't begin
don't worry that i'll take offense
and if it's an all night thing
and we fall like a tear falling to the ground
i'll never come around
and you'll never hear a word from me
if it's an all night thing
well i walked alone, feeling at ease
and falling like rain
into her scheme
she won't let on what that'll be
but i'm guessing
it's an all night thing
if it's n all night thing
nobody is gonna make it end
and if it don't begin
don't worry that i'll take offense
yeah if it's an all night thing
and we fall like a tear falling to the ground
i'll never come around
and you'll never hear a word from me
if it's an all night thing...
Jason
if the mother goes to sleep with you
will you run and tell Geraldo
if the mother bears your children without tears
without the usual costs of labor
if the mother goes to bed with you
will you run and tell the neighbors
will you hide behind that get up that you wear
or will you take the first ear that comes into contact with your blade
like Peter did on the hill
will you call her a freak?
will you call them freaks?
if the mother goes to bed with you
will you run and tell the papers
how she picked you from a line up in downtown philadelphia
with a cigarette hangin' out of your mouth and henry miller in your back pocket
you little fucker
if the mother goes to bed with you
in the bowels of the cathedral
will you render her asunder with what she really needs
or will you crash that beautiful silence with some talk about
finding yourself in your mother's arms
will you call her a freak?
will you call them freaks?
or will you call them Gods?
will you call them freaks?
you know your sperm is weak
you never looked, so high
to ever find her so low
you did not have to go, that far
to show her you were holy
now you know they're gonna come for you
and drag your silly name into the mud
if the mother bears your children without tears
and without the usual costs of labor
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for the leaving I feel
(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
Friends and liars don't wait for me
I'll get on by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel
(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightening
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
Do you know what my father gave me for my tenth birthday? A copy of The Will to Power. "Behold the Superman - man is something to be overcome." Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, they were the voices that nurtured me after my mother died. My father made every question a quiz, every choice a test. Second best was for losers, compassion for the weak, trust no one. Those were the lessons I grew up with.
The man of tomorrow is shaped by his battles today.
In life, the road to darkness is a journey, not a light switch.
Sentimentality is synonymous with vulnerability
It's like the German poet Rilke said - a person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship
all the precious moments, cannot stay
it's not like wings have fallen, cannot stay
but still something's missing, i cannot say yeah
holding hands are daughters and sons
and their faiths are falling down down down down
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
will i walk the long road the long road
cannot stay the long road
there's no need to say goodbye say goodbye
all the friends and family
all the memories going round round round
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
and the wind keeps roarin'
and the sky keeps turning grey
and the sun is setting
the sun will rise another day
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today
will i walk the long road
we all walk the long road
will i walk the long road
we all walk the long road
crash, then on their way
father, he enjoyed collisions
others walked away
the snowflake falls in may
and the doors are open now
as the bells are ringing out
cuz the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
goodbye for now
nature has its own religion
gospel from the land
father ruled by long division
young men, they pretend
old men comprehend
and the sky breaks at dawn
shedding light upon this town
we all come 'round
cuz the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
goodbye for now
and the road, the old men paved
the broken seams along the way
the rusted signs, they're just for me
he was guiding me, love, his own way
now the man of the hour
has taken his final bow
as the curtain comes down
i feel that this is just
goodbye for now
Jason
And your bird can sing
But you don't get me, you don't get me
You say you've seen seven wonders and your bird is green
But you can't see me, you can't see me
When your prized possessions start to wear you down
Look in my direction, I'll be round, I'll be round
When your bird is broken will it bring you down
You may be awoken, I'll be round, I'll be round
You tell me that you've heard every sound there is
And your bird can swim
But you can't hear me, you can't hear me
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix cause I'm going down
Would you knock a man down if you didn't like the cut of his clothes?
Could you put a man away if you don't want to hear what he knows?
Well, it's happening right here, people dying of fear by the droves.
And I know most of you either don't believe it's true
or else you don't know what to do, or maybe I'm singing about you, who knows?
It's incredibly sick, you can feel it as across the land it flows.
Prejudice is slick, when it's a word game it festers and grows.
Move along quick, it furthers one to have somewhere to go.
You can feel it as it's rumbling, let emotions keep a-tumbling,
then, as cities start to crumbling, mostly empty bellies grumbling here we go.
People see somebody different, fear is the first reaction shown.
Then they think they've got him licked, the barbaric hunt begins and they move in slow.
A human spirit is devoured, the remains left to carrion crow.
I was told that life is change and yet history remains, does it always stay the same?
Do we shrug it off and say, ‘only God knows?’
By and by, somebody usually goes down to the ghetto,
try and help, but they don't know why folks treat them cold.
And the rich keep getting richer, and the rest of us just keep getting old.
You see, one must have a mission in order to be a good Christian,
if you don't you will be missing High Mass or the evening show,
and the well fed masters reap the harvests of the polluted seeds they've sown.
Smug and self-righteous, they bitch about people they owe.
And you can't prove them wrong, they're so God damn sure they know.
I have seen these things with my very own eyes,
and defended my battered soul, it must be too tough to die.
American propaganda, South African lies will not force me to take up arms,
that's my enemy's pride and I won't fight by his rules, that's foolishness besides.
His ignorance is gonna do him in and nobody's gonna cry
because his children, they are growing up and plainly tired of putting up
with bigots and their silver cups, they're fed up, they might throw up on you, alright.
With these ropes I tied can we do no wrong
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I ever learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)
As I make my way c'mon c'mon
These better nights that seem too long
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young
Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)
I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger,
Drop the blade
And watch the rolling heads
The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar's change
And gave it to the rich
The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
Might make it
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live
Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones
Inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere
But dead
The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs
I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed
The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs
And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you
Angry Walls That Steal The Air
Stomach Hurts And I Don't Care
What Do I See Across The Way
See Myself Molded In Clay
Stares At Me, Yeah I'm Afraid
Changing The Shape Of His Face
Candles Red I Have A Pair
Shadows Dancing Everywhere
Burning On The Angry Chair
Little Boy Made A Mistake
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees, Time To Pray Boy
I Don't Mind, Yeah
I Dont Mind, I-I-I
Lost My Mind, Yeah
But I Don't Mind, I-I-I
Can't Find It Anywhere
I Don't Mind
Corporate Prison We Stay
I'm A Dull Boy, Work All Day
So I'm Strung Out Anyway
Lonliness Is Not A Phase
Field Of Pain Is Where I Graze
Serenity Is Far Away
Say My Reflection And Cried
So Little Hope That I Died
Feed Me Your Lies, Open Wide
Weight Of My Heart, Not The Size
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees Time To Pray
If queen bodecia is long dead and gone
well the spirit in her children's children's
children still live on
But if you've lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long
because if it's gone for you then i too may lose it and that would be wrong
You know i've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
back into my my bad old ways
and it chars my heart to always hear you calling
calling for the good old days
because there were no 'good old days'
these are the good old days
and it's not about tenements and needles and all the evils in the eyes and the backs of thier minds
Daisy chains, and school-yard games. and a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
the arcadian dream has all fallen through
but the albion sails on course
so man the decks and hoist the rigging
because the pig-mans found the source
and there's 12 rude boys on the oars
(they're singing row row row)
If you've lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long
dawn breaks, i am alone
i'm awake, eyes unopened
half in the dark, half in the room
half in the light sealed by your womb
sail soon my eyes out in the dark
oceans of sighs, adrift in her bark
islands lay scattered, island won't talk
life hardly matters here in the dark
i want you in solitude
i need you in solitude
i want you in solitude
i haunt you in solitude
once a jester in circles of friends
spoke in whispers, starwords and gems
see through my scars, make them mend
adrift on her bark, once was a friend
sail away, i sail away, i sail nowhere, nowhere, nowhere
hear her laugh through the air
down from the past into my lair
i want you in solitude
i need you in solitude
i want you in solitude
i haunt you in solitude
and it feels so real I can feel it
and it tastes so real I can taste it
and it sounds so real I can hear it
but why can't I touch it
but why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it
so why can't I touch it........