To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away
And the blare of the sirens combing the streets
Chased down like dogs we run from
Your grasp until the sun comes up
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
don't know why i can't stop singing it since it doesn't apply but it's been stuck in my head for days
i figured it out, what you said
but now that you've gone away
and everything's turned out wrong
i opened my eyes and you were gone, girl
and to my surprise i could not be
the one that you loved
you ran away and over me
and if i knew that you would run
to far beyond my reach
i would've wish that you was free
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don't compete; coexist
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
So, if the sun does shine and the rain does fall
I give thank I've had my sight to see through it all
I have have felt pleasure and
I have felt pain and
I know now I can never be the same'
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain, spinning in the silence
To finally drift away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard and catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen, white roses on a grave
Yeah and to be yourself is all that you can do
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself, down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love until the end of time
Another runs away, separate or united, healthy or insane
And to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, be yourself is all that you can do
Even when you've paid enough
Been pulled apart or been held up
Every single memory of the good or bad
Faces of luck
Don't lose any sleep tonight
I'm sure everything will end up alright
You may win or lose
But to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
To be yourself is all that you can do
Oh, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can do
just give me medicine
prescribe me anything
just knock me out and pull me through the door
i have no desire
to see through my own eyes anymore anymore anymore...
I wrote this novel just for you
It sounds pretentious but it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
That's why it's vulgar
That's why it's blue
And I say, thank you
And I say, thank you
I wrote this novel just for Mom
For all the mommy things she's done
For all the times she showed me wrong
For all the time she sang god's song
And I say thank you Mom
Hello Mom
Thank you Mom
Hi Mom
I read a book about Uncle Tom
Where a whitey bastard made a bomb
But now Ebonics rule our song
Those motherfuckers got it wrong
And I ask
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
You are
I read a book about the self
Said I should get expensive help
Go fix my head
Create some wealth
Put my neurosis on the shelf
But I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care
I wrote this novel just for you
I'm so pretentious, yes it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
Just for you
Just for you
i walked to new york and back from la
i lived on a mountain and once by the bay
i bought an apartment and slept in the hay
but there's no place softer than your arms
and livin today is just gettin so bad
there's a look on your face and it says you've been had
take all my money but don't make me mad
cause there's nobody meaner than me
i prayed to buddha, to allah and jim
i turned to jesus and stayed there with him
i fell in deep but i learned how to swim
now there's nobody cleaner than me or him
don't compete; coexist
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
'The lifetimes we left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers
Now I just can't be wrong enough
And I can't hide for long enough
So far away but I still feel your pain
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I tried to say goodbye
But I never got your name
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
Oh I'm your fool for a lonesome train
I KNOW I sound crazy....
But I'm PAINFULLY sane.'
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
Here I'll find you in between
Heaven and Hell again
Where nothing's what it seems
It's just as well, my friend
I'm giving me the creeps
And a farewell to arms,
and legs, and heads, and heart
Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you bad
But I did it anyway
And not maybe
Some would say your life was sad
But you lived it anyway
And now maybe
Your friends they stand beside they watch you crumble
As you falter to the ground
And now maybe
Your friends they stand beside as you were flying
Oh you were flying oh so high
But then some day people look at you for what they call their own
They watch you suffer
Yeah they hear you calling home
But then some day we could take our time
To brush the leaves aside so you can reach us
But you left me far behind
Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
No, no, no
Couldnt share the pain they watch you suffer
Now maybe I could have made my own mistakes
But I live with what Ive known
Yes maybe we might share in something great
But wont you look at where weve grown
Wont you look at where weve gone
But then someday comes tomorrow holds a sense of what I fear for you in my mind
As you trip the final line
And that cold day when you lost control
Shame you left my life
So soon you should have told me
But you left me far behind
Now maybe I didnt meant to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
No, no, no
Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
No maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
I said times have changed your friends
They come and watch you crumble to the ground
They watch you suffer
Yeah they hold you down
Hold you down
Maybe brother maybe love I didnt mean to treat you bad
But you left me far behind
Left me far behind
Left me far behind
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become?
my sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way...
Comments
Though I'll just keep trying
To make it alright"
Help to feel better
Cause everybody's okay'
And the blare of the sirens combing the streets
Chased down like dogs we run from
Your grasp until the sun comes up
No not ice'
-NY
ain't that the truth.
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
i figured it out, what you said
but now that you've gone away
and everything's turned out wrong
i opened my eyes and you were gone, girl
and to my surprise i could not be
the one that you loved
you ran away and over me
and if i knew that you would run
to far beyond my reach
i would've wish that you was free
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
I give thank I've had my sight to see through it all
I have have felt pleasure and
I have felt pain and
I know now I can never be the same'
Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain, spinning in the silence
To finally drift away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard and catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen, white roses on a grave
Yeah and to be yourself is all that you can do
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself, down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love until the end of time
Another runs away, separate or united, healthy or insane
And to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, be yourself is all that you can do
Even when you've paid enough
Been pulled apart or been held up
Every single memory of the good or bad
Faces of luck
Don't lose any sleep tonight
I'm sure everything will end up alright
You may win or lose
But to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
To be yourself is all that you can do
Oh, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do
(All that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can do
we'll ever live to see through this
so drive yourself insane tonight its not that far away
prescribe me anything
just knock me out and pull me through the door
i have no desire
to see through my own eyes anymore anymore anymore...
i believe in locomotion
-wilco
www.cluthelee.com
www.cluthe.com
It sounds pretentious but it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
That's why it's vulgar
That's why it's blue
And I say, thank you
And I say, thank you
I wrote this novel just for Mom
For all the mommy things she's done
For all the times she showed me wrong
For all the time she sang god's song
And I say thank you Mom
Hello Mom
Thank you Mom
Hi Mom
I read a book about Uncle Tom
Where a whitey bastard made a bomb
But now Ebonics rule our song
Those motherfuckers got it wrong
And I ask
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
You are
I read a book about the self
Said I should get expensive help
Go fix my head
Create some wealth
Put my neurosis on the shelf
But I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care
I wrote this novel just for you
I'm so pretentious, yes it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
Just for you
Just for you
to be
disappointed in me
join the crowd..
i lived on a mountain and once by the bay
i bought an apartment and slept in the hay
but there's no place softer than your arms
and livin today is just gettin so bad
there's a look on your face and it says you've been had
take all my money but don't make me mad
cause there's nobody meaner than me
i prayed to buddha, to allah and jim
i turned to jesus and stayed there with him
i fell in deep but i learned how to swim
now there's nobody cleaner than me or him
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
Promises and lies both have their dangers
Now I just can't be wrong enough
And I can't hide for long enough
So far away but I still feel your pain
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I tried to say goodbye
But I never got your name
Oh I'm a fool for a lonesome train
Oh I'm your fool for a lonesome train
I KNOW I sound crazy....
But I'm PAINFULLY sane.'
Who felt like a man
She was a girl
From a far away land'
Heaven and Hell again
Where nothing's what it seems
It's just as well, my friend
I'm giving me the creeps
And a farewell to arms,
and legs, and heads, and heart
But I did it anyway
And not maybe
Some would say your life was sad
But you lived it anyway
And now maybe
Your friends they stand beside they watch you crumble
As you falter to the ground
And now maybe
Your friends they stand beside as you were flying
Oh you were flying oh so high
But then some day people look at you for what they call their own
They watch you suffer
Yeah they hear you calling home
But then some day we could take our time
To brush the leaves aside so you can reach us
But you left me far behind
Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
No, no, no
Couldnt share the pain they watch you suffer
Now maybe I could have made my own mistakes
But I live with what Ive known
Yes maybe we might share in something great
But wont you look at where weve grown
Wont you look at where weve gone
But then someday comes tomorrow holds a sense of what I fear for you in my mind
As you trip the final line
And that cold day when you lost control
Shame you left my life
So soon you should have told me
But you left me far behind
Now maybe I didnt meant to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
Now maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
No, no, no
Now maybe I didnt mean to treat you oh so bad
But I did it anyway
No maybe some would say youre left with what you had
But you couldnt share the pain
I said times have changed your friends
They come and watch you crumble to the ground
They watch you suffer
Yeah they hold you down
Hold you down
Maybe brother maybe love I didnt mean to treat you bad
But you left me far behind
Left me far behind
Left me far behind
took the stairs
to the stars all alone
you left all the lights burning
but no one was home
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become?
my sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way...
That’s a morning yearning
Morning yearning
Morning yearning…
Another day another chance to get it right
Must I still be learning?
Must I still be learning? "
are the arms that hold you back"
-Ben Harper