Live On Two Legs

i got a car, i got some gas
Oh let's get out of here
Get out of here fast
Ooh everyone's confused
So i stay in my room
If i go, i don't want
To go alone

I hope you get this message
Oh you're not home
I could be there in
Ten minutes or so
Ooh i got my things
We'll make it up as we go along
Oh with you i could
Never be alone
Never be alone

Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go out on me now
Never acted up before, don't go on me now
I swear i never took it for granted, just thought of it now
Suppose i abused you, just passing it on
Go...fuck...

Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a full on fucking god
No...time...suck...my...please...
Don't go on me (4x)
Please...oh...

Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see...
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me (4x)
Please...don't you want me...don't go on me...
Please...don't go on me..

One...two...one...two
Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So i approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's movin' much too fast

Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

He's yet to come back
But i seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size

He's been taken...where, i don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

And now i rub my eyes, for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles... and he's still strong
Nothing changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown

And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and i know just what is going to happen next

Before his first step, he's off again

black


Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air i tasted and breathed has taken a turn
Ooh, and all i taught her was everything
Ooh, i know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do i sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, i'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything (note the lack of question mark)
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all i see, all that i am, all i'll ever be...yeah...

Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...

She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...oh...oh...oh...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...

Oh, she don't want him...
Oh, she won't feed him...after he's flown away...
Oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...

Burn...burn...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
Nothingman... (2x)
Coulda' been something...
Nothingman...
Oh...ohh...ohh...

freezing. rests his head in a pillow made of concrete, again.
Oh, feeling maybe he'll see a little better set a days. ooh yeah.
Oh, hand out. faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar. ooh
Oh, girlfriend. he can't have when he's happy looks insane. aah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies. yeah.
Oh, he don't know so he chases them away-yeah. ooh
Oh, someday, yea, he'll begin his life again.
Life again. life again.

Kneeling. looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read.
Oh, praying now to something that has never showed him anything.
Oh, feeling understands the weather of the winters on its way.
Oh, ceilings few and far between all the legal halls of shame. yeah.

Even flow thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know so he chases them away
Oh, someday yet he'll begin his life again
Oh, whispering hands gently lead him away
Hima away. him away
Yeah
Woo. ah yeah. fuck your money.

Even flow. thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know so he chases them away
A-someday yet he'll begin his life again. yeah.
Oh, whispering hands gently lead him away
Him away. him away
Yeah
Woo. uh huh yeah. yeah yeah, momma mommy

Giant one, might he find

Watched from the window
Little red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down and now it's comin' up
Somewhere in the time between

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting

Red man's your neighbor
Call it behavior
And while you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of you, punctures in your neck
Hoverin' just above your bed (2x)

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting
He's waitin'... hopin'... yeah

If i had known then, what i know now (4x)

I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet i can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, i wish i'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

I swear i recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall, for i'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here i am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (3x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...