Amazing Disgrace

please return it


Now, now is the time
Time to reckon
Time to beckon, be surprised
Like a letter
I just sent it, please return it, just forget it
When we live the life we live
It's never ours completely
Not completely
Like a movie, like a style, please return it, please return it
Like a favor, like a glance, please return it, please return it

8, 8 is the hour
Hour of our trials, ours too sickening to live
Please return it
Put it back, i take it back, i can burn it
When you let me live my life
You didn't do it completely but you were discreet
Like the year i spent comparing me to you, please return it
Like a servant, like a sewer, please return it, please return it

There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside'

When you took me by surprise
That's half the fun of everything
Do you miss the point like i do?
In the certainty of friendships you can ask
Please return it
Bring the balance back to you
In returning

There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'

When i see you cry
Talking on the phone at night
You never tell me why
When it all goes down
And you know shit gets around
And rumors are true
I'll never have a friend quite as lovely again

And i'm not responsible for the ending that i know is inevitable

Yes, i understand you're happy now
And i understand your hand-me-down towel
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Better to be happy than to never know

Well it pins me to
An exaggerated view --
Correct me if i'm wrong
And it's man's best friend
And the tin's empty again
Degrade yourself now
I never took a pill wasn't guaranteed to thrill

And i ought to know you standing up sober
I ought to know your black & white look
I ought to know just like your dad told you
I ought to know mistakes you mis... took

You can paint it black
You can use thickest shellac
And still be see-through
And with everything i say
I mean it in the best way
To have it be true

And it's not impossible
For a friend to heed the slack behind the pull

Yes, i understand you're happy now
And i understand your hand-me-down towel
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Better to be happy

And i ought to know you standing up sober
I ought to know your black and white look
I ought to know just like your dad told you
I ought to know mistakes you mis...

Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand...
Better to be happy
Than to never know

It's another detachment
Same arrangement, different placement
I'm the saddest of moments
All alone in my unspoken
I was dying to feel you
To be in you, and to heal you
I was grieving the distance
Realizing my insistence

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world

We were such an amazement
When i found you in the basement
Spent a night on the ceiling
What a feeling, what a feeling

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world

(instrumental)

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world

Here's how to understand your friends
It's been like six years of the same thing
Nothing can be believed unless you say it
Nothing but good times up ahead for you

Here's how to occupy your mind
Take some skills and learn to build a reason
Nothing can be perceived 'til you betray it
Nothing but fine times up ahead for you

And if we build a car that drives on empty eyes
And call it "laughing matter"
Nothing matters
It's all up for you

Everyone i know is trying to get into this show
Everybody is a fucking liar
Time and time again
Whoever's in the room is your friend
Everybody is a fucking liar

There's no mercy here
A mercy killing of abject fear
Everybody is a fucking liar
Act brave in the press
Conventionality's what i detest
Everybody is a fucking liar

And you who reject masculinity:
Baby, i'm with you
As soon as you forsake virility and aggression too

Back off in disgust
Must honesty jeopardize trust?
Is everybody such a fucking liar?
Damsels in dismay
A man's an edsel in his own way
Everybody is a fucking liar

And just as god in his his infinite infancy thinks he's in control
That's when god in his infinite infamy
Decides to damn our souls

Let's throw it all in
And think of places to back up & begin
To build something higher
'cause everybody is a fucking liar
Everybody is a fucking liar
Everybody is a fucking liar

Broken record, broken record

Sunny day at the oasis
As the roasted take their places
And the undertaker mumbles
"you're screwing it wrong..."
"you're screwing it wrong..."

Like a broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record

Sir repetitious:
What a beauty to be needled
The new position's looking fetal
So take a letter, sayonara
We're putting you on, like a...

Broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record
Like a broken record, broken record, broken record

There isn't time to tell you all you need to know
But i get as scared as any and i wish it wasn't so

And i don't like it
Any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...

We're going to make a listing of all the things we don't need
And then we will wean them slowly, all the fears we feed

And i don't like it
Any more than you do
Not any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Sense swinging out of sight
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
No, no no
No, no no

I don't like it
Any more than you do
I don't like it
Any more than you do
Not any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Sense swinging out of sight
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
No, no no
No, no no