Frosting On The Beater

Freed the daytime with indifference
Watch the twilight starve the sun
Shuffle home against the darkness
Turn the key and bite your tongue

And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along

Call belated, leave a message
Wait for hours just to talk
Feel like slowly getting blown off
Stretch your eyes, invite the clock

And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along

Cry as if to say you're sorry
Sight a life and hate your own
Try to think of what to mention
Leave the television on...

And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
You don't know it but you're
Coming right along
Coming right along
Coming right along

Say goodbye to your friends and family
Pack your promises silently
Leave a note on your kitchen table
This is all you will ever be

So hope for a better place for a better time for a better speed
So hope for a better use for a better word for a better need
And if you listen close enough
You might hear too much
Hard as sharp and razor-rough
You've never seen the such...

It's the definite door
To another dimension
Nothing
No more
(not even a mention...)

Keeping track of the eyesight streaming
Isn't part of the regimen
Many hours of sleepless dreaming
Unaware of the mess you're in
And if you didn't have a clue
You probably never will
And all the things you didn't do
Will inundate you still...

It's the definite door
To another dimension
Nothing
No more
(not even a mention...)

Better cross your heart, make it people-proof try to fight the fright
And have a real good trip, see you when you fall don't forget to
Write yourself back...
And if you fail to see the point
Of doubting all you do
Don't forget to blame yourself
There's nothing else for you...

Say goodbye to your friends and family
Pack your promises silently
Funny how they forget to tell you
This is all you will ever be

This is all you will ever be now
This is all you will ever be
This is all you will ever be now
This is all you will ever be...

A boy once was frozen
All guarded and closed in
Before he had chosen
A beauty to behold
The cream of creation
A red-wine sensation
The power of persuasion
Personified and whole

(chorus)

And we will not get younger
But we won't wait around 'til we die
'cos she's got twenty questions
And so do i...

The first time i passed her
The second i asked her
The third wish will last her
For long enough to know
The cream of creation
A red-wine sensation
The power of persuasion
Personified and whole


(chorus)

So onward and upward
Ascent of the unheard
I search for enough words
To thankfully extol
The cream of creation
A red-wine sensation
The power of persuasion
Personified and whole

Lights out
Lights out
Goodnight, shuteye
That's a good guy
Soothing seething, brooding
Are you breathing?

Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping?

New day
New day
Endless chasm barking blue grey
Are we living in a tombstone smiling?
Driving...

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

Trickle
Trickle
Father fickle loves to tickle

Sister caffeine fill my inside churning
Turning...

Talking
Tripping through the traffic blocking
I'm collapsing, won't you turn the lights out?
Lights out..

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

Lights out...

Sacred pictures
With which she will fortell the future
Expert witness
A wound that won't believe in sutures

(chorus)
('cause) she's earlier than expected
A little premature madonna
Earlier than expected

Rush right home now
Prepare, prevent, defend, define now
With no examples
You'll find the burdens more than ample

(chorus)

And if you saw her trails
Would you consider her guilty of being a child?

Open mouth-faced
She saw ulysess, claimed him captive
The vanquished embraced
He knew for this to be receptive
And hust have grace and be festive
Of freeze in the dirt which he rests in

(chorus x 2)

And she will sleep and rest her brow
And face the tempest of tomorrow

Burn and shine, son
And keep your spirit clean
For this is not a dress rehersal
Junior phoenix

With your ash-filled eyes
Who will harbor your misfortune

Your mother says your father says
He does not want to tell you
(as if he didn't know you)

Behind the lighthouse
There's still the hole you made
Better fill it in or it will get you
So talcum powder
Is now your closest friend
Smooth and white and ordinary

Your father says your mother says
She does not want to tell you
(as if she didn't know you)

(and in the dream everyone is holding hands
In a circle and you heal...)

Do you remember
The taste of pemmican?
Then say hello to hiawatha
She's still frowning
At your puffy face
Overweight and barely breathing?

No one ever said a word
They did not want to tell you
As if they didn't know you
As if they didn't know you
As if they didn't know you
Burn and shine
You burn and shine...