Vulture Street

By now you know that I never arrived
I was too tired to move
I was gonna invent an elaborate excuse
But I'm tired of them too

Little pockets of air in the atmosphere
Make it easy to breathe
So farewell to unpleasant scenes
I want you to stay stay stay

The blinding flash of circling stars
You played your faux renaissance card
To starry eyes and wild applause
Its not your destination
So something something better happen

Who'd you say is you?
Where'd you say you hide your proof?
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

If you meet me in the morning, gonna make my day
The shy will fall and the planets swoon
Feel like tommorrow coming up real soon

Gonna bend and shake it loose
Use whatever gets you through
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

Happy memories I remember
Home spun remedies for stormy weather
Juggling scissors in the afternoon
Picking up signs from across the room

If you live your life like a castaway in the
hold tucked neatly away...

I got to feeling low for making light of whatever you said
The pain went straight to my head chopping me up turning me to morose
You've got a thing or two coming soon so I'll get out of your way
Beat blue, blackened and bruised chopping it up at the end of the day


You better step back and see the mess that you left
Won't you tell it to somebody who cares
I'm stumblin' all the way 'cause its not such a beautiful day

You stopped to see the show but don't believe everything that you read
The pain's still there in my head pulling me close now that I'm here alone
Don't stop because of me you'll never know just how long you'd have stayed
So sleep through the slackening screws cutting me loose at the end of the day

It's not such a beautiful day
But I'll stumble through all the same
The bright lights are fading away
It's not such a beautiful day

Your gentle pace provides a rhythm for the unwashed few of us
lock and loaded past is a prison for the crimes of the universe
Are you in the situation to decide whether you really care
C'mon you know that its hard to complain about the way you live

So please don't let it roll right by you
Just think if the same thing happened to you
Would you be
Would you be
Happy to walk in my shoes
Would you be
Would you be
Happy to walk in my shoes

I'm already tired of your chronic compassion fatigue
The final turd in the dungheap of every post modern disease
Well do you have the information to decide whether you really care
Its hard to belive you'd look me in the eye and turn away again

How many more times will you say that you love me
How many more times will you wake up beside me
You think that you told me what id like to hear
But i think you should tell me how you really feel

Ill be your pawn, ill be your king
Ill bear your scorn, ill wear your ring
Our feet wont hardly touch the ground
We'll float away, without a sound
You want to reach out and touch my hands
Your promise you'll do everything, everything, everything, you can

Now how does it feel that i strung you along
Your bound to try to conceal that maybe you had it wrong
There's too many true feelings youve had to contain
When you wake up tomorow will you still feel the same

Despite the miseries
And the constant lessons learned from history
The pattern still repeats
Never to surrender don't you ever repeat

How far have we really come?
Until the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight

There's an arms race to be run
Building bigger better dagger headed bombs
So lets drink to the daughters and sons
Never to return to their mother's arms

For every battle lost and won are these the ones that we offer up?