Let Your Dim Light Shine

She walks into the outhouse
The cold night breathes into her face
The flies are standing still now
The moon it spills through the place

And she starts wondering it's like to be liked by everyone
And like everyone be just like anyone
And just wants to be so just like anyone

She reaches through the darkness
Her fingers touch the porcelain seat
She spins and pulls her pants down
The cold air holds her like a theif

She starts wondering what they mean, do they just mean to be mean
And thinking about the scene, do they just want to be seen
And trying not to seem so just like anyone

The door comes screeching open
She walks into the evening air
She disappears in the darkness
All that's left's the faint smell of her hair

She's done wondering what it's like to be liked by everyone
And like everyone be just like anyone
And just wants to be so just like anyone
And wondering what they mean, do they just mean to be mean
And thinking about the scene, do they just want to be seen
And trying not to seem so just like anyone

Why you always want to get the best of me
I'm like a seeing-eye dog and i can't even see
They're naked and they're following my master who is blind
And my mind's gone to pieces, i could use some piece of mind

So i picked up the pieces and i made a new start
Stole an old stiletto, started stabbing in the dark
I can't live without it, i would surely fall apart
But it's hard to make arrangements 'round a bittersweetheart

Bittersweetheart
Better get yourself a little street smart
Bittersweetheart, sad but true
It's a bittersweetheart that's a hard heart to cure
It's just my bittersweetheart

It's like a suicide mission when you can't see no end
Tired of compliment-fishing and impressing your friends
I never kissed no one just to kiss and tell
It's a little bit of heaven and a whole lot of hell

In the eye of the beholder is a beautiful start
But you always seem to end up with a bittersweetheart
There's a darkness looming but the sun is shining bright
I can live to see the morning if i stay up all night

Bittersweetheart
Without a shortcut, without a head-start
Bittersweetheart, sad but true
It's a bittersweetheart that's a hard heart to cure
My bittersweetheart
It's the hardest part
Bittersweetheart

Are you in there, are you beating
Beating me up until i'm bleeding
How much blood can you spare

Bittersweetheart
Think just a drink might get you to the good part
Lyin' in bed just a'wonderin' what to do,
It's a bittersweetheart that'a a hard heart to cure

In time inside you find you always wind up with a bittersweetheart

Dear mother, what can i say
It's been so long since i went away
And yes, i miss the comforts of home
But i guess i'm better off on my own

No one told me people could be so cruel
Nobody told me about any of this in school
Still nobody understands the things that i don't understand

I've nothing to write home about
Nothing i have figured out
Still i have the same old doubts
Nothing to write home about

Dear john, that ain't my name
I'm just hangin' 'round to take the blame
I'm filled with guilt, i'm filled with shame
Too much or not enough it's all the same

And no one wants to talk about the loss
No one wants to talk about the cost
Every one just looks away, just like any other day

I've nothing to write home about
Nothing i have figured out
Still i have the same old doubts
Nothing to write home about

Who can teach me how to change my ways
Who will come and save the day
Who will tell me what to say
When there's nothing left to say

Nobody told me about any of this in school
No one told me i'd be taken for a fool
And everyone just looks away, and tries to make it through the day

I've nothing to write home about
Nothing i have figured out
Still i have the same old doubts
Nothing to write home about

They say misery loves company
We could start a company and make misery

Frustrated, incorporated
Well i know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to see

Put me out of my misery
I'd do it for you, would you do it for me
We will always be busy making misery

We could build a factory and make misery
We'll create the cure; we made the disease

Frustrated, incorporated
Frustrated, incorporated
Well i know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to feel

Put me out of my misery
All you suicide kings and you drama queens
Forever after happily, making misery

Did you satisfy your greed, get what you need
Was it only envy, so empty

Frustrated, incorporated
Frustrated, incorporated

Frustrated, incorporated (put me out of my misery)
Frustrated, incorporated (i'd do it for you, would you do it for me)
Frustrated, incorporated (forever after happily)
Frustrated, incorporated (making misery)
Etc...

Why don't you go home and crawl into your hole
Why don't you go home and spend some time alone

In the corner i looked across the room
To the other corner, i knew i'd be there soon

Caged rat (x12)

In the corner i looked across the room
I knew i'd be there soon, in the (other) corner

Caged rat (x12)

Why don't you go home and crawl into your hole
Why don't you go home and spend some time alone

From the corner i looked across the room
To the other corner, i knew i'd be there soon

Caged rat (x12)

Holed up in the dressing room without a dress
Kneeling at the confessional with nothing to confess
And i knew all about my surprise party
I was spoiled and depressed
Hey i acted surprised and i told lots of lies
Yes i did my best

Stop the truck at the truck stop, i need something to help me crash
Food stamps, checks and credits cards, but they only accepted cash
There was sweat beating on my brow
My heart was beating out of my chest
So i stole everything they couldn't give away
Yes i did my best

And i did the best that i could do
With all the mess that i've been through
What did you expect me to do
I did my best for you

I was waiting for a chain reaction with the missing link
Waiting for that trickle-down forever circling the sink
I was tired of being tired
I could not get no rest
So i kept sleep-walking and talking in my sleep
Yes i did my best

And i did the best that i could do
With all the mess that i've been through
What did you expect me to do
I did my best for you

She swings the string of pearls on the corner
The street lights reflect the light in the water
The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing
And they splash and bounce and roll 'cross the wet street

As she bends to chase the pearls a car swings 'round the corner
She darts from the eyes of the panic-struck driver
Who's racing to the delivery room
'cause in the back seat his wife is busting out of her womb

And the sack breaks and out come the siamese twins
Who grow up to become the first president
With two heads
Are better than one

He puts his heads in his hands, says i got to put my heads together
I can become the best president ever
And not just president
Fend for yourself

Signs his name, takes the blame for all of the names with no shame
In their beliefs
They adjourn and they leave, and in walks a man
With a broom and a knife and blood on his hands

And he sweeps everything under the rug
And goes home to his kids and gives them a hug
But his wife was not there, she had just left a letter
That said "you'd be much better off without me"

Now his wife took the train to her ex-lover's funeral
Who died in the bathroom, hit his head on a urinal
When they got together, the knowledge was carnal
And the widow was at the funeral, and they had quite a catfight

And they fell into the hole where the casket was resting
And the preacher just left in the middle of the service
'cause death was one thing, but women made him nervous
And he ran to his car and he drove 'round the corner

Then something in the street caught the light in his eye
He pulled over, reached down, and picked up a pearl from the gutter
And he didn't know what to think
And he brought it home and washed it in the sink

And he gave the pearl to sister mary teresa
Who could not accept it so she gave it to lisa,
A young prostitute who was missing a pearl
On the necklace that broke late last night