Adventures In Utopia

I gave the girls the eye
I've given lust a try
I'm just an average guy
From the neck on down
I used to have my fun
When all was said and done
I only wanted someone
From the neck on down
Maybe it's one too many mornings after
Maybe i'm sick of my own nervous laughter

Now i'm looking for heaven
From the neck on up
For a perfect eleven
From the neck on up

I was a typical man
I had a master plan
I thought that heaven began
From the waist on down
And i had always said
That i could use my head
But i was thinking instead
From the waist on down
Maybe it's one too many frozen shoulders or
Maybe i haven't noticed getting older

Trapped in a dream
Something has to change in this endless stream
Of ships that pass in the night
Is this what i want out of life?
I want to know what this game is about
I want someone to try and figure me out

I can't determine why
But i'm a different guy
Your modus operandi
Turned me inside out
It's not that i don't care
About your fine hardware
But you've got something else there
I can't figure out
Maybe i just can't finish what i've started or
Maybe it's simply that i've been outsmarted

Now i've found my heaven
From the neck on up
You're a perfect eleven
From the neck on up

You can call it anything you want
But a rose is a rose and a thorn is a thorn
Tell me white is black and black is white
You can say anything but that don't make it right
You can tell me that the world is flat
If i didn't know any better, i might go for that
And the sky is falling on my head
I believe the sky is falling on my head
I've been such a fool
Don't you agree?
I let you call all my shots for me
Don't you know how it feels
When you've got high ideals?

Call it what you will - don't call it love
Call it what you will - don't call it love
Call it what you will - don't call it love
Call it what you will - don't call it love, not in front of me

I think i'm old enough
I can handle myself when the going gets tough
You don't have to hide it anymore
Why bother sparing me now when you didn't before?
You can save that line for someone else
That's your own can of beans and i swear i won't tell
Now is the sky is falling on my head
I believe the sky is falling on my head
I've been such a fool
But don't cry for me
You are the one who needs sympathy
Tell me how many times
Can you play the same line?

Now the sky is falling on your head
Look out baby, now the sky is falling on your head
Yes the sky is falling on your head
I believe the sky is falling on your head
You've been such a fool
Now can't you see?
You lost your best opportunity
You passed up a prize
For some pie in the sky

When she walked in the room
You could faint from the strong perfume
And she said her name was libertine
In my ear, a voice said don't be a fool stay clear,
Better stay away from libertine
Stay away from libertine
Stay away from libertine
Stay away from libertine

So i stayed out of view
But my eyes couldn't come unglued
I was hypnotized by libertine
So in time i broke down and i lost my mind
Then i made a move on libertine
Stay away from libertine
Made a move on libertine
Stay away from libertine
I made my move on libertine

And i waited all night
'til the timing was right
For another man was reaching for her hand
But he went to the phone
And when i got her alone
It just wasn't the same
Tell me what's in a name?

She made me drunk with her charms
Then she left on her husband's arm
And i got the shaft from libertine
I was weak and i know just from whence i speak,
Better stay away from libertine
Stay away from libertine

Burn burn burn
Burn burn burn
Burn burn burn
Burn burn burn
I'm cookin' up somethin'
Cookin' up somethin'
Cookin' up somethin' special for you
It's on the back burner
On the back burner
On the back burner waiting for you
I'm no burger king, i'm no pizza pie spinner
Don't come sniffin' 'round here for something to eat
It's a gourmet thing, not a tv dinner
So stay out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat

It's gonna
Burn burn burn - you might get burned
Burn burn burn - 'cause it's so hot
Burn burn burn - that you might get burned
Burn burn burn

I've got a hot number
Got a hot number
Got a hot number bearing your name
It's such a big order
Such a big order
Such a big order turn up the flame
It's a champagne kiss with a surprise in the middle
I hope you're hungry, i've been cookin' all day
Got a love so strong you couldn't squish it with a griddle
Call out the volunteers 'cause my heart's a flambe'

I gotta time it right so it's warm when you get it
Turn up the heat just a little bit higher
It was a good idea but i think i overdid it
I can't reach the oven and the kitchen's on fire

I can't carry on
This play is too long
I must be going
Extend my regrets
I gave it my best
But now i'm going
This is too much for me to take
Something tells me that she's faking it
She says she don't care
She wants to be fair
She must be joking
It's simple she said
Let's not lose our head
Tell me she's joking
This is too much for me to take
But somebody isn't faking
Someone's heart is breaking
And if you see her give her my critique
She's a bad little actress
Gets no curtain call
But the worst of all
When the curtain falls
There's no one at the backstage door

I'm more than her friend
'cause i knew her when
She was no sensation
She's wasting our time
Repeats all her lines
What's her motivation?
Now she won't share her stage with me
Her performance was outrageous
Put me through some changes
So if you see her give her my critique
She's a bad little actress
Her delivery don't come naturally
Anyone could see she doesn't mean a word she says
Her mascara ran
And the show was panned
But i'm still her biggest fan
So when you see her give her my critique
She's a bad little actress
Gets no curtain call
But the worst of all
When the curtain falls
There's no one at the backstage door

They say pain can bring out the artist's best
But since you've been gone, i just can't care less
Common sense doesn't realize
It can hurt so bad
Everyday i sit in my garret staring at the floor
But my heart isn't in it anymore

There goes my inspiration
My reason for creation
There goes my inspiration
I felt it fly away when you said goodbye

Me and gaugin used to party down
I was hung in the louvre, i was renoir's pal
Vincent van gogh used to joke with me
Now they don't come 'round
It's all over town that the master's lost his touch
I'm so lost i can hardly hold a brush

And now my palette is a sorry mix of grey and brown
And all the other art lovers stay away
'cause i'm bringing them down

Now i wander the left bank every day
Searching for my muse in sad cafes
Peddle my oils to the galleries
But they turn me down
Everybody says i'm a master of technique
But the style and the sentiment is weak

There's a hammer in my heart
Pounding out your name
There's a hammer in my heart
Here it comes again

I hear a certain sound
And it just won't go away
It sends a message out
What's it gonna be today?
It wakes me up at dawn
And as the day goes on
I try to turn it off but the beat goes on

It never lets me rest
I can't get a minute's peace
I lay awake in bed
Wondering will it ever cease?
It's like a top ten song
I hear it all day long
I try to turn it off but the beat goes on

I'm looking at you but i'm talking to myself
Looking straight at you but i'm talking to myself
Talking to myself
'cause i still can remember
Words that didn't sound so well planned
What is wrong with me?
You don't have to pretend to understand

Every moment, i am thinking to myself
It seems so different, i am thinking to myself
Thinking to myself
And i don't want to face it
Why is everything so past tense?
What is wrong with me?
This just don't seem to make any sense

And i'm looking at you but i'm talking to myself
Looking straight at you but i'm talking to myself

It wasn't over, i was hoping to myself
We've got forever, i was hoping to myself
Hoping to myself
And for a shred of a second
I thought we could still change our fate
What is wrong with me?
I can see it's already way too late

'cause you're looking at me but you're talking to
Yourself
Looking straight at me but you're talking to yourself
And i'm looking at you but i'm talking to myself
Looking straight at you but i'm talking to myself