Closer

I sit and watch your flowers wilting in the kitchen
I felt like i was one of them gasping for air.
I go from room to room hoping to find your
I play my music louder than you'd like me to

Why can't i be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when i feel without i want to get you in.
Can't i be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when i lock you out i want to get you,
Get you, get you in.

I understand that you are going through a hard time
But what you need to recognize i'm in one too
You say that maybe we should take some time apart
But you go your way, i'll get by, and you'll go get high
You just see if i mind.

Why can't i be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when i feel without i want to get you in.
Why can't i be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when i lock you out i want to get you,
Let you, get you in.

Well i could be wrong i don't even know myself
And i must be strong when you're gone so long
I don't need to know reasons why.

What i wouldn't do for you.

Why can't i be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when i feel without i want to get you in.
Why can't i be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when i lock you out i want to get you,
Let you, get you in.
I want to get you in.

I got a little bit of reason
For everything i've done
I might just serenade the moonlight

And i get so lonely in this crowd
I want to scream but make no sound
And yeah i'm lost but maybe i'll be fine

Cause when i'm in over my head
I hear the words you said
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that i do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like i do
I do

And i couldn't bear to see you walk out
And leave it all behind
I couldn't bear to see the sunlight

And i love the sound of rain on tin
Your screen door beckoning me in
And yeah i'm mad but overcome with joy

Could it be so damn naive
To hope you could agree?
That someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that i do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like i do
I do

In a world that's cellophane
You get so lost i know you do
In a world that's cellophane

Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that i do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
Tell me you feel just like i do
I do
Someone out there's
Listening to the same song
Feeling the same way that i do
Make me a believer pick up the receiver
And tell me you feel just like i do
I do

(f/toddy)

Rain drops bead again
They make a tide pool
On your summer skin

Shoplifting corner store
I should have got,
Should have got some more.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
Baby i don't know.

God, how you look the same.
I recognize the face,
But not the name.

Pull over, never stop
A caramel-colored girl in a halter top.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(she said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Could it be that hard
To never mind the rent
And then quit your job?

Flying, at what cost?
Shout outs to the ones we've lost.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?

Don't mind me. me? i'm fine.
I just get a little lost sometimes.
But what i really meant to say,
I couldn't live without you another day.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(she said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Are you just worried to see me?
Are you just worried to need me?

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.
Yeah, we're rolling.
Me and you, we're rolling.

On a sunday afternoon.

Yeah...

Talking in her sleep again
Reciting lines start to end
But she's not crazy
(knock on wood)
Just a little misunderstood

She takes a walk at 4am
Wakes the neighborhood again
And i find myself recalling everything she used to tell me

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

She's waiting tables the next day
She pulls a double then on her way
To an audition in hollywood, yeah,
A little misunderstood

We sit around the house
Waiting for the phone to ring
And i know she alone holds the key
To everything i want to be

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All i've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

Two years later you're a star
Who'd have thought we'd get this far?
But i'd give it all away if i
Could see you on that day again
When you quit work
And threw that coffee
At the manager jerk

You said, "close your eyes
I've got a surprise
A house in the hills
And a car that drives by."

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts, don't it? inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All i've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

(f/dj swamp)

First thing i remember was lying in the sand
When a plague of seven horsemen
Came across the desert land
They had one good eye between them
They were burning up the sky
When i asked why they had come for me
The ugly one replied
He told me

Ah, you better recognize
Aw, you better recognize, son

Next thing i recall well
I was hanging from a cliff
When an angel came to rescue
Me and held me in her grip
She said, "everyone who's ever loved you
Gets hurt in the end."
Then she smiled and said, "forgive me."
As she let go of my hand
She told me

(you been living out of pocket, out of your socket)
Ah, you better recognize.
(you been leaning like a pisa, a moaning lisa)
Ah, you better recognize, son
(hip hip for all the busted, we are entrusted)
Ah, you better recognize.
(you come a pleading, but it's too late
We can't hear you're on the list now!)
And let your dim light shine.

Always darkest before the morning light,
Lord knows you ain't that bright
Better let your dim light shine

Just before i hit the ground
I woke up in my bed
I was dazed and i was weary
And my heart was full of dread
When i looked at my reflection
I was horrified to find
There were seven horsemen next to me
The angel close behind
They told me

(you been living out of pocket, out of the socket)
Ah, you better recognize.
(you been leaning like a pisa, a moaning lisa)
Ah, you better recognize, son
(hip hip for all the busted, we are entrusted)
Ah, you better recognize.
(you come a pleading, but it's too late
We can't hear you're on the list now!)
And let your dim light shine.

Allie woke up 8am
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
'cause i knew you'd want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And i know i wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And i fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
"no one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they're giving up."

And i know i wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When i got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And i went to my room.
Played that disc that you'd given me,
And i shut my eyes
Swear i could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And i know i wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime.