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1. _ Padraic My Prince
I had a brother once
He drowned in a bathtub
before he'd ever learned how to talk
And I don
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2. _ The Center Of The World
At the center of the world
There's a statue of a girl
She is standing near a well
With a bucket bare and dry
I went and looked her in the eyes
And she turned me into sand
This clumsy form that I despise
It scattered easy in her hand
And came to rest upon a beach
With a million others there
We sat and waited for the sea
To stretch out so that we could disappear
Into the endlessness of blue
Into the horror of the truth
See, we are far less than we knew
Yeah, we are far less than we knew
But we knew what we could take
Girls found honey to drench our hands
Men cut marble to mark our graves
Saying, we'll need something to remind us
Of all the sweetness that has passed through us
(fresh sangria and lemon tea)
The priests dressed children for choir
(white-robed small voices praise Him)
But found no joy in what was sung
The funeral had begun
In the middle of the day
When you drive home to your place
From that job that makes you sleep
Back to the thoughts that keep you awake
Long after night has come to claim
Any light that still remains
In the corner of the frame
That you put around her face
Two pills just weren
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3. _ One Straw (Please)
One Straw (Please) And, if it's true Baby, I'm the one in love with you And I guess that I've been all my life And I know, and I'll try And I love you more than those other guys Cause you mean the world to me You're exactly what I need Baby, I'm waiting for you to stop shaking and come closer to me My love and protection, my love and devotion, devotion Devotion.. devotion Covered the spread, won the bets And now I'm the one who won your heart And I hope that you'll always be mine Cause our love is for all time And trust of a virtue, I'll never desert you Or leave you behind Forever and ever, yeah, we'll be together Together, we'll be, we'll be And if it's true, baby, I'm the one in love with you And I swear that I've been all my life Covered the spread, won the bets Baby, I'm the one that won your heart And I know And if it's true, and if it's true And if it's try more free lyrics |
4. _ Supriya
Agony and withdrawal Disrupt my well-being A voice flooded by the piercing And the sounds of distant lands Silence is my heart I carry out my cross while the sun suffers away The clouds reveal the chariots of venus, of venus Restrictions of time and space retile While her bright eyes burn through my exploding heart And I can see I'm in heaven with her flesh in my arms Easy the undeniable The misery of my lack of truth With the truth of love more free lyrics |
5. _ A Few Minutes On Friday
She kills, with foreign films The emptiness of day to day And I wait until the weekend comes So I can clear this uselessness from my brain I count the days until she arrives Those precious minutes when she is mine As we walk from my front door to her car We're so close and alone But that will disappear In a room filled with the warmth of others... Of others' company There's just too much company There's just too much company So I hide my wounded pride And stare off into the other cars If I could just speak the words To tell her exactly how I feel I count the ways that I might say it But I know that none of them will work Because she won't feel the same We've got this far But I can't go through with it Because the truth would hurt too much It hurts too much This hurts too much She goes back to the west coast To drink in the sunshine And I will stay here in these dead plains And try to make this seed grow And I would pray for rain If I thought that it would help more free lyrics |
6. _ Neely O'hara
In the morning when you throw up water And your skin, it turns a pale, pale yellow Well, every day you lose more color Do you think that someone paints your mirror? Do you think that someone paints your mirror? And you think that things sound different At the time when you speak There are visions much clearer Than these blurs that you see And like Neely O'Hara You swallow your sleep And you wake up in the morning to find out You are not, you are not who, you are not who You used to be You don't recognize behavior Or the spelling of your name And the shape that's in the mirror You swear it's not (you swear its not the same) the same And like Neely O'Hara You swallow your sleep And you really can't remember But you know you are not Think you are not No, you are not who you used to be Who you used to be, who you used to be Did you used to be, did you used to be (No you are not, no you are not) Who you used to be, who you used to be more free lyrics |
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7. _ Tereza And Thomas
Let
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8. _ Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra
I had a beautiful, beautiful time The drives and the talks were amazing The kind of friend I thought I'd never find I had a beautiful, beautiful time You have a beautiful, beautiful smile The way it curls and collapses on your lips When you touch me I shake like a child It's late, I'm afraid you might leave Cause sometimes it seems like You still don't believe me There's nothing I can do to concentrate It's so distracting Always thinking of you So I expose and explain And I meant everything I said And it's moments like this That repeat and replay in my head When I'm laying in bed It's a beautiful, beautiful time As you laugh and roll onto your stomach The carpet embraces your design My heart pounds as I lay by your side And I find that I am unable to hide All these feelings that flow In this basement, and in this dim light you look so beautiful I'm unsure and unclear with the words that I say I'm happy when you're near And I wish that forever could stay Just like today You have beautiful, beautiful eyes So bright and alive and enchanting I want to be with you all of the time It's hopeless but I have to try more free lyrics |
9. _ Kathy With A K's Song
Love is real It is not just in novels or the movies It is fact And it is standing here right in front of you So if you open your eyes Oh what a sweet discovery There is hope, and there is joy, and there is acceptance So now let all of the light that collects on your plants Keep you warm, make you smile And I will be there with this pen in my hand To record all the while You'll be laughing so loud That the house would shake with sound And everything will be as new as the day it was found Love is real It is not just in long distance commercials Or something that you thought you felt back in high school So I will turn black and white Become that horoscope you're reading It predicts something good is on its way Oh, and then I will send you the world green and blue In a box through the mail You can open it up, hold it right in your hand And be glad that it's there And be glad that you're there Now, you can feel all the knots in your stomach start to untie And suddenly it's not so hard to say you're all right Love is real It is not just in poetry and stories It is truth, and it will follow you Everywhere you go from now on So if you'd just cast off your doubt Then your lips would answer for you Oh my darling, when you smile, it is like a song And I can hear it now And I can hear it now And I can hear it now Yes, I can, I can, I can I can hear it now I can hear it now Yeah, I can, I can, I can I can hear it now I can hear it now I can hear it now Yeah, I can, I can, I can I can hear it now I can hear it now more free lyrics |
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10. _ Pull My Hair
Is the passion all gone?
Or is it still newly-wed?
If all this heat's doing
Is making us stick to the bed
Then there's no life to revive
But if the hunger's still there
Burried somewhere inside
Covered up by the boredom
We
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11. _ A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction
The language in the dimmer rooms
Seems to represent the light source well
How soft they speak and seem to be at peace
With the movement of the music and the madness
That is pulling me into this
And the shades of the lamps are woven red
The light, it stains and consecrates
Anointing all forgotten forms
Ahat swirl and smoke and haunt this place
The girls in gowns all nurse the dark
Pulling it near to their swelling breasts
And watch as it seeps to their hearts
And beats within their virgin chests
And here I know seduction breeds
From wanton hearts that would seduce
And grows and spreads its vine and leaves
Embracing those who might have moved
But now remain to drink the night
From vials black and thick with steam
Such intoxicating delights
That leave you drunk inside this dream
And you watch them take the light from you
And you find yourself
On a velvet couch
Tasting the skin of a foreign girl
Her eyes are black
And wet like oil
And she ties your hands with a string of pearls
And you tremble like a frightened bird
As she closes in and captures you
To place you in the silver cage
Deep within her poisoned womb
And once you're safe inside
She might let you out to fly
In the circles around the room
But it's always night
And there is no moon
And you wonder if you are alive
And you
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12. _ I Will Be Grateful For This Day, I Will Be Gratefu
I had a girl I knew, She grew, became a woman now I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown We used to roll the windows down and play the music loud Smoking out in her car Lost in west Omaha And we'd get drunk and kiss, our bodies twist like shoelaces And we never came untied I guess you were just my type You know that summer never stopped, I still pretend I'm there The band's in the living room The neighbors, they never cared So when I sat behind the drumset Your heartbeat's what I tried to play But with the kick and snare so careless, not in time So you got ahead of me And I guess I'm still dragging behind I had a friend who changed his name but couldn't change himself Never quite figured out How to deal with what life had dealt He put a needle in his arm to calm his handsome hell Who would've imagined it Could've worked out so well? Now he's a shape that moves like echoes through my empty room And there's a voice that speaks Like someone's right behind me I turned around and found exactly what you would expect The clothes I left on my floor The papers piled on my desk But where the ink is wet, the cause, effects, what's meant by it? The story that is incomplete The picture's left unfinished So I am writing my own ending I let my pen bleed black or blue And I will color in the meaning It will be gold and green and shrewd And I'll learn to love my new discovered proof I'll be grateful for this day I will be grateful for each day to come more free lyrics |
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13. _ Contrast And Compare
You contrast and compare
Between the busy ones and the ones who don
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14. _ Touch
Touch, lying on the floor
Wishing this could last
Knowing that it can
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15. _ On My Way To Work
There's a car parked where the block begins And these people singing praises Say it's all because of him And there's a bird perched on a frayed wet wire And his voice sings out for a lover But it's covered by the choir Of voices reaching way beyond the rafters With devotion they perform these sacred tasks They cross themselves and offer up their checkbooks Slight suffering is not too much to ask Besides, we all are making money And we're all fucking alone And we don't know what we're doing Maybe just buying us some hope Because we know that we are lonely Well, yeah, lonely that's for sure And the older ones are coughing Yeah, the older ones they're dying Maybe we're all dying I pass a graveyard on my way to work Today I saw two dozen white roses on a fresh new mound of dirt And I wondered about the occupant When the darkness finally swallowed him was he calm and content? Or was he sweating in a struggle to keep breathing Ripping apart the sheets that dressed his bed Crying out loud for someone to help him Then collapsing on his back all pale and dead Maybe it's me who's this unstable Always obsessed about the end Why can't I let what happens happen And just enjoy the time I spend? Oh, how I wish it was that easy But when there is no point to anything You know it gets a bit confusing Why it is that I keep going Why is it that we keep going? more free lyrics |
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16. _ Drunk Kid Catholic
The drunk kids, the catholics
They
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17. _ A Song To Pass The Time
There's a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet
She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat
While the Mexican children, kick rocks into the street
And they laugh in a language I don
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18. _ A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks
Here's a scale, weigh it out and you'll find, easily
More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see
were picked in advance by some careful hand
With an absolute concept of beauty
They are smeared and these blurs come in random order
And they color the eyes of your former lovers
Hers were green like July,
Except when she cried they were red
Now I know a disease that these doctors can
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19. _ Sunrise, Sunset
Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset
Swiftly go the days
Sunrise, sunset, you wake up then you undress
It always is the same
The sunrise and a sun sets
You are lying while you confess
Keep trying to explain
The sunrise and the sun sets
You realize and then you forget
What you have been trying to retain
But everybody knows it's all about the things
That get stuck inside of your head
Like the songs your roommate sings
Or a vision of her body as she stretches out on your bed
She raises her hands in the air
Asks you "When was the last time you looked in the mirror?
Cause you've changed, yeah, you've changed"
The sunrise, the sunset, you're hopeful and then you regret
The circle never breaks
With a sunrise and sunset, there's a change of heart or address
Is there nothing that remains?
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you
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20. _ Mirrors And Fevers
I was cold in a dream somewhere close to the surface Between the ice and the stream there is three inches of air So I swam towards the light I let my breath get there first When I opened my eyes I saw myself in the mirror And I knew I would do like my father has done Yes, we will never break from these chains Your life is gonna course like a history book Don't be frightened of turning the page Cause it's is all the same It will always be the same more free lyrics |
21. _ Lila
Close your eyes The dark outside can't hurt you And I will never desert your bedside So close them tight The stars are so glad that they've found you And on the blankets that surround you They shine their light They shine their light So rest your head And I will be watching from the doorway As you slip into a perfect, peaceful sleep And morning will come In all its simple glory And you will find the light And I will be there Standing in your shadow Knowing that you once were mine All mine, my baby My baby, my girl My baby more free lyrics |
22. _ Emily, Sing Something Sweet
Emily, sing something sweet for me I want to feel the warmth inside your heart Emily, sing something sweet for me I need to feel those words out of your mouth Emily, sing something, please I want to face the life behind your eyes Emily, sing something... something... something sweet more free lyrics |
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23. _ Something Vague
Now and again it seems worse than it is,
but mostly the view is accurate.
You see your breath in the air
as you climb up the stairs
to that coffin you call your apartment.
And you sink in your chair,
brush the snow from your hair
and drink the cold away.
You're not really sure
what you're doing this for
but you need something to fill up the days.
A few more hours.
There's a dream in my brain that just won
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24. _ Motion Sickness
There is nothing for Which I'm responsible Just this baggage I keep carrying on As if I had someone Ok, maybe there is a woman somewhere Who's still thinking of me Or a girl with coal black hair Who's haunted in her dreams But what they've seen Well, it wasn't me It was just some lie They slept beside Yeah, I kept this from them But I can't keep this from you So will you look for me In that strange bright place Where the statues bloom in the park They don't need no rain Cause how I ever got to you I have no idea It's like some secret door Well, it just appeared So, no matter what I do From now on with my time You will always stay here In my mind I am certain of this And I am not certain of anything So I want to get myself attached To something bolted down So these winds of circumstance Won't keep blowing me around From when I land To when I leave There is enough time To sleep and sing I keep running around When all I want is to lay motionless more free lyrics |
25. _ Patient Hope In New Snow
The heat comes in distant shifts To fill up my room It spills out of these ancient vents To meet the new cold And I lay in my twisted sheets And stare out at the snow Thinking of the next few months my cold and lifeless eyes No, I've never felt so separate Then there's you But that's so obvious So i just i just said it It's hopeless and I know this That's why I can't dream No desire or circumstance Keeps it from me And keeps it from me, keeps it... One by one, to department stores We walk through the aisles In a forest of designer clothes You touch me and smile And, oh, for a moment I could want nothing Your bright eyes burn through my exploding heart So we stand as the shoppers pass us And for once I can feel the touch completely And i need it I need to just be near you And fill these empty eyes You start turning As resistance pulls you from my cold and boring life Let's make this easy, let time pass As devotion dies The list goes on and on Cause I am aching and I'm waiting For the touch to cure the fear To cure the fear more free lyrics |
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26. _ An Attempt To Tip The Scales
Did you expect it all to stop
At the wave of your hand?
Like the sun's just gonna drop
If it
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27. _ I Won't Ever Be Happy Again
Well morning came And it dressed the sky In a lovely yellow gown Now the shops they are All opening In that narrow hallway of downtown Filled with people who Are shopping for Their lovers and their friends Saying they won't ever be lonely again Well a forest fenced becomes backyards Like songs are born from sound And the apple fell And it taught us all We are chained here to the ground So, I mean, here we go But there ain't no escape No, these streets they're just dead ends So I won't ever be happy again Well, it seems you too See a painful blue When you stare into the sky You'd never understand The motion of a hand waving you goodbye "Bye bye" But as the story goes or it is often told A new day will arise And all the dance halls will Be full of skeletons That are coming back to life And on a grassy hill the lion will lay down with the lamb And I won't ever be lonely again No, no, no, no, no But until that time I think I had better find some disbelief to suspend Cause I don't want to feel like this again more free lyrics |
28. _ A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
Sitting around, no work today. Try pacing to keep awake. Laying around, no school today. Just drink until the clock has circled all the way. It's late afternoon, as you walk through the rooms of a house that is quiet except for unanswered telephones. You stand near the sink, you mix up a drink. You think you don't want to pass out where your roommates could find you again. Stumble 'round the neighboorhod, nothing to do. You're always looking for something to sniff smoke or swallow. Calling over next door, see what they've got. But you would settle for anything that would make your brain slow down or stop this circle of thoughts you chase before they catch back up with you. And your parents notice your thinning face, All the weight you've lost, All the weight youre losing. You said "I'm done feeling like a skeleton, no more sleep walking dead." You're going to wake from this coma. You're going to crawl from this bed you've made. Stop counting on the camera that hangs around your neck, cause it will never remember what you choose to forget. And you try to find one source of light, try to name one thing you like. You used to have such a longer list, And light, you never had to look for it. But now it's so easy, it's so easy to-- it's so easy, it's so easy to second guess everything you do until all you want, all you want is to finish this half empty glass before the ice all melts away. This feeling always used to pass, seems like it's every day seems like it's every night now. more free lyrics |
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29. _ Arienette
The fragile keep secrets
Gathered in pockets
And they will sell them for nothing
A cheap watch or locket
That kind of gold washes off
And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors
The angry are animals Senseless and savage
They act without order
In logical lapses
They stain their mouths with blood
So take my hand
This barren land is alive tonight
Oh, the corn has grown stalks
That form a wall to hide
But the wind carries sounds
That I can
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30. _ Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
The phone slips from a loose grip
Words were missed then, some apology
I didn
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31. _ If Winter Ends
I dreamt of a fever, one that would cure me of this cold, winter-set heart With no heat to melt the frozen tears and burnt with reasons as to carry on Into these twisted months I plunge without a light to follow But I swear that I would follow anything if it would just get me out of here So I"ve been given six months to adapt and three more to leave town Never thouhgt that if I did adapt they might not want me around I fell for the promise of a life with purpose but I know that's impossible now so I'll drink to stay warm and to kill selected memories becuase I can't think about her anymore tonight I give myself three days to feel better or I swear I'm driving myself off a fucking cliff becasue if I can't make myself feel better then how should I expect anyone else to give a shit? I yearn for a sunset or a car to take me away just get me passed this dead, eternal snow because I swear that I'm dying. Slowly, but it's happening so if there is a perfect spring that is waiting somewhere please take me there and lie to me and tell me that everything's gonna be alright. more free lyrics |
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32. _ I've Been Eating For You
So, I
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33. _ The Feel Good Revolution
Come by when you get off work I'll be sitting around doing nothing We can wait till the sun goes down Then we can drive off deep into the night I don't care where we're going As long as I'm going with you The summer swells in us With the heat comes a new kind of wanting Cool nights never cooled us off Lay around, wait for something to happen But, it's three lonely figures A bedroom, a basement, she's scared Which one is sleeping And which one is lying awake? Yeah, which one is sleeping And which one is lying about it? Afternoon drag on and on Movie nights that never end We can hang out all night long Lay in bed and talk to a good friend Cause you only get older and probably forget what it's like The university's quiet today We didn't clean, we just talked in the bathroom The girl always gets in the way Ruined friendships, but others replace them These opinions are poison I've been drinking them all of my life I could never replace you Could never forget what it's like Step out on a moonlit roof The radio leads a feel good revolution Cigarettes and my closest friends I tell myself that I have to remember this Remember this Tell myself that I've got to remember Tell myself that I've got to remember this To remember, to remember this more free lyrics |
34. _ A Perfect Sonnet
Lately I've been wishing I had one desire Something that would make me never want another Something that would make it so that nothing matters All would be clear then But I guess I'll have to settle for a for a few brief moments And watch it all dissolve into a single second And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet Or one foolish line Cause that's all that you'll get So you'll have to accept You are here and then you're gone But I believe that lovers should be tied together Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather Left there to drown Left there to drown in their innocence But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter I read all of the pages and there's still no answer Only all that was before I know must soon come after That's the only way it can be So I stand in the sun And I breathe with my lungs Trying to spare me the weight of the truth Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror You've spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever And laying in a bathtub full of freezing water Wishing you were a ghost But once you knew a girl and you named her "Lover" Danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer But autumn came, she disappeared, you don't remember Where she said she was going to But you know that she's gone Cause she left you a song That you don't want to sing Singing, I believe that lovers should be chained together Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters Left there to burn Left there to burn in their arrogance But as for me I'm coming to my final failure I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better And ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be All right I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers And laid entwined together on a bed of clover Left there to sleep Left there to dream of their happiness more free lyrics |
35. _ February Fifteenth
All eyes on the calendar another year I claim of total indifference To hear the days pile up With decisions to be made I'm sure all of them were wrong Into this song, I send myself And with these drinks I plan to collapse and forget This wasted year These wasted years Devoted friends, they disappear And, I'm sorry about the phone call And needing you Some decisions you don't make I guess it's like breathing And not wanting to There are some things that you can't fake Yeah, there are some things that you can't fake I guess that it's typical To cling to memories you'll never get back again And to sort through old photographs Of a summer long ago Or a friend that you used to know And there below his frozen face you wrote the name And that ancient date, that ancient date And you can't believe he is really gone When all that's left is a fucking song I'm sorry about the phone call And waking you I know that it's late But thank you for talking Cause I needed to Yeah, Some things just can't wait Yeah, some things just can't wait Yeah, some things just can't wait Yeah, some things just can't wait more free lyrics |
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36. _ When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
Tomorrow when I wake up
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37. _ A Celebration Upon Completion
My grandfather's name was Moon Because his eyes were bright and round And no amount of time or liquor could dull them My grandmother's name was Joy Bcause it spilled out of her heart And bathed her precious children in its warmth And there was happiness in life Beyond the sorrow and the pain But how they ever found it I cannot explain I guess time has a way of making everything all right It's just there's not enough of it And so we drink and we sing and we celebrate this life And hope that it will last Morning is here and night has passed My grandfather was a doctor He cured the sick with his kind hands And he taught me how to sail and how to find dry land My grandmother was all sweetness When she spoke we all heard bells And they rang in such a way that we were comforted And they held on to each other With all the strength they had And they loved with devotion beyond what I understand But fear has a way Of making sleep unbearable And the days seem cold and long But we'll cry and we dance And we stumble into love In awkward, perfect grace The moon is gone and the sun has took its place The moon is gone and the sun has took its place more free lyrics |
38. _ All Of The Truth
It is not the past few days That have has me feel this way And it is not the tiny marks of doubt That cover everything I see It is just the way she looks at me With a love so complete That I have never seen And from this grows A strong, undying guilt And the feeling of regret Of things I never felt And oh, I wanted to change I wanted to change And become what she needs And I know, I know what she needs I know what she needs But I can never be I can never be And I can never be more free lyrics |
39. _ Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor
I wanted to come visit you waiting in the springtime When the leaves change I wanted to come visit You waiting in the springtime When the leaves change The ground outside is begging For that newness that surrounds us As we dance back through the screen door In the sunlight of mid-April But the glow won't stop the smiles That are spreading on our faces As we fall down on the kitchen floor And she's laughing about something that she had heard earlier And I can't help noticing that she Is sitting closer to me Than she ever has before more free lyrics |
40. _ I Watched You Take Off
Meaning is sometimes hard to spot It begins with the flickering of cigarettes In the darkness of a dorm room Ssomewhere in the suffocated mid-west But if this is real then I was mistaken And if there is truth then why can't we find it? But beauty comes to those who have been waiting For something that is bigger than themselves But this is the sound of the hopeless kids As they scream from the basements Of the houses of their parents And this is the sound of the hopeless ones As they stare down at their books And realize that they've been lied to But if this is real then I was mistaken And if the vision's gone, then I was not aware Consistency like that which I have craved Is that people change so unexpectedly And realization finds you in a drunken airport Some planes depart and others never arrive So with this in mind I don't plan on waiting If it's time to leave and break these old ties Without something more the vision is fading But until it's gone the pain will make us try It'll make us try But this is the hope I've been searching for As the wings catch the sunlight Of the cold Nebraska skyline And this is the dream I am dying in As I wake to find tomorrow Be content without perfection But if this is real then I was mistaken And if the vision's gone then I was not aware more free lyrics |
41. _ Going For The Gold
There's a voice on the phone telling what had happened, some kind of confusion more like a disaster. And it wondered how you were left unaffected, but you had no knowledge. No, the chemicals covered you. So a jury was formed as more liquor was poured. No need for conviction, they're not thirsting for justice. But I slept with the lies I keep inside my head. I found out I was guilty. I found out I was guilty. But I won't be around for the sentencing, cause I'm leaving on the next airplane. And though I know that my actions are impossible to justify they seem adequate to fill up my time. But if I could talk to myself like I was someone else, well then maybe I could take your advice, and I wouldn't act like such an asshole all the time. There's a film on the wall, makes the people look small who are sitting beside it, all consumed in the drama. They must return to their lives once the hero has died. They will drive to the office stopping somewhere for coffee, where the folk singers, poets and playwrites convene, dispensing their wisdom. Oh dear amateur orator. They will detail their pain In some standard refrain. They will recite their sadness Like it's some kind of contest. Well, if it is, I think I am winning it, All beaming with confidence as I make my final lap. The gold medal gleams so hang it around my neck cause I am deserving it: the champion of idiots. But a kid carries his walkman on that long busride to Omaha. I know a girl who cries when she practices violin. Cause each note sounds so pure, it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now to me, everything else, it just sounds like a lie. more free lyrics |
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42. _ The Calendar Hung Itself
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you, incessantly, from the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school, with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you?
Oh, Does he know that place below your neck that's your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences like, "I love you far too much"?
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Worried you smoke too many cigarettes?
Is he coughing now?
On a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile
There's a thousand more
You won
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43. _ June On The West Coast
I spent a week drinking the sunlight of Winnetka, California
Where they understand the weight of human hearts
You see, sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold you
With the fear that it eventually departs
And the truth is I
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44. _ The Movement Of A Hand
You follow the footsteps echoes leading down a hall To a room, there's music playing Tiny bells with moving parts Here the shadows make things ugly an effect quite undesirable And The gold and yellow daylight Grows like ivy across the wall And it bounces off of the painted porcelain A tiny dancing doll Her body spins as she pirouettes Again the world suddenly seems small On an off-white, subtle morning You stretch your legs in the front seat The road has made a vacuum Where our voices used to be And you lay your head onto my shoulder Pour like water over me So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive that would be fine And all the trees that line this curb would be rejoicing and alive Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes Because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving good-bye more free lyrics |
45. _ How Many Lights Do You See?
How many lights do you see? How many lights do you see? There's one to say that night has come And there's one that guards this jagged shore And there's one to call the children home And there's one to light the path they take How many lights do you see? How many lights do you see? There's one to keep the shadows off And there's one that tells me she got home And there's one to read his novel by And there's one that warms this dreary room And there's one to watch the baby sleep And there's one to count the blinking stars And there's one that I just can't forget And there's one that I remember too How many lights do you see? How many lights do you see? There's one that waits for closing time And there's one that gets left on all night And there's one that marks the western sky And it shines down on the quiet street And there's one that floods the darker parts And there's one that hurts my tired eyes And there's one that says she's not asleep And there's one that waits for her to wake How many lights do you see? How many lights do you see? There is one that spills out on the beach And it sparkles on the jetting rocks And there is one that waits for tired ships That sleep within this tired port more free lyrics |
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46. _ A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
You turn on a spindle
You're so much looser now
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47. _ Solid Jackson
She says she's read too many fashion magazines She's forgotten what real love is like And as the basement collects more kids off the street They smoke themselves to death waiting for the band to begin They've been tuning up there for an hour now And I don't think I can stand another minute more But just then the first chord strums, and the drums set in And I know what I have been waiting around for Because no one's going home until the morning comes No one's going to sleep until the sun comes up Did you hear those first two songs? They were fucking tuff And the band's not going to stop until the cops show up So hold your applause until the end And wait for the sadness to set in Cause that's the only feeling that's worth a damn That's worth a damn He says he's done with the pop music scene There's too many opinions and so few are worth a shit He has got to learn to act a little more mean Cause the mean ones always end up with the record deals But it's only when I'm angry that I feel complete When we are screaming at each other is when I'm most happy I hang out with my friends and then I get depressed And I drink myself to sleep with any strength that's left And I quit going to church a year ago And my teachers think that my faith is gone But I can do without the eucharist Cause I found God in a Solid Jackson song more free lyrics |
48. _ Saturday As Usual
Virginia's almost sleeping The night is getting older There's static on the tv She's lying on the sofa The cats crawl over her Jenny's in the garage She's got the car in neutral She rolls it out so quietly It's Saturday as usual It always is And me I'm in my bedroom Drawing in my notebook Cause my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words, they mean... So little to me, so little to me So little to me, so little to me So little to me, so little to me So little to me, so little to me I can't seem to deal with something more When everyone will fall back Daddy's in the backyard his hands are getting dirty And mom is in the kitchen And her cake says that I'm thirteen Another year My brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough he'll end up just like father Who hates his life And me, I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids Cause it's hard to be a man when you're scared just like a little kid The world's become... A little too mean, a little too mean A little too mean, a little too mean A little too mean, a little too mean A little too mean, a little too mean And I can't see the point of patient love When everyone just wants to get fucked more free lyrics |
49. _ Falling Out Of Love At This Volume
Tell me what you wanted to hear Let me do the right thing Let me do the wrong thing And if it's ever this clear I will only say it once Just let me turn the amps way up So you can hear nothing And if I die tonight Then I guess I die tonight Let me go on Just say what you wanted to say I cannot stand these talks, dear They're only getting nowhere It's never resolved We only run around You only tell me anyone Could be just like me If it's a different time And a different place to be You would go on more free lyrics |
50. _ A New Arrangement
If you could change your days, arranging them in some sweet new sequence Like any new arrangement's gonna make a difference Cause it's the moment that you're living in and not the one that follows That makes this mess you're cleaning in your head Time still drags you forward, though you keep resisting You know it's what you leave behind, you'll soon start missing And the people you once counted on now say it's all depending On how you act and how you treat yourself And that's not very well So baby, when I call for you I want you to come Explain yourself to everyone You nod in an acknowledgement of your frequent mood swings Yeah, what good's an acknowledgement, it still don't change things We've tried all forms of encouragement, but it's still no better You just can't seem to fake or force a smile Not even a little one But baby, when I call to you I want you to come And lay it out for everyone Exactly how it was before any of this happened And why you can't leave it behind Now don't just, don't just sit there when I call to you I told you to come and lay it out for Don't feel awkward Lay it out for everyone more free lyrics |
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51. _ The Difference In The Shades
Now that it's June
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52. _ The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat
We escape from the house As the day disappears from the sky Into night we became what we wanted to be like a dream or a ghost I collapse out of turn Near a house lying still in the grass And felt the heat from the ground rising up to contract And expand like a breath We leave from that place soaked with sweat And the poison we drank Fill the bathtub with ice and hope this fever will break Like a heart, easily But I do not recall all the words that were formed On those wire lips as they greeted me A promise was made without thought as the temperature climbed And I started to sink like the moon tends to do If you stare at it so long Then you blink and it's gone And we crawl to our sleep with the dawn Take it back And isn't it the same mistake? And isn't it the same mistake? And isn't it the same mistake? There's not much you can escape And isn't it the same? We awake in the light Feeling hollow and selfishly warm Close the blinds and retreat until what's burning is gone And its light is away Then we're back in the dark Chasing nothing through backyards and trees You ripped your shirt on a fence But it didn't get me Yeah, it's fear, it makes you slow And these creatures look crooked Their shadows cut lines through my face And the concrete is fire where my bare feet are placed In a line next to yours And I guess I'm not sure if it's fear that was born As those awful eyes laid their claim on us I put my hands on the fence Said your name and I started to climb And it must have been sweat but I drank it like wine It was sweet, my mouth was dry I heard your scream but I made no reply I can still taste it now if I try more free lyrics |
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