Live At Luther College

lately i've been feeling low
A remedy is what i'm seeking
I take a taste of whats below
Come away to something better
What i want is what i've not got
And what i need
Is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And i'll say...


If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
Till i get to the end of this tunnel mommy
If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
I'll get back to you

Sometimes a jimi thing slides my way and keeps me swinging
I'd like to show you what's inside
And i shouldn't care
If you don't like it
Brother chaos rule all about
Sometimes i walk there
Well yes god knows sometimes i take a bus there
Shouldn't care shouldn't care
Bereaved as i'm feeling

The day is gone
I'm on my back
Staring up at the ceiling
I take a drink sit back relax
Smoke my mind make me feel
Better for a small time
What i want is what i've not got
And what i need is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And i'll say...

If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
Till i get to the end of this tunnel mommy
If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
I'll get back to you

Instrumental

First played live: 11.17.92

Appears on: live at luther college

Intros/outros: n/a


Dave has said that the music for this song was titled "granny" before the
Lyrics were even thought of. the first set of lyrics is from an older version
Done with the entire band, the second set is from the 2.6.96 dave and tim
Show.
Read some interpretations.



Hello, how are you doing today
I hope i find you feeling healthy
I'm so glad our paths crossed this time today
On our way into the night
I saying love treats us well keeps us dancing
Baby i love you well our love is sure and find
So why when i approach you my tears they fall like rain
You tell me baby your heart into a thousand pieces dies

Stop only the old and wise with clouded eyes
You can't see what i can see
Blindly throw my faith to the face
Of the next pretty girl to come my way

So here we are all of us stand around
We're leaning heavy on each other
But still we worry what is it lies behind
Staring eyes of on another
Love i come to you you turn me up turn me down
Silly baby i love you so it tears me up inside
Love i come to you my tears they fall like rain
You tell me baby your heart into a thousand pieces dashed

Stop only the old and wise with clouded eyes
You can't see what i can see
Blindly throw my faith to the face
Of the next good thing to come my way

Love running here celebrating and relating
Baby our love is pure our love is pure and fine
So why, when i approach, the tears they fall like rain
You tell me baby your heart into a thousand pieces dashed

Say, my love, i came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what i'm seeking
Love, you drive me to distraction
Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
Our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change
Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and love,you quench my mind
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but
Sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
The things we cannot
Celebrate, you and me, climbing two by two, to be sure
These days continue, things we cannot change
Oh, my love i came to you
With best intentions
You laid down and gave to me
Just what i'm seeking
Celebrate we will
Because life is short
But sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change...
Things we cannot change

See i'm leaving
This warehouse frightens me
Has me tied up in knots
Can't rest for a moment
Soom i'm going i'm slippin' slow away
Hoping to find something better than
I've got inside of here
The warehouse slips away
Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful beginning
You and i will fumble around in the touches
And be sure to
Leave all the lights on
So we can see the black cat changing colors
And we can walk under the ladders
And swim as the tide turns you around and around
Hey we have found
Becoming one in a million
Slip into the crowd
This question if found in a gap in the sidewalk
Keep al lyour sights on
He the black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And swim as the tide choose to turn you
And here is it
Life goes on, end of tunnel, tv set
Spot in the middle
State fade, statistical bit
And soon i'll fade away, i'll fade away
This i admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it
Smell touch feel
How could this rhythm ever quit
Bags packed on a plane
Hopefully to heaven
Shut up i'm thinking
I had a clue now it's gone forever
Sitting over these bones
You can read in whatever you're needing to
Keep all your sights on
Yeah man, the black cat
Changing colors
When it's not the colors that matter
But that they'll all fade away
This i admit
Seems so good
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
Walls and halls have disappeared
My love i love to stay here
My love i love to stay here
In a corner was wondering
If a change could be better than this
And then i worry
Maybe things won't be better than they have been
Here in the warehouse
At the warehouse
How i love to stay here
At the warehouse
Every man and woman
Get alive
That's our blood down there
Seems poured from the hands of angels
But trickle into the ground
Leaves the warehouse bare and empty
My heart's numbered beat
Still echoe in this empty room
Fear wells in me
But nothing seems enough to defend
So i am going away

so here we are tonight, you and me together
The storm outside, the fire is bright
And in your eyes i see what's on my mind
You've got me wild, turned around inside
And then desire, see, is creeping up heavy inside here
And do you feel the same way as i do now
Now let's make this an evening
Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight
Stay here with me, love, tonight
Just for an evening
When we make our passion pictures
You and me twist up as secret creatures
And we'll stay here
Tommorrow go back to being friends

Go back to being friends, but tonight let's be lovers, we kiss and sweat
We'll turn this better thing
To the best
Of all we can offer, just a rogue kiss
Tangled tongues and lips,
See me this way
I'm turning and turning for you
Girl, just tonight

Float away here with me
An evening just wait and see
But tommorrow go back to your man
I'm back to my world
And we're back to being friends
Wait and see me,
Tonight let's do this thing
All we are is waisting hours until the
Sun comes up it's all ours
On our way here
Tommorrow go back to being friends

Go back to being friends
Tonight let's be lovers, say you will
And hear me call, soft-spooken
Whispering love
A thing or two i have to say here
Tonight let's go all the way then
Love i'll see you

Just for this evening
Let's strip down, trip out at this
One evening starts with a kiss
Run away

And tommorrow
Back to being friends
Lovers...love...lovers
Just for tonight, one night...love you
And tommorrow say goodbye

Oh so i pray
Oh at night
I wake up praying
All day light
I pray to you
And hear my request
I ask of you
To save this baby

O look at the girl
From inside
Is cancer eaten
Is life deprived
And if so by who
Could it be you
I see no need
For a baby's wisdom for you

Oh god the girl
All yellow turned
Cheeks are swollen
And soul is burned

Oh but the girl
The girl is gone
And the deed is done
It must be wrong

Now i pray
My prayers not heard
Could it be your death
Death to mortal word

Oh and see her pain
And drain and drain
Could you be deaf
And blind my friend
Oh and so we hold
Can you not hear
Can you not see
And if with words
You could change the way
Things are arranged
Surely you'd be speaking
Seeking no change

Oh but the girl
Deaf dumb and blind
From the cancer burning
Deep down inside
Oh but the deed is done
And the girl is gone
And i see no faith
That i have won

Well you may find you're little
You may find your tracks
You may go
For me the girl is gone
Oh you may find you're attraction
To me the baby's gone

Sometimes i feel like i'm falling
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we think what we see
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Inside a crowd, five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round
About this merry-go-round around
If at afll god's gaze upon us fall
His mischievous grin, look at him
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emtions can be swept away
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
Sit awhile with tv's hungry child
Big belly swelled
Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
Keep alive those hungy eyes
Take a look at me, what you see in me,
Mirror look at me
Face it all, face it all again
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that your emtions can be
Wwept away, kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, i am innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
Going--ha, ha
Say, say
Look at me in my fancy car
And my bank account
Oh, how i wish i could take it all down
Into my grave, i'd save
Take a look again, take a look again,
Take a look again
Everyday things change,...stay the same
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Your emtions can be swept away
Intentions are not wicked,
Don't be tricked into thinking so
Soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going--ha, ha
Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...

he wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper
Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well his concerns
He forgets them
And remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way
Candyman tempting the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Programs cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
On the fence, could not to offend
Cut, cut, cut, cut
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die

Spring sweet rhythm dance in my head
Slip into my lover's hands
Kiss me won't you kiss me now
And sleep i would inside your mouth
Don't be us too shy
Knowing it's no big surprise
That i will wait for you
I will wait for no one but you
Oh please lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Walk with me, walk with you
Hold my hands your hands
So much we have dreamed
And you were so much younger
Hard to explain that we are stronger
A million reasons life to deny
Let's toss them away
See you and me we
Lay down look see
She and he
By my lover's side
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Oh please oh please
Please lover lay down
Oh please lover lay down
And you weep lover lay down
Cause it's over lover lay down
Say love, say love, say love, say love, say love
Could i love you
Could you love me
Darling it's all the same
'til we dance away
Chasing me all around
Leading me all around
Leading me all around in circles
Say.......

We were above
You standing underneath us
We were not yet lovers
Dragons were smoked
Bumblebees were stinging us
I was soon to be crazy
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow we die
'cause we're tripping billies
We're wearing nothing
Nothing but out shadows
Shadows falling down on the beach sand
Remembering once,
Out on the beaches we wore
Pineapple grass bracelets
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our freinds
Such a happy human race
'cause we're tripping billies
We are all sitting
Legs crossed round a fire
My yellow flame she dances
Tequila drinking oh our
Minds will wonder
To wonderous places
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow we die

"so, um, so we've been doing this, uh, this tour, what i guess this is our
Fifth show we've done, tim and i, and, uh... (applause) and, uh, so this little
Song has been growing out, uh, while we've been playing, sort of a little
Story. and the little story i was in new york city and, uh, i was walking down
The street. trying to find the place i was going (i can't remember where i was
Going now). 'cause i met this girl and i asked her directions, you know. and
She was, she was tiny, you know. she, she wasn't young, she was just tiny. and,
Uh, so i asked her directions and she said, 'oh that's the way down there, walk
Over there, go down there, you walk over there, and you go down there and then
You're there.' something like that, anyway. so, uh, but i walked about ten
Paces away and i was thinking... daaamn, that girl was fine. and, oh, i turned
Around to tell her so, and ask her maybe her name, or maybe if we should go and
Get a cup of, who knows, coffee or something. and i'm sure if i turned around
And find
Her there i would have found out something...

But she talked so good
But when i turned around, she was gone
Oh, she was gone
I didn't even get her name, oh
I thought, goddamn
With your face in my mind
And your voice in my ears
To echoes
Oh, i bought a lovely flower
Standing there, we met that day
And hope that you would return
But, no, no, no

I can't remember where i was going
But i can't remember where i was leading to
Or what led me to you, but
Oh, and the weight is all through my head
The look of you, the sound
The way you cackled at me
From then and then, i didn't know where i was going
But always i cry

And so, hey, oh
The hands that pour my hands on you again
Hey, i will beg you, i'll beg, oh
See me, please find me again
Oh, i'm lost again
I sit here drinking coffee
Or water depending the time of day
But, oh, you're with me like a ghost of a mother
Oh, you're with me like the pain of a father
Oh, i wish i, i wish i could call you something
Other than the girl that i saw then

But, hey, i think that i would recognize you in a second
But, hey, i only saw you for a minute, maybe less
I don't hold my hand where
But i waited, honest
I'm lost now, i'm lost now
I can't remember what i used to be
But, oh, hey, yeah, weighted by the memory of
The memory of a love that never got born, but hey
Oh, hey

Do i even cross your mind lately
With more than just a laughing
Did you think as you walked away, maybe
You were, hey
Oh, i hope you did
So, hey, yeah
You would, you would have been feeling
The same thing as i am know

"thank you very much."

Speaking to tim: "let's try to think of some other song..." interrupted by fans
Requesting songs.

(southern accent)"but we, but we done already done it, done it then! (switches
To pseudo-homosexual voice) that'd be like, you know, like, um, sing and sing,
And then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again. and people
Would be like, 'why'd he sing that again?'"