World of Noise

Maybe I went too far this time I just go crazy when she says no
Angel turns away pulls her dress back down, slowly washes her face
Takes the bus to her job downtown
She said I'm OK don't worry about me
Now she thinks for herself, hey what happened to me?
I told him that I thought it was over told him that I wanted to leave
He used to touch me so nice when we first met
I never dreamed he would hit me I never dreamed he would hold me down
She said, don't worry about me I won't worry about you
I don't want to be friends she said I'm OK
Just leave me alone
She said don't worry about me I won't worry about you
She said I'm OK don't worry about me
I don't want to be friends
Just leave me alone
Don't worry about me

I remember when you seemed real shiny with the sweat of your voice
Shaky hands super load and teenage mouth
We were all charmed and taken with your talk
Now I shudder when I hear the rhythm of your walk
Now I've got no place to go I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in your eyes
I have sinned the sin of wanting more
The belly fire pulls the spirit from the corporate whore
I'm embarrassed by the plaid you wear
If I were you I'd hide behind that stupid bleach blonde hair
Now I've got no place to go I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in you
Yeah that simple minded sparkle that I thought I saw
Yes I have wondered why you changed
I like it when you were super loud
I wonder if you're giving in tell me why you're giving in

Jackson met a girl in a valley town
They fell into a teenage love she'd grow to hate
He's in prison now since he beat her down
He got her pregnant and she made it go away
Hey hey hey hey Pennsylvania
I got a card today from a girl I know
She used to live alone in Philadelphia
She had to leave the state for a choice she made
She says she feels just like a hostage in her home
Hey hey hey hey Pennsylvania
You can close your eyes you can fall and die
You can hope your laws will make it go away
You can close your eyes but you can't make it go away
I just got a call from my uncle Mike
He said he left his wife and he's not going back
Said she changed her mind about a desire child
I asked him if he wants a placemat or a wife
Hey hey hey hey Pennsylvania is wrong!

You know i want to be
The way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you

I would break in half
If you said it loud splinter out of myself
Just like mercury

I think it's better now,
Than how it used to be
You were lying in bed and i would levitate

I think it's better here,
Than where we used to be
I wish i could go out into the oregon sun. . .
To be alive in the day. . .
I would smile at everyone

I remember you
Back in '83
You were dressing insane
You were my everything

You were so different
From all those other girls
A blind electra in drag
So cool and casually lame

I think i'm better now
Than how i used to be
Always nervous and weird
Scared most of the time

I think it's better now
Than how it used to be
Always up in the night
Afraid to live in the day
Afraid of being afraid

Afraid to live in the day
Afraid of being afraid

I sit alone
When your not around
I read aloud just to hear a friendly noise

I see your scary dolls
They always look at me
From the corner of my eyes
I see them shake their heads

You know i want to be
The way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you

I want to be
The way you want me to
I wish i could go out just to be alive in the day

To be alive in the day
To be alive in the day
To be alive in the day

I break every day
Stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

All i need and crave
Is a loud life with the power to fade
I am living because i keep it all inside

Love don't work for me
I want women who are out of my reach
All i need for sure is a big love with the power to make more

I am living because i keep it all inside
I know i'm close to the fall
I know i'm dangerous
I'm afraid i'm going down

I blame my family
Their damage is living in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life

All i need i swear is to go out
With the power of a nightmare

I am living because i keep it all inside
I know i'm close to the fall
I know i'm dangerous
I know i'm not going down alone

I know a couple who are in love living in the best of times
A truer love you will never know
Right next to a pain they'll never realize
Sheltered from it in a loving glow young and happy and oh-so politically correct
Just get it if you need it now
Just go buy it if you need it in your life
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will
I know a young girl living in the shadow of the kind of life that she could never make
She takes it all and gives it back in love to handsome artists in her native state
She is the angel of the loser and the disenchanted soul
Just get it if you need it now
Just buy it if it makes you happy
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will

Right now day one I fall hard when I fall
I always fall on you
Face first head down eyes closed arms out to break my fall
We fall down like a world of noise
We get lost inside the length of our own time
And the laughing world will never forget that it's when you jam that I jet
I see I want I reach I fail to hold the things that I need
I turn to reach for you I want to touch our life before it fades like a burning car in the sun
We flame for the all in plain view
And the laughing world will never forget that it's when you jam that I jet

You know I want to be the way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I would break in half if you said it loud
Splinter out of myself just like mercury
I think it's better now than how it used to be
You were lying in bed and I would levitate
I think it's better here, than where we used to be
I wish I could go out into the Oregon sun=85 to be alive in the day
I would smile at everyone
I remember you back in '83 you were dressing insane
You were my everything you were so different from all those other girls
A blind Electra in drag so cool and casually lame
I think I'm better now than how I used to be
Always nervous and weird, scared most of the time
I think it's better now than how it used to be
Always up in the night afraid to live in the day afraid of being afraid
Now I sit alone when you're not around
I read aloud just to hear a friendly voice
I see you scary dolls they always look at me
=46rom the corner of my eyes I see them shake their heads
You know I want to be the way you me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I wish I could go out just to be alive in the day