California

She's all dressed up and waiting for a bus
In the hot sunshine
She just wants to kill some time
But it looks like time's gonna kill her first
So she goes to the cocktail lounge to lounge and says
"i'm gonna have a real good time."
As she sinks into the capitalist chair
I don't think that she really cares

If somewhere there's people living

She finally gets on the bus
And sinks next to a very nice lady
Who just got out of the hospital
She had a major operation
The doctor left a knife in her throat
And now it picks up radio waves
You can turn the dial 'til it comes up in your hand
Maybe you'll pick up a populated land

Somewhere there's people living

C'mon let's go out and really drunk tonight
You can be miss bottomless pit of 1983
And i can be mr. out like a light
C'mon we got a lot to lose
So maybe we can lose it all tonight
And then when they shoot us down
We won't be around

We'll be somewhere where there's people living

Well you don't want me to touch you
You just want me to shut up
You don't want me to think what i'm thinking
Or the devil in my throat to come up
And you get so nervous that everything's a joke

If i have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone

So i go back to my room
To my room by the freeway
I fall onto my bed like snow
Like the cold i never woke you
And the killing followed me home
Hey what's song you whistling

If i have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone

When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
And that life is so rewarding
And i guess that you're the grand prize my dear

When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
If i have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone

Pale and skinny girl lives in the middle of a mountain
Long golden hair, someone pull her out
She walks across a parking lot
With two quarters in her hand
She just wants to take a little break from nothing

Never sees the daylight
Never needs the daylight

Outside the air pocket, there's no one around
She's frozen with terror like an animal
Baby take your first walk out into the wasteland
On every horizon, nothing

Never needs daylight

Never sees the daylight
Never needs daylight

Try and try, leave a trace
And all we ever leave is a sour taste
You're half asleep when i crash through
I'm like a drop of water on the dry sand
I'm a scar across your face
I'm an itch that's driving you mad

Highway five

Takes so much to make us feel like we're alive
A weary traveler at a smooth seventy-five
Make pretend the landscape ain't so dry
Do anything to maintain a lie
To the left, a beautiful california landscape
Dead ends in the sky
And to the right, beautiful mountains rise
High and dry
Another futile expression of bitterness
Another overwhelming sensation of uselessness

Make pretend that the landscape ain't so dry
Do anything to maintain a lie
Make pretend that the lover ain't so barren
Though in los angeles things like that don't matter

Highway five

I sat up all morning and i waited for you
With my blue and grey shirt on
Yeah i thought that's my lucky one

I'll sit and face the road now
I don't have a heavy load now
I got nothing to keep me hanging around here
From now on

Where's the compassion
To make your tired heart sing
I'm tired of being a spokesman
For every tired thing

There's nothing in the world outside
Just some things that i see from the side
I'm just a shy boy sitting in a house
When everyone is gone from now on

I sat up all morning and i waited for you
With my blue and grey shirt on
Yeah that's my favorite one
I sat up all morning so why did you call?
'cause now i just sing my songs
For people that are gone from now on

I thought there was more life than finishing a dream
I thought gravity helped you to dance
But it just makes you sink
I stand in the way of people who stopped caring
Numb hands and feet and ears long past hearing

They sing now you're defeated baby
Fall on your face in the divine way
Don't worry about anything, no
It's just the world having its little way

Justice ain't going to be yours tonight
You got a pure bright soul but heaven don't need it
Sit on your hands and talk to the friend you never had
Angels laugh with joy and they make you scream
At the strong open crowd, want the great fight
Push up against you and then sustain the right

Now you're defeated baby
World revolves around you
Now you're defeated baby
I really showed you

Now you're defeated baby
Now that you're too big to hold
Now you're defeated baby
You're worth more to me than gold