SOMETIMES
Large fingers pushing paint
You're God and you've got big hands
Colors blend.. the challenges you give me
Seek my part.. devote myself
My small self.. like a book against the many a shelf
Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I laugh
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself, dear God.
HAIL, HAIL
Oh, is there room for both of us?
Both of us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation?
Is that all we've got?
I get the words, and then I get to thinkin'
I don't want to think, I want to feel!
And how do I feel?
And how do I...?
If you're the only one, will I ever be enough?
Hail, hail to the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
Swore I'd love you till the day I die, and beyond..
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rolling thick and heavy
Of the past we carry
Oh, I could be new.. you underestimate me
If you're the only one, will I ever be enough?
Hail, hail to the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
I sometimes realize I could only be as good as you'll let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Bandaged hand in hand
I find it on the run, in a race that can't be won..
All hail to the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
If you're my only one, so good you, only one
I want to be your one, enough..
You won.. you won.. you won..
WHO YOU ARE
Come to send, not condescend
Transcendental consequence
Is to transcend where we are
Who are we? Who we are..
Trampled marks on your souls
Changes all, you're a part
Seen it all, not at all
Can't defend the command
Take me a for a ride before we leave..
Circumstance, clapping hands
Driving winds, happenstance
Off the track, in the mud
That's the mess in the aforementioned verse
Just a little time, before we leave...
Stoplight plays it part
So I would say you've got a part
What's your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are.
IN MY TREE
Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah
All thoughts crossed on my head, yeah
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah
Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
Sidewalks, cigarettes and scenes, yeah, yeah
Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath up here within my chest
Just like innocence
I remember when, yeah
I thought I knew everything, oh yeah
They say knowledge is a dream, yeah
Growing up just like me, yeah
I'm so light the wind he shakes
I'm so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath and keep it within my chest
Just like innocence...
Up here so high the bars they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
And my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse
Of my innocence.. got back my innocence..
Still got it, still got it.
SMILE
Don't it make you smile? (2x)
When the sun don't shine? It don't shine at all..
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
When the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already.. I miss you always
I miss you already.. I miss you all day
This is how I feel..
I miss you already.. I miss you always
The crooked heart swirls all around.. I miss you all day
OFF HE GOES
1, 2, 1, 2, 3...
Know a man, his face seems pulled and tense
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
So I approach with tact, suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flipside
Of this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been taking too much on..
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes..
He's yet to come back, but I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder about his insides
Its like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken, where, I don't know?
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
And there he goes..
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned!
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles, and he's still strong
Nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit
That has grown
And now he's home, and we're laughing like we always did
My same old, same old friend
Until a quarter-to-ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen next
Before his first step, he's off again.
HABIT
Seen it happen to a couple of friends
Seen it happen and the message it sends
Taking off for what's an obvious fault
Just to see what all the fuss is about
It's not your way.. not your way (2x)
Another habit says it's in love with you
Another habit says its love's overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
It's not your way.. not your way (2x)
Never thought you'd.. habit (3x)
I never thought you, never thought you..
Never thought you'd.. habit (3x)
I never thought you, never never thought you..
Never thought you'd.. habit (6x)
Speaking as a child of the nineties..
Never thought you'd.. habit (3x)
I never thought you, never thought you
Never thought you'd.. habit (3x)
I never thought you, never never thought you..
Never.. never me, never you.. never me..
RED MOSQUITO
Watched from my window, with a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up
Somewhere in the time between
I was bitten, must have been the devil..
He was just paying me..
A little visit reminding me of his presence
Letting me know, he's a'waiting..
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior
While you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck
Hovering just above your bed (2x)
I was bitten, must have been the devil..
He was just paying me..
A little visit reminded me of his presence
And letting me know, he's a'waiting, he's a'waiting..
If I had known then what I now know... (4x)
LUKIN
Drove down the street, can't find the keys to my own fucking house
I take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches.. stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog
I'm gone to Lukin's, I've gotta spot Lukin..
I knocked the door at Lukin's.. opened the fridge..
Now I know life's worth
I find the key but I returned to find an open door
So fuckin' freak who claims I fathered her something son(?)
I find my wife, I call the cops.. this day's work's never done
Last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
PRESENT TENSE
Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays.. A lesson to be applied
Are you getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive yourself, oh..
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
Have you ideas on how this life ends? Checked your hands and studies the
lines
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way
to live
Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh..
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
MANKIND
You'll be going out with radio.. going out with disco
Going out with bacchanal
I'll be going out with telephone.. going out alone
To the radar zone..
It's all just inadvertant imitation and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertant simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin it?
I'll be playing with my magazine.. using up my Listerine
Like Ovaltine..
And you'll be dipping in your battleship.. for the latest tip
For the latest dream
It's all just inadvertant imitation and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertant simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking?
If it's just inadvertant imitation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking? (6x)
I'M OPEN
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door
He waits hoping for a presence; something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching, he still felt as blank
As the ceiling at which he's staring
He's alive, but feels absolutely nothing
So, is he?
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine he had deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact
No tradebacks...
So this is what it's like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I'm open.. (2x)
Come in.. (4x)
I'm open.. (2x)
Come in.. (4x)
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream.. dream up a new self for himself.
AROUND THE BEND
I'm wishing you are well.. mind at peace within your self
Covers up, I cast you off.. I'll be watching as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend
I hold your head deep in my arms.. My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream, my little child.. There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend..
All evenings close like this.. All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive, won't you, dear?
Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend.
You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep up and all around the bend.
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