Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through The Noise (2006) by Vienna Teng (보컬) on maniadb.com

Blue, blue caravan, winding down to the valley of lights
My true love is a man who would hold me for ten thousand nights
In the wild, wild wailing of wind, he's a house 'neath a soft yellow moon
So blue, blue caravan, won't you carry me down to him soon?

Blue, blue caravan, won't you drive away all of these tears?
For my true love is a man that I haven't seen in years
He said, "Go where you have to, for I belong to you until my dying day"
So like a fool, blue caravan, I believed him and I walked away

Oh, my blue, blue caravan, oh the highway is my great wall
For my true love is a man who never existed at all
Oh, he was a beautiful fiction I invented to keep out the cold
But now, my blue, blue caravan, I can feel my heart growing old
Oh, my blue, blue caravan, I can feel my heart growing old

He's a company man, your right hand
Thirteen years and counting
No detectable ambition
A model of efficiency
Far as you can see
He knows every loophole
The art of fine print
Massages the numbers 'til they fit
And every time you ask him for another vanishing act
He half-smiles as if to say:

Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me
Oh
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me

Never a real moment together but she understands:
You're an important man
Another late night
Don't know if you're coming home or when
She's alone again
But she goes on curating your domestic museum
She disappears in her loyalty
She is a dress wearing a face in the doorway
Opening her arms out to you

Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me
Oh
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me

No one would dare to question you
Oh no
No one would dare to stand up
In the night she leaves the papers in a tidy pile
Evidence for her reasons
And in the night he takes the main accounts and pulls the files
Detailing every treason
I am the last one you'd ever suspect of setting the fire
Of setting the fire
But as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning
You'll hear me saying quietly:

Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me
Oh
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
Whatever you want is fine by me

Oh, whatever you say
Oh, whatever you say
I'll do what you ask me
I'll do what you ask me
Whatever you say
Oh, whatever you say
But do you know who's listening?
Oh, whatever you say
Oh, whatever you say
You know it's over

She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
Because the myth is not supposed to retire
We'd rather it lit itself on fire,
Or overdosed in a 4-star hotel.

She's holding a truth that she'll never reveal,
She's holding a truth that she'll never reveal,
Because truth this time is an ugly child,
And mother and daughter may reconcile but their faces will never heal.

"Don't go," she says, but he's sleeping?
She says it to herself: "Don't go."
She sees herself rising,
Packing a suitcase with all of her shoes.
But something keeps you faithful
When all else in you turns and runs.
Love turns 40.
The morning comes.

She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
Because we were once cinema gods in the night,
And now all we've got is lunch-hour light
Where nothing photographs well.

"Don't go," she says, but he's sleeping?
She says it to the dark: "Don't go."
She sees herself rising,
Dressing in silence for nothing to lose.
But something keeps you faithful
When all else in you turns and runs.
Love turns 40.
The morning comes.

I don't feel so well.
I thought that you should know
I thought that you should know
That I don't feel so well
I thought that you should know
Before you fall

I don't call them back
I thought that you should know
I thought that you should know
That I don't call them back
I thought that you should know
Before you fall

I saw it begin to dawn on us both
And somehow it wasn't surprising
And so you're preparing to swear every oath
But all the while I'm realizing

I can't love you there
I thought that you should know
I thought that you should know
That I can't love you there
I thought that you should know
Before you fall

(instrumental)

I saw it begin to dawn on us both
And somehow it wasn't surprising
And so you're preparing to swear every oath
But all the while I'm realizing

I can't love you there
I thought that you should know
I thought that you should know
That I can't love you there
I thought that you should know
Before you fall

Me and my baby on a February holiday
'Cause we got the news
Yeah, we got the news
500 miles and we're gonna make it all the way
We got nothing to lose
We got nothing to lose

Been ten years waiting, but it's better late than the never, we've been told before
We can't wait one minute more

Ohh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall
Ohh, me and my baby stand in line
You never seen a sight so fine
As the love that's gonna shine at City Hall

Me and my baby been through a lot of good and bad
Learned to kiss the sky
Made our mamas cry
Seen a lot of friends, after giving it all they had
Lay down and die
Lay down and die

Ten years into it, here's our window at the Vegas drive-thru chapel
Ain't too much for 'em all to handle

Ohh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall
Ohh, me and my baby stand in line
You never seen a sight so fine
As the love that's gonna shine at City Hall

Outside they're handing out donuts and pizza pies
For the folks in pairs
In their folding chairs
My baby's looking so damn pretty with those anxious eyes
Rain-speckled hair
And my ring to wear

Ten years waiting for this moment of fate when we say the words and sign our names
If they take it away again someday, this beautiful thing won't change

So ohh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall
Ohh, me and my baby stand in line
You never seen a sight so fine
As the love that's gonna shine...

Ohh, me and my baby driving down
To a hilly seaside town in the rainfall
Ohh, me and my baby stand in line
You never seen a sight so fine
As the love that's gonna shine at City Hall

It's the quiet night that breaks me
I cannot stand the sight of this familiar place
It's the quiet night that breaks me
Like a dozen papercuts that only I can trace
All my books are lying useless now
All my maps will only show me how to lose my way

Oh call my name
You know my name
And in that sound
Everything will change
Tell me it won't always be this hard
I am nothing without you
But I don't know who you are

It's the crowded room that breaks me
Everybody looks so luminous, and strangely young
It's the crowded room that's never heard
No one here can say a word of my native tongue
I can't be among them anymore
I fold myself away before it burns me numb

Oh call my name
You know my name
And in your love
Everything will change
Tell me it won't always be this hard
I am nothing without you
But I don't know who you are

1 bedroom 1 bath
Hardwood floors with view of trees
1 bedroom 1 bath
Parking space for extra fee
My little flock of boxes and I surrounded by a painted-white unknown
Soon as this wall in my heart comes down,
I'm gonna make it feel like home

1 bedroom 1 bath
A/C was fine 'til yesterday
1 bedroom 1 bath:
89 degrees today
My upstairs neighbors are making sounds that I never want to hear.
I hope they're just moving furniture around
And really liking their ideas

1 bedroom 1 bath
Hardwood floors with view of trees
1 bedroom 1 bath
Parking space for extra fee
My little flock of boxes and I surrounded by a painted-white unknown
Soon as this wall in my heart comes down,
I'm gonna make it feel like home
Gonna make it feel like home (repeatedly)

City fast asleep
Clouds up on the hill
So quiet
So still
Dreams of rain in sheets,
Dreams of ice and wings
So delicate
These things.

Love, love, love is a word so small
Let it fill up up, up
'Til I can't see at all
I want to be blind
Only my hands to guide me
Bring all of you inside me

City fast asleep
Lights hum in the gray,
Like her breathing will someday
Strangest beauty cries
One and one
By and by
Now three of us here lie

Love, love, love for one so small
Come fill me up, up, up
'Til I can't see at all
I want to be blind
Only my heart to guide me
Gather all the world inside me

Sunday:
Dark water draining north
The heat swells and bursts like plague

Sunday:
Ever-so-faint slow tambourine
Glides onward toward the grave

Who drew the line?
Who drew the line
Between you and me?
Who drew the line
That everyone sees?

Darling,
Lake Pontchartrain is haunted:
Bones without names
Photographs framed in reeds

Darling,
What blood our veins are holding.
The overpass frozen
Fires ablaze at sea

Who drew the line?
Who drew the line
That cuts to the skin, buries me in?
Tell me, who drew the line
Darling don't close your eyes

(Lie as darkness hardens
Lie of our reunion
O lie if God is sleeping
O I believe you now)

Darling,
Lake Pontchartrain will cradle me
And all you left behind
Listen:
Ever-so-faint slow tambourine
Is marching back through time

It's so beautiful here, she says,
This moment now
And this moment, now
And I never thought I would find her here:
Flannel and satin
My four walls transformed
But she's looking at me
Straight to center
No room at all for any other thought
And I know I don't want this
Oh I swear I don't want this
There's a reason not to want this
But I forgot

In the terminal she sleeps on my shoulder
Hair falling forward, mouth all askew
Fluorescent announcements beat their wings overhead:
Passengers missing
We're looking for you
And she dreams through the noise,
Her weight against me
Face pressed into the corduroy grooves
Maybe it means nothing
Maybe it means nothing
Maybe it means nothing
But I'm afraid to move

And the words: they're everything and nothing
I want to search for her in the offhand remarks
Who are you, taking coffee, no sugar?
Who are you, echoing street signs?
Who are you, the stranger in the shell of a lover
Dark curtains drawn by the passage of time?
Oh words like rain, how sweet the sound

Well anyway, she says, I'll see you around...