Big Head Todd And The Monsters

We keep each other in the air
And from there we're afraid of falling down
She don't believe I really care
Oh, she'll be runnin' as soon as we reach the ground
But her angel leads me on
'Til I find her lovin' arms

Just when I think it's safe to doubt
I turn about and find I've been left behind
There's only so long I can go without
Like a fool I shout instead of cryin'
But her angel leads me on
'Til I find her lovin' arms

A home sinking in the sand
It hurts to understand where I went wrong
So I'll believe with an empty hand
I'll receive at last what I can't own
But her angel leads me on
'Til I find her lovin' arms

A little light looks through her bedroom window.
She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can't see me watching.
And I'm thinking love...
Love...
Love...
Love...

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

I'm older now.
I work in the city.
We live together.
But it's different than my dream.
Morning light fills the room. I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted?
And I'm thinking love...
Love...
Love...
Love...

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

I know we don't talk about it.
We don't tell each other.
All the little things that we need.
We work our way around each other.
As we tremble and we
As we tremble and we bleed.
As we tremble and we
As we tremble and we bleed.

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

It's bittersweet
More sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

A little light looks through her bedroom window.
She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can't see me watching.
And I'm thinking love...

Chorus:
It's bittersweet more sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet,.
It's a bittersweet surrender.

I'm older now.
I work in the city.
We live together.
But it's different from my dream.
Morning light fills the room.
I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted?
And I'm thinking love...

Chorus

I know we don't talk about it.
We don't tell eachother
All the little things that we need.
We work our way around each other
As we tremble and we bleed.

Chorus

Fields are white in snowy spring and I can't remember
The last time that I've seen her
The highway is still cold and wet and I can't forget
The way I had to leave her
And every passing day, she flickers and she fades
Is someone to catch her when she falls from the heavens?

And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone
And I'll always be her
Broken hearted savior

And every heavy night
Takes out the little life that's left within her
Every man she gives her love, he takes it
And leaves her with a dinner
Our love was once a flame, now I'm just a forgotten name
Am I the only one to blame for ever loving her?

And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone
And I'll always be her
Broken hearted savior

Turn around for something better
Children give up don't you ever
Remember that the devil's clever

Brother John, where are you, why are you sleeping?
Brother John, why are you, where are you sleeping?

Take the light into your room
Cast a candle on your doom
Your master he is coming home soon

Brother John, how are you, why are you sleeping?
Brother John, why are you, why are you sleeping?

May your awakening be near
Heaven could be any place
Why not here?
Why not here?
Why not here?
Why not here?

Brother John, how are you, how are you sleeping?
Brother John, how are you, how are you sleeping?
Brother John, how are you, how are you sleeping?
Brother John, how are you, why are you sleeping?

And all of these chains; a sweet caress
And all of my weight was tenderness
Every time we had it put to bed
Oh, the tables are turning 'round and
I'm in it again

Now it's the ending of our second chance
And there's no telling where we're gonna go
Save what I was spending at the circus and
Save everything I can before
I'm blown away

Every time you had it put to bed
The reason I initially believed
I finally found someone certain and
He left a flower inside of you
Only for me to see

It seems to me, you and me,
Are chasing something, yeah.
What it is does anybody here want to know?
It seems to you, you and me,
Are forgetting something, yeah,
When love is so easily forgotten.

And if I pick you up will you drag me down?
If I run to you will you turn around?
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

It seems to me, you and me
Are being chased by something, yeah.
What it is has anybody here apprehended?
It seems to me, you and me
Are terrified of nothing,
When nothing is the reason we are here.
Oh, nothing at all.

And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

You are the only one I want
You are the only one I want
You are the only one I want
You are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are

And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle.

New York lady slips underneath the dim trumpet light.
Come from a land she's never known.
She sees in her future castles burning bright,
But she's got no place to go.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.

She is listening, she is listening
She hears everything, she hears everything
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.

She wonders why everything ain't right
For all the people down here below.
Hey, sister where's your life?
Brother, where's your home?
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.

She is listening, she is listening
She hears everything, she hears everything
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.

There's a whisper inside every broken heart.
A frail, frail dream.
Which runs through the traffic and plays a part.
Sweet love through eternity.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.

She is listening, she is listening
She hears everything, she hears everything
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.

As I was walking by the muddy river
I was touched by a hand
I was laid over in a strange land

As I looked to take myself a silver
Beneath the moonlight still lay a-bare
Barely unnoticed, bury my head in her soft hair

Greyhound roll on, get on and get me a ride

You made me feel good outside
You were a good public affair
Everybody knew there was nothin' goin' on

Greyhound roll on, get on and get me a ride

This is the midnight radio one
As music in the moonlit starry night
Beneath this purple haze our common dark
The heavens obscure, starlight travels into infinity
Yet we only see it when the night is black.
This is the question the brothers and sisters fear;
What is the color of the soul?
Said Buddha, Jesus, Plato, and the poets of Old,
That evening is the color of the soul.
We hide ourselves in artificial light
We think ourselves safe and outta sight.
You have a million dollars still
Enough money to build a city on every hill.
Work hard brother,
Love alone will pay your bill.
Look good sister,
Love alone will pay your bill.
Die rich,
Love alone will pay your bill
And evening is still the color of the soul.

Won't you tell me in the morning
Of the kisses that you left me in my sleep

Of all the thunder and the stormin'
Of all the racket in the street

Chorus:
And if the sun should open wide
Your eyes to find another day
And I'll never take you back
If you can't find your own way

I want to tell you in the morning
Of the demons that I killed in my dreams
And should the devil take me now, here's a warnin'
Ah, hell can't come between you and me

Chorus

You can turn back the tide
Of the cold tears from your eyes
The pangs of wounded pride you hold me

Did someone do you wrong, yeah
Good lovin's as good as gone, yeah
Maybe you ain't as strong as you wanna be

It's alright if you don't wanna go home
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone
It's alright if you don't wanna go home
I understand, I understand, I understand

Nothin' stays if it's gotta go now
You can't get water from a stone now
Sometimes you gotta think about the things you're gonna love
You can point the finger at him
You can say you're sufferin' for a sin
Somehow a never was never was yet enough

It's alright if you don't wanna go home
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone
It's alright if you don't wanna go home
I understand, I understand, I understand

When the morning comes you get yourself together
To face another day
When the day is done and you ain't feelin' good
You come walkin' my way

Now that you're doin' alright
You're pretty much outta sight
I don't hear you knockin' 'round my door anymore
I'm glad to hear you're doin' well
But I know that time will tell
Only when you're broken down, is that what friends are for?

It's alright if you just wanna go home
It's alright if you just wanna be alone
It's alright if you just wanna go home
I understand, I understand, I understand

I work on a wreckin' wall
Just off the liquor tracks
Onto the shaky ground
Oh, I'm fallin' down
Hey, I'm ridin'

A fool to confide
Hey, Eddie watch your name
Let that lady be your guide
Oh, she's comin' round
Hey, I'm flyin'

When the sleep gets in your eyes
I'll be on Kensington Line
And I'll run my hundred miles
Hey, don't you follow me tonight

I didn't like the look I see
Runnin' in the autumn leaves
Hasn't got a brain or peeve
Oh, the walls are closin' in
Hey, I'm headed out of here
Oh, I never meant to leave you cryin'

Awaiting my treasure drifting ashore
When from the galleys we're set free
And I'll never give you more
Than the time that we save
Magdelina I forgave
And I will feel everything

There are bridges burning here and we have
to keep below
Lest the guns should overtake us and let out
the final blow
A deserter I'll be hung, though ever battle I had won
And I won't feel anything

Hey Magdelina, there is only now to lay aside
All the bad dreams of your past have been
lost in the fire
Remember, soon I'll be back to bathe in your smile
And touch a long time indeed

If the flower should lose her green
And the cold never turn to spring
Show me, show me where I'm imagining
All the things I haven't learned to see
Breaker, please...
Oh, I lost my loving mind, and found it again
If my mind should take me down below
Black and white blood should lifeless flow
Remind my heart that you're listening
Break my neck and I'll hear you sing
Breaker, please...
Oh, I've lost my loving mind, and found it again
In the universe without you and me
Love carries on at twice the speed
Blows behind us and wrecks everything
Break my neck and I'm lost in the breeze
Breaker, please...

Lone and alone she lies, poor miss
Five flights from earth and one from heaven
Dark hair and eyes, she tries hard not to cry
But still alone she lies

And I never knew the reasons
There ain't no lover in your bed
but lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me

There ain't no gardens for my poor miss
There ain't no sunshine in April's spring
Just four dark walls, and light comes shadowly
Ah, poor miss, ah me!

And I still remember the sunlight on your face
Lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me

Ah, soon she will wake
When love is the air she breathes
Hurry into her please
Alight again
And take what we reap
A harvest abounding
The trumpets are sounding
A beautiful name
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away
And the wine that she keeps saving the best for me
We're only blessed you see
If we believed
In something unseen
Felt by remembering
A wait, and a hoping in
The time to receive
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away
The mountains will rock
And crumble into the seas
And all of the saints will be
Marching home
The cities will stop
Oh, and they'll sell their kings
Oh, and they'll kill their queens
On no
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away

Ain't no getting up again, she gonna bring you down.
Love gone up and jump again, turn it all around.
I'm goin' to the liquor store, to get some peace of mind.
Something I ain't done before, I can't seem to find.

Hold me please, Sister Sweetly
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly
And never never never leave me.

Never never never leave me.

Sister I am suffering, a single desire.
Hell is the shadow cast from a soul on fire.

Hold me please, Sister Sweetly
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly
Never never never leave me.
Never never never leave me.

Never never never leave me.
Never never never leave me.
Never never never leave me.

And a soul for every cowboy
And a star to guide him home
And an angel to bring him
A song to sing when he's alone

For the night is far from over
And the storm is coming on
And the wind is blowing colder
And he's very far from home

When hell falls cold and wet
His heart soon forgets
That ever he was loved or wanted to be loved

When hell falls cold and wet
His heart soon forgets
That ever he was loved or wanted to be loved

And a soul for every cowboy
And a star to guide him home
And an angel to bring him
A song to sing when he's alone

Angry hands upon the wheel turn slow
Without a star the water turns to stone
Here I stand by lovely strategem
When love is gone I'll invent again

Lady in Ashes, Forget her name
Her beauty was matchless, her nature untame

And by now her face is far below
Still beneath the desert rivers flow
Take the sand in empty hand and then
Blow away and bring her back again

And if you ask it, dear one plays again
Her beauty was matchless, her nature untame

Deathless hand in land where devils roam
who with a switchblade cut the head of hope
It's time to exchange the evil, blow by blow
Without a star the water turns to stone

If time is our master, then I'm lost again
her beauty was matchless, her nature untame

Or were you sent to save me?
I've thought too much, you won't find anything...
Worthy of redeeming
Yo he estado aqui muchas veces antes y regreso
To... break down, and cease all feeling
Burn now, what once was breathing
Reach out, and you may take my heart away
Imperfect cry, and scream in ecstasy
So what befalls the flawless?
Look what I've built, it shines so beautifully
Now watch as it destroys me
Y regreso aqui otra vez y comienzo
To... break down, and cease all feeling
Burn now, what once was breathing
Reach out, and you may take my heart away
Break down, and cease all feeling
Burn now, what once was breathing
Reach out, and you may take my heart away
I left it all behind, and never said goodbye
I left it all behind, and never said goodbye
I left it all behind, and never said goodbye
I left it all to die
I saw its birth, I watched it grow
I felt it change me
I took the life, I ate it slow
Now it consumes me
I... break down, and cease all feeling
Burn now, what once was breathing
Reach out, and you may take my heart away
Break down, and cease all feeling
Burn now, what once was breathing
Reach out, and you may take my heart away
... Heart away

He sits beside her in the evening.
She turns and asks him for a light.
He worked so hard so he'd be something.
Just what it was she never knew.
Just what it was she never knew.

He lays beside her as she's sleeping.
She asks if everything's alright.
Is there a secret he's been keeping?
She doesn't know anything he says.
He doesn't feel anything she says.

I've been waiting for too long for love like this
For love like this
To let it slip away.
I've been waiting for your tender kiss
Your tender kiss

She says "I just might leave tomorrow."
He says "Tomorrow never comes."
So we'll just learn to love our sorrow.
I'll love you tender as you're sleeping.
I'll love you bitter through the day.

She's running on clean power
She's wound up at the hip
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I'd love a drink of water
Take a little kiss
Find a lovely lady - step inside, take a sip

Atlanta turn around and love
Will come back to you

His elements are shaking
She's wounded at the wrist
Person of the hour, the only way she knows how to make it
I know I'll get over
Two months maybe less
I left undiscovered - saw her undress

Atlanta don't look so surprised
We belong to life

After ten years taken
Accidentally meetin'
Realize we were mistaken
Oh yes, we arrive late again
Fix a little breakfast
Time for gettin' married
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Atlanta don't look so surprised
Sometimes love will make you wise up
Atlanta close your eyes and I will belong to you