So you want me to play the bleeding role Just so he can know how I needed you. Well that's okay with me, it's a part I think I know God knows he won't need to suspend belief.
I know it's just a game and losing you's How it just begins...ain't that a funny way to win
So I run around dragging people down Holding my broken heart like a cheap cartoon Just so he can see it's a sucker who Does to you what you did to me
I know it's just a game and losing you's How it just begins...ain't that a funny way to win
So if there's another need that I can still serve I'm low on self esteem but I'm high on nerve
What I want is everything to clear So let the clocks be wrong Let the evening be longer let me drown in here What I want gets clouded by the sun I can't see beyond The petty things that living here brings everyone. So get lost with me, let the whole world wait Make it always be too late
What I want is right before my eyes So set me up a drink Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites 'Cos what I want is everything to be clear So if you stop your watch You might stop the morning's cruel hammer falling here
So get lost with me, let the whole world wait Make it always be too late
Baby, hold it, just let me try For just one minute be this other guy Live his life With my home and my faithful wife And your pretty face to kiss some nights
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
Baby, I like it, it feels alright Now that I see it through his cheating eyes I can't stop smiling How could I not be satisfied So glad I ain't the one on the losing side
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
No need to feel guilty baby I'm happy to be The one that you come to babe, instead of me
So I don't know where tonight Love will lead me but that's alright 'cos
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
People say you are a stand up guy You'd never hurt no one and you'd never try And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.
Friends say you are a careful man You always favour reason where you can And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.
But wherever you go, whatever you do You know that they won't find a fool quite like you.
Yeah life is full (of easy choices) Yeah life is full (of simple rules) But when love comes you don't have no room When life is full.
People say you are a patient guy You'd never rush something if it ain't right And you make those mistakes that everybody does And you deal with them as you go From tripping on a shoelace to falling in love You keep things under control
Honey, sometimes those big blue eyes Can make me fall out of bed in surprise In the bright morning sun, In the howling wind, in the shirt you sleep in, You're the one
'Cos it's you, that I tried to find Every day and every night through all that nothing
The hands of fate, couldn't have done it all As if the rain ever cared where it falls And there were times when I know that I Just fell in love to give myself an alibi.
'Cos it's you I was waiting for Every day and every night through all that nothing
So it's true now, I can see All that nothing that I knew Was so something like you'd Come to me...
Someone's opening up for business The morning rings the same old way But someone should've taught me forgiveness Now I see it in the cruel light of day
Tell him he's done me a kindness She was going to leave anyway But love is such sweet blindness 'Til you see it in the cruel light of day
Last night was just a comedy And I woke up like a walking tragedy And it was right in front of me But I just laughed and turned my eyes away.
So pour me another cup of coffee I ain't ever seen the city look so grey And those pretty little diamonds in the darkness They ain't no jewels in the cruel light of day.
No I ain't some accessory She can slip off from her back and just fold away I don't need no one undressing me When I wake up in the same suit everyday.
So someone's opening up for business The shutters roll so familiarly And out of darkness comes relief sing the witless But I don't see it in the cruel light of day.
Well, I talk like a boy to my baby sometimes And you talk like a baby when your boy is crying You made something to love but I love what I am No family man
So don't tell me you've got something better than me Don't say that it's a great mystery It's just making love what you want it to be, That's why I am no family man
And that is why all that I have in the world Is an ocean of time with this beautiful girl
Have you got something to prove with your own little you Have I wasted my time, cut through the family line In the race to life, I am an also-ran But I've run enough to know I'm no family man. Yeah I've done enough to know I'm no family man.
Open up your eyes, Everything is crying out this could be your time She fell out of the sky, Must every star been working on Heavenly designs
A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon Mother nature's writing to you
So button up your lip You don't get many chances in the time between the tides. The weather's rolling in In a minute flat you'll be soaking wet So kiss her while it's dry
A crooked line of lightning, a silent movie moon Mother nature's writing to you
Little snow white, she is sleeping 24 hours a day She's got a right to be lazy, flat out of reasons to breathe And it's cold baby, yes it's cold But everything is relative can't you see we're living in
High times, dig the new domain Living through high times, just don't crash my spiritual plane
Little snow white, she was hungry Told to go out and graft for it At the end of the rainbow she was mind blown To be staring at a crock of shit And it's hard baby, yes it's hard But with a little intuition you can shift position in the
High times, touch the magic stone Living through high times, pick up that spiritual phone.
Frittering packs of refuseniks, too drunk to muster any contempt 10 ways to relax on a cruise ship, one way to cover the rent I've whored myself around enough to know, baby You don't come with the customers and smile when you're spoken to in
High times, catch the cosmic vibe. Living through high times, hey, has Ginger Baker died? Living through high times, my planet's all out of line Living through high times, man, just like '69
You can find another country if you want Somewhere you can hide yourself away Find yourself another set of holes to haunt Get yourself another debt that you can't pay
Yeah, you can try to run for cover everywhere Add another letter to your name Burn everything you ever used to wear Get yourself another lover that looks the same
But sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
Well, you can always make another move again Another set of keys, a different town And you can try to lose yourself in them 'Till the truth it catches up and cuts you down
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
And you can always hide the wreckage that you come from But every new disguise is just another lie to run from.
You can only try to fool yourself so long With any kind of measure you can find 'Cos every phony pleasure you've been on Has lifted off and left the pain behind.
'Cos sometimes it's the medicine itself that makes the pain
I've been in this place many times before With my baby's things among my shoes and strings and clothes But just because I'm here Don't mean I can't run out that door Ain't that what those running shoes are for?
Baby likes to sleep on floor boards bare And just to keep the peace, well I join her there And she might say to me 'A better man I can't recall' But what I think she sees ain't me at all
It ain't me at all to need somebody Like some lovestruck casualty It ain't me at all to feel so ready To be what I think she sees
Baby claims I kiss like I really care Well, I guess I'd say I don't but the truth ain't fair And sometimes she looks at me and says 'Babe, my heart just stalled', But what I think she sees ain't me at all.
So you say you are sick of love Got a mind to give the damn thing up Got a housefull of stuff your lovers left Gonna take a bus to the city dump with it
So you want to throw away the old you But the old you's old enough to know It won't make it better
Sick of being a loser, so you say Gonna go out and choose a new personality Ain't gonna look at her pictures, lie awake all night You're gonna dazzle the future with your inner light
So you want to throw away the old you But the old you's old enough to know It won't make it better
I've set out on that mission too A little revolution to forget her Trying to make it better
I must've had a million damn unlucky days But there ain't no cloud that a bottle can't chase away I've done my deal of living, ran from place to place But when the roof comes in I don't wanna take it straight
They say with faith any soul can make it But hell, why should I wait 'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
I've had my share of heartaches, let downs and tricks But the everyday blues is the one thing I can fix I've heard those holy brethren muttering my name But it ain't no sin to drink when you're suffering
Patience, they say, is a saintly virtue But hell, why should I wait 'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade When every heavy sky just empties on your fate Sometimes keeping dry's something to celebrate
So if the road of sin is the one I'm taking I ain't gonna stray 'Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker's parade
With some girls it don't matter who you hang with With some girls it don't matter how you talk And some girls they are easy to be yourself with But the one girl that I want, ain't easy to please with what I've got
With some girls it don't matter where you're aiming With some girls it don't matter how you act And some girls they don't care what car you came in But the one girl that I want, she wants that one bit of geography I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
And some girls they will worry about reactions And some girls they don't give a damn for that But somehow I ain't ever in on the action 'Cos the one girl I want, she wants that one little quality I lack
Yeah, she don't want me 'cos I'm not where it's at
I don't have my finger on the pulse of my generation I just got my hand on my heart, I know no better location
Driving through the long night Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong Now the kid has gone. I sit belted up tight, She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on. And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it's tracks And said, come on, let's go home. But she's got the wheel, And I've got nothing except what I have on.
When you're driving with the brakes on When you're swimming with your boots on, It's hard to say you love someone And it's hard to say you don't
Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation from The thing we've done. She shuts up the ashtray, and I say it's a long way back now hon She just yawns. And we might get lost someplace So desolate that no one where we're from would ever come But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on.
But unless the moon falls tonight, unless continents collide, Nothing's gonna make me, break from her side
Summer here is over in a million different ways You look like a dream sometimes, but I don't dream these days Yesterday the snow fell, by four o'clock it thawed And last night making love to you, well honey, it was such a fraud
'Cos you can find yourself a lover You can find yourself a home You can want no other ever But it's never too late to be alone
So everything is settled or so we do pretend >From a beautiful beginning babe to a muted kind of end And our separate possessions are shuffled up on shelves Like our fingers lock together when we talk about ourselves
You can find yourself one day staring into space With a suitcase waiting by the door You can think you've got it made 'til it hits you in the face That these are not the people you want to be before
Summer here is over, you can feel it in the air >From the down-town shells to the upland hills The chill is everywhere
Does your appetite for novelty still burn? And do you pick a fight just to feel the heat of his concern? Do you still misbehave, then beg for his reprieve? And do you love to feel his needy hands pulling at your sleeve?
Don't you always fall in love again just before you leave?
Do you still storm away, do you slap him just to see is he hits you back or backs away or panics, just like me?
Don't you always fall in love again just before you leave?
Don't you cry, 'cause you know that's the one thing he hates Don't you try to bend him until he breaks Like you broke me
Do you still turn for a second into stone? And do you pepper him with petty threats of letting him alone?
Don't you always fall in love again just before you leave?
All day long, sweeping up the dead pigeons from the pavement After the long dim dawn He remembered how she pulled him from disaster into laughter.
Well it didn't take long for him to be consumed And he turned around and said as her caressing resumed "we once were close but now we're both marooned, And what was once a stirring melody is now a distant tune." She said "you angel, you flower, you're powerful." But he felt no feelings but his head hot and belly full And basking in the sun he only feels a gas fire
And he sees no apparent difference between the chimney and the church spire He says: "this garden of roses, is overgrown with weeds, And where the great west river flows I can see nothing but pebbles and reeds."
All day long she stuck his nose into siberia And dragged him through hong kong Till she said "you carrier, you coward, you're pitiful, Feeling less and less is just an easy way of doing more wrong."
Good luck and lost love's knife Cut a path leading through my life I weave through the gusts of change As a kite might through the sky. I feel down and degraded Like I felt when you and me began to tire And we stopped long ago But I thought it was just ceasefire.
I can leave the past behind like any normal man can do But what I find most of the time Is that I have been left behind you. I can feel time pushing me forward So what does it matter what direction I'm pointed in? No one else used to sing my sad chorus Now I feel that they too have joined in.
Bad luck and lucky breaks Cut paths right through our lives We follow the blind man's bluff Like lorrys follow white lines in the night. And by our nature we are kept alone No matter haw long your nails You can't cut out of the womb. And if I can't crash off-course You must be marooned And we will not be able to go back to The source of this wound.
I have overloved you and overseen you And now you're refusing the gifts that I bring you My hands have been clasping my hot head and asking "if she submits to me, will she be my property? " You may be bleeding but you're not dying Though you are dying to go Stop teasing me I'm not seeing you leaving me
Here is a party full of my friends And here is a cup being filled up to be drunk again We are just starting luxurious lives To be drunkards and diddymen Making gulf wars and battered wives. Now I may be pleading But there's no love nor fear in my eyes Just greediness I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie.
I am the wild horses who will drag you away I am the locked door who can make you stay And I will act the man in almost anyway I can So I can keep keep keep you.
So wake up you pretty thing to a wonderful home Where we while away the happy saturdays Between the television and the telephone And I stroke your head just to feel what I own Whispering "will you be my property, and not my disability? "
And why are you craving To be free from love's slavery Stop teasing me Love's not letting go.
I am the child calling you to come back and play I am the concert hall in which you hear me say I'll act a man in almost anyway I can So I can keep keep keep you even though you may not understand I am the bee and you are the pollen I am the keeper you are the lion I am the holes down which you would have fallen If I had not been the hand who came and beckoned you
(and I'm not seeing this sleeping dog lie)
Maybe You were born wrong But why am I picking holes in you When it's holes that we all come from? Maybe I was born strong To stop love from overtaking me To stop love from living too long. And you may be bleeding And leading me to the blood flow But sleep tight tonight lions This keeper's never letting go.
