Duncan Sheik

And now we'll sing of drowning things
No wondering what might happen
Upon that ship we played the popular songs
Some sang along, now all that's gone

Thrown below the raging tides
We hope to rest, we were denied
So now we haunt the ocean side
Live this pale eternal life

And now you're here and so we'll pass the tide
Secret's ours and phantom wide
And now it seems so long ago
But once we lived, but didn't know
That every life is quite a show
If it answered prayers and tales of woe

What are you looking at, what do you see?
Is it the truth or a strange fantasy?
Whenever you're watching, changing the scene

The time is a place, this place is a song
Where mothers are distant and fathers are gone
He too may be watching but he's not letting on

Can't dry your eyes or say it's alright
Even though he might and she can't kiss your cheek
As the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Days, nights, wrongs, rights, earthbound starlight

Hey, are you listening?
What is the sound of things that you lose
That you never have found?
You're finding the way or turning around

Dancer with destiny, tempter of fate
The life that you lived is only a taste
Sometimes the sweetest is the time that you waste

I won't dry your eyes or say it's alright
'Cause sometimes that's the lie even if she kissed your cheek
Still the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Steal your heart, life is hard, never easy, believe me

There'll be no more questions, maybes or mights
Darkest descends, run out of light
When you go blind you get second sight
The deeper you dive the greater the heights

So don't dry your eyes or say it's alright
Life is hard, it's a fight even if she kissed your cheek
Still the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
As the days become weeks, no rewind, no repeats
Days, nights, wrongs, rights, earthbound starlight

Wind so restless, yearning breathless
Sons and daughters sometimes they do meet
I remember one September
How I felt a strange late summer heat

Distant oceans, wild notions
When you feel the touch of one you love
But they leave you or deceive you
All that you can do is cry to heaven above just like us, just like us

You'll learn how it feels
Hearts break and never heal

Secret places, stolen gazes, soft exchanges of you ever dream
It will change you how it pains you when it's cold
And all that you can do is plead, oh take heed, how we need
Can't you see how we need?

You'll learn how it feels
Hearts break and never heal
Tell us how it feels
Hearts break and never heal

Remember September and how it feels

Life is like a sinking ship
And you are at the wheel
I see the hull, it's filling up
You know your fate is sealed

Still you keep on trying
To steer the ship to shore
It's time to learn the lesson
You have known before

Well there's nothing you can do
And we don't believe you
No there's nothing you can ever do
And we don't believe in you
No we don't believe in you

Life is like a ship at see
Where fears storms do strike
Though you are the captain
You can't keep up the fight

The truth is there is much to fear
More to make us cry
This ship is not worth saving
Hard as you may try

So there's nothing you can do
'Cause we don't believe you
No, there's nothing you can do
And we don't believe in you

I hate to say it
But it's to face the truth
And we don't believe in you

Tried your hardest
You couldn't help but lose
And we don't believe in you
No we don't believe in you
No we don't believe in you

I present to you a story
Set upon a northern shore
The denizens of lighthouse
During times of war

The foolish things they did
The foolish things they said
Im sure you will agree
They would be better off dead

Lilly keeps the lighthouse
She's afraid the unknown
She's no ray of sunshine
So mostly she's alone

And no one cares about her longing
Or the dreams on which she fed
And though im sad to say it
She would be better off dead

Next we have a sheriff
Charles is his name
Hes something of a sideshow
Every sheriff is the same

Will he stand for justice
Or something else instead
Either way it hardly matters
Hes better off dead

When everything is done
And everything is said
Life is naught but pain
Its better to be dead

Release your heavy heart
Rest your weary head
When all the world's at war
It's better, it's better

Witness yasujiro
He hails from old japan
He searches for redemption
In this strange and foreign land

And now he works for lilly
To earn his daily bread
But the most that one can say
Is that hes better off dead

Please welcome young christopher
Hes come here on a train
His father flew to heaven
On a fiery aeroplane

Hes come to live with lilly
And hes got visions in his head
He may be our main attraction
But hes better off dead

When everything is done
And everything is said
Life is naught but pain
Its better to be dead

Release your heavy heart
Rest your weary head
When all the world's at war
It's better to be dead

Everything is done
All things are said
Its good to be a ghost
Its better, its better to be dead

Its good to be a ghost
Its better to be dead

Here are your lines, now stick to the page
Like the wise man said, "All the world's a stage"
And don't forget, you have a role to play
You can't improvise, and you can never stray

Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how it goes
Everyone knows, you can't stop the show

It's a treacherous business, it's hard to make a buck
If you don't like how the story ends, you may be out of luck
'Cause the writer's left the building, the script has been approved
You know who's gonna win this and who is gonna lose

Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how
Play your part and never stray

Play your part, you'll go far I can see it now
Play your part and never stray
Play your part, one of these star we can show you how it goes
Everyone knows, you can't stop the show

Lieutenant Brando, brave commando
We hardly know you rolling in one scene
Sheriff Charles, you're a marvel
You're better when you don't do anything

If you have a bell let it ring
You're alive, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow

[Incomprehensible] hero, dear oh, dear oh
We liked you though you had to go away
Hey aunt Lily may sound silly
To try to wait, may come back someday

We won't say anything
We are ghosts, we just sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow

If you have a bell let it ring
You're alive, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow

Christopher hears us, he used to fear us
Then decided, he dreamt us all alone
Here's a question for just a vision
Who's been singing all these ghostly songs?

If we learned anything
You should love, you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow

If you have a bell let it ring
While you live you should sing
But the show's over for now
Take a bow

Yeah, the show's over for now
Take a bow
Oh, the show's over for now
Take a bow

Indeed there's such a thing as ghosts
And more to cause you fear
You never know where or when
But surely they'll appear

Quiet men turn into wolves
During certain moons
And sirens sing their siren songs
Sweet and deadly tunes

We are here to tell you
All of this is real
If you are terrified today
It's how you're supposed to feel for real

We are here to tell you
Ghosts are here for good
If this doesn't terrify you
It should, it should

Don't you know the feeling
When blood has left your veins
And horsemen of apocalypse
Ride through poison rains

The devil's in the details
And in the grand design
And once he gets your number
He calls you all the time

We are here to tell you
That all of this is real
And if you're terrified today
It's how you're supposed to feel for real

We are here to tell you
Ghosts are here for good
If this doesn't terrify you
It should, it should

You've really gone and done it now
You've hit the lowest low
You thought that you could handle this
But there's a lot that you don't know

You're just a child and haven't learned
The world is cold, the world is rough
And you're not strong and you're not tough
Your moves were just not good enough

That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid
You're a ship that's crashed on rocky ground
Sinking now, soon to drown
That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid

Things are broke, way past mending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending

You've really gone and done it now
They're sending you away
High time that you abandon hope
Get on your knees and pray

You're all loose lips and sinking ships
You never stood a chance
You tried to be a hero
But you're still in your short pants

That doesn't look good, it doesn't bode well, kid
Help is far beyond your reach
Shipwrecked on a barren beach
Oh yeah, you've really gone and done it now

Things are broke, way past mending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending
Don't look now, the world is ending soon

Once in a while a man comes along
Even his failures were favorite songs
Oh to have made something so unsurpassed
As certain things fall away some certain things last

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Chances are good we spread blasphemous lies
Safe to say nobody knew what was inside
Of course there is grace and those halos of pain
Maybe he sang what he came here to sing

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Speed on to the next world, speed on to the next life
Better I'm sure by far
Orpheus driven, treasures given
Heal the most broken of hearts

Speed on, speed on, speed on

Did you come down to give me
Or take me away
I had so many things to tell you
But now I don't have much to say
This feeling like we're hiding out
Is getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I'm on your side
And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
And we may tell lies
But we may be true

Did you come down to take me
Or give me away
I had so many things to ask you
Now you don't have much to say
And these alchoholic afternoons
Are getting in the way

Let's quit the town just look around
There's nothing here to keep us alive
If they try to run us down
You know I'm on your side
And I want you to be my alibi
So they won't find me
And they won't find you
And we may tell lies
But we may be true
I want to be your alibi
Till the day we die

Such an annoying conversation
I'm sorry but I'm tired of trying
To be some picture of compassion
And anyway it sounds like I'm lying
And yes I've heard the world has conspired
To steal away your god-given right
To a happy home and comfortable children
Next you'll sue them for abandoning you!

[Chorus]
So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Oh, Christ it's gonna sound like I'm agreeing
With the most ultra-boring ideas
Of pop psychological western gurus
Who haven't gotten lucky in years
And so you see I have no intention
Of giving you the easy way out
Yes I'll smile as I burn the self-help section
Of my local bookstore!

[Chorus]

Blame the shapes and blame the angles
Blame it on your own dark planes
If you blame on something other,
The victim's song remains,
Remains

[Chorus]

Faded longing
Tired of wanting
Can't explain the fear that's haunting you
Should I go on?
I may be wrong
So wrong

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon

Some say sacred
Some profane
There are no distinctions
Then again, yes,
I may be wrong
But it feels right
So right

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon

Cause everywhere lies within everyone

Had a house full of riches
Threw it all away
I'm not a worthy man
No matter what you say
I promised forever
And left without a word
I'm not a worthy man
No matter what you've heard

My mind and my spirit
Were sharp and strong
I threw it all away
Tell me where did I go wrong
But the purest of those moments
Pierce me through and through
Wistful and hopeless
No matter what I do

Somewhere within this heart of mine
Demons are working overtime
Would that I were ruled by sweet, sweet fate
Never facing the choice I made

I had a love of such beauty
I just can't describe
I threw it all away
I could not tell you why
But I remember her laughing
Drenched in summer sun
I'm not a worthy man
But I could have been one

Somewhere within this heart of mine
Demons are working overtime
Would that I ruled by sweet, sweet fate
Never facing the choice I made
I threw it all away
Threw it all away

She comes to me only in the hours before I wake

Hold the light up to me
Get underneath my skin
I feel a little undefined
But I want to let you in
And I listen to the messages
The endless train of thought
But now it feels like I'm returning
Most everything I've bought

Some say, it's all coming to an end
Some fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
It makes me wonder what they believe
Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes lord knows you gotta get off
There's no use holding on to what I mean
Cause I'm in between, no use wondering what I mean

Saints and sinners, losers, winners
Masters and their slaves
The more you hide one or the other
The earlier your grave
The triumph and the tragedy
The endless bright parade
I know that most of us are innocent
But some should be afraid

'Cause they say we're all coming to an end
They fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
Well I don't buy it, it's just too clean
Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes lord knows you gotta get off
No use holding on to what I mean
Cause I'm in between
No use wondering what I mean
Cause I'm in between
Are you still wondering what I mean

Hold the light up to me, get underneath my skin
Humming like the wind
I feel a little undefined, I'm sorry if I seem,
So in between
It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair
Humming like the air
I wish that I could hold you, I'm sorry if I seem
So in between

He beat the drum and lit the fires
He sent the messages in vain
But the sound of his philosophy
Rose above the falling rain

And to you who find it difficult
To believe in anything
I praise you for the outrage
At the horror you have seen

So I'm trying to remember
I try to understand
Every holocaust has meaning
Not set in stone but drawn in sand

And in some cold and barren place
He spoke the phrase and thus I heard
With every small decision
You change a heart
You change the world

You play guitar for perfect strangers
You write some words they try to sell
And then you sing these things in public sometimes not very well
You get paid to go to parties
Drinking colors...talking trash...
You get laid because you're 'arty'
And you wonder why it never lasts

Maybe these are wonders...more than we may know
Well I hate to steal your thunder
You ain't nothing special
You're no more celestial than anyone else
As far as I can tell
Call it mythology, we see what we want to see
And everyone wants their distant dreams

So sure enough they want your picture
And your deepest point of view
Well you should know you're not that pretty
And you haven't got a clue
But how you love the adoration
You believe your 'in-house' press
And half the critics always hate you
So you get horribly depressed
Maybe these are wonders, more than we may know
Well, I hate to steal your thunder

And I am the snake who bites his own tail

She justified it then
She may well justify forever
She figures it's the only way
To keep herself together
Something about hotel rooms and horses
And losing all here friends
And hearing all their voices
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's stronger by far, than a war-torn soldier
She rubs it out

She makes a little money
And sneds it to her mother
She's living with some guy
Who's fighting off the sharks
She hopes some day
She'll get some kind of letter
Well you don't hold much
If you haven't got the heart
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn solider
She rubs it out

Some time ago, I thought that she was trying to move on
I thought wrong
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn soldier
I'd die for her gladly
Lord knows I've told her
But she rubs it out
I justified it then
I may justify, forever

Hit the town, still dressing down
Looking for some action
Mr. Jagger said it best
He knows you never get, no satisfaction
But Mr. Dylan knows
That everyone is more or less a rolling stone
And Mr. Lennon, so quiet, knows better or so I've been told

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear, my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright
Cause that ain't right
That ain't right

I hear you're gonna make it big,
Rake it in with your master plan,
Mr. Hendrix understood
Those are only castles made of sand
Mr. Wilson took some pills,
And I don't blame him
It's hard to be alive,
Mr. Page, how he played
Mr. Drake stayed up late and made me cry

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear, my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright

They've said it all haven't they?
But what I want, what I want to say
Is listen hear my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright
No matter what we get
We never find our happiness
Ain't that a crime? Maybe that's why I've been told
Since I was six years old to compromise
But that ain't right,
That ain't right

Once in a while a man comes along
Even his failures were favorite songs
Oh to have made something so unsurpassed
As certain things fall away some certain things last

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Chances are good we spread blasphemous lies
Safe to say nobody knew what was inside
Of course there is grace and those halos of pain
Maybe he sang what he came here to sing

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light
Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Speed on to the next world, speed on to the next life
Better I'm sure by far
Orpheus driven, treasures given
Heal the most broken of hearts

Speed on, speed on, speed on

I know what you’re doing’ I see it all too clear

I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears

You really had me going’ wishing on a star

But the black holes that surround you are heavies by far

I believed in your confusion’ you were so completely torn

Well it must have been that yesterday was the day that I was born

There’s not much to examine’ there’s nothing left to hide

You really can’t be serious if you have to ask me why

I say goodbye....goodbye~


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~


Everyone keeps asking’ what’s it all about"

I used to be so certain’ and I can’t figure out

What is this attraction" I only feel the pain

There’s nothing left to reason and only you to blame

Will it ever change"


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~



I’ve come to find’ I may never know

Your changing mind’ is it friend or foe"

I rise above’ or sink below

With every time’ you come and go

Please don’t come and go

Such an annoying conversation
I'm sorry but I'm tired of trying
To be some picture of compassion
And anyway it sounds like I'm lying
And yes I've heard the world has conspired
To steal away your god-given right
To a happy home and comfortable children
Next you'll sue them for abandoning you!

[Chorus]
So bite your tongue
You're not the only one
Who's been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it's good for you
To hit the ground

Oh, Christ it's gonna sound like I'm agreeing
With the most ultra-boring ideas
Of pop psychological western gurus
Who haven't gotten lucky in years
And so you see I have no intention
Of giving you the easy way out
Yes I'll smile as I burn the self-help section
Of my local bookstore!

[Chorus]

Blame the shapes and blame the angles
Blame it on your own dark planes
If you blame on something other,
The victim's song remains,
Remains

[Chorus]

Born Scorpio boy
Chased by storms
Always safe

Rush out of bed
Tornado is dead
In its wake, sunlight
The land in uproot

Taken down south
To a hurricane town
Fallen down bombs
Wishing for snowbound home

Robbed by time
The shadows of birds
Fortune's won and lost
And still, I'm wandering

Wandering
Wandering

I know it's not fashionable
To be this hopeful, well laugh away
I didn't think it was possible
To be grateful, anyway
I know it's not sensible
To be this passionate, everyday

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way

In the volumes of history
Have you ever seen anything, so pure
In the wildest mythology
Were the gods and goddesses, ever so in love
In your own experience
Have you ever known tenderness, like this

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you쨈d ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way
These are the most precious
Of all my days

For you I want to sing a happier song
for you I'm gonna try to right all my wrongs
for you I'm gonna break my bad habits
there's a golden ring and I want you to have it
there's a golden ring and I want you

For you I'm gonna sit and patiently wait
it's great if you're early but if its fine if you're late
for you I feel love and I just want to show it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
it's an infinite world and I want you

Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened

For you I'm waiting on the ticket line
I gotta get back I don't wanna waste time
but the people are tired and the line is so long
so all I can do is sing this song

Maybe I'll just whisper
Neither humble neither proud
Listen if you care to
But I will not sing too loud
No, not tonight
Just before I'm over and out
I wanna sing of better times
I wanna sing of hope
We've heard those empty promises
Sound like such a joke
And so I stumble
So hard to say, so difficult
Sometimes I am not able
To separate my dreams from false cliches

[Chorus:]
But the more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking 'bout
The oneness of our lives
Maybe I will turn away, maybe you will run
It just maybe a foreshadowing
Of what's to come

So anything can happen,
I don't believe in fate
I won't try to convince you
'Cause it's getting kind of late
There it is. Just before I'm over and out
My parting shot-just to say you hold the reins

[Chorus:]

And will you struggle
To realize this earthly paradise
Isn't so far above us?
So put away those poisonous ideas
You know it's just ideas
They're the only...enemies 'round here
I see your eyes are closing
Didn't mean to keep you up
There's more that I could say now
But I guess I've said enough
So sleep well
Just before I'm over and out
Yes, sleep well, just before I'm over and out

The more and more I hear it
I feel the spirit rise
The people here are talking about
The oneness of all life
Maybe I will turn away, maybe you will run
But it just may be
A foreshadowing of what's to come

Clearly I'm a genius
If she only knew it
But somewhere in her radius
I really blew it
I know, I know what I said to her
And I know what I did
What I don't know is how I could ever be
So incredibly stupid

[Chorus]
(you don't really need to know every last detail.
Its hardly worth telling
Suffice to say I said that I would be there
I never came through)

Maybe I'm a genius and
She just don't see it
I fronted,
I should have admitted,
She saw right through it
I never thought that I could be
So underhanded.
Somehow I've cornered the market on
The double standard

[Chorus]

For this act of genius
And so many others
I know I should apologize
And see how it goes

What am I waiting for?
Come on, come on, come on, come on

To all of the geniuses

[Chorus]

I'm awake in the afternoon
I fell asleep in the living room
and it's one of those moments
when everything is so clear

before the truth goes back
into hiding
I want to decide 'cause
it's worth deciding
to work on finding something
more than this fear

It takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how to make amends

maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down

lately, something here
don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind

I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing,
my fellow man
I guess I'll let you know
when i figure it out

but I don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way
it's fine by me
and you are another mystery
i am missing

It takes so much out of me to pretend

maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down

Lately, something here
don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind

come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
again

'cause lately something
here don't feel right
this is just a half-life,
without you I am breaking down

wake me, let me see the daylight
save me from this half-life
let's you and I escape
escape from time

come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
come on lets fall in love
again

Don't get me wrong
I'm feeling ok
But when I'm without you
It's just not the same
Don't misunderstand me
I'm feeling alright
But when I'm without you
The day turns into night...into night
You dream of a future...a possible place
Where we lie together face to face
And i'm looking forward
I will not deny
I dream of a future made for you and I
You and I

...and then I'm with you
No longer alone
When I'm with you
It feels like I'm home
And you are with me
No longer alone
How could it be?
It feels like i'm home
It feels like i'm home

I look through the darkness into the sky
The moon up above me brilliantly shines
I've never been happier watching it glow
I'm here by myself
But I know I'm not alone...not alone
I look through the brightness into the sky
The sun up above me...spitting out fire
Call me a child, call me naive
The world is much brighter
Than it ever used to be

...and then i'm with you
No longer alone
When I'm with you
It feels like i'm home
And you are with me
No longer alone
How could it be?
It feels like i'm home
It feels like i'm home

Hold the light up to me
Get underneath my skin
I feel a little undefined
But I want to let you in
And I listen to the messages
The endless train of thought
But now it feels like I'm returning
Most everything I've bought

Some say, it's all coming to an end
Some fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
It makes me wonder what they believe
Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes lord knows you gotta get off
There's no use holding on to what I mean
Cause I'm in between, no use wondering what I mean

Saints and sinners, losers, winners
Masters and their slaves
The more you hide one or the other
The earlier your grave
The triumph and the tragedy
The endless bright parade
I know that most of us are innocent
But some should be afraid

'Cause they say we're all coming to an end
They fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
Well I don't buy it, it's just too clean
Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes lord knows you gotta get off
No use holding on to what I mean
Cause I'm in between
No use wondering what I mean
Cause I'm in between
Are you still wondering what I mean

Hold the light up to me, get underneath my skin
Humming like the wind
I feel a little undefined, I'm sorry if I seem,
So in between
It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair
Humming like the air
I wish that I could hold you, I'm sorry if I seem
So in between

Some sweet perversion
On the telephone line
I've been waiting for such a very long time
For her to be free
The evening was nice
But there were too many people
And all my thoughts so depraved and evil
Oh lord what would she say

(she says)
I'm afraid it's not to be
You're a sweet guy but you ain't for me
I live my life in a different way
You know those things you're thinking
Are a big mistake

We stayed out late 'til morning came
I said "I'll take you home
If its all the same"
Her indifference fills the room
Some weak seduction on the morning after
How it slays me every time I touch her
But she just wants to sleep

(she says:) How long 'til you understand
The last thing that I need is another man
Didn't you promise to give it a rest
Right now I need a lover
Like a hole, like a hole in the head

Oh well, can't blame a guy for tryin'
And I'm smiling even though I'm dying
To know the love she says will never be

One last conversation in the crowded bar
And even thought the music is louder by far
I hear every word she says

(she says)
Don't take it bad don't worry about it
You're a friend of mine and there's no way around it
Sometimes you there early sometimes you get there late
But even if you had a chance you never knew the game

Little hands, open smile
I'm glad we got to talk for a while
I feel O.K. yeah I'm feeling better
I'll let it go but I'll never say never
It's O.K. yeah, it's O.K.

Simeon, he was a man
Held his heart out in his hand
A hollow land of autumn breeze
Evenings in the brittle rain
Leaves that fill the barren plain
With simple pain embroideries
In the temple yesterday
Was a man, who came to pray
Who couldn't stay and couldn't leave
So, he feel down on his knees
Sued for grace and sued for peace
A little ease, and not to grieve
Marion, she met a man
Took her to Jerusalem
To take a stand, escape a scene
To wander in the honey sea
Drink the milk of Memory
And never be herself again
In the temple yesterday
Was a woman came to pray
Who couldn't say, and couldn't see
So, she fell down on her knees
Sued for grace and sued for peace
Sued the priest to set her free
Lo, lo and behold
Lo, lo and behold

Oh so cold
Evening grey consumed in dark
No more day to hold me
sounds won't stay to play their part
Only what strangers told me
Why is the ghost who listens
So cold and so alone
Wind, tell her lightly
All that we might be
While I sit, nightly
Watching the shadows drifting down
Twilight descends so blue, so brown
And longing begins in this longing town
When the haze falls through my heart
When its arms enfold me
O, my song won't go that far
I can't sing how lonely
Home is a note of distance, a word for gone
Wind, tell her lightly
All that we might be
While I sit, nightly
Watching the shadows drifting down
Twilight descends so blue, so brown
And longing begins in this longing town
O, so cold
No one home
All of the notes, a word for gone

Here the world is desert gray
Never do I see the day
Here there is different light
There's only night, only night

Just a trace of gravity
Nothing to hold on to me
Sometimes there are passing ships
Away they slip, away they slip
If you hear me let me know
And away we go

I walk across the rocky ground
And hear the stars with timely sound
Here there is no atmosphere
You are not here, you are not here
Somewhere above, fears and heights, and satellites

[Chorus]
Without you
I'm lost on the moon!
Without you
I'm lost on the moon!
Without you

How I dream of sweet return
To fall so fast and feel the burn
Confetti flies, the grass band plays, a small parade, a small parade

[Chorus]

I'm threading through the evening
It's later than I thought
A friend of mine is waiting
For cigarettes I brought

She smiles, she seems so tired
So nothing is required

I reach into my pocket
Some things she left behind
Nothing really happens
In ways I can't define

Loose talk of hearts and heads
Of sleep in other beds
It's better left unsaid

She says that she is cold
I wish that I could hold

But no
How can you hold a soul?
You just can't hold a soul
That shines like gold
She shines like gold

I will, I won't, I would
I've said more than I should

She leaves, she goes uptown
She may not come back down
She may not come back down
She may not turn around
She may not make a sound
She may not come back down

And there, the bones do sleep
And there the soul is soul
And there the gods do weep
When the angels fall

But here the thoughts won't keep
And here the blood runs cold
And here the grave is deep
And the devil calls

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

Brought my voice, just noise to poor old Silence
A clanging toy, a clanging toy
Empty, strident
Brought my eyes, in utter ruin, sightless
The tears I cried, the tears I cried
Still so frightened

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

Where the silver streets? Where the blossoming?
Where sounds so sweet?
Where songs of spring?
Where words for things?
Where golden memories?
Where quiet seas?
Where certainty?

Where all might cease, the talk, the want, the posturing?

Brought my heart to feed, but my mouth was fire
Brought the earth my seed, but it would not flower
Where the jeweled stream? Where the eased desire?
In some fool's dream? In the ending hour?

Where poetry?
Where mystic harmonies?

Where love that frees?
Where security?

Where sympathy?
Where tranquility?
Where rest in peace?

In the dream? Or in the fire?

Mouth on fire
Mouth on fire

So good to meet you, Mr. Chess
I've always heard that you're the best
At housing knights
And castles high up in the air

So I beseech you, Mr. Chess
To let me sleep inside your bed
And would you sleep, too
Would you sleep, too, in the chair?

You see, I dream of many things
Of floating, solitary kings
Of pawns and people with
Blue sequins through their hair

A jester sings
The bishop brings the queen
A hollow following...
And all the pawns

And people stop
And people stare
So, I, too, stop
At 3 o'clock
I stumble to your door and knock
And ask to see you
And ask to be you

Mr. Chess.. Oh, Mr. Chess..

Now I beseech you, Mr. Chess
To let me sleep, to let me rest
To let me dream
To let me sing without a care

And I will dream you things so fair
I sing your castles in the air
And I will sleep, too
I will sleep, too
I will rest... Oh, Mr. Chess,.. My Mr. Chess

The past we seek
Some certainly
The seasons we remember
The light of May, and darkest days
The month we call, November
To leave behind
The wasted time
And every bad decision

And harder still
Some force of will
To feel we are forgiven
But something stays
So who am I to say
There's nothing more between us

And I don't know the reasons
Nothing clear
Ive come to no conclusions
Said and done
Is it all said and done?
So here we are
Not very far
From when we said
Forever

And all we have
This restless past
The month we call
November

I'm on a high, I'm on a high
there's nothing more to it.
We are the sea and the sky
and the blue that runs through it, yeah.

and there are some who say there are so many things I need
so I run or I fight and I crawl or I scream and I bleed
I bleed, I bleed

well, it's a lie it's a lie - don't you believe it.
if you're fine then you're fine - it's all how you see it.
oh, there never will be no conspiracy of happiness.

I'm on a high I'm on a high
and there's nothing more to it
I have the sun, it's a star
why should I refuse it

and there are so many reasons I could give you why I should be down
there's not enough money or time and my love you're not around
around, around

but it's a lie it's a lie - don't you believe it.
if you're fine then you're fine - it's all how you see it.
oh, there never will be no conspiracy of happiness.

you're alive you're alive - how else could you hear me?
you are fine, you are fine - there's nothing worth fearing
'cause there never will be no conspiracy of happiness

I'm on a high, on a high
we are the sea and the sky
I'm on a high, on a high
I'm on a high

It's a lie, It's a lie don't you believe it
'Cause I've tried and I've tried, and I can't really see it
Yeah, I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness
said I was yours, you were mine but I didn't really mean it
and I lied and I lied
and I wish you hadn't seen it
'cause I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness
I'm on a high, on a high, there's nothing more to it, yeah.

Everyone's looking
Everyone hides
Everyone's telling, but everyone lies
They're changing the subject
They're turning away
Away from the heart of it all

You say you are happy,
That you think this is fun
But it's only a firefly to the light of the sun
You say this is living
You feel so alive,
Well, you know, everything dies

(chorus)
Even my wonder
Even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm
It's near and it's far
It flows through the heart of us

Welcome to another day
It don't seem that different 'cuz nothing has changed
Try to remember
Try to remember
When weren't just running in place

Reasons for living
Never come cheap
And even your best ones can put me to sleep
What I am saying,
Trying to say
Is that there must be a better way

(repeat chorus)

It's already in you
It's already there
You may disagree, but I don't really care

Did you ever find out,
You ever find out
What's at the heart of us?
Did you ever find out,
You ever find out
What's at the heart?

Tell me all your wildest dreams
I don't really care you don't know what they mean
Raiding the closets
The skeleton keys
You know, it's easier than you think

(repeat chorus)

Your reasons for living
Are all very fine
They're leaving me cold, though they're not really mine
Did you ever find out,
Did you ever find out
What's at the heart of us?

I don't know
I don't know, oh, oh

And there was gone, and there was evermore
And there was wherefore hast thou
And what heretofore
But not for evermore
Not for evermore, now

O Lord, went away
O Lord, wellaway
O Lord, that ye may keep her warm
Requiescat

A sorrow borne, and borne for evermore
A sorrow borne with a howl
Thou'll come no more
No more for evermore
No more for evermore, now...

O Lord, she's gone away
O Lord, wellaway
O Lord, that ye may keep her warm
Requiescat

She justified it then
She may well justify forever
She figures it's the only way
To keep herself together
Something about hotel rooms and horses
And losing all here friends
And hearing all their voices
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's stronger by far, than a war-torn soldier
She rubs it out

She makes a little money
And sneds it to her mother
She's living with some guy
Who's fighting off the sharks
She hopes some day
She'll get some kind of letter
Well you don't hold much
If you haven't got the heart
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn solider
She rubs it out

Some time ago, I thought that she was trying to move on
I thought wrong
She rubs it out, she covers it over
She's harder by far, than a war-torn soldier
I'd die for her gladly
Lord knows I've told her
But she rubs it out
I justified it then
I may justify, forever

And there were mermaids, weren't there?
Sweet, silver mermaids
All through that gray Trafalgar square
Such silver mermaids

And they were young and they were fair
They brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen
Come and play here"

"You will love, you will be loved
You will grow up and do so much
You will be strong, you will be sung
By all the mermaids, silver mermaids"

And once they'd sung their satin song
They beckoned to me from the fog
They spread their arms and lifted
Pale portrait faces, I was taken

To their coral cavern halls
To rooms with oyster shells for walls
To sandy nooks, pearly books and ivory dolls
In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls

And there were mermaids, weren't there?
Sweet, silver mermaids
All through that wan, forgotten square
Silver mermaids

They were young and they were fair
And they brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen, come"
And I was taken

Was I wrong? Should I have run?
I wanted all, I wanted young
And portrait faces, I was taken

Did I love? I didn't care
Did I grow up? Well, unaware
And was I strong? And was I sung?
How do I haunt Trafalgar fog?

And find I want so much, still want
And no more mermaids
No more mermaids
And no more mermaids

You may not see the end of it
But luckily she comes around
It isn't what she talks about
It's just the way she is

[Chorus]
(and she says)
Oh darlin' don't you know
The darkness comes and the darkness goes
Oh babe why don't you let it go?
Happiness ain't never how you think it should be so

I mystified the simple life
I covered up with consciousness
I saw myself and broke it down
'Til nothing more was left
She saw the symptoms right away
And spoke to me in poetry
"Sometimes the more you wonder why
The worse it seems to get"

[Chorus]

But she runs away
She runs away

And then you know there comes a time
You need her more than anything
You may believe yours are the wounds
That only she can heal
Then everything will turn around
And she becomes so serious
What she chose to offer you
Was all that you could have

[Chorus]

But she runs away
She runs away [Repeat: x3]

Hit the town, still dressing down
Looking for some action
Mr. Jagger said it best
He knows you never get, no satisfaction
But Mr. Dylan knows
That everyone is more or less a rolling stone
And Mr. Lennon, so quiet, knows better or so I've been told

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear, my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright
Cause that ain't right
That ain't right

I hear you're gonna make it big,
Rake it in with your master plan,
Mr. Hendrix understood
Those are only castles made of sand
Mr. Wilson took some pills,
And I don't blame him
It's hard to be alive,
Mr. Page, how he played
Mr. Drake stayed up late and made me cry

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen hear, my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright

They've said it all haven't they?
But what I want, what I want to say
Is listen hear my friend
I can't continue to pretend
That it's alright
No matter what we get
We never find our happiness
Ain't that a crime? Maybe that's why I've been told
Since I was six years old to compromise
But that ain't right,
That ain't right

All the shadows blue
In the winter moon
Stars within the darkness.
They remember you
And they sorrow too
With all the winds that blow.

Every book you'd read
In my evening breeze
Stars shown in the darkness.
Still it waits to see
Will you turn in sleeves
With all the winds that blow

See the window too,
That once you looked through,
Out on the stars, the darkness.
It remembers you in this empty room,
With all the winds so cold.

And that phantom moon
Is a window too,
Stars look through the darkness,
To some summer moon
Where our ghosts still move
Among the winds that blow.

Were my soul and my silence,
Were my hope, my lightness.
Were the sword at my side
Through all the winds that blow.

Now the children play
Through these shorter days
'Til stars show through the darkness.
Now the young men stray, nobody waves
Among the winds that blow.

All the shadows blue
In the winter moon.
Stars within the darkness.
They'll remember you,
They will sorrow too.
And all the winds will blow.

All the winds will blow.
All the winds will blow.
All the winds will blow.
All the winds will blow

Listen to the ways,
everything communicates,
Will it ever be anything more than Wishful Thinking,
Oh no there you go,
Looked away and missed the show.
How much wasted time,
will you survive.
Feel the blades of grass,
how it brings you back.
It will always be,
only as green as you can see.
Oh no there you go,
Looked away and missed the show.
How much wasted time,
will you survive.
Oh yeah fooled again,
Don't know how and I don't know when.
Not much else to blame, but wishful thinking..
It'll break now, coastal towers
They come suddenly,
Crashing over you,
they come easily.
Oh no there you go,
Looked away and missed the show.
How much wasted time,
will you survive.
Oh yeah fooled again,
don't know how and I don't know when..
Not much else to blame but wishful thinking..
I try to realize that I didn't look any further..
Above the universe plain to see.
I try not to rely on another one..
the universe is a mystery
Gets me over,
Gets me over, yeah..
Gets me over,
Gets me over, yeah..

I know what you’re doing’ I see it all too clear

I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears

You really had me going’ wishing on a star

But the black holes that surround you are heavies by far

I believed in your confusion’ you were so completely torn

Well it must have been that yesterday was the day that I was born

There’s not much to examine’ there’s nothing left to hide

You really can’t be serious if you have to ask me why

I say goodbye....goodbye~


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~


Everyone keeps asking’ what’s it all about"

I used to be so certain’ and I can’t figure out

What is this attraction" I only feel the pain

There’s nothing left to reason and only you to blame

Will it ever change"


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~



I’ve come to find’ I may never know

Your changing mind’ is it friend or foe"

I rise above’ or sink below

With every time’ you come and go

Please don’t come and go

I know it's not fashionable
To be this hopeful, well laugh away
I didn't think it was possible
To be grateful, anyway
I know it's not sensible
To be this passionate, everyday

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you'd ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way

In the volumes of history
Have you ever seen anything, so pure
In the wildest mythology
Were the gods and goddesses, ever so in love
In your own experience
Have you ever known tenderness, like this

Days go by
I catch myself smile
More than you쨈d ever expect
It's been a long while
Since it's been o.k.
To feel this way
These are the most precious
Of all my days

Faded longing
Tired of wanting
Can't explain the fear that's haunting you
Should I go on?
I may be wrong
So wrong

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon

Some say sacred
Some profane
There are no distinctions
Then again, yes,
I may be wrong
But it feels right
So right

Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain
One of millions of suns
Perfect nature
Deepest wisdom
Lies within everyone
Everyone
And everywhere the brilliant horizon

Cause everywhere lies within everyone

The past we seek
Some certainly
The seasons we remember
The light of May, and darkest days
The month we call, November
To leave behind
The wasted time
And every bad decision

And harder still
Some force of will
To feel we are forgiven
But something stays
So who am I to say
There's nothing more between us

And I don't know the reasons
Nothing clear
Ive come to no conclusions
Said and done
Is it all said and done?
So here we are
Not very far
From when we said
Forever

And all we have
This restless past
The month we call
November

Everyone's looking
Everyone hides
Everyone's telling, but everyone lies
They're changing the subject
They're turning away
Away from the heart of it all

You say you are happy,
That you think this is fun
But it's only a firefly to the light of the sun
You say this is living
You feel so alive,
Well, you know, everything dies

(chorus)
Even my wonder
Even my fear
Only amount to a couple of tears
There is a rhythm
It's near and it's far
It flows through the heart of us

Welcome to another day
It don't seem that different 'cuz nothing has changed
Try to remember
Try to remember
When weren't just running in place

Reasons for living
Never come cheap
And even your best ones can put me to sleep
What I am saying,
Trying to say
Is that there must be a better way

(repeat chorus)

It's already in you
It's already there
You may disagree, but I don't really care

Did you ever find out,
You ever find out
What's at the heart of us?
Did you ever find out,
You ever find out
What's at the heart?

Tell me all your wildest dreams
I don't really care you don't know what they mean
Raiding the closets
The skeleton keys
You know, it's easier than you think

(repeat chorus)

Your reasons for living
Are all very fine
They're leaving me cold, though they're not really mine
Did you ever find out,
Did you ever find out
What's at the heart of us?

I don't know
I don't know, oh, oh

I know what you’re doing’ I see it all too clear

I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears

You really had me going’ wishing on a star

But the black holes that surround you are heavies by far

I believed in your confusion’ you were so completely torn

Well it must have been that yesterday was the day that I was born

There’s not much to examine’ there’s nothing left to hide

You really can’t be serious if you have to ask me why

I say goodbye....goodbye~


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~


Everyone keeps asking’ what’s it all about"

I used to be so certain’ and I can’t figure out

What is this attraction" I only feel the pain

There’s nothing left to reason and only you to blame

Will it ever change"


Cause I am barely breathing’ And I can’t find the air

I don’t know who I’m kidding’ imaging you care

And I could stand here waiting’ a fool for another day

But I don’t suppose it’s worth the price’ worth the price

The price that I would play~



I’ve come to find’ I may never know

Your changing mind’ is it friend or foe"

I rise above’ or sink below

With every time’ you come and go

Please don’t come and go

One day maybe
When I grow up
A son you will have found

When I change my ways
One of these days
I know I'll make you proud

What I never say
Because of busy days
Is all I want for you

I'm just not the best
At being friends
But that's what we should do

When I see you happy,
When you laugh
I'm never sad

Fantastic toys
And corduroys
Everything you gave

Took me to school
I tried to be cool
And you let me get away with it



What I want to say
A thing I pray
For you to shine inside

The fighting words
How they sound absurd
when it's you who gave me life

When I see you happy
When you laugh
I'm never sad
I don't want to be sad
And you shouldn't be sad
We shouldn't be sad

What I never say
Because of busy days
Is all I want for you

I want to love
Like a mother's son
To always see you through

When I see you happy
When you laugh
I'm never sad

We shouldn't be sad

Hey Casanova
You don't look too good
But I know times are tough

You never found your paradise
Like you said you would
And it's all catching up

It may be that will never change
You may never come to your promised land
And it's a gray morning

With all you have
Still you turn your back
You're given every chance
How can you ask for more than that?
But still you have to ask

Hey tragic hero
Did you get passed by?
Well what do all those heathens know...

Have a seat, a cup of wine
And have a good cry


And then it's time to go

'Cause you're living up to your own worst cases
You're looking for hope in some pretty strange places
And that's a grey mourning

With all you have
Still you turn your back
You're given every chance
How can you ask for more than that?
But still you have to ask
I really need for you to ask

With all you have to ask
Still you're turning
Turning
With all you have
Still you're turning
Turning

Hey you lone ranger,
Is it cold tonight
So far beneath the stars
Maybe the desert will do you good

All the storms and oceans
All the sheltering sky
All this earth and she and I

Wait until it happens
Wait, the moment will come
Wait, but all those are already one

And she asks me
How many sunrises
Will we watch from start to finish
How many will we witness?

And my answers
Are only ever surmises
Maybe a handful of times
...Before the next life

Here, we stop beneath the leaves
Here, a moment to stay
Here, a gift of pale green color
Here above her

And she asks me


How many sunrises
Will we watch from start to finish
How many will we witness?

And my answers
Are only ever surmises
Maybe a handful of times
...Before the next life

A kiss, prayer, a laugh, a song
She won't try to tell me what's right from wrong

A song, a laugh, a prayer, a kiss
She won't try to tell me I need more than this

All my answers
And all my surmises
Will never do it justice
She'll just have to trust it

We'll wait here
Until the sun rises
We'll watch from start to finish
With no one as our witness

Here and there
Haunting my closets and drawers
My evermore

Now and then
Forgetting that everything's changed
I call her name

And I heard the stories
She tried to tell me
(But) I don't believe in ghosts

I hear a sound


Maybe it's her coming home
But I'm alone

No, I've never seen one
I've never been one
I don't believe in ghosts

So I won't think of her
I won't remember
I don't believe in ghosts

She knows...
She knows...

Turning the wheel to emptiness
They're when you breathe your final breath
No one will hold you anymore
Haven't they told you baby,
You're always alive
Always alive

Leaving the plane of time and space
Leaving the mask of every face
Just like the Sun and every ray
Might as well smile 'cause baby
We all die one day
We all die one day

Not square, not round
The silence in the sound
Not short, not long
The quiet in the song
(It carries you along)

Some of the people here believe
Reading a book of prophesies
Some of you sigh and turn away
Nobody knows, so what's the play?
You're here now
You're here for now


And what does it matter anyway
Whatever I sing or what you say
Taking a chance we place a bet
But it ain't gonna get you
to black or red
This time around
This time around

No cause, no condition
Who knows your position?
Not you, no other
What will you discover?

You never disappear
So tell me why you fear
Neither are you born
Sometimes still you mourn
Never do you arise,
You're never low or high
No one acts, no one is made
Nothing glows, nothing fades

Nothing fades.........

So you wrote me a letter which I thought was really kind
I don't recall which song it was but there was one you really liked
And you asked me, so innocently,
of my inspiration
Why I write the songs I sing, the reasons why I make them

Well nothing here is what it seems
I'll risk the wreckage of your dreams
It's so that you are always shopping
To steal away the cash your dropping
Listen to me when I say
Your fantasies are built to fade
So there you are, you're always shopping
Don't even try, there is no stopping

Don't misunderstand me, it always makes me smile
When I can serenade you as you're rollin' down the aisles
On this journey of your souls desires, the paradise of goods
You're doing just exactly what I think you should

Well nothing here is what it seems
I'll risk the wreckage of your dreams
It's so that you are always shopping
So while you roll you're really rocking

Listen to me when I say
Your fantasies are built to fade
So there you are, you're always wanting


What you don't have is always haunting

There's still one thing I have to say - my confession's not complete
I've made is sound as if all this has nothing to do with me
There surely is not anything further from the truth
When I have pretty things to gain and only useless things to loose

I wish there were another way
But I must keep the wolves at bay
I hope that you don't find it shocking
Rock and Roll is built on shopping

If you're searching for my soul
Come check out my chains of gold
Grab your purse and let's go shopping
For lingerie and silky stockings

Lets go shopping together
So that we can find ourselves
So that we can buy ourselves

Let's go shopping together
'Cause We are always by ourselves
'Cause We are always by ourselves

Lets go shopping together
So that we can find ourselves

How many times on this merry-go-round
Over and over again
Up on the horse was a weak, foolish child
Who never believed it would end

How many smokes 'til I'm satisfied
How many drinks 'til I'm happy
How much of the day will I watch fade away
until there is no one to ask me

I was gone, so gone
Gone, so gone
For a while

How many times will I sleep by your side
Turning and dreaming and scared


Of fair grounds that shut down as you ride away
And my horse won't go anywhere

I was gone, so gone
Gone, so gone
For a while

I was wrong, so wrong
Wrong, so wrong
For a while

How many songs will I try to write
All with the same thing to say
I've got two tickets left, won't you please stay with me
For the very last ride of the day

Playground
Home-land
A countryside to save

Blue skies
Air-space
Soldiers to raise

And sacrifice

Strong armed
Christians
Oiled up and fed

Safe as
Houses
In aprons of lead

And sanctified

Omens and Signs
A star-field
On red lines
Turn those blind eyes
To fantasies
And white lies



How much
Longer
This empire of night

The smallest
Subjects
All begin to fight

And multiply

Omens and Signs
A star-field
On red lines
Turn those blind eyes
To fantasies
And white lies

Omens and Signs
A star-field
On red lines
Turn those blind eyes
To fantasies
And white lies

Head down
Brace yourself
Here it comes

If I crack up
Lose my head
Try to hid beneath my bed
And leave the television on
So I don't think of what's gone wrong
I beg the dawn

Break through, save me
Rescue me
Wake me from the dead
My weary head in your embrace

If I spin out
And off the rails
Build myself a bed of nails
And take the whole world down with me
Into my dime-store tragedy
Where will you be?


Break through, heal me
Sing to me
Kneel beside my bed
My weary head in your embrace

Wake up, sunrise
I may be alone but I'm alive
And I will find a way to you

Sunrise, you saved me this time
You never even had to try
And you opened up my eyes

Sunrise, you treat me so kind
I was lost, I was blind
And you opened up my eyes

I guess they think it's what we want
A smooth and easy ride
Of constellations of ceiling lights
Hennessey and Naugahyde
America, America, this is our reward
Everything is boring, everyone is bored

Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine

Who's the smart guy at the wheel
Runnin' out of gas
Likes to wear a flightsuit
and fly around for laughs

Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine

I feel incentives for the pharmacy
Hey I'm feelin' better already
I don't want to be clear
It's too much for me
I'm makin' up
Oh, I'm makin' up
For lost time
For all the lost time

Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine
Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine

We have won the war
We have won the war