Nada Surf

Clusters of people talking secretly to each other
In a bar you cannot talk openly
To anyone you don't already know
4-year-olds, they've got the right idea
They jump the line and hit it on the nose

When we sit and we get quiet
Then we look and see who's home across the way
There are 80 windows we can see
It's Christmastime and they all have the same tree

You tell me the patterns you already see
I wonder if they see us in our bed
You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

When we sit and we get quiet
Then we look and see who's home across the way

You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

Clusters of people talking secretly to each other
In a bar you cannot talk openly
To anyone you don't already know
4-year-olds, they've got the right idea
They jump the line and hit it on the nose

When we sit and we get quiet
Then we look and see who's home across the way
There are 80 windows we can see
It's Christmastime and they all have the same tree

You tell me the patterns you already see
I wonder if they see us in our bed
You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

When we sit and we get quiet
Then we look and see who's home across the way

You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone
The moon is closer to the sun than I am to anyone

to moonn6pence from shootingstar




You made me feel like I'm ok, I could be happy
Now I can sit, not run away stupidly laughing
Wipe out all self-pity, it's slowing me down.
Turn off feeling pretty, dressing up dressing down.

I walk around the city out of my way, looking for something
I've got all that I need to save my day, so why'm I running?
You said I should get professional help, it always makes me cry.
I know I'm just an amateur, but I've gotta try.

I had a birthday party and it was packed, got friends who love me
We hung a disco ball up and watched the lights, they were so lovely

You said I should get professional help, it always makes me cry.
I know I'm just an amateur, but I've gotta try. I've gotta try.

When exactly are we? I get the decades mixed up.
I like the streets when they're empty, I can make the rest up.
I can make the rest up,
I can make the rest up.

I walk around the city out of my way, looking for something
I've got all that I need to save my day, so why'm I running?
You said I should get professional help, it always makes me cry.
I know I'm just an amateur, but I've gotta try.

Every day is New Year's Eve,
Every night is the last night.
Every day is New Year's Eve,
Every night is the last night.

You said I should get professional help, It always makes me cry
I know I'm just an amateur, but I've gotta try.

And so we meet and there are sparks,
Its gold it's new and free from sharks,
Your house is big it seems so clean,
Your cleaning lady comes and we're discreet.

Are you lightning?
'Cause I'm waiting.
What's the timing?
I'm not playing.

And so I act like I'm 21,
Wide eyed and drifting unto sun,
Pay back is here my legs are numb,
I'm back, it's square one feeling dumb.

The sweet things,
When do they come?
Have I gone deaf?
What's the song?
Are you lightning?
'Cause I'm waiting,
This is frightening,
I'm not playing.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...

I see you in my sheets, I see you in my sleep,
I see you through the mirror
You sing we're not to steal.

The only thing I'm scared of is the secret that you keep,
I know where you are, I dunno where you are.
Don't make the other wonder the others might sting,
Tell me what you're thinking,
Do not let me twist.
Just look at the size of you.

I see you in my sheets, I see you in my sleep,
I see you with something that's funny I hear you I almost weep,

I see you from my steps, you're walking up my street,
But just look at the size of you.

I see you in my sheets, I see you in my sleep,
I see you from my steps you're walking up my street.

And just look at the size of you,
The sun shine on and on...
The sun shine on and on...

when you walk home from the party
drunk on bacardi and listening
to the voices that lie to you nightly,
make you frightened of everyone,
make you sorry for something.
you go home and spend your life alone with the stereo,
watching the late show; or force yourself
out in the night to meet your generation.
you feel like claymation in fluorescent light.

on our knees, we made it hard to see,
we made it hard to breathe and the air was thin.

i only wanna say things that are pure: now i won't be talking anymore.
i only wanna do things that are true. every time i move i'm hurting you.

i wanna know what is it that you do
to keep from hurting anyone but you?

cause i still say your name when i don't feel right, just like i used to
and if most people fade to gray and black, you'll fade to light blue.

i think too much and then start talking mean.
where did i get all these selfish genes?
best friends, i'm a bad best friend.

i'll meet you today when no-one is watching.
we'll throw our money away, i'll meet you today.

Leave me alone, and there'll be
No one to get hurt
Nobody move and there'll be
Nothin' to disturb
The sum of it all is that you
Don't know where to turn
Despite all your promises you
Don't keep what you learn

Beautiful beat get me out of this mess
Beautiful beat lift me up from distress

Sometimes all i want is another
Drink or another pill
If i could get anything done
Maybe I'd hold still
I'm trying to levitate I'm
Trying to leave the ground
Tryin' to remember when i could
Fix anything with sound

Beautiful beat get me out of this mess
Beautiful beat lift me up from distress


I believe our love can save me
Have to believe that it can
I want to redirect myself with you
Do you understand?

Beautiful beat, get me out of this mess
Beautiful beat, lift me up from distress

(Beautiful beat get me out of this mess
Beautiful beat lift me up from distress)

I believe our love can save me
Have to believe that it can
I gotta reinvent myself for you
Can i be your man?
I believe our love can save me
Have to believe that i can
I wanna redirect myself with you
'Cause you understand

Beautiful beat, get me out of this mess
Beautiful beat, lift me up from distress

in blizzard of '77
the cars were just lumps on the snow
and then later
tripping in 7-11
the shelves were stretching out of control
on a plane ride
the more it shakes
the more i have to let go
now the signals
still getting all mixed up
we're always doing damage control
but in the middle of the night i worry
it's blurry even without light
i know i have got a negative edge
that's why i sharpen all the others a lot
it's like flowers or ladybugs
pretty weeds or red beetles with dots
(chorus)
i miss you more than i knew
(repeat)

cats and dogs are coming down
14th street is gonna drown
everyone else rushing round.

CHORUS:
i've got blonde on blonde
on my portable stereo
it's a lullabye
from a giant golden radio.

i've got no time i wanna lose
to people with something to prove
what can you do but let them talk
and make your way down the block.

CHORUS:
i've got blonde on blonde
on my portable stereo
it's a lullabye
from a giant golden radio. (X3)

it's a lullabye
from a giant golden radio.

it's a lullabye
from wonder-woman's radio. (X2)

it's a lullabye. (X6)

if i fell down a big hole
would you tell
how do you know
it's a deepening well
like the big o

i know
it's a bad scene to be whole
it's a bad dream i hope
Marie
to feel
they're following me

if i painted a tear
would you figure it out
would it make matters clear
would it shed some doubt
it's been happening for years
it's a roundabout

pull back from the front
there's a bigger gap
than you thought
a bigger trap
in which to be caught

i've got to get away from the bricks
all these straight lines are making me sick

to moonn6pence from shootingstar



my coat, leave behind my coat and my belt,
leave behind my coat and all that,
i don't want it back...

it's called undertown and it's over that way.
some people leave in the morning,
some people when they go to bed.
inside, it's been rotting for a long time now,
ever since i found out
i'm not to blame if i get left out.

my coat, leave behind the looks, magazines and books.
don't want it back.

we're going away, we're dropping the lot.
we'll take another tack if we ever get stopped.
it's the last plan we made before we came unglued.

everything i touch is on the blink.
gotta find a place to land, find a place to think.
who are you people?

All of a sudden I
Lost the lie
I let myself believe
I'd be a brand new guy
But holy shit I'm just a door

Well...
I helped you to see out
of your hole
Got the gas on in your house
because you turned to coal

When you're back up on
your feet
You'll move right past me
You're makin' plans with my friends
I know they're great
It's a little late to let me down

Oh no... I better go
You set the tone
You just don't know
You're scratching it in stone

I better wash my clothes
Take a bath
Move up and down the hall
untill I find my class
So I can be myself again
This movie has gotta end... (x3)

Do do..
do do do do do do(x3)

This movie has gotta end... (x5)

Oh... yeah...(x4) (fades out)

The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round
The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round
I touch these strings, but cannot touch the sound

Take a train to a bus, and then into the air
Take a train to a bus, and then into the air
If I had wings, I'd follow you up there

Girl you know I hate to see you go
I hate to see you go
But the sunlight follows you right down the road

Just the thought of you makes me wanna cry
Just the thought of you makes me wanna cry
This deep well of tears has just run dry

You showed me just how easy love could be

You showed me just how silly love could be
But everything, you showed me gracefully

Everyone's gotta leave their love sometime
Everyone's gotta leave their love sometime
If not now, then at the end of your life-time

You'll be waiting by my bed I know
You'll be waiting by my bed I know
And your last little words will be i love you so

The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round
The shutter clicked, but the film did not go 'round
I touch these strings, but cannot touch the sound

to moonn6pence from shootingstar




This time,
the win is mine,
my perfect life, my perfect life.
room spin,
don't know how to stop,
don't know how to start, don't know how to start.

firecracker,
the one you keep inside,
firecracker,
you don't know how to light,

so sink,
in the tailspin,
of plans and sleep, of plans and sleep,
or come, and crush me tight,
my favourite high, my favourite high!

here comes the film,
PG 13! PG 13! PG 13!
crack down,
no net, no cage,
no first mistake. no first mistake.

The fox, the fox
Lied
Eyes under my prize

The fox, the fox
Lied
Fox eyes under my prize

We're in a different war
With ourselves, and with some of you
So many things that don't hold true

With the fear that dims our light
With the barnacles on our right

On the grass, beachy head
On the cliff to which you've been lead
The curve of the hill is green and soft
As if the wind would hold you aloft

Its how you feel for me now, not how you felt
Its how you deal with envy, not how you dealt

Recognise and send away, set it asail
Serenity inside of me

We're in a different war
With ourselves, and with some of you
So many things that can't be true

On the grassy beachy head
On the cliff where you were laid
The curve, the hill is green and soft
As if the wind would hold you

Serenity inside of me
Set asail

But you'll sail alone
If you don't hold the rope
You'll go alone

Here comes the hot feeling again
When i hear his name
I clearly have no control
Can't help wondering

If herein gone like a wave
I forget but then, start rememberin'
The devil in my mind, why can't he go home
Are we on our way

I do not want to be in this song
So while the summer rats and their hats high

Where is the wind
Why does it feel still again
Can't think along these lines
I'm gonna live a long time
Not along these lines
I'm gonna live a long time

When it goes black it goes black so fast
No good state lads

What i get slow is how to bounce back
You'll have to invent what you lack

Now I turn to the seasons, the sleeping demons
I want your attention, your infection
For every new reason, do you know how i need it?

Oh your face and everything that you say
And Oh your face and everything that you say
And Oh your face and everything that you say

I almost washed us out talking to me
The call came like a wave of relief
I'm such a lucky mess
I just need some rest

Take me along
From now on
Take me along
From now on

I'm gonna live a long time (x3)

left some food wrapped up
in a plastic bag
on the kitchen table
way too long
i sat down to eat
next to the bag
i was too tired
to throw it out
i saw a swarm of fruit flies
i took the bag downstairs
when i came back
they were still there
flying jerky patterns
like snowflakes in the air

i'm sorry you've got nowhere to go. (X2)

left straight right straight
i can't find a reason
i know i'll keep going but
i can't find a reason
nothing looks right
nothing smells right
and i can't land
geometric patterns
smearing out of control
only have enough gas left
for the beer can to the bowl

what can you do but go on? (X3)

oh no you make your own mistakes
i cannot bring them back to you
oh no you make your own mistakes
i cannot measure up to you. (X2)

I'm just a happy kid
Stuck with the heart of a sad punk
Drowning in my id
Always searching like it's on junk
No matter who I hang out with
I can hear the clack-clunk
Of the chains that pull the cars up
The roller coaster mountain top so high
When it comes down it shoots back up
Straight back to the sky
I gotta laugh and then I'm asleep
And then I walk around and wanna cry

Out at night to do the strand
The little candles make the bottles glow
Got ink all over my right hand
Getting crushes with no chance to grow
It's like I'll never ever land
There's always too much sun
Or too much snow

Chorus:

I get slow days and no days
I get rusty and it's hard
But I get notions and oceans
Are coming to my call

(interlude)

You can learn to get along (x4)

Chorus (x1)

And I'm just a happy kid
Stuck with the heart of a sad punk
Drowning in my id
Always searching like it's on junk
No matter who I hang out with
I can hear the clack-clunk
Of the chains that pull the cars up
The roller coaster mountain top so high
When it comes down it shoots back up
Straight back to the sky
I gotta laugh and then I'm asleep
And then I walk around and wanna cry

I'm just a happy kid (x4)

Look around, what a mess
Anybody's guess
Here goes something
Yeah here goes something
Now change programs
Here goes something

Gravity's, big success
No one's taken off yet
Changing speeds, What a ride

Stir up your insides
Your majesty
Your majesty
Your majesty
Where we mean

Chasing light, dawn to bed
It came to me instead
Chasing light, dawn to bed
It came to me instead

Do you ever feel like you just landed on this earth?
You see the creatures all do their dances back and forth
You get restless and then you join them on the floor
Suddenly it's tomorrow

It's not today anymore (X2)

Chorus:

You talk to the ceiling every day
The speakers are shaking
Why do i hear you okay?
They're playing soul at the wrong speed
It sounds right now
What are you doing to me?

D'you ever feel like what we call real life is not so real?
Tripping up on the same old problems you had last year
We'll pretend it's another planet not so uptight
The stars are shining above the city every night
They come every night

Chorus (x1)

Where are we going?
I don't care
Our friends all left
Let's go anywhere
It's getting late
I don't care
It's just you and me
Let's go anywhere

Do you ever feel like you just landed on this earth?
You see the creatures all do their dances back and forth
You get restless and then you join them on the floor
Suddenly it's tomorrow

It's not today anymore (X2)

Chorus:

You talk to the ceiling every day
The speakers are shaking
Why do i hear you okay?
They're playing soul at the wrong speed
It sounds right now
What are you doing to me?

D'you ever feel like what we call real life is not so real?
Tripping up on the same old problems you had last year
We'll pretend it's another planet not so uptight
The stars are shining above the city every night
They come every night

Chorus (x1)

Where are we going?
I don't care
Our friends all left
Let's go anywhere
It's getting late
I don't care
It's just you and me
Let's go anywhere

Do you ever feel like you just landed on this earth?
You see the creatures all do their dances back and forth
You get restless and then you join them on the floor
Suddenly it's tomorrow

It's not today anymore (X2)

Chorus:

You talk to the ceiling every day
The speakers are shaking
Why do i hear you okay?
They're playing soul at the wrong speed
It sounds right now
What are you doing to me?

D'you ever feel like what we call real life is not so real?
Tripping up on the same old problems you had last year
We'll pretend it's another planet not so uptight
The stars are shining above the city every night
They come every night

Chorus (x1)

Where are we going?
I don't care
Our friends all left
Let's go anywhere
It's getting late
I don't care
It's just you and me
Let's go anywhere

been trying to be cool ever since high school
cool like the stars and sexy people in bars
the stars will fall they'll line up in the hall
may sound nice, but it's ugly inside
i lost all my pride
taken apart
one more false start
how do you think we're gonna do this time around
you're the queen of sound
been trying to hear something complete
no microtones and no backbeat

to moonn6pence from shootingstar



hands up who thinks it's now
home base is the bathroom where the lights are bright
it's never too late if you know how
we got our own brand of hyperspace
you cannot change anyone
there is no peace, there's only sun
when you want to go, i know you will
and i can see it all and i'm ok, but i wish there was another way
there's no right and there's no wrong
there's just the balance of the things you know

to moonn6pence from shootingstar



hands up who thinks it's now
home base is the bathroom where the lights are bright
it's never too late if you know how
we got our own brand of hyperspace
you cannot change anyone
there is no peace, there's only sun
when you want to go, i know you will
and i can see it all and i'm ok, but i wish there was another way
there's no right and there's no wrong
there's just the balance of the things you know

Emergency above
Put on your hard hats and invisible gloves
What's going on
I was on the wagon, I thought I was done
You have to watch out
When one falls in, another came out

You say, I like what you say
I like what you say
You say, I like what you say
I like what you say

They say you have to have somebody
They say you have to be someone's
They say if you're not lonely alone, boy there is something wrong

You say, I like what you say

I like what you say
You say, I like what you say
I like what you say

You say, baby, I only what to make you happy
Baby, I only want to make you

They say, you learn from your mistakes
That's not always the case
I see them and I understand
How I made them again and again

They say you have to have somebody
They say you have to be someone's
They say if you're not lonely alone, boy there is something wrong

You say, I like what you say
I like what you say
You say, I like what you say
I like what you say

You say, baby, I only want to make you happy
Baby, I only what to make you

I am made of Sopwith Camel
Sherman PT-17, sixty and cloudy, I go slow
Compared to modernity I am a humming bee
Sweater-weather and
Hugs and drugs and movies

But baby ice
Is growing on the wing
Baby ice is growing on the wing
You rolled the dice but
You didn’t know anything
Underneath the oxide
Underneath the oxide
It’s all the same song

I am made of no newspapers
When the V-1 buzzing stopped
Only prayers
I am made of young curiosity, deluded piety
Double-whiskey for the men
Don’t talk to thy neighbour
If they don’t take your same lord as saviour
In a songless meeting house
Proud to be the only ones
Who get saved in the end
From hugs and drugs and movies

But baby ice
Is growing on the wing
Baby ice is growing on the wing
You rolled the dice but
You didn’t know anything

What if I start now?
Just like someone’s watching me
Somebody’s watching me
What if I start now?
Just like someone’s watching me

But baby ice
Is growing on the wing
Baby ice is growing on the wing
Baby ice is growing on the wing
Baby ice is growing on the wing
Underneath the oxide
Underneath the oxide
Underneath the oxide
It’s all the same

Stay until
You're sure that i'm asleep
Warm safe and very still
Give all my things away
Just wait until tomorrow
Bury me in sorrow
Cover me in joy

Every afternoon i wasted being mad at You
The things I never said
The things I can't say tomorrow
Bury me in sorrow
Cover me in joy

After death i'll think of You somehow
I'll have an eternity to think about tomorrow
I beg of You tomorrow
Bury me in sorrow
Cover me in joy

Watching terrible TV, it kills all thought
Getting spacier than an astronaut
Making out with people I hardly know or like
I can't believe what I do late at night

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

Only when we get to see the aerial view
Will the patterns show, we'll know what to do
I know the last page so well, I can't read the first
So I just don't start, it's getting worse

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
Must be a different view
To be a me with a you

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
Of course I'll be alright
I just had a bad night
I had a bad night

Watching terrible TV, it kills all thought
Getting spacier than an astronaut
Making out with people I hardly know or like
I can't believe what I do late at night

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

Only when we get to see the aerial view
Will the patterns show, we'll know what to do
I know the last page so well, I can't read the first
So I just don't start, it's getting worse

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
Must be a different view
To be a me with a you

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
Of course I'll be alright
I just had a bad night
I had a bad night

I'm putting this night down to bed
'cause I was sitting at the bar
Hoping you'd walk in the door
That says Killian'S red
'cause I left you a note that said
Come on out and we'll both get
Right off of our heads
And float up off the chair
We'll go on vacation tonight
Under a sun of neon light
And I almost love this town
When I'm by your side
You woke me from a long sleep
And I'm almost back
Closer than ever
To finding the hidden track
If I told you the truth
You wouldn't like what I said
I almost believed I was dead
There'll be no more waiting
You're gonna melt all the ice in our heads
There'll be no more crying
You're gonna make it all better instead
...
I get secrets at night
But they don't stay
I get secrets at night
But they go away
...

i wanna know, i wanna know,
do you have the balls to ask?
what do you see when you look at a girl?
is she a game you wanna win?
if no-one was looking what would you do to get in?
do you have friends who would be proud if you went in for the kill?
do you have friends who would do it even against her will?

what if they did that to your sister?
what if they did that to your mother?

why are we so slow? (x2)

i bet you think you're such a hottie, but a body afraid is not a sexual body.
what do you see when you look at a girl?
is she a game you wanna win?
if no-one was looking what would you do to get in?
everybody's been laughed at and everybody's been left out but
that's no excuse to turn it around, no boy has the right to hold a girl down.

what if they did that to your sister?
what if they did that to your mother?
what if they did that to your sister?
what if they did that to your mother?

on your star wars sheets when you set the scene,
was she seducing you, or did she want to scream?

it's you versus you versus you versus you versus you versus you versus you. (x2)

i can't forget that tomorrow's mother's day. (x4)

i'm talking to you, you know who you are, going too far. (x2)

you'll feel good for ten seconds, she'll be screwed up for life. (x2)

blue balls and all of that bullshit. (x4)

So quiet
It's neither heaven nor space, it's just high
And the ring around the moon
looks like light and love
Neither of which I get enough of
Down there
Where alot of people lie, In a deep sleep
And months on end go by, in a single week
Down there
But much too slow
Can't you see I'm trying so hard to plug up this hole
The air is running out we're sinking much too low
And if you sit long enough
you can hear ghost trains
As if the city speed
is just in our brains
And coke's close as we get to sugar cane
Down there
But much too slow
Can't you see I'm trying so hard to plug up this hole,
The air is running out we're sinking much too low
So quiet, So quiet
It's neither heaven nor space, It's just high
And the ring around the moon
Looks like light and love
Neither of which I get enough of
Neither of which I get enough of

Main:
Sit on a train, reading a book
Same damn planet every time I look
Try to relax and slow my heartbeat
Only works when I'm dead asleep
Been thinking and drinking all over the town
Must be gearing up for some kind of meltdown

Chorus:
All I am is, a body floating downwind (x2)

-What's wrong?
-Nothing
-Are you sure nothing's wrong?
-Yeah
-But you're sad about something?
-Yeah
-So tell me what
-I don't know

I can't tell you (x4)

Chorus (x1)
Main (x1)

As the express train passes the local
It moves by just like a paper boat
Although it weighs a million pounds
I swear it almost seems to float
And as we pass by each other
Our heads all full of bother
We can't look, we can't stop
We can't think, we can't stop
Because we're stuck in our own paths
And it's the way it always lasts
But I need something more from you

All I am is, a body floating downwind (x2)

floating downwind...

Three important rules for breaking up
Don't put off breaking up when you know you want to
Prolonging the situation only makes it worse
Tell him honestly, simply, kindly, but firmly
Don't make a big production
Don't make up an elaborate story
This will help you avoid a big tear jerking scene
If you wanna date other people say so
Be prepared for the boy to feel hurt and rejected
Even if you've gone together for only a short time,
And haven't been too serious,
There's still a feeling of rejection
When someone says she preferres the company of others
To your exclusive company,
But if you're honest, and direct,
And avoid making a flowery emotional speech when you brake the news,
The boy will respect you for your frankness,
And honestly he'll appreciate the kind of straight foward manner
In which you told him your decision
Unless he's a real jerk or a cry baby you will remain friends

I'm head of the class'm popular
I'm a quarter back I'm popular
My mom says I'm a catch I'm popular
I'm never last picked
I got a cheerleader chick

Being attractive is the most important thing there is
If you wanna catch the biggest fish in your pond
You have to be as attractive as possible
Make sure to keep your hair spotless and clean
Wash it at least every two weeks
Once every two weeks
And if you see Jonny football hero in the hall
Tell him he played a great game
Tell him you like his article in the newspaper

I'm the party star
I'm popular
I've got my own car
I'm popular
I'll never get caught
I'm popular
I make football bets
I'm a teachers pet.

I purpose we support a one month limit on going steady
I think It will keep you both more able to deal with weird situation
And get to know more peopleI think if you're ready to go out with Jonny
Now's the time to tell him about your one month limit
He wont mind he'll apreciate your fresh look on dating
And once you've dated someone else you can date him again
I'm sure he'll like it
Everyone will appreciate it
You so novel what a good idea
You can keep you time to your self
You don't need date insurance
You can go out with whoever you want to
Every boy, every boy, in the whole world could be yours
If you'll just listen to my plan

THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO POPULARITY

take a look at what's been done
the killing wound is the thousandth cut
a dead turtle on the beach puts my happiness out of reach

sea sun sand self.

psychic caramel dimulants, they're good for the undertow
better than a psychotic stimulant, word to your mother you know
but it's a drag you know sometimes
and it drags

sea sun sand self.

going deaf and peaceful, i'm going for a walk
the times i have the most to say are the times that i can't talk

sea sun sand self

You're just walking round your little mazes
figuring out how to get by
how to get laid and get famous
get yourself paid, impress the guys
You're taught to divide
the world into buddies and wives
sluts and wimps
and ever since
you've kept a score card
how else to prove you're such the pimp

You are just a robot
executing a program

Get on a train where the crowd is tightening
to push yourself up against a girl
and when you're not getting play
you keep trying
you don't understand the consensual way

you are just a robot
executing a program
you are just a robot
an imitation of a man

She told me one night
when we were lying quiet and cold
something not right
It had months since the good times
once there was sun
now there was night

She said to me
as she turned on the light
"There's something you don't know
that keeps me from feeling right,
I once knew a guy, I'd seen him around,
he knew all my friends, he came from town

One night at a party, we both were there
he followed me into the bathroom, he grabbed my hair"
and she said "I still remember
just how the floor felt
and how my head would hit the tub."

Now where is that robot,
is he alive or is he done?
Does he breathe air that I breathe?
is he kept warm by the same sun?

you are just a robot
executing a program
an imitation of a man
executing a program
an imitation of a man
an imitation of a man
an imitation of a man
an imitation of a man
an imitation of a man

Everyone's right
And no one is sorry
That's the start and the end of the story
From the sharks and the jets
To the call in the morning

Everyone's right
And no one is sorry
That's the start and the end of the story
From the sharks and the jets
To the call in the morning
And life is just bets anyway

Look alive
See these bones
What you are now we were once

Try it as they the might
No one is immune to
Misfiring and acting on the wrong clues
And thinking this time to re-do ,re-do

I feel rain in the movies
And the talk before the screen lights
I hear strings in the park
I don't like to call or write
Except when it's too late at night
And mostly just think in the dark

Look alive
See these bones
What you are now we were once
Just like we are
You will be dust
Just like we are
Permanent

You look too tired to eat
to hungry too sleep

Just imagine the speed
It's just what you need

Look alive
And see these bones
What you are now
We were once
And just like we are
You'll be dust
Just like we are
Permanent

The lights in the city
Are more or less blinking
This side of the story
Decides what you are thinking
Warm arms and cold faces
we're squinting, we're hurrying
We take inventory
We're digging, we're burying.

Do you remember when the light was low?
Do you remember it fell?
Do you remember when we went through her house?
Remember ringing the bell?

Look alive
See these bones
What you are now
We were once
Just like we are
You'll be dust
Just like we are
Permanent

step in my shoes, wait till you see the big flash now
glued to the sheets, sleep with the sheep all month long
easy to please, hard to believe it's a tease
stuck in a rut, don't give a fuck if we're us

lie in a haze, hope it's a phase and not hate
you know that i know that you know that i know that you know
i want you to kiss me

i try to open my eyes
to the days going by
but the trash in everything it keeps me hypnotized
i'm hypnotized
i got the poison in me
but it's amplified

no TV

to moonn6pence from shootingstar







you see yourself sitting on top so self assured - happy,
but when your parents bail you out you somehow feel not free.
you're bored to tears in school, it's not like what you thought at all.
trouble is not the answer. i know what you want to know:

slow down;
why you wanna move so fast?
why you wanna walk so far?

i think i know what you want.

your father toys with you hoping his evil game will win.
in order not to loose, the trick is not to play with him.
anything good you do is added to your past - your wealth.
you'll need it all the day you finally choose to ask yourself:

slow down;
why you wanna move so fast?
why you wanna walk so far?
wait and find out who you are
and how you're gonna make it last.

something's gonna change, now re-spell your name.
tired of highs and lows, now derail your train.

and if this letter finds you lost and out of touch - lonely,
i hope you know by now you mean so very much to me.

stale mate
when do i jump out of the cake
when do we admit it's a fake
when do we jump out of the cake

I'm the nervous watcher
and i watch
time to turn it on
but i turn it off
70% of the time i watch useless and over the line
stuck

stale mate
jailbreak
when do we admit it's not safe
it's not safe in a jail
it's not safe in a safe

should have been a wreck
might have been a wreck
i don't know how it could last
i don't know why it doesn't crash

stale mate
when do i jump out of the cake

there's a way to drive, i see it once in a while
i watch the tail-lights and memorize
i won't be too scared, i won't be too tired
i'm becoming hard-wired
feeling hazy, waking up inertia
i'm having dreams i'm in the wrong picture
am i older than you thought
did you get less than you bought

dan you wanna roast it dan
we're gonna kick it in the head if we can
me i'm just, me i'm just, i never got to read the plan
dan you wanna roast it dan
you know i never know the right way around
i need a map to get us out of this town

now your hand is flashing danger
i'm underdressed and you're getting stranger
i can't tell you i'm incomplete
you're gonna step on me

to moonn6pence from shootingstar




why do i worry, what do they think?
what is she saying to them?
i can't ignore anything.
you're eating up my world like my every second was haunted.
were you just like this since you were a girl, cause it's all i've ever wanted.

i'm just like you, peel away the layers two by two.
you're just like me, piling on the pressure three by three.
we're almost done shutting out the voices one by one.

why do i worry, what do they think?
what is she telling her friends? i can't ignore anything.
i'm planning out my moves like my every second was graded.
i'm obsessed, i get no rest.

don't push me cause i'll fall in love
with whatever you just said
don't push me cause i'll fall in love
with the way you wear your head

CHORUS:
out in the corner
you're glowing white. (X2)

i want to want you
i need to need you
i'd love to love you
i want to want you
i need to need you
i'm begging to beg you

CHORUS:
out in the corner
you're glowing white. (X2)

i'd like to say good-bye
to a complicated mind
but when i walk and wave
i'm stalked all day
by california lives
and things i didn't try
ways you were unkind
and the strangest colored eyes

CHORUS:
out in the corner
you're glowing white. (X2)

Movies like zoos
Try another me and I will
Try another you
Or put my arms around you
Like I think you want me to
But tell me what you're thinking
I so often misconstrue

Treading water
Treading white wine
Seeing borders seeing straight lines
I get these feelings that I don't have much time
Always rushing always late (x2)

Movies like zoos

I talk to missionaries when they're standing at my door
They tell me what I should be reading I still can't see what for
We both stand there politely trying to change each other's core

When other angels float by
They seem likely to fall from the sky
What I want is difficult I must try
I see traces when you walk

Other voices when you talk
When you talk

When other angels float by
They seem likely to fall from the sky
What I want is difficult I must try
I see traces when you walk

Treading water
Treading white wine
Seeing borders seeing straight lines
I get these feelings that I don't have much time

Always rushing always late (x2)
always late (x2)
I'm always rushing
always late (x4)
I'm always rushing (x2)
always late

i can see
the things she does for me
i'm living in a treehouse

i live in constant fear
awakening must be near
i'm sleeping in a dreamhouse

a tine in the fork in the road
is pointing to heaven
but the sky is old
a tine in the fork in the road
is pointing at nothing
cos it's all been sold

i live with you
to die in a jamais vu
i love you
but this isn't true

to moonn6pence from shootingstar






why do i feel bad again?
i shouldn't be sad or miss a grin.
doubt creeps in and doubt creeps out,
skews the view from my cloud.

troublemaker tempting fate,
questioning the path i take,
showing me the twists and turns,
the forks and points of no return.

i would hold my breath so long
to wash ashore where i belong.

broken roses on the steps,
like promises i never kept.
promises i never made
but could have honored anyway.
tied to years, slave to fears,
i will always hold you dear.
tired, troubled but sincere,
wishing... f**k the rime.
wishing i had a time
to wish you mine.

every day i choose to spend the rest of my life with her
and every day i break the molds of lives and worlds.
i already miss the things that i will never know.
i will never know the things that i've already missed.

Outside just killing time and making noise
And outside the daylight comes, the daylight goes and weightless
If its weightless it makes no stairways to stairs that go nowhere
and don't dream, that is a dream it is what it seems

Climbing from over stimulated states to hearing
Cold radio and licenses plates but don't dream,
That is a dream it is what it seems
That is a dream it is what it seems

Behind every desire is another one waiting to be liberated when the first ones sated

Water skiing, the waters hot, the waters soft
You act nice, a black birthday card I threw it away

Correct life, is like eating speed or flying a plane
It's too bright, it's too bright

Outside just killing time and making noise
And outside the daylight comes, the daylight goes and weightless
If its weightless it makes no stairways to stairs that go nowhere
Climbing from over stimulated states to hearing
Cold radio and licenses plates but don't dream,
That is a dream it is what it seems
That is a dream it is what it seems

Why do black hats hide behind each others backs all the time?
Behind every desire is another one waiting to be liberated when the first ones sated

I walk like you guide me, my eyes
Are shut like I'm blind
Turn to you and listening and tryin'
To be in your mind
There's a feeling that I get
When I look to the west
'Bout having all the answers
Still failing the test

Wolf packs and convoys and
Captains of men
Surprised in translation
World without end
Welcome back to real life
The picture is gone
Put a contract out on things that go on and on
How do you stay where
You most want to be?
Where'd you get the patience
Did it come easily?

ahhhhhh
ahhhhhh
ahhhhhh

On whose authority
I have none over me
On whose authority
There's none that I can see
On whose authority
I have none over me
On whose authority
No one speaks to me
On whose authority
I have none over me ...
ahhhhhhh

All the tales with paper heroes
The ones who dyed the sun
And called it yellow
The ones who made you run

On whose authority
I have none over me
On whose authority
There's none that I can see
On whose authority
I have none over me
On whose authority
None that' speaks to me
On whose authority
I have none over me ...
ahhhhhhh

i'm going from strange to stranger every year
i take it back you're panicking
i just don't know
i really thought i wanted to go
but when we're close
you look through me just like a ghost
i like sleeping
i'm only safe when i'm dreaming
i need a new heart
this one's hollow
always scheming

you wait for summer
and then you wait for winter
but there's a total lack of splendor

zen brain throw away your crushes
all your childhood crutches
super brain never scared of nothing
violence or loving my way
today