(1995)
Track Listing

Your Little Secret 
I Really Like You 
Nowhere To Go 
An Unusual Kiss 
I Want to Come Over 
All The Way to Heaven 
I Could Have Been You 
Shriner's Park 
Change 
This War Is Over

I know what you're thinkin' baby
I used to be just like you
you move when she's not lookin' baby
one sugar ain't enough for you

you, you're takin' out your loans
you're burying your bones
before your cover's blown
you better take it home

CHORUS: I like the way you look
I know you like me
but one and one and one
baby makes three
stop playing those eyes
if you want me to keep
your little secret, little secret, little secret, yeah

tell it softly to me baby
you never meant no one no harm
your wonderland's a mirror baby
it's swiftly fading like your charm

you, you're stepping out of line
you're spilling all the wine
leave it on the vine
I can't give you mine

CHORUS

I could I won't
I can't I don't
you make it hard
talk down my guard
my senses soaked
my ego's choked
I will not lie
will not lie

CHORUS

I'll buy you mangoes baby
your favorite fruit
I'll shave everything baby
I'll press my suit
I'll find that song by Perry Como you like to sing
I'll eat your tv dinners
and wear you cigar ring
do you think that I can persuade
don't make me fade because

CHORUS:

I really like you baby
I want to see you baby
I really like you baby
I want to be you baby

I'll gladly make you
my first tattoo
you and me forever
in red and black and blue
I'll let you drive my car
I'll even paint my eyes
forget about all my friends
and tell outrageous lies
do you think I can persuade
don't make me fade because

CHORUS

CHORUS (fades out)

CHORUS

I know a place
down past an old shack
on a road that goes to nowhere
ain't nobody coming back
we can go there tonight
we can talk until dawn
or maybe something else
I'll leave the radio on

CHORUS:

there's no one to hear
you might as well scream
they never woke up
from the American dream
and they don't understand
what they don't see
and they look through you
and they look past me
oh you and I dancing slow
and we got nowhere to go

past the wal-mart and the prison
down by the old va
just my jeans and my t-shirt
and my blue Chevrolet
its Saturday night
feels like everything's wrong
I've got some strawberry wine
I want to get you alone

CHORUS

down by the muddy water
of the mighty mo
in an old abandoned box car
will I ever know
dance with me forever
this moment is divine
I'm so close to heaven
this hell is not mine
this hell is not mine

CHORUS

it's 1:25 a.m. I think I've seen that look somewhere before
1:25 a.m. I thought you were headed for the door
then something touched my skin
I wont ask you to leave here any more

was it talk or the drink or the dance that led to this
was I so naive presuming the innocence
well its 1:54 and it's such an unusual kiss
CHORUS:
come on come on come on
over and over
come on come on come on
we all wanted this
come on come on come on
over and over
its such an unusual kiss

the smell the taste the touch is so brand new
the thrill of the eyes that capture this forbidden view
its 2:45 and you'll have some explaining to do

it's 3:17 a.m. please let me into you eyes
it's 4:23 I try to hold on as you rise
I'll give you all that I have if that's what you want me to try

CHORUS

its 5:26 a.m. I've got nothing left that I can say
5:26 a.m. black and white has melted into gray
my baby draws the shades as the taxi pulls away

CHORUS

I know you're home
you left your light on
you know I'm here
the night is thin
I know your alone
I watched the car leave
your lover is gone
let me in

CHORUS:

open your back door
I just need to touch you once more

I want to come over
to hell with the consequence
you told me you love me
that's all I believe
I want to come over
it's a need I can't explain
to see you again
I want to come over

I know your friend
you told her about me
she filled you with fear
some kind of sin
how can you turn
denying the fire
lover I burn
let me in

CHORUS

I know you're confused
I know that your shaken
you think we'll be lost
once we begin
I know your weak
I know that you want me
lover don't speak
let me in

CHORUS

I want to find me a car
with only one headlight
a straight six ford
on a good luck night
I want to roll down the windows
and teach you to fly
I want to give you a thrill
the kind you can't buy
I want to lose all your demons and go
I want to tear off your chains cause I know

CHORUS:

all the way to heaven is heaven
caught between the spirit and the dust
all the way to heaven is heaven
deep inside of us

I want to find me a bar
with a blue light on
dollar shot specials
a bar tender named dawn
painting the town
selling the farm
you pierce your nose
and I'll tattoo my arm
I want to lose all your demons and go
I want to tear off your chains cause I know

CHORUS

I want to find me a carnival
outside of town
a tilt-a-whirl set up
with a merry-go-round
cotton candy fingers
and a snow cone mouth
I want to roll you in sawdust
till they run us both out
all the way to heaven
all the way

take a look at the sky
sometimes your heaven seems so far away
take a look under here
where deprivation turns into decay
I've stood under this rain
felt it seep into my brain
I've shut my eyes and crawled around this mud
I'm scared of growing old
I shiver when I'm cold
don't you think I bleed the same blood

CHORUS:

I, I could have been you
you could have been me
one small change that shapes your destiny
if you want the proof
cut me an you'll see
I could have been you
you could have been me

wait wait before you turn off
maybe there's a chance we can relate
wait everybody turns on
why deny a fact that's so innate
its not so easy anymore
they way you used to keep score
not so black and white the color of your sin
take a walk inside my shoes
a path I didn't choose
spend the night inside of my skin

CHORUS

change is turning into fear
fear is melting into hate
with hate you justify you crime
a crime compassion can erase
erase erase

touch touch what I feel
and know I believe everything I say
so go go if you must
remember one thing as you walk away

CHORUS

I wonder what your doing
in the night out there
is a sad summer breath tangled in your hair
can you hear the lonely engines
screaming through the town
there's no where to run
when the darkness comes down

is there a song inside of you
that you tried to forget
like your fake id and your mom's cigarettes
does it take you back
is the vision intense
you and me in shriners park
trying to make some sense

you were just seventeen
but your laughter was mild
you liked my dreams you thought I was wild
is there a rhythm in your step now
that reminds you of a dance
do you push it all away
cause you never took the chance

you'd sneak out your window
when I'd come for you
id be waiting in the street light on 8th Avenue
you'd slip into my car
we'd drive down past the fence
you and me in shriner's park
trying to make some sense

did you feel like you were crazy
when they sent you far away
did no one have the answers
when you hung your head to pray
you could not let yourself dream
never dare believe
you could ever be more
than you were born to be

do you lock up you house
like you locked up your past
if I were to call
could you free me at last
could you slip into my car
could we drive down past the fence
you and me in shriner's park
trying to make some sense

you woke me up at 3:00 a.m.
to tell me about the fire
you said that she was more than a friend
you were consumed by your desire

CHORUS:

and so it goes
this too shall pass away
it cuts so strange
the only thing that stays the same
is change

your love was here but now its gone and your eyes no longer want me and now I can't hold back the dawn and the truth that seems to haunt me

CHORUS

the only thing that stays the same is change

the only thing that stays the same is change

I'm not so sure where I have been
I don't know just where I'm going
hard as I hold it in my hand
I can't stop this wind from blowing
and so it goes
this too shall pass away
it cuts so strange
roll me away
it cuts so strange
the only thing that stays the same
is change

take off my shield
carry my sword
I won't need it anymore
find my a sky
give me my wings
frozen and broken but free

CHORUS:

tell them I'm all right
I'm coming home
tell them I'm all right
I am alone
this was is over
I'm coming home

take off my shame
bury it low
I won't need it anymore
find me the sun
give me it whole
melt all the chains in my soul

CHORUS

take off my pain
carry me slow
I won't fight here anymore

CHORUS

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