Watch an eyeball

Take a free fall

At the mention of a name

In its socket

And like a rocket

Rises just the same

Could my eyelids

(could my eye)

Cover what I did

The shuttin of the door

And could these ceilings

Contain my feelings

Me down on the floor

Jerked my fountain

Ice cream mountains

I suppose I'm just too late

Form a line here

Think I'll die here

These people nauseate me

But if my patience

Were a spaceship

High up in orbit

I would rise here

Hypnotized here

Risen from where I sit

A solid angle

My legs do dangle

Off the counter's edge

Soft words spoken

Promises broken

I Close my eyes instead

But could my eyelids

Cover what I did

The shuttin' of the door

Could these ceilings

Contain my feelings

Me down on the floor

Me down on the floor

Me down on the floor

Me down on the floor

Waited for an answer

But I waited for twenty five years

They stopped my bleeding

But could never stop all these tears

I waited for the day when

You came out from beneath all that weight

I tried to lift it

But it seems I got there too

Late

Just to late

Just to late

Cause I'm allowed

Came to the party

But I got my own signals crossed

Thought I was welcome

But I felt like I should get lost

I know that I'm older

Cause I feel that everywhere

I could talk to no one

Cause I knew not one person

There

No one's there

They just stare

But they're allowed

As vivid as a car wreck

Watch them dripping off highway ramps

She came to me smiling

Her heart underneath both her hands

She spoke of a French boy

At least two times through the night

It could have been the liquor

Or the music but that is

All right

That's all right

She's allowed

I'm allowed

I'm allowed

I'm allowed

Seasons change and I have found you

Looks like you've been here a long time

Looks like you're here to stay

And I reason that that's O.K.

When though, when will you be leaving

Way up in the trees

Afloat on the seas

I can't afford your voice

But I have no choice

Your hurt drizzles forth twice nightly

And I once held on to you so tightly

You were made of wood

And cried 'cause no one understood

But I had splinters in my fingers

Tears well in my eyes

No surprise

Washed swiftly from the sands

Into my hands

Into my hands

Tree house, your mind is like a tree house

I climb up the shaky ladder

Your bird flies with you

With claws of orange hue

And I watch you flying over my head

You could not care less

So you got more

Like driftwood from the shore

You were rotten to the core

Rotten to the core

Yeah seasons change

Seasons change

Seasons change...

Would not be released

Could not be denied

I tried to say the words

But got tripped up inside

You can murder them with guns

Poison them with lye

You can take a person's life

But you can't squelch his pride

This city's not my own

This world is not my home

But I'll carry it on my back

As far as my feet will roam

I opened up my eyes

I offered up my coat

I opened up my mouth

But knots tied in my throat

And I will not be denied

Will not be denied

If not for innocence

My guilt would stop right here

Reliving all my life

In the span of just one year

My mouth's a hurricane

But something inside just died

I'd always just assumed

My evil would subside

Could I have been misled

Could you have misread

Please don't punish me

For things I have not said

The last's a lonely mile

I'll remember it for a while

You'll never speak to me

Unless it's to revile

But I will not be denied

Will not be denied

Will not be denied

Will not be denied

Denied

Denied

The newest clown

Cries an old type of tears

Watch them fall

There they lie

Crispy, ancient and they leak

Formaldahyde

Going

Going I'm gone

Go away

Going

His tears they sit

Crusty, rusted in a box

Inside a drawer

Grandpa's news

Fragile words are yellowed through

Forever more

Going

Going I'm gone

Go away

Going

Sadder than sad

She's feeling bad

Monkey's the one who laughs last

Hold me down

Cut me loose when

Nighttime falls

And lifts away

I'm a ball

Bouncing off of a brick wall

Into the day

I'm Going

Going I'm gone

Go away

Going I'm gone

Gone

I am gone I am gone

Go away

Going

I don't think you care - no, no, no

And I don't like the way you stare

I don't like that joke - no, no, no

And I don't wanna smell like smoke

I don't like that face - no, no, no

And I don't wanna walk your pace

But I don't like that cold

Far away look I'm told

But I don't think you'll find

Where you have lost your mind

But I don't think you know - oh

How much I loved to scold you

I can't make this change - no, no, no

It's you that I have to blame

Suppose I can't find your bones

Under this broken home

But I don't think you'll find

Where you have lost your mind

And I don't think you know - oh

How much I loved to hold you

But do you remember me

You're my responsibility

Much more than a host - oh

Much more than a friendly ghost

Do remember me

You're my responsibility

Much more than a host - oh

More than a friendly ghost

Do you remember me

You're my responsibility

Much more than a host - oh

More than a friendly ghost

She comes to me

In her prewashed bright blue jeans

Bag sewn tightly

Pursed lips are kissing me

Back up to college

Just a few miles down the road

And we remember

Something we've never been told

Come up on dry land

I've had too much to drink

I'm tired and need some sleep

Come September

Cold mornings open up

Make incisions

And cut egos will erupt

What did you find

Hidden in your mind's deep recess

When the going gets tough

You and I must take a rest

Come up on dry land

Your coming into your own

But hey that's not my fault

Come up on to this dry land

Won't you let me lend a hand

Come up on to this dry land

And when I surfaced

Mountains opened up like fish

Breathe through gills now

And I'm making one small wish

With heaven beside me

There is no one can do me harm

But the devil inside me

At least then I can stay warm

Come up on dry land

She understood her fate

You can't take stands too late

Come up on to this dry land

Won't you let me lend a hand

Come up on to this dry land

These things crawl across my floor

I can't use them anymore

There's a heaven in her band

Alleluias in my hand

All my patience love's inside

She just climbed the stage and died

Lights that rose and fell again

Songs that thinned out near the end

Oh, her voice trailed off in the end

Though your miles are more than mine

The things I've taken in a bind

It's for certain it's for sure

I've no use for them no more

Making room within one's self

For another's songs to help

And it all comes back to me

As I walk hungover down the street

Oh, and it all comes back to me

And it all comes back to me

And it all comes back to me

And it all comes back to me

As I walk hungover down the street

She's a mother in disguise

I look different in her skies

But it's morning so I say

Here's a big red letter day

Her skin's like whitewash like skim milk

Her words sing softly just like silk

There are some things I've got to say

She won't understand anyway

There are miles between our hearts

There's salvation in false starts

I'm forsaken in the end

I'm forsaken in the end

I'm forsaken in the end

I'm forsaken in the end...

I close my door at night

But they get in all right

And she turns on the light

I held her hands so tight

'Cause words don't come out right

And she sees things at night

Me, I'm closer to the door

I don't get scared no more

But I don't know the score

If I could hold them in my hand

I'd make them understand

I'm not a haunted mind

I'm not a thoughtless kind

If I could put them in a jar

I know they wouldn't scar

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I close my door at night

But she gets in all right

So I turn on the light

I held her hand too tight

Too hard to make it right

So I could sleep at night

If I could hold them in my hand

I'd make them understand

I'm not a haunted mind

I'm not a thoughtless kind

If I could put them in a jar

I know they wouldn't scar

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I'd do it if I could

I hope you know I would

I suppose you've lost your patience

I'm just too gone to call

Squint my eyes forget the reason

But now it don't look so bad at all

Suppose you left home in the morning

And travelled on a train all day

Passing nighttime by a greenhouse

You'd still be a long way

Suppose

Suppose you're too far gone

Suppose

Suppose

Looking out from in the basement

I watched her walking by outside

She's the bastard child of reason

I lost my breath along the ride

Suppose

Suppose you're basement bound

Suppose

Suppose

I love the world and all it's problems

The pipes run from north to south

Lots of small and dusty reasons

Rehearse my part and venture out

Suppose

Suppose you can't care less

Suppose

Suppose

Suppose

Suppose

Suppose

Anything That Way

The moon was full your whisky sour

Oh girl there's no need to be so dour

Cause when you walk with me in the beginning of the day

You see, I don't need anything that way

I'm wishing things could be the same

When things got broken you came

My moods were always changing they were blue then brown then grey

You see, I don't need anything that way

You see, I don't need anything that way

I'm fighting tooth and nail

Against these demons in my head

And no matter where I'm sleeping

My history's right there in bed

When things blew open you flew in

And I was caught red-handed once again

Was I really robbing you of the best days of your life?

I'm sorry I never meant anything that way

The mailman came this way today

He said "No sir, I've got nothing for you today"

Went outside in the morning time but I got lost along the way

You see, I don't need anything that way

No no I don't need anything that way

Oh no I don't need anything that way

I don't need anything that way, that way

I don't need anything that way