Paul is making me nervous
Paul is making me scared
Walk into this room and swaggers like God's own messenger
Change the name of my brother
Change the things that he said
Says that he speaks to him
But he never even knew the man
I'd give my life for him
Like water through my hands
You'd give him any ending
But if he's all you say
Would he fly from heaven
To this world again
To this world again
Take whatever you're needing
Take whatever you can
We are broken from within
Run to another land
Like water through my hands
Or is it just beginning
But if he's all you say
Would he fly from heaven
To this world again
To this world again
They took my brother
They ripped him from me
To twist his words as they did his body
Denied his family
Denied his beauty
To lay him down at the feet
Of those he couldn't save
Couldn't save, couldn't save
Will it be the end
Or is he still ascending
But if he's all you say
Would he fly from heaven
To this world again
Into this world again
Say what you need
I kick you down
No I'm fine
And don't you hang around
And I find myself
Here in another home
Where everything moves
So slow, so tires
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Take the longest day
Throw it all away
I can't stand it
But I can't do anything
Every day's the same
Nothing ever change
I can't stand it
But I can't do anything
You should know by now
We're all liars
Take me where you go
Only higher
(Chorus)
Anything you want, anything you want, anything...
(Chorus)
Here in another home
Where everything moves
So slow
So tired
Another day I call and never speak
And you would say nothing's changed at all
I can't feel much hope for anything
If I won't be there to catch you if you fall
Again (again we fail)
It seems we meet (meet and mend)
In the spaces (spaces safe)
In between (between intent)
We always say (say too much)
It won't be long (long been gone)
But something's always wrong
Another game of putting things aside
As if we'll come back to them some time
A brace of hope, a pride of innocence
And you would say something has gone wrong
Again (we fail)
It seems we meet (make amends)
In the spaces (wend our way/spaces safe)
In between (between each end)
We always say (looking back/say too much)
It won't be long (moving on/long been gone)
But something's always wrong
Four times he came by
I did not look
Talked about the reservoir
His thumbs were hooked
On his carpenter's belt
As he squinted in the sun
Smiled wide many times
Think I smiled back one
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And it's frightening
Oh, I didn't expect that from you
It's blinding
Serious are you seriously
I am feeling really stupid now
Last time on the fly
Work had all been done
Sanding down the ceiling
So it ends up in the rug
We were waiting in the bathroom
'Till he finished up
One short "hi" and no goodbye
She says she knew him once
(Chorus) (2x)
Been waiting to find
You could've been happier given the time
If he'd make up his mind
You'd give yourself to anybody
Who would cross that line
Chorus:
And it was never a question
He was (you were) crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Get over regret
While you were sleeping with the angels
He was under the bed
And the more skin you shed
The more the air in your throat would linger
When you call him your friend
(Chorus)
Staring at a cold little hand
Reading fault lines of a smell of a man
You were waiting for a word from above
Wouldn't you know it, no answer ever did come
(Chorus)
Well I wonder
Do we learn
Seems we're making
The same wrong turn
Call you sacred
Call you obscene
Call you faithless
Call you anything
Call and you listen
Listen
Listen
Listen
Caught in headllines
We are frozen, cannot hide
There's no break
No time
If you can, I might listen
Call and you listen
Listen
Listen
Listen
I spend too much time raiding windmills
We go side by side, laughing until it's right
Take the darkest hour, break it open
Water to repair what we have broken
Chorus:
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
And anyway the wind blows
All worth waiting for
Pull on the borders to lighten the load
Tell all the passengers we're going home
I spend too much time seeking shelter
World without end, couldn't hold her
(Chorus)
I Can't believe you
You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons
Not quite safe here
When every judgement
Are you ok?
I'm just fine
You take Nanci
For me Loretta's fine
A legal precedent
Could set us straight
But no one's brought up suit
And I'm assuming
That if they did the point would still be mute
Are you joking?
No I'm just fine
You take Nanci
For me Loretta's fine
No, I've changed my mind
I'll take Nanci
For you Loretta's fine
And still we walk without quite seeing things
And I'll admit there's not that much to see
And I will follow through
And expect that you will follow suit
She said "I'm fine, I'm okay"
Cover up your trembling hands
There's indecision when you
Know you ain't got nothing left
When the good times never stay
And the cheap thrills always seem to fade away
When will we fall down?
Chorus:
Jump back, got to get out of here
Been too long this time
Jump back, got to get out of here
When will we fall down?
She hates her life
She hates her skin
She even hates her friends
Tries to hold on to all the reputaions she can't mend
And there's some chance that we could fail
But the last time someone was always there for bail
When will we fall down?
(Chorus)
For the last time conscience calls
For a good friend I was never there at all
When will we fall down?
Free my heart to feel again
Are you given vision
I thought I'd be all right today
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Free my mind to understand
To run unfettered
Pull the blinders from my eyes
Let me see these endless skies
And drown here where I stand
In the beauty of the land
And all my life
It lay inside
For all my life
Tear this anger from my soul
Wash me clean and leave me whole
Leave me higher
Work my hands to make them strong
Lift my arms to carry on
That anywhere I go
To never be alone
And all my life
It lay inside
We were always leaving
Since we started breathing
And running back no wonder
We are torn asunder
To give me life
To give me life
Begin
Are you second sight
Are you older than your life
Eighty days of sorrow
Still you child burn bright
And you see me crying again
And you hold out your little hand
Lead me shaking to his room
I thought I'd never see again
Close the door behind you
Turning out the light
Press a flashlight up against the wall
You say "This is how we knew him
In a little egg
It opened up and this is daddy now"
Now you're stepping back towards me
'Till the room is bathing in light
And the answer there before me
There's no ending when we die
Are you sleeping here beside me
Are you shining bright as the sky
Are you breathing now inside me
There's no ending when we die
Reincarnation Song
I thought I'd be alive today
Give me your eyes, and I'll show you things
You never dreamed you thought you'd see
I find myself in a light I'd seen
In sleep sometimes or mescaline
And like the sun you can't stare into
For very long, without it blinding you
I thought this light would be easy
But there's there's a tugging at my sleeve
And too much baggage I brought with me to leave
Something so big, I can't understand
From trying to, I would go mad
So I hurry back to little earth
For another life, another birth
Another life, another birth...
Mother?
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