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Sometimes||Hail, Hail||Who You Are||In My Tree||Smile
Off He Goes||
Habit||Red Mosquito||Lukin||Present Tense
Mankind||I'm Open||Around the Bend
Seek my part, devote myself...
Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise.
Is there room for both of us? Both of us apart?
If you're the only one will I never be enough?
I swore I'd love you 'til the day I die...and beyond.
If you're the only one will I never be enough?
I sometimes realize I could only be as good as you'll let me.
Like I'm the only one in a race that can't be won.
Come to send, not condescend.
Trampled moss on your souls.
Take me for a ride before we leave...
Circumstance...clapping hands.
And a little...
Just a little time before we leave.
Stop light plays its part,
Up here in my tree newspapers matter not to me.
I wave to all my friends.
Up here so high I start to shake.
I remember when I swore I knew everything.
I'm so light the wind me shakes.
Up here so high the boughs they break.
1)
Sometimes
Large fingers pushing paint.
You're god and you've got big hands.
The colors blend. The challenges you give man.
My small self. Like a book amongst the many on a shelf.
Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't.
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live.
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel.
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all.
Sometimes I reach to myself, dear god.
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all we've got?
I get the words and then I get to thinking.
I don't want to think, I want to feel.
And how do I feel? How do I...
Hail hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rolling thick and heavy. All the past we carry.
I could be new. You underestimate me.
Hail hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand.
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love. Yeah.
If you're my only one...so good, you only one.
I want to be your one. Enough...you won...your one...your one.
Transcendental consequence is
To transcend where we are.
Who are we? Who we are.
Changes all...you're a part.
Seen it all, not at all.
Can't defend fucked up men.
A-driving winds...happenstance.
Off the track, in the mud,
Past the moss in the aforementioned verse.
So I would say you've got a part.
What's your part? Who you are.
You are who, who you are.
No more crowbars to my head.
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead.
They don't seem to notice me, no.
All their eyes upon the street.
Sidewalks, cigarettes...I've seen the tempted.
Up here so high the sky I scrape.
I'm so high I hold just one breath
Deep within my chest, just like innocence.
They say knowledge is a tree.
It's growing up just like me.
I'm so high the sky I scrape.
I'm so high I hold just one breath,
Go back to my nest...sleep with innocence.
Up here so high the sky I scrape.
And my eyes peeled, both wide open,
And I got a glimpse of my innocence.
Got back mine ever since. Still got it...still got it.
Don't it make you smile? [2x]
When the sun don't shine...it don't shine at all.
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile? Don't it make me smile?
When the sun don't shine...it don't shine at all.
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already. I miss you always.
I miss you already. I miss you all day.
This is how I feel.
I miss you already. I miss you always.
Three crooked hearts...swirls all around.
I miss you all day.
Don't it make you smile? [2x]
Three crooked hearts...swirls all around.
Don't it make you smile?
(One two...One two...)
Know a man. His face seemed pulled and tense.
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds.
So I approach with tact. Suggest that he should relax.
But he's always moving much too fast.
Said he'll see me on the flipside of this trip he's taking for a ride.
He's been taking too much on.
There he goes with his perfectly unkempt clothes...there he goes
He's yet to come back...but I've seen his picture.
It doesn't look the same up on the rack.
We go way back.
I wonder about his insides.
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size.
He's been taken where I don't know.
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope.
There he goes.
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned.
For he still smiles, and he's still strong.
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown.
And now he's home and we're laughing
Like we always did my same old, same old friend.
Until a quarter to ten...I saw the strain creep in.
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next.
Before his first step, he is off again.
See it happen to a couple of friends.
Seen it happen and the message it sends.
Taking off for what's an obvious fall,
Just to see what all the fuss is about.
It's not your way. Not your way. It's not your way.
Another habit says it's in love with you.
Another habit says it's long overdue.
Another habit like an unwanted friend.
I'm so happy with my righteous self.
It's not your way. Not your way. It's not your way.
Never thought you'd habit. [3x]
I never thought you...never thought you...
[2x]
Never thought you'd habit. [6x]
Speaking as a child of the 90's...
Never thought you'd habit. [3x]
I never thought you...never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit. [3x]
I never thought you'd...never, never thought you...
Never...
Never me. Never you. Never me.
(Try one...mighty fine.)
Watched from the window with a red mosquito.
I was not allowed to leave the room.
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up.
Somewhere in the time between...
I was bitten...must have been the devil.
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence...
Letting me know he's waiting.
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior.
While you're climbing up slippery hills...
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck.
Hovering just above your bed... [2x]
I was bitten...must have been the devil.
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence,
And letting me know he's waiting...
He's a-waiting...
If I had known then what I know now... [4x]
Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home.
I take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb.
I make a right after the arches...stinking grease and bone.
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog.
I'm gone to Lukin's. I've got a spot at Lukin's.
I knocked the door at Lukin's.
Open the fridge. Now I know life's worth.
I found the key but I return to find an open door.
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered by raping my son.
I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done.
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays...a lesson to be applied.
Are you getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets,
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive yourself.
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked your hands and studied the lines?
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way to
live.
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets,
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself.
Makes more sense to live in the present tense.
You'll be going out with radio...
Going out with disco...
Going out like bacchanal.
I'll be going out with telephone...
Going out alone to the radar zone.
It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine.
It's all across this nation.
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind,
What's got the whole world faking it?
I'll be playing with my magazine...
Using up my Listerine like Ovaltine.
And you'll be dipping in your battleship,
For the latest tip, for the latest dream.
It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine.
It's all across this nation.
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind,
What's got the whole world faking it?
If it's just inadvertent imitation, a pattern in all mankind,
What's got the whole world faking it?
What's got the whole world faking? [4x]
What's got the whole world faking it?
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door.
He waits, hoping for a presence, something, anything, to enter.
After spending half his life searching,
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stares.
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing...so is he?
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him.
By nine he had deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact.
No tradebacks.
So this is what it's like to be an adult.
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I'm open... [2x]
Come on in. [4x]
[2x]
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers he decides to
dream...
Dream up a new self...for himself.
I'm wishing you a well
Mind at peace within yourself.
Covers up I cast you off.
I'll be watching as you breathe.
I lie still, you move, I send
You off around the bend.
I hold your head deep in my arms.
My fingertips, they close your eyes.
Off you dream my little child.
There's a sun around the bend. [2x]
All evenings close like this.
All these moments that I've missed.
Please forgive me, won't you dear?
Please forgive and let me share
With you around the bend.
You're an angel when you sleep.
How I want your soul to keep,
On and on around the bend.
