1. Song For Eric (Tori Amos)

I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes
See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
"Oh fair maiden I see you standing there"
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me

c. 1992 WEA International

2. Space-Dye Vest

Falling through pages of Martens on angels
Feeling my heart pull West
I saw the future dressed as a stranger love in a space-dye vest.
Love is an act of blood, I'm bleeding
Pool in the shape of a heart.

Beauty projection in the reflection
Always the worst way to start.
Now we're apart I'm trying to take it
Learning to swallow the rage.
Found a new girl I think we can make it
As long as she stays on a page.
This is not how I want it to end.
And I'll never be open again.

There's no one to take my blame
If they wanted to
There's nothing to keep me sane
And it's all the same to you.
here's nowhere to set my aim
So I'm everywhere.
Never come near me again.
Do you really think I need you?

I'll never be open, I could never be open again.
I'll never be open, I could never be open again.
And I smile and I learn to pretend,
But I'll never be open again.
And I'll have no more dreams to defend.
And I'll never be open again.

3. Blanket (I Buried Me Wife And I Dance On Top Of Her)

Memory save me I'm fuckin up.
Constantly laid on the ground. Looking for signs on the ceiling
(she wants me to know she wants me around).
Think I was moving to something.
Thought I was sailing along. Had to be sailing for someplace
(thought I was right, but I must have been wrong).
You do make a beautiful blinder, you hide things I don't want to see.
Your arms cover me like a blanket and maybe it's all that I need.
Memory save me I'm trippin up.
Picking up bones from the ground.
Throw me a chain and I'll climb it up (thought I was up, but I
guess I was down).
You look like a dream I was dreaming, a dream of a boy by the sea.
You must have eyes just like mirrors, 'cause I thought I was
looking at me.
Close your eyes, think of the Best Thing To Say.
I am pathetically lost and maybe you made me this way.
Memory save me I'm fuckin up.
The sun's just a spot on the sea.
I know I was reaching for something (thought it was you, but I
guess it was me).
And the world is a wonderful target, she was a wonderful world,
but God is a girl who won't listen.
She was an insolent girl.
Close your eyes and see what you're doing to me?
She catches my eye with a cynical smile and says, "I Cannot Solve All I See".
I had a dream (dreams would fill my head, but I let 'em all slide, american - style, for the blanket that lays on my bed I wait all
day for my sailor and sometimes he comes were you surprised
that he died trying to look for other people nohe was he was the
type of person who would definitely go looking for the people) I
wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting.
I laid on the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading.
I wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only found myself waiting.
I laid on the floor, You walked through the door and now I feel myself fading.
Now I feel myself fading. I jumped on a meaningful wave that carried me right to the shoreline.
I laughed when my face hit the sand and swam out again for
the joyride.
I told you the things that I want and you gave me just what I needed.
It's just like my father would want, but I couldn't smile when he did.
I boarded the windows and doors and took the clock down from the ceiling.
But I kept my head to the floor, 'cause I had a confident feeling.
Somebody called me today, I answered the door kind of hazy.
He told me to leave all my clothes, he told me to tell you you're crazy.
I followed him out to the street, he pointed and quickly departed.
And left me to travel for weeks, till I get to the place where I started.
And I just want to be where I started,
I just want to get back where I started,
and I just want to be where I started,
and I just want to get back where I started.

4. Hollow

For the last time give me ten cents or a dime and I'll kick the resurrection off today.
In the first place get that book out of my face, man, he never tried to call me anyway.
Now hanging out with prophets ain't no crime, but I never search for nothing I can't find.
Jesus had his own life, I got mine.
Just call me hollow.
You can call me hollow.
I was no place when I saw a pretty face and she nearly saved my soul before she died.
It's a damn shame 'cause I almost got her name, but I'm glad to say I made it home alive.
Now holding hands with Mary ain't no crime, but dressing up like Santa's not far behind.
Tell me about your body, fuck your mind.
Just call me hollow.
You can call me hollow.
(If you crash and you fall you can call on Me.
I'm the one you can trust, but you'll never be. It's a choice like this song and it's all on you,
if you're right then I'm wrong, what you gonna do?)
I've been thinking take up drinking throw a few bad years away, keep redialing and wake
up smiling maybe he'll be in today.
Gimme that ol' time religion.
Yeah.
Gimme that ol' time religion.
Yeah.
For the last time give me ten cents or a dime and I'll kick the crucifixion off today.
In the first place get that shit out of my face, it'll only make me happy anyway.
Acid always gets me so deranged.
Puts all but one station out of range and I never watch a channel I can't change.
Just call me hollow.
You can call me hollow.
Gimme that ol' time religion.
Gimme that ol' time religion.

5. Roll Away The Stone

Wake up, darling, don't you hear the phone?
No one's gonna make you go alone.
She don't know what's happening, she don't know what's happening.
Everything you dreamt about tonight is gonna help you get through this alright.
She don't know what's happening, she don't know what's happening.
The angels in your head went kind of cold on you last night.
How are you supposed to make it right?
Roll away the stone.
Life calling, night falling, I'm already gone.
Wake up, darling, and roll away the stone.
Watch me float out from the sea.
Moon is you and you are me.
This is all you need to know.
Something passes let it go.
Life calling, night falling I'm already gone.
Wake up, darling, and roll away the stone.
Life calling, night falling, I'm already gone.
Just wake up, darling, and roll away the stone.

6. Shallow

Well I won't hold my breath, been in too long I guess.
Only time will tell.
I can't stand here waiting.
Give me a simple dream, once across a shallow stream.
All in the name of change.
But I can't stand here waiting.
Innocent descent at last, represent my hollow past, underneath and falling fast.
I can't stand here waiting.
It's all in our own souls.
I'm way off mark I know.
Release, it leads to fall.
'Cause I can't stand here waiting.
All my dreams were lost and found.
Set them up and knock 'em down.
She's gone two thousand years.
I can't stand here waiting.
Innocent descent at last (I won't save my breath), represent my hollow past (I won't hold
my breath), underneath and falling fast (I won't hold my....).
I can't stand here waiting.

7. Nora

DEAR NORA: could this be the one I followed?
Could this be the one I've given faith? I know I know I know you care (I know I know I know you care).
All at once a star is frozen, all at once my memory fades away but. . . I know I know I know you care
(I know I know I know you are).
But peace falling into my life, why won't you follow?
Words falling into my way, what do I say?
Gave you all a man could borrow and all the time you've hidden this away.
I know I know I know you care (I know I know I know you care).
Faith falling out of my life, faith, did you fuck him?
Love moving out of my way, why should I stay?
Words from the mouth of my friend and I had to believe him.
When we talked about the things you used to say every second day.
Words take ahold of my memory and history changes.
And if I could just forget it all tonight, that would be alright.
Years falling out of my life, why don't you follow?
Love falling out of the way, why should I stay?
Words falling into my life, what should I write?
JIM P.S. I know I know I know you care.

8. Even The Waves

Me and Judas lost at sea under electric twilight fading.
I look at him, he sees through me forty days and we're still waiting.
I'm not dying but I think I'll lay back anyway.
No welcome, but I think I'll stay.
Me and Jonas lost at sea deep inside the dream we're dreaming.
Heading west will wait for me sun goes down and we're still sailing.
I'm not nervous but I think I'll look back anyway.
Not helpless, but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.
Keep heading west, that's the best, may be lost but I'm not crazy.
Stay where you are, not too far, keep it up you're doing fine.
Well I thought I was fine.
Me and Joseph lost at sea under rain and slowly waking.
He looks around and smiles at me forty-one and we're still waiting.
I'm not tired but I think I'll lay back anyway. I'm not hopeless, but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.

c. 1994, 1995 K. Moore