The Songs Of Two Month August
One Planet At A Time
1. All The Things You Want
I could never be all the things you want me to be.
Something I can never have.
So I'll just sit here all alone and laugh.
What is happening to me?
Falling down and climbing up, It's starting all again.
Why? It must be this way.
Living, loving, it goes on with nothing left to say.
You were not there very far.
You said you'd drive, but you've got no car.
Cuz in my eyes you are a star.
But you know I'll never be all the things you want me to.
Hostage in a world
Where he would die just anyway to save his precious pearl.
Things are in your hands.
People tell me lots of things, but you are in command.
2. Too Late
My mind is never open,
My heart is black and blue,
And all my hate comes thanks to you.
You make me hide myself away,
Deep underneath my skin,
I'll beat myself up for a while.
I am a sympathetic,
Feel sorry for myself,
It's deeply rooted and absorbed.
You hold me, pull me under,
I'm scared and overwhelmed,
Why do you make me so afraid?
I wanna cry, but I'm just too cool for that.
I wanna die, but you know I'm not that lucky.
I wanna smile, but it's weak and insincere.
I wanna live, but you just won't let me.
When all the music's over,
You are still screaming out,
My mind is just ignoring you.
My lies are self-destructive,
You want to light my fuse,
I'm gonna blow up in your face.
Now I've got to think, but I can't see.
I'm going away, never looking back.
If I could think then I might turn my life around,
But it's too late, It's too late...
3. Hit Parade
The lights go out on this hit parade.
With nothing to do that is how we're made.
It's been a long week and we need to get back,
To blowin' out candles cuz that is what we lack.
You see the rock stars on stage and on TV.
With any luck one day that will be me.
Write what I know but still I rake my brain.
And when I'm hurt sometimes it eases the pain.
It'll take just one hit to get to where we're going.
It'll take just one hit to save the day.
It'll take just one hit, then you and all your misery can go away.
Close the windows and lock, lock the doors.
I know it's a lot but there could be more.
All the heat makes me sweat but we can't stop now.
Cause you never know when we'll make it through somehow.
Every time I turn around I see you staring back at me.
Don't have time to argue sweet heart,
We've got somewhere to be.
The lights go out on this hit parade.
With nothing to do that is how we're made.
Write what I know but still I rake my brain.
And when I'm hurt sometimes it eases the pain.
It'll take just one hit to get to where we're going.
It'll take just one hit to save the day.
It'll take just one hit, then you and all your misery
Yeah you and all your misery
I said you and all your misery can go away.
4. Never Looking Back
The winter was so cold to me
I wasted Christmas on a tree,
And then the Springtime came around,
But still I was so lonely.
I remember all the nights,
That I cried myself to sleep.
But then you changed my life,
And now you're here with me.
How could I have been so blind?
When your love could never find,
Its way into my heart.
The loneliness I'd learned to live with,
May have been my only friend,
But now I'm Never Looking Back.
You changed my life so quickly,
I changed my mind so fast.
We changed for the better,
We can forget the past.
When we're alone I can't believe,
That everything is the way it is.
I'm happy with myself,
I'm blind behind my bliss.
The sun is gone beneath the sea,
And I wish I was there with you.
This love is oh so new to me,
I can't believe it's true.
I've searched for happiness and I've found,
That love and music is the way.
It's the only way I know.
5. Strawberry Passion Cigarettes (Instrumental)
6. May 5th
I'm drinking in the sounds as I take a look around me,
In a paradise out this world I seem to have found myself,
And by myself, It's a great thing to be feeling loneliness,
Alone, although I feel so absurd.
And now it seems so strange as I see not any movement,
And the colors swirl in the sky and turn me upside down.
And it seems just so confusing and all tanked up.
So now I crawl away and realize that my hands are empty yet.
The stars in the sky will never fall down. (x3)
The stars in the sky.
At least I thought so until now.
I never felt it anyhow.
They said we had plenty of time.
But now it's May fifth, ninety-nine.
The evil flags fall down and the buildings are collapsing,
As the streets below me erode just like the LA coast.
The smelly habits of the poor are now nothing more,
Than a memory in the eyes of God.
The sweet melody rings out like a bad theme song,
Cuz I can't see any good in anything any more.
Because when darkness reigns, you know the sisters three,
Are gonna come and take my thread and yo just cut it for me.
You're slowly murdered underneath the skin.
Those self-seeking enterprises won't resist temptation.
Call names and recognize the one at fault is the one behind you're eyes.
You're slowly murdered.
7. You Don't Know
Don't know why I looked your way.
I know just what you'll say.
Cuz I've seen your kind before,
And I don't want it anymore.
I tried to leave you behind,
But I just can't deny,
That when you smile I get weak,
And it's you that I still seek.
I'm feelin' you, you're feelin' me.
When I close your eyes you're all that I see.
What we know is what we become.
You don't know me at all.
It's been years since I've seen you.
I guess change is what time will do.
You've been hangin' around I've heard,
Then you call but can't find the words.
Beautiful people leave me alone.
The notes, the letters, and the telephone.
Well, it hurts when I'm always the one on the outside.
You're the same mistake, I see it in your eyes.
Drifting on an aeroplane,
Stealing sleep from you again.
Hold me when I come to you,
Will you be there?
Beautiful people leave me alone.
The notes, the letters, and the telephone.
What we know is what we become.
You don't know me at all.
8. Somebody
When you told me you were leaving,
But then you gave no reasons,
Just said that I wasn't pleasing to you.
You were packing your suitcase,
Remember saying that I was too late,
You wouldn't be here come morning.
I need my hero to come rescue me.
Cause it's been raining for so long, I'm drowning you see.
The sky is falling down, but you're not around.
When I need somebody.
Tried to cope with a late night,
Don't remember how I got home all right,
You weren't at the door waiting for me.
As I stumble through the doorway,
Think about what I might say,
If you call later today, but I lost.
And I go drive around town, to get you off my mind,
But I end up in my room again all alone.
And then I scream out your name, hoping maybe you'll hear me,
But you never came back.
Everybody needs somebody.
We all need somebody.
9. Slowly Collides
How long can we stand here naked?
How long will we sit back and take it?
How long can we just smile and fake it?
How long before something will break it?
Will we waste our lives while we worry about what we could've done right?
Will we fade our disguise, never caring for what lies behind?
Will our hearts be denied as we play our games of wrong and right?
Will we cower and hide as our planet slowly collides with the stars?
How far will we let them take it?
How far will it take us to make it?
How many songs will we sing before we shake it?
How many dreams till we find out that it's wasted?
How long can we stand here wasted?
How long can we be apart and take it?
How long before we meet again and taste it?
How long is our love meant to make it?
10. Brake Lights
It's five to twelve and I can hear the laughter from the back of the
bus.
And soon I'm gonna duct tape them to the roof.
Suddenly you find a boarded up camper in the back of my mind.
The the lights flash blue, I said maybe we'll find the sign.
It's eleven miles to the Motel 6.
And the woman above calls,
Let the poor man sleep.
And I say there's a reason we sit in the back.
Here they call it the catering place when you lift your head.
But the brake lights were always on.
I said now I've turned them off.
And that unnecessary silence in elevators well it whispers to me:
Charles Manson, he was unique, and so are you.
And I whisper back, said soon sleep will come.
It's five after twelve and I can't hear the laughter from the back of
the bus.
You know you look pretty funny duct taped on top of the roof.
11. Release
These houses are so beautiful,
But I don't feel comfortable standing in them.
I feel a part of me is missing.
Perhaps I'll go retrieve it.
So I search and I search and I don't find anything worthwhile.
So I think and I dream and I try and attempt to force a smile.
The rain outside is wearing my patience thin.
And I try to ignore it, make it go away.
But it remains to remind me; sweetly cautions,
Don't lose your heart; without it, you're nothing.
So I bleed and I hurt myself, my emotions thrown away.
Then I stop and remind myself, there will be better days.
Release me, Fate.
12. The Holiday Song
She came to me at midnight, she locked all the doors.
I asked for my overcoat, she said, "You won't need that thing anymore."
She said, "I had a friend last night."
My blood ran cold, and I fell silent.
The words fell out, "I'm not a competitor."
And I turned to leave her there.
You are the knife that bleeds my wounds,
When I'm aching and dreaming of you.
Now you and me forever will be,
Chained to these words. Nothing will break us.
It's the holidays that make me feel this way.
He may be strong, she told me, "but his smell is not so wonderful."
Broken down car, hair in your eyes, I'd still take you.
Is it still special this way?
Because today, well, it's all that we've got.
I know you and me forever will be
Chained to these words. Nothing will break us.
Holidays
I'm drowning without you.
I haven't been breathing so long.
I can't stand to doubt you.
It seems I've been dead all along.
13. The Final Cry
Blood on the window, The shells crowd the floor.
The air is tainted, with every shot,
He moves closer to the door.
The body count rises: Now 7 total dead.
He turns the gun around, now 8, with a new hole in his head.
Is this justice, or just a fading memory?
He was a father with a life, a family.
He left it all behind, just like a refugee.
The pawn shop gave him two weeks, two weeks to make his plan.
Now with his gun, he'll make himself a man.
Here's you're justice, for all the world to see.
Gone away, yeah, He lost it today.
Would you forgive if it was your dad? I couldn't say.
Gone away, yeah, soon everyone will know,
That your father was a beast, and not a man at all.
No not a man at all.
The walls are white and padded, we don't know how to act.
I guess she just couldn't take it, with all the gray and black.
What about the kids? she said. "Their father went in vain."
Then maybe we should lie, and try to ease the pain.
But lying's not the only way to go.
A father killing from the grave, A perfect end to this fairy tale.
His only son was only 6, His head was down and oh so pale.
He took his daddy's gun, killed his sister and himself,
Now daddy's body count, an even ten...
14. Tiny Tim
Every day is Christmas for Tiny Tim. (x4)
Now in Spanish.
Todos los dias son Noeles para Timcito. (x4)
15. Be Here Tomorrow
I miss you and it's breakin' my heart to see you cry like that.
We've talked about it through the years, but now there's not all that
much left to say.
I'm scared of what tomorrow brings, you'll be gone too fast.
It's your smile that gives me strength when there's no where else to turn.
Be here tomorrow, that's my dream tonight.
Be here tomorrow, you're my only light.
If I could have just one wish and knew it would come true,
Be here tomorrow.
Sometimes we say things we don't mean, or mean things we don't say.
The night you left I fell in bed and cried myself to sleep.
You can't change what wasn't meant to be, but that don't mean I can't
try.
I'm not gonna beg, just walk alone staring at the sky.
Be here tomorrow, that's my dream tonight.
Be here tomorrow, you're my only light.
If I had just one wish and knew it would come true,
It would be for you, I'd give anything for you.
I'd give everything for you. Can't you see my heart is true.
If you walk out that door tonight, you'll never see me again as yours.
It's a promise I can make, but not a promise I can take. Can't take.
16. 19
If you could see inside my head,
I promise there'd be something that would kill you.
If you could speak before you died,
There'd be nothing you could say to make me love you.
And now I feel the same for you.
This makes the words I speak come true.
When things look down I'm turnin' green.
I hate you cuz I am 19.
Nineteen seventy-eight was when
I took a look around and said "This sucks."
Nineteen ninety-seven was when
I took my pen and pick and wrote this song.
Yesterday has in store much more.
Still today is the day we live for.
If tomorrow comes around,
Will you try to drive it back to the ground?
The times they are a-changin'.
17. Song For Catrina
There's never been one more beautiful than you.
It's never been this real with anyone before you.
There's no paper large enough to hold infinity.
But when I hold you in my arms, I think that maybe you could be,
Everything I've ever dreamed of, and 10,000 times more.
You fill my heart with love and my mind with images of you.
There's never been a time when I have felt so lucky.
How could it be so warm in such a lonely place as my heart?
And so the candles burn in memory as roses fade away.
But in the end we find that candles are just wax that we throw away.
And so the kind will take their failures in stride and turn their heads,
But not our kind, we are the only two in the world.
18. Burn My Eyes
Dagger, dagger in my hand,
Take me from this hateful land.
The poison on his lips won't take me away,
Like passion could when we would seize the day.
Tear a wound in me, it's all that I can do.
To ease the burning anguish of my soul.
We had come so far, the evidence was shining through.
The heavens burn my eyes.
Liar, liar in my head.
When I am more alive if I am dead.
Candles burning in my brains,
Now I'll die in my own grave.
The blackness covers me,
I see that I am blind, the city must surrender.
It was born in you, you brought me into this,
But now I take my own way out.
All the clouds are floating past me once again.
I'm on my way to see my God, my friend.
It is decided that I'll have my place,
Next to the one that I died for.
Burn my eyes with tears,
Bleeding from the heart,
Death is just a door.
19. On The Corner
I see the dreams behind your eyes.
Just one more reason I'm alive.
The holes you filled were dark and wide,
But now I've let you come inside.
Don't give up on broken dreams.
Things aren't always how they seem.
Just when I think that I am on my own,
There you are standing on the corner street.
Well I was grounded for some time.
I had forgotten how to fly.
But now you've helped me spread my wings.
And now we fly o'er everything.
I know what's right for me, I know what's right here.
But in the summertime, it comes back around, back around,
And it stays with me.
Just when I think that I am on my own,
There you are standing on the corner street.
Non-Album Tracks
1. Pills
I realize that one day I'm gonna grow out of this,
A stranger at home, a stranger when I'm alone.
And if you're still standing, please drop by and stay a while,
I think I can find a deck of cards if you can find me the queen of hearts.
But you know I'm happy now,
Now that I can't feel how could I ever be sad.
All my pills are just lying around,
What if I take them all today?
Your message is so clear, put brackets around my heart,
You know I can't shake it off, so I'll hide what I found in your chest
of drawers
Cuz it scared me, I don't like to think about it.
My mind wanders still, I don't know if I should take my pills.
It would be so easy just to turn around and close my eyes to you.
Disregard the tears we've spent and years we've died,
Words that I wrote down for you.
2. Eyes
In the beginning; perplexion. A man on stage, and a girl who cared.
Something began, he thought upon reflection, and was stored away and never
shared.
Impossibility would not allow him to forget; at night he dreamed of her.
She climbed into his skin beyond the surface, and his longing was forever
ignored.
“In her eyes I thought I saw a picture of myself in younger days.
And I can’t find deep down inside the simple reason why she couldn't’t
stay.”
Revolutionary girl, just out of reach staring down with liquid eyes the
dreams he holds dear.
Sometimes giving but always distant, Sadness flies to me with resurrections
wings.
Her cotton candy smiles and never dealing with regret, For things that
never were.
Smoke in a crowded room and the image of me walking out, I’m free
from questioning myself.
In my eyes I thought I saw a picture of that girl in younger days.
And I can’t find deep down inside, an understanding for the element
of change.
3. Only Friend
She lived in fear of every day.
She pretended and she feigned relief.
She says "no, I can't live this life anymore,"
And poured her coke up in his face.
And then she was all alone again.
She was kind and she was never bad.
But no one cried, no, no one was sad.
Cuz they don't care about the life she had.
So I guess I was her only friend.
Yeah I guess I was her only friend.
Was it sympathy or simply understanding?
Was it pity or love, I wonder?
But I took her in, tried to give her shelter.
But I failed so miserably, yeah I know.
And now she's melting in the sun again.
She knew that she was different,
And she knew that I was too.
But that had absolutely nothing to do with it.
She knew that she was lonely,
And she knew that I was too.
And that had absolutely everything to do with it.
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