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
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Sometimes
Large fingers pushing paint,...
You're god and you got big hands,...
The colors blend
The challenges you give man,...
Seek my part,... Devote myself,... My small self,...
Like a book amongst the many on a shelf,...
Sometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself dear God
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Hail, Hail
Ahh...Is there room for both of us?...Both of us apart?...
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 wanna feel...
How do I feel?...How do I?...
If you're the only one will I never be nothing?...
Hail, Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
Swore I'd love til the day I die...And beyond...
Are we going to the same place?...If so, Can I come?...
It's egg rolling thick & heavy...Oh, The past we carry...
Oh, I could be new...You underestimate me...
If you're the only one will I never be nothing?...
Hail, Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
Stop.
I sometimes realize...I could only be as good as you'll let me...
Are you woman enough to be my man?...Bandaged hand in hand...
I find it on the run in a race that can't be won, yeah...
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...mmmmm...
ooh....
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Who Are You
Come to send not conscend
transcendental consequence
is to transcend where we are
who are we who we are
trampled moss on your souls
changes are you're a part
seen it all not at all
can't defend fucked up men
take me for a ride
before we leave
circumstance clapping hands
uh, gliding wings have been since
off the track in the mud
that's the moss in the aforementioned verse
live a little, whooaaa
and a little,...
just a little time before we leave
stop light plays its part
so I would say you've got a heart
what's your part who you are
you are who who you are
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In My Tree
Up here in my tree, yeah...Newspapers mailing up to me, yeah...No...
No more crowbars to my head, yeah...I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah...
Wave to all my friends, yeah...They don't seem to notice me, no...
Ahh, Their eyes straight on the street, yo, ohh...Sidewalks, cigarettes, and seams, yeah, yeah...
Up here so high I shart to shake...Up here so high the sky I scrape...
I'm so high I hold just one breath...Keep breath in my chest just like innocence...
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I rememeber when, yeah...I swore I knew everything, oh yeah...
I say knowledge is a tree, yeah...It's growing up just like me, yeah....
Mmm...I'm so like the wind he sheds...I'm so light the sky I scrape, yeah...
I'm so high I hold just one breath...Fall back to my nest, sleep with innocence...
Up here so high the bows they break...Up here so high the sky I scrape...
And my eyes feel both wide open...And I got a glimpse of my innocence...
That's right my innocence...Still got it, still got it...
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Smile
Don't it make you smile?...Don't it make you smile?...
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?...
Ohh...When the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all, yeah...
Don't it make he smile?...
I miss you already, hey, hah,...I miss you always...
I miss you already, hey, hah,...I miss you all days...
This is how I feel...
Ohhh, I miss you already, hey, hah,...I miss you always...
Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...I miss you all day...ooh...
Don't it make you smile?...Don't it make you smile?...
Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...
Don't it make you smile?...Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...
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Off He Goes
One, Two, One, Two...
Know a man...His face seems 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 taken for a ride...
He's been takin'...too much on...off he goes
with his perfectly...unkept clothes...there he goes...
He's yet to come back...but I see his picture...
Doesn't look the same up on the rack...We go way back...
I wonder bout 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 knew just what is going to happen next...
Before his first step...He is off again...
Here we go...
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Habit
See it happen to a couple of friends...
See 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:.. ehhh,...
Another habit says it's in love with you...
Another habit says it's love's 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...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you...Never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you...Never, never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
Never thought you'd habit...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
Speaking as a child of the 90's.
Never thought you'd habit...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you...Never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...Never thought you'd habit... Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you...Never, never thought you...
Never... Never me...Never you...Never me...
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Little Red Mosquito
Watched from the window with a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down and now itls 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 awaiting...oh...
Red man's your neighbor call it behavior
While you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him
Punctures in his 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 awaiting...he's awaiting...oh...yeah...
If I had known then what I know now... If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now... If I had known then what I know now...
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Lukin
Drive down the street, can't find the keys to my own fuckin' home
I take a walk so I can 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've been goin' to Lukin's...I gotta spot that Lukin's...
I knocked the door at Lukin's...opened the fridge...
Now I know life is worth...
I find the key, but I return to find an open door
So fucking freezin', they jump out of the car, everybody wants some*
I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun
(* Note: This line seems, stangely, to just as easily be:Some fuckin' freak who claims I fathered by rape her one son)
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Present Tense
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't spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, oh...
Oh, you can't come to terms and realize you're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh...
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense...
Have you ideas on how this life ends?...Checked your hands and studied the light?...
Have you'd of believed that the road ahead ascends off into the light?...
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and know where to live...
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip?...
You can't spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, oh...
Oh, you can't come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh...
Oh, makes much more sense to live in the present tense...
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Mankind
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 fakin? Yeah...
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 fakin? Yeah...
If it's just inadvertent imitation a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin?...What's got the whole world fakin?...What's got the whole world fakin?
What's got the whole world fakin?...What's got the whole world fakin?
What's got the whole world fakin? Yeah, yeah...
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I'm Open
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 stared. 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 is like to be an adult. If he
only knew now what he knew then.
I'm open...I'm open...I'm open...
Come in...Come in...Come in...Come in...
I'm open...I'm open...yeah...
Come in...Come in...Come in...Come in...
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Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers he decides to dream. Dream up a new self for himself.
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Around The Bend
I'm wishing you are well...Mind at peace within yourself...
Covers up I guess you all...I'll be watching as you breathe...
I lie still you'll 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...There it is...
There's a sun around the bend...
All evening's 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 all around the bend...
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