Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day
Who'll hear what I say.
Look around you find the ground
Is not so far from where you are
Donīt too wise
For down below they never grow
They're always tired and charms are hired
From out of their eyes
Never surprise.

Take your time and you'll be fine
And say a prayer for people there
Who live on the floor
And if you see what's meant to be
Don't name the day or try to say
It happened before.

Don't be shy you learn to fly
And see the sun when day is done
If only you see
Just what you are beneath a star
That came to stay one rainy day
In autumn for free
Yes, be what you'll be.
Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day
Who'll hear what I say.

Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that's today.
And open wide the hymns you hide
You find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you'll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.

I'm on the corner,
waiting for a light to come on.
That's when I know that you're alone.
It's cold in the desert
water never sees the ground.
Special unspoken without sound.
You told me you loved me,
that I'd never die alone.
Hand over your heart, let's go home.
Everyone noticed,
everyone has seen the signs.
I've always been known to cross lines.
I've never ever cried
when I was feeling down.
I've always been scared of the sound.
Jesus don't love me,
no one ever carried my load.
I'm too young to feel this old.
Is it you,
is it me,
Or does nobody know,
nobody see,
Nobody but me.

Your words are empty hollow bleatings of a mental crutch,
They're open festered indigestion with a velvet touch.
An ether eating Eskimo would gag upon your sight,
Convulsed into oblivion from laughter or from fright.
A coma with a sweet aroma is your only dream,
Malignant with the misconception that a grunt can gleam.
Your lichen covered corpuscles are filthy to my fist.
Infection is your finest flower, mildewed in the mist.

We might kiss when we are alone
When nobody's watching
We might take it home
We might make out when nobody's there
It's not that we're scared
It's just that it's delicate

So why'd you fill my sorrows
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known
And why'd ya sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why'd you sing with me at all?

We might live like never before
When there's nothing to give
Well how can we ask for more
We might make love in some sacred place
The look on your face is delicate

So why'd you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place that you've known
And why'd you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why'd you sing with me at all?

And why'd you fill my sorrows
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place that you've known
Why'd you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why'd you sing with me at all?

It's nice,
It's good,
When you live like you should,
In peaceful harmony.
Take our
Advice,
The way we live is nice,
I hope you vote for me!
We're so
Polite,
We hardly ever fight,
We live in harmony.
Don't care if we live in a tent,
Just as long as I'm your president!
It's nice,
It's good,
When you live like you should,
In Washington, D.C!

Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs thru' a concrete channel.
I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill.
The water was dirty & smelt of industrialisation
Little mesters coughing their lungs up & globules the colour of tomato ketchup.
But it flows. Yeah, it flows.
Underneath the city thru' dirty brickwork conduits
Connecting white witches on the Moor with pre-raphaelites down in Broomhall.
Beneath the old Trebor factory that burnt down in the early seventies.
Leaving an antiquated sweet-shop smell & caverns of nougat & caramel.
Nougat. Yeah, nougat & caramel.
And the river flows on.
Yeah, the river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener
And it finally comes above ground again at Forge Dam: the place where we first met.

I went there again for old time's sake
Hoping to find the child's toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune.
It was still there - but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it.
And the cafe was still there too
The same press-in plastic letters on the price list & scuffed formica-top tables.
I sat as close as possible to the seat where I'd met you that autumn afternoon.
And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it
I finally took your face in my hands & I kissed you for the first time
And a feeling like electricity flowed thru' my whole body.
And I immediately knew that I'd entered a completely different world.
And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child's ride outside.

At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct
I went there with you once - except you were somebody else -
And we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together.
Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river
When coming home from the pub on a Saturday night.
But that this custom had died out when someone jumped
Landed too near to the riverbank
Had sunk in the mud there & drowned before anyone could reach them.
I don't know if he'd just made the whole story up, but there's no way you'd get me to jump off that bridge.
No chance. Never in a million years.

Yeah, a river flows underneath this city
I'd like to go there with you now my pretty & follow it on for miles & miles, below other people's ordinary lives.
Occasionally catching a glimpse of the moon, thru' man-hole covers along the route.
Yeah, it's dark sometimes but if you hold my hand, I think I know the way.
Oh, this is as far as we got last time
But if we go just another mile we will surface surrounded by grass & trees & the fly-over that takes the cars to cities.
Buds that explode at the slightest touch, nettles that sting - but not too much.
I've never been past this point, what lies ahead I really could not say.
I used to live just by the river, in a dis-used factory just off the Wicker
The river flowed by day after day
"One day" I thought, "One day I will follow it" but that day never came
I moved away & lost track but tonight I am thinking about making my way back.
I may find you there & float on wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take us.
Wherever it wants us to go.
Wherever it wants us to go.

When our love was born,
The Earth was torn
By such things

We rang out like horns
On Austrian morns
In the spring

The sounds that we made
Endlessly fade
Like a curse

And now you and the wine
Have become intertwined
And that's worse

We wasted our youth
On dramatic half-truths
That were wrong

But the warmth of the sun
Was keeping us young
For so long

And with this next line,
Everything's fine
In the end:

There are increments of time
So complex and refined
That they bend

The whole summer grieves,
We're watching the leaves
As they fall

And you're violin strings
And wonderful things
For us all

And you and the wine
Have become intertwined
And that's worse

Than trying to find
A part of a mind's
Dying verse

A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild
And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy

A walk in the woods and I will try
Something under the trees that made you cry
It's so erotic when your make up runs

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes

A few minutes with me inside my van
Should be so beautiful if we can
I'm feeling something taking over me

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes

I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know if you know what I mean

Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box
Religion, is a smile on a dog
I'm not aware of too many things
i know what I know if you know what I mean

Chuck me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am are you what you are or what
What I am is what I am are you what you are or what

Oh I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know if you know what I mean

Philosophy, is a walk on the slippery rocks
Religion, is a light in the fog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know if you know what I mean
Do do ya

Chuck me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
Chuck me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep

What I am is what I am are you what you are or what
What I am is what I am are you what you are or what
What I am is what I am are you what you are or what you are
What I am is what I am are you what you are or what

Or what you are oh
Or what you are oh oh oh

You took a trip
and climbed a tree
At Robert Sledge's party

And there you stayed
'til morning came
You were not the same after that

You gave your life
to Jesus Christ
And after all, your friends went home

And so
Annie waits, Annie waits, Annie waits

For a call
from a friend

The same
It's the same, was it always the same?

Annie waits
for the last time

Oh-oooh-oh

The clock
Never stops, never stops, never waits

She's growing old
It's getting late

And so,
He forgot, he forgot, maybe not
Maybe he's been seriously hurt
That'd be worse

Sara spelled without an H was getting bored
on a Peavey amp in 1984
While Zak without a C tried out some new guitars
Playing Sara-with-no-H's favourite song

Well I thought about the Army
Dad said "Son, you're fucking high"

And I thought,
"Yeah, there's a first for everything"

So I took my old man's advice
Three sad semesters
It was only fifteen grand
spent in bed
I thought about the Army

I dropped out
and joined a band instead

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby
edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running through the
middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

She came from Greece
She had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at St. Martin's College
That's where I
caught her eye

She told me that her dad was loaded
I said
"In that case I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola"
She said fine
and in thirty. seconds. time she said

"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people
like you"

Well, what else can you do?
I said
"I'll see what I can do"

I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere
so it started there

I said, "Pretend you've got no money"
And she laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny"

I said, "Yeah?
Well I don't see anyone else smiling in here"

Let me tell you what I do when my day is over.
After picking the right clothes for about an hour.
Oooh, I'm turning orange from all the karats around my neck.
Tonight, I'm takin' out the bling and I'm dressed to impress.

O-out on the streets all the taxis are showin' me love.
'Cause I shinin' like a princess, in the middle of thugs.
And at the clubs, the bouncers r-re-recognize my face.
So while you waitin-in in the line, we just enter the place

On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody

Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love

On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody

Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love

On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody

Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love

On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody

Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love

Is the soul to love, is the soul to love
Is the soul to love, is the soul to love

On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody
On the sound of light melody

Grčzden Zoviwånna Blist Varriôzan
Grčzden Zoviwånna Blist Varriôzan
Herrïna Zaspi Höhgen
Herrïna Zaspi Höhgen
Grčzden Zoviwånna Blist Varriôzan
Grčzden Zoviwånna Blist Varriôzan

Eyes are sober.
This is the plan.
I'm sitting in a car heading Neverland.
A fancy man, a fancy man.
He's pointing with the fingers that are left on his hand.

Eyes are hazel, but far too cold.
Looking out for love.
But none of us can.
Where's the monkey that I've been told of?
I'm staring at the money that burns in my hand.

I'm dancing for dollars
for a fancy man.

The few surviving samurai survey the battlefield
Count the arms, the legs and heads, and then divide by five
Drenched in blood, they move across the screen
Do I need to point or do you see the one I mean?

The one in back
The way he acts
Is he reminding you
Of anyone we know?
Isn't he so
Like certain people I could name?

Halfway through the 30 minutes, halfway 'round the world
Here's the story on the genocidal overlord
In her palace with her epaulettes
Watch her little gestures as she lights her cigarette

Look at her, you
Must see it too
Is she reminding you
Of anyone we know?
Isn't she so
Like certain people I could name?

Disembodied and detached, a voice describes the scene
As a lizard stalks a helpless creature on TV
Music underscores the tragedy
Eyes with no expression watch the unsuspecting prey

Who is it like?
Doesn't it strike
You as the very image
Of someone we know?
Isn't it so
Like certain people,
How could anybody miss
The obvious
And the uncanny and
The clear resemblance?
Isn't it just
Like certain people I could name?

In the afternoon
The sun, sepia-coloured, starts grinding
Clockwork shadows creak.
Creaking. Creaking.
Now is the time for celebration
They will bring a watering-pot
But pins of a limb condition jerk.
Jerky. Jerky.
Yearning for the day
You knock at the door
The recollection of the way home grows dimmer and dimmer

Look in the mirror
You wish it was clearer
To see past the person in there
The bullshit you're reading
Just makes you feel cheated
'Cause they judge you by the things that you wear
And you say that you're tough
But that isn't enough
When they say that you'll never do
I've never known love to be
Nothing like TV
Your reception just ain't coming through

When it all falls apart
I will, I will be right there beside you
Hide you from the light that hurts your eyes
When you lose sight of just how beautiful you are
I won't let you fall apart

Put on your day-glo
You sit at the window
You're stuck on the very first page
A concert with no crowd
And still you scream so loud
That you're drowning out the band on the stage
And you say that you're tough
But that isn't enough
When they say that you'll never do
'Cause you've got the infection
The one imperfection
You can't tell a lie from the truth

When it all falls apart
I will, I will be right there beside you
Hide you from the light that hurts your eyes
When you lose sight of just how beautiful you are
I won't let you fall apart

When it all falls apart
I will, I will be right there beside you
Hide you from the light that hurts your eyes
When you lose sight of just how beautiful you are
I won't let you fall apart
When it all falls apart
When it all falls apart
When it all...

Mary, this station is playing every sad song.
I remember like we were alive.
I heard it Sunday morn' from inside of these walls.
In a prison cell, where we spent those nights.
And they burnt up the diner where I always used to find her.
Licking young boys blood from her claws.
And I learned about the blues from this kitten I knew.
Her hair was raven and her heart was like a tomb.
My heart's like a wound.

I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my first wife.
Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you.
I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my old life.
Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you?

Mary, I worried and stalled every night of my life.
Better safe than making the party.
And I never had a good time, I sat by my bedside, with papers and poetry about Estella.
Great expectations, we had the greatest expectations.

I saw tail lights last night In a dream about my first wife.
Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you.
I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my old life.
Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you?

It's funny how the night moves.
Humming a song from 1962.
We were always waiting... always waiting.
We were always waiting for something to happen.

I saw tail lights last night In a dream about my first wife.
Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you.
I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my whole life.
Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you?

You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go

You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
While
You can only wonder why

There's a picture opposite me
of my primitive ancestry
which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free

Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
after killing Jason off, and countless screaming Argonauts