They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off.
A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got.
Metal shivs on wood push through our back.
There's a splinter in your eye and it reads "react."
They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts,
Reddened their necks, collared their clothes.
Then we danced the dance till the menace got out.
She gathered the corners and called it her gown.
Please find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off.
A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got.
Metal shivs on wood push through our back.
There's a splinter in your eye and it reads "react," R-E-A-C-T.
Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts,
Reddened their necks, collared their clothes.
Then we danced the dance till the menace got out.
She gathered the corners and called it her gown.
She said...
Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it.
7 Chinese Bros.
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers, pull up a seat.
Take in one symphony now, we've just begun to battle,
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color.
Autumn waited hold it to you in the colored come another.
Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean,
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain,
She will return, she will return.
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers, pull up a seat.
Take in one symphony now, we've just begun to battle,
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color.
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another.
Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean,
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain,
She will return, she will return.
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers, pull up a chair.
Take in one symphony now, I guess we lost that battle,
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color.
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another.
Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean,
Seven thousand years the Communi did reign,
She will return, she will return.
So. Central Rain
Did you never call? I waited for your call.
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away.
The trees will bend, the cities wash away,
The city on the river, there is a girl without a dream.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down.
The wise man built his words upon the rocks,
But I'm not bound to follow suit.
The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed,
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Did you never call? I waited for your call.
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away.
The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed,
Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Pretty Persuasion
It's what I want, hurry and buy,
All has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong,
Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong, it's all wrong.
He's got a pretty persuasion,
She's got pretty persuasion,
Goddamn, pure confusion,
She's got pretty persuasion.
It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reasoning,
And I put that in this heat, it's all wrong,
Try to wear that on my sleeve, it's all wrong, all wrong.
He's got a pretty persuasion,
She's got pretty persuasion,
God damn, pure confusion,
He' got pretty persuasion.
In the light I saw
Quite a scene there.
It's what I want, hurry and buy,
All has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Try to put that in this heat, it's all wrong,
Cannot wear that on your sleeve, it's all wrong, it's all wrong.
He's got a pretty persuasion,
She's got pretty persuasion,
God damn, pure confusion,
He's got pretty persua...
Time After Time (Annelise)
Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch,
If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow?
Time after time after time...
When the bull's on his hooves, when you gather friends by the tower,
If you try to refuse, will they judge your worth by the hour?
Time after time after time.
Time after time after time...
If your tired and you're tried you can find me in my room,
You can stay if you want and the third time you can't lose.
Time after time after time.
Time after time after...
Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch,
We can fight if you want, but who will turn out the light?
Time after time after time.
Time after time after time.
Time after time after time.
Time after time after...
Second Guessing
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing.
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing.
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
Here we are,
Here we are,
Here we are...
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing.
What will be your look this season?
Be in my club, write a book this season.
Here we are,
Here we are,
Here we are...
Here we are,
Here we are,
Here we are...
Letter Never Sent
It's been pretty simple so far, vacation in Athens is calling me,
And knock, knock, knock on wood, I thought I'd left you behind,
Heaven is yours, heaven is yours, heaven's yours where I live.
The thought of the catacombs, left my soul at home,
This letter never sent.
And it's so far, it's so dark, I'm so lost.
Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live.
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me.)
When I'm moving too fast, where's my new address?
The water is evening now, the catacombs are filling in.
If my soul was made of stone, no, not, not so dark, dark.
And it's so far, it's so dark, i'm so lost,
And it's so far, it's so far, it's so far.
Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live.
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me.)
Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live.
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me.)
Camera
From the inside room when the front room greeting
Becomes your special book, it was simple then.
When the party lulls, if we fall by the side,
Will you be remembered? Will she be remembered?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed,
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?
I fell by your bed once, I didn't want to tell you,
I should keep myself in between the pages
Of the green light room if we fall by the side,
Will you be remembered? Will she be remembered?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed,
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?
From the inside room when the front room greeting
Becomes your special book, it was simple then,
When the party lulls, if we fall by the side,
I still like you, can you remember?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed,
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed,
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Looking at your watch a third time, waiting in the station for a bus,
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough,
Going where nobody says "hello," they don't talk to anybody they don't know,
You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go,
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself,
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville,
And waste another year.
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me,
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea,
But something better happen soon,
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville,
And waste another year.
It's not as though I really need you,
If you were here I'd only bleed you,
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down,
And that's not how it ought to be,
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville,
And waste another year.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville.
Don't go back to Rockville,
And waste another year.
Little America
I can't see myself at thirty, I don't buy a lacquered thirty,
Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow's jewelery, again.
Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback,
Preserved for tomorrow's eyes, in tree beer tar-black brer sap.
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.
Who will tend the farm museums? Who will dust today's belongings?
Who will sweep the floors, hedging near the givens?
Rally round your leaders it's the mediator season,
Diane is on the beach, do you realize the life she's led?
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, oh man I think we're lost.
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
A matter of course, Jefferson, Jeffer...
Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback.
Sky-lied, sty-tied, Nero pie-tied, in tree tar-black brer sap.
Reason has harnessed the tame, a lodging, not stockader's game,
Another Greenville, another Magic Mart. Jeffer, grab your fiddle.
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest,
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.