Third Eye Blind : Blue (1999)

 

Here are the lyrics for all of the songs on the U.S. album.  They appear in the order that they are on the SECOND PRINT of the CD.  This is the one that you most likely own, especially if you bought it after May 2000.  You can skip down to the song you want lyrics for:

 

1.                  Anything

2.                  Wounded

3.                  10 Days Late

4.                  Never Let You Go

5.                  Deep Inside of You

6.                  1000 Julys

7.                  An Ode to Maybe

8.                  The Red Summer Sun

9.                  Camouflage

10.              Farther

11.              Darkness

12.              Darwin

13.              Slow Motion (unprinted lyrics)

 

 

 

 

Anything

 

Anything for you
Turn my castles blue

Turn my bones to sand
Just to see you
I'll give you anything
I'll give you anything

Jackie O with the top down open
All the words to what's unspoken
Put together everything that's broken

Just to see you
I'll give you anything
I'll give you anything
I'll give you anything

Jackie O with the top down open
A king's horse for what's been broken
I'll bring back even what's unspoken

Just to see you
I'll give you anything
I'll give you anything

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wounded

 

The guy who put his hands on you
Has got nothing to do with me
And the bruises that you feel will heal
And I hope you'll come around
Cause we're missing you
And you used to speak so easy
Now you're afraid to talk to me

It's like walking with the wounded
Carrying that weight way too far
Concrete pulled you down so hard
Out there with the wounded
We're missing you
Well I never claimed to understand what happens after dark
But my fingers catch the sparks at the thought of touching you
When you're wounded

Let me break it down till I force the issue
We miss your face, you know I wish you
Would come back down to the Dalva Bar
You tell them, that's just my battle scar
I want to kiss you
And knock 'em down like we used to
You're the marigold
Till you're walking down shaking that ass again
And then you walk on baby walk on you walk on

On and on

You're an angel in the pit with her hands in the air
And we're missing you

Now it's fall, and your shoulders get tighter
Nervous flicks on the lighter, boots
Your pissed off poets, your women's groups
And the friends with you, we should have known this fool
Well I guess we missed the mark
Still my fingers catch the sparks at the thought of
Them touching you

Now you're wounded

Let me break it down till I force the issue
You never come around, and you know we miss you
Well nobody took your pride away
I said that's something people say
Back down the bully to the back of the bus
Cause it's time for them to be scared of us
Till you're yelling, how we living cause you got the ball
Then you rock on baby, rock on, you rock on

On and on

You're a summer time hottie with her socks in the air
Screaming I don't care baby I don't care hey

You say you don't know
You say you can't grow (You're the marigold)
All I know is we're missing you
You say you don't know
You say you can't grow (You're the marigold)
All I know is we're missing you
Show up
Show up wounded
Show up
Show up wounded

 

 

 

 

 

10 Days Late

 

Click your heals and feel you come for me
Care free, she's got something big to tell me

At the ocean, talk back at the ocean

There's no simple way to let you know
Funny how she always cried out daddy

I got a big surprise
She said, I'm in trouble now and it cannot wait
She's ten days late
Boy your life got complicated
Well I can't wait to see this through
She's ten days late
Ten days late

Low ride bicycles go cruising by
I laugh, I don't even know why

Talk back at the ocean

Consequence and ozone catch a glow
Ah ah, oh no baby, oh no no

Give me a minute now to figure out my state
Oh I know she's ten days late
And I don't know where to take it
But it's still great knowing you
She's ten days late
Ten days late

(choir)
Time has come for you to choose
Baby daddy keep your boo
Many blessings come to you
Baby daddy keep your boo
Baby daddy keep your boo
Baby daddy keep your boo

Your eyes looked at me for what to do
I can't lie, ah ah, I don't know

At the ocean, talk back at the ocean

No one's laughing now what do I say
I walk away but oh,
No don't go

At the ocean, talk back at the ocean

Give me a minute now to figure out my state
She's ten days late
And I'm never going to fade it
I guess I'll always be knowing you
Knowing you
Knowing you

 

 

 

 

Never Let You Go

 

There's every good reason
For letting you go
She's sneaky and smoked out
And it's starting to show

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around your back on each other

You say that I've changed
Well maybe I did
But even if I changed
What's wrong with it

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around your back on each other

And all our friends are gone, and gone
And all the time moves on, and on
And all I know is it's wrong, it's wrong
And all I know is it's wrong, it's wrong

If threes a reason
It's lost on me
Maybe we'll be friends
I guess we'll see

hey

I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
I never let you go
Turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around lets turn on each other
Good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other
That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, your back on each other
What a good idea

I remember the stupid things
The mood rings
The bracelets, and the beads
Nickels and dimes
Yours and mine
Did you cash in all your dreams
You don't dream for me no
You don't dream for me no
But I still feel you pulse like sonar from the days in the waves
That girl is like a sunburn
I would like to save
That girl is like a sunburn
I would like to save
She's like a sunburn
She's like a sunburn

 

 

 

 

 

Deep Inside of You

 

When we met light was shed
Thoughts free flow you said you've got something
Deep inside of you
A wind chime voice sounds
Sway your hips round rings true
It goes deep inside of you
These secret garden beams
Changed my life so it seems
A fall breeze blows outside
I don't break stride
Thoughts are warm, and they go
Deep inside of you

And I never felt alone, alright
Till I met you

Friends say I've changed
I don't listen cause I live to be
Deep inside of you
Slide of her dress shouts in darkness
I'm so alive
I'm deep inside of you
You said boy make girl feel good
But still deep inside
Still I've never felt alone
Till I met you
I'm alright on my own
And then I met you
And I'd know what to do if I just knew what's coming

I would change myself if I could
I'd walk with my people if I could find them
And I would say that I'm sorry to you
I'm sorry to you, and I don't want to call you
But then I want to call you cause I don't want to crush you
But I feel like crushing you and it's true
I took for granted you were with me
I breathe by your looks and you look right through me

But we were broke and didn't know
And we were broke and didn't know
And we were broke and didn't know
And we were broke and didn't know

Something's gone you withdraw and I'm not strong like before
I was deep inside of you
I can go nowhere
I burn candles and stare at a ghost
Deep inside of you
And some great need in me
Starts to bleed
I've lost my self there's nothing left
It's all gone
Deep inside of you
Deep inside of you
Deep inside of you

 

 

 

 

 

 

1000 Julys

 

Planning my attack just before you come back around
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know how to back down
I never fit in, I don't belong
D'you know I doesn't matter when we feel strong
Cause I'm a vampire y'all, we toast the blood of our enemies
You're still scaring me no, you're scaring me no
And we don't fit in

(We don't fit in)

Wonder what it's like when you're living with someone like me
I'm a freak and I'm nervous when it's easy
Feral days, and I'm sex crazed
I put it in with my with my animal ways
And that's the sign I was born to be living in
I ran around and gave the finger to the Ritalin
You can calm me down and I can't say why
You say goodbye and burn my eyes

You burn my eyes

A thousand Julys
I hope you find
I'd give you words, but no words come to mind
But you turn me so cold, so I tell you lies
When you let me in, it's like a thousand Julys

When you left, I felt the drop like a boom
Wintertime all alone in your bedroom
I don't blame you, and I know I'm not your friend
How we living, young American
I guess I've always known
I'd be on my own, I'd be on my own
And I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why

A thousand Julys
I know you'll find
I'd say the words, but no words come to mind
But you let me in, and I don't know why
Ooh when you come, it's like a thousand Julys
A thousand Julys

A thousand Julys
That's what you are
I'd tell you to come back now
But we've gone too far
And we've burned it out now
I don't even try
But I feel you gone
I've lost a thousand Julys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Ode to Maybe

 

Lead in night at the Laundromat
And I'm staring at you pulling clothes from a dryer
And I'm wondering how I got here
Cause it seems some how I keep getting stuck in the mire
I needed this more than I knew
And I let you down and I said I'm sorry
But the light it falls on my castle walls
And my basketballs pelt me with bricks in my dreams

Tonight, well maybe
What you need I hope it finds you (Oh I might)
I might be, well maybe
Maybe some day you'll get it right (Oh I)

If I could bottle my hopes in a store bought scent
They'd be nutmeg peach and they'd pay the rent
And I'd ride a horse, and I'd teach a course
On how I got to be a star crossed pimp

Pimp, pimp, wait up

Oh I might

Gonna live forever boy (I might)
Oh you're a clever boy (Maybe)
And no you never said goodnight (Oh I might)

I might, well maybe
What you need I hope it finds you
Are you a clever boy
Gonna live forever boy
Maybe some day you'll get it right (Oh I might)

 

 

 

 

 

The Red Summer Sun

 

There's a big red sky
Over you and I
And it's coming down
And we're pumping over ground
In desert air
I hope you'll be there
Cause it's coming down
Pumping over ground

I've seen car wreck kids
Walk away from it
I laughed from within
I know these days will end

Been a long time, been a long time
To walk with the mighty
Walk with the mighty
Let me go, let me go
On my own road, said
Been a long time, been a long time
To walk with the mighty
Walk with the mighty
Let me go, let me go
On now rock on

I'll make do with none
I will blame no one
Slept on packing foam
I'll make it all my home
Take on anyone
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on, take on anyone, I'll

Take on anyone
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on, I will take on anyone
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on anyone, I'll

Been a long time, been a long time
To walk with the mighty
Walk with the mighty
Let me go, let me go
With the martyr, go
Been a long time, and I won't
I will walk with the mighty
I'm gonna walk with the mighty
Let me go, let me go
On my own so

Take on anyone
I'll take on,
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on,
I'll take on anyone
I'll take on anyone, I'll

These days, that are gone, no
These days, that are gone
See the red summer sun
These days, that are gone
The red summer sun
The red summer sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camouflage

 

Justice comes into your life and then you'll know
You'll know, you'll know
Justice comes, just a day to go
Get the justice coming for you and I
I get the joy
Joy when it comes my joy
I get the joy
Justice comes to everyone
Why does a willow weep when all I see's a tree grow
All in camouflage everyone I know
We walk along like sequel, you're a cameo
You've got your joy
So find the people of your own

I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage
Go on check it
I'll take in anyone who's messing up the sabotage
You don't destroy
I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage

Gimmie the ball, gimmie it all
Big orange ball
Roll up over fields
I shame the devil cause I throw it down
So hard I rock the big line
I rock the back yard
Be a dream in color even on a winter's night
Thinking George Seurat, afternoon bathed in light
Get your joy no matter who says it's right
Their cover's blown
Find the story of your own

I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage
Go on check it
I'll take in anyone who's breaking down the sabotage
To yourself don't destroy
I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage

OK in the geometry of
Prism of my of my eye
Will flow
I ask the questions and wonder why
Only to roll in a big arrange ball
That floats in a summer sky

(secret words never to be printed)

I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage
Go on check it
I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage
To yourself don't destroy
I'll take in anyone who's taking off their camouflage

 

 

 

 

 

Farther

 

Nothing much matters to me
So I don't see
Why I should hold so tightly
To a memory that I can't speak of
I think about it nightly how you opened up your life for me
Why are you still lonely?
Though I'm not the type who begs
I'm thinking how you'd open up your legs
And I'm farther from you every day
Alright, Yeah
Farther from you everyday
F, f, f farther

And a woman talking to herself
Gathers up the shit she couldn't sell
Chances dont' bode well tomorrow and
Talking to myself pass by
I miss you but not the face you make
Like when you found me out for the fake
I am so easily you see through me
What do you do to me to make me treat you so bad?
I keep hoping that you'll speak to me
But I'm farther from you every day
Yeah, oh yeah
Farther from you every day

All I think about is waiting and all the people we are fading into

Farther from you every day

There was a sound, but I don't know how it goes, there was something we went through
Blew in from the coast
You are of the earth, I am of the sky
I don't even know what the hell that means
Farther from you every day

All I think about is waiting and all the people we are fading into
Farther from you every day
And I think about you dying years from now never having known who you are
(This could be my big mistake)
Farther from you everyday

All I think about is waiting and all the people we are fading into
Farther from you every day
And I think about you dying years from now never having known who you are
Farther from you everyday (Big mistake)
All I think about is waiting and all the people we are fading into
Farther from you everyday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darkness

 

Blue come over
Born a joneser
The cops roll out the radar
And shoot devious grins
Another day begins

I want someone to know me
Maybe tell who I am
Cause I've faced down my demons
And cried out to a God
A God I've never seen
Lights

And the world darkens around me
Strange friends all surround me
New ideas in my head start to burn
Dropped out of schools cause of things I never learned
Cause the world darkens around me
World darkens around me

I want you to love me
(Like you did)
Before you knew me
And I never thought there'd be any help
For somebody like me
A vacancy
Say!

Cause the world darkens around me
Strange friends all surround me
New ideas in my head start to burn
Trust no one that's the one thing that I learned
Cause the world darkens around me
World darkens around me

Bring me the sun cause I slide off the moon
Bring me the sun
Slide off the moon
Yeah you better get home soon
There's no hope for people like you and me
There's no hope for people
Slide off the moon
Bring me the sun cause I slide off the moon
Bring me the sun
Slide off the moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darwin

 

The chromosome divides
Multiply and thrive
And the strong survive
And the strong survive
And a spaceman fucked an ape
Then cut out on the date
And now it's much too late
The space ship has escaped

(Where'd it go?)

We're lacking something, good, something good
Is this all for nothing
Good, something good

Boom tick tick and who skipped the long play
Tick, tick, boom

The chromosome divides
Multiply and thrive
And the strong survive
Yeah the strong survive
And the grandson of an alien
Wears his snake skin boots
Shows his reptile roots
He shows his reptile roots

We're lacking something, something good, something good, yeah
Is this all for nothing, yeah
Show me the goods, something good, yeah

Boom boom tick tick and who skipped the long play
Who skipped the record and who amped what you say
I want to sing a song that's my own
I want to be the DJ

We're lacking something, something good, something good, yeah
Is this all for nothing, yeah
Show me the goods, something good, yeah

The chromosome divides
Multiply and thrive
And the strong survive
Yeah the strong survive
Chromosome divides
Multiply and thrive
And the strong survive
And the strong survive

And it's alright, it's alright, yeah
It's a long night, it's a long night
A long night, it's a long night
It's a long night, a long night
A long night, a long night
It's a long night
Alright, alright, alright

When the plane takes off you know it
When the plane takes off you know it
When the plane takes off you know it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slow Motion (this song was too contriversal for the record label and were cut from the album.  The first printing has only the chorus, the second printing appears as a complete instrumental version.  Here are the original, uncut lyrics)

 

Miss Jones taught me English
But I think I just shot her son
Cause he owed me money
With a bullet in the chest you cannot run
Now he's bleeding in a vacant lot
The one in the summer where we used to smoke pot
I guess I didn't mean it but man you shoulda seen it
His flesh explode

Slow motion see me let go
We tend to die young
Slow Motion see me let go
What a brother knows
Slow Motion see me let go

Now the cops will get me
But girl if you would let me
I'll take your pants off
I got a little bit of blow we could both get off

Later bathing in the afterglow
Two lines of coke I cut with Draino
An her nose starts to bleed
A most beautiful ruby red

Slow motion see me let go
We'll remember these days
Slow motion see me let go
Urban life decays
Slow motion see me let go

And at home
My sister's eating paint chips again
Maybe that's why she's insane
I shut the door to her moaning
And I shoot smack in my veins
Wouldn't you?
See my neighbour's beating his wife
Because he hates his life
There's an arc to his fist as he swings
Oh man what a beautiful thing

And death slides close to me
Won't grow old to be
A junkie wino creep

Hollywood glamorised my wrath
I'm a young urban psychopath
I incite murder
For your entertainment
Cuz I needed the money
What's your excuse?
The jokes on you

Slow motion see me let go
Slow motion see me let go
Slow motion see me let go

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted: October 8, 2000

 

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