rearview mirror - rearview mirror (2003 album) lyrics 01 THE SCENERY You sat there and you took away everything was once so great I'd come here to look around to see it all & all so beautiful But this changed that pretty scene and turned it into something less as compared to you it was a ragged stream and I come to see your flawlessness Your flawlessness, so beautiful NA, NA, NA, NA... Now it's just like it's artificial try to win my mind back how it was yeah see men cannot build what I saw that day you sat there and you took away NA, NA, NA, NA... The stone that made such a perfect throne you could feel it in the air as I lose control 02 MAUD Places we can't construct I am there Always I am your crutch so re-enter this dream take a seat and focus on the light glow Trees immerse into red and all their leaves stay blue we will race the whole night in our revolving chairs followed by an owl and watch him float through caves of descending clouds Orbiting my head ill Orpheus plays to us melancholy lyre calling for his lost love while struggle in Hades thick black steam you focus your eyes Glow Gypsies working instead and all their clothes seem new California's high tax & everyone confused followed by an old crow and watch him float through swells of descending clouds Orbiting my head Tsunamis of orange heard crashing in tune while Lucytania's lights illuminate the waves life sparrows sing of angels coming soon descending down these cloudy caves Orbiting my head Trees immerse into red and all their clothes stained blue California's intact and everyone's amused yellow winged this owl illuminates the tune we will race spinning round orbiting my head 03 NO WAR When we stumbled upon this tangled weave sticks and stems and crooked trees how overwhelmed we were to find the perfect device to justify But as we grow we're finding out over and over A plan that we would give and take as one spot clears quick to replace I guess tilted paintings on a wall would best describe our past short fall But as we grow we're finding out over and over that everything just won't work out no war no more In shallow holes we procrastinate bad situations congregate how overwhelmed we were to find the best solution to simplify But as we grow we're finding out over and over that everything just won't work out no war no more So dream again what makes you happy and I try so, so very hollow missed you more than I could think and everything thats yours 04 SEE ME WAITING so let's say everyone has an angle everyone has a scheme to get them by I've got something I've been working on angel it's a little thing called convenience is my ladder I'm just trying to get upstairs the problem is I have to take this mountain with me there so maybe everyone here is laughing they aren't but you don't know and instead of just asking your jumping out the window yeah drive, drive, drive, drive turn the headlights off and use the moonlight yeah see me waiting for life and the nice piece of gold yeah see me waiting and get on well before I get old if you feel the need that you have to be driving faster think of how well you see you're not the only one out here you know so turn the headlights on and just go slow 05 MISS MARY Hello to you Miss Mary stay with us we need someone won't you make anything we're not afraid of what was long ago no Fever, leave her , serious turn of the century sounds of diseases, but no warnings could come soon enough the island of the Bronx could be the worst of all they've been seeing all the symptoms but I'm still saying Hello to you Miss Mary stay with us we need someone won't you make anything we're not afraid of what was long ago no Needed, treated, all I wanted was help around here can't tell, oh well, I'm not sick yet so what's the difference it's her life all she knows but the past caught up with her there was outbreak oh no panic filled the place but I'm still saying Hello to you Miss Mary stay with us we need someone won't you make anything we're not afraid of what was long ago Some say, that this case, symbolizes discrimination Mary, martyr, we're sorry but now you can't stay with us Goodbye to you Miss Mary don't stay with us you must leave at once Miss Mary what do you carry They proved that your the problem after all oh no, go back, goodbye 06 Hopeless Great fullness all forgiving and patience so long Surprises no one such a bad habit to be so naive fix it for the incapable your just too damn hopeless by yourself You say you can carry this for me watch this won't you when it falls you'll rethink things but for now it's just too great Save the all forgiving say patience so long surprises no one such a bad habit so the naive will fix the incapable you're just too damn hopeless by yourself You say I should be so honored cause I'm doing things for you why is that? Cause when it falls you'll just walk away 07 CARTWHEELS ON GRAVY I'm not ready forced to argue why I thought she might reconsider forgiving me for all the times I thought she knew how I miss her but for now I'm just tired right now, I'm just sore. We all just want to be higher we all search for reasons why I thought maybe once you turn away I figured things would be over but it runs until we've worn out our welcome together so I hope baby you can enjoy me and relax forever 08 LAST SONG It's all just words you think I have anything you haven't heard before something to be heard you think I'll say that I found us all a radio cure well I'm not the one don't look to me for any answers it's all been done I'd say this thing is getting over Its getting over yeah the last song's been written be wise it's the end don't play it all and they won't listen that's how this all happened. worked on for days on end you know all that time seemed to be wasted nothing to show for all those nights I'd tried to find some inspiration well I'm not the one don't look to me for any answers it's all been done I'd say this thing is getting over Its getting over yeah the last song's been written be wise it's the end don't play it all and they won't listen that's how this all happened. It's all been done we need to say no you won't hear variety on the radio It's all been done I'd say this thing is getting over its getting over yeah the last song's been written be wise it's the end don't play it all and they won't listen that's how this all happened. 09 MY ADVICE Always watching your back you live a threatening life all the predators staring you down My advice: don't look now It was oh so interesting kept you so long becomes a part of convincing the one don't look now In the midst of it all they carry on and sky just fell behind you and the rain it comes down she turned to salt and the rest just carry on So fun for them to become a part of it all and take what's left from these things we have saved for so long don't look now take my advice 10 SPECTACULAR MOON The wind is blowing snow like sand like shards of glass a heavy hand turns my head I walk out spectacular moon feel it calm everything what for my head is a wreck The wind is blowing snow like sand like shards of glass a heavy hand turns my head I walk out spectacular moon feel it calm everything what for my head is a wreck If only light had shown through it if only wind had blown through it the shade won't touch the ground to see through walls of drifting sand to leave the shards of glass in hand to save your battered self