large fingers pushing paint
you're god and you've got big hands
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 cringe, sometimes i live
sometimes i walk, sometimes i kneel
sometimes i speak of nothing at all
sometimes i reach to myself, dear god
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 want to feel
and how do i feel?
and how do i...
if you're the only one will i never be enough?
hail hail the lucky ones
i refer to those in love
oh, how i'll love you til the day i die and beyond
are we going to the same place?
if so can i come?
it's egg rolling thick and heavy
all the past you carry
oh, i could be new
you underestimate me
if you're the only one will i never be enough?
hail hail the lucky ones
i refer to those in love
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
all hail the lucky ones
i refer to those in love
if you're my only one
so could you only one?
i want to be your one
enough!
you want no one
you're one
come to send
not condescend
transcendent to consequence
to transcend where we are
who are we? who we are
trampled marks on your souls
changes, all 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
a driving winds
happenstance
off the track, in the mud
that's the marks before mentioned words
and a little...
wow...
and a little...
just a little time before we leave
stop light plays its part
so i would say you've got a part
what's your part?
who you are
you are who...
who you are.
up here in my tree
newspapers matter not to me
no more crowbars to my head
i'm trading stories with the leaves instead
i wave to all my friends
they don't seem to notice me
their eyes straight on the street
oh...
sidewalks cigarettes and seams
up here so high i start to shake
up here so high the sky i scrape
i'm so high i hold just one breath
deep within my chest just like innocence
(eddie's down in his home)
(oh, the blue sky it's his home)
(eddie's blue sky home)
(oh, the blue sky it's his home)
i remember when i swore i knew everything
they say knowledge is a tree
it's growing up just like me
i'm so light the wind me shakes
i'm so high the sky i scrape
i'm so high i hold just one breath
to go back to my nest, to sleep with innocence
up here so high the boughs 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
got back my innocence
still got it
still got it
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?
when the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all
don't it make me smile?
i miss you already
i miss you always
i miss you already
i miss you all day
this is how i feel
i miss you already
i miss you always
three crooked hearts
swirls all around
i miss you all day
don't it make you smile?
don't it make you smile?
three crooked hearts
swirls all around
don't it make you smile?
1, 2, 1, 2...
know a man
his face seemed 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 taking for a ride
he's been taking too much on
there he goes
with his perfectly unkept clothes
there he goes
he's yet to come back
but i see his picture
it doesn't look the same
up on the rack
we go way back
i wonder about 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 know
just what is going to happen next
before his first step he is off again
see it happen to a couple of friends
seen it happen and the message it sends
takeing 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
another habit says it's in love with you
another habit says it's long 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
(line one, mighty fine)
watched from the window with a red mosquito
i was not allowed to leave the room
i saw the sun go down and now it's 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 a-waiting
red man's your neighbor
call it behavior
while you're climbing up slippery hills
two steps ahead of him
punctures in your neck
hovering just above your bed
hovering just above your bed
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 a-waiting
he's a-waiting there
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...
drive down the street
can't find the keys to my own fucking home
i'll take a walk
so i could curse my ass for being dumb
i'll make a right
after the arches
stinking grease and bone
stopped at the supermarket
people stare like i'm a dog
i'm going to lukin's
i've got a spot at lukin's
i knocked the door at lukin's
open the fridge
now i know life is worth
i found the key
but i return to find an open door
some fucking freak
who claims i fathered
by rape, her own son
i find my wife
i call the cops
this days work's never done
the last i heard that freak
was purchasing a fucking gun
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 spend your time alone
redigesting past regrets
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who can 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 lines
have you the belief that the road ahead
ascends off into the light?
seems that needlessly it's getting harder
to find an approach and a way to live
are we getting something out of this
all encompassing trip
you can spend your time alone
redigesting past regrets
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
oh, makes more sense to live in the present tense
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 faking it?
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 faking it?
if it's just inadvertent imitation
a pattern in all mankind
what's got the whole world faking it?
what's got the whole world faking...
what's got the whole world faking...
what's got the whole world faking...
what's got the whole world faking...
what's got the whole world faking it?
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's staring
he's 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's like to be an adult
if he only knew now what he knew then...
i'm open
i'm open
come in
i'm open
come in
lying sideways atop crumpled sheets
and no covers he decides to dream
dream up a new self for himself
i'm wishing you all well
mind a peace within your cell
covers up i cast you off
i'll be watching as you breathe
i lie still, you 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
all evenings 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 on
around the bend
