Sometimes - Hail Hail - Who you are - In My Tree - Smile - Off He Goes - Habit - Red Mosquito - Lukin - Present Tense -
Mankind - Iīm Open - Around The Band
Lyrics
Sometimes
Large fingers pushinī paint...
Youī re god and you got big hands...
The colours 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 donīt
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all...
Sometimes I reach to myself, hear God...
Hail, Hail
Ah, is there room for both of us? Both of us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all weīve got?
I get the words, and then I get to thinkinī
But I donīt want to think, I want to feel!
How do I feel? And how do I...
If youīre the only one, well Iīll never be enough, yeah...
Hail, hail, the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
A-how I love you till the day I die... ah, and beyond...
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
Itīs egg rollinī thick and heavy... all the past we carry...
Oh, I could be new... you underestimate me...
If youīre the only one, well Iīll never be enough, yeah...
Hail, hail, the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
I sometimes realize... I could only be as good as youīll let me...
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand...
I find it out my run in a race that canīt be won, yeah...
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
I youīre my only one... so good, you only one...
I want to be your one... enough, you won... your one... your hun...
Who you are
Come to send, not condescend
Transcendental consequences to transcend...
Where we are... Who are we? Who we are...
Trampled moss on your souls...
Changes all, youīre a part...
Seen it all, not at all...
Canīt defend the command...
Take me for a ride before we leave...
Circumstances, clappinī hands...
A-driving winds, happenstance...
Off the track, in the mud...
Thatīs the moss in the aforementioned verse...
...miraculous... and a little...
Just a little time, before we leave...
Stoplight plays its part...
So I would say youīve got a part...
Whatīs your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are...
In My Tree
Up here in my tree, yeah...
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah... no...
No more crowbars to my head, yeah...
Iīm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah...
Wave to all my friends, yeah...
They donīt seem to notice me, no...
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh...
Sidewalk cigarettes and scenes, yeah... yeah...
Up here so high, I start to escape
Up here so high, the sky I scrape
Iīm so high, I hold just one breath here within my chest
Just like innocence...
I remember him, yeah...
I swore I knew everything, oh yeah...
They say knowledge is a dream, yeah...
Heīs growing up just like me, yeah...
Iīm so light, the wind he shakes
Iīm so high, the sky I scrape, yeah...
Iīm so light I hold just one breath and go back to my nest
Sleep with innocence...
Up here so high, the bars they break...
Up here so high, the sky I scrape...
Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...
Of my innocence... got back my innocence...
Baby, got it... still got it...
Smile
Donīt it make you smile? 2x
When the sun donīt shine, it donīt shine at all...
Donīt it make you smile?
Donīt it make you smile?
Donīt it make you smile? Yeah...
When the sun donīt shine, it donīt shine at all... yeah...
Donīt it make you smile?
I miss you already, yeah... I miss you always...
I miss you already, yeah... I miss you all day...
This is how I feel...
I... I miss you already, yeah... I miss you always...
The crooked heart swells all around, yeah... I miss you all day...
The crooked heart swells around, yeah...
Donīt it make you smile? 2x
The crooked heart swells around...
Off He Goes
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4...
Know a man... his face seemed pulled and tense...
Like heīs riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds...
So I approach with tact... suggest that he should relax...
But heīs always movinī much too fast...
Said heīll see me on the flipside
On this trip heīs taken for a ride
Heīs been takinī too much on...
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes...
Heīs yet to come back... but Iīve seen his picture...
It doesnīt look the same up on the racks...
We go way back...
I wonder ībout his insides...
Itīs been like his thoughts are too big for his size...
Heīs been taken... where, I donīt 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 heīs still strong...
Nothingīs changed, but the surrounding bullshit, that has grown...
And now heīs home, and weīre 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 gonna happen next...
Before his first step... he is off again...
Habbit
See it happen to a couple of friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Taking off for whatīs an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about
Itīs not your way... not your way...
Itīs not your way... yeah...
Another habit, sentence him up with you
Another habit, says heīs long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
Iīm so happy with my righteous self...
Itīs not your way... not your way...
Itīs not your way...
Never thought youīd habit... 3x
I never thought you, never thought you...
Never thought youīd habit... 3x
I never thought you, never, never thought you...
Never thought youīd habit 6x
Speaking as a child of the nineties...
Never thought youīd habit... 3x
I never thought you, never thought you...
Never thought youīd habit... 3x
I never thought you, never, never thought you...
Never... never me... never you... never me...
Red Mosquito
Watched from the window with a red mosquito...
I was not allowed to leave the room...
I saw the sun go down, and now itīs coming up...
Somewhere in the time between...
I was bitten... must have been the devil...
He was just payinī me...
A little visit, a-reminding me of his presence...
Lettinīme know... heīs waitinī for me...
Red manīs your neighbour, call it behaviour...
While youīre climbing up slippery hills...
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck...
Hoverinī just above your bed... 2x
I was bitten... must have been the devil...
He was just paying me...
A little visit, reminding me of his presence...
And lettinī me know... heīs a-waitinī... heīs a-waitinī...
Up there... yeah...
If I had known then what I know now... 4x
Lukin
Drive down the street, canīt find the keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk so I can curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches, stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like Iīm a dog
Iīve been goinīto Lukinīs... I gotta spot that Lukinīs...
I knocked the door at Lunkinīs... opened the fridge...
Now I know life is worth...
I find the key, but I return to find an open door
So fuckinī freezinī, the jump out the car, everybody wants some
I find my wife, I call the cops, this dayīs workīs never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun
Present tense
Do you see the way that three bends? Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sunīs rays... a lesson to be applied...
Are you gettinī something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize
Youīre the only one who can forgive yourself, oh yeah...
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense...
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked you hands and studied the lines?
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly itīs gettinī harder
To find and approach and a way to live...
Are we gettinī something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your life time alone redigesting past regrets, oh...
Or you can come to terms and realize...
Youīre the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh...
A-makes much more sense to live in the present tense...
Mankind
Youīll be... going out with radio...
Going out with disco... going out like bacchanal...
Iīll be... going out with telephone...
Going out alone... to the radar zone...
Itīs all just inadvertent, imitation, and I donīt mean mine
Itīs all across this nation...
If itīs just inadvertent, simulation, a pattern in all mankind
Whatīs got the whole world fakinī it?
Iīll be... playing with my magazine...
Using up my Listerine... like ovaltine...
And youīll be... youīre dippinī in your battleship...
For the latest tip... for the latest dream...
Itīs all just inadvertent, imitation, and I donīt mean mine
Itīs all across this nation...
If itīs just inadvertent, simulation, a pattern in all mankind
Whatīs the whole world fakinī it?
If itīs just inadvertent, imitation, a pattern in all mankind
Whatīs got the whole world fakinī it?
Whatīs got the whole world fakinī it? 4x
Whatīs got the whole world fakinī it, yeah?
Iīm Open
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 stared
He is 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 itīs like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then...
Iīm open... 2x
Come on in... 4x
Iīm open... 2x
Come on in... 4x
Iīm open...
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers he decides to dream...
Dream up a new self for himself...
Around The Bend
Iīm wishing you a-well... mind at peace within yourself...
Covers up, I cast you off... Iīll be watching as you breathe...
Iīd lie still, you move, Iīd send you off around the bend...
I hold your head deep in my arms... my fingertips they close you eyes...
Off you dream, my little child... thereīs a sun around the bend...
Thereīs a sun around the bend...
All the evenings close like this... all these moments that Iīve missed...
Please forgive, wonīt you, dear?
Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend...
Youīre an angel when you sleep...
How I want your soul to keep of and all around the bend...
