Sometimes
Hail,
Hail
Who
You Are
In
My Tree
Smile
Off
He Goes
Habit
Red
Mosquito
Lukin
Present
Tense
Mankind
I'm
Open
Around
the Bend
Large fingers pushing paint,...
You’re god and you got big
hands,...
The 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 live
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes
I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes
I reach to myself dear God
Hail,
Hail
Ahh...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 wanna
feel...
How do I feel?...How do I?...
If you’re the only one will I
never be nothing?...
Hail, Hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love,
yeah...
Swore I’d love til the day I die...And beyond...
Are we going
to the same place?...If so, Can I come?...
It’s egg rolling thick &
heavy...Oh, The past we carry...
Oh, I could be new...You underestimate
me...
If you’re the only one will I never be nothing?...
Hail, Hail
the lucky ones, I refer to those in love, yeah...
Stop.
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, yeah...
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love,
yeah...
If you’re my only one...So good you, only one...
I want to be your
one...enough...you won...your one...your one...mmmmm...
ooh....
Who Are You
Come to send not
conscend
transcendental consequence
is to transcend where we are
who
are we who we are
trampled moss on your souls
changes are 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
uh, gliding
wings have been since
off the track in the mud
that's the moss in the
aforementioned verse
live a little, whooaaa
and a
little,...
ahhh
just a little time before we leave
stop light
plays its part
so I would say you've got a heart
what's your part who you
are
you are who who you
are
yeah,...oooh
yeah,...
?????????
yeah,...
In My Tree
Up here in my tree, yeah...Newspapers
mailing up to me, yeah...No...
No more crowbars to my head, yeah...I’m
trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah...
Wave to all my friends,
yeah...They don’t seem to notice me, no...
Ahh, Their eyes straight on the
street, yo, ohh...Sidewalks, cigarettes, and seams, yeah, yeah...
Up here
so high I shart to shake...Up here so high the sky I scrape...
I’m so high I
hold just one breath...Keep breath in my chest just like
innocence...
????
I rememeber when, yeah...I swore I knew
everything, oh yeah...
I say knowledge is a tree, yeah...It’s growing up just
like me, yeah....
Mmm...I’m so like the wind he sheds...I’m so light the
sky I scrape, yeah...
I’m so high I hold just one breath...Fall back to my
nest, sleep with innocence...
Up here so high the bows 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...
That’s right my innocence...Still got it, still
got it...
Smile
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?...
Ohh...When the sun don’t shine, it don’t shine at all,
yeah...
Don’t it make he smile?...
I miss you already, hey,
hah,...I miss you always...
I miss you already, hey, hah,...I miss you all
days...
This is how I feel...
Ohhh, I miss you already, hey, hah,...I
miss you always...
Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...I miss you
all day...ooh...
Don’t it make you smile?...Don’t it make you
smile?...
Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...
Don’t it make
you smile?...Three crooked hearts swirls all around, yeah...
Off He Goes
One, Two, One, Two...
Know a
man...His face seems 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 taken for a ride...
He’s been takin’...too
much on...off he goes
with his perfectly...unkept clothes...there he
goes...
He’s yet to come back...but I see his picture...
Doesn’t look
the same up on the rack...We go way back...
I wonder bout 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
knew just what is going to happen next...
Before his first step...He is
off again...
Here we go...
Habit
See it happen to a couple of
friends...
See it happen and the message it sends...
Taking 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:.. ehhh,...
Another habit says
it’s in love with you...
Another habit says it's love’s 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...
Little 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 itls 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
awaiting...oh...
Red man’s your neighbor call it behavior
While you’re
climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him
Punctures in his
neck
Hovering 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
Letting me know he's awaiting...he’s
awaiting...oh...yeah...
Yeah...
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...
Lukin
Drive down the street, can't find the keys to
my own fuckin' 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 I'm a dog
I've been goin' to Lukin's...I
gotta spot that Lukin's...
I knocked the door at Lukin's...opened the
fridge...
Now I know life is worth...
I find the key, but I return to find an open door
So fucking freezin',
they jump out of the car, everybody wants some*
I find my wife, I call the
cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing
a fucking gun
(* Note: This line seems, stangely, to just as easily
be:
Some fuckin' freak who claims I fathered by rape her one
son)
Present Tense
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’t spend your time alone redigesting past
regrets, oh...
Oh, you can’t come to terms and realize you’re the only one
who can’t 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 light?...
Have you’d of believed that the road ahead
ascends off into the light?...
Seems that needlessly it’s getting harder to
find an approach and know where to live...
Are we getting something out of
this all encompassing trip?...
You can’t spend your time alone
redigesting past regrets, oh...
Oh, you can’t come to terms and realize
you’re the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh...
Oh, makes much more
sense to live in the present tense...
?????
Ohhhh...
Mankind
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
fakin? Yeah...
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
fakin? Yeah...
If it’s just inadvertent imitation a pattern in all
mankind
What’s got the whole world fakin?...What’s got the whole world
fakin?...What’s got the whole world fakin?
What’s got the whole world
fakin?...What’s got the whole world fakin?
What’s got the whole world
fakin?Yeah, yeah...
I’m 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 it is like to be an adult. If he only knew
now what he knew then.
I’m open...I’m open...I’m open...
Come
in...Come in...Come in...Come in...
I’m open...I’m open...yeah...
Come
in...Come in...Come in...Come in...
???
Lying sideways atop crumpled
sheets and no covers he decides to dream. Dream up a new self for
himself.
Around the Bend
I’m wishing
you are well...Mind at peace within yourself...
Covers up I guess you
all...I’ll be watching as you breathe...
I lie still you’ll 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...There it is...
There’s a sun around the bend...
All
evening’s 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 all around the bend...