Table For Glasses
Sweep the dirty stairs
The ones I waited on
This is just for me
I felt it watching her
It happens too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Where do you intend to go with your dirty dress?
Lead my skeptic sight to the table and the light
It happened too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Not asking of me anything
Saying nothing about what it means
Without anybody telling me how I should feel
Lead my skeptic sight
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Lucky Denver Mint
This time it’s on my own
Minutes from somewhere else
Somewhere I made a wish with lucky Denver mint
You’re not bigger than this, not better
Why can’t you learn?
Hurry go on ahead
Good things won’t let you wait
I’ll catch up when we get home
At home I’ll leave
A dollar under water keeps on dreaming for me
You’re not bigger than this, not better
Why can’t you learn?
Why can’t I learn?
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Your New Aesthetic
We’re lowering the standards in a process selective
The formula is too thin
But it takes more than one person
So everyone jump on
I’ll miss you when you’re just like them
Imitate and water down
Until we crash I’ll write it out:
Selection breathes on its own
Make them open the request line and let selection kill the old
Turn off your radio
I remember back then thinking:
Easy comes but doesn’t stay
What comes easy never stays
But the politics need means
And business never leaves
You better sing now while you can
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Believe In What You Want
Don’t bother going through your motions
Nothing that makes sense ever works out
Don’t kid yourself; you know they want money
Nothing can be good on its own merit
You have it always
Spinning and spinning
Dancing in plastic, shake-up snow
Do you believe in what you want?
Put your trust in simple acts
Make the flyers; get them up all over town
Don’t kid yourself; you know they want money
Please keep in sight what makes you care
You have it always
Spinning and spinning
Dancing in plastic, shake-up snow
Do you believe in what you want?
Your camera flash
On us, meaningless
You cannot waste a single night
What you ignore is priceless to me
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A Sunday
On a Sunday I’ll think it through
On the drive back I’ll think it through
What you wish for wont come true
I live with that
On a Sunday she thought it through
Now as I drive back
there’s 36 less hours I have to change the course I send myself
I got to live with that
The haze clears from your eyes on a Sunday
On a Sunday go once around
Because when the ride’s done
The hopes that you have carried
They fall out from your hands back to the ground
Live with that
Learn as the drugs leave
Learn as you lose it
You will
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Crush
Faintest snow keep falling
Hands around your waist
Nameless, standing cold
Life again
Take in restrain like a breath
My lungs are so numb from holding back
Walk close to the fence
Feel it hit your clothes
Turn and smile nice
Smile say good night
Say goodnight in a breath
Simple discourse breaks you clean in half
Regret
Do try it once and then you know
Your move
Settle for less again
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12.23.95
Didn’t mean to leave you hanging on, all alone
Merry Christmas baby
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Ten
We left behind the busy crowd
So it seems we slow down
Meet me with a way out through the lies
Nowhere, going nowhere in the fake yellow light
The feelings change so fast
Safety scares them away
I cant bring myself to say it, it’s my own advice I need
Nowhere and then nowhere living trapped inside the chase
Our weakness is the same
We need poison sometimes
So take another drink with me
Blame no one
Look in my eyes and blame no one
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Just Watch The Fireworks
Here you can be anything
I think that scares you
I’ve been here before but only by myself
What giving up gives you and where giving up takes you
I’ve had and I’ve been
Here in center frame, here there’s only air
And just enough space to fit
I said it out loud over and over but what do I know?
I said it out loud but it did not help
I’ll stop now
Just so I can hear you I stay up as late as it takes
As long as it takes
I promised I’d see it again
I promised I’d see this with you now
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For Me This Is Heaven
The first star I see may not be a star
We can’t do a thing but wait
So let’s wait for one more
The time, such clumsy time in deciding if it’s time
I’m careful but not sure how it goes
You can loose yourself in courage
The mindless comfort grows when I’m alone with my “great” plans
This is what she says gets her thought it:
“If I don’t let myself be happy now, then when?”
If not now, when?
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes around again
Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?
Close my eyes and believe wherever you are, an angel for me
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Blister
Take advantage of these times, you said
You let me down
It hasn’t been the first time
As I’m falling in the pit of fire, my mind’s made up
I’m never coming back here
How long would it take me to walk across the United States all alone?
The west coast has been traumatized
I think I’m the only one still alive
Is it just a coincidence to see you by yourself with no direction?
Now it’s time to move on.
Don’t you know that things aren’t getting better?
Don’t try and stop me
Because I’m falling fast into this pit of fire which surrounds us all
In a blanket of fear that I’ve been wrapped in for years
You can’t stop me
When the world caves in, what are you going to do for me?
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Clarity
I’ll take your words as if you were talking to me
Say what I know you’ll say, and say it through your teeth
With pride, keep every failure in
And with pride, hold on to your sinking
Now in the deep and down, your heart moves
Now in the deep and down
I don’t know how but I know I want out
Wait for something better
Will I know when it can be us?
Maybe that doesn’t mean us
Wait for something better?
I shouldn’t, it’s not enough
Pull one excuse from another
Just one excuse from another
This time it means us
Stop
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Goodbye Sky Harbor
"Is tomorrow just a day like all the rest?”
How could you know just what you did?
So full of faith yet full of doubt I ask
Time and time again you said don’t be afraid
“If you believe, then you can do it”
The only voice I want to hear is yours
Again
I shall ask you this once again
And again
He said: “I am but one small instrument”
Do you remember that?
So here I am above palm trees so straight and tall
You are smaller, getting smaller
But I still see you
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