I was always told that's the way it goes
that's just how it has to be
people'd come and spell out all that I should know
still with all they've shown me, all I see's a
mystery to me, allright

Everybody fights their own way through time
to someday earn more than they owe
though now with just a nickel I can spend a dime
and find my way back home; just how's a 
mystery to me

It's a mystery to me, oh

Some of us explain everything we see
in terms so cut and dry and clear
having all the answers ain't the thing for me
we hide our faith, reveal our fear
of all those mysteries we see
and that's the mystery to me
it's a mystery to me...

There I was alone, sailing on the ocean
riptide done pulled me out to sea
a cruel wave makes a wreckage of my craft
just then I see a raft

She's a lifeboat
and she reaches out her hand
lifts me up again, over her shoulder
she's a lifeboat
and she takes me as I am
I'll give her all I can, oh how I owe her

Diving off my speedboat in the open waters
to escape the frantic pace of life
but sharks surround me as I'm kicking freestyle
I'm spun around as someone smiles

From a lifeboat...

Oh, together we'll row (oh, I wanna row with you)

Cruising on the greatest transatlantic liner
iceberg sends the masses tumbling overboard
she's a lifeboat, but will I ever find her
in this sea of souls here freezing in the cold
I'm not the only man here floating in a vest
I only pray that all the rest
find their lifeboats, if they can
before they get much colder

She's a lifeboat...

Oh, together we'll row

Well, everybody in my world plays a little guitar
everybody in my world needs to be the little rockstar
we dream of all the people lining up to see our show
we pull and tug at all our friends, saying hey you gotta go

Down to see the little rockstar
let me be the little rockstar

Well, folks will often ask how we ever make a dime
when the owners of these clubs are so rarely sober after nine
I said we hold our hats for tips to be hip and on the scene
everybody in my world knows exactly what I mean

As we dream to be the rockstar
and we scheme to be the rockstar
do I seem to be  the rockstar

Holding you're hand, being in love with you
here is a plan with some heart
in this cruel land, it's enough having you
when we tire of refrains and playing the part
I could be your little rockstar...

How we need to be the rockstar
and we bleed to be the rockstar
help me please to be the rockstar
oh, I need to be the rockstar

A crowd of tiny people may seem so small
a crowd of tiny people can build one great big wall
with all the muscle to break a giant's fall
'cause they ain't no tiny people at all

Aren't we all great and small

A crowd of tiny people can fill the street
a crowd of tiny people taking on oppressive heat
they won't be moving 'till someone hears their call
'cause they ain't no tiny people at all

Aren't we all...

So don't count anybody out
we're never down for the count, though we may fall
watch us continue this bout
with no fear of other creatures short or tall
'cause we ain't no tiny people at all

Aren't we all...

A crowd of tiny people right there off  the stage
a crowd of tiny people staring right into my cage
them restless soldiers may let me thrive or crawl
'cause they ain't no tiny people, ain't no tiny people at all

Aren't we all...

All the tiny people, where do they all come from
all the tiny people, I know we all belong

I've been listening in and hearing all your latest hints
you've been hiding, I've been trying to give you a ring
well, I will wait, my darling darling
I will wait, my darling darling

I could keep on writing letters until I drain the pen
I could find a better way to say it all again
but I will wait, my darling darling
I will wait, my darling darling

I'll be waiting for your hand
the offer stands

I'm not straying, I'm still behaving with my naughty friends
all I know is all you show is sweeter than all them
so I'll keep waiting for you, for you
I'll be waiting for you, for you

I'll be waiting...

Well, sometimes I can't just wait to find a space
 where no one knows my silly little face
won't you join me and baby let's enjoy 
the saccred essence of that place where
we could hide together, together
we could try together, together
we could lie there together, together
we could fly for ever and ever
the offer stands for ever and ever

The offer stands forever, yea
the offer stands...
I'll be waiting...

I said whoa, no, crippling ego

Boy, we've got a lot to learn
for this fire here to burn
must define these mysteries
surrounding this disease, who are we

Forcing pieces that don't fit
the jigsaw puzzle of such wit
trying so hard not to care
'cause we're really so damn scared of everything

I said whoa...

Always gotta save some face
making every deed some race
just competing against ourselves
so convinced that no one else would ever dare

There, I've layed it on the line
so I must be doing fine
spoke some truth, and now I'm free
Yeah I've found humility, let's boast to everybody

Please no, no, crippling ego
I said whoa...

Oceans in everyone
are swallowing every fear
though they're ready and waiting deep below
for something all too real
to wrestle a dream apart

Back where the falls are clear
them trees they stand proud and tall
the slippery stones we'd always throw
and sweet sounds that we used to hear
call me again to start (to)

Take me back to Cedar Falls
take me back to Cedar Falls

Back at those falls we'd stare
entranced by the water's flow
expressing our gratitude to the truth
back at the falls we shared
a dream that we'd never part (so)

Take me back...

What ever happened to being a rockstar
that doesn't matter much to me
got a good woman and a decent old car
I pay for fuel, the love is free

Well, aren't we tired of the tunes we're always rearranging
like getup & standup, and the times they are a changing now
content to making sense by looking at the present
and counting all my gifts without waiting for more to be sent

We're gonna finally find who we are
and the places that we wanted to be
and when we finally find who we are
we'll stopour chasing and start to believe

What ever happened to being a big ball player
I find it wasn't meant for me
but I still got that bat and a mitt of worn out leather
and I can crush the pitching machines

Well, aren't we tired of the games everybody's playing
like where depending on your opinion 
I might revise what I've been saying now
just to get ahead,and we'll forget all that we believed in
so we could strike that deal, and feel like heroes by the weekend 

Were gonna finally...

What ever happened to the here and now we see
we don't have to stretch so far
to reach into the stars, listen to me

We're gonna finally...

What ever happened to being a rockstar
that doesn't matter much to me
got a good woman and a decent old car
I pay for fuel, the love is free
when we find who we are

Well, come around and let it all begin
I want you
find the courage, take a chance on us again
I want you, and I want you now

Hold me, trust me, let me in
only love can say I'm sorry
and you're the only love I'm in
every day I pray I'm worthy

I want you now...

Well, let the time you're mine be all that's out there now
I want you
let me find the rhyme to shout these words out loud
I want you, and I want you now

Oh, I do
oh, I say I want you

I want you...

I'll find the way you and find the time
 we'll find a way, I want you now...

Got front row seats to see the year two-thousand
from my quiet place there on the hill
I'll grab some brews and wait for Armageddon, now
with two thousand rounds that kill, boy
and I probably will

Got front row seats to see the year two-thousand
and watch them freaks all screaming Y2K
all them machines could drive a crazy man insane
I'd love to blow them droids away
'cause I got something to say

When you walk a line as thin as I, always chased by father time
stumbling like a drummer with no clue 
you do what you gotta to do, boy
hell, I might just do it, too

Got front row seats to see the year two-thousand
strapped in and peering down from outer space
there in a spell back at the old crossbar motel
just three months after my release, boy
re-captured by them police

When you walk a line as thin as I, always chased by father time
stumbling like a drummer with no clue
they can't take no chance on you, boy
until twenty thirty-two, boy
no, they just can't take no chance on you, boy
hell, I might have done it, too

Got front row seats to see the year two-thousand
in the year two-thousand

The night is getting older now, I know
we've crawled along complaining we're too slow
bound by all the cynics think, we're drowning in the critics' ink
before they've ever even seen the show

Although the night is getting older
we shall be much more before the dawn
when night is feeling cold
our fire keeps us warm until the sun comes rising
and we carry on

The night is getting older now, it seems
to hoist the wistful wind into the trees
it taps me on the shoulder in a dream of love and order
whispering  why you always wrestling with those schemes

Although the night...