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LETTERS FROM THE WASTELAND:
Now coming down
From out of this swan dive to your arms
I make no sounds
When I move through your reservoir
But I wake up quick
And I wake up sick
As you abandon me
Into these fields of rank and file
Through this crowd I hear you breathing
And through these bars I watch them bring more in
Chorus:
Now I send back letters
From the wasteland home
Where I slow dance
To this romance on my own
It may be two to tango
But boy, just one to let go
It's just one to let go
Now boy keep still
Don't spread yourself around
Get back in line
Eat your bread and just work the plow
'Cause you're not through
They're not done with you
Did you think you were
The only one that's been let down
So sleep tight
Little boys of the new damned
Another drop in the Tidal wave of quicksand
Now I send back letters
From the wasteland home
Where I slow dance
To this romance on my own
It may take two to tango
But boy, just one to let go
Now another bad idea gets through
Down the assembly line to you
You're every bridge I should have burned
Every lesson I've unlearned
But in the smoke filled waiting room
with incarcerated love sick fools
I wait for you to cut me loose
Til then I....
Send back letters from the wasteland home
Where I slow dance to this romance on my own
Now I send back letters
From the wasteland home
I slow dance
To this romance on my own.
HAND ME DOWN:
You won't ever amount to much
You won't be anyone
Now tell me what you were thinking of
How could you think you would be enough
It's not that you have stayed too long
And it's not that you've done something wrong
It's not your fault
That you embarrass us all
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You're a hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you won't ever make us proud
You've been used by an army of kings
You've been touched by the lips of a queen
Now we've all made good use of you
But you won't be needed again
So why don't you move and let someone else in
And make some room for a new harlequin
'Cause you never know when
You'll disappoint us again
You're a hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you won't ever make us proud
Now you're a hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you could never make us proud
Hand me down
Now look at you
With your worn out shoes
Living proof evolution is through
We're stuck with you
This revolution is doomed
'Cause you're a hand me down
It's better when you're not around
You feel good and you look like you should
But you could never make us proud.
SLEEPWALKER:
Maybe I could be the one they adored
That could be my reputation
It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore
I'm an educated virgin
Now sleepwalker don't be shy
Don't open your eyes tonight
You'll be the one
That defends my life when I'm
Dead asleep dreaming
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Cupid don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
I'll never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
And god, only know that I've tried
Let me in
Let me drown or learn how to swim
Just don't leave me at the window
I could be the one to be your next best friend
You may need someone to hold you
Sleepwalker take this knife
You may see someone tonight...
And you'd be the one to save my life
When I'm dead asleep dreaming
Now Cupid don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
And god, only know that I've tried
I'm in your movie
And everyone looks sad
I can hear your voice
In the laugh track
But you never saw my best scene
The one where I sleep
Sleepwalk into your dream
Now sleepwalker, what's my line
It's only a matter of time until I
Learn to open up my eyes
When I'm dead asleep dreaming
Now Cupid don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
Now the sleepwalker in me
Now the sleepwalker in me
And god, only that I've tried.
I'VE BEEN DELIVERED:
well, I could break free
From the wood of a coffin
If I need
But nothing's as hard as
Getting free from places
I've already been
I've been waist deep
In the burning meadows
Of my mind
In the engine
In cold December
Shooting fire from the hose
Now, turn off your lights
'Cause I'm not coming home
'Til I'm delivered
For the first time
I was first born to a parade
It follows in rows
Down a narrow, cold black river
Faceless shadows moving slow
I would move swift when
The sounds of a trumpet would blow
I've been the puppet
I've been the strings
I know the vacant face it brings
Now the bells of curfew
They may ring before I'm through
But soon, I'll be delivered for the first time
You might keep clean
In the back of an angel motorcade
It doesn't matter who walks in
You know, the joke is still the same
You'll just wake up
Like a disposable lover
Decomposed
I've been gone
I've been remembered
I've been alive
I've been a ghost
Now when downtown explodes
I'll still be on this road
Til I'm delivered
For the first time
I have drawn blood
From the neckline
When the vampires were in fashion
You know, I'd even learn
To cut my throat
If I thought I could fit in
'Cause I once heard
That you've gotta learn
How to blend in to this mess
Where nothing's hard
Nothing's precious
Nothing's smooth or flawless
Now, no more amused
Just screaming to be delivered
For the first time
Now I'm ten miles
In the deep
And the mighty blue sea
Looking back towards a long white beach
Burning up into yellow flames
And I just wave back
Like a little boy up on a pony
In a show
'Cause I can't fix
Something this complex
anymore than I can build a rose
So just keep on letting go
'Cause I must be close
To being delivered for the first time
Now I'd rather bleed out
A long stream from being lonely
And feel blessed
Than drown
laying face down
In a puddle of respect
I was once lost
In the corridors of the arena
In blindfolds
I've been the bull
I've been the whip
I just pulled down the matador
So now, turn on your lights
'Cause I'm coming home
I've been delivered for the first time.
WITNESS:
I'm standing outside your window, baby, And there you are, Another year, another candle's burning, For the party girl, No one even knows you're there, Happy birthday, No one cares, You come around here, You'd better bring a witness, Every one in here's on the guest list, And when you're gone you won't be missed, Keep one eye open, When you kiss, Your wishes won't be coming true this year, Darlin' don't you cry, We're gonna teach you everything, You'll learn to get by, Now lesson number one is homicide, Is emotional murder's no crime, You come around here, You'd better bring a witness, Everyone in here's on the guest list, When you're gone, you won't be missed, Keep one eye open, When you kiss, Sticks and stones baby break your bones, But the names in here can kill, We'd let you leave, But no one else wants you, Your ransom was not made, Now you don't have to stand up tall, But now baby you must stand up, You come around here, You'd better bring a witness, Everyone in here's on the guest list, Now we've never been so impressed, Keep one eye open, When, whenever you kiss.
SOME FLOWERS BLOOM DEAD:
We didn't make it, We did not pull through, You shouldn't blame me, I don't blame you, Now what else did you think, That I would do?, As if it wasn't hard enough, I'm so tired of waking up, Feelin' bad, You haven't been the kind of place I have, It couldn't have hurt you now, To let this pass, As if it wasn't hard enough, You wanna make it so much harder, Now in another world, I could learn to forget, But 'til then I'm here, Making room for new regrets, Now some flowers they never bloom, But some flowers just bloom dead, The way you make me feel, I could collapse, An epicemic I cannot outlst, How could you feel used, When I feel trapped?, As if it wasn't hard enough, Just as my conscience, Starts to clear, I drag the river and you're still there, The way I bring you down, Could not compare, As if it wasn't hard enough, You wanna make it so much harder, Now in another world, I could learn to forget, But 'til then I'm here, Making room for new regrets, Now some flowers they never bloom, But some flowers just bloom dead, Now some flowers they never bloom, And some flowers just bloom dead, The way I sleep, This bed just can't be made, I pull the covers up around my head, Now when I think of me, I think of somebody else instead, As if it wasn't hard enough, You're gonna make it so much harder, Now in another world, I could learn to forget, But 'til then I'm here, Making room for new regrets, And now some flowers they never bloom, And some flowers just bloom dead, Now some flowers never bloom, And some flowers just bloom dead.
MOURNING TRAIN:
Well, Mama don't ya send me no love this month
My heart is all used up
And Mama, I wanna come home
I wanna get back home
Chorus:
So look out into the morning rain
Cause I'm on, ooh, the mourning train
I'm bringing down my suitcase now
And I'm shining up my good shoes brown
Cause no one knows my name
No one knows my name
Chorus
And mister, you can't hurt me now
You got my girl, I still don't know how
But it don't matter now
No, it don't matter now
Chorus
UP FROM UNDER:
I'm down here in the well, Looking back up at the hill, I thank heavens I fell, I must look more, Like myself, Now everyone is so kind, Everyone looks like, A long-lost friend of mine, I'm up on top of the world again, When I'm looking, Up from under Babylon, I had a home in the fields, Earned my wage in the factories there, And I was raised by the mill, And I worked with my brothers there, I told my mother I'd always write, Headed west for the coast, With the big city lights, Now mama I'm so sorry I'd forgotten, But now I'm looking, Up from under Babylon, Now tell me how far I've been, How deep was I in, Tell me how I conceived, The vanity to believe, That I would not be outnumbered, But the thumbs that I have been under, Stray dogs in the street, learn how to beg, steal, borrow, and cheat, And in the dead summer hear, I fell asleep with blood on my teeth, But those days before I met you girl, Were just like ice cream falling down, On the shoes of my world, I'm so happy that you're my friend, When we're looking, Up from under Babylon, When we're looking, Up from under Babylon.
MURDER 101:
Never thought that I knew too much
Always thought I knew enough
I didn't want to learn this stuff
I didn't ever want to be that tough
But love was just implied
And everything else died
Well this class has now begun
In Murder 101
You can learn in the first degree
You could even make yourself believe
That you'll never even think of me
When you're packing up your things to leave
Now my intuition failed
I can't graduate unskilled
They don't excuse the young
This is Murder 101
Find yourself another heart that needs a rest
Tie a hook onto a single thread
Drop it down beneath the chest
That's the first part of this test
They'll grade you on a curve
They're including everyone
No matter what you've heard
Y'know this class has now begun
Drop out before they come
To Murder 1 X 1
Just look what we've done
In Murder 101
Just look what we've done
In Murder 101
BIRDCAGE:
So sad, That you took it so badly, And acted so madly, So scared, Like a baby by the morning, With sunlight unfolding, Your eyes have turned red, And are holding me, Inside your story, In the end, You'll be starting a new one, Of anguish and delusions, He smiles, Just like a magician, Who's just cast your illusions, Of castles and sandstones, On the backbeach, And bright lights, Within your reach, The sounds, Of a warning, By the morning, Of hound dogs coming for me, With the ropes, Leading back to your knees, And you looking straight at me, On your knees in the rain, With a basket of flowers, Just for me, As the bells in the trees up above, All swung and rang softly, You said you rang them for me, For me.
BABY BIRD
Come back baby bird
With your dirty wings in tatters
Come home where you belong
Nobody knows you better
Bring back your velvet heart
And we'll make you brand new feathers
And sleep through the morning light
With your arms around your brother
Chorus:
Baby bird, come back home
Baby bird, you're never really on your own
Now outside faces cry
With the tears of lonesome orphans
And behind every mask
Is a face of another
Wherever you have been
Wherever you took cover
No arms that pulled you in
Could hold you like your mother
Chorus
When all my colors fade
And my wings, they turn to leather
I'll know the reasons
Why God let me get older
When all my days are through
And I fight these hills no longer
I'll lay beneath the stars
And I'll watch you flying over
Chorus
Repeat Chorus