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Two dollar color pictures from a photo booth
Dirty stepped on lying out on the floor of their room
Faces fell long in the half light
He looks all wrong but that's her alright

Look at him smiling full of teeth
Clenched tight
He knew the one time with the army captain

I'm floating in a black balloon
O.D. on Easter afternoon
My mama told me "Baby stay clean
There's no in-between"
And all you ladies and you gentlemen
Between is all you've ever seen or been
Fit poorly and arrange the sight
Doll it up in virgin white

The litebrite's now black and white
Cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right
Pitch burning on a shining sheet
The only maker that you'd want to meet
The dying man in a living room
Whose shadow paces the floor
Who'll take you out in the open door
This is not my life

Everything is gone but the echo of the burst of a shell
And I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
In the city I built up and blew to hell
I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
Still I send all the time
My request for relief
Down the dead power line
Though I'm beyond belief

I've got a question mark.
You've got a need to always take some shot in the dark.
I don't need to make pretend the picture I'm in
is totally clear,
You think that all things have a way they ought to appear.

'Cause you know, you know, you know, you know,
you know, you know, you know, you know,

now that everybody's wanting expression
not that you wanted to use
it seems untrue now
but the funniest thing is
it fits you now
through the profanity

you may never understand this affliction

You walk down Alameda shuffling your deck of trick cards over everyone
Like some precious only son
Face down, bow to the champion
You walk down Alameda looking at the cracks in the sidewalk, thinking about your friends
How you maintain all them in a constant set of suspense

For your own protection, over their affection
Nobody broke your heart

Here come your pride and joy
The comic little drunk
You call your boy
Making everybody smile
Who takes your pretty plan
And then becomes a disappearing man
After a little while

All my rowdy friends have settled down
and they seem to be more in the laid back songs.
Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud.
Everybody just wants to go back home.
I myself have seen my wilder days
and I have seen my name at the top of the page,
but I need to find a friend just to hang around.
But nobody wants to get high on the town

Amity, Amity, Amity, Amity, Amity, Amity, Amity
Caught stars in her arms
Hello, hello kitty, happy in New York City
Amity walking like a lucky charm
I'm a neon sign and I stay open all the time
So let's go, go, go, go
Amity, Amity, God don't make no junk but it's plain to see
He still made me, he told me so

I'd say you make a perfect
Angel in the snow
All crushed out on the way you are
Better stop before it goes to far
Don't you know that I love you
Sometimes I feel like only a cold still life
That fell down here to lay beside you

Someone's always coming around here trailing some new kill
Says i seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill
And what's a game of chance to you, to him is one of real skill
So glad to meet you
Angeles
Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be made
Go on and lose the gamble that's the history of the trade
That you add up all the cards left to play to zero

Baby Britain feels the best
Floating over a sea of vodka
Separated from the rest
Fights problems with bigger problems

Sees the ocean fall and rise
Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
Water pouring from her eyes

Throwing candy out to the crowd
Dragging down the main
The helpless little thing with the dirty mouth
Who's always got something to say
You're sitting at home now
Waiting for your brother to call
I saw him down at the alley
Having had enough of it all

Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay

Drink up, baby, stay up all night.
With the things you could do,
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be,
That you'll never see,
The promises you'll only make

Drink up with me now,

drink up, baby, stay up all night
the things you could do, you won't but you might
the potential you'll be, that you'll never see
the promises you'll only make

drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days
do what I say and I'll make you okay and drive them away
the images stuck in your head

Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay

Pick me up in an hour or so
I don't really recommend it, no
They'll probably just put you down
I believe you
I wanna be you
I believe you
I wanna be you
I know you're not through with it yet

They're waking you up to close the bar
The street's wet, you can tell by the sound of the cars
The bartender's singing "Clementine"
While he's turning around the "Open" sign
"Dreadful sorry, Clementine"
Though you're still her man
It seems a long time gone
Maybe the whole thing's wrong

Molecules disipate, disperse and recoagulate
Breath in and out, there is nothing more

I am mist, you are steam, we are clouds
We are drifting away, drifting away
to one of many heavens where blue light prevails
We dream perfect music, we hang from our tails
to one of many hells and sharpen up our horns

Last stop for a resolution
End of the line, is it confusion?
So go. I can't see what's there for you
Nothing new, nothing new for you to use
I've got no new act to amuse you
I've got no desire to use you, you know
But anything that I could do, would never be good enough for you
If you can't help it then just leave it alone

I'm a junkyard full of false starts
And I don't need your permission
To bury my love
Under this bare light bulb
The moon is a sickle cell
It'll kill you in time
Your cold white brother all right in your blood
Like spun glass in sore eyes

She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Avenue
And she locked the car and slipped past
Into rhythmic quietude
Lights burning
Voice dry and hoarse
I threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth
The chimes fell over each other
I fell onto my knees

I met a girl, a snowball in hell
She was hard and as cracked as the Liberty Bell
I got her to come on and move in with me
And I said I'd find a better place we could spend eternity
Don't go down
Don't go down
Stay with me
Baby, stay

drink up, baby, stay up all night
the things you could do, you won't but you might
the potential you'll be, that you'll never see
the promises you'll only make

drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days
do what I say and I'll make you okay and drive them away
the images stuck in your head

Two-dollar color pictures
From a photo booth
Dirty, stepped-on, lying out
On the floor of their room
Faces fell long in the half-light
He looks all wrong,
But that's her alright
Look at him smiling full of teeth clenched tight

You're strong, you're stubborn now
In an endless symbolic war
Brave or bored, either/or

Sometimes I ricochet from the past
And at times a future I’ve already had before
Champion or chore, either/or

Everybody cares, everybody understands
Yes everybody cares about you
Yeah and whether or not you want them to
It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally
And a quiet lie that makes you wanna scream and shout
So here I lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun
Raining it's guiding light upon everyone

Someone found the future as a statue
In a fountain, at attention, looking backward
In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird
On his shoulder who keeps singing over everything

Everything means nothing to me

I picked up the song and found my picture

I never really had a problem because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her this evening
So if I seem a little out of it
Sorry
But why should I lie?
Everything reminds me of her
The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
And I got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people

Everything's okay
Walks along the dock
With some sailor's pay
Shoved down in his sock
Everything's okay
With some little boy in blue
Who don't know you like I do

Go on parade and fade
Hit the scene in slow
Spending all your time with some girl
You'll never get to know
Wound up tight
Dressed all in white
Some torment saint
Blowing out to drift

He waved hello, silent like a mime
There's no changing my mind
I won't walk the stairs with you tonight
Going nowhere
The clock moved a quarter of a turn
The time it took a cigarette to burn
She said, "You got a lot of things to learn"
Going nowhere

Activity's killing the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road turning traffic away
There was nothing she could do until after
When his body'd been buried below
Way back in the day
Oh my, nothing else could've been done
He made his life a lie
So he might never have to know anyone

Wish you gave me a number
Wish I could call you today
Just to hear a voice
I got a long way to go
Getting further away

If I didn't know the difference
Living alone would probably be ok

Something came from nothing today
While I was saying no

Well don't you knock on my door
I can't answer you anymore

Absence makes the heart grow fond
Of staying away from people

Seen you watching
Her every time she crosses the floor
So just go and talk to
Someone you really adore
I'm getting pretty used to being
The one you always ignore
When somebody wants you
I've seen it before

he held his breath to hold your hand
to walk the stairsteps in pairs
climbing up a slippery slope
im in love, love i hope
dont go home angelina
stay with me, hanging around the lost and found
kissed you quick feeling weird
lonely leeved and disappointed

Future butterfly, gonna spend the day higher than high
You'll be beautiful confusion
Ooh, once I was you

I saw you caught between all the people out making a scene
And a bright ideal, tomorrow
Ooh, don't go too far
Stay who you are

The imitation picks you up like a habit
Riding in the glow of the TV static,
Taking out the trash to the man,
Give the people something they understand.

Mistake a nervous flash for a fine line smile,
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a stock.
Rich man in a poor man's clothes,

the gentle little elaine,
spinning his hat on a cane
stepping out, out for change
good morning all, it's a beautiful day

the generals are winning a war
seemed suicidal before
you came alone, now

That you didn't tell him quite the truth
You're a crisis
You're an icicle
You're a tongueless talker
You don't care what you say
You're a jaywalker and you just, just walk away
And that's all you do
The clap of the fading-out sound of your shoes

I'll fake it through the day
With some help from johnny walker red
Send the poison rain down the drain
To put bad thoughts in my head
Two tickets torn in half
And a lot of nothing to do
Do you miss me, miss misery
Like you say you do?

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning
Some velvet rope on the curb
He gave me his stormiest warning
You held your head like a sign that said 'do not disturb'

Don't try being part of my life
Isn't gonna get you anywhere
Go by--just between us, you know, don't you know how much I care?

You can go any time you want
I won't watch if it hurts too much
But if you stay, I promise you I'll be
Better to you and better to me

I've been out to celebrate my new freedom
With a drink to you, 'cause you made it new
And I hate for people A through Z

Your hand on his arm
Haystack charm around your neck
Strung out and thin
Calling some friend, trying to cash some check
He's acting dumb
That's what you've come to expect
Needle in the hay
Needle in the hay

Ghost of your smile is always looking for
New bodies to haunt
And it's been here, it is up here
He's hanging around and he'll float for a while
Gradually gone
It's pleasing and freezing

While I wonder what it is you're after

At nighttime I go out and see the people
Air goes cool and hurrying on my way
And dressing so sweet, all the people to see
They're looking at me, all the people to see
And when I set my eyes on you
You look like a kitty
And when you're in the mood
Oh, you look so pretty

No confidence man
Charlie got a band in his hand
A rubber loop
Says I'm the man you really want
So just act natural
Don't try to tell me your bullshit scheme
'cos I have no idea what you mean
No idea

tired of looking sideways
with the things in black and white
no more, no more
arguing my case to the mean hounds of the night
what for? what for? what for?

put it in your face and let the peddles fall
cursing your family name

We arrived too late
our mouths were opening
I turned off the light
So come on night

you're a witness you
you've seen me interrupt
a good old fashioned fight

got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past
and everybody's gone at last
a sweet sweet smile that's fading fast
'cos everybody's gone at last
and you don't get upset about it
no not anymore
there's nothing wrong
that wasn't wrong before

here's the silhouette the face always turned away
the bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day
couldn't figure out what made you so unhappy
shook your head to say no no no
and stopped for a spell
and stayed that way
oh well, okay
i got pictures, i just don't see it anymore

I'll tell you why I don't want to know where you are
I got a joke I've been dying to tell you
The silent kid is looking down the barrel
To make the noise that I kept so quiet
I kept it from you, pitseleh

I'm not what's missing from your life now
I could never be the puzzle pieces

Almost forgot, started to say
Rode into the sun
Asked everyone, Hallelujah
Pretty Mary Kay

I found faith in the infirmary
There's a soldier lying in bed
With a wound to the head

a wallflower punch talks to judy
in a crowded corner where anybody can listen in
but they don't read page to page or speak easy
now they're gonna go say the words
in the wrong order again
they walk in a circle
through all the sidewalks scenes they used to be a part of one time
now everybody just stares and whispers

He played himself
Didn't need me to give him hell
He could be cool and cruel to you and me
Knew we'd put up with anything
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames

While the hands are pointing up midnight
You're a question mark coming after people you watched collide
You can ask what you want to the satellite
Cos the names you drop put ice in my veins
And for all you know, you're the only one who finds it strange
When they call it a lover's moon
The satellite
Cos it acts just like lovers do

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl,
Who's still around the morning after.
We broke up a month ago and I grew up, I didn't know,
I'd be around the morning after.
It's always been wait and see
A happy day and then you pay
And feel like shit the morning after.
But now I feel changed around and instead falling down,

You got a choke chain
Made out of night train
To keep your memory down
In quicksand from the main man
To gel everything out
Always out on a joyride
Lay it out from insides
Always at a dead stall

Here in line where stupid shit collides with dying shooting stars
All we got to show what we really are is the same kind of scars
And looking at you, all I see is you're waiting for something
Single file
You're a murder mile
You idiot kid
Your arm's got a death in it
If you're choking up, take this paper cup, but there's a price you'll pay

I had tender feelings that you made hard
But it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred
So when I go home, I'll be happy to go
You're just somebody that I used to know

You don't need my help anymore
It's all now to you, there ain't no before
Now that you're big enough to run your own show

something's happening, don't speak to soon i told the boss off and made my move got no where to go son of sam, son of a shining path, the clouded mind couple killer each and every time i'm not uncomfortable, feeling weird long revered options disappear but i know what to do son of sam, son of a doctor's touch, a nurse's love acting under orders from above... king for a day... son of sam, son of a shining path, the clouded mind couple killer running out of time shiva opens her arms now to make sure i don't get to far i may talk in my sleep tonight cause i don't know what i am i'm a little like you, more like son of sam

Killing a southern belle
Is all you know how to do
That, and give other people hell
It's what they expect from you too
But I wouldn't have you how you want
I don't want to walk around
I don't even want to breathe
I live in a southern town

He's pleased to meet you underneath the horse
In the cathedral with the glass stained black
Singing sweet high notes that echo back
To destroy their master
May be a long time 'til you get the call-up
But it's sure as fate and hard as your luck
No one'll know where you are

Everything is exactly right
When I walk around here drunk every night
With an open container from 7-11
In St. Ides Heaven
I've been out haunting the neighborhood
And everybody can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With my head full of stars

People sink your boat
When you cut a tragic figure
They drink their lemonade
And throw you a line

Boil your problem down
To yes or no, what's the matter?
They bomb your promenade

I sit here shooting blanks
Out at emptiness
Ain’t nothing really want to kill
Maybe time I guess
I sit and spin the world on its flipside
And I listen backwards for meaning

'Cause I’m a stickman

Got a foot in the door
God knows what for
And he'll cut me down to size
Stupidity tries
Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries

Baby got a place in the sun selling people shade
Renting out a room in a remote little corner
A profits promenade
Talking on the phone
Waiting for a ring
Well, everybody's trying to turn me into a suicide machine

I'll be riding forth on my pony

Cut this picture into you and me
Burn it backwards, kill this history
Make it over, make it stay away
Or hate’ll say the ending that love started to say

There’s a kid, a floor below me saying, "Brother can you spare?
Sunshine for a brother old man winter’s in the air"
Walked me up a story asking how you are

I'm waiting for the train
Subway that only goes one way
The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart
And make everybody late

You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
Now I'm a crashed credit card registered to Smith -

Keep your things in a place meant to hide
But I know theyre there somewhere
And I know thats where youll go tonight
Ill be thrown over just like before
The white lady loves you more
Need a metal man just to pick up your feet
Its a long time since you cared enough for me to even be discrete
I know what this metal is for

won't you let me walk you home from school?
won't you let me meet you at the pool?
maybe friday i can
get tickets from the dance
and i'll take you
ooo ooo ooo

won't you tell your dad get off my back?

(Cat Steven's Cover)

Trouble, oh trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me
Trouble, oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away and there's nothing much left of me
I drunk your wine

true love is a rose
behind glass that's locked and kept closed
maybe just for me
'cos my soul's been attacked
and shattered by tough love, bad love
i bought mine on the street
true love it just can't be beat
i felt so complete

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time
I better stop now before I start crying
Go off to sleep in the sunshine
I don't want to see the day when it's dying

She's a sight to see
She's good to me
I'm already somebody's baby

My flower would not unfold
Always waiting for some sunnier day
Quiet and patient, but afraid and hidden away
And the awful truth's been told, matter of fact
And I can't take it back and I wouldn't want to
Or at least that's what I say
Will you come out now?
Now that it's too late for me to be in on the scene

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy
Taxi lights shine so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise