- Already Down
Stay away from me because
I might just lose my cool
It happens every time you know
And makes me feel the fool
There are times when I don't know who I am
When I don't think I ever will or can
You and I it always seems that we can't get it right
- Better Day
Everybody wants to find a way
Everybody wants a better day
You want to know, you've gotta find a better way
You want to know, you've gotta find a better day
Everybody got to get along
Everybody wants a better song
You want to know, you've gotta find a better way
- Blue
Hey now, the storm is overhead
I can't believe the words you said
Somehow I missed the point that we were only friends
To me it seems that I've been blind
To you it's all so well defined
Now here I sit my hands, holding up my head
It should have been me
- Born Too Late
Vincent, will you teach me how to paint?
Theresa, will I ever be a saint?
John, I really think your songs are great
I was born too late
William, will you teach me how to write?
And Cassius, will you show me how to fight?
Thomas A, I think I see the light
I was born tonight
- Caroline
You can scrutinize my actions, you can break me into fractions, you can walk away
You can polarize my friends, destroy the letters that I send or you can run away
You can terrorize my neighbors with your Mr. Hyde behavior, you can drink away
You can exorcise your demons, bite and scratch and kick and scream, you can act away
And if you ever open your eyes, you won't find me standing in line
You can cauterize my feelings with your flaming tongue leave me reeling you can talk away
You can compromise my passion, call me fake and call me fashion, you can write away
You can rationalize a purchase with my money and say it's worth it
- Daylights
Don't look around for me
Don't tell me what you wanna be
Don't say it's not the same
Don't walk ahead and then lose your way
You scare the daylights out of me
You scare the daylights out of me
Don't stand outside my door
Don't tell me what you're living for
- Flame
The ceiling's low the walls are thin
The little stars upon your skin
I cannot sleep I'm wound too tight
The morning comes and I feel alright
Take me down home on holiday
Lead me to your secret hiding place
Let your hair fall down onto my face
- Gypsy Lounge
My sometimes lady
Call her sexy Sadie when she comes around
She dances for me
I spend my twenty when I roll through town
I think I'll be leaving
There's no one here I have not been
There's no more believing
- Hell On Wheels
I've got the moon over my shoulder, I'm not a looking back
I've got the world in my headlights, and it just feels right
This stream of consciousness, no surprise
I can see when I close my eyes, tonight
I've got a Civic to my right, and he's starts talking smack
One thing I can't, ignore, is a punk like that
He's the devil I know or the devil I don't
- Hesitating
Saw this kid get busted
Got thrown against a wall
I saw Ron and Nancy doing laps inside the mall
I seen cops and razors
Sixteen years go by
My best friend's been in institution
Seen the other side
'Cause living in this city makes me feel so helpless
- Hey You
If your gonna jump, hey you hang on
If you feel like giving up, hey you hang on
Won't forget today sun is bright, sky is blue yeah
The pain will go away in another year or two
If you got a phone, hey you call home
If you got a voice, hey you rejoice
- Highwire
My head wouldn't give a second thought
About telling me what to do
My feet wouldn't give another inch
If they were giving it up to you
I'm on the highwire, yelling burn fire
My heart wouldn't have another chance
After all that I've been through
- If I Can't Have You
Hey now listen you've been on my mind,
I think about you too much of the time.
I hear you calling but I don't know when,
My arms are open and my hair is thin.
If I can't have you.
If I can't have you.
I'm gonna find someone new.
- Let It Go
Good days, bad days, pioneers of love and hope and sex and dreams
and Sunny came clear
Everything reminds me of my baby
Late night, skin tight, dresser drawers going down on dirty boulevard
five and dime store whores
Everything reminds me of my baby
I keep thinking maybe time will mend this broken down
I keep thinking I'm not crazy
- Let Me Die
Got a message on the phone
She said let's meet I'm all alone
Do you want to see me die
Would you please stop by
She knows I follow her around
Ever since she came to town
She dreams about me in her sleep
- Lock and Key
I keep it under lock and key
My world is heavy can you hear my plea
I'm growing tired of this tear-stained eye
Sometimes I wonder why I even try
So I keep it under lock and key
I guess it wasn't really meant to be...
Andf I keep it under lock and key
- Madeline
Madeline flows like the summer stream
She talks with her eyes, she moves in a dream
Serenity grows in a pasture of green, and Madeline flows
Abagail flies on a silver wing
She might let me go she might let me sing
Prosperity lies in a mountain of things, and Abagail flies
When you find her tell her you don't mind the way that she crosses her legs
- Mercury
Leave for the country let the day begin
I carry my share of original sin
I'm writing you a letter from a telephone
Sign it messenger man in the great unknown
And I want to be like Mercury
With the wind blowin' through my hair
- Now and Then
Days pass and the weeks go by
Dream for hours 'bout the future
See the faces and the names go by
Between now and then
These days
Years pass and your life goes by
All the while you stop to wonder
- Penny on the Floor
There's a penny on the floor and you're gone
The television's on
Have you found another man to take my place
There's a penny on the floor and I'm wise
I try to see in your eyes
But all I see is a reflection of my face
- She Revolves
She says she's free
But she's got a baby and she don't look free to me
She don't need love
She calls him to come home she calls him her tommy gun
She revolves around the sun
She revolves around the sun
She don't need me
Like she don't need breathing and she don't need eyes to see
- Shimmy Low
I've been down this road ten times
I would run, I would hide
From the fears that ruled my mind
And so I asked this guy
We'll call him Oz, call him wise
He laughed and offered his advise
Get out of your black hole
- Snowman
Pick me up
Are you holding, man
Up all night
Please don't melt
Falling down
Bump me up
Time to hit the town
God save the Snowman
- Sound the Warning
All I wanted was to find my way
All I wanted was to save the day
All I wanted was to be your friend
That's all I wanted in the end
From the corner of my eye I saw you flaming across the sky
There was nothing I could do than to burn up next to you
There's a fire burning in me
- Take Care of You
Let me start by saying that I love you
You know that I'd do anything for you
Ever since day one you know you were a wild one
And keeping you in line was hard to do
I did wrong I know I've been hard on you
And in return you put me to the test
And our blood is so much thicker than that water
- Take Your Time
Know what you're feeling
It's all so real to you
Through your glass ceiling
You can't see the sky
Your angels have fallen
Your faith reads like fiction now
Your demons keep calling
- Tell Me
By the look in your eyes I can see
That you'll never be alone again
By the look in your eyes I can see
That you'll never be alone again
You tell me you're lonely
You tell me you're only
Trying to get what you want
- Today
Well they come from miles around
Just to listen to the sound
On a train and getting close
Caravan from coast to coast
And she hears a little voice
Gettin' drunk and makin' noise
And the band has come to play
- Twist My Arm
Blame it on the whiskey
Blamed it on your job
Blame the broken promises
And the words can cut so strong
Blame it on the doctors
Blame it on this song
Blame it on your childhood