Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you I think I can remember your name...name Hello I'm sorry, I lost myself I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi) Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
Hello, how are you? I know you, I knew you I think I can remember your name...name Hello, I'm sorry I lost myself I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi) Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
Hello my friend, are you visible today? You know I never knew that it could be so strange...strange Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself I think I thought you were someone else
Should we talk about the weather? (Hi...hi, hi) Should we talk about the government? (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
Sleep delays my life (get up, get up) Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up) I don't know Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up) Wake it up...up (get up, get up) You've got all your life (way up ahead) (get up, get up, get up)
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up) I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up) Life is rough...rough (get up, get up, get up) I've seen you laying down (get up) With the loving kind (get up, get up) I know life is hard...hard (where goes your time?) Where to turn? Where to turn?
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
Dreamtime...
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life) This time, no escape, I wake up. (get up, get up)
Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing (say, say, the light) I'm very scared for this world I'm very scared for me Eviscerate your memory Here's a scene You're in the back seat laying down The windows wrap around To sound of the travel and the engine All you hear is time stand still in travel and feel such peace and absolute The stillness still that doesn't end But slowly drifts into sleep The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen And they're there for you For you alone you are the everything
I think about this world a lot and I cry And I've seen the films and the eyes But I'm in this kitchen Everything is beautiful And she is so beautiful She is so young and old I look at her and I see the beauty Of the light of music The voices talking somewhere in the house Late spring and you're drifting off to sleep With your teeth in your mouth You are here with me You are here with me You have been here and you are everything
Stand in the place where you live Now face North Think about direction Wonder why you haven't before Now stand in the place where you work Now face West Think about the place where you live Wonder why you haven't before
If you are confused check with the sun Carry a compass to help you along Your feet are going to be on the ground Your head is there to move you around
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Your feet are going to be on the ground Your head is there to move you around If wishes were trees the trees would be falling Listen to reason Season is calling
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If wishes were trees the trees would be falling Listen to reason Reason is calling Your feet are going to be on the ground Your head is there to move you around
So Stand (stand) Now face North Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before Now stand (stand) Now face West Think about the place where you live Wonder why you haven't
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Stand in the place where you are (Now face North) Stand in the place where you are (Now face West) Your feet are going to be on the ground (Stand in the place where you are) Your head is there to move you around, so stand.
I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks I recognize the weapons, I used them well
This is my mistake. Let me make it good I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down
I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses I proclaim that claims are left unstated, I demand a rematch I decree a stalemate I divine my deeper motives I recognize the weapons I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize This is my mistake. Let me make it good I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me
This is my world And I am the world leader pretend This is my life And this is my time I have been given the freedom To do as I see fit It's high time I've razed the walls That I've constructed
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize This is my mistake. Let me make it good I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls And I'm the only one I will be the one to knock it down
I've watched the children come and go A late long march into spring I sit and watch those children Jump in the tall grass Leap the sprinkler Walk in the ground Bicycle clothespin spokes The sound the smell of swingset hands
I will try to sing a happy song I'll try and make a happy game to play
Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend Tell me what it's like to go outside I've never been Tell me what it's like to just go outside I've never been And I never will
I'm not supposed to be like this I'm not supposed to be like this But it's okay
Hey those kids are looking at me I told my friend myself Those kids are looking at me They're laughing and they're running over here They're laughing and they're running over here What do I do? What can I do? What should I do? What do I say? What can I say?
I said I'm not supposed to be like this Let's try to find a happy game to play Let's try to find a happy game to play I'm not supposed to be like this But it's okay...okay
Follow me, don't follow me I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush Collar me, don't collar me I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush We are agents of the free I've had my fun and now its time to Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me) Coming in fast, over me
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High on the roof, thin the blood, another one ____ on the waves tonight, comin' in, you're home
We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county hell any county it's just like heaven here and I was remembering and I was just in a differnet county and all then this whirlybird that I headed for I had my goggles pulled off I knew it all I knew every back road and every truck stop
I am not the type of dog That could keep you waiting For no good reason Run a carbon-black test on my jaw And you will find it's all been said before
I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest It's easier and better To just beat it from the chest Of desire
I could walk into this room And the waves of conversation are enough To knock you down in the undertow So alone so alone in my life Feed me banks of light And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung It's a beautiful life And I can hang my hairshirt Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog's life chest Or bury it at sea All my life I've searched for this
Here I am here I am in your life It's a beautiful life My life It's a beautiful life Your life
(Bits and pieces printed in the 1988 fan club holiday card)
This world is big and so-awake I stayed up late to hear your voice This light is here to keep you warm This song is here to keep you strong
I made a list of things to say But all I really want to say All I really want to say is Hold her and keep him strong While I'm away from here Hold her and keep her strong While I'm away from here
I've seen the world and so-awake And stay up late to hear me sing Just hold her I've seen the world and so-awake And stay up late to hear me sing Just hold him Hold her and keep her strong While I'm away from here Hold him and keep him strong While I'm away from here