Sometimes large fingers pushin' paint you're god and you got big hands colors blend the challenges you give man seek my part devote myself my small self like a book amongst the many on a shelf sometimes I know sometimes I rise sometimes I fall sometimes I don't sometimes I cringe sometimes I live sometimes I walk sometimes I kneel sometimes I speak of nothing at all sometimes I reach to myself here god
Hail, Hail is there room enough for both of us both of us apart? are we bound out of obligation? is that all we got? I get the words then I get to thinkin I don't wanna think I wanna feel how do I feel? how do I? if your the only one will I never be enough? well hail hail to the lucky ones I refer to those in love, yeah I swore I'd love you till the day I die and beyond, are we going to the same place? if so can I come? It's egg rollin, thick & heavy, ahh, the past we carry ahh, I could be new, you underestimate me if your the only one will I never be enough? well hail hail to the lucky ones I refer to those in love, yeah sometimes realize I could only be as good as you'll let me are you woman enough to be my man? bandaged hand in hand That I'm the only one in a race that can't be won, yeah all hail the lucky ones I refer to those in love, yeah if your my only one so good, you only one. I want to be your one enough you won your one your one your one
WHO YOU ARE come to send not condescend transcendental consequence as to transcend where we are who are we? who we are trampled marks on your souls change is on you're a part seen it all not at all can't defend the command take me for a ride before we leave circumstance clappin' hands A-dyin' winds Heaven sends off the tracks in the mud thats the moss in the afore mentioned verse just a little time before we leave stop light plays it's part so I would say you've got a part what's your part? who you are you are who who you are
IN MY TREE Up here in my tree, yeah Newspapers meant enough to me, yeah And all accrossed my head, yeah I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah Wave to all my friends, yeah They don't seem to notice me, no All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh Sidewalks, cigarettes and scenes, yeah, yeah Up here so high I start to shake Up here so high the sky I scrape I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest Just like innocence I remember him, yeah I swore I knew everything, oh yeah They say knowledge is a dream, yeah He's growing up just like me, yeah I'm so light the wind he shakes I'm so high the sky I scrape I'm so light I hold just one breath and go back to my nest Sleeping innocence... Up here so high the bars they break Up here so high the sky I scrape And my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse Of my innocence.. got back my innocence.. Still got it, still got it.
SMILE don't it make you smile? don't it make you smile? when the sun don't shine don't it make you smile? don't it make you smile? don't it make me smile? when the sun don't shine don't shine at all don't it make me smile? I miss you already I miss you always I miss you already I miss you all day This is how I feel I miss you already I miss you always three crooked heart swirls around I miss you all day don't it make you smile?
OFF HE GOES (one two, one two three..) I know a man his face seems pulled and tense like he's ridin' on a motor bike in the strongest winds so I approach with tact suggest that he should relax but he's always moving much too fast said he'll see me on the flip side on this trip he's taking for a ride he's been takin' too much on off he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes there he goes he's yet to come back but I've seen his picture it doesn't look the same up on the rack we go way back I wonder bout his insides it's like his thoughts are too big for his size he's been taken where I don't know off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope there he goes and now I rub my eyes for he has returned seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned for he still smiles and he's still strong nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown and now he's home and we're laughing like we always did my same old same old friend until a quarter to ten I saw the strain creep in he seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen next before his first step he's off again
HABIT see it happen to a couple of friends see it happen and the message it sends taken up for what's an obvious fall just to see what all the fuss is about it's not your way not true way it's not your way another habit says it's in love with you another habit says its loves overdue another habit like an unwanted friend I'm so happy with my righteous self it's not your way not your way it's not your way never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit I never thought you'd never thought you'd; never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit I never thought you'd never never thought you never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit speaking as an individual who will see the year 2000 (speaking as a child of the 90's) never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit I never thought you'd never thought you never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit never thought you'd habit I never thought you'd never never thought you never never me never you never me
RED MOSQUITO (line one, mighty fine) Watched from the window, with a red mosquito I was not allowed to leave the room I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up Somewhere in the time between I was bitten, must have been the devil.. He was just paying me a little visit reminding me of his presence Letting me know, he's awaiting.. ohh Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior While you're climbing up slippery hills Two steps ahead of him, bunches in your neck Hovering just above your bed Hovering just above your bed I was bitten, must have been the devil.. He was just paying me a little visit reminding me of his presence And letting me know, he's awaiting, he's awaiting.. ohh Up there.. yeah.. If I had known then what I know now... If I had known then what I know now... If I had known then what I know now... If I had known then what I know now...
LUKIN Drive down the street, can't find the keys to my own f*****g home I take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb I make a right after the arches.. stinking grease and bone Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog I'm goin' to Lukin's, I've gotta spot at Lukins.. I knocked the door at Lukin's.. opened the fridge.. Now I know life is worth I find the key but I returned to find an open door some f****ng freak who claims a father can't rape his own son I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done The last I heard the freak was purchasing a f****ng gun.
PRESENT TENSE do you see the way that tree bends? does it inspire? leaning out to catch the sun's rays a lesson to be applied are you getting something out of this all encompassing tree? you can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, ohh or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who can't forgive yourself, ohh mmm makes much more sense to live in the present tense have you ideas on how this life ends? check your hands and study the lines have you ever believed that the road ahead ascends off into the light? seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way to live are we getting something out of this all encompassing dream? you can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, ohh or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, ohh make much more sense to live in the present tense
MANKIND You'll be, going out with radio going out with disco going out with bacchanal I'll be, going out with telephone going out alone to the radar zone it's all just inadvertent imitation I don't mean mine it's all across this nation if it's just inadvertent simulation patterning all mankind what's got the whole world fakin it? I'll be, playin' with my magazine usin' up my lysterine like ovaltine and you'll be dippin in your battleship for the latest tip for the latest dream it's all just inadvertent imitation and I don't mean mine it's all across this nation if it's just inadvertent simulation patterning all mankind what's got the whole world fakin it? if it's just inadvertent imitation patterning all mankind what's got the whole world fakin'? what's got the whole world fakin'? what's got the whole world fakin'? what's got the whole world fakin'? what's got the whole world fakin'? what's got the whole world fakin it?
I'M OPEN a man lies in his bed in a room with no door he waits hoping for a presence something anything to enter it after spending half his life searching he still feels as blank as the ceiling at which he stares he's alive but feels absolutely nothing so is he when he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him by nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact no tradebacks so this is what's it like to be an adult if he only knew now what he knew then I'm open I'm open come on in come on in come on in come on in I'm open I'm open come on in come on in come on in come on in laying sideways atop crumpled sheets with no covers he decides to dream to dream up a new self for himself
AROUND THE BEND I am wishing you a well mind at peace within your cell covers up, I cast you off I'll be watching as you breathe I lie still you move I send you off around the bend. I hold your head deep in my arms My fingertips they close your eyes Off you dream my little child There's a sun around the bend There's a sun around the bend All the evenings close like this All these moments that I've missed Please forgive me won't you please Please forgive me let me share with you around the bend Your an angel when you sleep How I want your soul to keep On and on around the bend.