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Virgin Records (16 Novembre 2001)
Executive Producer: Eric Ferris
©2001 Virgin & Smashing Pumpkins


Testi tratti dallo SPFC



 

Rotten Apples

Siva
I Am One
Rhinoceros
Drown
Cherub Rock
Today
Disarm
Landslide
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
1979
Zero
Tonight, Tonight
Eye
Ava Adore
Perfect
The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Try, Try, Try
Real Love
Untitled

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIVA

I spin off and lose my head
Throwing stray a spark instead
Gather strength down in my heel
And dig it in the world I peel
Way down deep within my heart
Lies a soul that's torn apart
Tell me, tell me what you're after
I just want to get there faster
I don't live - I inhale
I don't give - I unveil
Don't want to live in your misery
I don't live - I inhale
Sprinkle all my kisses on your head
Stars full of wishes fill our beds
She said, "I'm dead"
All this pain smothers me
Like a bomb that you can't see
Tell me, tell me what you're after
I just want to get there faster
I don't live - I inhale
I don't give - I unveil
I don't live - I inhale
I don't live

 

 

I AM ONE

I am one as you are three
Try to find a messiah in your trinity
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something
In your city to burn, you'll burn
Am I as I seem?
I'm down
Down, so down

Time is right for a guiding light
Try to turn your reasons in your inner life
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something
In your city to burn, you'll burn

See you, don't you just want to
See you, I am one
See you, don't you just want to
See you

See you, don't you just want to
See you, I am one
See you, don't you just want to
See you, I am one

 

 

RHINOCEROS

planned a show
trees and balloons
ice cream snow
see you in June
could have known
I would reveal
should have known
I would conceal
your way
she knows
and she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows, she knows-ows
she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows
colors show
after the moon
I should go
see you in June
your way
she knows and she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows, she knows-ows
and she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows
open your eyes
to these must I lie
open your eyes
to these must I lie
that way she knows and she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows, she knows-ows
she knows, she knows, she knows
and she knows, she knows, she knows

 

 

DROWN

No matter where you are
I can still hear you when you drown
You traveled very far
Just to see if I'll come around
When I'm down
All of those yesterdays
Coming down

No matter where you are
I can still hear you when you dream
You traveled very far
You traveled far, like a star
And you are
All of those yesterdays
Coming down

Is it something someone said?
Was it something someone said?

Yesterday the sky was you
And I still feel the same
Nothing left for me to do
Yet I still feel the same

I wish, I wish I could fly
I wish, I wish I could lie
I will, I will try
I will you, goodbye

 

 

CHERUB ROCK

Freak out
And give in
Doesn't matter what you believe in
Stay cool
And be somebody's fool this year
'cause they know
Who is righteous and what is bold
So I'm told
Who wants honey
As long as there's some money
Who wants that honey?
Hipsters unite
Come align for the big fight to rock
for you
Beware
All those angels with there wings glued on
'cause deep down
They are frightened and they're scared
If you don't stare
Who wants honey
As long as there's some money
Who wants that honey?
Let me out
Please, let me out
Please, let me out
Please, let me out
Tell me all of your secrets
Cannot help but believe this is true
Tell me all of your secrets
I know, I know, I know,
Should have listened when I was told
Who wants that honey?
As long as there is some money
Who wants that honey?
Let me out
Please, let me out
Please, let me out
Please, let me out.

 

 

TODAY

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long
I'll burn my eyes out
Before I get out
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
Today is the greatest
Day I've never known
Can't wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
I'll tear my heart out
Before I get out
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you
Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known.

 

 

DISARM

Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
Ooh, the years burn

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you

The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you

 

 

LANDSLIDE

I took my love and took it down
I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill
'Til the landslide brought it down

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

Well, I've been afraid of changing cause I've
Built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too

Well, I've been afraid of changing cause I've
Built my life around you
Time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
I'm getting older, too

I took my love and took it down
I climbed a mountain, I turned around
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hill
The landslide brought it down
The landslide brought it down

 

 

BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS

the world is a vampire
sent to drain
secret destroyers
hold you up to the flames
and what do I get
for my pain
betrayed desires
and a piece of the game
even though I know
I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold
like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

now I'm naked
nothing but an animal
but can you fake it
for just one more show
and what do you want
I want to change
and what have you got
when you feel the same
even though I know
I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold
like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
Jesus was an only son
tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was an only son for you
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
Jesus was an only son for you
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved

 

 

1979

shakedown 1979
cool kids never have the time
on a live wire right up off the street
you and I should meet
junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the dawn
we were sure we'd never see an end to it all
and I don't even care
to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust I guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have in the store
morphine city slippin dues down to see
that we don't even care
as restless as we are
we feel the pull
in the land of a thousand guilts
and poured cement
lamented and assured
to the lights
and towns below
faster than
the speed of sound
faster than
we thought
we'd go
beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
to see
that we don't even care
to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust I guess
forgotten and absorbed
into the earth below
the street heats the urgency of now
as you can see there's no one around

 

 

ZERO

my reflection, dirty mirror
there's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm the face in your dreams of glass
so save your prayers
for when we're really gonna need 'em
throw out your cares and fly
wanna go for a ride?
she's the one for me
she's all I really need
oh yeah, she's the one for me
emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness
bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
you blame yourself, for what you can't ignore
you blame yourself for wanting more
she's the one for me
she's all I really need
oh yeah, she's the one for me
she's my one and only

 

 

TONIGHT TONIGHT

time is never time at all
you can never ever leave
without leaving a piece of youth
and our lives are forever changed
we will never be the same
the more you change the less you feel
believe
believe in me, believe
believe
that life can change, that you're not stuck in vain
we're not the same, we're different
tonight
tonight
tonight, so bright
tonight
tonight
and you know you're never sure
but you're sure you could be right
if you held yourself up to the light
and the embers never fade
in your city by the lake
the place where you were born
believe
believe in me, believe
believe
in the resolute urgency of now
and if you believe there's not a chance
tonight
tonight
tonight, so bright
tonight
tonight
we'll crucify the insincere tonight
tonight
we'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight
tonight
we'll find a way to offer up the night
tonight
the indescribable moments of your life
tonight
the impossible is possible tonight
tonight
believe in me as I believe in you
tonight
tonight
tonight
tonight
tonight

 

EYE

I lie
I wait
I stop
I hesitate
I am
I breathe
I meant
I think of me
is it any wonder I can't sleep
all I have is all you gave to me
is it any wonder I've found peace
through you
turn to the gates of heaven
to myself be damned
turn away from I
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
I taste
I love
I come
I bleed enough
I hate
I'm not
I was
I want too much
is it any wonder I can't sleep
all I have is all you gave to me
is it any wonder I've found peace
through you
turn to the gates of heaven
to myself be damned
turn away from I
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
just a touch
it's not enough
just a touch

 

AVA ADORE

it's you that I adore
you'll always be my whore
you'll be the mother to my child
and a child to my heart
we must never be apart
we must never be apart

lovely girl you're the beauty in my world
without you there aren't reasons left to find

and I'll pull your crooked teeth
you'll be perfect just like me
you'll be a lover in my bed
and a gun to my head
we must never be apart
we must never be apart

lovely girl you're the murder in my world
dressing coffins for the souls I've left to die
drinking mercury
to the mystery of all that you should ever leave behind
in time
in you I see dirty
in you I count stars
in you I feel so pretty
in you I taste god
in you I feel so hungry
in you I crash cars
we must never be apart

drinking mercury
to the mystery of all that you should ever seek to find
lovely girl you're the murder in my world
dressing coffins for the souls I've left behind
in time
we must never be apart

and you'll always be my whore
cause you're the one that I adore
and I'll pull your crooked teeth
you'll be perfect just like me
in you I feel so dirty in you I crash cars
in you I feel so pretty in you I taste god
ohhh, ohhh, ohhh, ohhh, ohhh
we must never be apart

 

PERFECT

I know we're just like old friends
we just can't pretend
that lovers make amends
we are reasons so unreal
we can't help but feel that something has been lost

but please you know you're just like me
next time I promise we'll be
perfect
perfect
perfect strangers down the line
lovers out of time
memories unwind

so far I still know who you are
but now I wonder who I was

angel, you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
the letters have been sent on

so please, you always were so free
you'll see, I promise we'll be
perfect
perfect strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep

perfect
you know this has to be
we always we're so free
we promised that we'd be
perfect
perfect
perfect

 


THE EVERLASTING GAZE

you know I'm not dead
you know I'm
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm not dead
now you know
where I've been
as you sleep
torn I am
weighted down
patiently
born of love
you know I'm
you know I'm not dead
I'm just living in my head
forever waiting
on the ways of your desire
you always find a way
and through it all
into us all you move
forgotten touch
forbidden thought
we can never have enough
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm not dead
found below
the creatures scream
stranglehold
a God machine
begging to tear us out
worn as hope
you know I'm
you know I'm not dead
I'm just the tears inside your head
forever waiting
on the ways of your desire
you always find a way
and through it all
into us all you move
forgotten touch
forbidden thought
we can never have enough
you know I'm not dead
we want to hold in the everlasting gaze
enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway
but underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every c.o.g.
the fickle fascination of an everlasting god
you know I'm not dead
I'm just living in my head
forever waiting
forever waiting on cruel death
you know I'm not dead
I'm just living for myself
forever waiting
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm not dead
you know I'm not dead

 

 

STAND INSIDE YOUR LOVE

you and me
meant to be
immutable
impossible
it's destiny
pure lunacy
incalculable
insufferable
but for the last time
you're everything that I want
and asked for
you're all that I'd dreamed
who wouldn't be the one you love
who wouldn't stand inside your love
protected and the lover of
a pure soul
and beautiful
you
don't understand
don't feel me now
I will breathe
for the both of us
travel the world
traverse the skies
your home is here
within my heart
and for the first time
I feel as though I am reborn
in my mind
recast as child and mystic sage
who wouldn't be the one you love
who wouldn't stand inside your love
for the first time
I'm telling you how much I need and bleed for
your every move and waking sound in my time
I'll wrap my wire around your heart
and your mind
you're mine forever now
who wouldn't be the one you love
and live for
who wouldn't stand inside your love
and die for
who wouldn't be the one you love

 

 

TRY, TRY, TRY

pop tart
what's our mission?
do we know
but never listen
for too long
they held me under
but I hear
it's almost over
in Detroit
on a Memphis train
like you said
it's down in the heat
and the summer rain
of the automatic gauze
of your memories
down in the sleep
at the airplane races
try to hold on
for this heart
a little bit longer
try to hold on
try, for this love aloud
try to hold on
hold on, to this heart's
a little bit colder
try to hold on
try, to this love
paperback scrawl your hidden poem
written around the dried out flowers
here we are still trading places
to try to hold on
pop tart
can you envision
a free world
of clear division
for too long
they held us under
but I know
we're getting over
in Detroit
with the Nashville tears
like you said
it's down in the heat
with the broken numbers
down in the gaze of solemnity
down in the way you've held together
to try to hold on
to this heart
a little be closer
try to hold on
try, for this love aloud
try to hold on
hold on, for this heart's
a little bit older
try to hold on
try, for this love alone
and we are still alive
try to hold on
and we have survived
try to hold on
and noone should deny
we tried to hold on
to the pulse of the feedback current
into the flow of the encrypted movement
slapback kills the ancient remnants
that try to hold on
try to hold on
try, to this heart
try, alive
try, try to hold on
try, to this love aloud
try, try to hold on
try, and we are still alive
try, try to hold on
try, and we have survived
try to hold on
pop tart
you never listen
skinned knees
try to hold on
stop start
what's our mission?
skinned knees
try to hold on
try

 

REAL LOVE

fall into the century of supersonic cross
blessed she in aching silence
eternal loss
calling out a warm surrender
a locket of her hair
I sympathize her pious pleasures
go down the stairs
into the dark again
to feel alive again
can't wait for
real love
or is it me you're after
is it time
cause it's now or never
real love
real love forever
real love
born of the ball and chain
into a world sustained with sorrow
real love
a real touch we're speaking
is it lies
or is it what we're seeking
real love
in the eyes behold and you'll find the 21st century
detonate her will and her widowed speech
buried in the backyard shadow
the rusty coffee tin
that held her mother's first kiss of nameless dream
fall down the stairs again
to feel alive against tomorrow
real love
or is it me you're after
is it time
cause it's now or never
real love
real love forever
is it mine
or just yours to treasure
real love
real love
real love
we never listen
real love will listen
and tell of our fortune
real love is riches
scratch through the changes
real love is nameless
so tired and hopeless
real love is painless
nobody mentions
we ever move to collect
the solar questions
demons' scorn surround relax
the laws of gravity
real love

 

UNTITLED

should I know
what I'm missing
what's to stop
look and listen
feel love
to be in love
around

anyone can hold a promise
not everyone can feel honored
to be in love
to feel love around

suddenly I'm
giving speech
let me be
what I need
if you're enough
for me

many times
while you sleep
I'm dreaming of
what to keep
you know your wish
hold it true
to slay the things
that trouble you

suddenly I'm
out of reach
listen here
feel me
just believe
just believe
you'll see

to feel love
to be in love
all around

hold the truth
if you want it
if you don't
I will flaunt it
to feel love
to be in love
all around

when you're young
you can promise
anything that you wanted
to be in love
to feel love
around

suddenly I'm
learn to speak
from my heart
I will see
bring happiness
just happiness
for you and me

to feel love
to be in love
around

to be in love
to feel love
around

to feel love
to be in love
around

to be in love
to feel love
around

I know your wish
I hold it true
(feel love all around)
to hide the things
that trouble you
(feel love all around)

suddenly I'm
out of reach
(feel love all around)
let me speak
of my peace
(feel love all around)
[draw from me / dropping me?]
what you need
(feel love all around)
you'll never hate
or hurry me
(feel love all around)

(to feel love)
(to be in love)
(around)
(to be in love)
(to feel love)
(around)
(to feel love)
(to be in love)
(around)
(to be in love)
(to feel love)
(around)
(to feel love)
(to be in love)
(around)

 

LUCKY13

this in blood
I suppose
breaking jaws
I'm no good
as the prodigal son
and I know that you're mesmerized
had a vision, made these laws
and sanitized [?]
I miss him so
you are so fucked
it has begun
revolution crawls
all over you
[?]
you light up the sky
and scrape out your skull
your lovely face
will never [?]
it was so unlikely doom
upon my wrists I bear the cross
my losses mounted as I climbed across the hole
of my own soul
I'll climb across
I don't exist
I am divine
a ghost with eyes

 

THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH

I really don't wanna look stupid when I'm sleeping
I never really liked sunny days
the black wings just reach out to me over a distance
and I can feel the wind from the wings
I see the clouds
and I feel the ocean beneath my feet, and I'm home again
it requires an ability to judge distance
the aeroplane flies high, turns left, looks right

love is a sentimental heart
life is a sentimental way
spy the fragile heart so cursed
as he walks across this earth

I'm disconnected by your smile
disconnect a million miles
and what you promised me
I hope will set you free
I'm disconnected by your smile

if I knew where I was going I would already be there (laugh)
I wish I had more time
judicious, beautiful, augmented, whatever
I've always been afraid to die, but I think now I'm more afraid to live

and all I gave to you is lost
and all you took from me is lost
black wings carry me so high
up to meet you in the sky

I'm disconnected by your smile
disconnect a million miles
and what you promised me
I hope will set you free
I'm disconnected by your smile

disconnected by your smile
disconnect a million miles
and what you promised me
I hope will set you free
I'm disconnected by your smile

wishing you were real to me
wishing I could make believe
I'll take my secrets to the grave
safely held beneath the waves
always knew I couldn't save
always knew I couldn't save you

and in the heart I know you're there
and in the heart I know you care
and in my heart I know you're gone

 

BECAUSE YOU ARE

because you are
because you are
because you are
because you are
because you are

i've got the trauma to stay
because you are
i scar the stranger, betray
all of my senses ashamed
i will deny all that i am afraid
lies will disguise
rules of time and endgames

because you are
because you are
because you are
because you are
because you are

i chew the rust off my face
because you are
i wipe the stain off my haze
because you are
i am released, born of age
because you are
i stare inside empty faith

i will deny all that i am afraid
lies will disguise
rules of time and endgames
because you are

because you are
because you are
[?]
because you are
because you are
rinse the scars off my skin
because you are
i touch the scars of your skin
because you are
i let the travel begin
because you are
i let the travel begin
because you are
i let the travel begin

 

 

SLOWN DAWN

midnight people
rushing for a downtown train
watching and wasting away

their hearts beat free
cool frequency
and i don't know what it is

i'm gonna run the slow dawn
squeaking sigh, oh so faint
i'm gonna run the slow dawn awake

it's blessed undone
the songbirds are wrong
and i'm not sure what it is
but i'm sure that i can give
awake the slow dawn

slow dawn moves by my side
teach your silent sleep
slow dawn

the midnight people
washing down here, wasting way
they're gonna run the slow dawn awake
the slow dawn awake
the slow dawn awake
the slow dawn awake

 

 

BELIEVE

Close your eyes
Until the sunlight dies
In your head a thousand stars
Through the darkness you can see a light
And if they steal your life
Your heart is still mine

I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing, a truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you, dear

On Sunday...

There's a life I hide
Well I tried to disguise
And I can take you a million miles away

I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing, a truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you, dear

On Sunday I made amends
For all my mistakes
May God speed be with you

Oooh...oooh...oooh...oooh
and I...
I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing a truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing a truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, (soft) you sing, a truth, a lover
I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing a truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you, dear
Sunday
Sunday
I want to make amends
For all my mistakes
May God speed be with you

 

 

MY MISTAKE

we're so young
and we're so dumb
we don't register calculations
and if you dare
and should i care
i could destroy you
and take you there

as the spitfires begin their descent
and tragic romantic ascent
my love is one hundred percent

come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake
mistake, it was all my mistake

so suck me through
your saliva screws
and i can't help myself if i don't know
the flaws in you
that were equal to
the mysteries of almost knew

and i've said this so many, many times
can't help you out of your mind
so please don't judge me a time

come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake

and if you pretend
please try to offend everyone

we share the same monkey disease
so give me my grape of peace
and do what you want as you please

come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake
come back to me, my mistake

 

 

MARQUIS IN SPADES

["Rolling..." "I was just on another planet for a sec..."
"Run it back, Mole... (amp on) ...fucker..."]

and i'd love you to notice
i'm devoted
to destroy for no one
now it's that time again to take revenge
on all the debutantes and their friends
the bitter charlemagnes so self-absorbed
the bodily remains such a bore

hey, yeah
was i good enough to break you
hey, yeah

and all i see is empty
'cause now i'm one of them
so adored
the slink of impotence
that money can afford
we know who you are and where you live
is your innocence all that you can give

hey, yeah
was i good enough to break you
hey, yeah

in the back of the car
the angel dust was given back to the stars

hey, yeah
was i good enough to break you
hey, yeah

and in this fall from grace
we'll meet again
another time another place
i've been down deep in you and me
let's see where we can go
yeah yeah yeah
angels, barbed wire
fuck you, desire

 

 

HERE'S TO THE ATOM BOMB

away to the side you move your head
gravity fingers dig in your back
the strangest man won't let you breathe
rocking on you in a movie scene

his words fill your mouth
his guests bleed sick
devoid of touch
he lets out to the streets where you were raised
sittin' home waiting for the coming age
you had to wait your turn
you had to wait your turn

wake up early, wash up late
satellites connect you to your hate
your patience grows but your skin is thin
the pager signals they're coming in
through the hole in the wall
you left a hole in the wall

here's to the atom bomb
may everyone find a way to get on

a little piece of heaven is all you seek
in the same old re-run week after week
their faces make you want to kill
their little piece of heaven singin' on the windowsill

no lights can turn you on
pixelate the night
reading the words
of your eyes on the streets where you were born
sittin' home waiting for the coming dawn
near the hole in the wall
you left a hole in the wall

 

 

SPARROW

narrow marrow
silent sparrow
secret serpentine smile
distant crying child

you're my lost little love
you're my lost little one

urgent arrow
arcane echo
my, my, my have we thrown
together apart
and together again

we will scatter friends
like the whistling wind
you can see me wave
same, i'm the same

but if i did
and i meet you there
you'll hold my hand
pretend you understand
that i'm just one man
still a boy perhaps
simple silent humble human being

we will scatter friends
like the whistling wind
you can see me wave
same, i'm the same

and eiffel towers
and distant isles
and ocean miles
and mountain wilds
and film stars
and restless charge
moving roaring
soaring gone, gone, gone

and with built-in lion ears
i can hear you now

 

 

WAITING

please drive slow
i've never been this way before
violence reels in the underground

yes, i am waiting
in silence throne
to fill the meetings
to strike me down
no more a reason
than god above
let your curses run
yes, i am waiting
for your love
for your love

radio waves of a dying sun
radio speaks my soul alone
forget my names, erase the page
and dinners draw the passengers
yes, i am waiting
in silence throne
my blood of treason
my tears of home
no more a feeling
than being cold
of playing on
yes, i am waiting
as i walk your street
yes, i am waiting
as i ride your dreams
yes, i am waiting
inside your doubts
inside your doubts
just let me out
just let me out

 

 

SATURNINE

the clever make the world weary
to pull it from its moorings
to form the young wicked ruse
to weather the coming storms

they are inside now
they are inside
they are inside now
saturnine

how i love to waste your time
saturnine
saturnine

goodbye all you widows
tearstained underneath
blessed to the many
who are seeking some relief

they are inside
they are inside now
they are inside
they are inside
you'll always run
but you cannot find
saturnine

saturnine
saturnine
you were waiting all this time
saturnine
saturnine

camera take this picture
the wreckage is outside
quick may you hurry
we are losing our light

we are inside now
we are inside
we are inside
you'll always run
but you'll never find
saturnine

saturnine
how i'd love to make you mine
saturnine
saturnine

to the ages i am speaking
to the creatures high in sky
bloody simple features
everyone chooses sides

shatter this faith broken
walk these summer miles
leave here while forgotten
carrying forth this child
saturnine

 

ROCK ON

hey kids, rock and roll
rock on
hey kids, it's no use
sleepin'
showtime, summertime blues
jump up and die in your blue suede shoes
hey kids, rock and roll
we're gonna rock on

where do we go from here
which is the way that's clear

still looking for that blue jean baby queen
prettiest girl i've ever seen
see her die on my movie screens
every day

rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on

hey kids, rock and roll
rock on
cool my soul
hey kids it's no use
dreamin'
lost out, cracked out
find out what it's all about
hey kids, rock and roll
we're gonna rock on

where do we go from here
which is the way that's clear
where do we go from here
which is the way that's clear

still lookin' for that blue jean baby queen
prettiest girl i've ever seen
see her die on my movie screens
every day

rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on

hey kids, rock and roll
hey kids, rock and roll
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on

rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
rock on
hey kids, rock and roll
rock on
hey kids, rock on
hey kids, rock and roll
rock on
rock on
rock on


 

SET THE RAY TO JERRY

Born to please, every simple need
I stand alone in my thoughts indeed
Hate you
For ever making me
I'm in you, I'm your anything

And I- want you
And I- need you
And all you are is brand new
And I- need you

Come to me, let me hold you still
I'm so tired, just as tired as you
Take me for anyone but me
All that you feel is never true

And I- want you
And I- need you
And all you are is brand new
And I- need you

When you say that you are
Forever my star
Could never let you go, no, no
And never let you know

Let roar these fears
To the whore of my tears
Pure as a lie, I pour to your eyes
Suck you like the sap from a tree
Honey from the dew, from the bumblebees, yeah yeah

And I- want you
And I- need you
And all you are is brand new
And I- need you

When you say that you are
Forever my star
Could never let you go, no, no
Never let you know

And I- want you
And I- need you
And all you are is brand new
And I- need you

 

 

WINTERLONG

and if i fall
into you all
will my reign
cease and disarm
some come too hard
others to grace
so let my friends fly
under these wings
we're giving it up to the sun
we're giving it up to the moon
we're giving it up to the earth
giving up from a room
know when there's nowhere to run
know when there's not much to lose
sometimes it seems so long
since you had a chance to refuse

we built a fire
winterlong
transformed new ion (iron?)
winterlong
i was the first one
i was the last one to be strong

and if i fall
into you all
will the silence shatter and stall
some feel movement
others stand still
so let the moment
become my will

we're giving up to the sun
we're giving it up to the moon
we're giving it up to the earth
giving it up from a ?rouse?

know when there's nowhere to run
know when there's not much to lose
why does it take so long
to find out who is who

we built a fire
winterlong
transformed new ??
winterlong
i was the first one
i was the last one to be strong

we're giving it up to the sun
we're giving it up to the moon
we're giving it up to the earth
giving it up from your own?
we're giving it up to the sun
we're giving it up to the moon

 

SOOTH AND STARS

The words flow, decisions made
idea's mine, but the inspiration not
dreams of hangers on, dreams of getting well
spells of ezmerelda, emeralds foretold
splinters in the eye sentiments remain
bones that never rest where we going to
it was never up to me and yet i pushed until it broke

i love the open road and all that it suggests
wheel wagon dust weeds and infidelities and
always for a love never question why
in a wooden house immoveable and silent and
drinking strawberry wine forever lost in town
and thru the sleeping streets night bound and heavy
wheels in the spoke still spoken in a foreign cell

now my gates are high, my friends even higher
forgotten in my mind, yet the sky still linger and
cloud the blue skies, i'm jealous of you birds
was the only truth in a world full of words?
hear the prairie sound in a friend called near
the heart is pointed down but my spirit pointed up
his voice for siren of greek mythology

i pause with my pen i begin to defend
every action taken, every moment sealed
when i was quick it coursed through open veins
the will to live the urgency to move
behind a panel door sealing cherry stain
i played my guitar and lived those lonesome notes

like a dog that's down
in a corner just a sigh
waiting to be called
waiting to be yours
ghosts of all my shame
without purpose or will

i often speak of you but the you is always me
cause when i speak of me it's me i ask of you
so let there be no truth just trickery in rhymes
time the only thing waiting still as death

i hope for resolution pray one defining moment
pause without restrain barren without child
a child is who i was a child is who i'll die
soot in my hair
and stars in my hands
soot in my hair
and stars in my hands
soot in my hair
and stars in my hands


 

 

BLISSED AND GONE

the sun has blessed
the rays are gone
and all the kids have left their tears and gone home

sweet 17, sour 29
and i can't explain myself
what i'd hoped to find
you were all so kind
when i was near

and if you're still feeling down
then maybe you need me around
to love and hold you
don't say i hadn't told you so
maybe you need me around

i had no luck
i had no shame
i had no cause, just 17 days of rain
and you in my eyes

just one more song to slay this earth
and i can't explain myself
just what it's worth
it was all i had, but not all i need
and i can't escape the fact that i still bleed

and if you're still feeling down
and if this seems way too loud
then maybe you need me around

i had no voice
i had no drive
i had no choice
i've done my time
i had myself
had my band
i had my love
had no hand in watching it all fall apart

and if you're still feeling down
then maybe you need me around
to lift and scold you
to send you crashing alright now
maybe you need me around