Five More Minutes
Why is getting up so hard for me?
It feels like I am made of stone
Like I'm bolted to the floor
And you're so warm, and you're right here
Smash that radio and give me five more minutes
Or maybe ten or, maybe more
Please quit your job and I'll quit mine
Or just call in, I've got one more day left
I'm sick again, I can't make it to work today
I'm sick again, I can't make it to work today
Why can't we be lucky and win the lottery?
No clocks to watch, no parking lots
Dropping out of school, dropping out of site
We'd blow this town, We'd move away
I see us somewhere cold, maybe Minnesota
Why is getting up so hard for us?
It feels like we are made of stone
Like we're bolted to the floor
And you're so warm, and you're right here
Someone kill the sun, or paint those windows black
We'd live our lives, in the dark oh in the dark
Please quit your job, and I'll quit mine
Or just call in, I've got one more day left
I'm sick again, I can't make it to work today
I'm sick again, I can't make it to work today
I'm sick again..
Prisoner
Prisoner
It's not a sentence you're just living here
And there's a million more who share your fate
And that's the part of it you really hate
really hate
Just a friend
But you could have her in your sweaty hand
You could own her like a piece of land
If you could find a way she'd understand
understand
Let's just pretend
Let's just pretend for a minute
Sad but true
How's there's nothing you can really do
Well enough so that they'll notice you
So you can quit the job that's wasting you
Wasting you
In the glass
You try and see if they can read your past
Won't really notice if they look too fast
Design a story if you get asked
You'll get asked
Let's just pretend
Let's just pretend for a minute
It's what I really want
It's what I really want
You've escaped
The door is open and you're on your way
Outside the fence is where you'll feel betrayed
The yard is bigger, but the rule's the same
rule's the same
Perhaps?
I grew up after the days
When kids were forced to fight in wars
Maybe that's why we're so restless
We had a purpose, but now we're bored
Perhaps it's something to think about
I'm not sure
I'm just in a band
Everyone seems so hard to me
Their hearts are armored so they won't break
And their words are molded plastic
You can't be hurt if you are fake
What's it like to be a woman?
What's supposed to be a man?
What's the deal with all these labels?
Aren't you trying the best you can?
What if life was just us dreaming?
And when we died, we'd wake up
We'd see our lives as a short diversion
We'd see our deaths as a stroke of luck
Perhaps it's something to think about
I'm not sure
I'm just in a band
Someone You Know
A child is born without a mother
She paints the walls but she can't cover
Up the bareness of her little home
A smile that warms a thousand faces
Customized by steel braces
She'll use it cause it's all she really owns
Someone you know
Someone you know
Someone you know
A girl that covets her ambition
Prescribed to mask her sad condition
The antidote she seeks does not exist
And if you want she'll let you lay her
Protesting softly while you pay her
Money isn't really what she missed
She says her secret fear is aging
Hiding secret wars she's waging
Learning all the secrets while she can
Though never making contrabutions
She waits upon a quick solution
In this way she seems most like a man
Someone you know
Someone you know
One in Seven Surveyed
A cross he's right there
Smoke in hand, crash and learn
Lungs yell at me, forget why, forget why
Mindless shapes and shouts of how's that go?
Forming deep within his hands
Clouds and the sun
My mind's eye doesn't see
Crowds, so it goes
Fossilized, sound of green
Crocodile, silent stream, paid for real
Baught the dream
Guiding light, glad to drown
Losing grip, we fall down
Close the door that was so long ago
Locked into this haze of mind
Took too much now I can't see the signs
Thanks alot, you're much too kind
Spending time alone
Stopped at critical
Argue sensibly
Or not at all
Flood, drown the stage
Cross the lines, take a dive
Fog through the cracks
Stomach turns, stomach turns
Sunglasses, keggers flow, check the surf, bloody nose
Pretty girl, smile or frown, I'm too light we fall down
Not Today
Lashing out again as something begs to take control
Young and elegant but somehow old before her time
Lie in sows with formal dress, you can't see through the dirt
Chronological princess to impress she feeds the poor
They lied about the things that they told you
They lied about the things that they told you
Now you feel I'm to blame
Flash of dust creationist he's healing cromag man
Genre feeling out of it, just pleased to go to bed
And I think that I will never die
But the words don't want to leave your mouth
Like a mountain you won't budge an inch
Don't think I'll waste with it
Magic carpet ride
Fly a mile to touch down in apathy
More than meets the eye
But the last boats gone
So, I'm on my feet again
I lied about things that I told you
I lied about the things that I told you
But I can't stop myself
Not to Vibe You, But
I am not the one to answer
Kept on ice, yes I'm a bastard
Knowledge of your sweet desire
Beseeching of a higher power
Not to vibe you, but, why are you here?
Long time for some, not mind, but you're near
Not to say that you are lower
Redefine the modest order
Knock around a few ideas
Never listen to their pleas
What's in the paper, just another election
Fog dulls the landscape, not your own reflection
Caught out of the boundries
Sought but never found it, never had the rocket
Blew the last ditch effort
Not to vibe you, but, why are you here?
Long time for some, not mine, but you're near
Next to nothing all that's left of you
Peals of laughter as the jokes ensue
Words
Do you remember coming home today?
You came home today you were lost
And everything worth anything was free today
But like always free is a cost
So when did you say you were leaving?
Do you think you can give me a ride?
As long as we just keep on moving,
Everything will be alright
What did you say?
What did you say?
They say if you store it up high enough
That a gun is as safe as a book
And you can find all the best hiding places
If you just know where to look
There's a part of the night that seems darker somehow
With sounds that carry more weight
When the part of your heart that you reserved for love
can so easily learn to love hate
What I'm trying to say is I know what you mean
And I think I've thought so before
I'm probably right, no, I'm sure of it now
Well, I really don't know anymore
What did you say?
I didn't hear you
What did you say?
I never hear(?)
e=mc2
It's going to seed, everybody wants to please
Varied in degrees, I'll hang that in the ceiling for you
And watch it work
It spins around and shines like emeralds
A toy of need
Shadowboxing with my ego
Say goodnight, warm in bed
I can't sleep, I'm tossing turning
Pretend to read as I watch it
Waiting for the clock to stop you
Forge ahead, you don't look stupid
Dreading what they want, let's hear it
So much more and all of this
Why should I reach the spiral chair
So what's the deal? How do you expect me to feel?
Like you when you're down, fight with me a little longer
Creep by my side, hold me so I don't go outside
Down there, way out, far up, give the same
But most of all, don't complain
You sure could use some kind of mother inside
For a little more, you'll get my bad advice
A Night's Comedy
A pregnant pause between the laughter
The short man and his date
A smile infecting the side of his mouth
It's time, let's go, it's late
She mocks his lingering pace of leisure
Pinched lips dressed in red
Formed in ages long gone before the time
It's here, they stand in the doorway
Loan me out your paranoia so I can act fucked up too
Monumental declaration the wise man moves to a new dimension
Fighting, she's crying, her makeup runs rivers
What news?
Frostbitten licking the fingers who baught her those shoes
Throw out the garments, that's all that he wanted
Now she never saw the laughter he muffled
Cursing the day that I ever met you
Forget it was night, all is false
Mortgage the gravel that we saw you walk on
Your footsteps have left us prepared
Song For a Wedding
If today's your wedding day
Or you stand here at a grave
If this kiss is just your first
Or your heart's still parched with thirst
You say you've seen it all before
So I'm sentimental
But for a moment of your time
I'll give you something free
It took me years to find
Just in case you've never known
Just in case you're not full grown
If you're not the kind to see
If you're not the kind to be
If you've never found the girl
The only one left in the world
Or if you've somehow lost
the boy of your dreams
Listen to me
It isn't screaming in your head
It isn't sleeping in your bed
It isn't lies, isn't truth
It isn't faith, isn't proof
It's not a game like you have heard
You'll never find it in a word
It's not about who is in power
For a lifetime, or just an hour
So, if today's your wedding day
Before you turn to walk away
Here's a gift that you can use
But it's just between us two
It's one I never could accept
Though it's all I have left
What I searched for all these years
You'll find right here in our tears
That's the secret of love
crying
love is crying
and that's all
Postcards
How are you? I am fine
The weather's great here, but I guess I've been asleep
It's really not that far to walk
But, one wrong turn and you could
Spend the whole day lost
And I tried a hundred times
But no one answers and you won't
Return my calls
When I finally realized
I just brushed the ashes off and walked away
Happy birthday, good-bye kiss
Another year slips by
Well it's just so hard to find the time
If you promise me you'll find a way
To meet me here again someday
I'll believe you, I believe you
I finally made it to the dance
Sort of sad how no one does it anymore
So I tried the latest fad
Where you scar yourself
And say you like the hurt
Happy birthday, good-bye kiss
Another year slips by
Well it's just so hard to find the time
If you promise me you'll find a way
To meet me here again someday
I'll believe you, I believe you
Spent a fortune on this trip
Only wish I could've made it last forever
So I'm saving for the next
With a promise that someday we'll go together
Sister Charlene Francis
Sister Charlene Francie
You know we need you now
Sister Charlene Francis
pray for us, pray for us
Stuck in purgatory
sister, you were right
It's not like it's so dark here,
It's just that there's no light
The room goes silent once again
The astronauts and firemen,
Have all grown up and gone away
All grown up and gone away
Walk it off when you get bruised
Give it up when you get used
Broader smiles pave better ways
Lucky smiles are in today
I learned to see the good side of things
They keep talking about it
It's coming back again
Honesty pays divedends
Slow and steady allways wins
Offer thanks when it is due
Even when they step on you
Take the bite that bites you back
Make up for the parts you lack
Genuflect and pray the lines
The deepest cuts improve with time
The room goes silent once again
The astronauts and firemen,
Have all grown up and lost their ways
Just the memories here today
Just the memories here will stay