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Set-Up
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
telling you to go find someone new
Talk it in talk it out,
purge your mind of all your thoughts.
Take this time to renew all the things you thought you
knew about the basics, you are in a corner.
Maybe if you’d look up, turn around and see.
Talking up a windfall, everybody’s always
“making it” because you’re simply never there.
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
telling you to go find something new.
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
all the options I had, they were so few.
Better when, good it seems, living your TV-dream.
Perfect lives without doubt,
buying in and selling out
As though you never have to know what you want,
only because pretending is easier than to
find a deeper meaning, that is just a hassle.
What if in the end it simply won’t be there?
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
telling you to go find someone new.
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
all the options I had they were so few.
How long can I take it?I think
it would be much easier to leave you,
sitting on the sidewalk caring
for nobody other then myself.
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
telling you to go find something new.
Don’t you know it’s a set-up,
weigh down and I weigh up,
all the options I had they’re so few.
Home
What happened to you?
You used to be so full of news,
Always making a storm over this and that.
I stood up on some hill,
ten thousand miles from where I’ve been before,
telling all of my thoughts.
No one’s listening.
Hey, wait, fate caught up with me in the end.
And the end is a master, teaching you light
and the light is a blind-fold.
All the way home, all the way home,
whatever that signifies to you.
It might be unknown, as long as you go.
Woke up to some noise,
I’m terrified, and I’m terrified of the choice
I know is right around the corner.
Was it the right way to go here I wonder.
Whoever thought that your past is a souvenir
you carry around any place you go.
All the way home, all the way home,
Whatever that signifies to you.
You might never know, as long as you…
Go up against the grain to find what you’re supposed to be
In ways I know sometimes it can be more than a surprise.
Wait up again, I seem to have lost what you just said.
But you’re gone.
All the way home, all the way home,
whatever that signifies to you.
You may never find it, as long as you go.
Only to Be
At my house, my house, I’ve been sleeping.
After kaleidoscope action, take on all the colors that I can
get.
With my suit-case all ready to roll,
currently taking position
in a fountain up a tree-house in bliss,
Only to be with you,
only to be with you
just like U-2
only to…
Through the ages, we’ve been wandering around,
came down the African mountains,
through the deserts and mid-eastern shores,
to find goblets and to make wine,
to find unthinkable wisdom,
more than all is one existing in time,
Only to be with you,
only to be with you,
just like U-2,
only to…
but my world is still crumbling all around,
and all of these promises that I’ve found,
they’re taking me, they’re holding me back.
Only to be with you,
only to be with you,
just like U-2,
only to be with you.
Fire Drill
Once again I am lost in a maze of uncertainty
on what the future will hold for you and me.
Raise my head to the clouds, while I am asking for what I
need.
IfI only knew
what I needed right now.
You never know where you end up and,
you never know where you’ve been,
and the world keeps on running fire drills.
In effect I’m reeling in to events in Cajarmaca,
where Pizzaro was made a star.
Now everyone has their slice in their own car.
You never know where you end up and,
you never know where you’ve been,
and the world keeps on running fire drills.
All the while, I compare how it all relates to myself
and how I may change everything I dwell on every day.
All the while, I compare how it all relates to myself
and how I may change everything I dwell on every day.
You never know where you end up and,
you never know where you’ve been,
and the world keeps on running fire drills.
Close
All in all life has been good for awhile.
Who can make sense of it all?
Bury myself in my dreams.
With this rope held on to all my beliefs.
Tried hard to fight off the thieves I really know nothing
about.
Make believe inside my TV again.
This guy seems my only friend.
Rainbows have gold on one end.
Did you know, traveling high, through the clouds, into the
sky
lies a world, further and further we go, so far you might
just be close,
so far you might…
Did you know, traveling low, through the waves and down
below,
Lies a world, deeper and deeper you go, so deep you don’t
want to know,
so deep you don’t…
No one is left in a row,
pray for whatever they may,
pray to whomever they may
Head Again
Actions speak louder than words
I could not imagine to be mine.
I’m staring into curious space most of the time.
But I got to keep going, tear away at the bottom of this
town.
If it’s but my calling to do, will not turn around
all the way in the middle of the road.
Father I got tired of you. Why did you come?
So I continue on, sitting beside you,
knowing all of these things will blow by fast
before the landscape disappears.
I’m sitting in this shallow moonlight
only to see my path so bright
lost inside my head again.
And the metaphors are flying
all the way to the end of your life.
We lose ourselves in sacraments left behind.
My brain, my brain, still working on mine,
but I didn’t want to beat it.
I wake up and live inside another man’s dream.
And the great white whale is coming this way I know
with his great white tail holding up all my expectations.
With a moon so bright you can never find sleep
staring at the path that is laid out so sweet for me.
It’s a bad mistake to leave without a consultation.
Sitting beside you,
knowing all of these things will blow by fast
before the landscape disappears.
I’m sitting in this shallow moonlight
only to see my path so bright
lost inside my head again.
Marlena
Met a man, he was very nice.
He was heading a big enterprise.
He saw the people come, he saw the people go.
He bought a piece of shade, and didn’t stop the flow.
Say what, Marlena?Say what, Marlena?
They came, they came, they came.
Met a girl, coming up by the cooler side.
‘Get up and look at me,’ she said.
Don’t know what’s up ‘cause I’m over my head.
Don’t know where to go so I run instead.
And I hear these sounds of a distant melody, playing,
Who, when, why me?Hey you wait awhile.
So hard to say no to, left behind again.
What happened to the one, to that one?
I thought they’d be waiting, by now we would have won.
But none of them ever came.
Say what, Marlena?Say what, Marlena?
They came and left you all insane, and left you all insane.
Say what, Marlena? Say what, Marlena?
They came, they came, they came.
So Far
My father slips away into the twilight of my brain
And I’m starting to remember how I never did remember
anything
It’s so hard to let go of the tension in my back and bones
When I should be like the troubadours and sing about this
life of mine.
But I am all pent up inside.
It might be my life that’s holding me back.
And so the story goes, around and round the sea
that knows, a lake that flows
like precious time into a storm.
Tell it to the wind, ‘cause he don’t care for anything you
say or you do.
Your words are washed ashore with you.
But I’m so far away, so far away,
So far that you just don’t care.
So far away, so far…
I hear my friend you’re late.
The sea and sky have known this way so long.
You know it’s so old
And precious love is true as gold.
But you’re so far away, so far away,
So far that you just don’t care,
So far that you just don’t dare say no.
So far you just cannot bear,
So far away, so far…
It might be our life that’s holding us back.
Smoke
Sailing in my boat of time,
life is but a giant ocean-liner.
Try to grab a hold of the hull,
but my hands are dull and slide off.
Up and down the side of the hill,
with my mountain bike and my water filled,
Staring up at all you fools,
eating off my plate.
The less that I would think,
that the world is on the brink,
And the more that I would give,
the more I shall receive,
says the old man there.
Sitting on the side of the road,
only to find out what he’s thinking of.
Every time he grips a-hold,
it blows up in smoke.
Here you come and take your turn,
and I bite my tongue and my stomach turns,
tearing back the thoughts in my mind,
of all the wasted time.
Up and down the side of a hill,
with my motor-bike and my bottle filled,
gazing up at all you fools,
eating off my plate.
or maybe I’m just too late.
Sitting on the side of the road,
only to find out what I’m thinking of.
Every time I grip a-hold,
it blows up in smoke.
The less that I would think
that the world was on the brink,
and the more that I would give,
the more I shall receive,
says the old man there.
Sitting on the side of the road,
only to find out what he’s thinking of.
Ted Mahoney
Ted Mahoney
What a beautiful name to have
When you’re rich and privileged
In this world, swimming inside the Milky Way.
It’s all baloney, you might say
Leading me astray, away,
Cause you don’t know the way
If you were hit on the head with it.
You earned your looneys
While I make dollar bills and try
To know you never know
What change you make.
Some change makes a change I bet.
And the bells are ringing again, again, again.
And my head is getting numb, nowhere to run.
Like in 1933 across the sea
And they never let us go, I know.
Battle stations, the MIC don’t work for freedom of
or common cause.
They don’t even exist you know.
It’s all baloney, you might say
Leading me astray, away,
Cause you don’t know the way
If you were hit on the head with it.
And the bells are ringing again, again, again.
And my head is getting numb, nowhere to run.
Like in 1933 across the sea
And they never let us go, I know.
And it’s easier if you don’t know
And if no one sees the end
And it’s so hard when you’re left alone
Without a friend.
And it’s easier if you believe
That everyone’s the same.
And it’s easier when life goes on
Without yourself.
Without…
Battle stations, the MIC don’t work for freedom of
or common cause.
They don’t even exist you know.
And the bells are ringing again, again, again.
And my head is getting numb, nowhere to run.
Like in 1933 across the sea
And they never let us go, I know.
C'est la Vie
I play awhile then move along.
It’s best when you think it’s wrong.
Hasn’t been too curious,
sold one to the man in the silky leather dress.
Boy, what a mess.
Another day I do my thing.
Oh, God came and gave me a sting.
So I choose to sing along.
It’s best when you think it’s wrong.
C’est la vie my friend,
See you leaving in the end.
Makes me sing these lonely lullabies
Like this lullaby, but I’ll see you again.
It’s gonna be just like you said,
Your solitude kept you away,
Though I hope they’ll stay the same
when we find out that you’re really just insane.
So c’est la vie my friend.
Saw you leaving in the end.
Makes me sing these lonely lullabies
Like this lullaby and I’ll see you again.
Hear the way I’m calling out
Beneath the eastern shores.
And I hoped for so much more
Coming through the door.
But now I’m stuck here calling out my name
With no one else to blame.
C’est la vie my friend.
Watch you leaving in the end.
Makes me sing these lonely lullabies
Like this lullaby and you’ll see me again.
Anabelle
Anabelle, meet me at three at the bowling-green.
We can jump a boat and go sight-seeing.
And maybe at the end of the day,
You will decide you’re gonna stay.
Don’t go away.
Little Sue, meet me at two down at the bar.
We can drink, and we can watch the stars.
Saw you walking the other day, talking to this guy.
I don’t know what you had to say.
What’s going on?
Fend off your lovers, and hope they’re gone.
And I can tell all my friends.
Sunday, and I don’t know what to do
If all I can think about is you.
Don’t know if you’re ever gonna be
the girl that is in love with me.
Sometimes I wish you were up high,
locked in a tower in the sky
only for me to come and free.
Girl, let your hair down to me.
So bizarre, being on tour in my back-yard,
Only the world, to move my heart.
You say hello and I can’t believe my luck.
My sanity, you cannot believe it’s stuck.
Off and on, and on and off.
What’s going on?
Beat up your lovers, and hope they’re gone,
leaving you all to myself.
Sunday, and I don’t know what to do
If all I can think about is you.
Don’t know if you’re ever gonna be
The girl that is in love with me.
Sometimes I wish you were up high,
locked in a tower in the sky
only for me to come and free.
Girl, let your hair down to me.
Moving On
I remember being so happy writing you letters
and giving you silver chains.
And I pictured us running in the wild wild rain
when I wrote on the back of your poem
that I loved you then, but I wish that I’d be moving on.
And I remember being so happy just writing a song
and adulatingly thinking I was on top of the world.
Through the hour, through the day, let my mind go astray
wondering how it’s gonna be,how we gonna see.
When I wrote on the back of your poem
that I loved you then, and I wish that I’d be moving on.
One of these days they will get to you, open you up and see
right through.
I saw myself doing such great amazing things
as you pull yourself along on an old shoe string, on an old
shoe string.
I wrote on the back of your poem that I loved you then,
but I wish that I could move, and I hear that I should move,
when I know that I’ll be moving on.
Cereal
Sweep away last fall's leafs
Thank God for all the convenience I experienced
Pick up last winter's silence
And at last I care for nothing
Nothing stays down anymore
And I spit your bread and butter
Through my affectionate glances
Through the water bottle
You look so overdone
Broke down at six this morning
Thank God for Mighty Mouse and cereal
And as I turn to nothing
No one seeks to find out where I was
And at last I care for nothing
Nothing stays down anymore
And I spit your bread and butter
Through my affectionate glances
Through the water bottle
You look so overdone
And at last I care for nothing
Nothing stays down anymore
And I spit your bread and butter
Dawn in the Fall
Dawn in the fall and the lights are dim
Trees standing tall and the air is thin
I see her face in the drops of the morning mist
I call it in
It's turning about
Dawn in the fall and the lights are playing their games
It's such a young day, adventures to come
Thoughts roll around, yet nothing but dazed
I close my eyes, but I'm not losing my sight
And I'm standing in the garden looking in
The balalaikas playing songs I know
The correlation of you and I-
It's clear to me or is it too
Guilty or not these thoughts and more
You stand in front that rusty old front door
That what is behind you know without a doubt
You would explore
But the sign there says "STAY OUT"
And I'm standing in the garden looking in
The balalaikas playing songs I know
The correlation of you and I-
It's clear to me or is it too
Dawn in the fall and the lights are dim
Trees standing tall and the air is thin
I see her face in the drops of the morning mist
I call it in
It's turning about
Nancy Gogolin
She sat alone but graciously
No one had spoken a word to this very day
Lighting her cigarettes the brand unknown
Her exhales mending with others scorn
Nancy Gogolin was her name
She had black hair and a smile in a million years
She walked away from the empty stool 'cause she knows
She knows
Lonely but certain of the way it should be
Wearing a smile only once in a while
When we glance through the space in between we know
We know
Nancy Gogolin was her name
She had black hair and a smile in a million years
She walked away from the empty stool 'cause she knows
She knows
And we know she knows
Yes she knows
Face
You just ignored the words
Turned your head slow
What do they know?
Maybe just a sudden thought
The results wrong
Now the same old song
Why did you do what you did?
And a smile upon your face reveals all what you think
Any time, any second that I look
In your angelic face
The people were quite ugly ones
With their blindfolds and their hearts cold
And washed away the attempts to crack a smile
And frozen now in time
Why did you do what you did?
And a smile upon your face reveals all what you think
Any time, any second that I look
In your angelic face
The years passed and they passed without a trace
Just the blame stays carved in each and every face
A procession of the things silently killed
By the starved minds of a sad guild
Why did you do what you did?
And a smile upon your face reveals all what you think
Any time, any second that I look
In your angelic face
Clown
Walking passed the homeless down at the pier
I didn't have the time of day to ponder on their misery
But you stopped looked around and announced
I didn't know
You said:
When I will become a clown
Make everyone laugh and everyone cheer
For everyone's just waiting for a chance
To show their teeth
Treacherous was the way up those high hills
The sun got lost where sympathy was rising for the enemy
You had created for yourself
You didn't know
I guess:
When you will become a clown
And everyone laughs and everyone cheers
Everyone's just waiting for a chance
To show their teeth
And on the fifth day it was all just formality
With their masters and teachers of all sorts
And I know this is not what you want to hear
But it always is right where you at
Right where you at
Just where you at
When I will become a clown
Everyone laughs and everyone cheers
Everyone's just waiting for a chance
To show their teeth
Livelihood
So it felt like searching massive
For little treats to last more miles
For long it wandered just to find no end
Reaching far and thin
There it stood its livelihood unbroken
And took a smile
Right out of the pile of hoping
That it was misplaced there
Fainted glass and broken barrels
Buried knee-deep in the sand
It stood and gazed across the never know
Reaching far and thin
But there it stood its livelihood unbroken
And took a smile
Right out of the pile of hoping
That it was misplaced there
Some scallion soup and salted crackers
Random choice with lots to do
The sphere was moving yet it didn't know
Reaching far and thin
There it stood its livelihood unbroken
And took a smile
Right out of the pile of hoping
That it was misplaced there
Explore the World
So you left feeling bad feeling sad
The day was young
With a song in your head
You were this way for years and years
The signs that you held and the feelings you felt
It all made perfect sense
And then you went out to explore the world
And the further you went the closer you got
And then you set out to explore the world
To explore the world
He kept on back and forth changing the view
We crumbled our sad selves
And got lost somewhere
The signs that you held and the feelings we felt
Knowing we're in love
It all made perfect sense
And then you went out to explore the world
And the further you went the closer you got
And then you set out to explore the world
To explore the world
We settled up in the afternoon
Your world still in a haze
With those signs that you held
And those feelings you felt
It all made perfect sense
And then you went out to explore the world
And the further you went the closer you got
And then you set out to explore the world
To explore the world
All This Time
Time can pass but I know it won't matter
If tomorrow I tell you how I feel without
As you hide yourself any way behind
Behind a mask of perfect logic
And all this time
We're nothing but a big old tome
And all this time alone
And all this time our temple's crumbling slowly
And all this time a crow called my name
But this is not a courtroom
Where I have to explain myself or expound my case
'Cause what do I know other than your name?
Like an insufficient file
And all this time
We're nothing but a big old tome
And all this time alone
And all this time our temple's crumbling slowly
And all this time a crow called my name
12 & 3
The Sunday moon was last in sight
You faded blue but no one here could know
He wiped his tears and followed up
On lectures that were given long ago
He had her there for long enough
Yet didn't say just where he wanted to be
And now we know just what we felt
And everyone could see the 12 & 3
And mandarins and oval seams and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling and for you
His soul was buried long ago
But deep down there kept something whole
And words could say what one don't care for anymore
It's just a game for
The faded blue just hanging loose from A to B
Philanthropy of space
And now we know just what we felt
And everyone could see the 12 & 3
And mandarins and oval seams and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling and for you
The day you left before you knew
That this was here long before you too
And Ovaltine and mandarins and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling and for you
Oh Lover
The misty world was gone for far
You wasted like the moonlight far
While day to day the simplified ignores
He spoiled his way and looked away
Then turned around to feel around
To see the sky for all its worth
He said I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining though the window
You'd opened up to see me smile
I said I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining through the window
And down on you
Down this earth they crawl like you but desensitized
The simple loop that some say you will learn
Left by the right wing but it says you know
They found you well but they did not so
But who's to say anyway these days
I said I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining through the window
You'd opened up to see me smile
I said I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining through the window
And down on you
But sister you can never see the sky without the eyeglasses
of the aloof-like Eye the endless gauge of me
He was a lost boy in the crowds of many waited long
to show the many
But it spoiled the brat to a never-ending stare
I said I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining through the window
You'd opened up to see me smile
I don't know what to do with the moonlight
shining through the window
And down on you
Wanna Be
Waiting for that hit to come when all the deeds are done
Gleaming in the growing lights will force out all the fun
Sleeping on my pillow soft to dream such glorious dreams
In the wake of sentiments and faces so obscene
I don't wanna be this way
I don't wanna see that way
I don't wanna be that way
Wanna be don't wanna be that way
When time and times confront you brave
To question your beliefs
And sung in tones of unison this world seems one of thieves
I beg the sky to throw that stone and end our evil play
But those are feasts of sentiment I can't effort to pay
I don't wanna be that way
I don't wanna see that way
I don't wanna be that way
Wanna be don't wanna be that way
Oh La La Li…
Lyrics © 1999 Stephanie
Batailler
Au pantheon, je la vois et elle m'ennivre
Et je la suis, la veux pres de moi
Et elle rougie , comme un enfant embarrasse
Mon doux amour, je l'ai trouve'la
Ohlalali dans mes bras
Ohlalali pres de moi
Amant transit, je vais, je tremble
D'en vivre
Poser mon sac, rayer les bas fonds
De mes nuits
Je vois ses yeux alors je fond
Suis un homme heureux
Madame, lui dis-je pourrais-je
Devenir possible
Ohlalali, dans mes bras
Ohlalali pres de moi
They All Think
They all think they know it all
Think they stand right as they fall
They all live just to hold it down
Made it to my song and to my crown
By such times I know
It satisfies my soul
To find myself all alone
Hand in hand with the unknown
For they all think they know it all
So they talked about the wetter still
55 and hasn't found a single hill
to see the valley from the up above
So he and I don't know what we're thinking of
By such times we know
It satisfies my soul to find it so
All alone hand in hand with the unknown
For they all think they know it all
Gold
I was born as a man
Right across the stars
With this girl
And the moon
Shined as bright as before
Won't deny all these words
But I know all these gold
I won't find
Before I reach myself
Saw the leaf with my name
And although I tried I can't bury me
And the sun shined as black as before
Won't deny all these words
But I know all these gold
I won't find
Before I reach myself
So I wait head on my knees
No more words in the dimming world
High
This man does he love you
Does he starve you like you think you do
And this girl she took a marble
Gave it meaning
And throw it high
But I'd be better off just throwing it all way
For it will smash to pieces anyway
A wish-full sigh a live to try
But here's to you
Despite the world outside you
The lost and searching the never true
I speak of what is moving
Of my existence and throw it high
But I'd be better off just throwing it all way
For it will smash to pieces anyway
A wish-full sigh a live to try
But here's to you
This man did he leave you
And deceive you
Like you think you do
And this girl she took a marble
Lost the meaning
And felt so low
But she'd be better off without it anyway
For it would smash to pieces anyway
A wish-full sigh a live to try
But here's to you
Dawn in the Fall
Dawn in the fall and the lights are dim
Trees standing tall and the air is thin
I see her face in the drops of the morning mist
I call it in
It's turning about
Dawn in the fall and the lights are playing their games
It's such a young day, adventures to come
Thoughts roll around, yet nothing but dazed
I close my eyes, but I'm not losing my sight
And I'm standing in the garden looking in
The balalaikas playing songs I know
The correlation of you and I-
It's clear to me or is it too
Guilty or not these thoughts and more
You stand in front that rusty old front door
That what is behind you know without a doubt
You would explore
But the sign there says "STAY OUT"
And I'm standing in the garden looking in
The balalaikas playing songs I know
The correlation of you and I-
It's clear to me or is it too
Dawn in the fall and the lights are dim
Trees standing tall and the air is thin
I see her face in the drops of the morning mist
I call it in
It's turning about
But You
In it lay the secrets of dismay
The many occasions we had wished to say
The simple man with all his simple fear
A sentiment to the times we've wasted here
But now at last we have no place else to go
But you my love
You're on your own
Softly she spoke
And walked away
Oh no I never thought that this could be the never-end
To the world inside of me
But now I know now I know it'll do
Now I know it'll do
Sad where the days when the days where sadly new
And sparse the events we than called the sparsely few
The knuckle-ring breaking down and breaking through
There's no end to the bones inside of you
But now at last I have no place else to go
But you my love
You're on your own
Softly she spoke
And walked away
Oh no I never thought that this could be the never-end
To the world inside of me
But now I know now I know it'll do
Now I know it'll do
For you the Island breaks in two
And now I know you do
Now I know you
Now I know you
For you the daylight breaks in two
And now I know you do
Now I know you
Now I know you
So Creative
I thought I heard some noise last night
Could it be that it came from your room?
I don't think so I said
As I started to quietly panic
I have to deny
For it is just not good
To let the people know
That I was not behaving well
It could set off talk
So I just act my part and shrug my shoulders
And I push the elevator button
More than really necessary
So creative when you try not to be noticed
So creative
Thanks for coming by today
It adds some color to my room
It feels like the gray of the wall
That faces my window
Sometimes I wonder why they build that there
maybe to cover up the things that are just better left unsaid
So creative when you try not to be noticed
So creative
Like I Say
And if I only had one day perfectly alone
I'd fly above mountains in my head
Only on my own
There would be no one to tell me I couldn't do
I'd create my own day where everything would work like I say
And it'll be like I say
Like I say
Like I say
One day OK
And I don't mind
I don't mind
Why can't I create my own wings?…
To walk in any way the clouds I please to walk today
You can judge me for my absent mind
For I'm not one of your kind
With one word I change the world and more-
Round to flat and less to more
And it'll be like I say
Like I say
Like I say
One day OK
And I don't mind
I don't mind
I say watch me
I can live alone
I can live alone
I can live…
And it'll be like I say
Like I say
Like I say
One day OK
And I don't mind
I don't mind
Ratio
My days were lovely until then
I was the lion in my high den
But things like this can never last
And now it's just another thing of my past
I guess it comes from all that endless yearning
Lets chop some wood to keep the fire burning
She said, "When you fuck with the ratio,
the effect will be domino
Before you know it's upside down and inside out"
So I stayed glued on to my seat
You ran off frantic for a treat
How I would love to find the thing that satisfies you true
Or would that mean for you just to get a fucking clue?
I guess it comes from all that endless yearning
Lets chop some wood to keep the fire burning
She said, "When you fuck with the ratio,
the effect will be domino
Before you know it's upside down and inside out"
And then you say you wanna do that race thing
Go up to a thousand miles
And then you said you wanna do that page thing
Break some idiotic record, make everybody sing
She said, "When you fuck with the ratio,
the effect will be domino
Before you know it's upside down and inside out"
The Ceiling Above You
The Sunday moon was last in sight
You fainted blue and no one here could know
He wiped his tears and followed up
On lectures that were given long ago
He had her near for long enough
Yet didn't say just where he wanted to be
And now we know just what we felt
And anyone could see the 12 & 3
And mandarins and oval seams and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling above you
Above You
His soul was buried long ago
But deep down there kept something whole
And words could say what one don't care for anymore
It's just a game for
The faded blue just hanging loose from A to B
Philanthropy of space
And now we know just what we felt
And everyone could see the 12 & 3
And mandarins and oval seams and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling above you
Above you
The day you left before you knew
That this was here long before you too
And mandarins and oval seams and rotten plants
Just standing there and smile
And silhouettes of worse than blue
Just hanging off the ceiling above you
Rite of Passage
Lyrics © 2000 Anna Fleshler & Theo
Eastwind
Whatever choice you make today
Whatever things you say
Could it be any better or could it be any worse?
You wreck your brain all day long
just to figure out what went wrong
Say nothing big
it all looks so small out here, right now
Perhaps it's all been spoken for and never did belong
to you, to me, to all the rest
All you ever need is all you ever want
When all you ever want is what you never have
And all you never have
All you never have
Old men playing chess without a care
And gossip of what happened there
Is this the way they thought they'd end?
With pigeons eating off their hands?
All you ever need is all you ever want
When all you ever want is what you never have
And all you never have
All you never have
You pass on…
All you ever need is all you ever want
When all you ever want is what you never have
And all you never have
All you never have
You pass on and you pass on and you…
Circus Dancers
Blue lights shine out of her tent
Every night and every day
After her show, she puts down her clothes
like a pair of chains
She said, "Come again, come again, come again!
Tomorrow I'm your slave.
Come again and I will pave your way."
And she said, "Circus dancers in my eyes"
I can feel it
I'm lost between her skies
We were dancing around the fireplace
laughing but silently alone
The air was filled with fear of the end
She said, "Come again, come again, come again!
Tomorrow I'm your slave.
Come again and I will pave your way."
And she said, "Circus dancers in my eyes"
I can feel it
I'm lost between her skies
Her arms spread wide open
to catch that what is lost
She said, "Come again, come again, come again!
Tomorrow I'm your slave.
Come again and I will pave your way."
And she said, "Circus dancers in my eyes"
I can feel it
I'm lost between her skies
7500
Lyrics © 2000 Theo Eastwind & Anna Fleshler
Revealed in it's true light is the flower of our lives
curling on my thumb
Studying its master's face in love and in disgrace
All breaks and all depends
But it seems to me that all it could say would just be another lie
Though the world outside has to give it yet another try
At the bottom of the sea
But unlike you and me, all madness is sleeping
It's waiting to redeem itself within a dream-
masking it's seeking
But let's double-check and find, seeming confidently blind
for we fear of it's escaping
But it seems to me that all it could say would just be another lie
Though the world outside has to give it yet another try
Like the mannequin in love
Crazy about you
Passionate and wild
Waiting for you to change your world
But it seems to me that all it could say would just be another lie
Though the world outside has to give it yet another try
All she could say would just be another lie
But the world outside has to give it yet another try
Like a mannequin in love-crazy about you
Passionate and wild
Waiting for you to change your world
You're Mine
I stare at you, I wonder if you know
Remain aloof as you undress
And all these people blind to what they see
as you pass
I think the driver's going faster now
You easy pray for wandering thought
And as the pack plays their atrocities
you hide behind your back
My oh my oh my oh my oh my
And all this time I thought you're mine
My eyes so tired, they start hurting now
Sit back and try to stop that aching in my head
I wanted so to whisper in your ear
My oh my oh my oh my oh my
And all this time I thought you're mine
Run Along
We told each other's lies
Got drunk and spoke so wise
And she was only thirteen
With tears in our eyes
we watched the far sun rise
And we were only thirteen
With hope along their sides
they watched for truth in pride
They were never since seen
The story of a sign
as the planets did align
It was never thirteen
And then you run along…
But no one here's to blame
They all just stay the same
And she was only thirteen
The story of a sign
As the planets did align
They were never since seen
And then you run along…
So sorry that we never stopped to say hello
And then you run along…
One
When you too try so hard to be insightful
But somehow you can't
Just as it starts to make sense, it's but hideous talk
Now it all seems to be too simple for me to comprehend
And as I am greeting the minutes and seconds
as they're passing me by
Will I be the one to hold you tight?
When no one here has hope to give?
And will I be the one to shed off life?
When it is time to live another one?
What it is-so what is it that I am really hoping to find?
What it is-so what is it that's waiting for all of us?
Inside all of us?
Will I be the one to hold you tight?
When no one here has hope to give?
And will I be the one to shed off life?
When it is time to live another one?
The Truth is Out There
Mrs. Jerlovtze, she stared at me and I nervously smiled
The truth about her past
And everyone has their own
Everyone carves the stone
Like Mr. Svolentov
For him, she embodied some magical place
that he had never found
And so he tells story's yet dreams of his own
Yet the truth is out there
twisting and turning around
for someone new to discover
So would you hang around?
So we keep digging in the sand
and the world around us seems endlessly small
But who's to say this?
Is one or the other your mother your brother
Yet the truth is out there
twisting and turning around
for someone new to discover
So would you hang around?
Twisting and turning and waiting for someone to say,
"Yes, this is it!", but I know it wasn't that
Now I know there was somebody else
waiting in the shed and didn't show himself
The lights flashing on and off
Yet the truth is out there
twisting and turning around
for someone new to discover
So would you hang around?
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