On the bound

  All my life is on me now, hail the pages turning
  And the future's on the bound, hell don't know my fury

  You're all I need, you're all I need, you're all I need
  You're all I need, you're all I need, you're all I need
  You're all I need
  And maybe some faith would fo me good
  I don't know what I'm doing, don't know should I change my mind
  I can't decide, there's too many Variations to consider
  No thing I do don't do no thing but bring me more to do,
  It's true, I do imbue by blue unto myself, I make it bitter
  Baby, lay your head on my lap one more time
  Tell me you belong to me
  Baby say that it's all going to be alright
  I believe that it isn't
  You're all I need, you're all I need, you're all I need
  You're all I need, you're all I need, you're all I need
  You're all I need
 

To your love

  Here's another speech you wish I'd swallow
  Another cue for you to fold your ears
  Another train of thought too hard to follow
  Chugging along to the song that belongs to
  The shifting of gears
  Please forgive me for my distance
  The pain is evident in my existence
  Please forgive for my distance
  The shame is manifest in my resistance
  To your love, to your love, to your love
  I would've warned you, but really, what's the point?
  Caution could but rarely ever helps
  Don't be down when my demeanor tends to disappoint
  It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself
  Please forgive me for my distance
  The pain is evident in my existence
  Please forgive for my distance
  The shame is manifest in my resistance
  To your love, to your love, to your love
  My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon
  Around you
  But by the time I'm close to you, I lose
  My desideratum and now you, so
  Now you have it, so baby tell me what's the word?
  Am I your gal, or should I get out of town?
  I just need to be reassured
  Do you just deal it out, or can you deal with
  What I lay down?
  Please forgive me, for my distance
  The pain is evident in my existence
  Please forgive me for my distance
  The shame is manifest in my resistance
  To your love, to your love, to your love
 

Limp

  You wanna make me sick
  You wanna lick my wounds
  Don't you, baby?
  You want the badge of honour when you save my hide
  But you're the one in the way
  Of the day of doom, baby
  If you need my shame to reclaim your pride
  And when I think of it, my fingers turn to fists
  I never did anything to you, man
  But no matter what I try
  You'll beat me with your bitter lies
  So call me crazy, hold me down
  Make me cry; get off now, baby
  It won't be long till you'll be
  Lying limp in your own hand
  You feed the beast I have within me
  You wave the red flag, baby you make it run run run
  Standing on the sidelines, waving and grinning
  You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
  And when I think of it, my fingers turn to fists
  I never did anything to you, man
  But no matter what I try
  You'll beat me with your bitter lies
  So call me crazy, hold me down
  Make me cry; get off now, baby
  It won't be long till you'll be
  Lying limp in your own hand
 

Love Ridden

  Love ridden, I've looked at you
  With the focus I gave to my birthday candles
  I've wished on the lidded blue flames
  Under your brow
  And baby, I wished for you
  Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
  And I wanna crawl in with you
  But I cry instead
  I want your warm, but it will only make
  Me colder when it's over
  So I can't tonight, baby
  No, not 'baby' anymore - if I need you
  I'll just use your simple name
  Only kisses on the cheek from now on
  And in a little while, we'll only have to wave
  My hand won't hold you down no more
  The path is clear to follow through
  I stood too long in the way of the door
  And now I'm giving up on you
  No, not 'baby' anymore - if I need you
  I'll just use your simple name
  Only kisses on the cheek from now on
  And in a little while, we'll only have to wave
  No, not 'baby' anymore - if I need you
  I'll just use your simple name
  Only kisses on the cheek from now on
  And in a little while, we'll only have to wave
 

Paper bag

  I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star
  To pray on, or wish on, or something like that
  I was having a sweet fix of a daydream of a boy
  Whose reality I knew, was a hopeless to be had
  But then the dove of hope began its downward slope
  And I believed for a moment that my chances
  Were approaching to be grabbed
  But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
  -I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag
  -Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
  Cuz I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
  I got to fold cuz these hands are too shaky to hold
  -Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
  And I went crazy again today, looking for a strand to climb
  Looking for a little hope
  Baby said he couldn't stay, wouldn't put his lips to mine,
  And a fail to kiss is a fail to cope
  I said, 'Honey, I don't feel so good, don't feel justified
  Come on put a little love here in my void,' - he said
  'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything' -
  But he didn't get it - I thought he was a man
  But he was just a little boy
  -Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
  Cuz I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
  I got to fold cuz these hands are too shaky to hold
  -Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
  -Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
  Cuz I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
  I got to fold cuz these hands are too shaky to hold
  -Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
 

A Mistake

  I'm gonna make a mistake
  I'm gonna do it on purpose
  I'm gonna waste my time
  Cuz I'm full as a tick
  And I'm scratching at the surface
  And what I find is mine
  And when the day is done, and I look back
  And the fact is I had fun, fumbling around
  All the advice I shunned, and I ran
  Where they told me not to run, but I sure
  Had fun, so
  I'm gonna fuck it up again
  I'm gonna do another detour
  Unpave my path
  And if you wanna make sense
  Whatcha looking at me for
  I'm no good at math
  And when I find my way back,
  The fact is I just may stay, or I may not
  I've acquired quite a taste
  For a well-made mistake
  I wanna mistake why can't I make a mistake?
  I'm always doing what I think I should
  Almost always doing everybody good
  Why
  Do I wanna do right, of course but
  Do I really wanna feel I'm forced to
  Answer you, hell no
  I've acquired quite a taste
  For a well-made mistake, I wanna
  Make a mistake, why can't I make a mistake
  I'm always doing what I think I should
  Almost always doing everybody good
  Why
 

Fast As You Can

  I let the beast in too soon, I don't know how to live
  Without my hand on his throat; I fight him always & still
  O darling, it's so sweet, you think you know how crazy
  How crazy I am
  You say you don't spook easy, you won't go, but I know
  And I pray that you will
  Fast as you can, baby run-free yourself of me
  Fast as you can
  I may be soft in your palm but I'll soon grow
  Hungry for a fight, and I will not let you win
  My pretty mouth will frame the phrases that will
  Disprove your faith in man
  So if you catch me trying to find my way into your
  Heart from under your skin
  Fast as you can, baby scratch me out, free yourself
  Fast as you can
  Fast as you can, baby scratch me out, free yourself
  Fast as you can
  Sometimes my mind don't shake and shift
  But most of the time, it does
  And I get to the place where I'm begging for a lift
  Or I'll drown in the wonders and the was
  And I'll be your girl, if you say it's a gift
  And you give me some more of your drugs
  Yeah, I'll be your pet, if you just tell me it's a gift
  Cuz I'm tired of whys, choking on whys,
  Just need a little because, because
  I let the beast in and then;
  I even tried forgiving him, but it's too soon
  So I'll fight again, again, again, again, again.
  And for a little while more, I'll soar the
  Uneven wind, complain and blame
  The sterile land
  But if you're getting any bright ideas, quiet dear
  I'm blooming within
  Fast as you can, baby wait watch me, I'll be out
  Fast as I can, maybe late but at least about
  Fast as you can leave me, let this thing
  Run its route
  Fast as you can X4
 

The way things are

  I wouldn't know what to do with another chance
  If you gave it to me
  I couldn't take the embrace of a real romance
  It'd race right through me
  I'm much better off the way things are
  Much much better off, better by far, by far
  I wouldn't know what to say to a gentle voice
  It'd roll right past me
  And if you chalk it up you'll see I really don't have a choice
  So don't even ask me
  I'm much better off, the way things are
  Much much better off, better by far
  So keep on calling me names, keep on, keep on
  And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone
  If you keep on killing, you could get me to settle
  And as soon as I settle, I bet I'll be
  Able to move on
  How can I fight, when we're on the same side
  How can I fight beside you
  So keep on calling me names, keep on, keep on
  And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone
  If you keep on killing, you could get me to settle
  And as soon as I settle, I bet I'll be
  Able to move on
  So keep on calling me names, keep on, keep on
  And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone
  If you keep on killing, you could get me to settle
  And as soon as I settle, I bet I'll be
  Able to move on
 

Get gone

  How many times do I have to say
  To get away-get gone
  Flip your shit past another lasses
  Humble dwelling
  You got your game, made your shot, and you got away
  With a lot, but I'm not turned-on
  So put away that meat you're selling
  Cuz I do know what's good for me-
  And I've done what I could for you
  But you're not benefiting, and yet I'm sitting
  Singing again, sing, sing again
  How can I deal with this, if he won't get with this
  M'I gonna heal from this; he won't admit to it
  Nothing to figure out; I gotta get him out
  It's time the truth was out that he don't give a
  Shit about me
  How many times can it escalate
  Till it elevates to a place I can't breathe?
  And I must decide, if you must deride
  That I'm much obliged to up and go
  I'll idealize, then realize that it's no
  Sacrifice, because the price is paid, and
  There's nothing left to grieve
  Fuckin go-
  Cuz I've done what I could for you, and I do know what's
  Good for me and I'm not benefiting, instead
  I'm sitting singing again, singing again, singing again,
  Sing, sing, sing again
  How can I deal with this, if he won't get with this
  M'I gonna heal from this; he won't admit to it
  Nothing to figure out; I gotta get him out
  It's time the truth was out that he don't give a
  Shit about me
 

I know

  So be it, I'm your crowbar
  If that's what I am so far
  Until you get out of this mess
  And I will pretend
  That you don't know your sins
  Until you are ready to confess
  But all the time, all the time
  I'll know, I'll know
  And you can use my skin
  To bury secrets in
  And I will settle you down
  And at my own suggestion,
  I will ask no questions
  While I do my thing in the background
  But all the time, all the time
  I'll know, I'll know
  Baby-I can't help you out, while she's still around
  So for the time being, I'm being patient
  And amidst the bitterness
  If you'll just consider this-even if it don't make sense
  All the time-give it time
  And when the crowd becomes your burden
  And you've early closed your curtains
  I'll wait by the backstage door
  While you try to find the lines to speak your mind
  And pry it open, hoping for an encore
  And if it gets too late, for me to wait
  For to to find you love me, and tell me so
  It's ok, don't need to say it.