1. Sometimes (studio)
  2. Hail, Hail (studio)
  3. Who You Are (studio)
  4. In My Tree (studio)
  5. Smile (studio)
  6. Off He Goes (studio)
  7. Habit (studio)
  8. Red Mosquito (studio)
  9. Lukin (studio)
  10. Present Tense (studio)
  11. Mankind (studio)
  12. I'm Open (studio)
  13. Around the Bend (studio)


SOMETIMES


Large fingers pushing pain
You're God and you got big hands
Colors blend
The challenges you give me

Seek my part
Devote myself
My small self
Like a book amongst the many on a shelf

Sometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself
here God





HAIL, HAIL


Ah is there room for both of us
Both of us as one
Are we bound out of obligation
Is that all we've got?

I hear the words and then I get to thinking
I don't wanna think
I wanna feel
How do I feel
How do I?

If you're the only one
When I never be enough then?
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love

I gonna love you till the day I die
Ah, and beyond
Are we going to the same place?
If so, can I come?

Can tag along anything can happen
The past it carried
I can be nude
Don't underestimate me

If you're the only one
When I never be enough then?
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love

Yah!

Sometimes realize
I could only be as good as you let me
Are you woman enough to be my man
Bangaged hand in hand

Yo!

Like winding on the run
In a race that can't be one
All hail the luck ones
I refer to those in love

If your my only one
So good you only want
I want to be your one
Enough
Your one, your one, your one



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WHO YOU ARE


Come to send, not condescend
Transcended to consequences
To transcend
Where we are
Who are we, Who we are

Trampled marks on your souls
Changes all your apart
Seen it all, not at all
Can't defend, Fucked up men

Take me for a ride
Before we leave

Circumstance, clapping hands
I dry in winds, ever in stance
Off the track, in the mud
That's the marks, Every one should nurse

Just a little time
Before we leave

Stop light plays it parts
So I would say, you've got a part
What's you part, who you are
you are who, who you are



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IN MY TREE


Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me
No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah

Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
I ashtrayed on the street, yo, oh
Sidewall cigarettes
It seems they're dead

Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high, the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
Keep it in my chest,
Just like innocence

I remember when
I thought I knew everything
They say knowledge is a tree
Growing up just like me

I'm so lucky with these shades
I'm so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I'll hold just one breath
Deep within my chest
Sleepless

Up here so high the bows they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
And my eyes feel both wide open
And I gotta glimpse of my innocence
I fight my innocence
I got it, said keep it



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SMILE


Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
When the sun don't shine (it don't shine at all)
Don't it make you smile?

Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
When the sun don't shine (it don't shine at all)
Don't it make me smile?

I miss you already
I miss you always
I miss you already
I miss you all days

(this is how I feel)

I miss you already, hey
I miss you always
Three crooked hearts, swirls all around
I miss you all days

Gonna make you smile (fade out)



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OFF HE GOES


Know a man
His face seems pulled and tense
Likes he's riding on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much to fast

Said he'll see me on the flipside
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin'
Too much on
There he goes
With his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

He's yet to come back
But I see his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back

I wonder bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been takin'
Where? I don't know
Off he goes
With his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

And now I rub my eyes
For he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles
And he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshir
That has grown

And now he's home
And we're laughing
Like we always did
My same old, same old friend

Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen then
Before his first step
He's off again



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HABIT


Seen it happen to a couple of friends
Seen it happend and the message it sends
Taking off for what's an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about

It's not your way
Not your way
It's not your way

Another habit says it's in love with you
Another habit says its love's overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self

It's not your way
Not your way
It's not your way

Never thought you'd habit (x3)
Never thought you (x2)
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
Never thought you
Never, never thought you
Never thought you'd habit (x6)

Speaking as a child of the '90's

Never thought you'd habit (x3)
Never thought you (x2)
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
Never thought you
Never, never thought you
Never me
Never you
Never me



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RED MOSQUITO


Watched from a window
With a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down
And now it's coming up
Somewhere in the time between

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just paying me
A little visit
Reminded me of his presence
Letting me know
He's a waiting

Red man's your neighbor
Call it behavior
While your climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him
Punctures in your neck
Hovering just above your bed (x2)

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just paying me
A little visit
Reminded me of his presence
Letting me know
He's a waiting (x2)

If I had known then, what I know right now (x4)



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LUKIN


Walked down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home
I'll take a walk so I can close my ass in a little dump
I'll make you learn the undistinguished prison bone (?)
So let the supermarket people sell their common guns

I'm going to Lukin's
I got a spot at Lukin's
I've gotta go to Lukin's
Open the fridge
Now I know what life is worth 

I find the key but then I turn to find an open door
So fucking bring who claims a father my revolver son
I'm on my walk back home and call the cops these things were never done
Nothing hurts in the frequent purchasing a fuckin gun



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PRESENT TENSE


Do you see the way that tree bends?
Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the suns rays
A lesson to be applied
Are you getting something out of this
All encompassing trails

You can spend your time alone 
Redigesting past regrets,  ooh
Or you can, come to terms and 
Realize you're the alone that can forgive yourself, ooh
Makes much more sense
To live in the present tense

Have you ideas on how this life ends
Checked the hands and studied the lines
Have you ever believed that the road ahead
Ascends off, into the light
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder
To find an approach and know where to live
Are we getting something out of this
More than encompassing trails

You can spend you time alone 
Redigesting past regrets, ooh
Or you can come to terms and 
Realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourslef, OOH!
It makes much more sense
To live in the present tense



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MANKIND


You'll be going out with radio
Going out with disco
Going out like bacchanal

I'll be going out with telephone
Going out alone
To the radar zone

It's all just inadvertent, imitation
And I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation
A pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it

I'll be playing with my magazine
Using up my listerine
Like ovaltine

And you'll be dippin in your battleship
For the latest tip
For the latest dream

It's all just inadvertent, imitation
And I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation
A pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it

If it's just inadvertent imitation
A pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking (x6)



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I'M OPEN


A man lies in his bed
In a room with no door
He waits hoping for a presence
Something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing
So is he?
When he was 6, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By 9, he had deciphered the illusion
Trading magic for facts
No trade backs
So this is what it is like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then

I'm open (x2)
Come on in (x4)
I'm open  (x2)
Come on in (x4)

Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream
Dream up a new self
For himself



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AROUND THE BEND


I'm wishing you all well
Finding peace within yourself
Lovers of I guess you all
I'll be watching as you breathe

I lie still 
You move 
I send
You off around the bend

I hold your head deep in my arms
My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend

There's a sun around the bend

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me wont' you dear
Please forgive and let be shared

With you around the bend

You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend



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