LYRICS BLIND MELON

LYRICS BLIND MELON

SOAK THE SIN
TONES OF HOME
I WONDER
PAPER SCRATCHER
DEAR OL' DAD
CHANGE
NO RAIN
DESERTED
SLEEPYHOUSE
HOLYMAN
SEED TO A TREE
DRIVE
TIME

S O U P

HELLO GOODBYE
GALAXIE
2x4
VERNIE
SKINNED
TOES ACROSS THE FLOOR
WALK
DUMPTRUCK
CAR SEAT (GOD'S PRESENTS)
GOD'S PRESENTS
WILT
THE DUKE
ST. ANDREW'S FALL
NEW LIFE
MOUTHFUL OF CAVITIES
LEMONADE

N I C O

THE PUSHER
HELL
SOUP
NO RAIN (Ripped Away Version)
SOUL ONE
GLITCH
LIFE AIN'T SO SHITTY
SWALLOWED
PULL
ST ANDREW'S HALL
LETTERS FROM A PORCUPINE

B L I N D M E L O N

SOAK THE SIN 4:00

I've got to buy some shoes

these ones are getting loose

my feet are shrinking in the sun, and it ain't fun

But it looks like rain up ahead in forty miles.

A big rainbow took the blue sky......

I'm gonna tell my momma, I love her so

and thank you for giving me these bones o' gold

I'm gonna run from my home

Jump in the river and let the

water soak the sin in my soul.

Fine time we all crossed lines

make the music that makes us feel fine

Rednecks on sun decks hearing a hillside Romeo say

"Boys this is the good shit, so come on all and eat a little bit."

And if I ever go back home, I'm gonna set......

Don't even say a word, it confuses me.

What he says to do, is that we don't have to.

We don't have to.

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TONES OF HOME 4:25

What do you think they would say

If I stood up and I walked away

Nobody here really understand me

and so I'll wave goodbye I'm fine

Tones of home

said you don't know the way I'm living

you don't like me

Tones of home, tones of home

And so I'll wave goodbye.

I'm flyin' I'm flyin' home

And I always thought this would be

the land of milk and honey

Oh but I came to find out that it's

all hate and money

And there's a canopy of greed holding me down.

See I'm so High to you, so I'll fade away

I said your on your own

Your Mom and Daddy said , that your

sister said, and your brothers saying

Everybody is saying Everybody, is

saying I, eye God I gotta go!!

All my friends patronize me and

They say YO Hey Boy! Have you

found what your looking for.

It seems they don't really know me cause it's here and its what they can't see.

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I WONDER 5:30

All alone the broadening skies

Under the every night I will lie

Scratching claw and grip the rails

Every day my living hell

Oh God you know I've tried

I know how hard I tried

and oh I tried......

Hey I'd like to daze away to a

Place like no one has known

In a state of mind I could call mine

That only I could own

Where I could hum a tune anytime

I choose, and then there is no such thing as time

Where I can feel no pain just calm and sane

What a place for one to find

Now you see I'm watching everything

I do and they're watching everything I say

Why wont they leave me be?

Why am I even here? I wonder

You leave me wondering

Won't you stop watching me

I said they're watching me, watching me, watching me

Now in my corner I got the ceiling in my eyes

Arms holding up my knees

And rocking back and forth my life

I didn't mean to feel this way

When I walked into the door, Lord

Then they ripped away my memories

And I cant remember who I was before.

And I only wanted to be 16 and free.

......and I wonder.

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PAPER SCRATCHER 3:14

Shuffle can to can nobody really gives a damn

For every living day I give myself a hand

Now I'm scroungy as can be

I got all you normals looking at me

I'll scratch a hole in my life

So everyone can see

My mind is a mind that I have come to know

And my eyes can't conceive a world that can not grow

And Fridays are always fresh days

Screamin' at the sun, don't really

Know what he has done

He don't believe in God and a world as one

So he rambles through the weeds

And he will sleep beneath the trees

On the day I die, Thank God my Soul will be released

I've seen all your eyes

And I've seen all your faces

Can you tell me honestly that you wanna be free?

Then look in my eyes

I've been lots of places

Can you tell me honestly that you'd want to be me

Honestly.

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DEAR OL' DAD 3:01

Come now and listen babe

I gotta reason why I behave

Like a child with a light in eyes

Running naked on a cold winter night

I am like a pigeon that is spreading

it's wings to fly away to better things

Like a hammer that has made

a dent in every little single cent you've spent

Said oh God you've got to help me a little bit

you've got to have a relief file for me

Now I know I'm always right, that's a

thought that never even crossed my mind

Don't touch me there, I've gotta be pure

So smack that hand, and read this verse

So I wrecked your life, what the heck

My new found faith will pay by check

This life's took a toll on my soul

So this is me and that's my song

And I guess that you can see that we don't get along

I've shut the doors on what we had

so now she can sleep with her Dear ol' Dad

my eyes are dry and my hands are clean

and I can't believe all the things I've seen

Oh My God!

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CHANGE 3:40

I don't feel the suns comin' out today

its staying in, its gonna find another way.

As I sit here in this misery, I don't

think I'll ever see the sun from here.

And oh as I fade away,

they'll all look at me and say, and they'll say,

Hey look at him! I'll never live that way.

But that's okay

they're just afraid to change.

When you feel your life ain't worth living

you've got to stand up and

take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.

And when your deepest thoughts are broken,

keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

And as we all play parts of tomorrow,

some ways will work and other ways we'll play.

But I know we all can't stay here forever,

so I want to write my words on the face of today.

and then they'll paint it

And oh as I fade away,

they'll all look at me and they'll say,

Hey look at him and where he is these days.

When life is hard, you have to change.

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NO RAIN 3:35

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

I like watchin' the puddles gather rain

And all I can do is just pour some tea for two

and speak my point of view

But it's not sane, It's not sane

I just want some one to say to me

I'll always be there when you wake

Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today

So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day

And I start to complain that there's no rain

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake

And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

escape......escape......escape......

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

ya don't like my point of view

ya think I'm insane

Its not sane......it's not sane.

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DESERTED 4:19

Grab my knee and look at me

And try to tell me I'll be home soon

Asleep in my bed and unstoned

I'm tired of me this way

I don't know what I've gotten into

But I'm glad it's now instead of sooner

This desert heat has crowded me strong

With a wish I had for winter

It's not as gentle as it sounds

As though it sounded yesterday

When I heard a leaf of my life hit the ground

And as a bottle cap flew from my fingers

I don't know what I've gotten in to

But I'm glad it's now instead of sooner

This desert heat has crowded me strong

With a wish I had for winter

..And the sands blew in my eyes

I stood on the edge and looked down to see

The light of a new life, shinning up on me

...With a wish that I had

The sand blew in my eyes

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SLEEPYHOUSE 4:28

No time frame, for what I need to do today

Here at the yellow house. I think I'm gonna play

With free livin' lads down the street aways away

As I feel the moon rise

The time that all feels is the right time

Here in our sleepy house

As I wipe eye bugs away, the candle flickers at me to say

And in my head I sometimes pray

Hey aren't ya feeling fine

As I was as a little child

And I'm feeling better when I'm high

With a red light shinning on a little unity

The mistakes that I've made

No they don't seem to bother me

I sure as hell don't feel like

I missed any kind of train

If I could only show you how I feel

Then you wouldn't bother me

And then maybe you'd see why we don't mind being blind

As I was as a little child

And I'm feeling better when I'm high

With a red light shinning on a little unity

I'll probably be in a little while.

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HOLYMAN 4:46

I was born on the banks off a hot muddy river

The child of one stupid steamy night

Born to roam beneath the sun

What do you think of me, I'm better left alone

I met a Holyman that said that he knew the way

And he'd like to show me so my life won't go astray

Take my hand child now little boy don't you be afraid

I'll take your soul and walk on water

Holyman, ya don't understand

The cuts on me they run much deeper

Holyman, you righteous man

I've been shown the way a thousand times

Not one a keeper

Older man he said I'll tell you boy

You've planted rotten seeds

And in a land of happiness

They'll grow us evil trees

Guided minds, and eyes that will never see

Holyman I'll tell you

Just what it is that I believe

Holyman I tell you man you gotta

Believe in what you see

Cause its you that corrupt us man and

Deep throat philosophy

I don't need your spells or the little

Games you try to pull on me

Come to think of it I don't need your religion

Gotta get away

I wish you would understand

Everybody prays

Let me find my own way

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SEED TO A TREE 3:28

As I shit, I sit and wonder why

My floor is so cold and my back broken tired

But life is good, even though it won't be long

With a candle comes emotions that

Dance with the shadows on my wall

What were you thoughts, as they

Were flying through your mind

Compared to what you feel from

The bars your now behind

If they could speak, what do you think

They would say to you?

I do believe you'd been better

Off if you'd just told the truth

Never had a problem till I stood face to face with me

And I wish there was a way for me to go inside so I could see

All the faces of the people who have torn a piece of me

As I grew from a seed to a tree

Can you feel the power of the eye

That's hidden away 5 feet from where we lie

What do you taste, when you take a drink of me

Is it to much for me to ask if I asked you to leave

Please just leave 'cause I want to be alone

There's a fine line between love and my feelings for you

High time I washed it all away

Unkind, I watch your future burn before you

Denied, a chance of any love in your life

And I ask you one time..Why?

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DRIVE 4:39

His feet are dirty

And his face, his face is long

And while he's peeking out

Through his hair he hides the pain

Till that Lennon song comes along

He'll turn it off and say can you drive?

Jimmy, we need to borrow this for a minute

Cause we need to escape

Now there's so many things that

He's gonna do in 5 lifetimes

Hell I could do 'em all

Yeah and while he's rolling his own smokes

He says to me he's buying a new ride today

A classic deal the boss will give

He said the same thing two weeks ago

You've seen that sweaty jet rag

Feeling come over him, and I've

Seen that boy nod into a dream a time or two

And on his way out his glazed stare

Will make you stop and wonder

Hey William is that the last time

I'm gonna look at you?

But the next day phone will ring

And it will be him

Can you drive?

Jimmy, what would you say

what would you do

Oh should I pray?

Or do you think that this blind mind

would listen to me, anyway

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TIME 6:02

Said all these people they won't leave me alone

And we need, a little time to ourselves

And half the reasons why

I'm sketchin' all the time

The result of a life in this hell

But oh well, I think it's time

My faith is falling like the leaves from a tree

The pockets both take it away

The sun warms my body as I'm

Sittin' on a swing watching

Columbus clouds bring in the rain

Oh well I think it's time

Its time to go

My mind is playing tricks on me all the time

To let you know that I am real

And all the worries you build

Up inside your soul

The ones that make your world stand still

Mean you can feel, that it's time to go..

Are you fed up, Are you fed up with me?

Do you think you could do better?

Do you think that I know better?

Do they think that they know better?

Five fed up faces with the itch to kill a king

Blood red sunshine, and a breath to air that's clean

I drink from the faucet

From the porch I take a pee

I look at you through the bushes

Where you can't see me

I laugh and slip into another state of mind

To let you know that I am real

And all the worries you build up inside your soul

The ones that make your world stand still

Means you can feel, that it's time to go

S O U P

HELLO GOODBYE

I'm entering a frame bombarded by indecision
Where a man like me can easily let the day get out of control
Down this far in the quarter
I'm pushed hard upon the border
But, I'd rather be caught 'round now instead of oh, say, 'round the month of June
But if I can leave with a little bit of explanation
Then anywhere in the world I choose to go
I'll have it made.
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GALAXIE 2:40
Is this the place that I want to be
Is it you who I want to see
Holding on, hold it high, show me everything
And you're leaving me, yeah you're leaving me
you're leaving me with a hated identity

But I keep on a comin' here and standing in this state
And I'm never really sure if you'll take what I'm saying the right way
But I'm not appalled or afraid verbal pocket play
Is as discreet as I can muster up to be
Because the Cadillac that's sittin' in the back
It isn't me
Oh, no, no, no it isn't me
I'm more at home in my galaxie

Can I do the things I wanna do
That I don't do because of you
And I'll take a left and I'll second
guess into a total mess

And you're leaving me
And you're leaving me
you're leaving me with a hated identity

No no no no it isn't me
No no no no it isn't me
No it isn't me
I'm more at home in my galaxie

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2x4 4:00
I'm talkin' I'm talkin'
I'm talkin' to myself more

Needle, fetal
Someone's pouring warm gravy all over me
And you see that synthetic therapy
Don't you know it seems to be so unappealing
But, oh what a feeling

But I wish that you would stop spitting when you're talking to me

And inside, air dry
I might want to go another way
But you see now I'm too pale to get out
Into the lovely light of day
Oh, I'll do anything that you say
Oh, I'll do anything that you say

But I wish you would stop spitting when you're talking to me

I'm talkin' to myself more

1x1

Man to man
Stand to stand

2x4

Talkin' to myself

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VERNIE 3:14
Is it the way you're speakin'
Is it because I'm peakin'
Twistin' your face, thumb in hand, but you
Gotta have your own space to play in
A collection of glass chickens
Oh Vernie, what a garden you have

Maybe its the snuff under your lip
Or maybe caramel cake covered in Christmas
Oh a flower you are to my land, but I
No I cannot deny the beauty
If I had a heart I would want it to be like Vernie's
Oh what a heart that she has

Roaming through the cupboard jar of
pickles never opened since 1983
Peanuts in a pile and Elvis down the aisle
Singing gallantly

I wish I could be
A little more like Vernie
Oh, I wanna be
I wanna be a little more like Vernie

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SKINNED 1:57
I'll make a shoehorn outta your skin
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
And oh, don't you know that I'm always feelin' able
When I'm sittin' home and I'm carving out your navel

When will I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on

Hey, I could really use a couple of hands
To complete one hell of a plant stand
Oh, and don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables
I'm just makin' em into coffee tables

And when I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find anymore

Oh, because you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in, oh yeah
And though you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in

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TOES ACROSS THE FLOOR 3:04
Doesn't anybody feel
That all these killers should be killed
And all these healers should be healed
So all these beggers can be filled

Now tell me why am I to lie
If I'm holding firm and feel the right
to lie down beside this dog of mine
And let that perverted though really run through my mind

I'd scrape my toes across the floor
This day's the same as those before
And though inside I'm feeling giddy
Always wrong for never giving myself an uninvaded door

So now I'll take a little glue
I'll put together a new glittered room for you
So I can start sitting so pretty
Instead of sitting here not seein' clear
Just sitting here not fittin' here
No things ain't fittin' here

I'll just lay my head down beside this God of mine
And let that perverted thought burn a hole in my mind
And if I can't lay my head beside this God of mine
Maybe the Hunter's dog called God
Could be my friend in time

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WALK 2:47
Find myself singing the same songs everyday
Ones that make me feel good
When things behing the smiles ain't okay

Around and over and in-between the seas
I need to be on top of a mountain
Where I can be see everything
Cause this paranoia's getting old

Now as I open my eyes to start another day
I'm in a pile of puke
Empty bag of execuses
My love for friends and family
you know I need them

And under a sun that's seen it all before
My feet are so cold
And I can't believe that I have to bang my head against this wall again
But the blows they have just a little more space in-between them
Gonna take a breath and try again.

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DUMPTRUCK 3:40
New York City soothing my itchy itchy month of May
Time has passed for Ms. Onassis, decay on display

I don't want to go down
I don't want to go down
I don't want to go down - like she did

And I can't understand why something
good's got to die before we miss it

Mumbled talk through pigeon park
And Hastings is wasting away
religiously they seem to sin
Buy, sell or trade for amens

I just don't want to feel
I just don't want to feel
I just don't want to feel - like they feel

Hollow body for sound, trade a coat for a gown

Way up in my arms you know
I love you just a little bit more

Raisin' nose down to chin
Smoke after smoke they all trickle in
Anything, for anything, and ending up with nothing

Simple pimpled young man
Sores all over his hands
He's sleeping, not so silently

I'll mop the floors for you all
I'm a fly on the wall
Really big and listening

Burned a hand of a friend of mine
And Bub I know that you could fly a mile high
You told me nothing's ever gonna come between
Nothing's ever gonna come between
Nothing's ever gonna come between

My dumptruck and me

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CAR SEAT (GOD'S PRESENTS) 2:42
Tongue tied, nerves as big as boulders
Why Mom, I thought I was your soldier
My brother sits by me
Buckled into the carseat

Feel the thirst, it's time for pulling over
Into the truckstop on my daddy's shoulder
Out back where they plant all the trees
ten feet away my daddy buries me

GOD'S PRESENTS

If my path be smooth or rugged
If with thorns or roses strewn
Where I go the Father seeith
And He will leave me not alone

If I take the wings of morning
far within the giant sea
Even there His hand will leave me
Even there my God will be

Though the gloom of night be round me
Though I cannot see my way
Yet the Lord will see and guide me
Because unto Him the night is day

If my thought are good or evil
Set me think to hide them not
there is one above all seeing
And He beholdth every thought

And ever more my eyes beholds me
And all my ways to Him are known
And His loving arms enfolds me
He will leave me not alone

God's Presents was written by Blanche Bridge on February 11, 1884

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WILT 2:29

Hair raising shake you're much too late
you should have jumped a couple of cars before
Now if I may I'll walk away
I'm selling Silly Putty door to door
And up on the shelf it seems to help
If I can keep a little bit of disease
As its feeding on me
You see it's bringing me to my knees

As we all wilt
Watching you wilt

Come right away and help me bathe away
the filthy feeling, frigid and cold
Biting my nails to the fairy tales
About the magic monkey's total control

See I got Indian Ken and his fleabag friends
With their buckets full of elephant ears
And he's breathing on me

His breath is bringing me to my knees

As we all wilt
Watching you wilt

Pea green the feeling

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THE DUKE 3:36
Out here in nothin' engulfed by the sea
And there's no one here 'cept these fishes and me
I think I could die here
Then I'm hit, leveled hard by the rising tide

Oh, I'm hit hard by the tide,
I'm just livid,
All alone

Sunny, so funny, not funny to me because,
I'm bearing the scars from it burning on me
But I feel so revived, just sittin', here thinkin'
Then I'm hit hard, really hard by the tide

I'm hit hard by the tide, I'm just livid
And I'm livin'

Yeah, I'm hit hard by the tide
I'm livid, livid
Hard by the tide I'm livin'

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ST. ANDREW'S FALL 4:11
Big stretch and not much sleep
I got a couple of plam trees on each side of my cheek
And it's a bright blue Saturday
And the rummage sells the rubbish to me

But if I could buy the sky that's hangin'
Over this bed of mine
If I could climb these vines
And maybe see what you're seein'

If you were standing on the corner staring straight
Into the eyes of Jesus Christ

One porch, one dog, one cockroach only way to be
I got sewage fruit and it's growing out back from roots
I don't know if they belong to me
But if I could buy the sky that's hangin'

Over this bed of mine
And if I could climb these vines
and maybe see what you're seein'

Sittin' at the edge of this building,
Twenty stories below,
A' twenty stories below
Twenty stories below
Twenty stories below

I can't tell you how many ways that I've sat,
And viewed my life today, but I can tell you
I don't think that I can find easier way
So if I see you walking hand in hand in hand
With a three armed man, you know I'll understand

But you should have been in my shoes yesterday
You should have been in my shoes yesterday

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NEW LIFE 3:34
Suddenly everyting is fainting
Falling from a broken ladder's rung
There's a jolt exhilarating from the phone I'm holding
I hear the words of what I'll become

How eager the hands that reach for love

'Cause now there's a new life to behold
And its the biggest part of my life to unfold

'Cause now she's telling me she'll have my baby
And a faithful father I am to be
When I'm looking into the eyes of our own baby
Will it bring new life into me?

Deep inside must defy arrangement
I've been a stumblin' from the startin' blocks 'til now
And I'll always try to justify the way I've been behaving
Should I teach one not to know how?
How to live in a world we live in now

'Cause there's a beautiful life to behold
And its the biggest part of my life to unfold

'Cause now she's telling me she'll have my baby
And a father figure I am to be
When I'm looking into the eyes of our own baby
Will it bring new life into me?

Oh please
Oh please
Oh please

Bring new life
Bring new life
Bring new life into me

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MOUTHFUL OF CAVITIES 3:33
Mouthful of cavities
Your souls a bowl of jokes
And everyday you remind me
How I'm desperately in need

See, I got a lot of fiends around
And they're peaking through nothing new
They see you
They see everything you do

See everything on the inside, out

Oh, please give me a little more
And I'll push away those baby blues
Cause one of these days this will die
So will me and so will you

I write a letter to a friend of mine
I tell him how much I used to love watch him smile

See I haven't seen him smile in a little while

Haven't seen him smile in a little while

But, I know you're laughing from the inside out
Laughin' from the inside out
I know you're laughing from the inside out
Laughing from the inside
From the inside
From the inside
From the inside
From the inside out

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LEMONADE 3:36

There's such a thing as self opinion
And this far down South I have no self-control
If anbody else feels like a nobody
Well then your gonna have to look out for you
I'll colour green verything believed in
But I keep screaming for my glass of lemonade

I walk around and it feels good to be movin'
The breeze that's blowin' through cannot be found
Jump on the trolley that's headed for all the hollering
And then you're gonna have to look out for you

In desperate need of a little more religion
To nurse your God like point of view

Fool on the sheetroof you gotta lay down in your ruins
The river flowin' by, is way too big to bound
If I should speak up, and say hello Mr. Uppercut
Oh, how nice to have avoided you

I'll bloody bleed on everything I'm seeing
But I keep screaming for that glass of lemonade

Too much, too much, too much Lemonade

N I C O

THE PUSHER

This is Shannon's interpretation of the song original written by Hoyt Axton
Snow flakes rolling over my ear, goose bumping weather
If I'm hungry at 4:30 in the morning, Pink Dot will deliver
And I'm oh so tired of you pushing that thorny crown
Down onto my head so hard, my knees are two inches in the ground
And I said, God damn, God damn that Bible pushin' man

You know I smoked a lot of grass and I've popped a lot of pills
But I've never done nothing that my spirit couldn't kill
And I walk around with these tombstones in my eyes
But I know the pusher don't care, if you live or if you die.

And I said, God damn, God damn that Bible pushin' man.
Godamn, Godamn, Godamn, Godamn, God damn

HELL

I have no fingertips
They were burned away from too many stove trips
Can't find no fingernails
I ate them off cause I was hungry as hell
Can't read, can't clear my mind
So here I go I've got to get into this lifetime
I think I'm gonna build a fence
To keep inside what little sense
The sense of taste
The sense of smell
The sense to sit here and feel like hell
To feel like hell

The sun, the moon, the stars
Is that what you're thinking that you are
As I'll disintegrate over time
If I expect my Body to try and keep up with my mind
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine

SOUP

The clothesline of cold eyes
is washing away the face before
Now tell me what's wrong you see everyone's gone
You gotta do your best to decorate this dying' day
This dying' day
All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans

And outside way, way up high I got a quarter moon mist
hanging' over me
And now, I want that rocking chair outta there
Cause he's no longer living here
It's no longer needed here

All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans

And I got a corner store and that's all the more
For me to praise upon the holidays
And now I'll close my eyes really, really tight
and make you all go away,
I'll make you all go all go away

And I'll pull the trigger and make it all go away
And I'll make it all go away, I'll make it all go away

NO RAIN (Ripped Away Version)

All I can say you know my life it's pretty plain
And all that I can do, is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view, but it's not sane
No it's not sane
No it's not sane
No it's not sane
It's not sane
And I don't understand why I sleep all God damn day
All that I do, is read a book to stay awake
It rips my life away
It rips my life away
And it rips my life away
And it will rip your life away

SOUL ONE

How come, girl was there when I needed one
How come, girl was there when the song is done
Some say, open your eyes to a brighter light
Okay, open my arms they were right
She was my soul one
She felt she was the only one
She was the sun, the sky blue eyes
She was my soul one

Inside, pain in my heart often made her cry
Outside, I cursed the birds and the sugar sky
How long take to realize she's the one
How long until I find my lost and lonely soul one

She was my soul one
She felt like the only one
She was the sun, the sky blue eyes
She was my soul one

Should of never taken the time
'Cause I found myself living a lonely lie
You said, you left to find yourself
But I never, no I never got the chance to say good-bye

She was my soul one I though she was.......

GLITCH

Sitting' on the back of my time
Fishing' through the cities phone lines
Suddenly, Suddenly 'til my back's out of line
Who today will be knocked off
And who controls all the chalk talk
Will they let you see
And will you believe
May there be a charm in your shine
Lies about the big find But shouldn't he, so deservingly

LIFE AIN'T SO SHITTY

Life Ain't So Shitty
There's a lot that you can be
And ain't it a pity
But it's alright, to smile back at me
And if we both go there
We can count on problems that we might not necessarily
Come in contact with..
Hey wake up, do you know where I'm coming' from

And life ain't so shitty
There's a lot that you can be
And ain't it a pity
But it's alright, to smile back at me
And if we both go there
We can count on problems that I might not necessarily
come in contact with if you don't know where I'm coming' from

SWALLOWED

Come down from the ceiling
Oh, these pills were made for feeling
Oh, so divine
I've got a lump in my throat
So I'll keep hold of hope
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
I've got a lump in my throat
And it makes it hard to swallow

That's why we'll crawl to walk for running
Oh there's not so much more in store
That's why we'll never, ever divide

I've got a lump in my throat
So, I'll keep hold of hope
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
I've got a lump in my throat
And it makes it hard to swallow

Telling me winning is now or never
Seems like nobody really cares
Because they're just killing my time
They're just killing my time
Don't you know they're just killing my time

PULL

Pull you down now

Knees knelt, I got my arms open wide
I got the shades turned, so the colors die
No, don't hold too tight to the reel
Cause it's a big one boy
Its' gonna pull you down now
Pull you down now

No, the cook can't look
No, the cook can't look
No, no cause he's keeping his eye on the kettle

In deed he will be around
When you or you or you feel the need to feel
Pull you down now

Well I live more than what you'll ever know
But I'll give you more than what I'll ever show
I live more than what you'll ever know
And I give you more that what I'll ever show

More than I'll ever show
More than I'll ever show
More than I'll ever show
More than I'll ever show
More than I'll ever show
More than I'll ever show

ST ANDREW'S HALL

Big stretch and not much sleep
I got a couple of palm trees on each side of my cheek
And it's a bright blue Saturday
And the rummage sellin' the rubbish to me
But if I could buy the sky, that's hanging
over this bed of mine
If I could climb these vines
and maybe see what you're seeing

If you were standing' on the corner staring straight
into the eyes of Jesus Christ

One porch, one dog, one cockroach only one way to be
I got sewage fruit and it's growing out back from roots
I don't know if they belong to me

But if I could buy the sky that's hanging
over this bed of mine
And if I could climb these vines
and maybe see what you're seeing

Sitting at the edge of this building,
Twenty stories below, twenty stories below
Twenty stories below
Twenty stories below

I can't tell you, how many ways that I've sat
and viewed my life today, but I can tell you
I don't think that I can find an easier way
So if I see you walking hand in hand in hand
with a three armed man, you know I'll understand

But you should have been in my shoes yesterday
You should have been in my shoes yesterday

LETTERS FROM A PORCUPINE

Underlying
Oh, so more important here
Any kind
Oh, what ever shakes a thrill
Mark my face
The air is really heavy now
I pledge allegiance
So God why don't you come on over here
D- I- E- D
Oh, that's what has happened to you
G - R - E - E - D
Well, there is nothing more to take
Pour the red wine
Watch the news, maybe ventilate
I pledge allegiance
So laddy why don't you come on over here

Letters from the porcupine
They'll stick straight through you
So read one anytime
You think you've made mistakes
Now we'll wait for later
Maybe the next in line will be
Someone who's Daddy's blood
Ran out next to Bush and to be him