wilt
well i got so happy today i didn't want to tell you when i heard he was they say i could've tried to see through things that didn't go the way we'd all planned them to numbed the pain of this away i would've died for you i saw you wilt all over me i saw you wilt all over you i know you love to play with me i know i love to play you too i saw you wilt all over me i saw you wilt all over you i felt you seeping into me i felt you seeping into you so much colder than last year no not that i don't like it with, yeah, i don't if they don't, shit but you won't come be cold with me you're into warmer places to please your audience of three you'd come and beat my face in.

passing lane
since i lost my chest to you i sped it up, tried to pass, there ain't no lane that ever lasts i tried it last time here it goes to get to the bottom know what i never reached the top with dread and never go whoa i said i'm going to stop since i lost my chest to you.

block for now
everybody i know of would never try what you thought up so no one here can say a thing 'cause they don't ever talk the same way i feel you don't know how when i sit and block it out right now just when starts to making sense one more thing at our expense one more elbow in the cage hurts so much we'll turn the page and get back into leslie mood not my fault for wanting to it's not my fault for reaching in to feeling down and out again i can't read between your lines when all you do is bitch and whine i can't float inside this town where all they do is drink and drown no place for me to settle in well here i go to block again here i go to block it out to take it all and go without from my legs to lower back hurts so much from last attack hurts so much to see that face, i'm not in the better place hungry for a better time the way back when we left behind way back when i've got to turn you left for me to live and learn.

disappeared
i never had the will to live or the time to kill hoped i would (wood) but got still (steel) haven't found a current or a ground shocked to think it's me i'm here for wasting time to disappear i never am.

weak end
just over one year back i was suffering our worst attack and just two damn blocks away there was a building there to save the day but they didn't make it and i'm sure they wouldn't go back again i'll tell 'em when to woe and that's how the year's gone by well i sat there cold and numb from why and cut everybody off with a look away and made up cough it ain't been so good and i surely wouldn't go back again i'll tell you when to woe, watched ya slip out of and quick reach and never can got left a weak end.

hey summertime
who left you lonely my one and only i'll say sorry for me i said sorry maybe that could've saved me from later lately i wonder steal my thunder i'd rather leave than be here less often all up or nothing all up has fallen, peaked out and stalling, i hear nothing calling, hey summertime you're here i can't start you 'cause my weather's too severe if it don't get better than this and just wetter than this well then help me disappear.

chopped
your wink a blink and a good look and if i wasn't enough please be unhappy chopped as me this is almost where i lost it fair weather i don't care i guess i shoulda been there after this i can when i win this hand.

crazy
(by willie nelson.)
crazy, i'm crazy for feeling lonely. i'm crazy, crazy for feeling blue. i knew you'd love me as long as you wanted and someday leave me for somebody new. worry, why did i worry, wondering what in the world did i do? crazy for thinking my love could hold you. crazy for trying and crazy for crying and crazy for loving you.

penicillin
prescriptions he gave me to fix my addiction couldn't come close to the brink he decided his own sentence prescription and he made me stop to think to consider that way out to make it there quicker where they don't got all these parades but mostly 'cause i can't express how i miss her and also 'cause i just can't say penicillin why can't you fix me today well i'm sick and i'm sad and i guess it's too bad you can't come take me away now that the blood in my throat all has settled and everything's looking o.k. my a.c. reminder rings out like the devil and pierces me on back awake.

the cradle
he tried to live without the cradle never got it out from inside and mouths got sore from no more talking he looked strong to hide behind he's not there no more thought he'd reconnect some time away he went off even more tired of learning what not to say he looked at me with sad black eyes said i'm not even hard to come by get out while ya got it ahead seems too much he had to go bye.

enemy
it's grown so tired i don't feel like working to make it all come back again just leave it for ruin so maybe forgotten we'll call it and then we can win i wanna feel like the enemy oh i forget i'll try to get through with night black as eyesight too well i want it so much to just go away that i'd change almost everything to just be with the right one i know she's out waiting tonight we'll pretend that it's you, just rip out the paper and start it all over it won't be the first time for me the story grew tired and i didn't think i'd take it 'cause i knew how the ending should read.

nervous air
my throat caught my clever comeback refrain i let go and swallowed hard at your name hey go away breathe my nervous air in hold it until i say when choke on it in the end deaf from my heart murmuring my dry mouth's numb lips purpled and grey hey blow away i make the clouds that block my stars they're taking aim and striking hard those nervous thunderheads are when i feel the limb i'm out on begin to bend i can't suck it on in.

that morning
well here's to finding out too late the paper slipped behind the dresser from what the words weighed i penned the fair warning that told you why i was leaving in the morning that morning it was all i could to do hold it back so the letter got lost like my temper and our courage when i crawled back on with my momentum on end i looked inside your cell this morning where you gave in.

holden
i'll be holding my breath until you give me more air or lead me into my death bed to tuck me fuck me in there i'm a stubborn fool bad don't get easier you're back to bad before you blink and think you're sinking back in bad so complicated is embedded in it holden i'll be.

fold
spill your drink chain your door just sit still pulled back her hand here's your sign there's your failure all your urgency hit land i'm an island off your coast with virgin shores that no one knows but population grows my heart is racing i fold black heart beating wild and cheating you into surprise at last with coward's courage power surges down your veins and holds you back i'm the dam that will not hold check your pulse when i explode evacuate below my heart is racing i fold this is for the record i said.

little learners
things they didn't teach me at the day care only picked you up just to tote you away and they gave me no say so nothing to say in head start i got caught up it led me astray now i've got say so but nothing to say face the corner son great big little learners.

sharpening stone
i've been throwing these knives for so long that i'm duller than hell but i keep jabbing on without making no dents or hitting no bone when i'm duller than hell be my sharpening stone i've got a niche in my switch blade.

rot and re-decay
yeah ok make it fast i give in i can't last i'll keep your boxed up secrets too far gone to unwrap this too wrapped up in them packages we rot and re-decay into a nothing new.

inside job
i don't know what the words mean my potential is lacking you could tell i was acting i heard mortality laughing i missed the punch line out of my way to avoid you worst case scenario virtues are overrated and see through the smile serrated it into twos i missed the punch line it's an inside job: the joke that's on.

pressure point
pressure point is held off by my weakest link but it won't hold i'm peeking into your eyes and i see me there my breath and air are taken tables turn without warning you spilled your glass of my melting heart defeated i taste the victory on your lips that nourishes my weakness silent comfortable is less than or equal to dead here's a late diagnosis of your still birth here's to your late diagnosis mortar set you've settled down but with ankles bound in final weak foundation the roof is giving you're underneath where you'll always be to idle quit is gasoline i pin it down your point is breaking off you're over all i'm over now.

what you don't know
matte finish 8 x 10 i got a copy hidden in my chest of drawers are running over with your print i print you hardly heard me hit record and play and go so far high bias 90 minutes of you talking in my car you don't know what i got a secret reel that's got recorded on it everything you say and feel what you don't know is gonna hurt you you lay your body down right now inside my bedroom door what they don't know won't hurt you no one heard you hit my floor my severed edges bury treasure in your hollow ground but you don't know and you can't dig it up you're anchored down you trip my alarm you twist my arm just a little too far just a little too hard you don't know it will hurt hurt.

traction
sold out you look old now with hands you fold and face that told understand that it's something you can't change keep in mind that i died and there ain't no second coming realize that you're sinking in when you cut your ties and then try to find your grip again in here there ain't no traction you wasn't born again yesterday who were you trying to fool who am i trying to fool i guess fooling myself is better than knowing i gave in that's your attitude that's my attitude it's all part of my plan that sold out no way burned out of control.

three way tie
you heard my voice in a january down pour why so cold why so sad underneath your coat did your feet get wet was i seeping in now i'm in your head in a paperback book i read your mind why so short why so blind when i lost my place i found your destination i tore out the page where you stole my line in the starting gun i heard his sigh why so loud why so high in the final stretch into overtime we all give in on each other weave a three way tie we've a three way tie.

switch board
they started off happily ever after to go married each other and rented to own but you could already feel this thing creeping in all he already lived for was the end she ran from the bedroom without nothing on tripped over a glass when she reached for the phone he put a slug in his head while his wife was on hold the emergency switch board was playing their song the red in the curtains matches your eyes you got long fingertips you won't reach for the skies don't go blowing it now like that don't go blowing it now like that the telephone wire buckled from pressure the weight of the news on me the messenger yeah disillusionment is the greatest cause and the greatest effect the momentum is on the momentum is on the red in the curtains matches your eyes you got long fingertips you won't reach for the skies with both feet off the ground and a mind like the mouth of a river your waters have turned the same red against the green of the leaves in the palms of my hands on your right side you're looking to do yourself in while your left side cold calculates your means to an end don't go blowing it now like that don't go blowing it now like that.

stuck
i think the way i can't think anymore when i do the things you said to do before so when i do the things to piss you off even more i get in the way back where i was before stuck where i stayed before i found i can't find a sticking ground before another belief never got away starting back in again tried to get away never got settled in giving up today i'll try tomorrow when everything's the same i can't face this again every little thing sticks to my last nerve when...

it don't matter
it don't matter that i'm not ok it don't matter to you anyway i need time i hear that snare drum rattling gets you ready to go and they're cranking it up outside i'll be standing under just keeping it here and i won't be far behind well i lie well i lied.

last go
he said he's under now he'll up and take it move it away 'cause he needs to like we do time to tell him that you'll miss him and mention a way to reach you if he'll need to and he'll need to last go they're back in and he's kicked out again last go they're finding out for sure that there ain't no cure good god, he's gone he left without a later see you or why and it went wrong no so long.

holiday trade
well i turned down your invitation i'm a stubborn fool you're everything i'd want to have this year now you won't be here i get back to you on tuesday will you forgive my moods? i can't afford you from me going away over this holiday i'll be returning christmas and exchanging it for you i would go the distance and if it makes a difference i'd trade my new year's to turn my holiday into you you know we want the same thing together for the year side that's coming so let's call a truce and cut the noose get on underneath the mistletoe and play it cool put my ornament on your fir tree for all your guests to see don't need to give me nothing just keep it for yourself what i need is something and only you can help don't waste your wrapping paper on me i'll see that holiday trade through.

45 or 33 1/3
my record's skipping on my least favorite track number three is the song, the last one on the back pressed into wax but your grooves gather dust and for length ain't no good when you're stuck in a rut too dull to make out with that repetitive sound of 45 or 33 1/3 going 'round.

downbound train
(by bruce springsteen.)
i had a job i had a girl had something going mister in this world i got laid off down at the lumber yard our love went bad times got hard now i work down at the car wash where all it ever does is rain don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train she just said "joe, i gotta go we had it once but we ain't got it anymore" she packed her bags left me behind she bought a ticket on the central line nights as i sleep i hear that whistle whining i feel her kiss in the misty rain and i feel like i'm a rider on a downbound train last night i heard your voice you were crying, crying you were so alone you said your love had never died you were waiting for me at home i put on my jacket i ran through the woods i ran till i thought my chest would explode there in the clearing beyond the highway in the moonlight our wedding house shone i rushed through the yard i burst through the front door my head pounding hard upstairs i climbed your room was dark our bed was empty then i heard that long whistle whine and i dropped to my knees hung my head and cried now i swing a sledgehammer on a railroad gang knocking down them cross ties working in the rain now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train?

subtle deliberate drone
the big bands aren't big anymore the el nino is singing up a storm and a subtle deliberate drone if a dirty imitator and cheat artificially keeps they automatically qualify a popular vote a steady rain in a flooded land deliberate drone turn me on to some good bands make 'em turn it up real loud i'm going home until i feel the sound make the good bands turn it up real loud i'm going home until i feel the sound and a subtle deliberate drone weave a melody in between the speakers and sing it with not an invitation but a reprimand with thundering throat pour down no please oh no keep underestimation alive it's often in hope a pistol search on a second hand a gather and go.