All credits go to Magickalmolly.

A BALL OF EARTH

Steal the night
To a light that's still far away
You're still further

Pace the floor
Find the door through a fish-eyed stare
Sets for tomorrow

Time creeps like a southern storm
Time marches in uniform

But your smile
It sends me a thousand rainbows
Catch my eye
Reflect in this hotel window

I wish that I could see you again
My friend

A ball of earth falls through the sky
A million hearts and souls break forth tomorrow

I send a kiss out to the night
I hope it finds your lips and soon I will follow
Oh...

(instrumental interlude)

Sit and stare
At this prize of a foreign sky
No joy forming

Need to share
All this wonder I've chanced upon
I need you to see

Cry... wonder who'd hear me now?
Fly into your arms, but how?

But your smile
It sends me a thousand rainbows
Catch my eye
Reflected in this hotel window

I wish that I could see you again

A ball of earth falls through the sky
A million hearts and souls break forth tomorrow

I send a kiss out to the night
I hope it finds your lips and soon I will follow

A ball of earth falls through the sky
A million hearts and souls break forth tomorrow

I send a kiss out to the night
I hope it finds your lips and soon I will follow
Oh no, no no...

Steal the night
To a light that's still far away
You're still further

I'M SORRY

You said you wanted
More than I could bring
More than birds could sing

You said you needed
Time to find yourself
But you found someone else

You said that I was your one and only
You said with me that you'd never be lonely
And I drank in every lie

I... I'm sorry...
I... I'm sorry...

So here I'm apologizing
But one question keeps on rising

Why ?
Why ?

You closed this chapter
Leave the title to the end
"Your Lost and Naive Friend"

We built this tower
You built the steps from sand
You don't care where I land
You're holding someone else's hand

And you said I was your one and only
You said with me that you'd never be lonely
I drank in every lie

I... I'm sorry...
I... I'm sorry...

And here I'm apologizing
But one question keeps on rising

Why ?
Why ?
Why ?

You said I was your one and only
You said with me that you'd never be lonely
I drank in every lie

I... I'm sorry...
I... I'm sorry...

And here I'm apologizing
And one question keeps on rising

Why ?
Just tell me why ?
Why ?

IN MY ARMS

He sits on his rooftop
She opens his wine
He's drinking alone
And it's not the first time
He stares at her back and his eyes traces sweet line

He feels the chill
As it touches his heart
Is it the guilt
Too much time apart
He calls her name but stops so it's lost in the dark

He sits and dwells
On their time apart
Building an empire
Breaking her heart
Searching for words
And starting anew
If he could listen, then he'd hear the truth

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here in my arms

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here in my arms

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here
Right here

(instrumental interlude)

He climbed the staircase
Where nothing is real
The darkness can chill him
The dreams that came true
He got it all
But they came at a price
Who in here wouldn't live their lives twice?

'cause living is nice

He sits and dwells
On their time apart
Building an empire
Breaking her heart
Searching for words
And starting anew
If he could listen, then he'd hear the truth

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here in my arms

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Was here in my arms

All you ever wanted
All you ever needed
Ws here
Right here

He closes his eyes and it's all an end
But who shares love when the replay begins ?

FRIENDS AND LOVERS

I see her walking pass my window
With milk in her hands for the friends that she's made
Got tears in her eyes
For the days that have gone away

She remembers a handsome young man
And how he made her laugh
When they ran, ran, ran
And the way he touched so gently
His eyes were blue and strong and free
And the way he said
Marry me marry me

And she remembers kissing after dark
And the way he smiled
And played so wild
And the way her children laughed

And how she prayed her days would last forever
cause she says her life was just her
Friends and lovers
Friends and lovers
Friends and lovers

I see her walking home
Same time, same dress
She wonders when her life became this mess
She needs "hello" or "how'd you do"
She'll tell you her stories
How every word is true
She'll tell you every word is true

And she remembers kissing after dark
And the way he smiled
And played so wild
And the way her children laughed

But now she prayed her days won't last forever
'cause she says there's no life when you've
got no friends and lovers
got no friends and lovers
got no friends and lovers

KICK THE DOOR

I see your eyes across the room
You shake your hair, I know what you're doing
You know we've played this game before
If you and I walk out that door we're ruined
You said that you had no idea
When you walked in that I'd be here
We've played this game so many times
We've danced and dance, we know the lines
And somehow you forget
You said we were through

You say you miss me when I'm not around
You say I'm drowning
I'm on solid ground

You kick the door
I run and hide
You know that I want you
But I don't know why

It's getting hard
I need your touch
You know that I want you
I want you so much

So here we are again
Scared to tell the truth again
Two easy mistakes

I just lie here silently
I feel you lying next to me
Who's fast awake
Now this is when the shouting starts
We do our best to break out hearts

You know we should be bailing out
There's nothing here worth working out
But you say we can make it
Just one more time we'll fake it

You say you miss me when I'm not around
You say I'm drowning
I'm on solid ground

You kick the door
I run and hide
You know that I want you
But I don't know why

It's getting hard
I need your touch
You know that I want you
I want you so much

Don't tell me that things can change
cause I'll be the one left out in the rain
Out in the rain just trying to save
What I can from this pain
From this pain

You kick the door
I run and hide
You know that I want you
But I don't know why

It's getting hard for me
All I do is dream of your touch
You know that I want you
I want you so much

You kick the door
I just run away and I hide
You know that I want you
But I don't know why

LOST DIRECTION

I'm on the train again
Past the point I've past
A thousand times
Watching the silver tracks
I can't ignore the cracks
I find in my mind

But all I really need is you...

I go back many years
And visit all the tears
That pushed me down this road
I look at all the crossings
That leave me left to wander with a
A heavy load

All the people I could have been
And past the places I should have seen

But all I really need is...
Yeah, all I really need is...

There must be more to life
There must be more to try
I'm running, yes, I'm running
But I've lost direction

There must be more to life
There must be more to try
I'm running, yes, I'm running
But I've lost direction

(harmonica break)

All these places and trains to give
With time and rhythm and ways to live

I wish that there were words that I could say
But poetry keeps getting in the way
To let you feel how I felt with that kiss
But the best that I can do is just sing this...
The best that I can do is just sing this...

(harmonica break)

But all I really need is you...

There must be more to life
There must be more to try
I'm running, yes, I'm running
But I've lost direction

There must be more to life
There must be more to try
I'm running, yes, I'm running
But I've lost direction

There must be more to life
There must be more to try
I'm running, yes, I'm running
But I've lost direction

POUR MY WINE

The wind's been blowing
Way too long
And I'm starting to lose my mind
And now the rain's started
And I'm broken-hearted
I'm running three hours behind

I know I said that I'd be home
In time for the evening news
The world's been fired
And I'm so tired
I'm starting to live the blues

Just pour my wine
I'll be fine
Give me time
I'm coming home to you

Another tree's past
And it won't be the last
But it's a quarter to three or four (?)
I could hire a car
But if they've gone too far
I'm here until they open the door

I keep my pain
Way down deep
Where no one else can see
It feels so right
But sometimes at night
It's starting to eat at me

Just pour my wine
I'll be fine
Give me time
I'm coming home to you

(bass solo)

(spoken) Sometimes I feel like I'm in the middle of a really bad Andy Warhol story. When I'm just famous for being fifteen minutes late. I mean, that's on a good day. It also depends on how important the meeting, or the appointment - the rendezvous - whatever it is. How important it is directly relates to how late I'll be. Could be a couple of days, sometimes. Almost makes you totally believe that there's someone up there. Someone controlling things. Otherwise, why would these things happen? Like there's God, or gods, up there... just having a laugh. Having a laugh. Enjoying a glass of wine, and just having a laugh. Just having a laugh.

Pour my wine
I'll be fine
Give me time
I'm coming home to you

Ah just pour my wine
Yeah I'll be fine
Just give me time
I'm coming home to you

I'm coming home
I'm coming home to you
I'm coming home to you
I'm coming home

I'm coming home... to you...

RIP IT UP

Something must be done
A western face cries from the pages
See a child with a gun
The same mistakes run through the ages

See a bullet burn
Bought from a country we charge with beans
Watch the tables turn
They say they're in the wrong hands but who are we

Rip it up
More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are headlines and they won't blow away

More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are our headlines
Cause these are all our days

How many die before we try
We have the means to end
A genocide won't turn the tide
Ignore a continent

Rip it up
More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are headlines and they won't blow away

More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are our headlines
Cause these are all our days

So where do we turn
To get some truth in it
A breath of time holds a thousand voices
Should we get use to it
When the profits gone and war rejoices

See the pictures run
Knowing eyes on the waters end
They know no return
We turn the page and shake our heads

Rip it up
More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are our headlines and they won't blow away

More than I can say
I wanna rip it up
But these are our headlines
Cause these are all our days

SAME RECORD

It's been a war to get out of bed
Fighting a battle both sides
Alone in my head
I fake surprise when I feel the floor
And I hear a knocking in deep
And its there at my cellar door

And the same record plays on my radio
The same record plays on my radio

I'm ??? from dusk till dawn
I look at all that I own
And there's nothing to put on

'Cause nothing here reminds me of me
The two ??? side by side
Cause it buy one get one free

And the same record plays on my radio
The same record plays on my radio

Just tell me there's more
If that's all there is
There's nothing to explore
And I's screaming
I'm screaming
Inside I'm laughing

I'be who you want me to be
And every week I buy what you tell me I should read
I drive the car I'm supposed to drive
I've got 2.4 and my prefect wife

I'm trying to be who you want me to be
The sitcom leads on my HD TV

And the same record plays on my radio
Yeah the same record plays on my radio

Tell me there's more
If this is all there is
Then there's nothing to explore

And I'm screaming
Yeah, I'm screaming
I'm screaming
Yeah, I'm screaming
Inside I'm laughing

SOMETHING'S WRONG

I know there's something wrong
You've been cleaning the house for way too long
You whisper so I don't hear
That look in your eye says there's no one near

We never talk now, we only shout
Living in silence that's what we're about
Burning bridges and building walls
Biding time until it all falls

I know there's something wrong
I've been killing time for way too long
A day with this luke warm beer
I've got nothing to say, and no one to hear

We never talk now, we only shout
Living in silence that's what we're about
Burning bridges and building walls
Biding time until it all falls

I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong
I know there's something, something, something

I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong
I know there's something, something, something

I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong
I know there's something wrong

I know there's something wrong
Maybe it's all 'cos we just don't get along

SOUL SWIMMING

Soul Swimming, drowning in blue
Sirens are singing saying nothing is new

I feel the doubt ripping strips from my heart
While my imperfections
They threaten to tear us apart.

Soul swimming, diving serene
Can't say i'm winning, theres monsters in the deep.

I feel the doubt ripping srtips from my heart.
While my imperfections they threaten
To tear me all apart.

Somebody help me, is there someone out there?
Someone console me and show me that you care
Because I've dived too deep and im tryin
I'm tryin' hard just to breathe

Soul swimming so dark and so warm
But I can enjoy it as I wait, I wait here for the storm

I feel the doubt ripping strips from my heart
While my imperfections
They threaten to tear me all apart

Somebody help me, is there someone out there?
Someone console me and show me that you care

Because I've dived too deep I'm tryin'
I'm tryin' hard just to breathe
Because I've dived too deep and I'm tryin'
I'm tryin' hard just to breathe

The trick is to breathe...

BOY

Too few letters that we sent
too few photographs for me to see.
Just to know you held the pen
Selfish pleasures in my make believe

And the nights are way too long
and I'm not strong like you
I can't breathe without you, son

My beautiful boy
My beautiful boy
My beautiful, beautiful, boy

This house still holds your smell
And your voice still echos through these walls
I wasn't with you when you fell
I was with you through so many falls

And the nights are way too long
And I'm not strong like you
I can't breathe without you, son

My beautiful boy
My beautiful boy
My beautiful, beautiful, boy

LILAC WINE

I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see...
And be what I want to be
When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because I brings me back you...

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me... I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she coming to me nearly here?

Lilac wine is sweet and heady wheres my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, wheres my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy?

Lilac wine is sweet and heady wheres my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, wheres my love?

Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy?

Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love...

WAITING FOR THE HAMMER TO FALL

Yeah

Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady mercy won't be home tonight

Yeah, you don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
Hey, we're just waiting
For the hammer to fall - yeah

Oh every night, and every day
A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face, the western way, baby
Build your muscles as your body decays

Yeah, toe your line and play their game
Yeah, let the anaesthetic cover it all
Till one day they call your name
You know it's time for the hammer to fall - yeah

Rich or poor or famous for
Your truth it's all the same - oh no - oh no
Oh lock your door but rain is pouring
Through your window pane - oh no - yeah
Baby now your struggle's all vain

For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the mushroom cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard
We just wanna scream it louder and louder and louder

What the hell we fighting for ?
Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While you're waiting for the hammer to hammer to fall
Hey, yes, it's starting to fall eh, hammer, you know
Yeah, hammer to fall, wooh, ah, hey, eh woowoo, ha eh hammer
Waiting for the hammer to fall baby
Yeah yeah while you're waiting for the hammer to fall
Give it to me one more time

GET MYSELF ARRESTED


I wear the same shoes as everyone
I got the same blues as everyone
So try and call me, I'm immobile man
Yes I am

Got a haircut, got a silver tooth
Gonna get myself arrested
Got some friends in my BMW
Tryin'a get themselves arrested

I suck the same lines as anyone
I do the same time as anyone
Don't try and call me, I'm immobile man
Yes I am

Got a haircut, got a silver tooth
Gonna get myself arrested
Got some friends in my BMW
Tryin'a get themselves arrested

He only grows for guys he knows and me
He only grows for guys he knows and me
Well, alright

Don't try and call me, I'm immobile man
Don't try and call me, I'm immobile man
Yes I am

Got a haircut, got a silver tooth
Gonna get myself arrested
Got some friends in my BMW
Tryin'a get themselves arrested

Got no time for the selfish me and you's
Tryin'a get myself arrested

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