Living a Dream
I find myself living a dream
I know myself well enough to know
This can’t be real, this can’t be real
I trained myself to do what’s right
But I know myself well enough to know
I’m gonna fight
If you tell me that I’ll only slow you down
B sec
You’re not on top, and I’m not below
We’re always rolling over each other
Like a stream over rocks
Or like a rock over bugs
Like a rock in the mud
I know what’s mine
Try to take that away and I won’t mind
‘Cause any damage done
Will mend itself and I’ll be moving on
You might hear from me if I can find the time
Vacation
Yesterday I heard you lie
But who am I to say
What to you may be alright
To me is not OK
I wont go on with my apology
I don’t have one to tell you anyway
It’s not so easy
They say to open is to love
To free your love is kind
But you and I we know the truth
Has more to it in mind
If everyone could feel a bit of this
They’d understand where we’re coming from
It’s not so easy
Open wide, I feel that I’ve been taken
For a ride, I speak but I’m too shaken
To form a thought, Or start a conversation
I think you ought to take a long vacation
I heard you lie
Yesterday we pulled apart
And left ourselves a choice
Try and answer to the heart
Or drown in our own noise
You keep me up
Talking in my sleep
I call you up
‘Cause I can’t let you be
It’s not so easy
CH
Too Much Information
I know there’s no reason
To worry like I do
There’s no explanation
For what I put you through
For seven years you’ve been there
And you still turn me on
You might be the only thing that can
You might be the only one
Too much information
Too much is eating away
At our piece of mind
At the hours of our day
To shorten the hours
And leave half behind
To listen to your messages
They’re asking what’s on your mind
Too much information...
Left alone to think of what
You’re doing with yourself
Answers don’t come quick enough
Just moments when you think you know
Too much information...
Can you feel?
Or has the time blown you away?
Can you feel the urge to speak melting away?
What You’re Hiding
They know what you’re hiding
They know when you’re excited
They know how to get inside
You find that alarming
You tell them to fuck their army of god
Christian soldiers marching
There’s no room for you in this house
In this house
They see you the hours you’re hanging
From a fence post out of town
They see all they want to see
You find you’re the nightmare
And they target one by one
Because families need protection
From reality
From reality
Scarecrow
It’s not like I know
But I’m close enough to feel
My own pain
Matthew
You lived your final hours
With the butt of a gun
Smashing in your brain
Do they know that they’re failing
And not in sight of higher ground?
They fenced themselves in their own pasture
Already Heard
Over the mountain and into the woods
We drove ‘til the radio didn’t come in
We drove until dawn was threatening
Lying in clover, head full of stars
Headlights pas over then go really far
The grass is wet, you’re shivering
Hold me closer
Hear me whisper
All the things
You’ve already heard
We woke to the clamor of semis and birds
I push you over, you were crushing my arm
Back to the road, the only thing we own
Stopped at a diner to feed on the mood
Coffee gets colder as you find your groove
And soon the time is that time again
Hold me closer
Hear me whisper
All the things
You’ve already heard
Easy to Guess
It’s not easy to guess
Where we’re going with this
But we found a home for us to live in
A two room flat in the center of town
Daylight streams into the Mission
Talking the streets
And walking these words
Through the tunnels and out the doorways
That lead to the shore
Where I’ll wander the night away
Daylight seems to curse the Mission
I’m not what you need
And you’re not where I’m at tonight
It seems the best that we can do
Is close our eyes and try not to fight
It’s so easy to tell
That there’s more to what you feel
And you’d survive alright without me
We’ve made a pact to allow us to be
This daylight keeps me from sleeping
Acting the part
And feeling in the dark
That touches down all around me
This two room flat
Is where we pass the time
‘Til daylight streams into the Mission
CH, BR, CH
We Don’t Dance
I’m not sure how I fit in with your plan
You say you want me around
But we don’t dance anymore
Remember how all we cared about
Was being true?
I have a memory
We were naked in the sun
Trippin’ and rolling down the hill
Someone’s coming
We can’t find our clothes
Never time enough for being close
This is not my answer to your call
This is a letter I might not send at all
Anytime you feel you’ve got me all boxed in
Ill be along to cast a shadow on your plan
I’m not sure where I stand in your eyes
You say you want me to work
But my work don’t pay anymore
Remember how all we cared about
Was being true?
I have a memory
I was shaking you were calm
When we lay down the first time
And tried to fall asleep in each other’s arms
Couldn’t find our clothes
Never time enough for being close
This is not my answer to your call
This is a letter I might not send at all
Anytime you feel you’ve got me all boxed in
Ill be along to cast a shadow on your plan
If You Find
If you find
You’re too tired
I can carry so much weight
But I won’t be the one
To tell you not to go
Where your heart commands
Life demands we wait
To find out where we’ll be
When we climb
From the folds in our bed
Leave me Alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alright
I spied myself
Rolling with the tide
Back in my head
Wind at my back
I won’t demand
We ask each other
What went wrong
Leave me alone
Leave it inside
I talked myself
Into rolling with the tide
Back in my head
Wind at my back
I won’t demand
We ask each other
What went wrong
What went wrong...
The Only Friends We Need
Sometimes your face is not enough
And sometimes this place is too much
For me to take in, to analyze
To break apart, to simplify
You get me off, so I comply
With your need of space, your piece of pie
I guess I just hoped that we could be
The friends that we are, the only friends we need
We find that our friends, they don’t agree
You swim towards light and family
The people I choose to speak my mind
They’re quietly floating outside of time
We try to divide what’s yours and mine
Behind my back you strip the vine
And pour yourself a glass of wine on me
Slave
How long can you feel this way?
You got to give in to your fears someday
You can’t expect me to understand
A promise made and then thrown away
I won’t be your servant but I will be your slave
I think that you deserve it, only finding our way
We’ll take some time to work it out
We’ll take some time to slow things down
How steep is the hill to climb?
The road is dark, I’m falling behind
Of all the places I’ve followed you
In your arms is like home to me now
CH
How long can you feel OK?
You got to admit that this day to day
Is like a stillborn photograph
Where nothing moves or feels enough to say
CH
Walking
You think you’ve seen it all
So baby can you tell me how it’s done
How can I get by?
You say you’ve done it twice or maybe three
Everything I say you know it well enough
To quiet me
If I have nothing I can share
And you don’t have the time to care
What’s the point of us even talking?
It’s getting time for me to be walking
Walking after hours
Not a sign of the stars we saw
The grand design you told me would come true
You say I’m not in touch with myself
Ive got to use the pain ‘cause sadness sells
And you’ve got needs to be met
If I have nothing I can share
And you don’t have the time to care
What’s the point of us even talking?
It’s getting time for me to be walking
It’s time to be walking...