1. |
Of Yours
03:50
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watching the day descend
oh, how can I understand
such a height
while the halo of night is gleaming?
the street lights flicker on
but tonight i'm not going home
no, i've got to find
what has come alive of yours
while a door stands shut to show
from a ladder to the moon
i cannot talk to the world
the holes in the paper turn
and sing from the air pressed through
the keys move but there's nothing new
and if i were to say to you
i've been golden from the start
would you come see me in the end?
a voice i had never known
well, i wish it was you i stole
away from the sky
still can't make up my mind if i could
no, it's not a dream
took this long to believe
that something so pure
could become a part of me
and if i were to say to you
i've been hanging around since the start
would you come see me at the end?
oh, come with me
it's an illusion, a mystery
until the end
and if i were to beg you
please, love me the way you do
would that see me through to the end?
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2. |
Lonely for This
03:30
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hanging all the pictures, pins pushed in the wall
to create some life from memory of yours
twisting my wrist the rose on your birthday cake
light the candle and quickly wish away
i don't want you absence, i can't stand the sound
of the start
but would you take my heart and be the one for me?
i don't see the problem, we'll never be free
of the need for holding a love so true
but i can't seem to reach it
and i never meant to be lonely for this
so i wait in line
and if i were the only voice to say your name
would you treat me fondly or just the same?
well, we have no one now
who would face the wind for paper cut
colorless?
still i never meant to be lonely for this
so i wait in line
no i never meant to be lonely for this
but i'm waiting, i'm waiting
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3. |
You and I Can Wait
03:51
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up in the stars mama you and i can wait
until waves they kiss us like no one can
oh, until new years day
down in the horizon daddy you and i can stay
until good ol' jack o' diamonds shines down
to light our way
for a lifetime, for a while
oh, for your own sake
for a woman, for a child
you and i can wait
out on the beach brother you and i will burn
until no one cares well you know they don't care
if we ever really learn
even when i say come you've got to hurry along
i'll still be sad you have to go
seems i've been waiting so long
to hear your laughter, your music
for the sweetness of this
living tonight let's hope we don't forget
in this open ending life
it seems for us there is no place
i've been sweating out my mind
wondering could this be the day
for a lifetime, forever
oh, for goodness sake
in the hours of the lonely
together you and i can wait
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4. |
Like a Mirror
03:39
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the greatest love i'd known was written on the wall
kept cold by fingertips coming on and off
lying pretty pink roses across your silver grave
shining kindly through a passing sunlit rain
but me i started walking off
i said there must be something more to do
have you seen yourself tonight
handsomely wolfing all their truth?
the sound came beckoning through aging sheets and veils
how will the hallway come now to drain my detail?
rolling into dreams unknown with the usual courteous lend
all of the simplest things rule your days on end
so me i started to open my mouth
i knew i had to ask
do you even believe yourself
when you exclaim at last?
you talk like a mirror
you look like one too
i hear you sing with fear
so tell me who will sing for you?
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5. |
Some Romance
03:32
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i can't believe in anything here as i walk past the windows
all of the eyes pitching out to me, it's more than i should know
if i had the mind to leave this behind i'd deny satisfaction
with seeing inside a life ripped from a child where nothing gets in
just some romance that does not end
it lives beyond my head
some romance is the death
of all the love in our breath
what have i done to see the sun? not for me but everyone
the moon's just a ring for which i sing a dark, empty promise
that the truth will rise to confide in our chosen performance
but burning a hole in my thoughts i know it is foolish to live for
some romance that does not end
it lives beyond my head
some romance is the death
of all the love in our breath
of all the love
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6. |
Honest Living
04:56
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in the morning when i wake and throw my pretty head back to bed
the house is emptiness the time is always on and i'm lost in them
i see the roof caved in so the sky shines through it is blue as all
and for the first night of my life i admit it's my fault
that i am going out and i still can't tell you why i came
i say to you i love and listen well, but what could it mean?
to place a pen in your hand as i lose my memory
clutch my chest underneath an umbrella in the heat
i've been trying for some honest living
so i won't lie to you
i've been sleeping while you're running around
but i've been dreaming too
the only thing my heart has desired is to set fire to my mind
for i felt you long behind this headache we always disguise
as loneliness the pain of song
but the fresh cut lawn is singing again 'there is nothing wrong'
so i'm trying for some honest living
you know, take my fall
you probably saw me standing at the line for the break of dawn
there is a darkness i cannot admire
found me screaming like a child
and sleeping while you're running around
but i am dreaming too
of a door closing quiet on what i used to know
as soon as you stop wondering where i am i'll be gone
angels young and old holding people at their throats prying
i see these dreams may be mine but without me they're dying
so i'm trying for some honest living
how could i lie to you?
when you taught me there is no way out alone
you've got to take yourself home, take yourself home
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