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Yer Not The Ocean I’m standing on the Rocks Yer not the ocean I’m better to watch Britney invisible Or the stranger in myself Than a wall of water just hitting the shelf Yer not the Ocean You’re up to my toes Yer not the ocean You’re not even close Though you’re so real And you’ve more youth everyday And you can think and take and take Yer not the Ocean I’m standing on my toes Yer not the ocean You’re not even close You’re not the ocean You’re up to my chin Yer not the ocean You’re not coming in The Lonely End Of The Rink I looked up and you were thereJust sitting there all alone Holding your fist in the air Like, if you need me you're on your own You drove me home through a snowy tomb I fell asleep in my seat I had the dream of having no room You were there just staring at me At the lonely end of the rink, you and me As the season builds I hear your voice ‘cross a frozen lake a voice from the end of a leaf saying, ‘you won’t die of a thousand fakes or be beaten by the sweetest of dekes’ At the lonely end of the rink, you and me At the lonely end of the rink, the lonely end of the rink Oh to join the rush as the season builds Jump into the rush As the seasons build You drove me home through a snowy gloom And I fell asleep in my seat Then I had the dream of having no room You were there just staring at me At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
In View
Well, it isn't and it is And I've been meaning to call you I've been meaning to call you Then I do I've been meaning to call you Phone rings twice Phone rings three times I am of you You are in everything I do I do I trust you, that makes you true I don't care if it isn't the way it is I've been meaning to call you I've been meaning to call you Then I do Phone rings once Phone rings twice Phone rings three times I am of you You are always in view Yea, I am my will But you are in everything I do. I do.In the Day Eraser's dark of night In the Excited States, gone in plain sight Under the wave or by cavelight I lose, things change, but never in your eyes I am of you You are always in view I am my will You are in everything I do. Fly
Seventy nights where no one's gonna hear me fall Freddie Mercury, I've sometimes wished I'd never been born at all I remain unphotographed I don't exaggerate my intelligence I might turn a broom into a tree But I'll never be one of them I fly, cause there's no why in getting beaten up by a guy who cries before he fights I don't want 'em to see me like this The way they like to kick people when they're down You said "please stop worrying about this They stop kicking once you're down There's Mistaken Point, Newfoundland There's Moonbeam Ontario There are places I've never been and always wanted to go I fly, cause woe betide a guy who just lives to fight Fly, love is to try and die trying Fly, yea, that's right Try, love is to try and die trying Coastline rising out of the ocean Coastline rises like a pair of glowing thighs There's something down deep inside me says "where ya been all my life" Fly, turn your back, get your face in the sky Fly, love is to try and die trying try, left and right, across your mind Try, love is to try and die trying Love(sic)
Words I carry in my heart Clung to Glad of Uncommonly held Peculiarly held Peculiarly interlaced Remembered and felt Am I lovesick? Attractions move through the shade Done for Delight in And forever held Influence Given life Remembered and felt Am I lovesick? It's not as if love's the only virtue there is Am I lovesick? It's nothing to hate Who can't hate can Got nothing against hate It's all the planning It gets hard to remember We're best when we're tender There are words I carry in my heart Words I carry in my heart Clung to Glad of Uncommonly held Peculiarly held Peculiarly interlaced Remembered and felt Am I lovesick? Lovesick, lovesick Love is the only virtue there is (Northrop Frye) The Kids Don't Get It
If I ask you a question Are you gonna lie to me? I said, Honey, is that your question? Cuz Honey, that one's easy Cuz half the truth is, just how much there is The kids don't get it No, the kids don't get it I'm gonna be an expert stranger, better than the giant squid I'm gonna leave the stranger experts scratching their heads saying 'how's he do it?' When half truth is, just how hard it is But the kids don't get it No, the kids won't get it I'll be the antlers and I'll be the elk I'll be the right whale and I'll be parallel The kids don't get it That's right, kids don't get it I'll feel more than human when the work's hitting home I'll be aped by my ancestors, I'll state the plan as my own I'll be gripping the city, I'll be hitting the town You'll say, "I'd be hurt if you didn't" when I come around That's right, kids don't get it I'll be as careless as you are certain, I'll get outta my own way I'll stop to cry into the curtains And like the greats, before me, go on stage And if half-true its, good enough for this Cuz the kids don't get it No, the kids don't get it. If I ask you a question Are you going to lie to me? Ah honey is that your question? Cuz that one's easy Kids don't get it Just how hard it is Kids don't get it Pretend If I ask you a questionAre you going to lie to me? Is that your question? Because that one is easy It's gripping the city and hitting the town and No one on earth is doing this now If you can pretend and I can Pretend pretending won't end and then and well then... If you take the chances I'll take the bows Saying 'no one on earth is doing this now' But if I ask you a question are you going to lie to me? Is that your question? Because that one is easy If you don't pretend And I don't pretend Pretending might end But pretend can pretend to end You can't pretend Yes I can, Yes I can, Yes I can You can't pretend Yes I can, Yes I can, Yes I can Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me
Last night when we went to hell When the blood-starred curtain fell Men were turning on their machines, making everything mean Fires burned, cold values clashed Good and evil were all dry grass No child-ghost, no singing bird, no last laugh, no last word Oh, last night I dreamed Last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams None of them were quite as frightening Oh, Canada emptied, there was me featureless and freezing Last night I dreamed you didn't love me You kissed my fingers and made me love you Last night you left me derelict And disappeared for ages You said 'honey save those tears of yours for the show Oh, last night I dreamed Last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams None of them were half as frightening Oh, Canada emptied, there was me, beside you Featureless and freezing Last night I dreamed you didn't love me You didn't love me What's happening to you? Why don't you love me like you used to? When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you Last night I dreamed Last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams None of them, none as frightening Oh, awake empty and out of sleep You were beside me gently breathing Last night I dreamed you didn't love me You didn't love me You didn't love me Why don't you love me like you used to? When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you The Drop Off Reference Window When the summer is young and nobody has their price No one is no one and nobody in a crisis There's no swimming past the drop off or feeling sorry for yourself Ya don't go swimming past the drop off or else Yer a pistol, yer a gun and suddenly I have no prices Ya don't go swimming past the drop off or else The fates are amok and spun, measured and out and the past is meant to please us Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt Saying "Holy Fuck it's Jesus," the surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence It's terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks your presence and nothing else When the summer is done and nobody sympathizes. Yer no friend of Dylan's, Yea you won't see another crisis There's no swimming past the drop off or feeling sorry for ourselves a don't go swimming past the drop off or else Personal stakes will get raised and get raised Til your story gets compelling if you lacked the sense Or were willfully dense is forever in the telling The surface is green and the dark interweaves In a lonely iridescence It's terribly deep and the cold is complete And it only lacks your presence and nothing else Nothing else and no one else Family Band I can't smell a rat when it's all ratI can't find one in an elevator My mind doesn't work so bad But I am a poor exterminator, that's right I can't destroy entirely or annihilate a little later I can't see the entire city, but I'm not a bad exterminator I'm just a shade shy of true wickedness I'm a shade shy of truly loving it There are other things I'd rather be doing Sure even nothing, even nothing with you One day I'll make some honest rock n roll Full of hand claps and gang vocals I'm gonna get all the children involved We're gonna get lost on all you locals We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness We'll be a shade shy of truly loving this There are other things we'll rather be doing Sure, even nothing, even nothing with you We'll load out through the snow Through small groups of people smoking Hey! Get that kick drum loaded! Into the backseat folded down! We'll go virtually unnoticed What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness We'll be a shade shy of truly loving it There are other things that we'll surely miss We'll load out through the snow Through small groups of people smoking Hey! Get that kick drum loaded! Into the backseat folded down! We'll go perfectly unnoticed What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town World Container Reference Window There's a world container with your name on it And a billion ways to go berserk When the country quits on you it must be dinner And the Himmler on this one is there's no dessert (he's the one who couldn't imagine all the people living life in peace) Good News! You get to vanish Go to Cleveland, be an indie smash The good news is now you're smaller The bad news is you can be smaller than that Go suck some souls, be a reader, get used Laugh at a funeral or two And laugh til all the chameleons turn black Laugh and laugh til you're told 'please don't come back' Then fake incredulous, say 'I just can't believe! How'd it get so late so early?' Say 'ain't life a grand and I'm in awe of y'all' Then drop into your haunted bunk Go to your touchless times out where the water's drying Go past the 'No Attractions Past This Point' sign What you'll find there are all flaws in progress Where all songs are one song and that song is Don't Forget Where all songs are one song and that song is Don't Forget I've faked incredulous and said 'I just can't believe! How'd it get so late so early?' Said, 'ain't life a grand and I'm in awe of y'all' I've dropped into my haunted bunk Been to your touchless times out where the water's drying Been past the 'No Attractions Past This Point' sign What we have here are all flaws in progress Where all songs are one song and that song is Don't forget Where all songs are one song and that song is Don't forget Where all songs are one song and that song is Don't Forget
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