Tower

There’s no one else around / and you’re the best thing in the world / so what do you want to want? / because there’s sadness in your eyes / and some place you wish you were / so let the light embrace / because we’re still heavy on this earth / I wish everything went around / and I wish there was a sound / I don’t want to be in faraway places / never is anything coloured / or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / if you’re scared you should have stayed / this is the place where no one goes / the edge without a seam / and we’re without a colour scheme / our eyes will swallow up the sky / never does it get darker / or does it change / never will the clouds lift / so they can make space / never will they let go / so they can take the test / never will they take flight / never leave the nest / never will they make the heavens or see the stars / never will they see the future or make the past / never is anything coloured or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / there’s no one else around and now we’re more afraid / now they know how / and they’ve got the power / they’ve worked it out and they’ve built the tower / we’re more afraid

Over

Could you be where I wanted you to be? / could I hold you when you would always say? / I never wanted a fast or happy ending / you made the brew that I could never taste / because it’s over before it starts / it’s over could you get out of my heart? / it’s over the end is face to face / and your face is the last face that will not remain / sitting on the front fence stroking my soul / thinking of a romance that could never take hold / dreaming for a second of glimpses that pass / wishing that your glimpse was the last glimpse and it wouldn’t last / could you be where I wanted you to be? / could you face and trust everything I’d say? / you said you faded the moment that you met me / but my life started on the day you went away

Pepper

From deep within me / I’ll always hate it / too tired to shake it / so I just take it / I hear my number / as I slip under / you feed me pepper / and I just bet you / I’ll hate it / my hand’s a hammer / my heart won’t train it / your mind’s a spanner / and you’ll just drain it / I hear my number / I’m right above you / did I create it / for you to break it? Your eyes are razors / your mind’s a grater / can I get off now / if it won’t faze you? I’m hearing my number / I’m just getting number / you’re feeding me pepper / and I just forget it / I hate it

7-11

I hear my name being called from machines along the walls / I move towards my goal / paper cups and chicken rolls / all lined up evermore / I have it in my soul / I know I can’t go home / please take me to the store / open up the oven door / don’t have to wait no more / microwave heaven is here / some noodles and some beer / and a vid for later on / for me alone / the store looks hot it looks quite packed tonight / and we could stop and stare if you just slowed a bit / and if we had some money we could go spend it / and we could stay and ogle at the counter chick / I gave my hands to her / show me where the best things are / drinks chill and coffee spills / and popcorn pops for me / at 10:55 we’ll see / she stacks the shelves so well / with tacos toothpaste gel / to clean me feed me brush my teeth / but they don’t make it heaven

End of this Day

At the end of this day will I know what you’re trying to say / or will I know how to make a start? / end this day end of this hour / I will open you up like a flower / and then I will know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you know what I’m trying to say / or will you know how to make a start? / end this day end of this summer / now I think that my time has come / and now I know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you have anything left to say / or will you know how to play your part? / end this day end of this year / is anything anymore clear? / and now do you know what’s inside my heart?

Car Man

There’s too much fuel in my tank / no overtaking turning vehicles, man / hope it gets me home tonight / hope it gets me through all this / catching all the orange lights / going to stay up late tonight / they can’t get inside my car / they can’t get inside my mind / my windows are wound up tight / they can’t see in through my eyes / saw nothing / travelled for miles / saw nothing / I looked down deep inside / can’t see an end in sight / biting my nails every block / I can’t slow down for all the stops / can’t slow down at all / might crash out tomorrow / drown every sound / kill every motion / I can’t turn around / I hope it gets me through all this / car man

Bugging

All these little things keep bugging all the time / I don’t know how I let them keep getting at me / and how it takes so long to block out of my mind / and how to keep them gone when they stop at me / swim it through the ocean and drag it up the sand / beat it on the waves until I understand / all these little things keep bugging all the time / I feel them in the water and they’re crawling under / and heaven knows just how they got inside my head / they’re just below the surface where sometimes I forget / floating on the water / washed by the tide / going to come and meet me by the waterside / flushed down the river / going to push it down / going to hold it under / going to make it drown

Turn Over

Turn over / turn it on / if I bury my trail will I be gone? / hey look out he’ll kill you / and I don’t care about him anymore than / you’re the last thing that I would ever walk away from / having it all is having nothing / and I don’t care about nothing any more / you are the last thing that I would ever care about at all / if I’m gone would you follow? / I’ll burn my trail if I think you’ll come / you don’t like me here so you might like me gone / but if you don’t like me today then you will hate me tomorrow / hey slow down little thing and come in from the road / something made me slow when I want to explode / and I don’t care about / and I don’t want to go / you turn over / you don’t want to know

Walking through the Village

If I could hold onto one day long enough / if I could hold it back whenever it got rough / if I could lay it out for only me to see / then I could walk home through the village / easy / I climb the mountain and I see the houses still / and I hear stories about the city in the hills / I see the suburbs under 20 feet of snow / traffic lanes are gone but stars say where to go / they’re hanging cables and they’re digging up the ground / they’re ripping highways out and laying new ones down / they’ve made an overpass so we can get around / add 2 to 2 and you don’t always get 4 / here is the score: the hill is in the city / and it ain’t awful pretty / we’re sitting in the snow / and the freeway don’t always take us home / because I can walk home through the village

Through with You

I know I told you yesterday that I don’t mind but I’ve forgotten how to be kind / hope you don’t cry or let it hurt because it’ll hurt me 10 times worse / there’s something nagging in my head / and yes I know I thought I said / but now I’m looking for something to do / and I’m through with you / now all the promises I’ve made have fallen through and I feel like a bastard because I said we’d last / and I’ll feel sad when I see the photographs and all your things / guess this is what falling in love brings / now you can colour me terrible but I still think I should go / this will be better for both of us in the end you know

Cut

Torment torment you never did so much / well not a such / hammer hammer until my head was slush / until I’d had enough / harm me not on my turn / now it’s my turn / to your hands I did my life entrust / so I could clutch / to something solid at least I thought as much / so I could touch / time to rise away from you / now it’s my turn / time to drive myself away / you turned me loose I did not stray / I found my place today / to my blood you slipped your talons in / when I was fresh within / hammer hammer until I felt so thin / you turned me loose on everything / turn me loose I’ve cut my reins / now it’s my turn