I live on the second floor Of an old row-house down in Baltimore Watching the colors and the shapes Standing tall up here My face against the window
I'm wide awake It's the middle of the night I'm standing in the dark Waiting for the light And here I'll remain 'Til the sun is in the sky Standing in
One of us won't last the night Between you and me it's no surprise And there's two of us both can't be right Neither will move till it's over I'm the
When the day will come along And you have been there Find the angels at your feet Prone on the ground there So come and bury me I?ll find mine underneath
"Just one more time", he says As he crawls into his hole I'm doing fine he says As the tears fall down alone Why must you question me? Do you want your
I know a movie star I?ve got her plastered to my wall Just like we?re dear old friends Like she already knows me She?s as perfect as she seems Lifts
We were young, twenty one All those years ago In came the fascination Everything was outta control Alive, untried From thickets and from thorns Out came
Glad you made it Welcome to the farm Who's your daddy? I'm your daddy now I'm here seeking only what I need In your mind is where I'll plant my seed
When you look in the mirror Wish you were somebody else Just a perfect reflection You and no one else Minutes run into hours And hours run into days
You were almost kind, you were almost true Don't let me see that other side of you You have learned in time that you must be cruel I'll have to wait to
Everyone here's in trouble The man with the megaphone Smoke and mirrors and crystal balls and red alerts and all because Of the king who hides behind
All I want is the world And everything for me You can rattle off your talk All that matters is what I see If you break me down Selfish desire is all
Please come tempt me, you've got something good in mind Dropped everything glad to be persuade this time Into the car, baby, bleed the gas, fast as fast
She leans closer to me I give a warning of a higher calling Must go over with me We're not happy in the place we are Get up, the countdown will begin
My words confuse you My eyes don't move a blink 'Cause it's easier sometimes Not to be sincere Somehow I make you believe Believe When I speak I'll
Looks like these afternoons of reverie are through What's left for me to say, what's left for me to do? Float along and feel the water on my back Try
Not much of this makes sense to me River leaves run cold and dry But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree And sometimes I?m too scared to even try
Absent in the things I?ve done for the real Revelations come to people so slow, frightening Won?t stop now before they?re done Peel their skin eaten underneath