Yourself Or Someone Like You

Real World
I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone
and you can come and see them when I'm...done, when I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown
from some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow sun
boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they're stunned
(CHORUS)
straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
if I were someone else, would this all fall apart
strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me


I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho
I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said
I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this man get me some
boy don't make me wanna change my...tone, my tone
(CHORUS)

please don't change, please don't break
the only thing that seems to work at all is you
please don't change, at all from me
to you, and you to me
(CHORUS)



Long Day
it's sitting by the overcoat
the second shelf, the note she wrote
that I can't bring myself to throw away
and also
reach she said for no one else but you,
cuz you won't turn away
when someone else is gone


I'm sorry 'bout the attitude
I need to give when I'm with you
but no one else would take this shit from me
and I'm so
terrified of no one else but me
I'm here all the time
I won't go away
it's me, yeah I can't get myself to go away
it's me, and I can't get myself to go away
oh God I shouldn't feel this way
(CHORUS)

reach down your hand in your pocket
pull out your hope for me
it's been a long day, always ain't that right
and no Lord your hand won't stop it
just keep you trembling
it's been a long day, always ain't that right


well i'm surprised that you'd believe
in any thing that comes from me
I didn't hear from you or from someone else
and you're so
set in life man, a pisser they're waiting
too damn bad you get so far so fast
so what, so long
(CHORUS)

it's me, yeah and I can't get myself to go away
it's me, yeah and I can't get myself to go away
oh God I shouldn't feel this way
(CHORUS)


3 am
she says it's cold outside and she hands my my raincoat
she's always worried about things like that
she says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
and she only sleeps when it's raining
and she screams and her voice is straining
(CHORUS)
she says baby
it's 3 am I must be lonely
when she says baby
well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
says the rain's gonna wash away, i believe it


she's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing
and in her color portrait world, she believes that she's got it all
she swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
and she only sleeps when it's raining
and she screams and her voice is straining
(CHORUS)

she believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
and the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and days
she thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
but outside it stopped raining
(CHORUS)


Push
she said I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
and I don't know if I've ever been really loved
by a hand that's touched me, well I feel like something's gonna give
and I'm a little bit angry, well

this ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
you don't owe me, we might change
yeah we just might feel good
(CHORUS)

I wanna push you around, I will, I will
I wanna push you down, I will, I will
I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted
I will


she said I don't know why you ever would lie to me
like I'm a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya
and I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me
you couldn't stand to be near me
when my face don't seem to want to shine
cuz it's a little bit dirty, well


don't just stand there, say nice things to me
I've been cheated, I've been wronged, and you
you don't own me, I can't change
I won't do anything at all
(CHORUS)

oh but don't bowl me over
just wait a minute well it kinda fell apart, things get so crazy, crazy
don't rush this baby, don't rush this baby
(CHORUS)



Girl Like That
you think this life would make me bolder
but I'm running scared is all
I hang on everything about you
you think I'd settle down cuz I'm older
but I roll with the change is all
I'm same old trailer trash in new shoes

she gets sad when there's nothing going on
she says it makes her feel damn worthless


(CHORUS 1)
well you got to think with a girl like that
any love at all, is better than nothing
it's better than nothing


I put my hands around your shoulder
you're saying you're scared is all
I think I know too much about you
you think this life would make me colder
I'd give in to the alcohol
I put my loving arms around you, child


you knew damn well there was nothing going on
is that what makes you feel damn worthless


(CHORUS 2)
well you got to think with a girl like that
any love is better than nothing
it's better than nothing
you got to think with a girl like that
any love at all, it's better than nothing
it's better than nothing


yeah she drags you down and she pulls you up
she pulls you up
says that she's sorry now but it's not enough to pull you up
she's sorry


I wake up quick just like I want to
yeah but I stay out much too late
you think this life can get a bit unkind but she stays
down til the worth is gone
and pulls you up, she pulls you up
she pulls you up and over, over
(CHORUS 2)
(CHORUS 1)



Back 2 Good
it's nothing, it's so normal you
just stand there I could say so much
but I don't go there cuz I don't want to
I was thinking if you were lonely
maybe we could leave here and no one would know
at least not to the point that we would think so

everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else
it's best if we all keep it under our heads
I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do
but I'm lonely now, and I don't know how to get it back to good


this don't mean that, you own me
this ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell
but things worked out just like you wanted too
if you see me out you don't know me
try to turn your head, try to give me some room
to figure out just what I'm going to do


and everyone here hates everyone here for doing just like they do
it's best if we all keep this quiet instead
and I couldn't tell, why everyone here was doing me like they do
but I'm sorry now, and I don't know how to get it back to good


everyone here, is wondering what it's like to be with somebody else
everyone here's to blame, everyone here
gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain, everyone hides
shades of shame, but looking inside we're the same, we're the same
and we're all grown now, but we don't know how
to get it back to good


everyone here knows everyone here is thinking 'bout somebody else
it's best if we all keep this under our heads
I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do
but it's over now, and I don't know how, it's over now
there's no getting back to good




Damn
this old world well
don't it make you wanna think damn
this cold girl well
don't she make you wanna think damn

what's the matter girl
don't you think I'm good enough
this old heart's had a whole lot of breakin' down
she's got all these reasons in her head


(CHORUS 1)
all that time she knew if I lied
you can bet she will
she's takin' her time 'til I thought I would die
and I can't sit still


things got turned 'round
don't know where I started from, damn
can't eat, can't sleep
could have been a bigger man, damn
what's the matter girl don't you think I'm bright enough
this old man had a hard time getting here
you can leave your number at the door
(CHORUS 1)

and there's nothing at all
yeah there's nothing at all
well there's nothing at all
to make her change her mind


this old house been quiet since
you went away, damn
mixed up fixed out
don't forget who got you here, damn


what's the matter world
don't you see I opened up
this whole part been played by another man
I pulled out the reason card instead
(CHORUS 1)
(CHORUS 2)

says she can find
the things that make up a life
I bet she will
she stays behind, I could stay here all night
I could stay here until


until there's nothing at all
yeah there's nothing at all
well there's nothing at all
to make her change her mind



Argue
she don't, but she will
he says anything to keep her by him
she takes, what she gets, and she never did flinch

so over, and over, anyone
with any mind would think that's all she gets
(CHORUS)

if you want you can get to know me well
we get along so we shouldn't argue
and I don't know, said I don't know
all these feelings, cloud up my reasoning
cloud up my reasoning


I know, but I still
believe in ignorance as my best defense
so go on, wreck me
funny how I carry on, and not be taken over
will not roll over on anyone,
cuz anyone would stand up on my side
(CHORUS)

you know it's funny how sometimes,
it don't work out like you want to
no you never get nothing at all
then she tells you that it's over, boy don't you hate it
when it's over
I guess something just got lost, and it deeply saddens me
so over, and over anyone, who's anyone
(CHORUS)



Kody
kody sat down on the avenue
he tapped his feet to the humming of the highway
he watched the light shine down on the broken glass, and thought
I don't got no reasons, yet
there it is and there it was
it was clear to all of us
we kept this hat of broken dreams
and we pulled them out, when we needed them around

(CHORUS)
so please hand me a bottle, i think I'm lonely now
and please give me direction, I think the hurt set in
and I don't feel nothing, yet


there's a squeak hinge down on the back gate
it lets us know if he comes around
but I don't sleep that good anyway
and if you've never heard that silence, it's a god awful sound
(CHORUS)

I don't feel nothing, no I don't feel nothing
there's nothing to feel good about here


don't much get down to the avenue
I could drive
but it takes so much to get there
don't get off on all the broken glass, the cadillac scene,
well
I've seen a lot of good things die and I'm
in an overemotional way
(CHORUS)



Busted
I forgot when words were only words
she knows the party makes me nervous
in this stage we can't get hurt
don't try to understand me

we're too cool to be alone
but, not too crazy to get busted


I found out one life just ain't enough
I need another soul to feed on
I'm the flame I can't get burnt
I'm wholly understated


I found silence in this space
an on and off again attraction
I need such amazing grace
heaven sweep me away

(CHORUS)

love don't change, don't come around here
don't wear my heart on your sleeve
like a high school letter
don't strain, cuz nothin ever comes from it
and the people we've become, well
they've never been the people who we are

I strap on one horse and prayed for luck
I dug another hole to bleed
I know exactly how this works
I need a new feel dirty


I don't need you crowdin up my space
I just want to get inside you
you can't believe the heart you save
giving something away
(CHORUS)

I dream that the world was crumbling down
we sat on my back porch and watched it


I dream that the buildings all fell down
we sat on my back porch and watched it
in my head I heard this sound
like fifteen strangers dancing


but oh how I want you to know me
oh how I want you to know me
oh how I wish I was somebody else, baby
oh how I wish you could own me
(CHORUS)



Shame
what we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone
past yourself forget the light, things look dirty when it's on
funny how it comes to pass, that all the good slips away
and there's no one around you can remember being good to
you

(CHORUS1)
shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you
and open up more
shame, shame, shame


what we lost here is something better left alone
second steps been forgotten, will you tell me how
they go
set yourself, situate, like a fool try again
there's no one around you can remember being good, for you
so


(CHORUS2) shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you
and open up more
shame, shame, shame
shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you
and open up more
shame, shame, shame


we never thought we'd getter so troubled
we could never think that much
it should never get this bad


so let the wind blow ya,
across a big floor
but there's no one around who can tell us what we're here
for
funny in a certain light, how we all seem to look the same
and there's no one in life you can remember ever stood
for you, so
(CHORUS2)

TOP

Hang
she grabs her magazines
she packs her things and she goes
she leaves the pictures hanging on the wall, she burns all
her notes and she knows, she's been here too few years
to feel this old

he smokes his cigarette, he stays outside 'til it's gone
if anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn't be alone
he knows, she's been here too few years to be gone


and we always say, it would be good to go away someday
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang


the trouble understand, is she got reasons he don't
funny how he couldn't see it at all
'til she grabbed up her coat
and she goes, she's been here too few years to take it all in stride
but still it's much too long, to let hurt go(you let her go)
and we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang
the same for you
I'll always hang
well I always say, it would be good to go away
but if things don't work out like we think
and there's nothing there to ease this ache
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang

Tabitha's Secret
3 AM (second version)

She says it's cold outside and she hands me my raincoat
She's always worried 'bout things like that
She says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
She only sleeps when it's rainin'
And she screams -- And her voice is strainin'
(chorus)
And she says, baby, it's 3 a.m. I must be lonely
When she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
The rain's gonna wash away I believe it
She's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing
And in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all
She swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
She only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams and her voice is straining
(chorus)
She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days & days
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
And outside it's stopped raining
(chorus X2)

Dear Joan

Dear Joan
I've almost forgotten
The pane in the window
Blue dress in the doorway
Dear Joan
Help me remember
The face I forget
And the traps that I've sprung
I guess I grow tired it's just what's expected of me
To tear your heart from the inside to the outside
You know I was wired, I just couldn't help it
the hundred, thousand times that I hurt you
Dear Joan I wanted to say
that I'm sorry for the screaming last night
and the nights before
Well I wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan
Dear Joan
Your face has a brightness
That I've never seen
in the years that I've known you
Dear Joan
I pick up the pieces
But some scattered too far
You see they flew when I kicked them
I know you believed when I said it was over
You stood by me patiently waiting and rolling
So deeply in love with every face that I've shown
Dear Joan I wanted to say
that I'm sorry for the screaming last night
and the nights before
Well I wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Once I forgive, twice I'm a fool
Three times I've wrapped my hands around your neck
While you're sleeping, you're quietly sleeping
Sleeping and dreaming
Dear Joan
Don't walk out that doorway
because if you did - I believe
I could honestly kill you
Dear Joan I wanted to say
that I'm sorry for the screaming last night
and the nights before
Well I wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan I wanted to say
that I'm sorry for the screaming last night
and the nights before
Well I wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan

Dizzy

Outside the sky is fallin
People dodging raindrops staying dry
Inside I never gave a damn about those outside people anyway
They hurt me, they don't even know who I am
Inside there's no rainbows
Inside I'm tryin, I'm trying, I try
Try to clear my head
Outside when the rain is drying
Inside I'm dying
Cuz in here I'm staring at the rings my coffee cup has made on the table
cuz in here I know I know I know that this is as good as it gets
and in time I hope to be the one that talks the other men
Until then I count the cracks on the wall until it's time to lay my head
Inside I play with shadows
Inside I know I know I know that I'll feel this way all day
and outside there's hope for trying
and inside I'm dying
You walk before me
and Lord knows I can't follow
you walk behind me and I don't think I can lead
You walk around me, please don't walk around me
cuz you know how dizzy I get.

Forever December
Needs refill my isolation
I ponder it
I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer
Of course you would
You have no choice
And they cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and laugh at the people that I can't be
All their lives
Silly pictures
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
The tide is turnin'
Turnin' us away
Build a wall I'll build a fountain
Wrestled it
Conquered it
Think we'll live to see the mountain
Of course we will
We have no choice
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and I laugh at the people that I can't be
All their lives
Silly pictures
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
Baby's gettin' older
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
The tide is turnin'
Don't turn me away
And I can remember
Forever December
The sense of it dyin'
The harder the pain
The rose in the bottle
Thorns at the bottom
The stars surround me
The cold astounds me
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and I laugh at the people that I can't be
All their lives
Pretty pictures
Baby's gettin' older
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
Baby's gettin' older
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
The tide is turnin'
Don't turn me away.

Forever December (second version)
Needs refill my isolation
I harbor it
I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer
Of course you would
You have no choice
And they cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and laugh at the people that I can't be
Cuz All their lives
Silly pictures
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
Baby's gettin' older
Build a wall I'll build a fountain
We Wrestled it
Love will Conquer it
Think we'll live to see the mountain
Of course we will
We have no choice
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and I laugh at the people that I can't be
Cuz All their lives
are Silly pictures
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
Baby's gettin' older
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
The tide is turnin'
Don't turn me away
And it won't take long we both knew this
and I wasn't quite prepared
For sense of it dyin'
The harder to your pain
All my words get lost and I can't speak
Got my head stripped down well, I get weak
and the words fall out like Forever December
Soon it won't matter and she won't mean nothin'
she won't mean nothin'
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
and I laugh at the people that I can't be
All their lives
Pretty pictures
Chorus:
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
Baby's gettin' older
Baby's gettin' older
hey now, now, now, hey now, hey baby
The tide is turnin'
Don't turn me away.

Here Comes Horses

Help me to remember girl if you don't mind
Cuz I feel just like a jester when the music died
Haven't seen you lately
But I know that nothing has changed
Feeling kinda shaky but the wounds have healed
There's a crack there in the doorway where the walls are peeled
Well I still see the sun go down on a clear day
Here Comes Horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothin
Here it comes again
I was thinkin' I was angry but I let it go
I was waitin on miricle but nothin' showed
and they say our new messiah is at the local bar
Breeders from the home front have you heard the news
that Daddy bet his paycheck on a horses shoes
Now he won't feel that way for a long, long time
Here Comes Horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothin
Here it comes again
Can you feel them?
Sittin in a taxi at the evening's end
I was tryin to remember where it was I been
and maybe I got someplace else to be
I ask you why you coming you say just because
I guess I could do without it if I knew what it was, well
Really doesn't matter
When you look at me that way, well
Here Comes Horses
There goes the rain, welcome to the rain
Here goes nothin
Here it comes again.

High

She has said - don't cry
Said it only hurts forever
Cuz all we have is time
She said She'll never know
So close your eyes turn down the lights
And I can start this show
God I can't sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn then the strength gets clean
so don't blush that's right cuz there is no other way down
Don't try to make no sense of the scene
it's the difference between caring alot and me
We keep changing
Yeah we could row like a boat on the shore
She says I insist on just a little more time
But we know damn well she wants to be this high
Yeah we knew just who we were
yeah or who we thought we'd try to be
and who is gonna hurt
Honey I said if I was strong and whole
That I would be with someone else I know where I'd belong
Still I can't sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn then the strength gets clean
so don't blush that's right cuz there is no other way down
Don't try to make no sense of the scene
it's the difference between caring alot and me
We keep changing
Yeah we could row like a board on the floor
She says I insist on just a little more time
But we know damn well she wants to be this high
Still I can't sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn then the strength gets clean
so don't blush that's right cuz there is no other way down
Don't try to make no sense of the scene
it's the difference between caring alot and me
We keep changing
Yeah we could row like a board on the floor
She says I insist on just a little more time
But we know damn well she wants to be this high.

Jesus was an Alien

Elvis is alive at your local grocery store
If you believe that boy well sit down and I'll tell you more
Lee Harvey Oswald, well you know he acted alone
Charlie Manson only wanted to make his house a home
Jesus was an alien flyin through space
God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face so the story began
Girl I love you and the check is in the mail
Found religion inside myself I drained the blood the flesh will stand
So reach in your pocket and give us all you can
The only one that's going to heaven is gonna be the richer man
Jesus was an alien flyin through space
God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face so the story began
Jesus was an alien flyin through space
God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face so the story began
I see you shaking boy do you find it hard to believe
That the one you've been livin for would cut your wrist and watch you
bleed
You find out the truth is a lie and it makes you feel unwell
you say that judging the almighty dollar is all we have to save us from
hell
Jesus was an alien flyin through space
God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face so the story began
Jesus was an alien flyin through space
God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face so the story began.

Paint Me Blue

Not enough of me well
There's way too much of you
I think I saw some happy people yesterday
And that'll never do
Never too much violence
Any time we had a war
You leave on your shirt and I'll be skins
And we'll go flyin' through the door
These are violent times and I only want to do my part
Sink to hatred's depths and smile at what we've blown apart cuz
I don't need understanding
Just a pact or two
Help me with my troubles and what to do's
I don't feel no ragin'
That ain't nothin' new
Well now drop me into the ocean and paint me blue
I don't have a worry and I don't have a care
I don't have a sound peace of mind but I mangage to fare
I don't like my neighbors, hell they're just not my kind
I think it might be all for the whales and I really don't mind
These are the golden years well I think it's time we cashed them in
Sit in our rocking chairs and talk about the good old days cuz
I don't need understanding
Just a pact or two
Help me with my troubles and what to do's
I don't feel no ragin'
That ain't nothin' new
Well now drop me into the ocean and paint me blue
These are violent times and I only want to do my part
Sink to hatred's depths and smile at what we've blown apart cuz
I don't need understanding
Just a pact or two
Help me with my troubles and what to do's
I don't feel no ragin'
That ain't nothin' new
Well now drop me into the ocean and paint me blue
Baby won't you paint me, won't you paint me blue.

Swing

Still don't mean nothin
Written on the concrete
Words were on my tongue
cuz we don't talk about it
No day or no evening
No fashion no Superman
Just little war people
With little black minds
Well I wasn't sure just what to think
said the lights went out
Somebody somebody Swing
Don't wanna Don't wanna talk anymore
Somebody Swing
Don't wanna talk no more
What if we're tainted
open and lied to
What if we're dying as usual
walk around it
Well I wasn't sure just what to think
said the lights went out
Somebody somebody Swing
Don't wanna Don't wanna talk anymore
Bring Boy can you bring me down
Can you Swing
Don't wanna talk any more
Shoot your balance keep your head down watch your anger boy
realize you're getting old
This is balance look for reason this don't have to make sense to anybody
ever
Then everybody watch you swing
Still don't mean nothin'
than what's written all over the concrete
all over the concrete
and the race gets you out so you swing
Don't wanna Don't wanna talk anymore
Bring Boy can you bring me down
Can you Swing
Don't wanna talk any more.

Unkind

Hang on baby what you gettin into
It's livin on the pain I think it's gettin to you
Write my name, painted up my picture
sayi it's the only thing cuz I'm not around, be around
Beaten and battered
Notice my dreams get shattered now
Pain gives me the right to be unkind
Bring it home baby what's with sudden devotion
I trade her even tears for just a little emotion
You can curse my name, paint up my picture
You say it's the last time that I'll be around, be around
oh well I'm torn and I'm tattered
sudden thoughts in my head getting scattered, oh well
Pain gives me the right to be unkind
and it sets me right back to the heart of it
Just crazy is to slide your hands from it
Just crazy is a place I call my own when I'm alone
so hang on baby what you gettin into
well I swear one sees the little things that matter but it
all seems true to you
say the hell with my name and say the hell with my picture
yeah but swear the one time you need me around, i'll be around
I'm around right now and here
I'll stay like it matters
Only once just to prove it didn't get scattered by the rain
Pain gives me the right to be unkind
and it sets me right back to the heart of it
Just crazy is to slide your hands from it
Just crazy is a place I call my own when I'm alone.