1.Food For Songs
There's people hauling people
Out from under their homes
There's people hauling people
Out through the groaning stones
You can see me tonight,
I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light of dawn
But I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
People going hungry,
Stand like a sackfull of bones,
People going hungry, feeding a billion homes
So I put my dead child down, you put your TV on
Well I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people beating people,
To keep the system strong
People beating people, to keep the illusion going
So I'm going to fight every day of my life 'til they're gone
But I ain't gonna die just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Making those wailing sounds,
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Watching them lower me down
So I take my leave and you take what you see
And you make it what you want
But when I see you in hell, I will give you some
Food for songs.
2.Start With Me
With all the stuff they sell you night and day
With all the trash they try to trick you with you lie to me
Well I don't need it but I get it anyway
With all the sadness and lunacy,
With all the dispossessed hopeless, you're leaving me
Well I don't want it but it's how it's going to be
Yeah, you can try to save the world
And baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me？
With all the bad debts and misery
With all the dirty tricks and hypocrites you cheat on me
Well I don't want it but it's all that I can see
With all the discrete obscenities
With all the money freaks and doublespeak you turn away
Well I don't need it, but I guess it's gonna stay
Yeah, you can try to save the world
Well baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me？
3.Here And Now
Hey I'm with you, let me just get you a light
And if we had thought to listen
We might have checked if the weather was right
And I don't mind if you want to drive all day
Hey, it's raining, I should have brought my coat
Sometimes I could sell my soul
Just to sit and watch you smoke
And I don't mind if you want to break my heart
'Cos you can burn paper
You can turn on a wheel
But you can't change later
Here and now just how good we can feel
Hey, stop talking, think I can hear the sea
And did I tell you the sound of the surf
Makes strange things happen to me
And I don't mind if you want to crash the car
'Cos you can turn traitor
You can turn on your heels
But you can't change lady
Here and now just how good we can feel
And hey don't worry, so that black cat's some kind of curse
'Cos if bad times are coming up ahead
Just put us in reverse
I don't want to waste time thinking 'bout here and now
Nothing else matters but what we've got here and now
4.One Thing Left To Do
So long, hope you dreams come true
Now I've gone i know you're gonna bloom
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
What you wanted I couldn't give
I guess I needed it to live
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
And did you want me to give my heart to you,
Well I wanted to but I wasn't sure who it belonged to
And so long to everything
Now there's only one thing left to do,
I guess I want to prove that I'd die for you
I don't think of you, like I used to do,
I can't figure who, I'm writing this to
And it's OK if you want to say I died for you.
5.Tell Her This Album Version
Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time
Tell her not to cry
I just got scared that's all
Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do is call, all she
has to do is call
Tell her the chips are down
I drank too much and shouted it aloud
Tell her something in my heart
Needs her more than even clowns need the laughter of the crowd
Tell her what was wrong
I sometimes think too much
But say nothing at all
And tell her from this high terrain, I am ready now to fall, I
am ready now to fall
Tell her not to go
I ain't holding on no more
Tell her nothing if not this; all I want to do is kiss her
Tell her something in my mind
Freezes up from time to time.
6.Being Somebody Else
How are you going to pass the time of day
In your beautiful empty shell,
When you've shaken the hand of so many sinceroes
You feel like a fake yourself
How do you choose between you and me
When we both feed on being somebody else
So you suck on the juice of youth and use any chemical you can
get
You get deeper in debt every step you take on your ladder of
lifelessness
Bye bye to the boring times,
Hello to my friend, how you been being somebody else？
Now the troops in you head won't obey what you say
And the mutiny seems to spread
And all you can hear is a voice in your ear and it's telling you
that
you're dead
The sun sets in a coffee cup, the moon throws up
The flood flows over the house,
The books start jumping from the shelf
And the clothes horse races itself
Now we're all so busy being somebody else.
7.Roll To Me
Look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped it'd be
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
Roll to me
Look into your heart pretty baby,
Is it aching with some nameless need.
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me
Chorus
And I don't think I have ever seen a soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there？
So don't try to deny it pretty baby,
You've been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining
It's the right time to roll to me
Roll to me, Roll to me
(Chorus)
So Look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped it'd be
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
The right time to roll to me
The right time to roll to me
OOOOOHHHHH
8.Crashing Down
Well it might not be so important to you now
When the night is young and everyone's around
And the music flows
Through your doped up Disney mind.
But you'll be crying like a baby when it comes
And you will try it anyway you can
To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun
In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down
And you'll be hurting in a way you can't explain
And all those pretty things you love will look so vain
'Cos the laughing crowd is such a hopeless sound
When loneliness comes crashing down
And you might not thing about
Just what happens now as your guests collect their coats.
In an empty house full of ashtray doubts
Your formless future floats
So the bad and beautiful still remain
With their depleted bounty of bad cocaine, we love the house
But we can't quite place the name
And it might not be important to you now,
When the night is young and you are loose and loud
'Cos there ain't no sound in party town
Quite like loneliness crashing down
9.It Might As Well Be You
There is nobody here tonight, who doesn't dance to the same tune
as I
Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as
well be you
And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates
And there you are again
I'm looking for someone to hold on to
And hey, babe, it might as well be you
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight whispers my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with
and sing to
That I kiss good-bye to never see again
And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with
all the usual mistakes
they say you're looking lonely babe, and they've been looking
too
And hey, they might well be for you
And by the light of cigarettes, we introduce ourselves in a way
you don't forget
I'm looking for something and anything will do
So, hey babe, it might as well be you
And if we go home tonight, you might find the very thing
That come the morning light, might well have washed your mind of
him
So let me in tonight so we two losers might start to win
It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight will call my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with
and sing to
Yeah babe, it might as well be you that reminds me
It was once her here beside me
That I kissed good-bye, to never see again
10.Never Enough
With two hundred people in suits all the same
You walk off that last lonely train.
On the half finished buildings only seagulls remain
As you try to think back to the root of this pain
And life ain't worth living without a little love
But a little love is never enough
So some folks are fighting for freedom, but you're just fighting
the flab
And therein lies the reason that life is a drag.
So you gaze at the television
As some publicity goons cut loose those useless balloons.
Down in the darkness of your lying little heart
There's a space for you to change
So you can take this world apart.
And these days the morning mirror seems to say to you now,
That you used to be pretty but you're alright now.
And sometimes you find you're dreaming as you're late for work
again
Thinking there's not many trees you can see from this train.
Life ain't worth living
Without a little love
But a little love is never enough
11.It's Never Too Late To Be Alone
Summer here is over in a million different ways
You look like a dream sometimes, but I don't dream these days
Yesterday the snow fell, by four o'clock it thawed
And last night making love to you, well honey, it was such a
fraud
'Cos you can find yourself a lover
You can find yourself a home
You can want no other ever
But it's never too late to be alone
So everything is settled or so we do pretend
From a beautiful beginning babe to a muted kind of end
And our separate possessions are shuffled up on shelves
Like our fingers lock together when we talk about ourselves
You can find yourself one day staring into space
With a suitcase waiting by the door
You can think you've got it made 'til it hits you in the face
That these are not the people you want to be before
Summer here is over, you can feel it in the air
From the down-town shells to the upland hills
The chill is everywhere
12.Driving With The Brakes On
Driving through the long night
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
Now the kid has gone. I sit belted up tight,
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.
And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it's tracks
And said, come on, let's go home. But she's got the wheel,
And I've got nothing except what I have on.
When you're driving with the brakes on
When you're swimming with your boots on,
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't
Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation
from
The thing we've done.
She shuts up the ashtray, and I say it's a long way back now hon
She just yawns. And we might get lost someplace
So desolate that no one where we're from would ever come
But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal from now on.
But unless the moon falls tonight, unless continents collide,
Nothing's gonna make me break from her side
13.Long Way Down
Its been a long way down...
From what I was then, to what I'm now.
I was up there, and baby you were proud.
Yeah its been a long way down.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
To havin' nothing again, from having it.
You were mine babe, and we were right on track.
Yeah its been a slow road back.
Yeah its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The higher you get on love, the longer it takes to forget...
and get out of.
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
We went somewhere I'd never known,
From livin it up babe to waking up alone,
Yeah its been a hard trail home.
Its been a long way down.
I was high, but you were right about how,
The longer the dream goes on, the harder the fall will seem
When it has gone.
Yeah its been a long way down
We had everything heaven would allow.
From the desert heights to the life I'm livin' now,
yeah its been a long way down.
14.Life By Mistake
15.In The Meantime
Maybe you are crying now
Or maybe you're relieved
I guess we both stopped trying Baby to believe
And maybe you are hurting badly
Or maybe you feel free
Taking one last journey with me away from you and me
But who is there to go to now
And what are we to do
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
Maybe this will help you now
Give you room to breathe
Or maybe all the pain you feel will never ever leave
And who is there to turn to now
Who can help us make it through
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
So you said you loved me baby
For the last time now it seems
And I said I loved you baby, but I don't know what that means
And who is there to lie to now
How do I survive this without you
Living in the meantime until we find somebody new
16.A Little Luck
17.In The Frame
Put me in your pocket now, put me in your dress
I will remain the one you love best
Don't try to rip me up
If I hurt you when
Everything is fowled up at the end
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, 'How
Do I always look like I'm in pain？'
And you always get your finger in the frame
Put me in your bottom drawer under old exams
There I will be always your cheating hand
Don't try to send me back in some maudlin phase
What has developed here you can't erase
Let me always stay now
Laughing as you say, 'How
Do I always look like I'm in pain？'
And you always get your finger in the frame
And maybe all the fights will never happen
Maybe nothing's going to change
Maybe I'll be always laughing
Nothing standing in the way
Nothing clouding up the future
Not the faintest threat of rain
Nothing clouding up the picture
But a finger in the frame
So put me in the pocket of this very dress
And I will remain the one you love best
And I will always stay now
Laughing as you say, 'How
Do I always look like I'm in pain？'
And you will always have your finger in the frame
18.Queen Of False Alarms
19.The Last Love Song
This is the last love song we'll sing
Now that the death of our dreams
Has poisoned everything
The shadow of the squaw shades our door
And grayness invades our every pore
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to say absolutely nothing
This is the last movie we'll see
While our country's sleep walking through every major scene
Our age of convenience becomes
A state that don't care for anyone
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
This is the last love song we'll sing
This is the last chance we have to do absolutely nothing
20.A Better Man
21.One Thing Left To Do Acoustic Version
So long, hope you dreams come true
Now I've gone i know you're gonna bloom
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
What you wanted I couldn't give
I guess I needed it to live
And did you want me to say I'd die for you
And did you want me to give my heart to you,
Well I wanted to but I wasn't sure who it belonged to
And so long to everything
Now there's only one thing left to do,
I guess I want to prove that I'd die for you
I don't think of you, like I used to do,
I can't figure who, I'm writing this to
And it's OK if you want to say I died for you.
22.Food For Songs Acoustic Version
There's people hauling people
Out from under their homes
There's people hauling people
Out through the groaning stones
You can see me tonight,
I'll be shell shocked and white in the cold light of dawn
But I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
People going hungry,
Stand like a sackfull of bones,
People going hungry, feeding a billion homes
So I put my dead child down, you put your TV on
Well I ain't gonna cry just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people beating people,
To keep the system strong
People beating people, to keep the illusion going
So I'm going to fight every day of my life 'til they're gone
But I ain't gonna die just to give some guy
Food for songs
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Making those wailing sounds,
Yeah, there's people holding people,
Watching them lower me down
So I take my leave and you take what you see
And you make it what you want
But when I see you in hell, I will give you some
Food for songs.
23.Move Away Jimmy Blue Remix
A struck match faded like a nervous laugh
Beyond the halo of a naked bulb
Your low voice mingles with your other half's;
Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes
Eventually your world will shrink within four walls
Of neglected debts and stolen stereos.
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around
and swallows you
A drunk mother was the cue
For the legendary things that you do
Behind a carnival tent with mud on your face
Behind the old glue factory too.
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around
and swallows you
Wet feet visit the same old places
Finding nothing new
It's a binful of tissues from made-up faces
In a townful of nothing to do
A love match with the moon
In a layby, while insects hum and
You got put in the darkness of a woman's womb
Jimmy Blue.
So move away, yeh,
Move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town
Turns around and swallows you.
24.Stone Cold Sober Remix
Everybody in the funhouse
Says they want out
But we're taking our time
'Cos we're in love with time
Whole generations thinking of themselves
As infidels and pop stars
While the bomb loses patience
We line up and just lean against the bar
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
Caught in the headlights
Wide-eyed and ready to receive
We are the dead life
Locked in dogfights, lost in disbelief
And these dark days
Make the nights seem brighter than they are
So while Fleet Street rolls and the moon glows
In the funhouse the fun starts
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
Born in the half-light
Of threats and bribes
In a hopeless porn parade
We get the dog's life, tidbits train us
What to wear, what not to say
When you're footloose but you just feel limbless
Life gets in the way
So we get loaded or totally legless
But stay the same
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
25.When You Were Young Alternative Version
Look at the fool you have been
They drained the pool while you drowned in the dream
They bought your beauty and your soul
Then softly sold you back what they stole
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
The disappointment of success
Hangs from your shoulders like a hand-me down dress
And down nostalgia's rocky road
You watch your former lovers growing old
So look into the mirror do you recognise someone
Is it who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain
So on your mask of make up just paint
A little parody of pain
So I look into the mirror and I recognise someone
It is who you always hoped you would become
When you were young
26.Crashing Down Live
Well it might not be so important to you now
When the night is young and everyone's around
And the music flows
Through your doped up Disney mind.
But you'll be crying like a baby when it comes
And you will try it anyway you can
To find a place to run, 'cos it ain't no fun
In party town, when loneliness comes crashing down
And you'll be hurting in a way you can't explain
And all those pretty things you love will look so vain
'Cos the laughing crowd is such a hopeless sound
When loneliness comes crashing down
And you might not thing about
Just what happens now as your guests collect their coats.
In an empty house full of ashtray doubts
Your formless future floats
So the bad and beautiful still remain
With their depleted bounty of bad cocaine, we love the house
But we can't quite place the name
And it might not be important to you now,
When the night is young and you are loose and loud
'Cos there ain't no sound in party town
Quite like loneliness crashing down
27.Move Away Jimmy Blue Live
A struck match faded like a nervous laugh
Beyond the halo of a naked bulb
Your low voice mingles with your other half's;
Schoolfriends in second-hand clothes
Eventually your world will shrink within four walls
Of neglected debts and stolen stereos.
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around
and swallows you
A drunk mother was the cue
For the legendary things that you do
Behind a carnival tent with mud on your face
Behind the old glue factory too.
So move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town turns around
and swallows you
Wet feet visit the same old places
Finding nothing new
It's a binful of tissues from made-up faces
In a townful of nothing to do
A love match with the moon
In a layby, while insects hum and
You got put in the darkness of a woman's womb
Jimmy Blue.
So move away, yeh,
Move away Jimmy Blue
Before your small, small town
Turns around and swallows you.
28.Stone Cold Sober Live
Everybody in the funhouse
Says they want out
But we're taking our time
'Cos we're in love with time
Whole generations thinking of themselves
As infidels and pop stars
While the bomb loses patience
We line up and just lean against the bar
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
Caught in the headlights
Wide-eyed and ready to receive
We are the dead life
Locked in dogfights, lost in disbelief
And these dark days
Make the nights seem brighter than they are
So while Fleet Street rolls and the moon glows
In the funhouse the fun starts
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
Born in the half-light
Of threats and bribes
In a hopeless porn parade
We get the dog's life, tidbits train us
What to wear, what not to say
When you're footloose but you just feel limbless
Life gets in the way
So we get loaded or totally legless
But stay the same
Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
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