Useful Music

Josh Jopling Group Useful Music Lyrics
1.Matter

And so life continues
As matter does not disappear
And you are not the issue
In this the universal sphere
So turn off the light
Let night embrace and take you in
Sleep within its wisdom and

Chorus:

Dreams are not lost they merely fall beneath the ashes
Of what is left to the soul from where it starts to where it
catches
And this is our time until it passes

You must remember me
A plea from one who must be kept
Like some vacant thought
We fear to find we can't forget
And you have become
In the instant you believe you have
Our memories our aftermath

Chorus


2.Gravity

I will not be here forever
So i will not waste any time
Just pick my head up from off the bar dear
Buy the next round i'll be fine
Spoken like a poet
Who's just too drunk to know that

Chorus
Everybody falls in small degrees
Everybody falls in small degrees
It's gravity
It's gravity

Here within lies the king of graceland
Which makes the point all too clear
We stand in long lines praying our peace
And we go home with a souvenir
And only fools rush in
To save a desperate man

Chorus

Pull me down, don't pull me down
Pull me down, don't pull me down
When i was little i used to dream that
I had a cape and i could fly
I rescued my friends from burning buildings
And no one would ever die
But costumes fade fast
And super powers pass

Chorus


3.Here I Am

Here i am and i don't have much to say
It seems so strange to stare at you and to feel this way
Feel this way

Here i am and i don't really know this time
The phone can ring off the hook i don't mind
I don't mind

Chorus

Love is lonely (i don't mind) love is cruel (i don't mind)
Love is only for a fool, for a fool
So here i am and i'm not really sure right now
Shut the shade the light's too bright and i don't feel so well
Feel so well

Chorus

Here i am and i don't really care this time
The record skips and stammers the beat and repeats the line

Repeats the line

Chorus

So here i am


4.Undone

And i want to be down
And i want to get up
And i want to lay low
And i want to be loved
But a dream makes noise,
You better check your head
Ambition is mine and it's heavy as lead
The sum of any outcome
Undone

And i want find peace
And i want to get through
And i want come clean
And i want to be true
As i turn a page on a life less lived
All i have i would gladly give
The sum of any outcome
Undone

Chorus
I am mine, i am mine again
I recognize who it is that i am
I am mine, i am mine again
Can any one tell me where i've been?
I am mine, i am mine again
All we've lost is time in the end
Waiting for the sum of any outcome
Undone

And i want to find faith
And i want to be sure
And i want to say less
And i want to know more
I am not alone, i never have been
We are all one, we divide within
The sum of any outcome
Undone

Chorus


5.Camera One

The sandy haired son of hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he never got undressed
And no, he never made a mess

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera one closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow
Take a bow

The trophy wife from palisades
Whose yearbook beauty never fades
Sits and watches the sea fold in
And wonders what might have been
If she could ever have the chance
Would she do it all again?

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera one closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow
Take a bow

On the corner
By his streets
He sits in his lawnchair
In the heat
Sightseers see
What they want
They're selling star-maps
To the sun

The sunny-haired son of hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he didn't get undressed
And no, he didn't seem depressed

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera one closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow
Take a bow
Take a bow
Take a bow


6.I've Changed

I wanted perfection from every song i've ever sung
But that was wrong
And i wanted something from every person i've ever loved
But that was wrong

Chorus
And i've changed, i've changed
I've reconsidered everything
I'm fine now, i'm fine now
I laid the barrel in my mouth
And everything i thought before
I won't think anymore
I've changed, i've changed, i've changed

I wanted to be the greatest at everything
But i can't be
And i wanted to be exempt from temptation
But i can't be

Chorus

And i wanted your love to be ever lasting
But it isn't
I wanted life to be an easier proposition
But it isn't

Chorus


7.Trailways

Stale coffee, auto-mat
Tired candy staring back
At my ghost in the glare of florescent hues

Transparent plastic wrap
This could be the only map
That i'll need, cause i'm much to lost to lose

Chorus:
My duffel bag is packed, i'm ready to go
The sun is coming up to melt the snow
I feel fine for the first time in a long time
I feel fine for the first time in a while

Bus station bathroom stall
New deal mural on the wall
Simple life why did you have to leave

Cathedral ceilings hold their breath
The ticket taker is all who's left
As for me i have no one to meet

Chorus

Bossa nova down town beat
Iponema is calling me
And a girl i used to love is gone
I look around me and see my soul
Sleeping restless in every row
All at once i am glad i am not alone

Chorus


8.Who's Afraid Of Thomas Wolfe?


9.Phil Ochs


10.Superstar

Miguel sits at the corner store with skin like terra cotta
pottery
Waiting for a bus, a bus
With a hat like billy jack's, a smile like freddie prinz
He comes and he goes with the dust

Looking out his window world as the desert skies open up and
introduce
The stars that dance in space
But he falls fast asleep with a dream that he keeps
Underneath his pillow case

Chorus

Carry me whoever you are
I'm waiting with masses for the rites of passage
And wishing on a superstar

Stacy adds to her billfold and slides down a brass pole
For free drinks and a bigger tip
Posing from a good home that haunts when she's all alone
She sheds what she cannot strip

Chorus

Show us the way, show us the way
Cause we want to be loved and we want to be saved
And we all want to be ok, and we all want to be ok
But we don't have the means to pay
And i don't have the means to pay

Chorus

Miguel sits at the corner store smoking on a cigarette
He bummed off a punk in gangsta hood
Stacy takes a drag and puts her hands on his back
And they walk like they're holly wood

Chorus


11.Human

Gazing down on fields far away
Staring out at all i see
I've just returned from a war that was lost
And the only foe i had was me
No retreat from the forces i fought
Believing i could only win
And from grace to the ground i fall
I am human again

I saw myself untouched by hate
But i was much too numb to feel
And the angels that carried me away
Let me know they weren't real (but i am)
And no matter how strong this vision was
It was not of who i am
And from grace to the ground i fall
And i am human again

Hold me now until i sleep my love
Follow me down, follow me down
I will not be so scared anymore

As long as my feet don't leave the ground
And i'm staring down at fields faraway
Surrounded by this dream i'm in
And from grace to the ground i fall
And i am human again


12.Dutch Wonderland

Beneath the snow lies a dream that i once had
And i know that i'll never go back
To the christmas colored neighborhood as thoughtful as a card
With a plastic baby jesus in the yard

Chorus

It was all and it was nothing at all
It was all and it was nothing at all

What we didn't know we didn't think to ask
The world was just a globe they used in class
Where the gym teacher was always mad and as far as we could tell
He only exercised his right to yell

Chorus

As the kings of boredom we ruled as we knew how
Or at least as long as our curfews would allow
Couple skates, love-sick songs, in moments without pause
As johnny cougar amplified our cause

Chorus

We were the great believers that dreams came with stars
And freedom just depended on the car
Until one day the sky fell in and freedom lost control
And ran off the road and hit a pole

Chorus

Beneath the snow lies a dream that i once had