Happy The Man

The Guggenheim Grotto Happy The Man Lyrics
1.Intro


2.Fee Da Da Dee

I can't direct the universe
I can't pull off the road and take a rest
I can't go on forever more
I can't refuse the weight of intellect
I can't avoid the hands of time
I wish your touch was of a softer kind
And if the world decides to melt
There's nothing I can do to change your mind

Fee da da dee
And me and me I think I'm getting it???
Fee da da do
Our heads are a haunt for the ghosts of alphabets
Fee da da dee
Our hearts are tigers chasing tiger nets
Fee da da do
And me and me I think I'm getting it

Tip your hat to the willow tree
Designed to what it can and cannot be
Tip your hat to the willow tree
Designed to what it can and cannot be

(Fee) Fee da da dee
And me and me I think I'm getting it
Fee da da do
Our heads are a haunt for the ghosts of alphabets
Fee da da dee
Our hearts are tigers chasing tiger nets
Fee da da do
And me and me I think I'm getting it

All you dreamers wishing for tomorrow
Life is elsewhere only brings you sorrow
Fee da da dee (in beautiful harmony)
All you dreamers wishing for tomorrow
Life is elsewhere only brings you sorrow

Fee da da dee
And me and me I think I'm getting it
Fee da da do
Our heads are a haunt for the ghosts of alphabets
Fee da da dee
Our hearts are tigers chasing tiger nets
Fee da da do
And me and me I think I'm getting it
Fee da da dee
And me and me I think I'm getting it
Fee da da do
Our heads are a haunt for the ghosts of alphabets
Fee da da dee
Our hearts are tigers chasing tiger nets
Fee da da do
And me and me I think I'm getting it


3.Her Beautiful Ideas

VERSE 1
she used to say about love,
that it should come from above
and it should come from below
she used to say my love
wear the lips of a saint
and the hips of a whore
and when we'd walk along the street she'd say
if it rains now, i hope to God it pours
and with her beautiful ideas,
she'd cut me in half, clean this broad sword.. and now i~

REF.
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore.. yeah
and now my~
my heart hangs worn and weak like an old wire door
and now i~
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore~

VERSE 2
she used to say that magic was the edge
and science and God
they were the sides of a copper penny piece
yeah and its far better to keep it spinning and spinning and
spinning
than for one side to fall and to freeze
Oh and when we'd walk along the pier

well she'd point out the waves and say under there
thats where we go when we're asleep
you know once she let it slip
that i was the best of the beautiful ideas
and now i~

REF
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore.. yeah
and now my~
my heart hangs worn and weak like an old wire door
and now i~
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore~

VERSE 3
she used to say
'lets get naked and get under the sheets' X 8

REF.
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore.. yeah
and now my~
my heart hangs worn and weak like an old wire door
and now i~
i just cant seem to get out of bed anymore YEAHH~


4.Everyman

If something came your way
Certain to be lost someday
Like flesh and bone to clay
But something that would take your breath away
Would you still let your heart take fire?
Let your head go up in flames?
Would you still let your heart take fire?
Of course you would, you're everyman
You try to hold things no one can

You make a lot of noise
In your tinkerbell disguise
As if that fairy poise
Protected you from saying your goodbyes
But you still let your heart take fire
Let your head go up in flames
Yeah you still let your heart take fire
Of course you do you're everyman
You try to hold things no one can
Of course you do your everyman
You think you know but you don't understand.

God help everyman
You think you understand.


5.Sunshine Makes Me High

Wake, wake...
And I catch you taking in the trees shake
Your shoes off put your two feet on the dashboard
A daydream in the daylight then you seal it
With your mouth, with your mind, in your mouth
With your 'sunshine makes me high...'

Roll, roll...
Four hundred burning miles of gold roll
Your shoes off put your two feet on the dashboard
A Hopper in the half-light then you seal it
With your mouth, with your mind, in your mouth
With your 'sunshine makes me high...'

And like a flame you move me to the moment
calling me home to the here and now
and like a flame you move me to the moment
it's the sighing of a mountain in the morning
Your 'sunshine makes me high'


6.The Girl With The Cards

In truth I know why I am drawn to you*
You are fire in my arms
I could get burned and still I play with you
You are fire in my arms

I am a man in a wooden barrel
I'm a girl on a spinning wheel
And you were the draw upon the column
You were the girl with the cards
Who could deal me a heart or blow me away

You could blow me away
You are fire in my arms

Given half the chance I'd roll with you
You are fire in my arms
Maybe make an honest girl of you
You are fire in my arms

I am a man in a cage with a ribbon
I'm a girl on a flying trapeze
And you were the song of magic trick
You were the girl with the cards
Who could deal me a heart or blow me away

You could blow me away
Yeah, you are fire in my arms

You could blow me away
Yeah, you are fire in my arms

You could blow me away
Yeah, you are fire in my arms


7.Just Not Just

So, so, so there's this girl on a hill with a kite strapped to
her back
She's crying, 'come on, hurry, blow;
pick me up and throw me skywards.'
She's got a prayer in her mouth and she's done all of the math
She's got a feather for a heart, but it still doesn't guarantee
her

'Cause not everything you run to wants you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)
And not everything you love will love you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)

So there's this boy on a hill with a hammer in his hand
He's shouting fire in the sky, 'come on, turn me into something
special.'
And then a storm whips up and the heavens are alive
And he's wearing copper shoes but it still doesn't guarantee him

'Cause not everything you run to wants you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)
And not everything you love will love you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)
It's the tragedy of dreamers like me and you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ahh (2x)

'Cause not everything you run to wants you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)
And not everything you love will love you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)

It's the tragedy of dreamers like me and you
(It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong)
(4x)

It's just not just it's not just it's just wrong


8.Nikita

I was meant for the movies
I was meant to be great
But somewhere in the confusion
I was left in the shade

Oh, Nikita
Come and get me
I'm almost 30
Oh, Nikita
Come and get me
I'm almost 30

I have lived with devotion,
Dignity and panache
I stoked the fire within me
The fire turned me to ash

Oh, Nikita
Come and get me
I'm almost 30
Oh, Nikita
Come and get me
I'm almost 30


9.From The Attic


10.Lost Forever And

what has love in store for me?
considering where I've been
I'm not sure I want to see
because I've held it in my hand
and simple as a grain of sand
I let it slip from my fingers
lost forever and...

how must a broken heart believe
in the abundance of the sea
or every tear held there's unique?
I taste her salt still on my tongue
there's a breath of her still in my lungs
how could I hope to love another
and
walk
again

among the holy fools
and liberated mules
among the holy fools
and all the world is new

so what has love in store for me
will it bring me to my knees?
show me how a mystic sees
cos there's so little I understand
from universe to grain of sand
and how she slipped from my fingers
lost forever and...


11.The Dragon

my brother is gifted he says he can wake in his dreams
and you can do anything if you can wake in your dreams
grow ten feet taller and talk with giraffes
with one single step cut the universe in half
yes you can do anything if you wake up in dreams

he met his dragon; his dragon flew him into space
there was junk everywhere, everywhere was a floating disgrace
so they went to a room that was hollow and white
they waited a while till the door opened wide
my father walked in and he and my brother embraced


12.Heaven Has A Heart

heroes get forgotten
good men overthrown
I found true love
then I lost my love
so I'll carry out my days alone

but I won't parade my sorrows
we all have our own tunes to moan
but here is a truth
that everyone must swallow
heaven has a heart of stone

build your castles with diamonds and marble and steel
and you get knocked down
live your life with compassion and humility
still you get knocked down
I'm not saying
'don't fall in love... don't reach for the stars...'
but everyone should know
that heaven has a heart of stone

and you can want it with every fibre of your being
but how it plays out in the end is never sure
my baby got so thin I didn't know her
then she slipped away for evermore

and what's another grain of sorrow upon the world
with nations of people reduced to ashes and bone?
still, what kind of heaven gives you something then
takes it from you?
a heaven with a heart of stone