1.Lately
Lately I don't think of you at all
Or wonder what you're up to
Or how you're getting on
I never think of calling you
Or how things could have been
Or wonder where you sleep at night
Or whose arms you wake in
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
Lately
I don't get lost in daydreams
I never lay awake at night
Staring in my bed
And I don't think about your face
Or anything you've said
And I don't think twice
When someone says your name
Or twist my mind in circles
Wondering which of us to blame
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you, anymore
Living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
I never walk alone and think
Of all the empty words
Or wonder when the day will break
Or when the tides will turn
And I don't break down
When someone says your name
Or twist my mind in circles
Wondering which of us to blame
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
Living alone living alone
I don't need you anymore
Lately I don't think of you at all
Lately
Oh, lately
2.Can't Say No
captivate, cultivate, relegate and chalk it up to the basic
needs
dissipate, isolate, these days you can't run or believe all that
you read
and all the kids with the down-low brainwaves
holding up signs saying 'guns kill, gods saves'
and all in the form of the faceless news cast
commercials that say live well but die fast
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
calculate, consecrate, elevate it, give it up to reality
distillate, venerate, these days you can't feel or concieve all
that you see
and all the kids with the soundbyte slave chains
choking up lines playing who's-who mind games
all in the spell of the speechless redress
commercials that say take more but give less
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
consummate keepers of many left wondering
desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway
obstinate heeders of organized ignorance
making up rules for the mute and the willing
but all the kids that are raised in the freefall
and from the silence of a pacified strip mall
they pay the wage with the dollars of gravity
on their bedside, oh, my conscience calls to me
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
even if you wanted to
even if you could, oh-oh
you can't say no
3.The Captive Mind
Shame to shame when you fell apart
But you woke me up when the dreamer came to say,
'Please don't forget, just lay and wait'
Pain the pain when you played the part
And you took it all up and you turned your back away
'Try to forget, and well okay.'
Read the words of the captive mind
And you tried to leave the past behind
But webs spun slightly, they catch those likely
To come back again, come back again
Well same the same that you've always been
When you took it all up what it took to do you in
And fall under and run away
Blame the blame on a broken heart
When you pack it all up and you make a start again
But call me up on my birthday
Read the words of the captive mind
And you tried to leave the past behind
But webs spun slightly, they catch those likely
To come back again, come back again
Gone in a boat
You're drifting so
The walls you built
The push and pull
Come back again
Come back again
Well you love the love but you couldn't stay
So you gave it all up for the Mandelay bay
The plastic beach and passing plays
Shame the shame when you fell apart
But you woke me up when the dreamer came to say,
'Please don't forget, just lay and wait'
Read the words of the captive mind
And you tried to leave the past behind
But webs spun slightly, they catch those likely
To come back again, please come back again
4.You Can Come To Me
Your self-effacing charms are shot
Wake up now to what you are
and what you're not
You can run, run, run
But you can't escape
Taste is sharp like mustard seed
Finding out that what you want is not what you need
You can talk, talk, talk
But the words aren't clear
When your straightedge line curves
And obscures all that you see
When your sure-shot sight blurs
You can come to me
It's too late now, your fun's been had
Your shining, blinding myriad burned-out
And fell down, down down
To the ground
Live like flower, light like stone
You're calling friends but now you find
You're on your own
And they're gone, gone, gone
With the morning light
When the black-cloud sky rains
On your ragged company
When your thoughts slip from their chains
You can come to me
(You can come to me)
5.Shed Your Love
Drank the dark wine of the New York night
My shattered mind across the borderline
Spent the night in someone else's arms
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
On a subway train before the dawn
The ride was short but my thoughts were long
Couldn't figure what got in to me
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
Headed out to leave it all behind
Escape it all to see what I could find
Told you on the phone across the sea
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
Fell off of the plane in Amsterdam
Shop the streets to find out who I am
Come on back to me, reality
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
Home again to find that you were gone
On a subway train before the dawn
Said that you couldn't stay and wait for me
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
Drank the dark wine of the New York night
My shattered mind across the borderline
Spent the night in someone else's arms
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
Shed your love, shed your love
6.Keep Your Eyes Ahead
keep your eyes on right
keep your eyes on right ahead
keep your rudders right
keep your rudders right ahead
say
don't go back to there ah
you'll go back to there ah gain
say
don't go back to there ah
you'll go back to there ah gain
but you came on like you knew you would
wearing high top shoes, walking home from school
and i just bout fell right off the balcony
when i heard you calling back to me again, yeah
keep your eyes on right
keep your eyes on right ahead
get your head on right
get your head on right again
say
don't go back to there ah
you'll go back to there ah gain
say
don't go back to there ah
you'll go back to there ah gain
but you came on like you knew you would
wearing high top shoes, walking home from school
and i just bout fell right off the balcony
when i heard you calling back to me again, yeah
keep your eyes ahead
woooooooohhhhh (4x)
7.Back To This
we were giving up time
we were giving on back on all that's left to do
sometimes you'll have to do
sometimes there's nothing left to say
we were giving up time
we were giving up ties and everyone knew it too
rope busted and disgusted
and all we knew we cared
but it always, comes back to this
yes it always, comes back to this again
we were kicking around
we were broken up bound and everything fell to fear
sometimes you can relate
sometimes there's nothing left to say
we were giving up time
we were giving up ties and everyone knew it too
tongue tied and divided
the wounds just couldn't be found
it always, comes back to this
yes it always
six feet below, a world flooded free
how should i know, so far from me
one side is made, the other side too soon
i flip a coin, there's more sides than two
trouble ahead, but there's just no going back
i pray for rain, while the water's rising fast
and it always
oh it always, comes back to this
8.Hallelujah
And though we did not believe in God
The gray skies fell, we felt the pressure drop
And we were feeling down
Some eyes were looking down at us
The souls that made the call
The judgment when they spoke said, 'Not at all'
The words that came made not a sound
A mouth said, 'Not a sound at all'
What surely said, 'We wrote a book'
And rearranged the signs and forms to look like something
understood
Like something we had seen before
And waiting pensive, sad, and look
Up to the stars and counting all the suns and all the moons
How sad it was that we could not believe
And everyone who believes
And everyone who believes
And they said,
We all said Hallelujah
We all said Hallelujah
And everyone move around with ease
And everyone move with ease around and then,
We all said Hallelujah
We all want answers anyway
Still we could not conceive the call
The midnight fell, we felt the measure fall
And we were feeling down
Some eyes were looking down at us
And waiting pensive, sad, and look
Up to the stars and counting all the suns and all the moons
How sad it was that we could not believe
And everyone who believes
And everyone who believes
And they said,
We all said Hallelujah
We all said Hallelujah
And everyone move around with ease
And everyone fell right to their knees and then,
We all said Hallelujah
We all want answers anyway
We all want answers anyway
9.Broken Afternoon
sometimes you feel like a shame or like a ruse
a half cooked idea or a trick to be used
then sometimes you feel so lowly haunted and stark
waving in the wind like a flag that's torn apart
but we all walk blindy when we stagger and we strut
and we're all dealt the hands with the cards of our luck
and we all bow down silent and the words are awe struck
by the shameless light of the broken afternoon
i went walking in the night all alone
darkness seeping slowly in my flesh and in my bone
and the solitary biting at the thoughts inside my head
and the words came slowly and the unborn dream said
that we all lose the path to the black and the blue
but we are come back slackly to the tried and the true
we'll all come together, though it's never too soon
we'll all see the light, of the broken afternoon
in the scientific evening jesus left too soon
trading his last dollar for a dirty motel room
cause he gave all of his riches before he knew what he had
money isn't evil and people aren't bad
now we all just descend out to the mud and the dirt
and we all go insane from the pain and the hurt
and all of us are swayed by the hungry pale moon
and we'll all wake up clear from the broken afternoon
i used to be young but i'm not old now
the shimmering passing of you scotty pal？
the path to now or never is paved with ambition plain
as a sail in the wind or an empty garden space
and we all till and toil in the slowly rising dawn
and we're all fit to fail til the future's finally won
yeah we're all faintly waiting for the young bride to bloom
in the shuttering light of the broken afternoon
10.No Regrets
Well, I lived my whole life
When I saw your face, sayin'
'Please don't leave me now.'
Well, I cry a lot
When I see your face, sayin'
'Please now leave me down.'
And when that sun sets
I'll have no regrets
I'll walk out that door
I'll shed all my faith
And I wont shed a tear
And when that sun sets
I'll have no regrets
I'll walk out that door
And I wont shed a tear
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