Based On A True Story lyrics

*Random mumbling and set moving*

Wire the set, wire the set!
Roll sound,
*be*
roll the camera,
*slap*
and action!

I have the sweetest of sides
You got to know it
It's turned me sideways
I had some fire in my eyes
Once you got me going
It's slipping south and out of my mouth

Rest easy tonight
Cause I'm starting to write it down
Somehow saying the things that your ears won't believe
Is all for the principle

I had the flattest of sides
That's all I'm showing
I took those walls off
I am from left to the right

The kids were shouting let us out
And their parents did
Then two years then three years
Then show time and now
They're making rock and roll
Those kids are making progress now
They say hear us out in every town
They do it one mile by one mile at a time

Though it seems like every time
I get a little bit closer to what I want
I land further away
From where and when I was a little bit younger

I got the talk when I was younger and understood
As I recall they hadn't mentioned this at all
My heart was racing like a sprinter that tripped and fell
In love with a girl just for tonight and that's all

I've got big, big plans
And they've got to mean something more than just once
I just don't know what i want

I'm gonna tear your ass up like we just got married and you're all mine now

So I flew across the country
Just to find your broken word
Like the drywall in the bathroom of the hotel room
She left me in alone
Excuse me while I let your secrets out, out
Does it comfort you to think about
How wonderful this was up until now

Cause this is closure once and for all
Oh, This has to stop right now
Cause I've been running for my life
And you could never catch me now

Closed window pane I stare out all day
This room and the walls we wait for the call
Slow like decay the progress we've made
Could you...

Get to the point! Get it across
to the boys at the top of the ladder I'm climbing up
I have my doubts

This is a call from my cage through the bars
Inspired by the dollars sign that's dangling outside
Someone...

Get to the point! Get it across

This is the distance between point A and point B
Thus a completion meeting the goal we've achieved
And it's the best thing to ever enter my life
After all this time, I'm still taken by surprise
Every time that a stranger calls my name
For a picture to take, if it happens every day

Will there be a picture left to snap,
or will my face just detach itself,

Ive been waiting for good news
Word to continue
Singing these ones
To the same demographic
Be it not perfect
Let it be heard
By those taking an interest
Not for the critics
Holding their ears

Gonna get ready
Gonna get ready

Ive been waiting for answers
Dancing in circles
Making me sick
Ive been chained like a tiger
To hundreds of liars
All holding hands

Gonna get ready

For months you've been away
You're here a couple days
I've got all of the time in the world
To do with what we please
If it were up to me
We'd have all of the time in the world

Just stay right where I can see you
When you go away I get so low
Like temperatures when they're at their coldest
When you go away I get so lonely
And I'm stranded by the side of the bed

I can name all 5

"Hey there love, let's get to catching up.
'Cause I been thinking those thoughts
that must have slipped my mind
that time that I left you there that night."
I replied, "Let me remind you of the guy
you failed to mention all along.
'Cause your actions have consequences and these are them."

[Chorus:]
I'll be your friend in hell, until then I despise you.
And I probably always will.

Take another hundred names
And put them on a list
And curse yourself forever washing it
I'm not gonna have to see it to the end
Cause the fastest ride is always gonna win

You've got to know the hustle to make it in this town
Cause competition is stiff as ever now
Take another hundred and
And put it in her hand
Present the prize and not the ambulance

You've got a certain spark

You've got to hold hold open my eyelids
If you're gonna shake shake shake till the morning
I'm gonna put put things in perspective
And it's gonna take take take my precious time
All we need is a reason
For us the dance dance dance till the break of dawn
All I need is a hook now
For us to shout shout shout these words out

Cause we're all all all
We're all

At 4 A.M. she came out of the blue
I haven't seen such red since I've seen you
I'm upset, but I'm fine
I'm just surprised you're so unemotional
She said, in reply,
"and I did some drinking and it's got me thinking of you"

I've saved some words I'd like to give to you
They flew behind the plane for all to view
And it read in bold type -
"I won't be surprised if you're unemotional"

I'm always seeing something new
every time I look at you
everything is gone, I say
I'm falling to the floor
my dignity's dumped overboard
and everything's gone astray
they may think that I'm a fool
they may think that I don't care about it all
I can't belong
I'm not that strong
they can't remember me

I don't know
I can't remember you
I've been thinking about the times

I think I'm better off
By seeing things this way
I've been thinking a lifetime
But I always seem to make the same mistakes
I can't understand
Not for the life of me
Now it's falling into place
And I'm trying to save face
I can't say to you
What I wanted to use
All I got is yesterday
Tomorrow's all I have to see

I hope with all my heart
That someday I'll be found

Last night didn't go to plan
ended before 9
drove u home u slammed the door
not your fault but mine

i often wonder why i say
the things i shouldnt say
but then again its always me
who has to ruin the day
i throw the stone to break your heart
and watch the pieces fall
im on my knees to pik them up
why did they fall at all?

i often wonder why i say
the things i shouldnt say

Lights come on from neighbors woken up and the flash is our cue for the dash to the car to the back porch, where we laugh and we pass to the left and reflect on expected repetativenes. The Dial didn't slip an inch from that station.
[Chorus:]

[Originally by Jennifer Lopez]

What's my name
(blowing back on this marry jane I'm analyzin' the game)
And the game done chose me
(to bring the words I can't say, its one in the same)
Ever since you told me
(there's only room for 2, I've been making less room for you)
Not only god could hold me
(hug my, love me, judge me, the only man that help is above me, holla)

I'm off to a lucky start
and all these changes,
All I got and I know it's wrong,
Why can't I analyze this?
What does it mean to me?
I wanted everything i've grown upon
and I said what you did to me.
I never tried again,
So just give me so much I wanted,
Nothing more from you

Sometimes I've been wondering if good times fade away,
and things always turn out this way.
You're one of the many things that make me face the day,
I'm so glad you're here with me.
It's not your fault that you're in pain,
I just can't explain what you mean to me.
Meant what I said,
meant what I did,
it's all for you.

And then I tried to look inside, look in my own head.