Figure 8 lyrics

i'm going out sleepwalking
where mute memories start talking
the boss that couldn't help but hurt you
and the pretty thing he made desert you
i'm going out now like a baby
a naïve unsatisfiable baby
grabbing onto whatever's around
for the soaring high or the crushing down
with hidden cracks that don't show
but that constantly just grow
i'm looking for the man that attacked me

i'd say you make a perfect
angel in the snow
all crushed out on the way you are
better stop before it goes too far
don't you know that i love you
sometimes i feel like only a cold still life
that fell down here to lay beside you

don't you know that i love you
sometimes i feel like only a cold still life
only a frozen still life
that fell down here to lay beside you

You'll take advantage, till you think you're being used
'Cause without an enemy your anger gets confused
And I got stuck on a side you know I never chose

But it's all about
Taking the easy way out for you
I suppose

There's no escape for you, except in someone else
Although you've already disappeared within yourself
The invisible man, who's always changing clothes

It's all about

Activity's killing the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road
Turning traffic away
There was nothing she could do untill after
When his body'd been buried below
Way back in the day

Oh my
Nothing else could have been done
Made his life a lie so
He might
Never have to know anyone
Made his life the lie, you know

I told him that he shouldn't upset her

it's one word cover-to-cover
it's an endless fuse
chain-repeater never seems to get any smarter

i'm always marking pages so
that i don't get confused
end up in a fight i never had any part of

listen naïve plaything
coming over, clueless
every time you call
an accident just waiting to happen
still hasn't found out
how to take a fall

make me a present
make it something sweet

He held his breath
To hold your hand
To walk the stairsteps in pairs
Climbing up the slippery slope
I’m in love
God, I hope(? )
Don’t go home angelina
Stay with me
Hanging around in the lost and found

He kissed her quick
Feeling weird
Lonely (? )
Disappear
This is such a simple place
Passing time
Getting (? )
Don’t don’t go go home angelina
Make tomorrow new

it's a junkie dream makes you so uptight
yeah it's halloween tonight and every night
see you scratch (see it on) your skin
your sandpaper throat
you're a symphony, man, with one fucking note
how they beat you up week after week
and when you grow up you're going to be a freak
want a violent girl who's not scared of anything
help me kill my time
'cause I'll never be fine

you got your head turned 'round walking upside down
through the sunken dream
through the crushing crowd
you don't know what it means 'cause you're a broken machine
you won't lisp it out
you're dressing up your man
it's all second hand
it's all hindsight
you don't understand
it's just an empty scene
it's still an empty scheme
you wanna block it out

I'm in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who's still around the morning after.

We broke up a month ago,
When I grew up, I didn't know
It'd be around the morning after.

It's always been wait and see,
a happy day didn't pay
feel like shit the morning after.

But now I feel changed around,
And instead falling down,
I'm standing up the morning after.

i have become a silent movie
the hero killed the clown

can't make a sound

nobody knows what he's doing
still hanging around

can't make a sound

the slow motion moves me
the monologue means nothing to me

bored in a role, but he can't stop
standing up to sit back down
and lose the one thing found
spinning the world like a toy top
till there's a ghost in every town

color bars:

i see color bars when i come
sargeant rock broke the key off in the lock
to where i come from
sir, no sir.
we have no power in the air
the battle's on the ground
laying low again,
high on the sound

bruno s. is a man to me
you're just some dude with a stilted attitude
that you learned from tv
you'll undo
but i'll be connecting everything
the traffic in my town

Someone found the future as a statue in a fountian at attention looking
backward in a pool of water wishes witha blue songbird on his shoulder who
keeps singing over everything
Everything Means Nothing to Me
Everything Means Nothing to Me
Everything Means Nothing to Me
i picked up the song and found my picture in the paper the reeflection in the

I never really had a problem because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her this evening

So if I seem a little out of it, sorry
But why should I lie?
Everything reminds me of her

The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple
And I got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people
Why are you staring into outer space, crying?

wish you gave me a number
wish i could call you today,
just to hear a voice.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.

if i didn't know the difference,
living alone would probably be ok.
it wouldn't be lonely.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.

a lot of hours to occupy it was easy
when i didn't know you yet,
things i'd have to forget.

but i better be quiet now,

he held his breath
to hold your hand
to walk the stairsteps in pairs
climbing up the slippery slope
i'm in love
god, I hope(?)
don't go home angelina
stay with me
hanging around in the lost and found

he kissed her quick
feeling weird
lonely (?)
disappear
this is such a simple place
passing time
getting (?)
don't don't go go home angelina
make tomorrow new

day breaks

the imitation picks you up like a habit
writing in the glow of the tv static
taking out the trash to the man
give the people something they understand

mistake a nervous flash for a fine-line smile
junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style
rich man in a poor man's clothes
the permanent installment of the daily dose

and you tell me, "fool, you tell it like it is"

The gentleman's in the lane
spinning his hat on a cane
stepping out, out for a change

good morning all, it's a beautiful day

the general's are winning a war
seemed suicidal before
you come along, now
I'll protect you long as you stay

LA
morning had to come
I'd be walking in the sun
living in the day
but last night i was about to throw it all away

if patience started a band

Almost Forgot
Started to Say
Rode into the sun
Past Everyone

Halleluah

Pretty Mary K

Found Faith in the
Infirmary
There's a soldier lying in bed,
With a wound to his head
calling out to Pretty Mary K

Here's what you get
For things that haven't happened yet

Happened apon
Pretty Mary K
But a soldier's uniform
Waved me away

Walked around the door
And talked to St. James

I had tender feelings that you made hard,
but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred.
so when i go home, i'll be happy to go -
you're just somebody that i used to know.

you don't need my help anymore,
it's all now to you, there aint no before,
now that you're big enough to run your own show
you're just somebody that i used to know.

i watched you deal in a dying day,

Something’s happening, don’t speak too soon
I told the boss off, made my move, got nowhere to go
Son of Sam, son of the shining path, the clouded mind
The couple killer each and every time
I’m not uncomfortable feeling weird
Lonely leeved, options disappeared, but I know what to do
Son of Sam, son of a doctor’s touch, a nurse’s love

Got a foot in the door
God knows what foor
And he'll cut me down to size
Stupidity tries

Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries

Savannah shoulder raised a cheer
Color in the sky with ash
Because they found some privateer
To sail across a sea of trash

The enemy is within
Don't confuse me with him
The truth is otherwise

you'll take advantage 'til you think you're being used
cause without an enemy your anger gets confused
i got stuck on the side you know, i never chose
but it's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose

there's no escape for you except in someone else
although you've already disappeared within yourself
the invisible man who's always changing clothes

activity is killing the actor
and a cop's standing out in the road turning traffic away
there's nothing she could do until after
when his body'd been buried below
way back in the day
oh my nothing else could have been done
made his life a lie
so he might never have to know anyone
made his life a lie, you know
I told him he shouldn't have sent her
he'd only be making it worse

the question is wouldn't mama be proud?
there's a silver lining in the corporate cloud
and the pretty pose that you're taking as
as an emcee, oh, of the great pretender
i should sure think so

wouldn't mama be proud?

"can I take your order?"
asks the heavenly host
ticket to the jetstream
blowing coast to coast

the long stemmed glasses, a movie

Ah, because the world is round
it turns me on
Because the world is round

Ah, because the wind is high
it blows my mind
Because the wind is high

Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you

Because the sky is blue
it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Drink up baby, stay up all nightWith the things you could do, you won't but you mightThe potential you'll be that you'll never seeThe promises you'll only makePeople you've been before that you don't want around anymoreThat push and shove and won't bend to your willI'll keep them still

she took the oldsmobile out past condor avenue
and she locked the car and slipped past
into rhythmic quietude
lights burning
voice dry and hoarse
i threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth
the chimes fell over each other
i fell onto my knees
the sound of the car driving off made me feel diseased
a sick shouting like you hear at the fairground

He was sick of it all
Asleep at home
Told you off and goodbye
Well you know one day it'll come to haunt you
That you didn't tell him quite the truth
You're a crisis
You're a icicle
You're a tongueless talker
You don't care what you say
You're a jaywalker and you just just walk away
And that's all you do
The clap of the fading out sound of your shoes

I'll fake it through the day
with some help
from Johnny Walker red
Send the poisoned rain down the drain
to put bad thoughts in my head

Two tickets torn in half
and a lot of nothing to do
Do you miss me--Miss Misery--
like you say you do?

A man in the park
read the lines in my hand
told me I'm strong, hardly ever wrong
I said man you mean

You had plans for both of us

Everything is exactly right
When I walk around here
Drunk every night
With an open container from Seven Eleven
In St. Ide's heaven

Been out haunting the neighborhood
And everybody can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With my head full of stars

High on amphetamines
The moon is a light bulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone

You get what you see
I saw a rich fuck giving charity
saw an evil empror wearing my clothes
the fall from the best
but they might suit you better than the rest
just looking in the mirror
will make you a brave man
I know my place
hate my face
I know how begin and how I'll end
strung out again
you were pullin in aroused???
flying over a city of canals
you were voting with your party