1.3 AM
she says it's cold outside and she hands me my raincoat
she's always worried about things like that
she says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
and she only sleeps when it's raining
and she screams and her voice is straning
(chorus)
she says baby
it's 3 am I must be lonely
when she says baby
well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it
she's got a little bit of something, God it's better than
nothing
and in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it
all
she swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
and she only sleeps when it's raining
and she screams and her voice is straining
(chorus)
she believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
and the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and
days
she thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
but outside it's stopped raining
(chorus)
2.Forever Decmeber
I reach within my isolation,
I harbor it, I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer,
Of course you would, you have no choice
(intro to chorus)
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me, and I laugh at the
people that I can't be,
All their lives,
Silly pictures
(chorus)
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older
Hey now now now hey now hey baby
The tide is turning, turning us away,
You build the wall I'll build the fountain,
We'll wrestle it,
We'll conquer it
I think we'll live to see the mountain
Of course we will
We have no choice
(intro to chorus)
(chorus)
And I can remember
Forever december,
The center of dying,
The heart of the pain
The rose in the bottle,
The thorns in the bottom
The stars surround me, the cold astounds me
(solo)
(intro to chorus)
(chorus)
3.Here Comes Horses
Help me to remember girl if you don mind
Well I feel just like the jester when the music died
Haven't seen you lately,
But I know that nothing's changed
Feeling kinda shaky but the wounds have healed
There's a crack there in the doorway where the walls have peeled
And I still see the sunrise, on a clear day
(chorus)
Here comes horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothing, here it comes again
I was thinking I was angry but I'll let it go
I was waiting on a miracle but nothing showed
And they say our new messiah
He's at the local bar
Greetings from the homefront have you heard the news
That daddy bet his paycheck on the horses shoes
And we won't feel that way for a long long time
(chorus)
Sitting in a taxi at the evenings end
I was trying to remember where it was I'd been and
Whether I've got someplace to be
I ask you why you come here you say just because
I guess I could do without it if I knew what it was well
It really doesn't matter, when you look at me that way
(chorus)
4.Paint Me Blue
There's not enough of me well,
There's way too much of you
I think I saw some happy people yesterday and that'll never do.
There's never too much violence,
Ain't it time we had a war
You leave on your shirt and I'll be skins
And we'll go flying through the door
(intro to chorus 1)
These are violent times
And I only want to do my part,
To sink to hatreds depths and smile at what we've all become
(chorus)
I need understanding,
Just a pack or two,
To help me with my troubles, and what to do's
I don't feel no raging,
There ain't nothing new,
Drop me in the ocean,
And paint me blue.
I don't have a worry,
I don't have a care,
I don't have a sound piece of mind,
But I manage to fare
I don't like neighbors,
Well they're just not my kind
And I think it might be all for the whales,
And I really don't mind
(intro to chorus 2)
If these are the golden years,
Then I think it's time to cash them in
To sit in our rocking chairs
And talk about the good old days
(chorus)
(solo)
(intro to chorus 1)
(chorus)
5.Dear Joan
Dear Joan
I've almost forgotten
The pane in the window
The blue dress in the doorway
Dear Joan
Help me remember
The face I forget
And the traps that I've sprung
I guess I've grown tired
It's just what's expected of me
To tear your heart
From the inside to the outside
You know I was wired
I just couldn't help it
The hundred thousand times I hurt you
(chorus)
Dear Joan I wanted to say
I'm sorry for the screaming last night,
And the nights before
I've wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan
Dear Joan
Your face has a brightness
That I've never seen
In the years that I've known you
Dear Joan
I'd pick up the pieces
But some scattered too far
They flew when I kicked them
I know you believed
When I said it was over
You stood by me patiently
Waiting and brooding
So deeply in love
With every face that I've shown
(chorus)
Once I forget
Twice I'm a fool
Three times I wrap
My hands around your neck
(while your sleeping)
(so quietly sleeping)
(sleeping and dreaming)
Dear Joan
Don't walk out the doorway
Because if you did, I believe
I could honestly kill you
(chorus)
6.High
She had said, don cry
Said it only hurts forever, and all we have is time
Yeah, she said, she will never know
So close your eyes, turn down the lights,
And I can start this show
Yeah well I can sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn, then the slate is clean
So don look at pride, well there is no other way now
Don try to make no sense of this scene, it just between Caroline
and me
And we keep changing
Yeah we can grow like a board on the shore
She says I restless just a little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high
Yeah we knew just who we were
Yeah well who we thought we try to be
And who it gonna hurt
Oh but if I'd said, if I was strong at all
Well then I wouldn be with someone else
I know where I belong
Yeah well I can sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn, then the slate is clean
So don look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah
Don try to make no sense of this scene, it just between Caroline
and me
And we keep changing
Yeah we can grow like a board on the floor
She says I restless just a little more time, a little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high
Yeah well I can sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn, then the slate is clean
So don look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah
Don try to make no sense of this scene, it just between Caroline
and me
And we keep changing
Yeah we can grow like a board on the floor
She says I restless just a little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high
She wants to feel this high...high high...high-high
7.Unkind
Bring it on baby, what you getting into
Is living on pain the thing that's getting to you
Write my name pin it up with my picture
And say it's the only thing cuz I'm not around to be around
I'm beating and battered
Hell if my dreams get shattered then
Pain gives me the right to be unkind
Bring it on baby what's with sudden devotion
I trade a river of tears for just a little emotion
You can curse my name pin it up with my picture
And say it's the last time that I'll be around to be around
Oh well I'm torn and I'm tattered
So the thoughts in my head they get scattered
And pain gives me the right to be unkind
(and it set's me here)
(chorus)
Right back to the heart of it
Jones Crazy is a slight defense from it
Jones Crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone
(dig)
Bring it on baby what you getting into
I swear at once it was the little things that mattered
But it all seems true to you
Say the hell with my name and say the hell with my picture
Yeah but swear, for the one time you need me around to be around
Well I'm around right now
And here I'll stand like it matters
Only once gets through then gets scattered by the rain
But pain gives me the right to be unkind
And it sets me here
(chorus)
(chorus)
(chorus)
8.Jesus Was An Alien
Elvis is alive at your local grocery store
And if you believe that well then sit down and I'll tell you
more
Lee Harvey Oswald, well you know he acted alone
And Charlie Manson only wanted to make his house a home
(chorus)
Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said 'boy I like your face'
So the story began
Girl I love you and the check is in the mail
I found religion inside myself
I drank the blood the flesh was stale
Reach in your pockets, and give us all you can
You know the one that's going to heaven is gonna be the richer
man
(chorus)
I see you shaking boy, do you find it hard to believe
That the one you been living for would cut your wrist to watch
you bleed
You found that the truth is a lie and it makes you feel unwell
But the church of the almighty dollar is all we have to save us
from hell
(chorus)
9.Tired
You've been talking for an hour, and I swear to God that I can't
hear a word you say
But will you come to me, come to me
I get caught up and the waves of conversation they wash over me
And they cover me, they cover me
Should I just pack my things and leave
Would I be a bigger man if I
Built a wall around your heart
And dared you to come in
I could lie to you
And say I didn't mean it
But hurts a funny thing, well it makes you stronger
(chorus)
All is nothing, in moderation
It's a dirty feeling and it makes you stronger
And I believe, I'm just plain tired
There's a funny way your lip shapes, when I know that you've
been lying
And it touches me, it comforts me
I guess I should be satisfied, did you say you love me half the
time
Well let's settle there, we can build from there
Build from there
Would you be happier if I, was only half the man I am
You could shadow me, and dare me to come in
I could lie to you and say I didn't mean it
But it really doesn't matter, when you stop to think about it
(chorus)
The end is coming she don't even feel it
It's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy
And I believe, I'm just plain tired, I'm tired
Should I just pack my things and leave
Would I be a bigger man if I
Built a wall around your heart
And dared you to come in
I can lie to you
Say I didn't mean it
But hurts a funny thing, hurts a funny thing
(chorus)
The end is coming she don't even feel it
It's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy
And I believe, I believe I'm just plain tired
10.Swing
Still don mean nothin'
Was written on the concrete
The words weren't on my tongue
Cause we don talk about it
Day or no evenin', fashion or superman
Just little warped people
With little black minds
Well I wasn sure just what to think
Say the lights went out
Somebody, somebody swing
Don wanna, don wanna talk anymore
Somebody swing
Don wanna talk no...no
What if we e tainted
Who can we lie to
What if we e dying
Would you just walk around it
Well I wasn sure just what to think
Say the lights went out
Somebody, somebody swing
(chorus)
Don wanna, don wanna talk anymore
Bring boy, can you bring me down
Can you swing
Don wanna, don wanna talk anymore
Shut your violence, keep your head down,
Watch your anger boy, realize you could lose
This is violence, look for reason
This don have to make sense to anybody at all
Then everybody, won you swing
No still don mean nothin'
Words written all over the concrete
All over the concrete
Rage gets you out, so you swing
(chorus)
I don't wanna talk no no no no
Can you swing
(chorus)
11.Dizzy
And outside, the sky is falling
People dodging raindrops, staying dry
And inside, I never gave a damn about those outside people
anyway
And it hurt me
They don't even know who I am
And inside, there no rainbows
And inside, I try I try I try, try to clear my head
And outside, the rain is drying
And inside, I'm dying
'Cause in here, I staring at the rings my coffee cup has made on
the table
And in here, I know I know I know, that this is as good as it
gets
And in time I hope to be the one that talks about the other half
Until then, I count the cracks on the wall
Until it time to lay my head
And inside, I play with shadows
And inside, I know I know I know, that I'll feel this way all
day, all day
And outside, there hope for trying, and inside I dying
You walk before me, lord knows I can follow
You walk behind me and I don think I can lead
You walk around me, please don walk around me
'Cause you know how dizzy I get
12.Million Miles
Can you roll down the window, can I have a cigarette
Can I sweep you for forgiveness,
Can I sweep you for regret
And can you drive a little faster, to clear my head
Can you see that I've been crying, can you tell that I've been
alone
Can we walk the streets at the same time, I don't mind
I'll be quiet and no one will know
And can you drive a little faster, take me home
(intro to chorus)
These are the days that make up the lifetimes
These are the clothes that I wear
And this is the only thing I wanted more than anything
(chorus)
I wanna fall, at a million miles an hour with people and
Little picture radios, and I'm smiling but I'm
Trying hard not to smile
And I crave for the little conversation
And the way you toss your hair back, you're beautiful
And it suits me fine
(solo)
(intro to chorus)
(chorus)
(chorus)
These are the days that make up the lifetimes
These are the lifetimes that make up generations
These are the lifetimes that make up generations
These are the days
These are the days that make up the lifetimes
13.This Is Not A Lovesong
I'm running out of reasons for caring about the other half
I think my half wants a little more pride
I'm running out of reasons for sharing sometimes I can't think
of one
I'm running out of faces that I can call familiar
Hey man I'm running out of friends
That I can call at all
How long have I been sleeping, why the hell am I awake
It seems just to stand here is overkill
If I bend any farther, I swear that I'll break
And I think you should let me
It all seems so perfect, yet
Some people, some people get lonely
Some people they just grow older, and scared of a little pain
And we people, we cause a commotion
We didn't mean to be confused, we didn't mean to be alive
And we don't want to be standing here, standing here
How long have we been sleeping, why the hell are we awake
It seems just to stand here is overkill
If I bend any farther, I swear that I'll break
(chorus)
We ask, and we burn what we hear, on the water
And we speak, we burn what we say
But if you hold the rain
It's just a little further
Don wanna scare you
Don be unhappy
This is not a lovesong
This is not a lovesong
(chorus)
14.Loss, Strain, And Butterflies
He got bad, and she got mad, he lowered one more time
And she got even
No one heard a single word and as the clock ticked from next
door
I could hear her breathing
And I said good morning Mrs. Sumner I would like you to meet my
friend Mr. Jones
He has a house made out of butterflies
I can't sleep sometimes but I've been told
It's a lonely condition called growing old
Let me stumble sometimes
(intro to chorus)
I'm looking for a soul to cling to
Girl what you think about that
(chorus)
This time, well it all comes down
To loss and strain and butterflies
Then it comes right down to me
Hello have you been alright
Did you find a piece of something wrapped around the light side
of your life
To make you feel better
Did you get out with your sanity
Did you save a little something for the people in need
And did you know with the rain in your pockets
You can change the weather
(intro to chorus)
(chorus)
(chorus)
Is it just the total for the wages of our sins
And have you made yourself a victim
In a game that you can't win
And our we caving in
And does it all depend on loss and strain and butterflies
And does it come right down to me anymore
This time
Does it all come down
To loss and strain and butterflies
Come on down to me
15.Like Roses
Please don't make me answer you
The world is big but my circles are small
And please don't try to shut me out
I'm in love that's all
I'm not afraid to listen, if you're not afraid to hear
And please don't laugh I just can't help,
Grinning when I'm giving it all
And please don't show you're face around my place
I've seen it all before
And I'm not afraid of dying, but sometimes I refrain,
I believe that life goes on like a hurricane
And you struggle through the pieces till you're not so sane
Anymore
And so you want and you suffer till you've had enough
and in the end there a heaven in the cold clear bluff, only want
(chorus)
To come through like roses
To head fast like a clear stream, to feel soft like a freight
train,
In the middle of a bad dream
All you wanted was to be proud,
Like a rough little
Soldier,
There a place where the soul ends
Comes through like roses,
Comes through like roses
Looking down I see my cigarette is even,
With the horizon that my feet have made in the blanket,
Looking back I lost the fight it was uneven,
You never gave me time enough to say I was wrong
Or I was sorry,
I can see your head's still spinning like a merry-go-round
And you're glaring at the people like you've been shut down
Quarter time,
It's a war gonna win no matter what it takes,
And you can feel every second of the cold heartache
Coming down
(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)
(fade)
16.Like Me
She's leaning on the mailbox
In someone else driveway
And she laughs to herself cause she knows
That she's still here
She won't wait forever
God knows that she wants to
And you know that if it comes down
It's gonna be war
This ain't how we're supposed to be
And nothing changes between you and me, at all
(chorus)
Ain't it just like a loser
Ain't it just like this chip on my sleeve
Ain't it like me
It's raining down in Longwood
She heard it on the radio
And she laughs to herself cause she knows
That she's not there
Well some say I'm crazy
Some say I take this shit too hard,
But you know and I know it's gonna be war
She ain't how she's supposed to be
Nothing changes between her and me, at all
(chorus)
I know the distance between us is greater and stronger
Stronger than I plan to be
Ain't it like me
17.The Only One
I don know what we're fighting about
When every one can see that I'm not crazy
I only wanted to be the only one
I only wanted to be the only one
A chance to be forgiven
A chance to be forsaken
Did I ever by chance cross your mind？
I only wanted a chance to see you shine
I only wanted a chance to see you shine
I don have no worries, no and I don need no answers
And there's just enough to make it day by day
Just enough to make you fade away
I don know what we're fighting about
Everyone can see that I'm not crazy
I only wanted to be the only one
I only wanted to be the only one
I don need forgiveness and I wont be forsaken
And I'm only here to take back what is mine
I cant believe the dullness of your shine
Just enough has been taken away
To make me believe in it all and I pray
And I've only been on at the start to begin
Just enough that there seems to be no end
I only wanted to see your face again
I only wanted to touch your face again
I don know what we're fighting about
Every one can see that I'm not crazy
I only wanted to be the only one
I only wanted to be the only 1
| 
