LYRICS

Tori:
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
Coursing all through me
Oh, I feel it
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
I’m gonna let it guide me on

I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
Like a voice calling
Better listen to it
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
I’m gonna let it guide me on

Tori + Cast:
Give me strength, faith
To follow the road unknown
There’ll be danger, pain
I’ll need courage I know

Cast:
You’ve got the courage! You’ve got the courage!

I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
Coursing all through me
Oh, I feel it
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
I’m gonna let it guide me on

Tori:
History’s daughters and bold sons
Join me now in communion
You’re as near to me as the ocean

Tori + Cast:
Our forefathers were born brave
They sought glory, some to their graves
While our mothers stood with fists raised
They raised us up (Raise us up!)
Raised us up so we’d be independent

I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
Coursing all through me
Oh, I feel it

I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
I’m gonna let it guide me on
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
I feel the spirit, Independent Spirit
Now, Now, Now, oh Now!

Tori:
Why would you climb Mt Everest
Why would you row the sea
Why would I climb Mt Everest
‘Cause it’s in front of me

Ask me oh ask me, Dear Inquisitor
What is it you don’t see
Why would I climb Mt. Everest
Because it’s there for me

Ask me oh ask me, Dear Inquisitor
Why put myself through all the pain
My answer, my answer oh, inquisitor
Will always be the same

It’s not about going from Point A to Point B
Through solitude and all the uncertainty
I’ll confront my demons before they get to me

Why would a caterpillar lock itself in a cocoon
Just so it can fly free
I’ll slip into my row boat now, and soon
See what becomes of me

I watch the seagulls and terns all head back to the coast
The one who’s flying the highest can see the most
I wanna know what he knows

It’s not about going from Point A to Point B
Through solitude and all the uncertainty
I’ll confront my dreams and come out clean

Young Tori:
Where were you last year?
And the year before that?
Where were you this morning?
And after that?
Where will you be this afternoon
when we’re walking home?
You call yourself his protector
but you couldn’t protect a, a, a Pocket!

Adults just don’t make sense
They think they’ve got it all under control
But when they turn their backs
It’s a Machiavellian free-for-all
With every boy out for himself
In this dog-eat-dog old world
Lamar, I’ll always have your back
You can’t bully this girl

So Listen, Mister, Nothing’s as strong as a sister
I’ll be there for you
Don’t you ever worry, I’ll come to your side in a hurry
I’ll know just what to do
I’ll always take care of you

Remember back in Philly
when we explored the woods?
We knew every rock and tree
We could’ve mapped the neighborhoods
Well, that’s how well I know you now
and no one’s gonna do you no harm
And if they try to hurt you, well
They’ll have to answer to my rock-throwing arm

So Listen, Mister, Nothing’s as strong as a sister
I’ll be there for you
Don’t you ever worry, I’ll come to your side in a hurry
I’ll know just what to do
I’ll always take care of you

I’ll always be there for you

Tina:
A girl’s gotta do what a girls gotta do
Muses:
Call it a “girl thing” if you want to

Go on and strap into those rowing shoes
Cher:
A girl’s gotta go where a girl’s gotta go
Muses:
Don’t wait around for permission, no!
Got ammunition, come on let’s go

Oh, I feel the pull

Burnin like a fire in my soul
Come on let’s go

Come on let’s go


Dolly:
A girl’s gotta be who a girl’s gotta be
Tina
:
Come on now be proud, Tori

You’re a fighter, a fighter, listen to me

Come on and dance with me

Oh, I feel the pull

Burnin like a fire in my soul
Come on let’s row

Tina:
This ain’t no river
A girl’s gotta try oh, a girl’s gotta try!
Cher
:
Believe in yourself and don’t ask why

Just sparkle and sparkle just sparkle and shine
Dolly:
Girl, you got something sparkly?
Cher:
Go on try mine
No really, I got you babe, go on and get it
Muses:
I got you babe
Cher:
A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do
Dolly:
Work it 9 to 5 if you have to
Tina:
Honey, it’s more like 5 to 9
Dolly:
A girl’s gotta go where a girl’s gotta go

I wanna move ahead

but the current says “No!”

Oh I swear a shark is on my tail
Muses
:
Rowin’ 9 to 5


Oh, I feel the pull

Burnin like a fire in my soul

Oh, I feel the pull

I can feel the fire burn

I can feel the fire in my soul

Come on let’s row

Come on let’s row


Young Tori:
What’s in a name
That begs a refrain?
The sovereign king of the school
He’s quick as can be
and taller than me…
is it possible?

Eric Fee protected me
and I didn’t have to ask
Eric Fee defended me
Not to mention, he’s head of the class

Eric Fee:
Oh Tori, you know
I see you in science class
I have to ask
Would you like to go,
Go on a walk with me,
Talk with me,
Draw hearts in chalk with me?
And sing in harmony?
And one day marry me?

Young Tori:
Benevolent king
Of thee I sing
Respecter of boys and of girls He’s fast and he’s strong
and light as a song…
Gentle to animals!

Eric Fee protected me
and I didn’t have to ask
He’s strong and he’s sweet
and quick on his feet
Not to mention, head of the class

Know what I mean?
Every King needs a Queen

Tori and Ocean:
The ribs and terrors in the whale,
Arched over me a dismal gloom,
While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by,
And left me deepening down to doom.

I saw the opening maw of hell,
With endless pains and sorrows there;
Which none but they that feel can tell—
Oh, I was plunging to despair.

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

In my hour of darkness here the captain cannot shine a light
He had a crew of 30 men to help him pass the night
In my hour of darkness, I Rise
Chasing the great white helplessness inside

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

With speed he flew to my relief,
As on a radiant dolphin borne;
Awful, yet bright, as lightening shone
The face of my Deliverer God.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

In my hour of darkness here the captain cannot shine a light
He had a crew of 30 men to help him pass the night
In my hour of darkness, I Rise
Chasing the great white helplessness inside

Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!

Mac:
Lord knows, I’ve seen a lot of things in my life
Some good, some bad, my first kid, my first wife
I guess I’ve weathered a storm or two
But I’ve never seen a thing like you

I’ve tried to be a good man on my own
Work hard, share the yard with my own garden gnome
Well, what’s a single guy to do?
Til now I’ve never seen a thing like you

Oh love lift me up, lift me up
When I’m feeling down
Oh love, pick me up, pick me up
When I get knocked down, c’mon now
I hope it’s better the second time around

Who knows the things she must’ve seen out there
So much time on your own can be hard to bear
She’s so strong and brave and more…
I guess I’ve never seen an angel before

Oh love lift her up, lift her up
When she’s feeling down
Oh love, pick her up, pick her up
When she gets knocked down, c’mon now
Please get her back on solid ground
Protect her
Keep her safe and sound

Amelia Earhart:
Who owns the sea?
Who owns the sky?
Out here underneath the stars
We set our course and fly
Of course we fly

Tori:
Oh Amelia, I’m about as old as you
When you took your solo flight in 1932

Oh Amelia, Maybe our paths crossed
When you came down from the clouds to avoid the frost

How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it still worth while?

How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it worth your time?

Amelia Earhart
Who owns the sea?
Who owns the sky?
Out here underneath the stars
We’ll be at home awhile
You and I

Tori:
Oh Amelia, Did you feel any doubt
Falling from 3000 feet that time that you spun out?

Oh Amelia, You caught yourself, alright
And showed the world a woman’s place is sometimes first in flight

How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it still worth while?

How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Spread your silver sings of adventure
And go out in style

Tori:
The best things of mankind are as useless as Amelia Earhart’s adventure.
 They are the things that are undertaken not for some measurable result,

But because someone, not counting the costs or calculating the consequences,

Tori and Amelia:
is moved by curiosity, the love of excellence, a point of honor, the compulsion to make or to understand.

Amelia
:
They have in them the free and useless energy with which alone they surpass themselves.

Tori and Amelia
:
It is wild and it is free!

Tori
:
But all the heroes, the saints and the seers, the explorers and the creators partake of it.

Tori and Amelia:
They do not know what they discover. They do not know where their impulse is taking them.

Tori
:
They can give no account in advance of where they are going or explain completely where they have been.

Tori and Amelia:
THEY DO THE USELESS, BRAVE,

NOBLE, THE DIVINELY FOOLISH AND THE VERY WISEST THINGS DONE BY MAN.
AND WHAT THEY PROVE

TO THEMSELVES AND TO OTHERS 

IS THAT WE ARE NO MERE CREATURES OF HABIT

Tori, Amelia and CAST:
NO MERE AUTOMATONS

IN OUR ROUTINE

NO MERE COGS

IN THE COLLECTIVE MACHINE

BUT THAT IN THE DUST OF WHICH WE’RE MADE
THERE IS ALSO FIRE

LIGHTED NOW AND THEN

BY GREAT WINDS FROM THE SKY!

Amelia:
How do you want to be remembered?
ow do you want to be remembered?
Even if you lose the adventure
Is it worth your while?
How do you want to be remembered?

Tori:
I’ve been to Timbuktu, scaled mountains in the rain
A hundred miles I walked the Serengeti Plain
I sat with tribal healers and I learned my spirit name

High in the mountains of the great Alaska Range
I felt a sense of awe, a coming of age
I learned to mountaineer cross Mt McKinley’s glacial face

Some would say I’m lacking sense…

In my defense
The unexamined life is not worth living
In my defense
To learn about survival and forgiving
I turn to the wilderness
In my defense

As you already know, I had to take my leave
To join the South Pole Expedition where I skied
750 miles in -40 Degrees

The sheer audacity of this might make you smile
Harvard Divinity field study in the wild
But you can’t fly a featherbed down wisdom’s lonely aisle

Hard lessons learned as recompense

In my defense
The unexamined life is not worth living
In my defense
The quest for meaning might be never-ending
I’ve known failure and success

Tori and Ocean:
It’s so much sweeter on the summit as a shared experience
Out on the streets or in the wild, life is perilous
There’s not much you can rely on so just try to keep your eye on

Tori:
My Defense

Barbara:
Avinu malkeinu sh’ma kolenu
Avinu malkeinu chatanu l’faneycha
Avinu malkeinu chamol aleynu
Ve’al olaleynu vetapeinu

Barbara and Ocean:
Avinu malkeinu sh’ma kolenu
Avinu malkeinu chatanu l’faneycha
Avinu malkeinu chamol aleynu
Ve’al olaleynu vetapeinu

Tori:
Stella Maris, Star of the Sea
You know the dangers that threaten me
Protect your sons and your daughters
Traveling o’er rough waters

Stella Maris be good to us all
The sea is so wide and my boat is so small
Shine a light to guide me to shore
Carry me safely through the storm

Tori and Ocean:
Stella Maris….sh’ma kolenu
Stella Maris….sh’ma kolenu
Stella Maris….sh’ma kolenu
Stella Maris…

Oooooohhhh

Ocean:
Up and from my cabin now
My sea gown scarfed about me
In the dark I go to my room
and try not to look around me

We defy augury
If it be now, ‘tis not to come
If it be not to come, it’s now
If it’s not now
Oh, Here it Comes!

Aaahhhhh

Tori:
In my hour of darkness now, no one can hear my cries
I saw myself into this mess with my own eyes

Tori and Ocean:
In my hour of darkness, I Rise
Facing this great white helplessness of mine

Rise! Rise! Rise!

Ocean:
Close Your Eyes, Soon It’s Sunrise
Close Your Eyes, Now It’s Sunrise

Why would you climb Mt Everest?
Why?

Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!

Tori:
When I was dreamin’ I took my body

to beautiful places I’d never been

I saw Gibraltar and stars of Kentucky
burned in the moonlight, makin’ me grin

But when I awoke here, the sky was so cloudy
I walk to a party where people I know

try hard to know me, and ask where I’ve been
But I can’t explain what I’ve seen to them

Oh listen, Dear Heart

Just pay attention, you’re right from the start
Oh listen, Dear Heart

You can fall off the map

but don’t fall apart

When I was out there the ocean would hold me
Rock me and throw me, light as a child

But now I’m so heavy, nothin’ consoles me

My mind floats like driftwood, wayward and wild

Oh listen, Dear Heart

Just pay attention, you’re right from the start
Oh listen, Dear Heart

You can fall off the map

but don’t fall apart

Anthem Singer:
Oh say can you see
By the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last gleaming

Tori:
It’s a wonder to me
How I stand on two feet
When the ground underneath is falling
Who am I now to know
When it’s time to let go
Will I be left alone to my calling

Tori and Mac:
And the rockets take flight
The bombs burst in the night

Tori:
And who am I to stop them?

Tori and Mac:
Two hands aren’t enough
Raise them up to love
We can build something great

Anthem Singer:
Or the land of the free

Tori:
It’s a wonder to me

Mac:
You’re a wonder to me

Anthem Singer:
And the home of the brave

Tori:
Contending with the elements
That blow the earth into the sea
or swell the curl’ed water now
and flood the land for all to cease

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH

A mood to match the weather now,
I strike at lightning, Spit at rain
Bellow an echo to the storm
I’ll die before you win again

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH

In my hour of darkness here , I see a burning sky
Let the fire of Hades come for me, stare me in the eye
In my hour of darkness, I Rise
Facing the great white helplessness inside

Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH

Tearing at my whitened hair
ripped by the wind with blinding rage
caught in the fury of it’s blast
As I out-roar the wind and rain

Tori and Mac:
Oh love lift us up, lift us up when we’re feelin’ down
Oh love, pick us up, pick us up when we get knocked down, c’mon now
We know it’s better the second time around
Yes, it’s better the second time around

Tori:
Security is mostly a superstition
It does not exist in nature
Nor do men, or women as a whole experience it.

Tori and Mac:
Avoiding danger

Mac:
isn’t any safer (in the long run)

Tori and Mac:
than outright exposure

Cast:
So Listen Dear Heart
Just pay attention, you’re right from the start
Oh, Listen Dear Heart

Mac:
You won’t fall off the map

Tori:
Just follow your heart

Tori and Amelia:
We’ll keep our faces toward changes

Gerard:
And behave like free spirits in the presence of fate

Muses:
That’s real strength.

Cast:
So Listen Dear Heart
Just pay attention, you’re right from the start Oh, Listen Dear Heart

Tori:
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

*instrumental

Hello

Hello my sunshine
Hello my rain
Hello my blue sky, my speedy jet plane…

Hello my morning
Hello my light
Hello my afternoon, my tiny twilight

The only word we know is “Hello”

Hello my moonbeam
Hello my star
You shine so brightly where ever you are

Hello my quiet
Hello my loud
Hello companion from here on out

The only word we need to know is “Hello”

Woah… what do you know?
Let’s watch some flowers grow
Ooooh, how do you do?
When I say “Hello”
I’m saying “I Love You”

I Love You my sunshine
I Love You my rain
I Love You my blue sky, my speedy jet plane…

I Love You my morning
I Love You my light
I Love You my afternoon, my tiny twilight

The only word we know is “Hello”

You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my honey, I’m your bee
You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my sparrow, I’m your tree

Hey little songbird
Singin oh so sweet
You are my sugar
Come on give me a treat

You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my honey, I’m your bee
You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my sparrow, I’m your tree

If you be my songbird
I will be your tree
You are the message
I’m the melody

You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my honey, I’m your bee
You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my sparrow, I’m your tree

Songbird, Songbird
I love to hear you sing
You are my wind now
Baby, I’m your wing

You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my honey, I’m your bee
You’re my baby, I’m your mama
You’re my sparrow, I’m your tree

You can’t have a pony in the city
You can try but it won’t fit
To keep him cooped up would be a pity
but go ahead and dream of it

You can’t have ice cream for supper
You know, it’ll make you sick
Too much chocolate’ll make you suffer
but go ahead and dream of it

Bedtime comes so soon
The sun goes down, here comes the moon

It’s time to dream
Everybody needs some time to dream
Lose yourself in possibility (dee dee dee)
Everybody needs some time to dream

You can’t climb a beanstalk up to heaven
Please don’t try those nursery rhymes at home
There’s no stopping your imagination
so go ahead and dream on

You may never make a billion dollars
but you will make some friends along the way
The world is what you make of it, it’s all yours
so go ahead and dream away

Bedtime once again
Close your eyes my sleepy friend

It’s time to dream
Everybody needs some time to dream
Everybody loves a mystery (you and me)
Everybody needs some time to dream
Lose yourself in possibility (dee dee dee)
Everybody needs some time to dream
Everybody needs some time to dream
Everybody Dream!

I’m wishing on a star tonight
I’m sending you a kiss goodnight
I know we’re so far apart
But I hold you close to my heart

Did you see the moon tonight?
So bright, in the sky above
All it takes is moonlight
to miss you, my love

I’m wishing on a star tonight
I’m sending you a kiss goodnight
I know we’re so far apart
But I hold you close to my heart

I hope you have such sweet dreams
of sugarplums and fairy dust
snuggled up and cozy
with your lamb you love so much

I’d give anything to stop your cryin’
I’d give anything to stop your cryin’
I would give away the house, the car…
No, I’m not lyin’
Oh, Anything to stop your cryin’

I’d trade everything to dry your tears
I’d trade everything to dry your tears
I would trade the happiness of all my younger years
Oh, Anything to dry your tears

Baby, Please
Baby, Please
Baby Please, Baby Please
Please

I’d do anything to ease your pain
I’d do anything to ease your pain
I would take the fall for every single drop of rain
Oh, anything to ease your pain

Baby, Please
Baby, Please
Baby Please, Baby Please
Please

Flowers need water and
Friendships need time
Babies need slumber
to grow and to shine

Springtime is coming and
Summer is too
Close your eyes
They’ll wait for you

Oh Hush-a-bye my baby
Singin’ Hush-a-bye
Don’t you cry
Oh Hush-a-bye
My darlin’
Just listen to the music and feel fine

Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh, shhhhhh
Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh, shhhhhh
Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh – a – bye

Hush-a-bye my beauty
Your mama’s here and daddy too
Oh Hush-a-bye
My darlin’
Just close those heavy eyes, we’ll see you soon

Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh, shhhhhh
Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh, shhhhhh
Hu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh shhhhhhhh – a – bye

When you were a young man, you stumbled and you fell
You ran fast as hell for the valley
When I caught up with you, brother
I was running too…
Together we headed towards the sea
You found a friend in me

As time went on we drifted apart a little bit
I didn’t think about it all that much
You had to go your own way and me, I followed mine
We’d wander off but wind up back in touch

Meet me at the river
Watch the sun go down
Sunlight on the water
Clover on the ground

Next to you there’s nobody else I’d rather see next to me
I saw California sink a thousand silver moons, what’d you see?
You saw a friend in me

you said
“When I’m gone, meet me at the river
Running wild, running free
Be strong, when sun shines on the water
I’ll be the flower blooming there at your feet”

Meet me at the river
Watch the sun go down
Sunlight on the water
Clover on the ground

Meet me at the river
Watch the sun go down
Sunlight on the water
Friends in the ground

When I left New York this morning
I didn’t really have a plan
Loretta on the radio, no real place to go
Just a suitcase in my hand

I’m not looking for a pot of gold
Not reaching for a hand to hold
I’m not searching, you know
I’m just traveling
I’m not waiting to be whisked away
I’ll take my chance on a southbound lane
Wind is blowing again and I’m
Traveling

Watched the sun rise over Graceland
and go down in New Orleans
Listening to Dr. John, one more and I’ll be gone
I hear the highway calling me

I’m not looking for a pot of gold
Not needing a hand to hold
I’m not searching, you know
I’m just traveling
I’m not waiting to be whisked away
I’ll take my chance on a southbound lane
Wind is blowing again and I’m
Traveling

So what if I drag my wheels through the mud?
Can’t help myself
Got gypsy in my blood

I’m not looking for a pot of gold
At the end of the open road
I’m not searching you know
I’m just traveling
I’m not waiting to be whisked away
I’ll take my chance on a southbound lane
Wind is blowing again and I’m
Traveling

You came at the right time
Looking with eyes that shine
Thought you’d be a friend of mine
but what did I know

Remember the day we laid
Under the window shade
Whatever it was we made
I can’t let it go

I bet that’s why they name whiskey after men
It comes on strong and keeps you warm before it starts to do you in
And in spite of the pain you go back again
Must be why they name whiskey after men

I saw your face today
in a picture I threw away
Shouldn’t care about yesterday
all this much

Now I’m sitting in a barroom
Talking to someone new
about anything else but you
It’s still not enough

I bet that’s why they name whiskey after men
It comes on strong and keeps you warm before it starts to do you in
And in spite of the pain you go back again
Must be why they name whiskey after men

Now I know why they name whiskey after men
It comes on strong and keeps you warm before the burn sets in
And in spite of the pain you go back again
Must be why they name whiskey after men

Feeling fine
Drinking my wine
No surprise, the label is blue
You knock on my door
It’s open
Sure turns back time seeing you

Oooh, where to begin?
Time slips away like the breeze
Oooh, look who walked in
Speaking of old memories

It’s been a few years
Don’t count them, I fear
it might make us both feel too old
I framed a picture of you
Guess I held on too long
it tarnished the gold

Oooh, where to begin?
Time slips away like the breeze
Oooh, look who walked in
Speaking of old memories

I hear that song and I sing along
Thinking of you all the while
Effortlessly, that sweet melody
Brings back a tear and a smile

Oooh, where to begin?
Time slips away like the breeze
Oooh, look who walked in
Speaking of old memories
Sometimes they’re hard to believe

I don’t remember when it started to storm
It was cloudy, the air was warm
I wasn’t ready, you took me by surprise
What was brewing in those dark eyes?

Oh, the wind and rain
Coming down so hard again
Feels like it’s never gonna stop
Hands up when you’ve had enough

They say an ocean can destroy a shore
A wildfire, wreck a forest floor
Oh, nature shows no mercy
but I never thought you’d turn on me

Oh, the wind and rain
Coming down so hard again
Feels like it’s never gonna stop
Hands up when you’ve had enough

If it hits right now it’s gonna strike again
Counting down from ten
You can make a lot of noise
But you can’t drown out my voice

I can’t fight it, now I know
I just decide to let the winds blow
Come morning, it’ll be alright
Good thing I can sleep at night

Oh the wind and rain
Coming down so hard again
Feels like it’s never gonna stop
Hands up when you’ve had enough
Hands up if you’ve had enough
Hands up… I’ve had enough

What will I do?
Where will I go?
Only the moon and stars can know

When will it be?
Hopefully soon
What will I do?

When will I know
The time is right?
What if I misread the signs?

Or they don’t come through?
Oooh
What will I do?

How will I know which way to turn?
I want every star that burns
To fall into line and point me to my next move

But I can get lost
It’s happened before
Spend a year or two off course

It’d be nothing new
Oooh
What will I do?

Now that I know I want something more
I’m scared what’s in store
For me if I jump, open-armed
Into the blue…

So what if I do?

Southern girl, you know about God
Come on down and pray for yourself
Southern girl where to begin?
Fix them eyes on a Christian boy with a heavenly voice, yeah

I don’t know what path to take
Heart’s so heavy my back might break
I can’t take this pain again
Why can’t I fall for an honest man? Will I even get the chance?

Bad boys roping me in
Can’t seem to stay away
Lord won’t you send me a man
Who’s not too proud to pray…
Do you still make em that way?

Southern girl, brought up right
Made no plan for Saturday night
Sunday morning comes around
You’ll be singing a joyful sound, sing Hallelujah loud, yeah

I don’t know who I am
Running around like a little lost lamb
I can’t take this pain again
I just need an honest man to hold my hand

Bad boys roping me in
Can’t seem to stay away
Lord please send me a man
I’m not too proud to pray
Bad boys, handsome as sin
Think I gotta stay away
Lord won’t you send me a man
Who’s not too proud to pray
Do you still make em that way?

Southern girl, you know about God
Come on down and pray for yourself

It starts with a sigh, a “hi,” a “hello”
And then a deep breath to decide what follows
It’s been a few years, I wonder who knows
How to say “I Love You”

I know I love springtime I know I love the fall
The sound of the birds, the whip-poor-will’s call
But these little words trip me up, I stumble
When I try to say “I Love You”

I want you, I need you, I swear that it’s true
I Luh-Luh-Luh-Luh-Luh-Luh-ove You

It’s half the time funny, half the time sad
You call me honey and I just make you mad
Well call me your fool, let’s agree on that
I’m bad at saying “I Love You”

I love your big ears, I love your big toes
Your Greek God curls and baby blue clothes
How’d you wind up with so many of those?
I’m trying to say “I Love ….”

I want you, I need you, I swear that it’s true
I don’t want anyone but you
I’m trying to say, hopelessly, I do
I Love You
I Love You
I Love You

There was a man who walked to California
He did grow his hair so long
There was a man who walked to California
Singing a song, singing a song

There was a woman walked a thousand miles
with her daughter on her arm
There was a woman walked a thousand miles
Saving the farm, saving the farm

You gotta keep on moving
Keep on moving, keep on
Go on, get on to it
Keep on moving, keep on

I know a guy went walking the Camino
All the way down to St. James
I know a guy went walking the Camino
Making a change, making a change

We walk for justice (keep on)
We walk for peace (keep on)
We walk to rise up (keep on)
And be free

There was the one they call the Peace Pilgrim
She did walk her whole life long
Everybody be a Peace Pilgrim
Singing a song, singing a song

For justice (keep on)
We walk for peace (keep on)
We walk for freedom (keep on) from disease
We walk for heartbreak (keep on)
We walk for love (keep on)
And for our brothers (keep on)
And our sisters above

We gotta keep on moving
Keep on moving, keep on
Go on, get on to it
Keep on moving, keep on

The floor of my church is the face of the earth
and it’s roof is they sky up above
Where all men can worship, regardless of birth
at the alter of brotherly love

My church is under the tree
My church is over the sea
and deep in my mind may I always find
My church in the heart of me

The role of my church is all colors and creeds
Religions too broad to confine
It’s not what you say, but the weight of your deeds
That makes you a brother of mine

My church is under the tree
My church is over the sea
and deep in my mind may I always find
My church in the heart of me

The prayer of my church is so old that it’s new
The same as it always has been
Let me do to others as I’d have them do
If I were the others, Amen

My church is under the tree
My church is over the sea
and deep in my mind may I always find
My church in the heart of me
My church in the heart of me

Tell me, tell me if you can
What is the color of the soul of man?
Black or yellow, white or tan
What is the color of the soul of man?

My grandma said I was a silly goose
for asking questions when there ain’t no use
I cannot tell you the reason why
but I’ll keep asking till I die

Tell me, tell me if you can
What is the color of the soul of man?
Black or yellow, white or tan
What is the color of the soul of man?

A red man married a snow white maid
and all our kids were a copper shade
It puzzles me both day and night
Will the children’s souls be red or white?

Tell me, tell me if you can
What is the color of the soul of man?
Black or yellow, white or tan
What is the color of the soul of man?

Moses stood on Mt. Sinai
He saw the spirits from on high
I looked and looked up in the skies
But I don’t have those kind of eyes

Tell me, tell me if you can
What is the color of the soul of man?
Black or yellow, white or tan
What is the color of the soul of man?
I asked my daddy and my Uncle Dan
What is the color of the soul of man?
Black or yellow, white or tan
What is the color of the soul of man?

I can act dramatically
Recite some poetry
Sing a tune in Ancient Greek
but if it’s the cha-cha you seek….

I don’t dance
Well you know my two left feet
Can hide out on the street
But the minute they hit the dance floor
I do “The Hustle” out the door…
I don’t dance

I don’t dance and I’m not starting now
I had my chance but I blew it somehow
I’m not ashamed to say it out loud
I don’t dance

You can say I’m no fun
When I sit out this one
Blame it on my sensitive side
You can call me shy
or really, anytime
But don’t call “The Electric Slide”
I won’t dance

No, I don’t dance and I’m not starting now
I had my chance but I blew it somehow
I’m not ashamed to say it out loud
I don’t dance

Bet she’d run circles around me… gracefully
If she had her say
He’s got personality
And he’s quick, I can see
But “The Running Man”? No Way!
He won’t dance

No, I don’t dance and I’m not starting now
I had my chance but I blew it somehow
I’m not ashamed to say it out loud, I don’t dance
We don’t dance, won’t start tonight
We’ll stay right here for the rest of our lives
Keep on singing till they cut out the lights but we won’t dance
We don’t dance

Bluebird, blue
Flew by caught my eye and I fell in love with blue
Don’t know what to do
Sweet song lead me on I just wanna follow you
Oh, blue

Walk down to the edge of the wood
I know I shouldn’t go but it makes me feel so good
Tall leaves cover me in a hood
and you sing to me da-dee-dee-dee
Oh I feel so understood

Fall in so deep to a warm summer sleep
Caught in a rhyme losing track of the time
No direction to divine

Bluebird, blue
Stay here I know you’re near I just wanna be with you
Don’t know what to do
Your song’s sweet, I forget my feet
Won’t you let me dance with you?
Oh, blue

Take in your flight
on a warm summer night
fly back to me, I’ll forget every need
Just a tangle in the weeds

Bluebird, blue
Flew by caught my eye and I fell in love with blue
Oh, blue

I don’t lie
I just get by
I’m not gonna try to understand
I give it away
Everyday
Don’t think I’m gonna understand

Ooh, gettin out of hand
Don’t you wanna love me all over again
Ooh, comin over me
Don’t you wanna see me, mistreat me and
Try to make a fire burn again

Bless my soul
I fill my bowl
I’m not gonna try to understand
I wait for time
an easy mind
Don’t think I’m gonna understand

Ooh, gettin out of hand
Don’t you wanna love me all over again
Ooh, comin over me
Don’t you wanna see me, mistreat me and
Try to make a fire burn again

I was looking for clearer skies, I found
I was just staring in the eyes of a bloodhound
I don’t know why you tracked me down
Just smatter the reds and drag the blues around

When you looked for me in the sun
with your shadow on the wall like a canyon
Did you lose the trail at all and fall in
to another winding road of devotion
Tell me my friend

It’s good to see you
Good to see you again
Good to see you
It’s good to see you again, my friend

Did you come on back to me just to say hello
Sing a little symphony howl and moan
You’re gonna run after me, not gonna catch me though
Don’t know what to do, didn’t think I’d see you around
Don’t wanna let you down

It’s good to see you
Good to see you again
Good to see you
It’s good to see you again, old friend

Going down south
Put a song in my mouth
Put a rip in my sleeve
Grass at my feet
A hand on my hip
with a gentleman’s grip
Oh, Steady me
I’ll try not to lead

Oh, I’m learning to dance real slow
Oh, Here it comes again
Heel Toe, Heel Toe, Heel Toe

Down in the bayou
Man, they can hide you
Necks in the reeds swing in the breeze
But don’t mind you Walk inside to kitchen scenes and sweet harmonies
Oh, I’m learning to move as I go
Oh, Here it comes again
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no

Oooh, we move like the wind blows
Oooh, yeah a body knows
Hold on to me
then set me free

Sweet Lafayette
I feel like we’ve met
In a song, in a dream
A second-hand seam
Tight on the skin
We are where we’ve been
I’ve been way down but I’m back again

Oh, I’m learning to dance real slow
Oh, Here it comes again
Heel Toe, Heel Toe, Heel Toe

No matter how hard I try the pain lingers
Our love’s gone dry like grease on my fingers
Don’t need a reason why, just pull out the stingers
I’m not gonna cry no more

Not gonna cry no more
I know what crying’s for
I’m not gonna cry no more

Sing a lullaby, feel the wind blow
I don’t even sigh when I pass our old windows
There’s someone else inside
That’s just how time goes
I don’t need to cry no more

Not gonna cry no more
I know what tears are for
I don’t need to cry no more

Feels like waking up
No more sleeping
My hearts still beating me up

I wanna go outside and feel the summer
Close my eyes and let the sun burn
Remember the good times more than the others
I’m not gonna cry no more

Not gonna cry no more
I know what crying’s for
I’m not gonna cry no more
Not gonna cry no more
I know what tears are for
I don’t need to cry no more

Oh Brother, Oh Brother
Do you have the time
To get to know each other
In a little pantomime
Tryin to walk the blood line

Oh Sister, Oh Sister
Where has she gone
You’d knew even know you missed her
She’s standing on the lawn
Waitin for love to come take her away

Away
Just trying to get away
But I can’t escape
Mistakes have been made
Chalk it all up to fate

Oh Brother, Hey Brother
Did you really need a dime
Just think it over
You know you ask all the time
You leave your mother crying

You say Sister, Oh Sister
Get off my back
Go and lose your temper, you’ll never get it back
Believe me I’ll be gone

I’m going away
Just trying to get away
But I can’t escape the choices they made
Oh we’re tryin to get away
But we can’t escape
Chalk it all up to fate
Oh Brother, Oh Brother are you a friend of mine?

Diamond rivers
run in streaks
Down my lovers cheeks
They run for weeks and cut so deep
Tell my lover I’m at peace
Now that he sleeps
Forever sleeps

I feel a breeze blow through me in a slow eddy
I’m not ready to leave
Carry me
Gary
Marry Me,
Your Emily

Up in the morning
I know you’re there and the sun will rise
Back of the evening lay down somewhere and we close our eyes
I can’t count on anything but the day and night
I wanna write you a love song with my life

Another season and that old moonlight shines down on us
Don’t got a reason to be out tonight, just a wanderlust
I can’t count on anything
Come rain, Come rust
I wanna write you a love song you can trust

Going way downtown tonight
Gonna feel it out alright
Gonna down this town tonight
Head held high

Sometimes I wonder if it’s hard to know a world so bright
The technicolor of a loving soul dimmed to black and white
I can’t count on anything but the stars in the sky
I wanna write you a love song with my life

Going way downtown tonight
Gonna feel it out alright
Gonna down this town tonight
Head held high

I wanna write you a love song with my life
Gonna write you a love song with my life
Let me write you a love song with my life

Let’s get out of town, go swimming, swimming
Move your arms around and we’re wading so far out
Nothing to cry about when baby made a sound

Let’s get out of here, go flying, flying
You’re so pretty dear, when you’re minding
Aren’t you now? higher than a cloud
when baby made a sound

Oh didn’t you find me
drawing a line
we’ve been dragging it out
Oh, didn’t you know me
nothing to show we’ve gotta get out

Let’s get out of town, go sailing, sailing
Throw the anchor down and head to heaven with me now
Angel on the bow
My baby made a sound Baby made a sound

Lord please, follow me home
Cause I’m down on my knees and I feel alone
Home, got nowhere to call home
No one to call home

When I’m out on the town I get what I need
No one waiting around for this tumble weed
at home
Got nowhere to call home
No one to call me home

They tell me my time will come and my soul will rise
over shadow and stone, The final surprise
Home
Won’t somebody take me home
I wanna go home

Je me suis reveille haut comme trois pommes
Je me suis reveille mal habillée
ce matin, je ne sais pas, ce qui se passe
Hier soir, uh luh luh, j’ai eu la poisse

J’etait dans une soiree (vraiment tres chic)
avec tous mes amis (c’etait le pied)
quand soudain ce garcon me devisage
J’ai au chaud mais trop tard pour tournee la page

Il a eu le coup de foudre, mois pas du tout
C’est domage mais tu sais, ca c’est la vie
Ca cassait pas des briques , j’ai pensee
mais je me suis reveille mal habillée

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Badly Dressed

I woke up the size of 3 apples
(slang for disheveled, or feeling small))
I woke up badly dressed
This morning, I don’t know, what happened?
Last night, oh la la, I had bad luck

I was at a party (a very chic party)
With all my friends (it was the best)
When suddenly, a guy looked me up and down
I tried to get away but it was too late to turn the page

He had love-at-first-sight, me not at all
It’s too bad but you know, that’s life
Nothing to break bricks about, I thought
But this morning I woke up badly dressed

Tu crois que je suis une aventurière
Que je traverse tous les déserts
Et que j’allume tous les réverbères
De chaque capitale orientale

Tu crois que je vis sans sommeil
Que je vide toutes les bouteilles
Et que je danse avec tous les marins
De chaque bateau à quai

Tu crois que je prend la vie au lasso
Que je donne tout ce que j’ai de beau
Et que je remplis des tonnes de seaux
De cadeaux toujours bienvenus

Tu crois que je ne suis jamais terre à terre
Que je ne suis jamais par terre
Et que je valse valse valse avec mes airs
De reine grâcieuse comme une étoile.

Tu as peut être raison
Mais ça m’étonnerait

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

The Lasso Life

You think that I’m an adventurer
That I cross all the deserts
And that I light all the lamps
In each oriental capital…

You think that I live without sleep
That I empty every bottle
And dance with all the sailors
In each boat on the waters edge…

You think that I live life with a lasso,
That I give the best of myself
That I give a tons
Of always welcome gifts…

You think I’m never grounded
That I’m never down to earth
And that I’m always waltzing, waltzing, waltzing
With my little songs,
Of a gracious queen of stars…

Maybe you’re right
But I doubt it

Je vais gagner un Oscar
Pour vivre à Los Angeles
Peut ête à Beverly Hills
Avant qu’il ne soit trop tard

Je vais devenir une star
Traîner avec johnny Depp
Avoir des pensées trop deep
Et arriver en retard

Quand j’aurais la statuette
Que les gens me connaîtrons
Je les prendrais pour des cons
Je dinerais chez Scarlett

Là je vie chez mes parents
Pas encore à Malibu
Je m’appelle Marilou!
Vingt ans, coiffeuse, à Rouen

Je vais gagner un Oscar
Je vais devenir une star

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Oscar

I’m going to win an Oscar
And live in Los Angeles
Maybe in Beverly Hills
Before it’s too late

I’m going to be a Star
Hang out with Johnny Depp
Think thoughts so deep
And always arrive late

Once I win the statue
And everyone knows me
I’ll take them for idiots
I’ll dine with Scarlett (Johansson)

Right now I live with my parents
Not yet in Malibu…
My name is Mary- Lou!
Twenty-year-old hairdresser from Rouen

I’m going to win an Oscar
I’m going to be a star

Toutes les belles inconnues
sur la grande avenue
d’en haut vous êtes toutes
des vagues brisant et curieuses

L’inconnue de la journée
a des yeux excités
Elle marche pied à pied
personne ne peut la toucher

Toutes les belles inconnues
sur la grande avenue
et aussi la petite rue
Avez-vous rendez-vous?

L’inconnue de la semaine
Cheveux noir comme l’ebene
Elle a l’air d’une reine
qui attend la guerre prochaine

Toutes les belles inconnues
sur la grande avenue
d’en haut vous êtes tous
des vagues deferlantes et curieuses

L’inconnue de le saison
Qui a toujour dit “non”
Est partie de sa maison
Comme une bulle de savon

Toutes les belles inconnues
sur la grande avenue
et aussi la petite rue
Vous as-t’on déja vue?

a L’inconnue de l’année
il faut dire “s’il vous plaît”
et sutout ne plus parler
seulement espérer

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

All the Beautiful Strangers

All the beautiful strangers
On the grand avenues
From above you all look
like curious, breaking waves

The stranger of the day
Has excited eyes
She puts one foot in front of the other
Nobody can touch her

All the beautiful strangers
On the grand avenues
And also on the little street
Do you have a rendez-vous?

The stranger of the week
Has black hair like ebony
And the air of a queen,
Waiting for the next war

All the beautiful strangers
On the grand avenues
From above you are all
Curious, breaking waves

The stranger of the season
Who always said “No”
Has left her house
Like a soap bubble

All the beautiful strangers
On the grand avenues
And also the little street
Have we seen you before?

To the stranger of the year
We must say “Please”
And then say nothing more,
Only hope

Il fait nuit
Il fait jour
Bonsoir, Bonjour

Je suis dedans
Je suis dehors
Dans le soir
Dans le jour

Je cours vite
Je marche lentement
Je te quitte
Ellegament

Je me cache
Je fredonne
Je me lache
Je n’ai ecoute personne

Il fait nuit
Il fait jour
Bonsoir, mon amour

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Bonsoir, Bonjour

It’s night
It’s day
Good night, Hello

I’m inside
I’m outside
In the night
In the day

I run fast
I walk slow
I leave you
Elegantly

I hide
I hum
I lose myself
I don’t listen to anybody

It’s day
It’s night
Goodnight, my love

J’ai roulé doucement vers toi
Dans mon coupé bleu Citroën
En roulant au bout de mes doigts
Des cigarettes américaines

Je suis revenu dans le film
Cette fable des frères Dardenne
En forme de journal intime
Un love-story dans les Ardennes

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus heureux du monde
Et d’Hotel en hotel ils montent faire l’amour
Il et elle

Nous avons dîné de guimauve
Dans la folle fête foraine
Au milieu des dragons des fauves
Des barbapapas des baleines

La nuit jetait ses filets mauves
Et j’avais ta main dans la mienne
Sous les nuages qui se sauvent
Comme des Rimbaud et Verlaine

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus libres du monde
Et les yeux dans les yeux, ils disent “ ô mon amour …
si tu veux “

J’ai roulé doucement vers toi
Dans mon coupé bleu Citroën
En regardant autour de moi
Tomber la nuit américaine

Dans la ville la plus triste du monde
Deux amants les plus heureux du monde

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Charleville

I rolled slowly towards you
In my blue Citroen coupé
Rolling American cigarettes
Between my fingers

I went back into the film
A fable by the Dardenne brothers
In the form of a diary
A love story set in the Ardennes

In the saddest city in the world
Two lovers, the happiest in the world
Go from hotel room to hotel room, making love
Him and her

We ate marshmallows
In the street fair
In the midst of dragons and beasts
Cotton candy and whales

The night cast its purple net
I had your hand in mine
Under the clouds escaping
Like Rimbaud and Verlaine

In the saddest city in the world
Two lovers, the most free in the world
Eye to eye, they say “Oh my love…
“If you want”

I rolled slowly towards you
In my blue Citroen coupé
Watching the American night fall
All around me

In the saddest city in the world
Two of the world’s happiest lovers

Mais dites moi
Que puis-je faire pour nous?
Vous ne mendiez qu’un rendez-vous
Quand je vous ai pris pour un fou
Vous ne teniez qu’à peine debout

Quand ce n’était que le debut
Vous ne m’aviez encore décue
Malgré votre idée saugrenue
Que je n’étais qu’une ingénue

Quand ce n’était que le débat
Vous me guettiez dans mes ébats
Vous vous mettiez dans un état
Quand vous commandiez un déca

Vous me parliez de déco
Lisiez des mots dans le dico
Je sucais une glace Miko
Vous ressembliez à Nico (moi)

Nous n’étions que des abrutis
Déjà amants, déjà pétris
D’amours amers et d’insomnies
Quand nous étions ces abrutis

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

The Ingenue

But tell me,
What can I do for us?
You begged for just a rendez-vous
When I took you for a fool
You could barely stand

Even in the beginning
You had not yet disappointed me
Despite your bizarre idea
That I was just an “ingénue”

When it was only a debate
You were watching me and my antics
You put yourself in a state
When you ordered a decaf

You talk about Art Deco
Reading words out of the dictionary
I’m licking an ice cream
“You look like Nico” (me?)

We were just idiots
Already lovers, already steeped
In bitter love and insomnia
When we were idiots

La cane de Jeanne
Est morte au gui l’an neuf
L’avait fait la veille
Merveille
Un œuf

La cane de Jeanne
Est morte d’avoir fait
Du moins on le présume
Un rhume
Mauvais

La cane de Jeanne
Est morte sur son œuf
Et dans son beau costume
De plumes
Tout neuf

La cane de Jeanne
Ne laissant pas de veuf
C’est nous autres qui eûmes
Les plumes
Et l’œuf

Tous, toutes
Sans doute
Garderons longtemps le
Souvenir de la cane
De Jeanne
Morbleu

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Jane’s Duck

Jane’s duck
is dead under the mistletoe on the New Year
The day before
She had laid
(What a marvel)
An egg

Jane’s duck
Is dead, we presume
From a bad cold

Jane’s duck
Died on top of her egg
And in her beautiful costume
Of brand new feathers

Jane’s duck
Having left no widow
It’s we who inherited
The feathers
And the egg

Every man and woman
Without a doubt
Will on for a long time
To the memory of
Jane’s duck
By gosh

Young girl I can’t fight you
Everybody wants to get inside you
Just wanna to remind you, its got nothing to do with you

Young girl I don’t like you
Everybody wants to stand beside you
Just something to rewind to, it’s got nothing to do with you

Didn’t you know? Time’s a rodeo
Didn’t you find? People all aligned
Didn’t you say? I’m tryin to behave
Tryin so hard to hang on

Young man terrifies you
Going to step right up behind you
Swing a punch that blinds you, knocks you further into time

Young man qualifies you
Puts an expiration right on you
Didn’t even have to try to, did it with the gleaming in his eye

Didn’t you know? Time’s a rodeo
Didn’t you find? People all aligned
Didn’t you say? I’m tryin so hard to stay
Tryin so hard to hang on

Young love gonna find you
Gonna snake its way inside you
Whisper and cry to you and call you all the time

Young love gonna try you
Gonna push and pull and lie too
Tell you “”Baby, Baby, I need you”” then cast you out of time

Didn’t you know? I’m a rodeo
Didn’t you find? People out of mind
Didn’t you say? I’m tryin so hard to stay
Tryin so hard to hang on

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

I had a dream that we were robbed
They took the moldings off the walls
Erased our signatures from things
I heard them singing…
Wheres my bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard to guard me?

They stole the subjects from your paintings
but left the canvas on the frame
They ran off with years of clothing
stole your smell, stole your stain
Just like rain
washed clean of your name
and all bodyguard
Let down your bodyguard
Wheres my bodyguard to guard me?

I saw a man.
I saw a man.
I saw a man.

Wheres my bodyguard?

Take take take take my arms
Got nothing to hold
Break break break my legs
Theres nothing to stand on
Take take my bones
Theres nothing to fill me in,
just skin
Where you been, bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard?
Be my bodyguard
guard me.

Who’s gonna shoe your pretty little feet?
Who’s gonna glove your hands?
Who’s gonna kiss your red ruby lips?
Who’s gonna be your man?

Papa’s gonna shoe my pretty little feet.
Mama’s gonna glove my hands.
Sister’s gonna kiss my red ruby lips.
I dont need no man.

(The only woman he ever did love was on that train and gone)

Tired of this life
but you wanna know what it’s like
Don’t you wanna know what it’s like?

Tomorrow night
fireworks ‘ll fill the sky
fireworks ‘ll fill the sky

Up in the air so high
Over the world below
For just long enough
Let your worry go
Let the worry go.

Tired of your trying
but your eyes weren’t only made for cryin
Your eyes were made for seein things

Tomorrow brings
a brand new blossoming
It’ll only make your heart sing

like the birds so high
Over the world below
For just long enough
Let your worry go
Let your worry go.

Tired of this life
but you wanna know what its like
Don’t you wanna know what it’s like?

Another starless night
Another dim streetlight
If you turn your head just right
the street becomes the sky
And shooting stars go by
They spark and they die
You see the reason why
You never catch the night

Drags a long tail light
Streaks of red vein the sky
But you love twilight.

Oh, Love me with your body
I need one to hold.
Oh, Love me with your body
I need one to hold tonight.

In the long dim light
Streaks of red will vein your eyes
Don’t you love twilight?

You’re driving down the road
when something had to blow
The car is filled with smoke
it calls on you to grow.

But it makes you want to throw up
to have to feel this bad
Now you know what you want
You want what you had.

but you cant have that
You cant go back.
Make it break in
Make it break

Now all the things were sold
the ones that made you feel safe
And the people that you told all moved away
Now you’ve got something to say
but no one there to tell
So you write it all down in your private little hell.
Your private little hell.
But you wanna be well.
Do you wanna be well?
Go find someone to tell.

Let’s all go to the picture show
Let’s see famous people glow
Maybe some light will rub off, you know?
Your next life’s a pony show
and ponys turn into glue

La la la la Lollipop
La la la la Make it stop
La la la la Life’s a gag
La la la la You’re a fag

La la la la submarine
La la la la You’re so mean
There is so much suffering
I can’t do a thing

Digging, Digging in the ground
Looking for a thing to love
The lonely ones are never found
But they can tell you things about the soil
That fill your heart with oil

We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian Age
We only know what to say
because we practiced at home
or we rehearsed on the bus
next to kids just like us
Who couldnt help but think we were weird.

And you will open your mouth
and it will cue me
To start to speak of the South
like I had been there.
And you will forgive yourself
as you mouth my words.
I think it’s your turn to leave
and throw a fit
and I will mumble and grieve in an aside
that brings the crowd to their feet
and almost makes you cry
Cry. Cry. Cry.

What if no one comes?
What if we get bored?
Will you fit my clothes?
If we should switch roles?

Here we go.

We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian Age
We only know what to say because we practiced at home
Or we rehearsed on the bus
Next to kids just like us
They couldn’t help but think.
They couldn’t help it.

(Instrumental)

When it’s hard to breathe in the city
It’s easier to drink
Come to my house
We’ll sit in the dark and try not to think

About the green fields,
The way the land feels,
All we left behind.
Oh how a dream can block out the sun
and cloud a mind.

Tear me from my hometown
Dig me a hole in the ground
Cause I leave. I fall too far down
Tear me a hole in the ground.

When it’s hard to breathe in the city
It’s easier to drink
Come to my house
We’ll sit in the dark
And try not to think.

Steppin out on the pavement
Everyday feels the same
I saw your face in my dream
and couldn’t recall my name.

I don’t want to know
Close my eyes and let go
I can hardly see
What it’s doing to me
I don’t want to fight
You’re in love with the Night.

Walkin on gravel and cement
Always different from the day before
I’ve got a lot to forget
Old pictures in a drawer.

I don’t want to know
Close my eyes and let go
I can hardly see
What it’s doing to me
I don’t want to fight
I’m in love with the Night

I’m in love with the Night.

Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight
Will we meet each other
in a dream tonight
and will you remember
the color of my eyes
set in a million tigers
sleeping on their sides?

Ooh, sleeping on their sides.

Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight
Will you roll over in the bed tonight
Turning a million circles
Dancing in the night
Like dancing on your side
Dancing on your side
We’re sleeping on our sides

Ooh, sleeping on our sides.
Ooh, dance into the night
Turning Turning

Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight

You alone are holy
and you alone are beauty
but you alone are lonely now.

When we’re alone (you told me)
You’d tell me the whole sad story
But we’re never alone now

Looks like you let it out
For just a moment
and I could see how
you’d only lay me down
On sheets that tore and gave out
I’ve never known anyone til now.

You belong in poetry
and you belong in fine things
but you belong to someone else.

You belong in prairie
and you belong in black sea
but you belong to no one town
You really let it out
For just a moment
and I could see how
you’d only lay me down
On sheets that tangle and crowd.
I’ve never known a love til now.

Suspicion
Suspicion
Can make you blind
Just ask anybody with half a mind
If they can imagine something in half
Do you scream, do you scream, or do you laugh?

Suspicion
Suspicion
Can make you weak
Like running, you’re running, trying to speak
I can hear all the breathing in-between
You should rest, you should rest your head on me

Have a little faith in me

The phone’s ringing
It’s been ringing all morning
And the knocking, it’s not starting or stopping
And there’s screaming, in the streets it’s like barking
It’s nothing, they are kissing

They don’t hear anything
They don’t notice the lightning
It’s striking at the satellite fighting
with everything for control of the ceiling
It’s winning, and the rain pours down on them
Soaking the carpet, their shoes and the furniture
And he needs her to drown out all the water and noise in his head

Someone’s choking, someone’s praying so hard
They are listening to the stained glass for answers
That aren’t coming from the walls
Which are taking a beating from the wind on the outside
And it’s leaning, all its weight to the brick
And it’s meaning that will make them love sick
The walls crumbling, they don’t feel anything
They feel nothing but the kissing

Two men looked out through bars
One saw mud, the other stars
I think with eyes like ours, there are stars in mud

And could the lover do
But fix his down-cast eyes on you
Wanting to fix you too
And show you how to see

Maybe there’s nothing more
To feeling than getting sore
But I’m willing to hurt you more
To show you what I mean
What I mean, I mean, do I mean to be
Meaning to you is something to destroy
Or so it seems, your dreams something screams
Something dumb, and cursory like joy

Two men looked out through bars
One saw mud, the other stars
I think with eyes like ours, there are stars

instrumental

We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian age
We only know what to say
Because we practiced at home
Or we rehearsed on the bus
Next to kids just like us
Who couldn’t help but think we were weird

And you will open your mouth
And it will cue me
To start to speak of the South
Like I had been there
And you will forget yourself
As you mouth my words

I think it’s your turn to leave
And throw a fit
And I will mumble and grieve
In an aside
That brings the crowd to their feet
And almost makes you cry

Yeah
What if no one comes?
What if we get bored?
Will you fit my clothes
If we should switch roles?

We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian age
We only know what to say
Because we practiced at home
Or we rehearsed on the bus
Next to kids just like us
Who couldn’t help but think
They couldn’t help it
They couldn’t help it

Please could you
Turn around
Drop your dress
On the ground
Step up here
Stand right there
Don’t be shy
Cause you have fair skin
And we are fair men
You have fair skin
And we are fair men

Try not to move
Cause if you do
We may not
Capture you
The way we want to

We’re tired too
We’re paying you
To be very still
Cause we cannot get through
To the people without you
The people want you
We’re tired too
But we’re paying you
To be very still
Cause we cannot get through
To the people without you
The people demand you
Cause you have fair skin
And we are fair men
You have fair skin
And we are fair

I think, I think I
Reduced you to those crazy shoes you wore
The day I decided that I wanted, I wanted you
Maybe I just wanted the shoes
To fit me
Maybe

Hudson again, might as well be Mars
People everywhere french-kissing in their cars
These romantic scenes denigrate ours
They’re scripted in stars

When you gonna get out
Can I hint more than shouting, it’s not about you, it’s about me
Give me something to doubt, something sharp, do it now
Everybody I know has scars
Scars
Everyone that I know has scars
Maybe later
Much much later
We can compare ours
Everyone that I know has scars
And I’m sorry
About this, about me

Cause I think, I think I
Reduced you to those crazy shoes you wore
The day I decided that I wanted you
Maybe I just wanted the shoes

When you gonna get out
Can I hint more than shouting
And it’s not about you, it’s about me
Give me something to doubt, something sharp, do it now
Everybody I know has scars
Scars
Everyone that I know has scars
Maybe later
Much much later
We can compare ours
Everyone that I know has scars

A bird flies overhead
And I appear part of this stone table
Over which I’ve spread my head

Hey, I like your verse
But it’s too well rehearsed
To be clean
Do you mean to tell me
That I’m not allowed anymore
So you shut me out at last
Who really gives a damn
For the past
I wasn’t offering much reward
What I do with all the love I’ve stored

Word from you, it splits into
A year gone by
And still I cock my head at the seasons
While you mock advertised reason
Yeah you mock advertised reason
Well you’d mock me now
I want to advertise for this feeling
I want to advertise for this feeling
How do I advertise for this feeling
I want to advertise for this feeling
Without you
Without you
Without you

You were always blowing smoke in my face
In my sleep
You were always blowing smoke at me
In my sleep

La vie rêve des anges
Nous sommes comme les enfants
Quand nous dormant
And I’ll be the one
To wake you with my eye

Smoke comes from your fingers and from your mouth
I turn away but it hits me somehow
I feel light headed it makes me weak
I think that the smoke retards me when we speak
And we hardly speak

Cause you, you, you are always blowing smoke
And if you kiss me sideways I can feel it in my
Sidewalks they make bad highways to the place where you are
I would drive all night baby
If I had a car

La vie rêve des anges
Nous sommes comme les enfants
Quand nous dormons
And I’ll be the one
To hold you with my eye

Cause you, you, you are always blowing smoke in my face
You are always blowing smoke at me in my sleep

Hey my little honey bee
Oh baby, been sweet on me
Hey my little honey bee
Oh my queen bee
Rock me to my soul
Rock me to my soul, baby, baby
To my soul

Can you dig the sound
Oh, watch it now looking around
Stop now, shake it some
Hey, dancing, having fun
Oh, my soul
Rock me to my soul, baby, baby
To my soul

Baby, won’t you come by me
Oh, spare me all the misery
Sugar, won’t you come by me
Oh, I know you’d agree
My soul
Rock me to my soul, baby, baby
To my soul

This song was made for lovers
This song was made for lovers
This song was made for lovers

Who are you?
What we gonna do
Who are you?
Do you wanna ask me too
Who are you?
I do

Remember when we were young
How you asked everyone to marry you
All of those songs we sung
Changing all the words you used to make the heroine die
Why?

Remember when we were right
God throws darts at stars in the night
I had a kite
You had a trampoline and a BMX bike
You didn’t even like

I don’t want to say it’s breaking my heart
But I don’t know where to start
Old friends are falling apart in time
Write your name over mine
Cover them both in wine
I miss the straight, straight lines
The old times
Remember when we got caught
Dirty hands and make-believe jobs
We never got
Give me all your money
Bank robbers and cowboy cops
Make-believe props

Remember when we held hands
Red rover and marching band
You had a tan
Staying outside that long’s gonna make you man
Never going back, never going back again

I don’t want to say it’s breaking my heart
But I don’t know where to start
Old friends are falling apart in time
Write your name over mine
Cover them both in wine
I miss the straight, straight lines
The old times
The old times
Remember when we were young
Remember when we were young

If I told you things I did before
Told you how I used to be
Would you go along with someone like me
If you knew my story word for word
Had all of my history
Would you go along with someone like me
Heard it before I’ve had my share
It didn’t lead nowhere
I could go along with someone like you
It doesn’t matter what you did
Who you were hanging with
We could stick around and see this night through
And we don’t care about the young folks
Talking bout the young style
And we don’t care about the old folks
Talking ’bout the old style too
And we don’t care about our own faults
Talking ’bout our own style
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you
Usually when things have gone this far
People tend to disappear
No one would surprise me unless you do
I can tell there’s something goin’ on
Hours seem to disappear
Everybody’s leaving, I’m still with you
It doesn’t matter what we do
Where we are going to
We can stick around and see this night through
And we don’t care about the young folks
Talking bout the young style
And we don’t care about the old folks
Talking ’bout the old style too
And we don’t care about our own faults
Talking ’bout our own style
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you
And we don’t care about the young folks
Talkin’ bout the young style
And we don’t care about the old folks
Talkin’ ’bout the old style too
And we don’t care about our own folks
Talkin’ ’bout our own stuff
All we care about is talking
Talking only me and you

You’re leading the life of a stranger
Follow him into the ground
The difference in daggers and anchor’s
A matter of what’s been held down

And you’ve got a face they hold on to
You’ve got a place in their town
But you never seem to afford to turn an offer down

Keep your head to the morning sun
When you’re facing the morning sun
Keep your head to the morning sun
You’ll be facing the morning sun

You’re leaving the likes of the stranger
Loving the lean of the road
Riding on years of hard living
Turns your hair to gold

and you will never grow old
You will never grow old
So you better not let go
You better not let go

Keep your head to the morning sun
When you’re facing the morning sun
Keep your head to the morning sun
You’ll be facing the morning sun

You’ve had a hard time
Living with a hard heart
You hardly feel a thing
and you don’t know where to start
I done you wrong, I done you wrong, I done you wrong
But it won’t change a thing
Cause it won’t be long, won’t be long, won’t be long
Till you can make it sing

It won’t go away
It’s coming after you all day
You’re surrounded
When you look at me that way
I don’t have a thing to say
But I just found it
Drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive

Maybe it’s bad luck
Leaving well enough alone
When you leave everything
It’s so hard to go home
It won’t go away
It’s coming after you all day
You’re surrounded
When you look at me that way
I don’t have a thing to say
But I just found it
I can’t walk away

Drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive
I can’t walk away
I can’t walk away
Drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive
C’mon, c’mon and drive

Just sail away, sail away, sail away, sail away

Hey girl what an awesome sight
You lie on your back in the club last night
Slinky thing, you move left and right
I bet anything you were left alright

Caroline’s feeling feline
Arch in your back draws a rhythm line
In your mind we’re a chorus line
Will You Be Mine?

Oooh, you move so slow
Got to take control
Who will love you back
Yeah, with a heart that black

Caroline

Oooh, you move so slow
Got to take control
Who will love you back
Yeah, with a heart that black

Hey I found a way through your stare
No one will know
Don’t you wanna go there
Take the dare
Take the dare
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
You’ll find me on the other side