Bob Mould

Shine your light, your love, your hope Hold it in your hand so tight Beam it from your eyes at night I can't find my way 

Get your ticket today Make it all go away Ticking off the world today Make it all go away Take me up the top today Make it all go away Breaking all the rush today Make it all go away Practice every phrase And hope it comes out right Crafting what I n...

This would be The sound of me Looking for some kind of closure You so sad You just lost The best thing you never had All those dreams I believed I woke up and it's over now You so sad You just lost The best thing you never had Watch you leave As you go There a...

Checking in every morning To the sound of steam and caffeine The sludge in the bottom of the cup Just like the sludge in the stream Slag heap keep growing higher Every morning the sky, it's on fire And it's only 9 am again Is there an upside to every downside...

I walk through the day Through the open fields I walk to my truck To my truck and drive away To the road Through the broken roads, trusty road I was headed for the road The road that runs that way And i, I see the train The trains don't run to brasilia I walk...

I was a small-town kid with no possessions And I was bored beyond belief I couldn't wait to get away from nowhere I made a plan to finally leave So I packed my bags and ran away I needed something more to take away this pain I found the medicine tucked in yo...

Star light, so stunning and brilliant The circle keeps spinning around me My love, my god, what have I done to you I’ve lost my one in a million I go insane a thousand times My circle of friends is shrinking down I get so far down I can only hope I jump thr...

Days go by I need to see the city lights Preview sky I've got to make the most of this I've been blind to your mistakes In my distant memory Hateful I should go Caught me coming everyday Take the wheel There's got to be an exit somewhere The less I feel The m...

Look through the classifieds, maybe I'll find a friend who cares (decent and true, but my interests are few) How would I reply? start with "i've never done this before" And all the chains that bind, you might find they're just threads that float around It's f...

Found a book of interest the other day Compositions for the young and old to sing Poems written many years ago They told of family and hope and other things Put together in the old days When fifteen cents, it was a buck That's when five would get you ten Befor...

A simple word or two I need a little clarity If you make it clear Doubt will surely disappear If I could see your hand I bet you'd win So make me understand Before I fall in love with you again Take me carefully I believe in you The words you say Break me wilf...

You're in a deep karma canyon And your mind is so low Even you don't understand it And you've got nowhere to go All you see is mountains, climbing All the steps you have to climb Did you get to the chapter In the book of children's rhymes Where the happy ever...

Well I'm sorry you're disappointed But times they change and so did i Standing still and getting nowhere quicker Well it seems I didn't have to try But now I've found a reason to move on And you won't miss me much now that I'm gone You don't seem disappointed...

Wire cage with rope and wooden framing doors behold Prancing for the camera in some monthly centerfold It's the loneliest I've been so far Someone left the golden door ajar Innocent they stand and picking up across the ground Hope to clear a path in garden th...

It's the sound of my ego spinning out of control Sounds in my head that might never come out Stuck in my head, and forever reverberate How do you pluck them out? These are the stories that will never unfold All of the characters cast in stone Years surely wea...

Don't make me do it, don't make me sell the things I love There's too much happening in this world Don't choose the other side right away It's been left alone for a while If I can get to the words before that first smoke Everything seems to come out different...

And we were children We were so afraid We built this dream We built this dream And when it woke you up at night You had to find the meaning So scared to watch it die You were taking it apart As soon as we looked through the dream And all the things that led...

There's a place in the mountains that we could go We could stock up with diamonds and bars of gold If we wanted a fortune, that's where we'd go And if you wanted to go there, well, let me know And inside Fort Knox, King Solomon is occupied with providence Enou...

A trail of fog and vapor It beads upon the green Under a cloud of doubt The rain begins to freeze I pull apart the trauma Push against gravity I'm feeling stuck between these frequencies When someone tries to calm me I turn away in fear The past is shaking my...

You think you love him Or someone like him He reminds you of a boy you dated once or twice Just about the same size Just about the same eyes The only difference being the cadence in his voice So much in common Moving out of caption Or silky like the spider's w...

I see you sleep with him And yeah, I guess that's cool Well I just stand at the foot of the bed And now you watch me stew It's not a matter of pride It's not a matter of anything I just watched someone die in this room Now you're watching everything You can go...

Another exit on the freeway Another bridge I cannot bear to cross alone And I've been on the mend I've been getting ready to change my name again And once I had a love so fair Once I had a reason to keep on Left a paragraph taped up on my door It said "don't...

I recall what it felt like years ago And it's all I wanna know And if I don't seem to deal too well With being left alone It's only 'cause I want you for my own Can't you hear me calling you out? Can't you see me falling to the ground? To the ground Well I h...

Days come, days go by So it matters, so you say But it's all coming back in a way And nothing will ever change The words exchanged for revenge inside You know these things take time Now and then, these words Make me laugh so powerful Going through several lie...

As suspicion grows I can't turn my back I can't live like that anymore So you branch it out Trying something new What am I to do? I'll figure out And who can I be The only person living who gets ??? And who could live with me In high fidelity As the times they...

Give me something to believe in Give me reason, give me space Give me somewhere I can run to Give me cause to leave this place Yes I melted when I met you Yes I fell in right away Yes I'll come to you if you say yes I will come today You are light that killed...

A thousand pieces of my heart Swept across a weathered floor And no idea how to start Solving puzzles from before Maybe in time this confusion will fade But every single error we made Is right there on display Ref: I don’t know you anymore Name and f...

Tired epileptic charade Get on the plane and fly away I knew you when I knew you when You had something to say The Twentieth Century Has not been particularly kind to me So when asked to define You feign the benign And decline to answer properly You feel threa...

I'm sorry, baby, but You can't stand in my light any more You're moving back to the shadows I can't fight this any more I tried to heal you, I tried to fix you I tried to show you compassion I tried to listen, I tried to love you Even though you were b...

Lately I've been thinking And how the whole world's come undone Everybody's got this sinking feeling Feeling they're on the run But I know a place where time stands still I can picture it in my mind But I'm not sure if we can get there (there is no rea...

And now the hearts are beating And all our sadness has been washed away The drug that keeps me breathing I stick it in me every day The needle The sound This groove it goes around An anthem keeps repeating I'm dialing up a song from far away And you can't ge...

Small pieces of truth Whispered on the dance floor Lift the hazy window for a moment Fresh air makes you nervous Why'd you have to come around And turn my whole world upside down? You're wrecking me and everything You don't even know what you're doing The pi...

The clouds move between You and me and New York City The song gets fuzzy on the AM radio Tucked underneath the pillow I move my fingers slow Across the frequencies And try to dial in the sound To drown the noise out And stop the world from falling How it anch...

This is how I'm feeling for some time I'm missing you, the reasons are all mine Treated you unkind So miserable am I I'm missing you I need you here beside me now Missing you, I turned into a wreck You don't know bad I want you back From pushing you aside To w...

Tell me that you're feeling trapped in this life, thinking of moving away You say that it's all for the best, we'll both be better off that way My jaw hits the floor as the words sink in I didn't know you felt so strongly Makes me wonder what went wrong Trust...

You, yeah, you always haul my ball and chain right To there, the place where I get lost inside of You, yeah, I see your face and hear your voice right Through that which seems so hopeless and confusing Sometimes I try too hard to separate the Good times from...

We lock the gaze tightly upon each other No others come near, no others come between As you remain beside me, muted and studying In beauty and radiant heat I will write the words I want to hear you say On a page torn from my diary I'll hand you the sacred tex...

In the forest all the trees are turning black And sorry's the only way I know how to react I can feel it coming on I can tell it's coming on Another minor disagreement Another something else gone wrong Give me one good reason Yeah just give me one more chance...

If you want me out of your life Now all you gotta do is tell me I ain't got a life of my own And the one I got with you could kill me You've been taking some time, does it weigh on your mind? If you think you've got an answer tell me, I don't know But if you w...

An obvious display Of feelings that have dissipated And i don't have a clue where to start You wouldn't let me near you So i settled for the fear that you'd be Happy with me six feet in the ground I will crash when your mood defeats me Circle of trash swirls...

Poison thoughts in my mind Got to free myself from this bind I know I'm a reasoning guy In an act like jesus christ Stare into the sun You don't see eye to eye with anyone I throw it all away (don't talk to me no more) The more I think, the less I've got to...

I stumble through this godforsaken Uncertain of the path I'm taking But along the way, I make a smile I hope where I end up might be worthwhile Holding in the breath of anger Inside this old refrigerator Those days are gone, there's more ahead So concentrate...

Whisper going round the city square Rumor grows a tumor in your garden Anticipation as the rain begins to fall And pools up at the gutter in your hallway I didn't want us to end this way But the love has faded away Chariot hits the wall Body language says it...

If I ride on the rails I shall ride them alone And if I need all this pain I will find it alone If I'm wanted for leaving I will leave here alone And if I can't resist this Then I am unfit to go on A simple solution is all I require If fire is the passion I o...

Listen, there's music in the air I heard your voice, coming from somewhere But look how much we've grown I guess I should have known As the years go by, they take their toll on you Think of all the things we wanted to do And all the words we said yesterday Th...

The spring is over No more golden race All the ease and the peace has suddenly faded away I lived a century Filled with sorrow and sin There's no right no wrong such a godless state I'm in Another rock saint gonna take my place You say a cheap prayer to my p...

All those things I've done before It doesn't matter anymore I see the errors of my oh-so-humble ways Better run before There's no way that I can cover for All these things catch up to me We've all sinned before I have sinned before These sins, they seem to fi...

Floodlight, arizona / the fire trucks rush in Double wide double bed / specks of ceiling paint fall off the tin And they're standing by / brow begins to moisten as you take Another hotshot to stiff you up / the room is spinning now That's it, man / inhibition...

Spiraling down, spiraling round Nobody writes a song about you Nobody pays much attention to you Spiraling down, spiraling round At this point, I don't believe Anything you say or do And you can't share your Thoughts with me, in case Something goes wrong, Or...

Stand guard over what is mine Stand guard day and night to watch over me and mine I keep at a distance, it suits me just fine I need no assistance, I stand guard all the time I meant it as a threat It's a promise you can keep Don't want no interference Standi...

You had a chance to go around the world But you had to be a silly bird A revelation wouldn't matter much to you Silly bird you bought a lousy dream You took a number from the star machine The star machine is spitting numbers all on you You leave your family...

We stand and watch the stars The sky was filled with light The trains below the airplanes go Shuffling through the night We made it to the ocean The cliff at the end of the road And burning off petroleum To tug that heavy load We sail against the storm From...

A moment sits suspended in time what I a time I had with you Living in your fantasy world, well there ain't much of a view I rarely stepped outside of myself, always caught up in between Some place I thought was good for my health and the place I've always bee...

Please listen to me and don't disagree Even as we fight, it doesn't matter to me Please listen to me and don't disagree Even as we fight, it doesn't matter to me Please listen to me and don't disagree Even as we fight, it doesn't matter to me Alone in this pl...

I needed the rain to wash away indifference I needed the wind to air out the differences I needed the sun to warm up my spirits I need these elements to feel somewhat centered I wanted some time without the impositions I wanted a life beyond the spanish inquis...

This fever on my mind / I'm burning down inside My luck may never change / or so it seems that way I know in seven years / this curse will disappear Where has my ladder gone? I feel like I've been robbed In taking everything from me now I'm making over what I...

And I know now And you know as well So we're not alone Took this long to recognize Took so long to analyze Bring it round around again I know we're at the end, it's a Lonely road beyond conclusion I know we've got friends who can Help us understand the breach...

I started out so starry-eyed Full of hope and wonder And I wore flowers in my hair Not aware I'd been defiled (Every time I see you) I know it's going down (How can I believe you?) Karma comes around I know this ride, you must be there by my side You...

Tonight's the last night that I'm coming home to you It seems at last my mind is made for good There'll be no more excuses like "i wasn't near a phone" You wouldn't call me even if you could Tonight's the last night that I'm waiting up for you It doesn't seem...

Here's the town we live in This is how the land lays out I bought a map So I could fing my way around / way around Taped the map on the wall Studied every avenue I Found my way around Tried to feel at home for once We worked out a system When one of us would...

Fucked underneath between days Fucked underneath between days Mind explode and mind corrode Fucked underneath days Underneath days You never want to say the word to me You never want to tell me what you want me to be You never want to tell me You never want to...

Kept my heart locked away / kept it far away from me Found a place by the river where nobody goes Buried far beneath the levee Places where I used to go / when it rained, my heart went deeper Deep blue underneath the sea / washed away for no one to see I don...

If I decide to listen to the voices in my head Strange hallucinations I avoid The people and the places, the living and the dead Can I find some truth within the noise? It gets cold and it gets lonely Gets you down inside When it's evening and I wander...

As performed by bob mould As interpreted by matthew savoie Is it a crime, to want to show your soul We've wasted our time, another black hole This guide is not even lost, not even sure Now find the disease or the cure Has life lost all it's glory and wonder...

All along the Internet Snuff movies and animal sex It burned my eyes and made them cry I didn't feel a thing Already beat my memory No sense of attention I lost focus and feeling Not to mention All those years of computer screen My friends died of the same d...

Jackrabbit done run cross that road Goin' to motel in the sky That rabbit done, story been told Why that jackrabbit done go die? Old turtle go next cross that road He crawlin' as low as he can That turtle done talk to that toad Turtle don't cross here again...

You plead with yourself, But it’s me that you want It’s the same thing every time, every time I am determined not to fall Into that trap again It’s the things I need for myself And not a way to validate I’ll partner up with some gray statue That never moves o...

Who was around when the world was falling down? Who turned away? Couldn't bother to be around this now Who walked away when the game wasn't fun to play? And my escape became my only game Hand me over and hand me down Get me out of your sight No direction, my...

Wishing well runs wet and dry I wish for things I never had Surrounds and wells up in my eyes The screaming voice, it lies Wishing well gets someone's attention Every wish you ever had In a day of nights, in the darkest of light Sits and cries, watch the lies...