Elliott Smith

I'm going out sleepwalking where mute memories start talking the boss that couldn't help but hurt you and the pretty thing he made desert you I'm going out now like a baby a naive unsatisfiable baby grabbing onto whatever's around for the soaring high...

I'm floating in a black balloon OD on Easter afternoon My momma told me, "Baby stay clean, there's no in between." All you ladies and you gentlemen Between's all you've ever seen or been, Fit poorly and and arrange the sight Doll it up in virgin white....

Time to kill, wrote a living will And gave it to the man in the moon But I'm on a get well soon This happy face is watching me die Elevate me to another world All that I can do on my own Is leave well enough alone Leave well enough alone Leave well eno...

everything is gone but the echo of the burst of a shell and i'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling in the city i built up and blew to hell i'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling still i sinned all the time my request for relief down the dead power...

I got a question mark you got a need to always take some shoot in the dark I don't have to make pretend the picture I'm in is totally clear you think that all things have a way they ought to appear 'cause you know you know you know you know you know you...

Sonny boy wore a silver chain, And he saw the tracks to the train. But I held a hat in my hand that fit my past to a 'T', Broken easily. Took the street from the curb below, Where it's too disturbing to go. Holding a needle in my hand above the symphony...

Now that everybody's worn the expression Not that you wanted to use It seems untrue now But the funniest thing is It fits you now To a perfect T You may never understand this affliction Although you feel the effects you feel Bruised now, body and mind...

You walk down Alameda shuffling your deck of trick cards over everyone like some precious only son face down, bow to the champion you walk down Alameda looking at the cracks in the sidewalk thinking about your friends how you maintain all them in a...

here come your pride and joy the comic little drunk you call your boy making everybody smile who takes your pretty plan and then becomes a disappearing man after a little while i saw you with your make-up running down now what’s that all about? you say you do...

All my rowdy friends have settled down and they seem to be more in the laid back songs. Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud. Everybody just wants to go back home. I myself have seen my wilder days and I have seen my name at the top of the page, but I...

think i'm unkind the people arent the way you think they are they can't remember all the time what it was you wanted they paint you out in straight silhouette but don't you get the picture yet? why you getting all upset? the worst part is almost over three's...

alphabet city is haunted constantina feels right at home she probably won't say you're wrong but you're already wrong you're already wrong and you threw up whatever she shot down said show me around this alphabet town said show me around there's a name you kee...

amity amity amity amity amity amity amitycaught stars in her armshello hello kitty happy in New York Cityamity walking like a lucky charm I'm a neon sign and I stay open all the time so let's go, go go go amity amity God don't make no junkbut it's plain to...

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

Someone's always coming around here trailing some new kill Says I seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill What's a game of chance to you, to him is one of real skill So I'm glad to meet you, angeles Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be m...

Baby Britain feels the bestfloating over a sea of vodka separated from the rest fights problems with bigger problems sees the ocean fall and rise counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her water pouring from her eyes alcoholic and very bitter for som...

You walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked And you say, "Who is that man?" You try so hard But you don't understand Just what you'll say When you get home Because something is happening here But you don't know what it...

Throwing candy out to the crowd dragging down the main the helpless little thing with the dirty mouthwho's always got something to sayyou're sitting around at home now waiting for your brother to call I saw him down at the alley having had enough of it all...

Drink up, baby, stay up all night The things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be, that you'll never see The promises you'll only make. Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days Do what I say and I'll make you...

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pick me up in an hour or so i don't really recommend it, no they'll probably just put you down i believe you i wanna be you i believe you i wanna be you i know you're not through with it yet it's a big decision you can't kick when you're down got a feeling kin...

i'm a color reporter (rose city on the 409) but the city's been bled white (white city on the yellow line) and the doctor orders (drinking till he's trashed is just a waste of time) he drinks all night to take away this curse but it makes me feel much worse b...

You said this will never do Every time I call I know it's true The truth is not my specialty Confusion makes most sense to me You only like me when I'm in a blue mood You say you see my soul's only seeing red You said this was how you knew That these th...

Bottle up and explodeover and over, keep the troublemaker below put it away and check out for the day and in for a round of overexposure the thing mother nature providesto get up and go bottle up and explodeseeing the starssurrounding you, red white and b...

Saw you dropped in the slot Saying I got a brand new game Running down the alley with an hour you bought From a man with no last name Like an idiot animal Too stupid to shame Got a brand new game Got a brand new, brand new game Got a brand new game G...

i have become a silent movie the hero killed the clown can't make a sound can't make a sound can't make a sound nobody knows what he's doing still hanging around can't make a sound can't make a sound can't make a sound can't make a sound the slow motion moves...

Black and blue from passing around Whitey says, "Lady ain't a hit no more" Cecilia Amanda, I don't want to see you get like you got before Another patient in a party dress yesterday, dancing on a permanent scratch In a place where lonely men pay to make th...

no bad dream fucker's gonna boss me around christian brothers gonna take him down but it can't help me get over don't be cross it's sick what I want i've seen the boss blink on and off fake concerns is what's the matter, man and you think I ought to shake your...

they're waking you up to close the bar the street's wet you can tell by the sound of the cars the bartender's singing clementine while he's turning around the open sign dreadful sorry clementine though you're still her man it seems a long time gone maybe the w...

(pushy preachy) last stop for a resolution end of the line, is it confusion? so go. go see whats there for you nothing new, nothing new for you to use i've got no new act to amuse you i've got no desire to use you, you know but anything that i could do, would...

i see color bars when i come sargeant rock broke the key off in the lock to where i come from sir, no sir, we have no power in the air the battle's on the ground laying low again, high on the sound bruno s. is a man to me you're just some dude with a stilted a...

i'm a junkyard full of false starts and i don't need yr permission to bury my love under this bare light bulb the moon is a sickle cell it'll kill you in time you cold white brother riding yr blood like spun glass in sore eyes while the moon does its division...

she took the oldsmobile out past condor ave and she locked the car and slipped past into rhythmic quietude lights burning voice dry and hoarse i threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth the chimes fell over each other i fell onto my knees the sound...

Sweet nod of the passing hour Makeup is starting to crack People talk behind my back And I don't like that See the man of the moment Whose trying to get himself in my shot Telling everyone he's not confidence artist There's so many people There's so m...

Funny, you swear you got nowhere special to go But I know you will before too long Because you're always there, standing there Staring at the hole in the robe Like it was a place somebody would go Confusion is king the talk of your town With the Hollywo...

did you think if i was dead i'd give up trying? caught in the wake of almost crying and i thought you had a lot of nerve but you don't feel that much sessions of confessions, a body for a crutch i'll tell you one thing, if you want to know something som...

He's a busted main line but you ought to hear him out Bleeding fortified wine out of the injury that I call my mouth Trying to insult some crazy fucker from the south Whose arrow comes to pick me out And so I'm waiting for a shot of white noise I don't wa...

she's shaking down i'm absent and numb from shock reaching around for the hands of the clock should've lied lit me up, it's my lie should've lit me up, it's my lie should've lit me up, it's my lie should've lit me up cupid's trick comes down to shake and deal...

Here if you want me, listening so close from far away I memorized what you told me, like a foreigner on holiday I know to smile at confusion, not forget the soul that smiles on me Dancing on the highway, the broken line that led from you to me Well, I'll b...

There was a grown man dying from fright So surprised by the things he'd say With a giant fantasy life Running around on feet of clay Naked except for a perpetual debt That couldn't be stripped away An unrightable wrong that moved him along Closer to di...

i met a girl snowball in hell she was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell i got her to come on and move in with me and i said i'd find a better place we could spend eternity don't go down don't go down stay with me, baby stay her mama called me a thief and...

Two dollar color pictures from a photo booth dirty stepped on lying out on the floor of their room faces fell long in the half light he looks all wrong but that's her alright look at him smiling full of teeth clenched tight he knew the one time with the...

you'll take advantage til you think you're being used cos' without an enemy your anger gets confused i got stuck on the side you know i never chose but it's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose there's no escape for you except in someone else al...

you're strong, you're stubborn now in an endless symbolic war brave or bored, either/or sometimes i ricochet from the past and at times a future i’ve already had before champion or chore, either/or. i’ll write the pages you rip out back in their places again...

everybody cares, everybody understands yes everybody cares about you yeah and whether or not you want them to it's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head to a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally and a quiet lie that makes you wanna screa...

Someone found the future as a statue in a fountain At attention, looking backward in a pool of water wishes With a blue songbird on his shoulder Who keeps singing over everything Everything means nothing to me Everything means nothing to me Everything...

i never really had a problem because of leaving but everything reminds me of her this evening so if i seem a little out of it, sorry but why should i lie? everything reminds me of her the spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the steeple and i g...

Everything's okay Walks along the dock With some sailor's pay Shoved down in his sock Everything's okay With some little boy in blue Who don't know you like I do Everything's okay Took him back to town Well, I didn't get paid today So I'm in the los...

dragged down into lowercase trying to get your cops to talk right but they cant put the paper in your face you're just trying to walk by so now i got a new game baby no one's gonna recognize it your broken english over their flat, tired remarks still trying to...

Figure eight is double four Figure four is half of eight If you skate you would be great If you could make a figure eight That's a circle that turns round upon itself Figure eight is two times four Four times four is two times eight If you skate upon t...

i'm a first timer, wishing i was someone else when i see you by yourself in a corridor where you find yourself now blocked by a door you locked you won't do what the doctor ordered you won't see someone else come on back to me, my bright tomorrow you say feel...

Flowers for Charlie, you know I'm not a good G.I. Joe Because I always aim low And I won't fight you Popularity war I'd be a clown in the corp Taking over the store It's a cop out I don't want to win New friends anymore There's a world within But...

the litebrite's now black and white cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right pitch burning on a shining sheet the only maker that you want to meet a dying man in a living room who's shadow paces the floor who'll take you out in the open door this is no...

I'm a ghostwriter for an ocean in a shell From the poison well In the corridor by a picture in a frame Of a man with no name Don't get back into a corner Talking to yourself Come on back to me My bright tomorrow But if you feel hollow Well, it's proba...

Georgia, Georgia It's been many miles Since I've seen your fallen smile Close up and personal Your arsenal of excuses You never told her When you walked out on the Savannah shoulder With your veins all full of beer Thinking, "Well, at least now everyth...

go on and parade and fade hit the scene and slow spending all your time with some girl you'll never get to know wound uptight dressed all in white some ? blowing out to drift need you even here you live up in your head scared of every little noise someone...

he waved hello silent like a mime (remain?) there's no changing my mind i won't walk the stairs with you tonight going nowhere the clock moved a quarter of a turn the time it took a cigarette to burn she said you got a lot of things to learn going nowhere saw...

a low riding junkie girl rode down south to yr little world like a dream you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to be like me i wouldn't need a hero if i wasn't such a zero if i wasn't such a zero good to go all i e...

Grand mal paid you a call On the avenue Bright white shot through the night And I followed it to you Look through your window Went blind and broke And you walked out into a ghost town No one to see what you're going through now No one to see what you...

well you shouldn't doctor yourself well i pictured somebody else someone that looks like what i look like would you say that the one of your dreams got in you and ripped out the seams that's what i'd say that's what i'd say he was a sucker for your double do...

activity's killing the actor and a cop's standing out in the road turning traffic away there wass nothing she could do until after when his body'd been buried below way back in the day oh my, nothing else could've been done he made his life a lie so he might n...

Come in, Amanda, with the sheet Looking out on the street in the side The real kids were still complete with fraction of faults That's supposed to keep them in line The returned ringing and back to bed Half pretending that you want me to call The truth o...

coma kid tell me how and come to follow you around where ever you go said i don’t go, where i'm supposed to go and i don’t go, really anywhere you know told me how he's driven by a curse, 'til he kicked out into reverse said i don’t go, where i'm supposed...

Here's the foreign son on holiday Reading her lines about the way Looking though it's killed many men And I've been all of them inside a week See the man in the bar got too drunk to speak He adores that song, mundane as it is And days in a dream that was...

It's one word, cover-to-cover It's an endless fuse Chain-repeater never seems to get any smarter I'm always marking pages So that I don't get confused End up in a fight I never had any part of Listen, naive plaything Coming over, clueless Every time...

wish you gave me your number wish i could call you today, just to hear a voice i got a long way to go i'm getting further away if i didn't know the difference living alone'd probably be ok it wouldn't be lonely i got a long way to go i'm getting further away a...

Something came from nothing today While I was saying no Don't you knock on my door I can't answer you anymore Absence makes the heart grow fond Staying away from people Was a question before But I can't answer you anymore Stepped to the scene where...

thought you'd be looking for the next in line to love then ignore put out and put away and so you'd soon be leaving me along like i'm supposed to be tonight, tomorrow and everyday there's nothing here that you'll miss i can guarantee you this is a cloud of smo...

I can wait I can wait I can sit wondering what in world you think about I don't think I'm ever going to figure it out After all the alchohol, the pretty words that devolve down To slurs and drunken shouts I don't think I'm ever going to figure it out It...

I've seen you watching her Every time she crosses the floor So why don't you just go and talk to The one you really adore? I'm getting pretty used to being The one you always ignore When somebody wants you I've seen it before You're every kind of colo...

You can go Any time you want I won't barge It hurts too much To stay And promise you I'll be Better to you Better to me I know how you said I could buy you freedom With a drink to you Because you made it true And I hate people A through Z Every...

he held his breath to hold your hand to walk the stairsteps in pairs climbing up a slippery slope i'm in love, love i hope don't go home angelina stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found kissed you quick feeling weird lonely leeved and disappeared th...

Future butterflygonna spend the dayhigher than high you'll be beautiful confusion oh once I was you I saw you caught betweenall the people outmaking the scene and a bright ideal tomorrow oh don't go too far stay who you are everybody knows everybody...

the imitation picks you up like a habit writing in the glow of the tv's static taking out the trash to the man give the people something they understand a stickman flashing a fine line smile junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style rich man in a poor m...

the king's crossing is the main attraction dominoes are falling in a chain reaction the scraping subject ruled by fear told me whiskey works better than beer the judge is on vinyl, decisions are final and nobody gets a reprieve and every wave is tidal - if you...

the gentleman's in the lane spinning his hat on a cane stepping out, out for a change good morning all, it's a beautiful day the general's winning the war that seems suicidal before you came along now i'll protect you as long as you'll stay la morning had to c...

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Last call, he was sick of it all asleep at home told you off and goodbye well you know one day it'll come to haunt you that you didn't tell him quite the truth you're a crisis, you're an icicle you're a tongueless talker you don't care what you say you...

here's the army that you mowed to the ground and the bodies you left lying around talking it out the last hour i'm through trying now it's a big relief i'll be staying down where no-one else gonna give me grief mess me around just make it over your opinion wa...

i've been outside invited in but i couldn't abide wouldn't miss it again burning every bridge that i cross to find some beautiful place to get lost i had true love i made it die i pushed her away she said please stay burning every bridge that i cross to find s...

Tomorrow, I'll feel fine It's yesterday that took my breath away Flying off the handle Finally sweeping down the avenue God's up in his heaven And the the devil's on Bonnie Brae But there seems to be no room for us So choose your poison, it's up to you...

one more little one i'll go down stay down sleep the rest of the day dream new music to calm down stay down and keep evil away i can hear you asleep changing your shape dissolved in some dream as a new one appears to take you along where you've never been one,...

wiped out in the city slick another sick rock 'n roller acting like a dick needin' cash burnin' through the trash that piles up in this place and fills up behind my empty face full of things that i'm not to do you come over with all of your friends and all th...

this is the place you'll end up when you lose the chase where you’re dragged against your will from a basement on the hill and all anybody knows is you're not like them and they kick you in the head and send you back to bed isolation pulled you pass a tunnel t...

I'll fake it through the day With some help from Johnny Walker Red Send the poison rain down the drain To put bad thoughts in my head Your two tickets torn in half And a lot of nothing to do Do you miss me, Miss Misery Like you say you do? A man in th...

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning Some velvet rope on the curb He gave me a wink for a warning I saw "do not disturb me" Don't try reading my mind It isn't going to get you anywhere Going by, just between us I won't cry, I wasn't even there I made the i...

your hand on his arm the hay stack charm around your neck strung out and thin calling some friend trying to cash some check he's acting dumb that's what you've come to expect needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay he's wearing...

The ghost of your smile is always looking for new bodies to haunt and its been here and dissapeared its hanging around aloofly for awhile gradually gone its pleasing and freezing Well I wonder what it is you're after Keeping company with this disaste...

here come the sidewalk boss again telling me how i can't cave in that i'm a study in black need a pat on the back i looked up and smile a picture of dissatisfaction that he can only see as a junkie though i might be straight as an arrow he's busy shaki...

Charlie got a band in his hand A rubber loop Says, I'm the man you really want So just act natural Don't try to tell me your bullshit scheme Because I have no idea what you mean No idea I'm just trying to sleep I've heard quite enough Just to listen i...

No life No life Everything you need to keep it together To keep you off the street No life Once I used to see A beautiful stranger walking next to me Sometimes it's a long time coming No life No life Still a lot to learn For offering nothing You ge...

Tired of looking sideways With the things in black and white No more, no more Arguing my case to the wee hours of the night What for? What for? What for? Put it in your face and let the petals fall Cursing your family name Rather being happy was the ca...

at a party he was waiting looking kind of spooky and withdrawn like he could be underwater the mighty mother with her hundred arms swept all aside i hate to walk behind other people's ambition i saw you waiting saint like with your warning leave alone you don'...

concrete hands picked up the telephone ring do you know who's you're talking to? no, and i don't care who she whispered quiet terror news he didn't give a hoot said do what you have to do all she had to do was speak mouthpiece to cheek please say no mo...

we arrived too late our mouths were opening i turned off the light so come on night you're a witness you you've seen me interrupt a good old fashioned fight so come on night everyone is gone home to oblivion home to oblivion home to oblivion watched the dying...

for a change she got out before he hurt her bad took her records and clothes and pictures of her boy it really made her sad packed it up and didn't look back i'm okay lets just forget about him the car was cold and it smelled like old cigarettes and pine in he...

You've got the wrong equation Your figures fell so you make more up All's false in celebration If only you could just change your luck This time we can't lose This time we can't lose You're pushing ninety through a pretty picture Playing with the sound...

got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past and everybody's gone at last a sweet sweet smile that's fading fast cause everybody's gone at last and you don't get upset about it no not anymore there's nothing wrong that wasn't wrong before had a second al...

Burned out, still glowing But I'm not worth knowing Some sickened story that follows you Becoming untrue Where bright tomorrows Give you comfort in sorrow Go around taking back mistakes Just to remake them Now you want to show me How you hate the side...

Here's the silhouette, the face always turned away the bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day couldn't figure out what made you so unhappy shook your head to say no, no, no and stopped for a spell and stayed that way oh well, okay I got pictures...

Start, stop and start stupid acting smart flirting with the flicks you say it's just for kicks you'll be the victim of your own dirty tricks you got yourself to tease and displease doors swinging wide you walked in to hide looking at your feet failur...

I'll tell you why I don't want to know where you are I got a joke I've been dying to tell you a silent kid is looking down the barrel to make the noise that I kept so quiet I kept it from you, Pitseleh I'm not what's missing from your life now I c...

Here's the fallen sun on holiday Meeting her byes about it way Looking it's killed many men And I've been all of them Inside a week See the man in the bar Who got too drunk to speak He adores that song, mundane as it is The days in a dream That wasn't...

looking at all the rows all these records look like big zeros got your picture on the back of a forty-five a placeholder till you take up mine a placeholder till you take up mine i'm the person you'll never need the biggest loser on sixteenth street the invis...

sunshine, been keeping me up for days there is no night time, it's only a passing phase and i feel pretty, pretty enough for you i felt so ugly before, i didn't know what to do sometimes is all i feel up to now but it's not worth it to you cos you gotta get h...

almost forgot started to say rode into the sun past everyone hallelujah, pretty mary k i found faith in the infirmary there's a soldier lying in bed with a wound to the head calling out to pretty mary k here's what you get for things that haven't happened yet...

a wallflower punch talks to judy in a crowded corner where anybody can listen in but they don't read page to page or speak easy now they're gonna go say the words in the wrong order again they walk in a circle through all the sidewalk scenes they used to be ap...

in storyville i fucked a cop amped up on prescription pills that brought my heart to a stop and i want to tell you there's a riot coming like a drug in the water a punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters i met a girl on the square who showed me how to...

he played himself didn't need me to give him hell he could be cool and cruel to you and me knew we'd put up with anything I want to hurt him I want to give him pain I'm a roman candle my head is full of flames I'm hallucinating, hallucinating I hear...

They asked me to come down and watch the parade and to march down the street like the duracell bunny with a wink and a wave from the cavalcade throwing out candy that looks like money to people passing by that all seem to be going the other way said won't...

while the hands are pointing up midnight you're a question mark coming after people you watched collide you can ask what you want to the satellite cos the names you drop put ice in my veins and for all you know you're the only one who finds it strange when the...

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl who's still around the morning after we broke up a month ago and I grew up I didn't know I'd be around the morning after it's always been wait and see a happy day and then you pay and feel like shit...

i got a choke chain made out of nightrain to keep your memory down in quicksand from the main man to drown everything out we were out on a joyride fucked up from insides always at a dead stall from sticking pins into miniature men who can't feel it at all see...

i took you to the train stupid shit you displayed i took pictures in my head you an opening stare only had a little dressy date just didn't care you were all getting drunk instead seen how things are hard seen how things are hard i love you though seen how thi...

you'll make the scene like you always do going up stream down the ave. to fuck some trophy boy that you'll win tonight at the bar so bad, so far. you'll make him sad, shooting star. when it was me i was momentarily proud drunk on dreams now i'm glad i didn't s...

here in line where stupid shit collides with dying shooting stars all we got to show what we really are is the same kind of scars and looking at you all i see is your waiting for something single file you're a murder mile you idiot kid your arm's got a death i...

It's a junky dream makes you so uptight Yeah, it's Halloween tonight and every night Hear you scratch your skin Your sandpaper throat You're a symphony, man, with one fucking note How they beat you up week after week And when you grow up you're going to...

i had tender feelings that you made hard but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred so when i go home i'll be happy to go you're just somebody that i used to know you don't need my help anymore it's all now to you, there ain't no before now that you're big...

Something's happening Don't speak too soon I told the boss off, made my move Got nowhere to go Son of Sam Son of the shining path, the clouded mind The couple killer each and every time I'm not uncomfortable feeling weird Lonely leered, options disapp...

A frozen tear melted here Between the man-made lake And the ice that wouldn't break A drowning note fury wrote That caused the earth to quake Confidence to shake Sorry, my mistake The sun rose high And went screaming by And the moon surveyed the scen...

killing a southern belle is all you know how to do that and give other people hell it's what they expect from you too but i wouldn't have you how you want i don't wanna walk around i don't even want to breathe i live in a southern town where all you can do is...

He's pleased to meet you underneath the horse in the cathedral with the glass stained black singing sweet high notes that echo back to destroy their master may be a long time til you get the call-up but it's sure as fate and hard as your luck no one'll...

Splitzville Quitsville You want to go to Splitzville I got a full tank, let's ride And my, my, my, my, my, my, my Splitzville I know the way And I'll end up there one day in Splitzville On a natural high My, my, my, my, my, my, my Be beautiful, never...

everything is exactly right when i walk around here drunk every night with an open container from 7-11 in st. ides heaven i've been out haunting the neighborhood and everybody can see i'm no good when i'm walking out between parked cars with my head full of st...

People sink your boat When you cut a tragic figure They drink their lemonade And throw you a line Boil your problem down To yes or no, what's the matter? They bomb your promenade And this makes it shine So you must play the comic If they want one A...

I sit here shooting blanks Out of emptiness Ain't nothing I really want to kill Maybe time I guess Sit and spin the world and its flipside And I listen backwards for meanings Because I'm a stickman I live with one dimension dead Try not to think too m...

you get what you see i saw a rich fuck given charity saw an evil emperor wearing my clothes their far from the best but they might suit you better than the rest just looking in the mirror will make you a brave man i know my place i hate my face i know how i be...

got a foot in the door god knows what for and he'll cut me down to size stupidity tries everything here is free everything but you and me this painting never dries stupidity tries savannah shoulder raised a cheer coloring the sky with ash because they found so...

Baby got a place in the sun selling people shade Renting out a room in a remote little corner A profits promenade Talking on the phone Waiting for a ring Well, everybody's trying to turn me into a suicide machine I'll be riding forth on my pony You'll...

Cut this picture into you and me burn it backwards kill this history make it over make it stay away or hate'll sing the ending that love started to say there's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you spare sunshine for a brother old man winter's in...

Took it like medicine, horrible in a hurry Lots of plans go awry, nothing's wrong, I won't worry But I rolled for a dollar on your advice And I lost you bad because that's the luck of the dice Taking a fall You don't know who to call Well, you don't kno...

talking to mary, you know you don't have to shout she can hear what you're thinking like you're saying it right out loud she ? sees behind that dirty look it was her that followed down every stupid turn that you took one day she'll go, i told you so one...

i'm waiting for the train the subway that only goes one way the stupid thing that will come to pull us apart and make everybody late you spent everything you had wanted everything to stop that bad and now i'm a crushed credit card registered to smith not the n...

You got your head turned around Walking upside down Through the sunken dream Through the crushing crowd You don't know what it means Because you're a broken machine You won't lisp it out You're dressing up your man It's all second hand It's all hindsi...

keep your things in a place meant to hide but i know they're there somewhere and i know that's where you'll go tonight i'll be thrown over just like before the white lady loves you more need a metal man just to pick up your feet it's a long time since you care...

Won't you let me walk you home from school Won't you let me meet you at the pool Maybe Friday I can get tickets for the dance and I'll take you Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back" Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black' Rock 'n Roll is here...

Everybody knows which way you gostraight to overno one wants to see you inside of mestraight to over I heard the hammer at the locksay you're deaf and dumb and donegive yourself another talkthis time make it sound like someone the noise is coming out and if...

Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much, too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you...

True love is a rose behind glass It's locked and kept closed Maybe just to me Becouse my soul's been attacked Shattered by tough love, bad love I bought mine off the street True love, man, just can't be beat I felt so complete Married to heavenly bodie...

haven't laughed this hard in a long time i better stop now before i start crying go off to sleep in the sunshine i don't want to see the day when it's dying she's a sight to see, she's good to me i'm already somebody's baby she's a pretty thing and she knows...

My flower would not unfold Always waiting for some sunnier day Quiet and patient, but afraid and hidden away And the awful truth's been told, matter of fact And I can't take it back and I wouldn't want to Or at least that's what I say Will you come out n...

Wiped out in the city slick Another sick rock 'n' roller acting like a dick Needing cash Burning through the trash That piles up in this place And fills up behind my empty face Full of things that I'm not to do You come over with all of your friends A...

Every time the day Darkens down and goes away Pictures open in my head Of me and you, silent and cliche All the things we did and didn't say Covered up by what we did and didn't do Going through every out I used to Cope to make the repetition stop What...

first the mic then a half cigarette singing cathy's clown that's the man that she's married to now that's the girl that he takes around town she appears composed, so she is, i suppose who can really tell? she shows no emotion at all stares into space like a de...

Handcuffed to the bar Their buddies jerked back and forth You watch the band finish their set They look like sharks swimming in their swells The feedback starts and the singer yells "I'd rather die than give you control" But he's already sold the whole d...

they come here alone and they leave in twos except for you and me who just came to you as if you're all done like you said you'd be what are you doing hanging out with me? why you tell me stuff that's so plainly untrue? if you'll be straight with me i'll be s...

the question is wouldn't mama be proud? there's a silver lining in the corporate cloud and the pretty post that you're taking as an nco of the great pretender? i should sure think so! wouldn't mama be proud? "can I take your order?" asked the heavenly host tic...

I'm not used to coming through I'm more accustomed to falling out I'm trying hard now as I can for you Not to fuck up on some stupid doubt I got your hopes right way up high Way on up there where the air is thin The limit is supposed to be the sky I'm t...