Howie Beck

You are so beautiful I see you from time to time You are so respectable You made me walk the line 10 flowers, 13 clouds 10 flowers, 13 clouds Where the sidewalk ends I find you Smoking a cigarette I have not met you yet 10 flowers, 13 clouds 10 flowers, 13...

Alice says she was born into this world for you But she said it to the last one, too Oh she says she's gonna come but she don't know where Everybody knows her name Just like everybody knew her name When she was young Now she knows what she does and so the jo...

baby plays around on me she doesn't think i know saw her from across the street she never made it home so if you see her tell her that i'm waiting i'm waiting i never really could depend on anybody else prove it to me once again i'm stuck here by myself so if...

i saw many things in this life i saw many things in this life i saw you change your mind for the 2nd time i watch your shadow fall as i heard you call i saw many things in this life i saw many things in this life i saw your eyes close the day your heart froze...

strangest bird i've known, it is life, we've never flown still you're on the edge, waiting for the wind to blow waiting for another world you look out, ??? the edge of the world, is it far enough? you could look ahead but you look back and don't know why cau...

it'll be alright despite the weather down in NYC they float like a feather just turn on the light and you'll be fine i can hear you sing i can hear you whine dandelion did you finally get what you came for you shaved your head that broke down the door the ki...

sucking on a word to spit it out you never say much but you talk so loud nothing's ever done since you're back around and i just can't wait till you're falling off so don't be afraid if you're all fucked up everybody knows you'll get through somehow it doesn'...

I'm gonna step inside of the night this time, i'm gonna step inside alone And if it's true that the stars are laughing down then i wear my head down low And it's dark But i'm not laughing cuz the wheels on the road don't need the passing signs, they'll still...

everybody sold out everyone sells out i guess it's just you and me now so please keep me young just keep me strong keep me inside of this light cuz today i'm not feeling so well i'm running out of time i'm falling off the line and i know that it's just up to...

i could do this maybe once a week you could help me learn to think and speak you could teach me how to take the pills you could teach me how to surpress my world watch me falling down watch me falling down watch me falling, watch me falling down so if you se...

the past, the haze of summer lifted at last but something else was gone and too fast where did you go? the mask she put it on before she had asked just how to fall in public at last where did you go? Jane is on a mission, gonna go with a flashover burning do...

floating along you couldn't see the land so you gave in so you gave in you dropped your head below until there was no way to swim you couldn't see the waves and how they pulled you in you couldn't see the anger that would come from this floating along motion...

All you see is all I meant to be I wasted 3 weeks for nothing And all I know is that you never showed You're not what you seem to be You're so hollow 

running away from yourself you got lost where no one could find you for any cost you were blind you counted the loss that was behind you i was thinking about the past thinking all of the laughs and laughs how do you feel? you put all your things in a hole co...

You stole my face you stole my name Just like Baby James And Chris and John I know this is wrong When we go down we'll all go down from across the street to up the hill do you have the will CHORUS: And i know that this is wrong and i know that this is wrong...

walking home home at 3 a.m. looking at my empty hands think about this emptyness in an empty parking lot i sat in the only spot remembering what i forgot you were so [?] falling, calling now i'm getting closer there in the distance i hear friends laugh about...

What you really need in this life is to be, or go insane Adjust, to get you through the day Wear your face inside your face No one really gives a damn They don't, they don't see you anyway So I won't be sorry For the things I never did No I won't be sorry For...

If i ever come home i'm gonna sing a song about the day that i went away and how they won't give us money this time to sing a song, to read a rhyme the easy money won't buy you anything you say you won't be home anyway if i ever come home i'm gonna change my...

When i was young i used to leave my home to drive behind the empty factories they'd left alone when growing up the world seemed so alive with wonder i always thought i'd end up being so much stronger now when she was young she never came undone except for sel...

just follow me that's what she said i would have done anything to rest my head so i walked all night trying not to be blind watchin [...] on the freeway blow through my mind lay down for me lay down for me lay down in a drunken haze promises were made i look...

Before I begin the struggle I never win Before I fall again I would do anything I would try anything But maybe I belong this way There's always something wrong again Now maybe I belong this way It's over, it's over now Before I'm afraid There's something I'd...

now i'm standing where we used to stand and i'm proud enough to not go to my knees cuz i'm strong like an empty bottle every night it seems i just have the same dream where it all comes out wrong she rings out like a fire alarm i see her there but she's proba...

the things that you've gone over now are things that i don't understand you write your shit in your free time with a telephone in your free hand but it's alright to do it every night 'cause if there's one thing that i know it's that you're nothing at all you'...

if you come down from on the hill I think you will find that i have just been waiting still but you'll go over, i'll go under, to keep our minds from wandering writing letters i don't understand now that you've learned just what it takes to break a man you we...

Please it's not your fault everything just went wrong inside your heart while you were gone please be alright she said it's a go but i don't know while i can still breathe let me be on my way i always knew you'd leave you could never stay please be alright sh...

I went walking too far, I went away too long just wanted to get lost somewhere and be alone and i wait so long I can't wait so long I'm awake too long So won't you open up and save me the wind's on fire and it won't be long we got lost in the dark, i went a...

You took her down to the basement Seventeen, but I was your friend You think I never ever knew I knew what happened Ten years go by but I'm still a child You can not look me in the eye When you cross my path from time to time My eyes are open So pathetic now...

Rosie knows what it means to sacrifice a man When she moves Rosie likes to give it all she can She moves around She moves around She moves around Every day Rosie paints her face before she leaves She shuts her eyes and dreams she's in the 1970s She moves ar...

skinny arms, skinny legs place your bets, place your bets lick you wounds and go to bed it's not over yet just a face in the crowd even you scream loud with your own desire skinny arms, skinny legs place your bets, place your bets lick your wounds and go to...

People on my street never seem to come outside So nights are dark from fear, and others dark with bright (?) So if you ask me where I've been, and if you ask me what i've seen I will tell you now, i've just been sleeping People on my street don't seem to care...

she can never walk a straight line except sometimes in the morning she wants to race herself against time but i think that time's gonna win always looking for someone looking for somewhere to go always has to have some she only plays if she's won but sometim...

I didn't mean to leave this way It's a lost cause I don't like to be afraid But I know now that it's okay You can't move on if you always stay So take it away, my love Take it away, my love Take it away, my love I didn't mean to be confused It's a long road...

I once met a girl who liked to dress in black We walked for hours it seemed she didn't like that day So we painted the whole town grey The chance is gone She left the next day I gave her my white shirt And she said: "Don't be strange, it doesn't have to hurt...

I know you didn't win You should see what they've done, it would make you shed your skin That was done a long time ago The black-eyed dog came 'round that night took what was wrong and made it alright You're a wanted man They say it could have been fame or ma...

Don't think i don't know just where you go your story's old and you're the one Your fingerprints were on the glass don't tell and i might ask just where it's from You better watch your back before you come Who do you think i was? You better watch out for the f...

we're sittin' on a country road that's where i could lie sittin' under your shadow that's i where i could hide until i reach the other side we waited but they're never gonna come lights faded we just got out and we make it and they're never gonna see us again...

fourteen days you're wasting time you ran out of you if you want some of mine so don't be surprised if i act unkind i don't believe in what you found you're so paralized when they let you down i don't believe, i don't believe in what you found okay, i g...

i wouldn't hate to be you for a day and i could believe with a target up my sleeve cuz you're really so messed up but you wear it well i love to drive to california in the sky and i could believe with a target down my sleeve cuz you're really so messed up b...

i need a zombie girl who keeps her head on someone whose eyes are wide and doesn't feel a thing inside i need a zombie girl zombie girl's alright but she never sleeps at night from all that she's seen all the pain she feels inside or the pain from the daylig...