Letters to Cleo

So the sky is crumbling. I am not afraid 'cause you see This too. So my hands are shaking. I am not afraid 'Cause you've got it bad. I was counting all the monsters I am ever going to be and I was falling a thousand miles An hour swirling around, the only...

So you'd trade me in for them when they're so Mean i wouldn't do that if i were you why would You say all those love things when you knew You'd leave i wouldn't say that if i were you Alouette and me i don't want to know you lately Alouette and me why did...

the anchor is a kickstand so i'm taking you down with me to the wrong side of the quicksand and our flashlight destiny you can be the walker i'm gonna be your wire you can be the ugly truth i'm gonna be your liar still the future lit up so bright fo...

I guess it's been awhile and a long time too. Everything's still the same and so are you. It's Only in This light that I could see what you'd be like. If it took a Million years, well, this is what I am. You're Awake and I'm asleep and we are so complete t...

I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation You're living in the past it's a new generation A girl can do what she wants to do and that's What I'm gonna do An' I don't give a damn ' bout my bad reputation Oh no not me An' I don't give a damn 'bout my reput...

I can stand here and do this again I can say it but where to begin I know that I'm caving in 'Cause I'm heavy' I'm heavy So the wonder of you is done I'm tired and bloody and good to be gone I know that you did me wrong 'Cause I'm ready, I'm ready R...

There it goes again, got a little habit. Stay away from him. Clinging, gnawing things tucked away like secrets. Stay away from him. It comes and goes. He comes and goes. Look he's turning around. I can't help it - I'm still waiting. Guess I wouldn't seek un...

you boy aint nothing but trouble the kind i aint seen in awhile and i gotta get me out of here dont go and ask crazy questions like i maybe dont know what im doin and i gotta get me out of here the farthest thought and i simply thoguht things were right from n...

We can talk We can talk about it babe If I'm wrong If I'm wrong I'll take the blame You can talk As the hours slip away As my own I can call another day Come on come on And lie awake How you sleep so easy's a mystery I've got my ear pressed to the g...

Cast OUT on clear blue water Saw nothing out there at all at all Picture a scene across to the other side Saw nothing out there at all Pack up some scant posessions For this trip you?ll take to find what?s right in front of you So you?ll need some help...

Everybody says that you're no good i don't pay attention though it doesn't matter though i know it should i don't pay attention so what's the use when it never ends and you're singluar it's true so much for them who cares about my friends be my co-pilot c...

Don't feel small when I'm looking down. Don't get too high if I'm looking up at you. And if the answer looks at me I'll still say I don't know it, not that I could come around anyway. Look your dreams walk away with mine. Stumble and cry, but I'm clapping o...

We can talk We can talk about it yeah If I'm wrong If I'm wrong I'll take the blame We can talk As the hours slip away As my own I can call another day Come on, come on And lie awake How you sleep so easy is a mystery I've got my ear...

Oh, I can't take another heartache Though you say you're my friend I'm at my wits end You say your love is bonna fide But that don't coincide With the things that you do And when I ask you to be nice You say you gotta be Cruel to be kind in the right...

Can I touch you, are you out of touch I guess I never noticed that much Geranium lover, I'm live on your wire Come and take me whoever you are She's a lot like you The dangerous type She's a lot like you Come on and hold me tight Inside angel, always upset K...

What say you demon, [what] say you demon rock of what I'm the rock of Gibraltar. [What] say you demon so say what. If you think of it then you should know if I'm getting kind of low. If you think of it then you should know if I'm getting kind of low. You [...

What would you do for me my sweet cherubic baby ideally way up high and lovely but i had a thought that i'n not waiting for you anymore i'm astral crystalline pure though you could disappear tomorrow who would care it's not like the retribution would end...

Why you gotta sit in my easychair. What makes you think that I would care? When I say to you - what are you going to do? So I got you to at least say please, that's how I know that you're on your knees. But I'm thinking too. What am I gonna do. To not take...

Once i knew this boy you wanted what you could get if you wanted it's so bad why did you go and take it out in trade instead my momma cried she shook and wandered off to a different place my daddy couldn't make things bettter then if he couldn't say it...

It gets loud down here. Fourteen scurrying feet getting as far away as feet can carry. From under the dust I hear every one of you, from under the dust I can feel it all. I know what you're thinking. I know what you're saying. It was another time. I guess y...

The Sunday Paper is a mess and I'm not gonna pick it up you are if I could just get on with it. It don't matter my hair's a mess cause you're not gonna fix it up for me, I am if I could just get on with it, I would take a breath outside myself a stranger pl...

Boys, always b-b-bouncing off the wall. Yeah, boys! Mouth real big and brain too small. Boys try not to cry when they fall. B-b-b-boys, they've got no sense at all. Girls are so much funner And so much easier to be with. Girls don't always want to start a fig...

Say it's a good clip is a real good way to go real fast say it i'm on track and i'm built for speed pull up the back on your mark ready set go teaser with pretty lines with shiny glass and perfect time ease up against my spine because there's still a mill...

Ten thousand years have passed and [it] don't matter much to him that ten thousand years have passed before. There's nothing he can't do. Nothing he won't say. 'Cause don't you know he knows it anyway. He's got an answer for everything. So if you want to k...

Talk in sign, say something new Talk in circles, nothing better to do Message camouflage - same dead end Please say just what he?s saying He ain?t my friend. Found him but in a world that?s not his own A world he?d hidden pretty well Kicked up some sto...

Just living on a Sunday morning, got my toast and tea and I'm warm and I just thought I'd think about. All the things to get and keep getting, never enough not enough and never ending. I just thought I'd think about. And it might be... The comfort of a kno...

It's okay that you forget. It's alright that you don't wanna [want to] remember. In your hands you've got a martyr's head, in your mind, I know that's what you wish you were. Turn my blue sky black, you're such a hard luck baby. Yeah. That's what's the mat...

That's the greatest picture i have ever seen so i stole it for myself so you could see just what i mean and this alluvial fan it represents my life i've got the strength to move but why should i i got time i got time that's the greatest story i have heard...

I think I'll close my eyes and wait As the world goes by Won't see the same old thing that out there Everywhere, yeah... The thousand wishes I have had in my life Come true After they are gone I say "What did I do that for?" But... I see, I see, I se...

I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I'd love you to love me, I'm beggin' you to beg me, I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I'd love you to love me, I'll shine up my old brown shoes, Put on a brand new shirt, Get home earl...

It would be nice to know everything but i never said i did and now that i'm a moving target with nothing to admit what will i find when i cross that line for now it's fine just say goodnight though it would be a kick to get my way but i hardly ever do...

Started out with defeat. Everyone was asleep. And now you know that it's time to make up you mind like me. Now I'm not one to complain but you're driving me insane. And now you know that it's time to make up your mind like me. Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer,...

It's getting harder to believe I've gotta go, but I don't want to leave. You've got your mortality on your sleeve. And if I'm something you've outgrown, you think that maybe I'd have know. God I wish I'd just known. I want you to be like me. It would be so...

Let's do something good tonight Why don't we just stay home all quiet and nice. Forget about the movie Forget about the nightlife. Let's get high. (X 2) Light the candles, one, two, three And that Chet Baker record sounds good to me. Forget about th...

Little Rosa was gonna shine. Little Rosa had a real bad time. She was not like anyone else. She never will. Little Rosa the boys let her know she's just not that way she don't put on a show for nobody. Not even you. She gonna sit alone. Why would you make...

And as I stood in the place where I once saw a friend standing, I didn't mean to run away from you. I almost lost the chance to save myself. Mellie's coming over; she's coming over; Mellie's coming over, yeah. Not really lucid but wide awake, a kind word to...

Well I stepped off the train just the other day I swore that I saw you A younger man, a stronger man, but certainly the man That you were at one time. He stepped out of the station and into the sun Thought that for sure He would be meeting someone he wo...

As far as I can see. Walking, walking, walking, away from me. And for all I know. Demeanor gives it all away. Talking, talking, right over me. And for all I know. Loosing it, getting older. Stay the same yet older. You don't get it like I do I heard that...

was on you side and I can't believe that it's coming back to haunt me. You were on that side too and I can't, no I can't go back and save you. Why didn't you do as you were told? Why didn't you just go home? And what you got in the bag? Non-recognition is...

Like a gaping hole in the universe, as obvious as anything could be, trip and fall pants at ankles as it, as it only possible could be. It's a cosmic thing and it's all around me dangling like life above me, if you knew where it was headed to, I say you'd...

When I need a place to get away, When I need a place to hide, That place just seems oh so far away, Couldn't get there if I tried. Me and a young girl chasing mosquitoes, Rolling down them grassy hills. Put up a sign that said "No Vacancy", Forget the w...

A good girl always knows what's right don't forget your keys now don't be late i'm told that if you last the night they'll make you drown or float just wait and be more like fire than a firefly 'cause that's the best way to be happy sparklegirl it's cle...

I know what you did. And now he's waiting. He knows what you did too. You're not what you say you are. If you were why was you head down in his car? It's just not the same, try and try I'm still the last to know. You get the sticker and the prize, you let...

Appear and fade away, so far so good and I'll tell you the story this time. Plan too far ahead, it's the same old thing. Finally kicking it out this time. Tell me where were you? Now just where were you? When it really mattered, like this time? Staring down...

Sunshine, On the window, Makes me happy, Like I should be Outside, All around me, Really sleazy, Then it hits me Dont tell me, You can see, What It means to me, Leave me Meanwhile, In the moonlight, Purple people, Unforeseeable Loving, Yes it may be, Very...

Can I touch you, are you out of touch I guess I never noticed that much Geranium lover, I'm live on your wire Come and take me whoever you are She's a lot like you The dangerous type She's a liot like you Come on and hold me tight Inside angel, always...

That was my heart when time was a seed tell me what it means we made it out okay but soon it turned to dust tell me what it means cut it out and get off the floor because it doesn't make you matter more veda very shining who will you wait up for life love...

The saddest sound I've ever heard; the saddest sound I've ever heard. The quiet that takes the place of silence that takes the place of your voice. You're right reasons are dumb and I'm just talking too much. And I want to be alone with what I am - wasted....

You never write You never call You just stand around and smile so happily The government could never do as worser things as you have done to me Well i should cry but I've done too much already I can't lie cause you're better at that than I'll ever be...