Matthew Sweet

Bad blood set you up for a fall Think you're so smart that you're fooling us all But it seems, there must of been something wrong Say you'll get back if you have to crawl Well it's a fat chance that you'll make it at all And it seems, you must of done so...

You come looking for protection A revolver in your hand And that puts it in a language That I think I understand. Don't need to concentrate To push it through. You know you've sent it 'Cause I'm coming back to you. Anybody with a brain will tell you T...

I haven't been a good friend For a long, long time. You know I wasn't happy Behind the smile. Anywhere you look A reason to believe. But think of what it took To bring me to my proper place. And I haven't been a good friend For a long, long time. I...

Have to wonder if I care If I want to know you only As if you weren't really there You begin to touch me slowly I don't feel it any more Than I feel the path I follow Everything I gave away Was supposed to come back I believe my love I didn't mean to...

I met her down by the water She took me into her full like a mother I sent her some flowers for the weekend And she sent me away on a mission I went into another land Starin' into one another's *green pools We're a couple o' blue fools Starin' into one...

In the way are several things and the pain that growing brings but there's no way to keep it pure of this I'll make you sure 'Cause I was born in sin I was born in sin Baby I feel romantic but I'm just a sick snuff freak it's so hard to look you in t...

As my girl you make me strong Watching and helping along Come in and I'll play any game you play I'll hear every word you say Did you tell me how you feel about brotherhood Between any two have it half as good We must be feeling Brotherhood Tell me ho...

I left her the message She won't let me down She's coming right up my road We'll take a *(tribute to the finer shake down) We'll get her hard to *explode 'cause I will not let her out of my head Til she gets up on out of that bed She's always by herself...

Now you're never gonna get back to the boy you had You have broken the chains forever Now you're never gonna get back to the girl you were (you are looking for a boy...) I have found you (standing free, now that he...) No longer surrounds you (wishing y...

3014, we're still around Even the cure for cancer was found People come to life every day Watching their futures drifting away And there's a nagging thought in the back of my head Would we love forever if we'd never be dead (Forever) I'll be yours and y...

Started with a rose, Ended up a millionairess queen In your new electric chair, Sweetly sitting there building up steam. Watch your mind little bit, Or you're gonna have to make believe. Flew into LA, Caught a screening of your lifelong dreams. Blew i...

You try to win At a game that has no winners You try to learn When nothing can be understood You try to feel When all feeling is gone And you come to love What you used to hate You come to find What you threw away You thought that time Would be yo...

He came dancing across the water With his galleons and guns Looking for the new world And [the] palace in the sun On the shore lay montezuma With his coca leaves and pearls In his halls he often wandered With the secrets of the worlds And his subject...

You are sickened by the weakness Of a heart that's filled with fear And if the world won't understand you You can make it disappear 'Cause there's a dark secret Carry with you Carry with you And deep inside, the way you hate them On the outside, doesn't show...

What you gave me I could feel it Like the warm rays of the sun Such a small thing Took me farther Then I'd been with anyone What else can I tell you? My life was simply very bright So I traded the day for night Well I love you And I want you You sh...

I can understand you're living in a prison I know you can only see me as a vision I might fade away With the coming of a new dawn And your heart is breaking What are you gonna do now That you're tired of faking it What are you gonna do now Well it's ha...

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum Oh can't you tell by the way I run Every time you make eyes at me You cry and moan and say it will work out But honey child I've got my doubts You can't see the forest for the trees Oh don't get me wrong...

Borne on a cloud Stupid and proud I'm gonna take you back now Cursed by the past Held under glass I was too hard to shake down And I'm coming back With my dinosaur act Did you forget me baby After the fact (I'm telling you) I'm coming back With my...

I don't know where I'm gonna live Don't know if I'll find a place I'd have to think about it some And that I do not wish to face I guess I'm counting on his Divine Intervention I cannot understand my God I don't know why it gets to me One day my life...

I'll do it again If I have to love you from afar You'll do it again Before we get too far And I'll hurt you again Baby if you'll hurt me one more time Cause love that's bad Is better than none You know breaking up is half of the fun And who would want...

She's just your size She's sexy she's beautiful Does she talk? She's just your size She's sexy she's beautiful Does she talk? 'Cause man you can't teach A slithering snake how to walk Did she lick your palm To tell you your fortune tonight? Did she...

Don't cry no tears around me Don't cry no tears around me 'Cause when all the waters gone The feeling lingers on Old true love ain't too hard to see Don't cry no tears around me Well I wonder who's with her tonight And I wonder who's holding her tight But the...

Don't Go Don't let my love drive you away There is so much I have left to say Oh don't go Don't bring my darkness to the day There is so much I have left to say Oh don't go There is so much I have left to say Come back You know I wrote another song The...

She remembers how we met Through a friend of ours I took her for a ride and laid her Underneath the stars And even now it makes me laugh to think we wanted more And always talked about how hard it was When really it was so Easy It was so easy It was...

She's on another planet She's in my dream She's some kind of angel If you know what I mean Try her on She fits like a glove Too bad she only thinks about The lord above Evangeline Evangeline I think I love you But Evangeline Evangeline I want you...

As soon as I found you baby you know They took you away You put your little hands together and You started to pray But all your prayers they brought no answer Your faith was a lie And there's no difference Between the earth and the sky There's no reas...

It's a matter of choices And a matter of time For you it's a matter of drive You will let nothing Get in your way You set to conquer Each single day (everything) Everything Changes (changes) But change itself (change itself) You can take out What y...

I'm looking all around me And there's so much room to move But I don't believe in miracles Should I put my faith in you? I lay down in the evening And I look up at the stars But I don't believe in miracles Should I put my faith in ours? I wake up in...

The further you go The farther you've gone It doesn't mean you were made to hang on And you're falling falling falling But you can't let go Whether you're cold, hot, bottled or not This is the day for which you have fought And you're calling calling ca...

Into you so far our words go so much clearer then you hear into you goes everything I know no one else knows how I feel farther down I'm desperate for you where you never have to know farther down I'm still without a clue just something, something takes my pai...

I never wanted to be more than passing time And you would rather disappear than cross the line And I'm only waiting for you 'Cause I can't decide If you're only saying one thing With something else inside From the start there is a coldness in my eye Un...

Who cares if they don't think your cool? They make everything about rules And your older than that now Get older The world will fall into its place You may be sad When you get older You might be happy just to stay Who cares if you don't know what you...

I wanna love somebody I hear you need somebody to love Oh, I wanna love somebody I hear you're looking for someone to love 'Cause you need to be back In the arms of a good friend And I need to be back In the arms of a girlfriend I didn't know nobody...

Your depth of sadness was a gift And for a while I cherished it I'm tired of wasting my time away So I'm giving it back to you Giving it back to you It takes a lot to keep you going Wearing me down without you knowing My will to fight has gone away So...

Shut your eyes And you'll remember like the first time what it meant to see Take your time Any reason why you can't go on is fine with me As long as we don't sit in silence I don't want to see the whole thing wasted As long as we have time to be...half...

I like a little pain If it wasn't true There'd be nothing that I had kept from you (Wonder whom I guess) We might be alive Think it only sane I've seen them walking When I was alone I talked as much like you As my words would allow Like you showed...

When it shines the sun is hot And what you need you ain't got Heaven and earth Are hardly worth it We'll begin the race by living in ecstacy You may have your mind to show But you've got no place to go Heaven and earth Are hardly worth it We'll begin...

Now you'll have to be Hurt when you think of me With vision but you can't see far You hide every thing you can But the world keeps breaking through Anywhere you run And it always will Before I knew I had you you were gone Fake too close to the truth...

Capture the spirit of adversity Be sure to put the lid on tight and watch it carefully Sew shut the mouth of the river slut The entrance to a place discussed but hardly there for you (Hollow) An evil bigger than you could know (Hollow) Has taken root...

I've spent twenty years learning to live In a world that takes back all that it gives But I do not want a war 'Cause I'm not in for killing another man Defending my holy land As if there's a god who would understand Feeding the promised land With your...

The way that you remember there was nothing to say So you threw your arms around me, threw your arms around me Girl you shouldn't think that I've got nowhere to go But I'll tell you how I felt if you really want to know How warm in the morning when you as...

You would never turn around You're laughing at everything That's bringing me down Did you say you loved me? I almost forgot, I almost forgot That I will never be free There'll always be something Stuck inside of me Did you say you felt that? I almos...

I should never have let you know That I could be what I was not I should never have let you know That I was weaker than you thought Can you show me 'Cause I did it for you once and now you owe me 'Cause you say that you possess me and then you loan me...

Do just what you want to I think you're right I do what I want to do, I do what I want to do I let the world surround me 'Cause I saw no real harm I didn't stop to think of you You were already in my arms I was wrong but I I wanted to tell you, I want...

When you said to me "You are not so old" Did I know it then? 'Cause I had just been told I didn't think I'd find you Perfect in so many ways But I've been waiting (Waiting) And I want to (Have you) I've been waiting (Waiting) And I want to The s...

Is it question of commitment Or a matter of faith That is dictating how we feel When you don't know if you have it But you don't want to wait To see the face of your ideal If it's happening you'll know it Love won't come knocking at your door If it's...

I don't wanna do it over 'cause I've made my case But I wish that I could live another place Try to make it over but it won't erase So it looks like I'm still trapped inside this space If time permits me To right my wrong deed If time permits me to live...

People say we got it made Don't they know we're so afraid Isolation We're afraid to be alone Everybody got to have a home Isolation Just a boy and a little girl Trying to change the whole wide world Isolation The world is just a little town Everyb...

Are you made like God When you start to bleed Do you really know What it is to breathe Without a mind to think Or a hand in fate You're an animal Filled with love and hate You And the way you move And the things you say Your desperate dreams are pat...

Every time you go away I know there's nothing I can say But I don't know how to stay alive No matter what I keep inside Or what I let escape from the place where you walked through But I wouldn't a life without you No I wouldn't want a life without you...

Do You really Want to run away with me? Would you really like to run away with me? I can feel very clearly but no longer see 'Cause I'm Looking at the sun Waiting for you to appear Watched you getting nearer like I knew it in my heart 'Til the damage w...

Well I know you are dying to give me advice Speak to me once or a hundred times Those are words I cannot hear Thinking looks good but I don't like the taste A mind is a terrible thing to waste But it was a thin veil Dropped it like a tail Jumped into my...

You could change your mind forever You could change your style of dress You could find another lover But you'll never find love You will never find love You could swear you never live here Forget you knew my name You could find another lover But you'l...

Ever since I first ran ahead I've been living in the past Only wanting what might last And up until today disappeared Though I saw it wasn't clear I could not admit the love I trusted in (love I trusted) Couldn't hold the love I trusted in (love I trus...

Got a feeling deeper than anguish It's only getting worse You're at the end Begin again Now the season's changing over And there's nowhere to turn You've lost the song Love is gone You have to see Love is gone Dreams will drift apart from reason A...

Ooh ooh ah Now I've told you so you ought to know (ooh) Takes some time for our feelings to grow (ooh) You're so close now I can't let you go (ooh) And I can't let go (With you I'm not shy) to show the way I feel (With you I might try) my secrets to re...

Everything is perfect in a way But not today What could tomorrow bring Even when I beg you Will you please be good to me You're running free Just make believe you believe me And I'll try harder than before Cause it's a real love That keeps us coming...

Well you can make your way through living and loving Looking good from where I sit But with your great big eyes you see what is coming And you're not a part of it Millenium blues Lived half in one and half in the other They say it's not you anymore Pa...

Do you realize what they have done Showed me I am not the only one Planted something in my mind Now I've begun to find Missing time I want back I'm afraid that I can feel Missing time I want back Didn't realize they took from me Everything my eyes h...

My pet, you're always close to me You can be the master, 'cause I don't wanna be I need someone to help me to decide Somebody to turn to when I want to hide. I'm gonna set you free, that's all you need from me I'm gonna set you free, if you'll come right...

Time - Will always find a way to win You find yourself giving in Everybody feels it But you never Said Goodbye You Never Said Goodbye and I thought you owed me something but you know I'm just beginning to understand... that there is not a place to go...

Look at you you're just as blind Trying to grab your little piece of mind And you want to hold it near But you know you can't keep it Say a little should suffice But more than a little of you is so nice And you give me what I want Not when I need it (n...

If one could stop time, or make it up If two could realize the best of luck If I could locate a God above and you only wanted to be loved Then I'd try to hang on to the past But you know that nothing, oh no, Nothing Lasts Nothing Lasts It's Time to m...

Kept my love in the back of my mind 'Til it finally came time I should use it I kept my love I was sure I would find I would need it in time to win you with And I waited 'til I knew every little thing about you Let my heart adore the warmth radiating all...

You're over it. You're not angry anymore Because you're over it. No big deal unless you make it one. You don't even have to fake it now. You're over it. You're over it. And in a way you should never have to feel You didn't get your say. If you're look...

Bad blood Sets you up for a fall. You think you're so smart That you're fooling us all, But it seems You must've done something wrong. Say you'll get back If you have to crawl. Well it's a fat chance That you'll make it at all. And it seems You must...

Found a penny picked it up wished someday he'd hold her instead they shared a smile, an ice cold Coca-Cola a dream is just a dream until it is real there's always Coca-Cola always the real thing always Coca-Cola Hours on the phone, a plan was in motio...

Without a single breath of noiselessness she can't speak [But we'll] keep raging through the [cold rushes] So I will quiet her Tell her the words that she needs to hear I will quiet her Tell her the words that she needs to hear And I won't be left at the...

You've counted every star That you could imagine. Broken when everyone took you for a fool, It gave you a reason To find something strong enough to feel. You're reaching out (reaching out). You're reaching out (reaching out). You're reaching out. Bea...

I was thinking I could wait until the work is done But you'll only want to get back out and have some fun Sun's lighting up the sky And if it wasn't so bright I'd come undone Why can't you save time for me There isn't much but it's all that I want from...

She said I know what it's like to be dead I know what it is to be sad And you're making me feel like I've never been born I said Who put all those thoughts in your head? Things that make me feel like I'm bad 'Cause you're making me feel like I've never...

"You don't know how you move me Deconstruct me And consume me I'm all used up I'm out of luck I am starstuck By something in your eyes That is keeping my hope alive But I'm sick of myself when I look at you Something is beautiful and true In a world...

I'm takin' you to the silent city Underneath the broken stones I was hoping for eternity Here among the dirt and bones This world could be my love (love) Conquer then I'll wait for you You'll be my love (love) Conquer then I'll wait for you Conquer then I'll...

There's a smog moon in the amber sky Wavering and burning like a golden lie I fell so far, i didn't think I'd make it back And we all made as an after thought Destined to believe that we are what we are not I'm a fade, and I don't need to tell you that...

You waited for something You turned your mind around You tried to consider That some hope might be found But you still had a long way to go 'Cause you took it your own hands To let us know How the pain can become too much The speed of light just isn't...

Here he comes Here comes Speed Racer He's a demon on wheels He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone. He's gainin' on you so you better look alive. He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5. And when the odds are against him And there's dange...

I can't remember what I thought of you Just a minute before I've got to take another look at who I do believe it's true I've got a split personality When I let it fly I've got a split personality And I'm bottled up most times But I don't think I'd for...

No Memory Is quite the same No gentle breeze Can ease my pain Lover you're the one Super baby You're the one Super baby You're the one Promise you won't go far I want you right where you are I said it to your face So it cannot be erased now I g...

There's something I should tell you Before I take your blindfold off I've been twisted and turned By what I have learned I'm superdeformed But my blood is warm You know I'm superdeformed My blood is still warm But I'm superdeformed You know I'm super...

She sent me a letter just the other day She said this is a record that I like to play Yeah, this is a sound that I'm sure I enjoy Sadly, though, I am without a boy Now if I am jealous I hope it doesn't show Maybe it's something I'm not meant to know But...

Do you realize you're laughing while you're reaching for the gin Even though I threaten that I'm never coming back again The sweetest song you sing will never calm my fear 'Cause once the alcohol is talking, you're not even here Look into my eyes and tell...

You don't want to die But the living gets you down We want you to act like nothing's wrong Even though you heard a sound And then you're ripped right out of the ground Like a fucking root Ah, you simply cannot hide From the ugly truth You feel you must...

You're my thing Give you something to hide Working it's way to the side Taking me, taking me, taking me Taking it down on you You're my thing Watch me fall over you Through the eyes in the bottom of shoes Making me feel so small, making me Making me...

You can't give everything There isn't much I can give It's not a penny from the foot He left in the door Can't say anything Not say things though they * Some may be But oh baby It's only today This above all I thought you would remember And the fi...

I thought I knew you I was in for a surprise I let my love flow From my heart into your eyes And then I found out That there was nothing I could know or guess about you You'd go as far as you could go And it took me years to figure out That there was n...

Sun is gone And I'm on my own in a thunderstorm But it's not about to turn me around Hail is under my feet And lightning is in my head Deep inside I am tired of running I don't mind if the rain is coming Walking onto the water Where I was meant to be...

Stop what you're doing to me My love don't want to see Then we were young and strong Now everything is wrong Did you want me Did you need me Could you not say You believed me And our love is in a time capsule Dream what you want me to be Come and dig...

Time machine, let me into the future Ready to forget the past Long ago only leads to today Soon we'll find we don't know what love is Long after you've said goodbye I'm getting in to jump time again Take this heart that I'll have no use for In a momen...

I want another mind, So I can talk to my self. And try to explain, How my other life felt; Where I could never keep up with demand. You know I always tried my best to understand... I'm waitng every day with this small love of mine. And I can only prete...

Inside my deepest feelings I know you won't do wrong Don't say that I believe you Because you know it's true You've looked for something greater than this I promise you it doesn't exist And I wouldn't trade places for what I know But I'll do something...

Ultrasuede heaven made Honey never tasted so sweet Ultrasuede finest grade From my head up to your feet I'm alive You've got me running around in your Ultrasuede, Ultrasuede I'll give anything you desire If I get my way I'm leaving it up to you Ultrasu...

Me and my girl are going underground Got no time to tell you what we found People in this world aren't very kind And love is blind, love is blind All we want is on our minds We don't have a map, we don't follow signs Seems useless for you to look for at...

Hanging onto your pride, Trying not to decide Who could take you. Do you hold it inside, Let it fall by the way? I'll feel the way you feel And tell you after. But how long will it take? How long until you break, To talk you into space, How long unti...

Don't let me go on Sad and unfinished Don't make mine a chord That is diminished Don't make me go on long Untitled Don't let me get lost Fighting with nature Do let me grow cold Deep in a glacier Don't let me hang on long Untitled I can feel that...

Living with my hopelessness I wasn't very smart But I died an early death But now I know I wasn't alive yet There's a mountain in the side of me My vision that you can't see She never touched me like you do, mama Each time I take a little bit, take a l...

When it feels like time is running out on me I don't try to fight it 'cause I'm already moving on But I know that isn't good enough for you (chorus) There's a vicious circle turning It's gonna bring you back around There's a vicious circle, baby And t...

If we stop to think of life As time that's running slow From birth to death like day to night It isn't very far to go So I'm cruisin' (cruisin') with my pretty little vixen I can't believe the strength of my addiction To absolute freedom Cruisin,' ah-h...

When you look into a mirror The reflection that you see Is a shell of what you were It's not who you want to be But you're gonna change You've just about made up your mind (You're gonna change) You're gonna change And when you leave it all behind Wh...

Safe in the night When people look but can not see Pale in the light That shines above onto the street I watch you walkin' on the other side And I turn my head away in shame Wishin' they'd talk in the worthless-- Quaint and reserved The house that kn...

Daylight comes you lift your pretty head from your knees In the past you always knew you could talk to me I would look to help but certain things I can't see You raise your eyes and nod your head I'd rather talk this out instead While time is ticking away...

I don't have to speak, and you know what I'm thinking. You don't need to hear what I say. I have to ask, 'cause you'll guess what I'm seeking. You don't need to hide what you know. Baby we're the same, when we fare in each other's eyes. Baby we're the sa...

Do you want to tell me something Open up my world for me baby With another stupid lie that gets you by One of those stupid lies that gets you by Do you wnat to show me something Or are you just describing it to me Just look me in the eye / When you say w...

In my mind I can't imagine How the world has come to me And in my heart I can't detach The feeling that it couldn't be And no, I don't want to kiss you Don't want to miss you if you go away I'll fake it don't want to make it Don't want to feel another...

You think you're so fast, but I know who Said it was the first.. ..place, it wasn't you And you think you're so smart, but I don't know......... (know) Every now and then.. ... I guess it starts to show And I'm just like you, I don't wanna be alone I do...

Oh I used to sit around all day What would I do if I found her Figuring out what I might say For a moment she was wonderful So I know I've got a little luck comin' to me Got a little luck comin' to me I guess I'd never seen a girl as easy to explain Th...

I tried to call you but the line was busy Were you talking to a friend? And when I tried again much later I didn't want to let it ring again So you can see I've got a problem Back by popular demand Sometimes I want to keep it from you Sometimes I think...

If you're big enough to take it When the truth gets overwhelming Then along with many others You fight If you're small enough to fit yourself Among so many millions With your own set of problems to face If it's worse to live than to let go You've got...

I guess I live in a world you'll never get a glimpse inside of If the thought of me selling out gets you excited Do you think everything that nobody else has thought of Do you feel everything that no one else can feel I do too Why don't you write your ow...

What a beautiful moment, the truth comes out at last. Once your heart would own me forever, then this passed. And what a beautiful moment, as my head comes apart. Drunk, and in a manner of saying, wasted. 'Cause you don't love me, you don't love me. You...

Speak to me with your sweet voice And take me through another night Speak to me with your sweet voice And I will surely be alright If I can close my eyes without a fear Speak to me with your sweet voice Near Hold me in your warm hand And I could slee...