The Wallflowers

Sirens ring, the shots ring out A stranger cries, screams out loud I had my world strapped against my back I held my hands, never knew how to act Chorus: And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartac...

I'm finding it hard, Just to keep up with someone Who's hangin' onto nothin' Only to lose what's never mine. And I'm finding it hard Just to keep up with something That's hangin' on to nothin' To keep all these chains tied up and in line, in line. Pretty Ang...

She knows just what I like The angel on my bike She found me down on a two ton anchor Tangled up in wire She always gets it right The angel on my bike I could be killed if the train goes faster Well angel watch my life I can't handle a care I want, but I can'...

Well, you could walk like a stranger head back into here, Bringing gifts while you act so sincere, Bringing gifts for a boy who's five years, Looking for rocks and training wheels. I don't remember you from any of those books, Ashes to ashes and six feet unde...

Do you ever stop to count all the invitations At the end of the day when it comes down to one decision Of dead beat girls and freaks at a peoples convention, All these sugars with no vitamin sensation. Do you ever stop to look over old relations, Or look to t...

Come back babybird With your dirty wings in tatters Come home where you belong Nobody knows you better Now bring back your velvet heart And we'll make you brand new feathers Sleep through the morning light With your arms around your brother Babybird come back...

Feels like a ghost here in this room Not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume All around me, all around you In from the window for a drag of your perfume Let's move back to California Let's make a promise, baby Let's both be there Put our feet deep in th...

I know you're tired of waking up on the floor Pushed to the edge with nothing heavy to hold Using your clothes as a blanket and a bed Holding your hands just to lay your head. I know you don't remember ever falling down, Who picked you up, who gathered around...

So sad that you took it so badly And acted so madly So scared like a baby by the morning with sunlight unfolding Your eyes have turned red And are holding me inside your story In the end you'll have started on a new one Of anguish and delusions He smiles just...

Once upon a time They called me the bleeder Well swimmin' up this river With sentimental fever But this ain't my first ride It ain't my last try Just got to keep a-movin' on If they catch me ever They'll throw me back forever [chorus:] I guess I should be ash...

How soft a whisper can get When youre walking through a crowded space I hear every word being said And I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you How long an hour can take When youre starting into open space When I feel Im slipping further away...

Cherry picking through the stars And falling cannonballs Waiting for the break of dawn To start its morning crawl Polluted rays of filtered light Tropical and warm Making shadows through The snow white resin covered skulls Happy birthday to the war Standing...

Well, there is trouble in my mind There is dark There’s dark, and there is light. I lay our hands over my eyes As I look deep Through valleys deep and wide Across the border line For the Empire in My Mind You are the reason I don’t sleep You are the light Th...

On your mark Get set lets go You got to move on Before she explodes Look out the window Lookout below Back away from the glass There she blows The citys been leveled Hills are in flames Streets cracked open And theyre pushin up clay Temperatures dropped Sky is...

I’m not looking For a warm embrace I’m not looking For a friendly face I’ve got Everything I need I’m not worried If you’re coming back I’m in a hurry Cause’ I just found out I’ve got Everything I need I’ve got Everything I need So even if yo...

My mind is open And my heart is full I aint got any weight That I cant pull And right now I know that anything Is possible Im gonna bang my drum Blow my horn I forget what these pills Were ever for I believe I wont need them anymore I used to burn candles At b...

Seen the shadow on my wall Turn and fall On broken hands and all Turn and crawl Seen that sun gone down And the waterfall She stood tall in the fallen rain Right off an orphan train She'll run to me again, I believed, See how wrong, how wrong you can be. I kn...

Fire on the porch on a summer's night All of my things are there inside Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher I smell leaves and burning tires Dogs in the meadows barking wild Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done I'm not drunk and I'm not sad Ther...

Senorita Looks like you ain't done nothing good women ain't supposed to do Oh no no no no I seen her downtown 'Bout an hour ago Behind the glass at a peep show I got nervous 'cause I don't know Can she see me behind that window? It's almost nine and I'm back...

Seems like the world's gone underground No gods or heroes Dare to go down Tear drops from a hole in heaven come Overhead like ravens Dropping down like bombs Through the mornings silver frosted glow God says nothing back But I told you so I told you so God bl...

You won't ever amount to much You won't be anyone Now tell me what you are thinking of How could you think you would be enough It's not that you have stayed too long And it's not that you've done something wrong It's not your fault that you embarrass yourself...

Maybe it's not That I don't care anymore Maybe I just never did You can't say That I have ever lied Because I keep the truth well hid Tell me what's wrong Is something wrong? You can't be sad When something you have never had Suddenly feels gone I...

Here comes your drunken marionette Dragging his mess of threads There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs He says who will ignore me when you're gone? Now come on lift me up I wanna dance by your tin cup Tower of beauty with a split in your tongue Who will...

If you could see yourself The way that I do You might change A thing or two You wouldnt look so angry Youd know it doesnt Look good on you So grab your coat Grab your hat There aint no saying If were coming back Cause somethings gone So terribly wrong Here in...

I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, for ever and ever. We can be Heroes, just for one day. I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing, nothing wil...

You talk so loud, you talk so much and you talk so funny, But honey, what are you talkin' about ? Something 'bout being, being reimbursed For every unregistered virus. Drainpipes are filled up with dirty rain, And the leisure train is speeding in the diamond...

Seen the shadow on my wall Turn and fall On broken hands and all Turn and crawl Seen that sun gone down And the waterfall She stood tall in the fallen rain Right off an orphan train She'll run to me again, I believed, See how wrong, how wrong you can be. I kn...

Slow down You're breaking up Use your words Don't yell so much I don't understand a word That you're saying Now move in Come up close You look like You've maybe seen a ghost Tell me Has someone gotten to you baby Now open your arms Pick up your head Open your...

I'm here by my window I am waiting for your parade I will salute you From above the crowd As you make your way You won the battle You've won the war I admit it now I could not give any more My condition is your reward I am a building Here without doors The al...

I started a joke. Which started the whole world crying. But I didn't see that the joke was on me. Oh, no, I started to cry. Which started the whole world laughing. Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me. I looked at the skies. Running my hands ov...

Say when you're alone It's better 'cause nobody knows you When no one's your friend It's better 'cause nobody leaves you So you turned your back On a world that you could never have 'Cause your heart's been cracked And everyone else's is goin' mad [Chorus:] B...

I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same Your lips are moving, I cannot hear Your voice is soothing but the words aren't c...

I could break free from the wood of a coffin if I need But nothin's hard as Gettin' free from places I've already been I've been waste-deep in the burnin' meadows of my mind In the engine In cold December shootin' fire from the hose Now turn off your lights...

That aint a parachute That aint a rip cord That aint a body of water Were headed for Theres so little time left So much to be done Even you are gonna need someone That aint a trick of light Or the morning haze Coming in from the lake Getting into your eyes Its...

We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic And when that fog horn blows I will be c...

Lookin' back at the crash site I don't see me by the roadside Well this heart is on wheels tonight Straight through the ghettos And without lights Now every heart has a blind side Where it learns how to improvise Well this place is a whorehouse tonight Cheaper...

Lookin' back at the crash site I don't see me by the roadside Well this heart is on wheels tonight Straight through the ghettos And without lights Now every heart has a blind side Where it learns how to improvise Well this place is a whorehouse tonight Cheaper...

I feel pretty good I feel all right And I've been thinkin' maybe I could spend the night I know you've been sad I know I've been bad But if you'd let me Make you ribbons from a paper bag [Chorus:] Josephine You're so good to me And I know It ain't easy Josep...

Man, you oughta finish what you've started You can't leave me here alive Well I know it started as a fist fight But you've got me covered up in hives I don't need an invitation The best peach is at the top of that tree But when all this indecision reigns So a...

Now coming down Out of this swandive to your arms I make no sounds WhenI move thru your reservoirs I wake up quick I wake up sick As you abandon me Into these fields of rank and file Thru this cloudI hear you breathing Thru these barsI watch them bring more in...

Mama don't 'you send me no love this month 'cause my heart is all used up and mama I wanna come home I wanna get back home So look out into the morning rain 'cause I'm on the mourning train I'm bringing down my suitcase now I'm shining up my good shoes brown...

Never thought that I knew too much I always thought I knew enough I didn't want to learn this stuff I didn't ever want to be that tough But love was just implied And everything else died This class has now begun In Murder 101 You can learn it in the first deg...

Last night I dreamt one thousand lies I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes There in my slumber passing time Long live the world resting on its side I walked the orchard with you Your hand in mine In the evergreens drinking wine I saw the snow...

So long ago, I don't remember when That's when they say I lost my only friend Well, they said she died easy of a broken heart disease As I listened through the cemetery trees I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn The long broken arm of human la...

Where you're going has no signs And you're not going in a straight line You ought to have me on your mind I dare you to think otherwise One day the water, more water You keep diving and you won't be recovered You need a clue, I'll come in closer I want...

Im looking up At the moving clouds I've been hit so hard This time I just might stay down If you were me I would come back To get you If this is love Then I dont remember You won't find anyone To treat you better Weve already been through Hell and high waters...

She told you about it through a broken bleeding windpipe. It shook your bones and made your life feel skintight. Well, Sidewalk Annie Now your coattails have come undone, Your whisper's a scream now Since you don't speak to anyone. The howlin' winds could ne...

Pretty little girl on the side of the road Yellow hair in a yellow bow Little thumb sticking in the exit lane Two packs of smokes and a candy cane With women hips and baby lips A Hallelujah book in the back of a pillow-slip. If she gets out of here too soon Sh...

Maybe I could be the one they adore That could be my reputation It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore I'm an educated virgin Sleepwalker, don't be shy Now don't open your eyes tonight You'll be the one that defends my life While I'm dead asleep...

We didn't make it We did not pull through You shouldn't blame me I don't blame you Now what else did you think that I would do? ooooh as if it wasn't hard enough I'm so tired of waking up feeling bad You haven't been the kind of place I have Could it hurt you...

We can buy that mansion on the hill, We'll fill it up until it's filled. We'll buy a big black Cadillac And we'll keep an extra one in the back. We'll sit home just listening To the sounds of the winds when they're breaking And we can buy that diamond ring And...

Sugarfoot's got two hands Just as long as he can see, One hand in the birdfeed And a hand in the apple tree. He stands in line, just a little behind A yellow moon that hangs, he's all tangled and he broke his sticks on the links Of his own chain gang. You oug...

Tomorrow is gonna make you cry It's gonna to make you kneel Before it breaks you from inside Still pressing on Arm over arm Still trying to get both feet back onto the ground They are harvesting these fields in autumn. We're different now than when we started...

One, two boys by the river Down by the water Tellin' riddles in the dark With fireflies under the moonlight Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife Ever hear the one about the boy's big sister His best friend come along He tried to kiss her [Chorus:] The o...

Cherry picking through the stars And falling cannonballs Waiting for the break of dawn To start its morning crawl Polluted rays of filtered light Tropical and warm Making shadows through The snow white resin covered skulls Happy birthday to the war Standing...

Alone tonight in somebody's bed She gone and dyed her hair red She only went and did what she did 'Cause he would drive her home then There's lipstick on her new dress She hadn't even paid yet But it doesn't matter where the money went It wasn't how she paid '...

There's three ways out of every box Fall out the bottom Or you crawl out the top There's three ways Out of every, every box But if you can't find your way out Then you just burn it To the ground Then you'll disappear Like smoke Into the clouds There's three w...

Takes all my might To find a hole that feels right To bury myself In a deep sleep at night I hear a voice Coming from the hillside Says Ill show you the way I will show you the light But Im tired Im tired Im much too tired Im tired Hes says I know where you...

Well I'm down here in the well Looking back up at the hill Well I thank heavens I fell Must look more like myself Now everyone is so kind Everyone looks like a long lost friend of mine I'm on top of the world again When I'm looking up from under Babylon I had...

Now mine is a sunshine kind of a valentine But sometimes I still don't feel even worth a dime But it used to be different, before I'd been where I've been Oooh ooh ooh oooh Now you've got a heart so you know how it feels When you can't move at the top of a fe...

Quarter Moon, On a city growing thick With good advice that won't stick. From the ballrooms to the suburbs, Abandoned mines Atlantis may be rising but We're all out of time. The colored lights On the fire escape, And bodies move behind drapes, And the light i...

I need a bed That nobody's slept in I need some air Nobody's been breathing I need a thought That I can believe in Is this fog Or is the building really burning I need you Much more than ever I'm making new friends But none of them matter Maybe now We don't fi...

I'm standing outside your window, baby And there you are Another year, another candle's burning for the party girl No one even knows that you're there Happy Birthday, no one cares You come around here, You'd better bring a witness Everyone in here's on the gu...