cap off kneelin at the back of the church feelin water on your brow with its' heal and it hurts at first a sharpish pain that returns as a thought that the needle in your skin won't bring you closer to god as I watch as your head turns full circle all hopeless with old coffee and a medical text it's too easy knowin nothin blowin off the rest and the riddles in the pages leavin too much to guess and the worry cracks a fracture from your hip to your chest and I watch as your head turns full circle you got lost in your travels and a spiritual book mistook beaches for nirvana in the way that they look and the crooks that run the island are killing to keep earning they're burning seven tons of plastic and it seems to be working is that the best that I can do? as I watch as your head turns full circle you appear even-tempered though your looks will deceive and the sparks are always flying cuz you drink for relief with the heart of a child and the wit of a fool it's a wonder why I don't try to build a wall around you as I watch as your head turns full circle as I watch as your head turns full circle yea I watch as your head turns full circle

you can have it if you don't mind some or all the others stay with me you confuse me with your riddles and your sudden generosity call me in the afternoon even by one by one you can have it when you come by, you can have yourself a one-man way i saw you when it caught your eye and it's such a petty price to pay call me in the afternoon even by one by one take one if you need it but you really shouldn't be out this late really wanna make you feel home take one if you need it but you really shouldn't get this fucked up really wanna get it to you slide another shot by and wipe your dirty hands on me swallow till you go blind and find a little company call me in the afternoon even by one by one after all, when i listen, it could be you, could be anyone that i want

somebody stop her the lifter the runner the girl with the gold in her mouth they caught her at london waterloo station strung up on a ferris wheel she used to lose pageants "pick of the litter" the newspapers screamed from their racks pictures at seven, nine-teen eighty-somethin the waltz on her father's shoes no more losing the war, karen no more losing the war, karen but i really knew her in an after-pub-closing way falling down, crawling drunk laughing like children with sugared up gullets i rue this day no more losing the war, karen oh karen.. no more losing the war you got me all frustrated in an old fashioned way easy does it rider i've had a long, long day no more losing the war, karen no more losing the war, karen

her face when you've been looking for awhile left not a trace that we're underneath the weather and i tried to let go, and she slipped away like a little girl and i really want to make her mine my girl would never say what i need to hear to make it all ok so we try to make nice and the kids won't know for a little while but it really doesn't make it i find you, alone awhile with a heavy hand and a dark-lit smile at a fine time to regret what i still don't know and i really want to make her mine she wants to know just who i am she wants to know just who i am she can make you work for the worth that she has she wants to know just who i am i'm guessing that it happens all of the time through no fault of mine but she can turn it around and she wasn't like the best thing under the sun but yeah, i guess i needed to learn from her i guess i need to open up and let it all out! your face when it all came down with a bright light was a little dark frown i was unturned by that sharp alarm, and you weren't afraid but it really doesn't matter i tried you and forced a smile and we were like friends for an unsaid while and i might've let go, maybe one of those nights she stayed awhile and still i want to make her mine she wants to know just who i am she wants to know just who i am she can make you work for the worth that she has she wants to know just who i am i'm guessing that it happens all of the time through no fault of mine but she can turn it around and she wasn't like the best thing under the sun but yeah, i guess i needed to learn from her i guess i needed to open and let it all out! and she wasn't like the best thing under the sun but yeah, i guess i needed to learn from her i guess i needed to open up and let it all out!

in a dream, i was untrue shot up in sweats and i knew it was you all the while as i traced her spine you tore up my head, through my peace of mind if you breathe in, then i breathe in and slowly let go if you need it, then i need it and only we'll know can't be the same as we lie in the light knowing full well, your virtue's my vice in the night we are one till the moment is gone till my race has been run if you breathe in, then i breathe in and slowly let go if you need it, then i need it and only we'll know your sorry words need not know my mind so refrain from use if you breathe in, then i breathe in and only we'll know

i just wanted to resolve it to make peace with all those weekends we all just give up we all stand down with no lesson learned with our eyes half shut no confusion it's been obvious hallelujah i've been saved by no one again, and again but we all just give up we all stand down with no lesson learned with our eyes half shut

you gotta believe me, i'm doing my best i apologize for all the flack i caught for dropping out yeh you kicked up a storm, but the winds have died down i got a lot of bottles on account of this around i'm sorry i'm not him the poet's right hand the artistic little suffering son-of-a-working-man you work yourself in, but it spits you right out why is it so hard? i should've run you out of town! if it looks like it is, then it probably ain't the more than you talk the more my interest goes away you work yourself in, but it spits you right out why is it so hard? i should've run you out of town!

drug you love you drug you love you drugs you take to reveal it all your wishes come true drug you love you drug you love you drugs you take to believe it all your wishes come true i still am full of hate i still am full of pride i still am full of hate i still am full of pride is it all that you need when it's all that you got is it all that you need cuz it's all that i want when it's all that you need cuz it's all that you got then it's all that you want and it's all that i'm not still as rain fallin down still as rain fallin down drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you still as rain fallin down still as rain fallin down drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug you love you drug

there's a lot of nothing in the words i know but i keep on talking 'cause it feels like home feels alright to be growing old but growing old is just letting go and it's just the reason i needed to leave this place had the whole morning to run away i had a different image on my mind it's just it changes always, all the time and it comes as no surprise it's like i just don't know what you're doing wrong man you've got a lot of nerve how come all my vices always breed relief when a sip of gin saves an hour of speech? and yeh it's fickle and it feels so cheap but i can rest and i can feel at ease it's my friends don't know the half they're just listening i'm at a loss 'cause i'm living it that's not to say that i'm giving it it's just that this is how it's always been and it comes as no surprise it's like i just don't know what you're doing wrong man you've got a lot of nerve i can't melt all of my worries to nothing and i would i keep trying but i always get let down somehow man you've got a lot of nerve

hey dark eyes rest with me a while as i drift closer to sleep but still cannot still cannot find no peace you let go of glass at our feet that rang through the night you take the fire escape run down the street to the church hey murderer the killing keeps us close enough hey murderer every breath you steal is a breathe i breath for you you let go of glass at our feet that rang through the night you take the fire escape run down the street to the church

21 gun salute i guess i saw it in my tv show with the look of the sun on the city-scape i caught the subway home with a belly-ache when you look in the face of my friends when i try to talk with a cloudy head i keep fucking it up, and it's rough maybe it's just that i'm out of luck it all goes downhill after the rains, after the floods only mountains retain the shape, retain the blood all the secrets you've kept till now, you'll keep till the grave 21 gun salute i had to put the body to rest i guess i saw it in my fevered sleep with a cough to wake up in the morning breeze it all goes downhill after the rains, after the floods only mountains retain the shape, retain the blood all the secrets you've kept till now you'll keep till the grave all slow to face when i'm wrong enough long shall we wait for another one it all goes downhill after the rains, after the floods only mountains retain the shape, retain the blood all you seek is gone