Unsealed on a porch a letter sat

Then you said I wanna leave it again

Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand

And on the sand I wanna leave it again, yeah

On a weekend wanna wish it all away

And they called and I said that I want what I said

And then I call out again

And the reason oughtta leave her calm, I know

I said I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag

Oh yeah, can you see them

Out on the porch

Yeah but they don't wave

I see them

Round the front way, yeah

And I know and I know I don't want to stay

Make me cry

I see

I don't know, there's something else

I wanna drum it all away

Oh, I said I don't, I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag

Oh yeah, can you see them

Out on the porch

Yeah but they don't wave

I see them

Round the front way, yeah

And I know and I know I don't want to stay

I don't wanna stay

I don't wanna stay

I don't wanna stay, oh no

Yeah

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

The selfish, they're all standing in line

Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time

Me, I figure as each breath goes by

I only own my mind

The north is to south what the clock is to time

There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life

I know I was born and I know that I'll die

The in-between is mine

I am mine

And the feeling, it gets left behind

All the innocence lost at one time

Significant behind the eyes

There's no need to hide

We're safe tonight

The ocean is full 'cause everyone's crying

The full moon is looking for friends at high tide

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied

I only know my mind

I am mine

And the meaning, it gets left behind

All the innocence lost at one time

Significant, behind the eyes

There's no need to hide

We're safe tonight

And the feelings that get left behind

All the innocence broken with lies

Significance, between the lines

We may need to hide

And the meanings that get left behind

All the innocence lost at one time

We're all different behind the eyes

There's no need to hide, yeah

Freezin'

Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again

Oh, feelin'

Maybe he'll see a little betters, any days

Oh, hand out

Faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar

Oh, dark grin

He can't help, when he's happy, he looks insane

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away

Oh, someday yet he'll begin his life again

Life again, life again

Kneelin'

Lookin' through the paper though he doesn't know to read

Oh, prayin'

Now to something that has never showed him anything

Oh, feelin'

Understands the weather of the winter's on its way

Oh, ceilings

Few and far between all the legal halls of shame

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away

Oh, someday yet he'll begin his life again

Whispering hands gently lead him away

Him away, him away

Yeah, ooh, ah yeah, fuck it up

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away

Ah, someday yet he'll begin his life again

Whispering hands gently lead him away

Him away, him away

Yeah, ooh

At home drawing pictures

Of mountain tops

With him on top

Lemon yellow sun

Arms raised in a V

And the dead lay in pools of maroon below

Daddy didn't give attention

Oh, to the fact that mommy didn't care

King Jeremy the wicked

Oh, ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today

Jeremy spoke in class today

Clearly I remember

Pickin' on the boy

Seemed a harmless little fuck

But we unleashed the lion

Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast

How could I forget

And he hit me with a surprise left

My jaw left hurting

Dropped wide open

Just like the day

Oh, like the day I heard

Daddy didn't give affection, no

And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear

King Jeremy the wicked

Oh ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today

Jeremy spoke in class today

Jeremy spoke in class today

Try to forget this (try to forget this)

Try to erase this (try to erase this)

From the blackboard

Jeremy spoke in class today

Jeremy spoke in class today

Jeremy spoke in

Spoke in

Jeremy spoke in

Spoke in

Jeremy spoke in class today

[Verse 1]

Son, she said, "have I got a little story for you

What you thought was your daddy was nothing but a...

While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen

Your real daddy was dyin'

Sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked"

[Chorus]

Oh, I, oh I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh I'm still alive

Hey, oh

[Verse 2]

While she walks slowly across a young man's room

She said, "I'm ready for you"

Why, I can't remember anything to this very day

Cept the look, the look

Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare

[Chorus]

I, I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive, yeah

[Break]

Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh

[Bridge]

There's something wrong, she said, well of course there is

You're still alive, she said, oh, and do I deserve to be?

Is that the question?

And if so, if so who answers? Who answers?

[Chorus]

I, oh I'm still alive

Hey, I, oh I'm still alive

Yeah, I, oh I'm still alive

Yeah, I, ooh, I'm still alive!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

[Guitar Solo]

Ooh yeah, ooh ooh

Ooh yeah, yeah yeah yeah

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?

The Lord took her away from me

She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good

So I can see my baby when I leave this world

We were out on a date in my daddy's car

We hadn't driven very far

There in the road, straight ahead

A car was stalled, the engine was dead

I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right

I'll never forget, the sound that night

The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass

The painful scream, that I heard last

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?

The Lord took her away from me

She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good

So I can see my baby when I leave this world

When I woke up, the rain was pourin' down

There were people standing all around

Something warm flowin' through my eyes

But somehow I found my baby that night

I lifted her head, she looked at me and said

Hold me darling, just a little while

I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss

I found the love, that I knew I had missed

And now she's gone, even though I hold her tight

I lost my love, my life that night

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?

The Lord took her away from me

She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good

So I can see my baby when I leave this world

Hey, oh

Sheets of empty canvas

Untouched sheets of clay

Were laid spread out before me

As her body once did

All five horizons

Revolved around her soul

As the earth to the sun

Now the air I tasted and breathed

Has taken a turn

Oh and all I taught her was everything

Oh I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands

Chafe beneath the clouds

Of what was everything

Oh the pictures have

All been washed in black

Tattooed everything

I take a walk outside

I'm surrounded by

Some kids at play

I can feel their laughter

So why do I sear

Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin

Round my head

I'm spinning

Oh, I'm spinning

How quick the sun can, drop away

And now my bitter hands

Cradle broken glass

Of what was everything

All the pictures have

All been washed in black

Tattooed everything

All the love gone bad

Turned my world to black

Tattooed all I see

All that I am

All that I'll be, yeah

Uh huh, uh huh, oh

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I know you'll be a star

In somebody else's sky

But why

Why

Why can't it be

Oh can't it be mine

One, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five, five against one

Said one, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five, five, five, five against one

Torture from you to me, yeah

Abducted from the street

I'd rather be

I'd rather be with

I'd rather be with an animal

Why would you want to hurt me? Oh

So frightened of your pain

I'd rather be

I'd rather be with

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be

I'd rather be

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be

I'd rather be with

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be

I'd rather be

I'd rather be with an animal

Said one, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five, five, five, five against one

One, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five, five, five, five against one, said

Lay down your arms

And surrender to me

Oh, lay down your arms

And love me peacefully,

Yeah

Use your arms for squeezing,

Pleasing the one who loves you so

Oh, there ain't no reason

For you to declare a war

I'm the one who loves you so

So forget the other Boys,

Cause my love is real

Come off your battlefield

Lay down your arms

And surrender to me,

Yeah

Lay down your arms and

Love me peacefully, yeah

Use your arms to squeezing and pleasing,

That's the way it's got to be

The weapons that you're usin'

Are hurtin' me bad

But someday you're gonna retreat

Cause my love, baby, is the truest you ever had

I'm a soldier of love, that's hard to beat

Lay down your arms

And surrender to me

Lay down your arms

And love me peacefully,

Yeah

Use your arms to hold me tight

Baby, I don't want to fight no more

Use your arms to hold me tight

Baby, I don't want to fight no more

Baby, lay down your arms

Oh baby, lay down your arms

Oh baby, lay down your arms

Baby, lay down your arms

Baby, lay down your arms

Baby, lay down your arms

Please, baby, lay down your arms

Cha cha cha

Alone, listless

Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room

Young girl, violence

Center of her own attention

The mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it

Tries to make her proud

The shades go down, it's in her head

Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me

She holds the hand that holds her down

She will rise above, uh uh

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me

The shades go down

The shades go down

The shades go go

Go

He could've tuned in, tuned in

But he tuned out

A bad time, nothing could save him

Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out

He got up outta there, ran for hundreds of miles

He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree

The wind rose up, set him down on his knee

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw

Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now"

Arms wide open with the sea as his floor

Oh, power, oh

He's flying

Whole

High, wide, oh

He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share

His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere

But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed

By faceless men, well, fuckers

He still stands

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away

The love he receives is the love that is saved

And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky

A human being that was given to fly

High, flying

Oh, oh

High, flying

Oh, oh

He's flying

Oh, high

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh please don't go out on me don't go out on me now

Never acted up before don't go on me now

I swear I never took it for granted just thought of it now

Suppose I abused you just passing it on

Go

Fuck

Once fastened servile now your getting sharp

Moving oh so swiftly with such disarm

I pulled the covers over him shoulda' pulled the alarm

Turned to my nemesis a fool no fucking god

No

Time

Suck

My

Please don't go on me

Don't go on me

Don't go on me

Don't go on me

Please

Suck, blood, touch

Please tunnel vision

Tuck

Time

See

Please, please, please

Don't go on me

Don't go on me

Don't go on me

Don't go on me

Please, don't you want me, don't go on me

Please, don't go on me

I seem to recognize your face

Haunting, familiar yet

I can't seem to place it

Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name

Lifetimes are catching up with me

All these changes taking place

I wish I'd seen the place

But no one's ever taken me

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

I swear, I recognize your breath

Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising

Me, you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former

It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf

I changed by not changing at all

Small town predicts my fate

Perhaps that's what no one wants to see

I just want to scream hello

My God it's been so long

Never dreamed you'd return

But now here you are and here I am

Hearts and thoughts they fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

Hearts and thoughts they fade

Woo

I'm ahead, I'm a man

I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah

I'm at peace with my lust

I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah

It's evolution, baby

I'm at peace, I'm the man

Buying stocks on the day of the crash, yeah

On the loose, I'm a truck

All the rolling hills, I'll flatten 'em out, yeah

It's herd behavior, uh huh

It's evolution, baby, good

Admire me, admire my home

Admire my son, he's my clone

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

This land is mine, this land is free

I'll do what I want but irresponsibly

It's evolution, baby

I'm a thief, I'm a liar

There's my church, I sing in the choir

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Admire me, admire my home

Admire my son, admire my clones

Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast

Those ignorant Indians got nothin' on me

Nothin', why?

Because it's evolution, baby

I am ahead, I am advanced

I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah

I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher

2010, watch it go to fire

It's evolution, baby

It's evolution, baby

Ah, do the evolution

Come on, come on, come on

Vacate is the word

Vengeance has no place so near to her

Cannot find the comfort in this world

Artificial tear

Vessel stabbed, next up, volunteer?

Vulnerable wisdom can't adhere

A truant finds home

And I wish to hold on

But there's a trapdoor in the sun

Immortality

As privileged as a whore

Victims in demand for public show

Swept out through the cracks beneath the door

Holier than thou, how?

Surrendered, executed, anyhow

Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor

A truant finds home

And I wish to hold on, too

But saw the trapdoor in the sun

Immortality

I cannot stop the thought

I'm running in the dark

Coming up a which way sign

All good truants must decide

Oh, stripped and sold mom

Auctioned forearm

And whiskers in the sink

Truants move on

Cannot stay long

Some die just to live

See this needle

Oh see my hand

Drop, drop, dropping it down

oh so gently

here it comes

touch the flame

Turn me up

won't turn you away

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

spin the black, spin the black

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

whoa

Pull it out

a paper sleeve

Oh my joy

only you deserve conceit

Oh I'm so big

and my whole world

I'd rather you

rather you, than her

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

spin the black, spin the black

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

whoa

Oh you're so warm

oh, the ritual

as I lay down your crooked arm

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

spin the black, spin the black

Spin, spin

spin the black circle

Spin, spin

Spin the black

circle

Spin the black circle

Spin the black circle

Spin me round.

Roll me over.

Fucking circus.

Stab it down.

One way needle.

Pulled so slowly.

Drains and spills.

Soaks the pages.

Fills their sponges.

It's my blood.

It's my blood.

Paint Ed big.

Turn Ed into one of his enemies.

It's my blood.

It's my blood.

It's my blood.

Stab it down.

Fill the pages.

Suck my blood dry.

Maker of my enemies.

Take my...

Why, why, why, why, why, why?

Rats.

Tidal waves don't beg forgiveness

Crashed and on their way

Father he enjoyed collisions, others walked away

A snowflake falls in May

And the doors are open now

As the bells are ringing out

Cause the man of the hour

Is taking his final bow

Goodbye for now

Nature has its own religion

Gospel from the land

Father ruled by long division

Young men they pretend

Old men comprehend

And the sky breaks at dawn

Shedding light upon this town

They'll all come around

Cause the man of the hour

Is taking his final bow

Goodbye for now

And the road

The old man paved

The broken seams along the way

The rusted signs, left just for me

He was guiding me, love, his own way

Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow

As the curtain comes down

I feel that this is just goodbye for now