1. |
The Question
03:35
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What’s that? That there. In corner, in the chair. Tell them please.
A riddle. A joke. Something for you to poke. A mystery.
It’s the question that’s on your mind. It’s the question at Christmas time.
Won’t you just leave it be?
Those clothes. That hair. Collapsed and vacant stare. Just who is he?
He hasn’t grown up. He must be so corrupt. A gay junkie.
He’s the question that’s on your mind. He’s the question at Christmas time.
He lives inside a dream.
I’m not the man that you wanted me to be.
I tried so hard. But as you can see, I’m just me.
I’m the question that’s on your mind. I’m the question at Christmas time.
Won’t you stop solving me?
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2. |
1987
03:30
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Summertime
'87 I
stayed inside.
We knew a kid
they took off with-
and he was never seen again.
Summertime
'87 I
was terrified.
I recall
hours spent
at the child psychologist.
The buzzing in the air sounds like
the soundtrack playing half my life-
the sound of someone tuning in between
two stations on the dial.
To my surprise
'87 I
got out alive
and told myself
not to get
pinned down by those things again.
Summertime
'87 I
woke up to find
I’d metamorphasized into
the very thing I was afraid of…
Chorus
We just got our wings
and we don’t know how to use them.
Shed our skin and crawl out
to one another.
A giant love song
is broadcast and then gone.
Our giant love song-
sing along.
(The chorus of the voices in my head…)
Summertime
I've come back home
fully grown
and quite content
to make my love,
and then just disappear again.
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3. |
Run
02:27
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If you could see my soul through my eyes and after exposure there would you say good-bye? And if I could run away, I’d like to leave real soon. And if I could run away, I’d want to run with you.
Now I’ve tried real hard to win your affections dear. And I’m no perfect saint. That much is clear. And there are so many things I think that you should see. Equations run through my brain. ‘Cause there’s you and there’s me and there’s us, if you please, forever in time. Will you run with me?
Now that you’ve heard all that, what will you do? And forgive my bravado, baby, but all this is true. And if I could run away, I’d like to leave real soon. And if I could run away, you can bet it would be with you.
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4. |
Petit Mal
05:24
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Will someone grab my hand before I hit the ground? I can see no light. I can’t hear a sound. Unconscious, but still awake after the sunshine.
A puppet without strings is falling to the floor. These limbs have no mind. This hasn’t happened before. Unconscious, but still awake after the sunshine.
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5. |
My Blue Room
02:39
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Have I shown you my blue room?
I used to sleep like a baby ‘til I met you.
Now I stay up all night
wondering what’s on your mind
when you come to take me out
of my blue room.
Have I shown you my green eyes?
You’ve never seen with my glasses off.
I never got that close
and now I don’t even try-
I just let you stay the night
in my blue room.
I woke up today
after you’d gone away.
The ceiling caved in on me- I stayed
under the covers,
covered in dust,
in over my head. Why don’t you come and
dig me out of my black hole?
I'll be waving the big red flag.
(Over & over & over…)
Have I shown you my gray hair?
Happened overnight in my blue room.
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6. |
Appetite
04:05
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The problem as I see it
Is that we've already gone too far
to talk about dying young and
someone believe it.
I guess I'm stuck in the middle –
It's always the middle of the night…
I want this appetite.
I know better than to talk with my mouth full
of someone else's words when talking to you.
I guess we've already gone too far
to think about saving something for tomorrow.
To talk about splitting what we had together.
You left over the things I thought you wanted.
Now I want this appetite
and not much else.
I know better than to go back for more
when I haven't even finished what I had before.
It's always the middle of night…
Why won't this appetite
leave me alone?
I know better than to think I'm strong
when I've always given in just to get along.
I know better than to go to you
hoping that you know what I'm going through –
you've never been hungry for something you knew was wrong.
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7. |
History (In the Making)
03:42
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In a daydream on an afternoon, I close my eyes to forget about you. ‘Cause I’m not gonna make that mistake, again. And I’m not gonna make that mistake, again. And I’m not gonna make that mistake, again anymore.
A list of kisses next to bloody lies, enforce the notion of bitten and shy. I feel tired of always playing the part: sacrificial lamb on bad advice.
In the distance it seems clearer now. Funny, how it always ends this way. Listen, listen to the coming doubt, playing havoc with the day.
Listen close now to what I’ve got to say. ‘Cause this is how it’s all gonna stay. ‘Cause I’m not gonna make that mistake, again. And I’m not gonna make that mistake, again. And I’m not gonna make that mistake, again anymore.
In the distance it seems clearer now. Funny, how it always ends this way. Listen, listen to the coming doubt, playing havoc with the day.
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8. |
One Night Stand
02:13
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One night stand is all I need
to get me by now that you’re gone.
It won’t be long…
You know me; I’ve trouble making
heads or tails of where I am &
what I do to get me by
just gets me down.
So I sleep more & more each day
in a bed that keeps me up at night-
it’s two miles wide & just long enough
for me to curl up & die.
One night stand’s a little worse for wear
but so am I.
If you came back for what you left behind,
leave behind
a little scrap of dignity
I won’t know what to do with.
One night stand suffices-
I just use the same bullshit lines
you used to find so charming
years ago.
Now the table’s turned into
a compromise you don’t deserve,
a memory of you & me
I can’t endure.
One night stand is all I need
to get me by now that you’re gone.
It won’t be long
before you’ll want that too…
If you came back for what you left behind,
don’t forget
to kick me while I’m down
looking for the changes
underneath the happy home
you thought to rearrange.
I’m finding all the things
that I should have put my name on.
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9. |
Lips to Watch
06:40
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You really did it this time. You finally shot yourself in the foot. You can’t run away, can’t run away this time. Don’t look to me to help. I’ve always hated you. Now you’re getting, you’re getting what you deserve.
And it comes crashing down all around you.
Let’s go back to start. Let’s see how it began. You wore your arrogance like a shiny sheriff’s badge. You stuffed your ears with cotton to block out the advice. Now you’re getting, you’re getting what you deserve.
And it comes crashing down all around you.
And now I lick my lips to watch you suffer.
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10. |
Undercover
03:48
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Two-bit undercover
indecisive lover-
I can’t wait for you to
make up your mind.
You have pilfered proof &
you have tampered with the truth.
You put everything we
had on the line.
You cut out my love to watch it bleed –
it won’t heal & I don’t think you’ve thought this through.
Twice now you’ve apologized
for compromising
my position –
you told everyone my disguise.
But you’ve been undercover
so long you don't recall
all the master plans
you had to revise.
You unplug my love to watch it die –
I won’t try to get you to revive me now.
You fucked up my love so much that I don’t
recognize it save for all the scars from all the
times before you tried to
shove it in a box and
bury it somewhere
that no one could find,
but I’ve come back from six feet
underground to blow your cover…
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