coelacanth blues

i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
keep on singing my songs, beyond the day i die

you thought i was dead, because you couldnt see me
you thought i was dead, because you couldn't see me
but there's so much you don't know about, way beneath my sea

i feel so old now, nobody knows i'm alive
i feel so old now, nobody knows i'm alive
i'm invisible swimming, way beneath the tide

i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
keep on singing my songs, beyond the day i die

you think you're big when the waters not so deep
you think you're great when the waters not so deep
i'm swimming in places, that you'll never be

you thought you could stuff me, on a museum shelf
you thought you could stuff me, on a museum shelf
but i need more room to let me be myself

i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
keep on singing my songs, beyond the day i die

everyone's so smart they think they know everything
everyone's so smart, they think they know everything
but theres so many things, that you never see

i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
i got the coelacanth blues, no body knows i'm alive
keep on singing my songs, beyond the day i die

WHEN YOU GET IN YOUR WAY

they stockmarket's falling, the greyhound is calling
but somehow the sky looks ok,
the curtain is closing, the factory's frozen
the sun it came up anyway.

the wait in line chatter, it don't seem to matter
the buses just go, round and round.
roadmaps on faces, of ambulance chasers
they never lost, what you've found.

the houses are grown up, the kids are all sewn up
growing back into the ground.
the railroad is rotten, the empire's forgotten,
to make the stop in this town

you feel so empty, that the wind it could take you,
up if it blew the right way.
snowballing rabbits, it's just a habit,
that met you for coffee one day

and it's so hard, when you get in your way

and it's so hard, when you get in your own way.

LIVING ALL OVER ME

Why you need to buy things, you can't afford
to feed your inner needs
there's a million brand names that you can chew,
but it's all really greed

Why you in a competition, with everyone
over who's got more pairs of shoes
stuffing your closet till the doors won't close
with things you'll never use

you're living, all over, me

Race your SUV, to the corner store,
chug a tank of gas
burn the clouds right out of the sky
gotta move so fast

You never walk, it don't matter to you
if the stars fall from the sky
as long as you, get yours
the rest of us can die

you're living, all over, me

Why you need another, inflatible mouth
when you already thrown away five
they're starving in mexico to make that shit
and they die from the trash you pile

So sit there and cry in your shiny world
with a jillion and one gadgets
Eating everything, that's not tied down
bitching cause your pants don't fit

you're living, all over, me

Why you need to buy things, you can't afford
to try and cram your hole
there's a million brand names that you can chew,
but they wont' fill your soul

YOU DID NOT MEAN IT

1. i thought you were quiet
i thought that you knew
i thought you retired,
from beating on you

said you'd love me forever
said it was true
but you did not mean it, and i never knew

2 i believed every word
i believed you'd find a way
to say what you mean
and mean what you say

i never realized
you couldn't say no
you did not mean it, and i never knew

3. at night it gets silent
i can hear my heart breathe
sometimes i wonder
if you ever think of me

try not to ponder
tonight where are you
you did not mean it and i never knew

4. i will not give up
i will move on
one foot then the other
the world needs more love

i can't get tangled up in
all you did not say
i did my best i know that today

GOD IS WATCHING A MOVIE

so much to be grateful for
like clouds, so little time
still, it gets lonely way out here,
watching the pile go by

god is watching a movie,
we share a secret swingset smile
it lasts a second, the stars are brilliant,
endless black space miles

please don't shrink, you're stronger than you think
please don't shrink, you're stronger than you think

that suit of armor, it don't fit you
so very well no more
open your heart wide, we are the clear
who passed through here before

please be kinder to yourself
than you think, that you should be.
be braver than you think you are,
like when you fly in dreams

youre stronger than you think, please don't shrink,
you're braver than you think, please don't shrink,

everyday is enough for me.
though i often beg for more
help me sit like patient stars
and waves that hold the shore

so much to be grateful for
if you look without your head
god has said her prayers for you
and with endless love gone to bed

OSSIFICATION BLUES

riding on that subway to
ossify my mind
can't stop the infomercials
coagulation time

that train it seems to rattle
like it's coming off the tracks
no matter where they're going
no one's ever coming back

=move in, move over, move out, move on
you don't know the right answer
till you do the one that's wrong.

strung out on television
pummel dull your needs
whoever is in charge
is the one with the most keys

drowing in the river
current is too strong
too much information
still don't know what the hell is going on

=.move in, move over, move out, move on
you don't know the right answer
till you do the one that's wrong.

do YOU have the answer
searching people's eyes
act like nothings wrong
and hope they'll pass you by

it's a dusty bus at sundown
slamming down the street
you know it's only empty
with some one in every seat

i would rather be right than happy

1. i would rather be right than happy
i would rather be me than wrong
i would rather take a severe beating
than admit that i am wrong

and if anything's not important
it's to prove a point for me
i would rather just fight about it
than let it go and be free

2. i would rather be right than happy
i'm holding my point of view
and no matter how bad it hurts me
i will try to prove it to you

if my arguments prove to be faulty
i will never let them go
my brain is bigger than yours is
i'll find a way of letting you know

3. i would rather be right than happy
you can tell me my choices all day
no matter how simple or easy
i will only choose the most difficult way

and if anyone tries to choose for me
i will go the opposite way
you can tell me what's right, but just out of spite
i'll shoot myself in the foot all day

4. i would rather be right than happy
i would rather take me along
i would rather take a severe beating
than admit that i am wrong

so please do not try and cross me
or show me the way to go
i just won't admit, when i'm full of shit
i'm too proud for your help you know

MAKING REAL GOOD TIME

everybodys' running, got some where to go
trying to beat out someone, they don't even know
racing, pacing, living on borrowed time
always burning rubber on the treadmill of your mind

everybodys' running, up and down the line
don't know where we're going, but we're making real good time.

the planner, the scanner, no one's ever home
know matter what i'm doing, i'm always on the phone
talking as you're walking, running just behind
where you going to put it, when you save time

everybodys' burning rubber, on the treadmill of their mind
don't know where we're going, but we're making real good time

have mercy on your schedule, try to fit more in
i'd like to feel my feelings, but there's no time for them
faster to disaster, i'm a multitask machine
constant motion to avoid myself from me

i wish that i could love you, but i can't find the time
i'm sure i will real soon, but right now i'm behind
stressing, messing forcing everything
no matter where you are, it's not where you want to be.

LIVING ALL OVER ME

Why you want to treat me like a leftover dog
that you're allergic too
Why you wanna leave me by the side of the road
and pull me along too

Why you want to do me like a horrorshow
that you're addicted to.
Why I keep on calling, put myself in the way
running myself over with you

you're living, all over, me

You're never ready, and you fuck with my head
loving to make me bleed
Running it backwards for the 40th time
what you want and what you need

Whenever we talk, i never open my mouth
you just go on and on
Everythings always a drama with you
it always weighs a ton

you're living, all over, me

So keep on hiding behind your fence
you know the ones you built
try to find your heart in there
as you're giving out all your guilt

So sit there and cry with your naked walls
and your endless list of things to do
None of your problems can ever be solved
at least the one's you'll ad-mit to

you're living, all over, me

Why i let you treat me like a leftover dog
that you're allergic to.
Why i let you leave me by the side of the road,
and pull me along too.

worse than me

i met you in a barroom, on the tired side of life
you knee glected to tell me, that you were somebody's wife
but that did not seem to matter much, as you kicked him to the curb
and you moved your baggage in with me, like a cowboy drives a herd

our affair was hot and heavy, well maybe heavy more than hot.
and if the truth be told this one here time, well we had sex an awful lot
but then the morning aftermath it came, as we were lying face to face
and you told me it might be time, for you to have some space

you could do a lot worse to me, and i hope you do.

you pulled the plug and let the water out, on the bathtub of our love
and you stuffed my heart right down the drain, with a complimentary shove
i did not see or hear from you, as the days went by somehow
then you dropped me an email said you'd found you the new mr. right now

you could do a lot worse to me, and i hope you do.

you told me that you loved him, and that you were moving on
but i already knew that, because all you're things were gone
you said not to take it personal, that'd we'd just grown apart
but i dont' think you've grown too much, cause you ain't even got a heart

you could do a lot worse to me, and i hope you do.


if you've found yourself

if you've found yourself
by the time you're thirty
you're just not looking hard enough.

if you've found yourself
by the time you're forty,
you aren't using your imagination.

if you've found yourself
by the time you're fifty,
you need a bigger vocabulary.

if you've found yourself
by the time you are sixty
you need new glasses.

if you've found yourself
and you are still here
then there's been a misunderstanding

it's going to be ok,
everything's going to be all right
you are going to be all right

same mistake, different day

when the concert t-shirt doesn't fit anymore
it's time to stop talking about the show

don't take your car to a mechanic, who takes the bus to work

i don't know where we're going but we sure are making real good time

it was like trying to put ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag

one man's art is another man's dirty laundry

YOU GOTTA HAVE PATIENCE

you gotta have patience, to wait in the station, when there's somewhere that you want to be
for all of the time, you spend waiting in line, they should hand out the tickets for free
but the grass is always cleaner, and the money's always greener, in dreams

i went out walking, with the forgotten, where the streetlights make strangers dance
with clean paper plans that you don't understand, it usually comes down to chance
in the house of the holy, where no one gets lonely but me

the newspaper stacks, are selling cheap heart attacks, and honeymoon doses of sin,
the tv is a monkey and it's not very funny, whispering into the wind
there's not much i can use , on the six o'clock news in the end

now i'm getting tired of the sound of gunfire, somewhere in the home of the cheap
now it's not that funny, that hunters are jumpy, in the woods or out in the street
it's not hard to follow, with feet that are hollow, don't you see

so pick up your change and step out in the rain, on the shallow side of the street
roll in the ashes, concrete mountain of taxes, in the shadow of what used to be
and i had forgotten, that you were still talking to me

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