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and I'm so lonely (so many things to be lonely about)
and I'm so angry (so many things to be angry about)
and I'm so tired (so many things to be tired about)
sometimes I feel I might give out
sometimes I feel
sometimes I feel
sometimes I feel
sometimes I feel
sometimes I feel I might give out
(something like that, ok?)
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because people hurt
because everybody dies
because someday you will be here today but gone tomorrow
because we can never know we're right
or that what we feel is true
it's when you recognize your last goodbye
that regret comes over you
I just want to sing (that's why we need to show)
as we walk away (each other that we love each other)
and hold each other close
there's nothing else to say
because lucky us
we have family and friends
because time and unforeseen events
will bring all things to an end
because every word's a human word
when written by a pen
because today will soon be yesterday
and will never come again
I just want to sing (that's why we need to show)
as we walk away (each other that we love each other)
and hold each other close
there's nothing else to say
because I love you
and you love me
but every time I see your face
it's changed so much it's tragedy
because even if you feel there's more
this life isn't all there is
it still makes no sense to waste this chance
to spend time with those you miss
I just want to sing (that's why we need to show)
as we walk away (each other that we love each other)
hold each other close
there's nothing else to say
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kiss the girl
let her beauty script the words you say
kiss the girl
let her beauty script the words you say
you will always play with fire
let yourself burn
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he says the life you save may be your own
but that is not the case
that is not the case
cause everyone you see is flesh and bone
but that is not the case
that is not the case
and he is standing very tall in my eyes
he's Gulliver, I'm Lilliputian in size
and he's the kind of man I always want to be
the light so bright above his head
he casts no shadow on me
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I say the times you change should be your own
he says it's not the case
that is not the case
cause everyone you see can still go home
I said it's not the case
that it's not the case
and he is standing very tall in my eyes
he's Gulliver, I'm Lilliputian in size
and he's the kind of man I always want to be
the light so bright above his head
he casts no shadow on me
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I'm unimportant, down southern beach
and I can read the portents, they're in my teeth
and I am illustrating why this is a
hue and cry
I'm not writing about what I have to say
and I'm not singing about you today
I am unimpressed by you anyway
I'm undiscovered and I'm out of reach
and I am uninvited to the class I teach
as I descend to hell through Perkins wishing wells
here I sit and I am illustrating why
my laughs and fits make this a hue and cry
and I'll surrender this on the day that I die
I'm unforgotten, unforgettable
I am an illustrative story that's missing it's moral
and though I'm down the street I am beyond belief
it's a tragedy that who I've come to be
is someone you would like if only doing it were free
and I will always love you as you fear for me
I wish that I could play the piano
I wish that I could play the drums
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eight o'clock looms
and I wanted to be, I wanted to be
something
here in this room
yes I wanted to be, I wanted to be
I wanted to be there
I wanted to be there
I wanted to be there
I wanted to be there
I spent that day alone and crying
I spent that day alone and crying
I wanted to be there
I wanted to be there
I spent that day just thinking of you
I spent that day just thinking of you
I wanted to be there
I wanted to be there
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went to bed last night at three
woke this morning found out I breath
and I do not believe you should be grieving
look into my head and I see
there's still the same old activity
and I do not believe you should be grieving
this is no suicide
this is no homicide
I need no eulogy
I am not memory
this is no suicide
this is no homicide
and I do not believe you should be grieving
you think that this is some kind of death
but standing here I'm still drawing breath
and I do not believe you should be grieving
the flame is burning bright in my eyes
and you are burying me alive
and I do not believe you should be grieving
this is no suicide
this is no homicide
I need no eulogy
I am not memory
this is no suicide
this is no homicide
and I do not believe you should be grieving
I just want to be
part of the family
even if we disagree
I dream about your eyes
watch them glow as the stars rise
over what seems endless night
I long to hold you close
insubstantial as the smoke
hoping this is just a joke
I'm no zombie
I'm no zombie
I'm no zombie
I'm no zombie
I'm no zombie
I'm no zombie
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it's 3 AM the clocks are sick
there is a blind man with a notebook and a walking stick
the ketchup sprays on dirty plates
and no one can remember the last time that they ate
and if Vivian had a life she would be dead
and when Vivian dyes her hair she dyes it rusty red
and when Vivian gets home she'll just fall in her bed in her clothes
and sleep until the next shift comes along
the theater let's out it's doors
the men who wear tuxedoes and have social mores
while Vivian with aching feet
serves a man a burger made with mystery meat
and if Vivian had a life she would be dead
and when Vivian dyes her hair she dyes it rusty red
and when Vivian gets home she'll just fall in her bed in her clothes
and sleep until the next shift comes along
a sweaty mop, the Isle of Crete
a cop who's downing donuts on a midnight beat
all these have passed through Vivian's mind
and left without a trace
without the slightest sign
and if Vivian had a life she would be dead
and when Vivian dyes her hair she dyes it rusty red
and when Vivian gets home she'll just fall in her bed in her clothes
and sleep until the next shift comes along
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as of today my voice sings alone
as of today my howl looses tone
as of today the better part of my better harmony
will be deafened out by silence
goodbye better part of me
as of today my voice sings alone
I have no more to say
my brother died this day
my heart is wracked and torn
this hero has died
and I shall mourn
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it's time to say goodbye to love
to mutilate the things that you were proud of
it's time to change all of the locks
to stamp the music and mute all the talk
it's time to spite the family name
kill the joy with pain, judgment and fear
it's time
it's time
welcome to the DMZ
welcome to the DMZ
welcome to the end of dreaming
it's time / ignorance and fear
it's time / conformity and tears
it's time / the end of all we were
strangers still tell me
that our old home made them happy
the love, the openness, the brotherhood, the feeling blessed
creativity and humanity mingled their energy
surviving every test
but now
it's time to see in black and white
to paint the color out, extinguish the light
it's time for lowly self-esteem
combined with selfish need
to rule all I see
it's time stupid as I am
to wreck the precious things I'll never understand
it's time
it's time
welcome to the DMZ
welcome to the DMZ
welcome to the end of dreaming
it's time / ignorance and fear
it's time / conformity and tears
it's time / the end of all we were
strangers still tell me that you are not worthy
of the name or the man
or the family in your hand
you will not decide
what is dignified
it's you who's the stranger inside
but now
it's time for me to just admit
it's time, the memory is it
it's time, my home no longer exists
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your eyes betrayed the fear
that went around inside your head
when you thought he might be dead
inside the cavern
in the cavern
while James and Donna danced and sang
and Meryl Streep held court
you were such a lovely sport
inside the cavern
in the cavern
the world moved in slow motion
and it made me start to see
that this somewhere was an everywhere for me
a thousand people danced and sang
the songs they all had known
this was everybody's home
you were drinking pints of cider
while the Professor sang Swing Low
it he's dead what a way to go
inside the cavern
in the cavern
when we left at 12:30
all was fine, no one had died
we had simply had a ride
inside the cavern
in the cavern
the world moved in slow motion
and it made me start to see
that this somewhere was an everywhere for me
a thousand people danced and sang
the songs they all had known
this was everybody's home
your eyes betrayed the fear
that went around inside your head
when you thought he might be dead
inside the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern
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I was sixteen miles
just outside of a place I've never been
and I knew I had to be lonely
turned my face against the wind
and I wondered what would now become
of the man who'd given in
and now I've
no time for suicide
there's a coupla things I got on my mind
and they're keeping me alive and standing strong
met a pretty girl from Houston
who was lost and seventeen
and I took her by the hand
and told her life was not so mean
and she told me I was foolish
but she thought that is was sweet
and now I've
no time for suicide
there's a coupla things I got on my mind
and they're keeping me alive and standing strong
still waiting on the shoulder
of a highway I don't know
wonderin' where all the cars
are heading too
and I shake my head and wonder
as the people stop and gaze
guess I'll never ever learn to act my age
and now I've
no time for suicide
there's a coupla things I got on my mind
and they're keeping me alive and standing strong
I've no time for suicide
there's a coupla things I got on my mind
and they're keeping me alive and standing strong
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bzzzzzzzz ... thrummmm ... zzzzzzz ... chirrup
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released September 15, 2005
