Ever since I was a twinkle in my father's pants
They told me I could have it all and more when given chance
"We'll get you anything that you want"
A Ferrari on my 16th birthday
"We'll get you anything you need"
But what I need from you is so much more
All I wanna be is wanted
All I wanna be is wanted by you
All I wanna be is wanted
All I want is everything
I think I'd like to play guitar and b...
Heal me darling
Pleaded the playboy bedroom eyes
Grace your sunshine
Till everything's okay, alright, fine
What's hers is his
'Cause everything is forgiven, forgiven
Though he soured the milk of human kindness
All is forgiven
All is forgiven
Truth and avarice
Encircle his words like a barber pole
Twisted and useless
Till they disappear in her camisole
Goodnight alibi
Throw away your daggers an...
I knew that when I saw her
That my life would soon move over from the fast lane
Gone would be the days of all my drinkin' and my carryin' on
But when I settled down
The party king uncrowned
This stubborn memory hadn't faded
Too many dumb mistakes
And all the grief it makes
Left nothin' else to be debated
And if you say that you understand then you're lyin'
But if you figure that I'm alright no...
I knew that when I saw
That my life would soon move over from the fast lane
Gone would be the days
Of all by drinkin' and my carrying on
But when I settled down, the party king uncrowned
This stubborn memory hadn't faded
Too many dumb mistakes and all the grief it makes
Left nothing else to be debated
And if you say that you understand then you're lyin'
But if you figure that I'm alright now I...
Jimmy, his secret's out
The one he locked inside and denied every word about
He's guilty so his story claims
Twisting in his seat he repeats alone his name
Counting the words between his every line
Searchin' miles and miles to define
Just what it all means
Jimmy, as quiet as a church mouse
Painted every graphic scene but with few details
His accomplice had made sure of this
When she sealed it ...
strike the tent
unpop the paintbox
and pack the carriages
with the flesh freaks of fear
at the beach
we left them shell shocked
lining up the avenue
in view of next year
high steppin'
like a brigade
down the block
don't be shocked
to hear somebody say quot;wake up doomsdayquot;
it's time to join the big parade
come and march in time with the band
playing loud fighting crowds
to see the matinee...
So there it is
All the truth is on the table
Nothing to forgive
It's okay to start again
The wedding cake
Almost fades into a memory thrown
In Cupid's face
Love's just frosting anyway
They both think back too long ago
When thoughts of them both growing old
Had given them the gray hair they deserved
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Well I've come to take you home
Another wife
Neglected...
I know it sounds unfair
She's like a painting standing there
I thank the Heavens up above
For the one that I'm thinking of
Calling Sarah
Crawling back to Sarah
'Cause you're the one
Sometimes it's awful hard to take
The way she takes me all the way
She's delicious beyond compare
I'd love to tell her but instead I stare
Calling Sarah
Crawling back to Sarah
'Cause you're the one
Calling Sarah
Cr...
In the breathless hush of 4 a.m.
In the dark sits a sad cliche
Cloaked in the navy blue of slowly fading stars
Tell me how this came to be
Sleeplessness talk to me
She'd say over and over again
Fumbling through a cut glass vase
Passing lipstick, cotton spools
Burning jealous pictures of marriages of friends
You never asked to be
The glutton of sympathy
She says over and over that this is the e...
I've known him all my life, it seems so inconceivable
At thirteen we shooks hands
But we've been always inseparable
He's cinnamon on my toast, we're so close
That's not to say we haven't had our share of arguments
He's so unpredictable he winks acknowledgments
When I would rather he closed his eye
Push me aside
My hand's a five leaf clover
It's Palm Sunday over and over
I never had the luck of...
Go to sleep and hush little darling
It's time for bed, time to put out the light
Sweet dreams are awaiting behind your closed eyes
And a blanket of night where the bed bugs don't bite
Go to sleep and hush until morning
You've said all your prayers, time to make them come true
Don't worry, your daddy is here if you need him tonight
Ease your mind, rest your eyes and sleep tight, goodnight
When you need someone
And there's no one there
There is always the nine o'clock train
To take you out somewhere
I take the train in town
Like I did for years
There is only seven more blocks
I could walk from here
I wanna stay home
I wanna stay home right here
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay
It's only six o'clock
When my day begins
There is always my alarm clock
To wake me up again
I wanna...
Wake me up, miss Toadstool
It is I, your one and only king, Bowser Koopa
I'm a turtle as you see, a little slow and a little green
But on the whole I'd say, "Super duper"
Princess Toadstool, I know you're frightened
But if you knew just why you're here
Your fear would just be heightened
So let's just say, "Ignorance is bliss"
Oh, well, I hate to be a bummer
I brought you here to bring me plumb...
She turned the night light on and blew him a kiss
He stared back through his green Crayola eyes
She traced his likeness from off the back of a disc
Next to the boxtop promise of the biggest prize
Joining a fan club with my friends
Filling our bathtubs with teeshirts and 8 x 10's
He looks so dreamy, I'm in love from afar
When I'm pickin' up a fallen star
Downstairs the late show's blastin' 'Age...
Curtain opens, spot lights the gentleman
Signing his love letter best wishes Simpleton
Dialog swam from his pen like polliwogs
He knew better that perfume was gravity
Pulling him closer to what could be tragedy
Love is blind, deaf and dumb, but never mind
You better catch me when I fall
I'm on my roller skates
'Cause any ol' way that I fall
I land in your arms even though it's wrong
'Cause I l...
It's not the same with out him here
Twenty years of him dead and gone
This vodka does the memory clear
Though it's too hard to imagine what these tears are for
A walking a poster boy for all that's good
He gets swallowed by the cracks before he understood
She likes to think he loved her but it hurt so bad
Cause now she knows she is wrong.
It always seemed to strike him strange
And why he's lat...
It's not the same without him here
Twenty years of him dead and gone
This Vodka does a memory clear
Though it's too hard to imagine what these tears are for
A walking poster boy for all that's good
He got swallowed by the cracks before he understood
She likes to think he loved her but it hurts so bad
'Cause now she knows she's wrong
It always seemed to strike her strange
His working late until...
I dreamt about a tranquil Sunday drive
A sensory lullaby
We trade the comics, cartoons and magazines
For pistons and gasoline
We see the road from the bedside
Parked under the sunshine
We feel the warmth of the engine, so we climb inside
And take it to the motorway
Watch the clouds turn into faces, it's fun to play
Shift the gears for years and age a single day
Until we spill onto Russian Hill...
Grazing on the grounds of ponytails
The substitute is counting down her ticks 'til recess
Hammering down to size her fingernails
'Coz today's the day Sabrina builds her lunchbox buffet
Cool aid, sandwiches and chips for all the shoulders
Lunch is on the table while dessert is on the floor, singing...
So serene, Sabrina makes me feel so serene
So serene, Sabrina makes me feel so serene
Chesney'...
He writes her a letter tells her he won't be home soon
She still loves him
He lost his temper belted his love cross the room
She still loves him
Drinks when he's sad gets happy then mad at the world
She still loves him
Never remembers that day in September when wed
She still loves him
She recalls the days when they were younger
Flowers could heal her wounds
Now those days are gone forever
Now ...
Though it's time to admit it's true
I've come to depend on you
You and your angelic shout
Loud enough for two
And that is why
I'll confide in you the truth this time
That is why
I just can't go on and live this lie
Yesterday all was right as rain
But now the forecast's not
It's partly cloudy with trouser stains
And his copy of inquiring minds
But that never meant that much to her
She chose to ...
Ugly apparition, God's gift to oxygen
The puffed up immortal son
How they love him 'cause he'll become
The ghost at number one
How does it feel
To be the only one?
How does it feel
To be the only one that knows that you're right?
How does it feel
To be a loaded gun?
How does it feel
Inside a chamber packed with piss and spite?
Sure life's no cherry but a cupcake for the meek
So he shoots up hi...
So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
the reds and greens but mostly reds
for you he's stopping
In seeing him she knows him less
his stick is wet she's half undressed
and all in all they're both obsessed
with so much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
what lies behind's a mystery
if words could speak they'd mean even less
when the king is half undressed
She do...
So, this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The reds and greens but mostly reds
For you, he's stopping
In seeing him, she knows him less
His stick is wet, she's half-undressed
And all in all, they're both obsessed
With so much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
What lies behind's a mystery
If words could speak, they'd mean even less
When the king is half-undressed
...
I hope you remember me, I was your daddy once
Wearing a sailor cap and dirty nails
To you I'm just a picture on your mother's mantelpiece
Who chose to fight the good fight in time to fail
Into battle and in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes I do
I never thought it'd be so hard to see you grow so fast
And turn into the man I used to be
But I hope you have more sense than I, in matters...
Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles
Pour yourself a cup of tea
Then think about the bubbles
You can take your teardrops
And drop 'em in a teacup
Take 'em down to the riverside
And throw 'em over the side
To be swept up by a current
Then taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some fishes
Who were eaten by some fishes
And swallowed by a whale
Who grew so old he decomposed
He died...
Say goodnight, your song is through
Faint refrain we hardly knew
Comes crashin' against the drunken waters of this wake when I hesitate
Because all I can say is too much, too little, too late
Farewell, you fool
Spare me the punch line please, I learned it well at Sunday school
Way back when all you loved was the grease paint
Not the collection plate, so much for the funny face
Because all I ca...