A digital man in an analog world
All the king’s horses and all the king’s girls
Were traveling light for a night in Seville
Beer breath suitcase coffee and cream
You should never wake a boy up out of his dream
You get too many nerves in a white limousine
Too many nerves in a white limousine
(What you gonna do) Mr. Digital Man
(What you gonna do) Hold on to what you can
(What you gonna do) All your circuitry
(Ahhhhhh) Will be obsolete by two thousand twenty
An analog kid with a rifle he hid
It was under his bed with the rest of the dead
too much red wine
am i justifying
what it is i want
too much escape
not enough facing
what it is i need
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
too much caffeine
now i gotta screen the calls
i spent too much time
lying in the same room
to figure out who i am
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
everything seems so perfect
and calm
in a four-walled womb
There’s something tight inside my chest
Something I can’t expose
It’s weighing me down like a box of bones
I think it’s gonna explode
Are you a grain of sand?
Are you the son of man?
God?
Waiting for hours, hours on end
It’s getting closer to closing in
You’re all I cannot understand
Or everything I can imagine
I try to keep you in
The sorry shape of a man
I use you for my cause
Kill you with reckless abandon
God?
Don’t wanna doubt you I confess
This world sure seems a great big mess
I’ve had my doubt for a long, long while
I got my own way into this rut
The only way I can
Hear a song sing along to this
And would you mind if I let you in
If I knew how to tell the truth
It’s the only way I’d know how
Let my fingers dance with this guitar
And let the music out
Let the music out
Now we can dance slow
Just like lovers can do
Anything I say tonight is true
I can see you got tomorrow on your mind
Let’s stay awhile in the here and now
I got a song that we can sing
Make an easy sound
If you come in close you can hear it
Clear your mind of all its distraction
Baby when you really need it
I can tell you’re thinking where’s this gonna lead
You’ve convinced yourself I’m gonna leave
If you could only see yourself through my eyes
You would know without a doubt how I feel
Emilie, Emilie
Warm me up just like the sun
I believe what I see
You’re the only one
In my head in my heart
Don’t you know that’s where you are
What I want
You and me
Emilie
Faded letters empty lockets in a drawer
Empty promises you’ve heard before
What makes me so different from every other guy
When it gets tough I will stay by your side
Emilie, Emilie
Wave your friend goodbye
Look at the ground
And save your last reply
You’re not gonna change their minds
Told you a hundred times
I can’t bring you happiness
Turn and walk away
Smile to yourself
And say you drew the line
To love of another kind
People do it all the time
Run until we find some happiness
Waiting there all alone
Trying to get you home
Happiness was waiting all along
All along
Happiness was waiting all along
Lately I’ve been feeling lonely
Lately I’ve been feeling blue
Cause I haven’t seen your smile dear
Living every day without you
Now I know you’re thinking of me
Want to hold me through the night
Your embrace is what I need now
To make me feel oh so right
In a little while we’ll be loving each other
In a little while you’ll be right by my side
In a little while now
Not so soon
Got no worries in our way boy
It’ll be just you and me
Holding on tight to forever
Loving you just sets me free
In a little while we’ll be loving each other
Another summer’s come
Come to pass me by
Winter’s wind is cold
Leaves me feeling dry
So tired of thinking
I could make this mess on my own
It’s no use in trying
To figure out how far gone
Leave it alone
No mistakes to be made
If we leave it up to fate
Leave it alone
Quit waiting wondering
Whose side is right or wrong
I think you’ll find it easier
If you find your own way home
Leave it alone
You came into this world
With a soul and a name
There’s nothing you can win
There’s no one you can blame
So stop all your worrying
The sweet smell drifts up and drags down my defenses
I listen to the sound the rain plays on your petals
And I let the warmth awaken me and drag me to my senses
The sweet smell drifts up and the sweet sun floats on in
For you real, live flowers
Look at how you’ve grown
In twos and threes and fours
Will you dance outside my door?
Live flowers
You real, live flowers
The sweet smell drifts up and the sweet sun floats on in
Look at how you’ve grown
In twos and threes and fours
Will you dance outside my door?
You real, live flowers
You real, live flowers
On the other side of your eyes
Are mountains I can climb
The ocean and its tide
Washing over me
Birds are singing their song
In a hundred year old tree
Patiently awaiting the sun
As it rises in the east
But the sun doesn’t seem to set
On the places I’ll never forget
Like the other side of your eyes
I feel the heat of a fire
But I don’t see any smoke
The cinders flash and they float
Through an ageless night
From the other side of the sky
I witness the angels view
The world looks safe and new
On the other side of your eyes
Now love wasn’t made to dissolve
Picture yourself in a strange place walking
Minding the rats in the subway coffin
I don’t know if you’re saying something
I can’t hear what you sell me
You may recall his famous face
You can recall his sudden breath
You come here to take your dying breathing
At least that’s what you told me
Looking around to see the town
Looking around to see the cold town
Slow suicide, sigh
Slow suicide, sigh, sigh
Smoke on buses crowded trains
He might remember why he came
He come here to take his dying breathin
Least that’s what he told me
Looking around to see the man
Communist decline party chicks in line
I want a Soviet lovemate
Red flag hammer sickle
Can’t afford a bicycle
I want a Soviet lovemate
I want a Soviet lovemate
I want a Soviet (you want a Soviet)
Chernobyl suicide
Mail order Ruskie bride
I want a Soviet lovemate
Pimple face Casanova
Wanna marry Kournikova
I want a Soviet lovemate
I want a Soviet lovemate
No more cold war now there’s a new score
Of young girls with tight skin that wanna be American
Now I see the spoils of victory
What used to be the enemy has given up so much to me
Arise in a river disaster it’s ever after
Dreamt if I was naked I was human
Being mal-aligned God has made me
Being so aligned he has made me be
The answer’s not clear it’s a distant calm
If you can make it more clear
Try the missing psalm try the crooked truth in a broken home
Leave the child alone you were wholly asleep
You were missing your teeth he was gone too long
He was gone too long
You lie there posed like a question
You sit here posing like a question
He was doing time he was getting his own
He was gone too long he was lying there posed like a question
She notices she’s clever
She understands the calm command
She overwhelms her captive
She leads him in to the war within
She led me in to her violence
She will wear me thin
She will cut me out
I don’t want to go
I can take some more
I can let her win
Then she’ll tuck me in
To the war within
The war within
This one stuck
This one stuck
This one stuck
This one stuck
She overwhelms her captive
She leads him in to the war within
To the war
How are we gonna make it tomorrow
When we can’t even manage our heads full of sorrow
Why does the pain always seem never ending
When our worlds crumble down and we need understanding
All I want is truth
Every time we speak
All I see every time I blink is a bit more hell on earth
How could you leave me with this if you loved me
And are some of our souls meant to be scarred and ugly
All I want is truth
Every time we speak
All I see every time I blink is a bit more hell on earth
Break
All I want is truth
Every time we speak
There she goes another rose
A subtle light in darkness
Now it seems so true to me
She’s mean to me I like it
She’s not real
Only paper
Vapor unreal
If you see past the villain
You’re willing
Every time you look into the eyes
You can see exactly what you wanted to see
The only thing you’ll never worry about
Is the only thing you’ll ever need cause she’s not real
Down the road you don’t suppose
The other knows the meaning
She would do her best for you
But you would get that feeling
She’s not real
Only paper
Vapor unreal
If you see past the villain
time to you is time to me
time for us ain't no mystery
it's a dead end job
the weekend lobs the ball but i can't swing
yeah i know that i want you
but you don't know how i mean
hurry up and whisper sweet from your lips
time doesn't wait for me
days that never remember
sit and wonder where they went
wonder if i could see the whole sky
would i still feel so tethered to that bottom line?
yeah i thought i could get there
make it true if i tried
draw me a map to someplace
somewhere too far to drive
baby i believe that destiny
would fill up the space inside