Words for breaking silence' sake
Hold your breath until you break
Over my eyes is such a glaze
But you and I know nothing stays

I thought my house was big enough for you
But you just keep on breaking through
To every patron saint we pray
But you and I know nothing stays

For my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love
Must you steer clear?
Oh my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love love love love

Two little almonds dark and brown
Your eyes follow me around
Looking for some common ground
You and I are lost and found

Everybody's so concerned
Cry for all we never learned
Don't matter which god that we praise
'Cause you and i know nothing stays

For my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love
Must you steer clear?
Oh my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love love love love

Oh live wire, oh live wire
I lost you last night
fire, fire
oh live wire, oh live wire
I lost you last night
fire, fire yeah

Bumper sticker philosophy
Crimes of plain stupidity
So little time so many ways
But you and i know nothing stays
You and I know nothing stays
You and I know nothing stays

For my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love
Must you steer clear?
Oh my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love love love love yeah
For my love x4
For my love love love
Did you come here?
For my love love love love love love

Pull me up and away, one day we'll be loving as one
When the mannequins die, we'll be alive, hungry for the edible sun
We have the same blood, we both look for the same proof
So fair, so light, I'm right on the brink of you

Suffer this, there's no need to cry
It's just incubation time
So put your hand in mine, keep me warm

Now the nautical wind will send for the heron to fly
While the tide is still low, translate slow, let me imitate your syllable sigh
We have the same name, we both look for the same proof
So far, so bright, I'm right on the brink of you

Suffer this, there's no need to cry
It's just incubation time
Put your hand in mine, keep me warm

If I'm second in line, residuals are fine
I'm unworthy to hold you, everything I touch turns cold
Your smiles or your frowns, I'll keep your hand-me-downs
I'm unworthy to hold you, everything I touch turns cold
Put your hand in mine (x3)
To keep me warm

She's a prodigal girl, this world is a cover to cling
When america sunk, she was a club junkie dancing to the edible swing
We have the same books, reading up on the jazz age
In a smoky still light, I'm right on the brink of you

Suffer this, there's no need to cry
It's just incubation time
So put your hand in mine, keep me warm

Up up and away, one day we'll be seven miles high
It's a nebulous plan, leave all the land, talk with the eloquent sky
We have the same palms, our feet fit into the same shoes
No pain in sight, I'm right on the brink of you

Suffer this, there's no need to cry
It's just incubation time
Put your hand in mine, keep me warm

If I'm second in line, residuals are fine
I'm unworthy to hold you, everything I touch turns cold
Your smiles or your frowns, I'll keep your hand-me-downs
'Cause I'm unworthy to hold you, everything I touch turns cold
Put your hand in mine (x3)
Keep me warm

Five year old boy says, "mom, will you marry me?"
It's not what you think, it's not just an oedipal fling
We hate the same man, left us under the same roof
You are my light, I'm right on the brink of you"

All those people I said goodbye to, I shoulda maybe said see you soon
When I told you see you soon, I shoulda maybe just said goodbye
Did I set off your alarm?
Are your dreams just dropping hints?
Will we ever make any sense of this?

You know you rain, and then you drain
You don't even have time to ask why
You know you sink, and then you drink one drop at a time
I never get love, I only sweat blood
I don't even have time to ask why
I take a plunge, you wring me like a sponge
One drop at a time (x4)

Come this far to seperate my confidantes and my enemies
We share the same fair-weathered friends, sitting cross-legged in the clouds
I refuse to believe that there's nothing left for me
But my hair to thin and my eyes to close

You know you rain, and then you drain
You don't even have time to ask why
You know you sip, and then you drink one drop at a time
I never get love, I only sweat blood
I don't even have time to ask why
I take a plunge, you wring me like a sponge
One drop at a time (x4)
Oh yeah

I'm calling about the ad in the paper saying
"Pleasure, pleasure seeking pain...
Must have experience in getting under other people's skin"
Did I set off your alarm?
Are your dreams dropping hints?
Will we ever make any sense of this?

You know you rain, and then you drain
You don't even have time to ask why
You know you sip, and then you drink one drop at a time
I never get love, I only sweat blood
I don't even have time to ask why
You know you drink, and then you sink
One drop at a time (x12)
Oh yeah

The rank and file was too much for me
Everyone believe what everybody see
Revolution came, generations unglued
Stepped into calamity and slipped through the groove
Trampled on, scoffed at, banished from my friends
Stripped of my uniform by my captain
Stooped lower, lower with my face in the mud
Lungs filled with smoke from the breathing of the guns

C'mon now, c'mon sister, I am your brother
Don't you recognize me, I am your brother

Hiding out safe till they broke down the door
Marched me to their camp as a prisoner of war
From the underground cavern to penitentiary
I always heard your brown voice calling me

C'mon now, c'mon sister, I am your brother
Don't you recognize me, I am your brother

Don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away
Silawe, don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away

Seconds turned to years and the battle raged on
Most of my people in my hometown were gone
I finally escaped on a night full of fog
Dodged all the bullets, outran the dogs
Stowed away until I got kicked off the train
Landed in the river, washed clean again
The current cradled me to your shore, now I see
That everything revolves around amnesty

Don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away
Silawe, don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away

Drinking bug juice till I can't steer right
Civil wars under the goldfish light
I'm a painting in a cheap hotel
I seen things I hope I never see again
Pull me up, pull me up by the roots, I can take it
Maybe new hope will take over
Brush the old pain off of my shoulder
You can meet me in the tenderland

Silawe
Something solid, gimme real
'Cause everything just hurts too much, yeah
Gimme solid, gimme real
'Cause everything just hurts too much, yeah

Don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away
Silawe, don't take my angry words, come back my way
Commisserate with me, my angry words will fade away
La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la la
repeat...

Why don't you hold my other hand
Why don't you kiss my other cheek
Why don't you dig a little deeper
Why don't you plant another seed
Is it a sin to let me win one game of love before I slip away
The folklore, the fantasy, distract from the fact that we're not saved

Alma of mine
Clay pigeons rock your boat
And the salesman drops you for the new savior in town
Alma of mine
You slip a twenty under the ashtray and you chew your last bite over again
Alma of mine wooooooo
You're not looking close enough
You can feed off this energy
There's a flower growing through the weeds

Tables turn, and wills get weak, arms give away to surrendering
Now I can only wish for it to come to me like it did in a dream
I couldn't sleep in your bed, I'd wake up in my grave
The alchemy, the alibis, distract from the fact that we're not saved

Alma of mine
Clay pigeons rock your boat
And the salesman drops you for the new savior in town
Alma of mine
You slip a five under the ashtray and you chew your last bite over and over again
Alma of mine wooooooo
You're not looking close enough
You can feed off this energy
There's a flower growing through the weeds

Hey hey hey hey hey hey ho ho (x8)

Tell me, where's the world we used to hold?
And how long have you been blank?
Where's the river that was in your heart?
And how many times did you walk the plank?
It's not as if you're going blind, open up and look again
Take time and you will find, there's a carnival under my plain skin

Alma of mine
Clay pigeons rock your boat
And the salesman drops you for the new savior in town
Alma of mine
You slip a quarter under the ashtray and you chew your last bite over and over and over
Alma of mine wooooooo
You're not looking close enough
You can feed off this energy
There's a flower growing through the weeds

Growing through the weeds (x2)
Growing, growing, gone (x2)

Whisper closer either lies or true
I'm just listening to your lips move
By a different name we are one
Don't you know in all ways I've been all yours?
Since the moon was half what it is now
Till the sun has wilted in the clouds
To you, oh love, lift me up
Walk into the fire with you again

You've got me now for keeps
To you I'm bound for keeps
I'm winding down so deep

Come in closer real or in a dream
Either way my soul will be redeemed
Leave your home behind, stay with me

Don't you know in all ways I've been all yours?
Since the lightening flickered with the thunder
Till the north stay falls asunder
To your state of grace lift me up
Will you walk into the fire with me again?

You've got me now for keeps
To you I'm bound for keeps
I'm winding down so deep, so deep

Whisper closer either lies or true
I'm just listening to your lips move
To you, oh love, lift me up
Walk into the fire with you again

You've got me now for keeps
To you I'm bound for keeps
I'm winding down so deep, so deep

Wake up, cupid don't you have a thing or two to say?
A mother's crying, king and queen are spying on the slave
The baby just born trying to keep warm feeling for a match
And the dripping darkness, leather harness strapped across the back
Bow the aftermath of absent-mindedness is cold below
Where the wishful thinkers wish you'd finally break

Now my heartbeat even gets to sleep, but you're keeping my soul awake
Your love, your love

Softer than now cupid shoots a quick one through the sun
And the clouds of kisses act suspicious speaking foreign tongues
The girls with broken bottle necks around here are commonplace
Stealing generations never leaving tracks to trace
He posed for a daguerreotype in 1895
Now everybody knows his face and he's falling from the sky

Now my heartbeat even gets to sleep, but you're keeping my soul awake
Your love, your love

Artist atlas drowned the baptist lost jerusalem
No one ever bothered asking if he'd learned to swim
With quiet power can you turn the desert sand to snow
The suburb gypsy says "the lamb inside your hand will know"
The priest ran off with the secretary with scarlet letter-ease
He got tired of feeling numb around the knees

Now my heartbeat even gets to sleep, but you're keeping my soul awake
Your love, your love, your love

Simple things are impossible for nervous hands
I know this, I'm nervous
And simple thoughts are unthinkable for nervous minds
Well I know this, I'm nervous

With my cranial capacity
And two opposable thumbs
And my conscious veracity
Well I come to a conclusion

I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down yeah
Oh I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down say whoa
Yeah you know you got to break the love down
Into simple things
Yeah you know you got to break the love down

A simple dream is a metaphor for an insomniac
Well I know this, 'cause I'm nervous
And a simple sketch is a work of art to a caveman
Well I know this, I'm nervous

With my cranial capacity
And two opposable thumbs
And my conscious veracity
I come to a conclusion

I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down yeah
Oh I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down say
Into simple things
Yeah you know you got to break the love down into simple things (x4)

Simple things are impossible for nervous hands
Well I know this, 'cause I'm nervous
And simple thoughts are unthinkable for nervous minds
Well I know this, I'm nervous

With my cranial capacity
And two opposable thumbs
And my conscious veracity
I come to a conclusion, yeah

I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down yeah
Oh I wish you would've let me know
From the get go
Instead of just hanging around
You got to break love down say
Into simple things
Yeah you know you got to break the love down
Woah (repeat)

Do you really hold me to
All the things I say in your arms?
Drunken kiss I gave to you
Loving under the influence
You have a power over me
You steal my thunder away
Target my desire - ready, aim, fire

I'm sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me
The last thing I want to do is get involved
Sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me
The last thing I want to do is get involved

I love you but I'm still afraid
Of all the masochistic things you do
I love you but I'm still afraid of you

When I was a sober guy
I thought i had it all figured out
I didn't even know about
Loving under the influence
But ever since I fell for you
You steal my thunder away
Target my desire - ready, aim, fire

Sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me
The last thing I want to do is get involved
sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me
The last thing I want to do is get involved

I love you but I'm still afraid
Of all the masochistic things you do
I love you but I'm still afraid of you

Take it from a fool, I know...
More than I will ever show
These are all just tricks I learned
Loving under the influence
But ever since I fell for you
You steal my thunder away
Target my desire - ready, aim, fire

Sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me, yeah yeah yeah yeah
The last thing I want to do is get involved
Sorry, I didn't know, I didn't know
You've got to believe me, yeah yeah yeah yeah
The last thing I want to do is get involved

I love you but I'm still afraid
Of all the masochistic things you do
I love you but I'm still afraid of you

Ooooh ooooh

If it's not enough, all this pain and sorrow
Lee and Johnny public are my only friends
Maybe your mystique is too oblique to follow
Maybe all your beauty goes right over my head

I'm climbing up to the mountain
The only way is up
I swim upstream with the salmon
The only way is up, hey

Pawn shop, coffee black, three o'clock in the morning
Right around the block from the grassy knoll
When I realized the only scars you ever left me with
Were all the stretch marks on my soul

I'm climbing up to the mountain
The only way is up
I swim upstream with the salmon
The only way is up

Up to you, up to fire
Up to me to save my life
I'm climbing up to drink from your cup
'Cause the only way is up

I got a soft spot in my heart for attention-hungry psychos
I used to live next door to one, now slowly I'm becoming one
?I hope you're it?, ?oh beautiful?, of you I'll never tire
Stay with me and breath, you're my one desire

?Why don't you stay and breath?
?'Cause you're my warm desire?
?Why don't you stay and breath?
?'Cause you're my warm desire?

I'm climbing up to the mountain
The only way is up
I swim upstream with the salmon
The only way is up, hey

Serve, sever, severe

Would you keep on following me if I wasn't clear?
Would you still call out my name if I killed you off tomorrow?
Would you still knock on my door if you had nothing to borrow?
If I loved you, would you ache?
Would you scream, would you cry?
A house on the rocks is the same as a lilly in the field
Can't you tell, can't you feel?
All that's left is a faith double-crossed
Just like everything else it got lost

Carousel, translation
Apparition or aberration?
Why can't the night owls see me?
She had extra yellow paint
Now she has two suns on her landscape
Your house on the rocks is the same as the lilly in the field
Can't you tell, can't you feel?
And your love letter went through the wash
Just like everything else it got lost

Serve, sever, severe
Would you keep on following me if I wasn't clear?
Would you still call out my name if I killed you off tomorrow?
Would you still knock on my door if you had nothing to borrow?
If I loved you, would you ache?
Would you scream, would you cry?
?Ten years gone, and it's gotten so bad?
?Now I follow you like a nomad?
Sold my soul for a quarter of the cost
Just like everything else you got lost

Carousel, translation
Apparition or aberration?
Why can't the night owls see me?
?She had extra ???????
?She got ?????????
A man in a tomb is the same as a coffin in a well
Can't you see, can't you tell?
All that's left is a faith double-crossed
Just like everything else it got lost, oh lord

If I loved you, would you ache?
Would you scream, would you cry?
?Forty years now and it's gotten so bad?
Now I walk around in the hot sand
Sold my soul for a quarter of the cost
Just like everything else it got lost

Serve, sever, severe
Would you keep on following me if I wasn't clear?
Would you still call out my name if I killed you off tomorrow?
Wuld you still knock on my door if you had nothing to borrow?
If I loved you, would you ache?
Would you scream, would you cry?
?Ten years gone, and it's gotten so bad?
?Now I follow you like a nomad?
Now your love letter went through the wash
Just like everything else it got lost

Send my boy home, you've had him long enough
He doesn't even know he's got his father's eyes
Call him on the phone, stutters just like you
Choking out of breath, running from the truth

Same dream every night, puts me in my place
Bend to kiss his cheek, and he's got his mother's face
I'm brick where I was silk, and I'm rough where I was smooth
And my feet are always sore, running from the truth

Sun's a prison bulb, the sky's a guarded fence
Chalking days upon the wall till I'm free again
Isis won't you tell osiris to let me go, let me go
Isis won't you tell osiris to let me go

Time to go to bed, you shouldn't be awake
You shouldn't have to see me burning at the stake
Fastest on the team, he's tearing up his shoes
Just like his old man, running from the truth

Don't let me die...I'm running
Oooooh

Roses at your feet, I'm bleeding like a bull
Running toward your cape, running from the truth
Imitating us is the worst thing you can do
'Cause ever since you were born we've been imitating you

Bordertown, hunt me down, maybe you'll never understand
Bordertown, hunt me down, everyone catch me if you can
Chasing my shadow again, chasing my shadow again
Don't let me die on the run, like father, like mother, like son
Chasing my shadow again, chasing my shadow again
Don't let me die on the run, like father, like brother, like son

Sun's a prison bulb, the sky's a guarded fence
Chalking days upon the wall till I'm free again
Isis won't you tell osiris to let me go, let me go
Isis won't you tell osiris to let me go

Can't dance cheek to cheek, what did you expect
Can't see eye to eye because we're running neck and neck
Nothing is everything, and everything is you
And ignorance is this, running from the truth
Ignorance is this, running from the truth

Don't let me die...I'm running (repeat)

Please be still
Please wait until
The hurricane is gone
Stay where you are
I can't find the north star overheard
Every road sign is torn to shreds
Please be still
Please wait for me, I won't be too long
I know the sun will rise
I know the sun will rise again
When the hurricane is gone

Half of the fight is
Getting over the wall
Oooh, you're my only and all
Forever waiting
For love to evolve
Oooh, you're my only and all

Please be still
Please wait until
The hurricane is gone
Stay where you are
I can't find the north star overheard
Every road sign is torn to shreds
Please be still
Please wait for me, I won't be too long
I know the sun will rise
I know the sun will rise again
When the hurricane is gone

Half of the fight is
Getting over the wall
Oooh, you're my only and all
Forever waiting
For love to evolve
Oooh, you're my only and all

Arrancame el corazon (x4)