Absolute last

I don’t want to look outside again
I don’t want to see where I still live
I don’t want to walk my street again
I don’t want to remember it

Diamonds are made in the time it takes
For me to explain again

Holding down absolute last

I don’t want to see city lights again
The way they shine words in my mind
I don’t want to see the night sky again
stars locked away in l.a.  til they die

cars are free free to fly
fly through trees the trees and i
nightingales far apart
take the wheel a brand new start
songs begin to fill the air
fill the air when you’re not there
come and hear the town drunk wail
he’s singing  hold on hold on…to me

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Breaking my rhymes in the rain

Don’t ever get caught with a bright idea
There a dime a dozen like a Nirvana rip off
I’ve been trying to break down for years
It only got me fired and drunk on cheep beer

I thought had the solutions
To all my pain
Now I’m breakin my rhymes in the rain

 Keep your wings well below the ground dear
Try to scream without a sound
Keep your eyes below the clouds dear
Never reach up and never be let down

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Follow the stars

Mystery eye falls down from the sky
Tries to get a read on you
Buttoned up clowns run all over town
Shouting words in tongue on cue

You don’t need a second chance
Even if you’ve wasted a few
You say it’s all circumstance
The world stops spinning when it wants to

That’s o.k.
Well I would just as soon follow the stars around you

There’s something about the songs that you shout
That rise above the falling rain
That makes it all clear if we all disappear
Your voice will make me smile again

You don’t need a second chance
Even if you’ve wasted a few
You say it’s all circumstance
The world will stop spinning when it wants to

That’s o.k.
Well I would just as soon follow the stars around you

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Happiness in hell (spaceman)

You seem to make me ill
And waste so much time
You break down my will
And nothing kills the pain inside

Spaceman ooh ooh take me away cause I don’t understand
Spaceman if you can one million miles away cause I don’t understand it here no more

I try to fly away
Leave your world behind
Remember better days
They get hard to mine

Spaceman ooh ooh take me away cause I don’t understand
Spaceman if you can come down from milky ways
cause I don’t understand it here no more

You certainly wear it well
The fake and crooked smile
Is Happiness in hell
What you had in mind?

Spaceman ooh ooh take me away cause I don’t understand
Spaceman if you can one million miles today cause I don’t understand it here no more

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She’s lost it

Fake movie stars in faster cars
plastic sunshine burns them all
Cigarettes and sushi bars
Choking skylines to a crawl
She don’t know a second chance
from a rattle snake bite
fake movie stars keep crashing cars
and L.A.’s alright

she’s lost it
she’s out of mind and out of my sight

it’s a numbers game that we all play
take me back to yesterday
nothing more here left to say
the money’s coming any day
she’s a child of circumstance
with a past that’s airtight
the numbers game that we all play
keeps her laughing all night

she’s lost it
she’s out of mind and out of my sight

she don’t care for all the sunshine
in the world

fake movie stars keep crashing cars
and L.A.’s alright

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all the days

how do i go on
how do i settle down
how do i make it home tonight
a few years ago i said hello to you
and good bye to me
there’s nothing wrong with you
or the things you do
but now i know why the bird cage swings

i think of all the days
they go away and don’t come back again
seems like there’s more yesterdays
and less todays seep in

speeding under the stars 
a place that used to be ours
we won’t be kissing on mars tonight
i’m breaking out on my own  i’ve got to drive a new road
the air is heavy and i’m traveling light
a few years ago i said hello to you
and good bye to me
i’ve nothing better to do than lose a friend like you
and wonder what the hell a word like freedom means

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Stupid songs about love

spent my day at the jumping school for chickens
i think i learned a lot today
tonight i’ve got a date with my best girl
she’s the greatest girl in the world
she’s so the one for me it’s all good

she loves the bands that sing all the hate songs
so much kewler than the stupid bands that sing their stupid songs about love
she loves the bands that bring on the pain songs
so much kewler than the stupid bands that sing their stupid songs about love
so much kewler than the stupid bands that sing their stupid songs about love
so much kewler

i’ll buy the cigarettes she likes to drag
 they won’t run she won’t have to bum
the wrong kind again from me this time
i can’t wait to be again with her
she’s so kewl she’s a cat she purrs
she knows all the words to the songs we sing
i love to hear her sing

i’ll buy the ring for her someday
she’ll leave it in her eyebrow to stay
the way she is to me tonight
so much to see in life through her
so glad she understands my words as we float like birds
through our concert high

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 i can count on you to bring me down   

i can count on you to bring the rain
make my dreary day seem like fun again
i can count on you ‘point to my decline
talk about your life ‘till i’m sick of mine

i can count on you to bring me down
perfect personalities mess me up
i can count on you

i can count on you to mix up my words
confuse the sky and bring down the birds
i can count on you  make me a broken man
set the pieces down in the dirt again

i used to hang on every word like a noose till i shivered
i don’t hear you anymore

i can count on you  shrink me down real small
with your heavy words  ‘till i’m not here at all
i can count on you ‘take what i ain’t got
no cars, just scars and bars, no jackpot

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morning sickness

i get sick in the morning
when i realize my dreams aren’t coming true
it’s like a trick in the morning
when i look around and see this empty room
i get sick in the morning
when i think of all the time  lost without you
i get sick in the morning 
i wonder what the hell i’m going to do

burnt out on fries and chips
tourched all relationships
can’t seem to find a job
not mad enough to join a mob

good ideas evaporate
through the years

lost all the friends that kept me glad
can’t shake the ones that keep me sad
no cash to spend on stupid things
reach now for cigarettes not dreams

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habit forming

hey you’ve gone too soon
like homies in june
i got some flowers in my pocket
the world might come to an end
and i’d have no friends to cheer my glasses
and that could bring me down

yeah you’re habit forming got to have you every morning
yeah you’re habit forming and you hit me without warning
yeah you’re habit forming

i’ll take you out to the sun
your stockings will run
and we’ll wear our disguises inside out
find a victorian house
with a hole for a mouse
cause you never know who your friends might be these days

yeah you’re habit forming got to have you every morning
yeah you’re habit forming and you hit me without warning
yeah you’re habit forming

hey you’ve gone too soon
like homies in june
and the man on the street could see me cracking
nothing ever got done
when we’d have our fun
now I hate how everything’s o.k.

*These are the lyrics as written, and might not be

exactly as recorded or played live.