One Long Line
Whenever I feel weak, I can get quite absurd.
I get astounded at my own words.
Whenever I feel joy, I make it go away.
Do I choose to be hopeless, yeah that’s ok.
But don’t criticize , Ill be still here but don’t bother me.
You’ll be still here so don’t say goodbye.
Another bad day coming over me.
And my regrets, I’ve had a few.
But then again, thats why I mentioned it.
As far as I can see, we’re all in one long line.
And it appears we must walk along it, until we die.
I don’t socialize, just throw a blanket on top of me.
I keep a distance I don’t want no cry.
Another campaign don’t bother me.
Another bad day coming over me.
So don’t criticize, Ill be still here but don’t bother me.
I keep a distance I don’t want no cry.
Another campaign don’t bother me.
Another bad day don’t say goodbye.
Keep a blanket on top of me.
One Way Flight
I was talking to the doorman and he said something like ‘well I’m all right Jack’.
Now’s the time to start thinking bout do or die.
We were waiting for the landslide, when all of a sudden that the time was our time.
Time to start thinking bout’ you and I.
Then suddenly, everybody’s on a one way flight.
How much you paying for your romance? well I can tell you that its far too much now.
Have you ever seen me ever need an alibi?
And then I saw her do a handstand and I just said to her ‘you don’t want to be doing that here love’.
She just looked at me like I was just some random guy.
And then suddenly, everybody’s on a one way flight.
Yeah suddenly, everybody’s on a highway tonight.
And now you’re trying to sell your story, well I can tell you now that I wouldn’t buy one.
It does appear to me that you must be an only child.
Yeah you remind me of the doorman, the only thought you have is I’m all right Jack.
Time to start thinking bout’ the other guy.
Then suddenly, everybody’s on a one way flight.
Yeah suddenly, everybody’s on a highway tonight.
Yeah suddenly, everybody’s on a one way flight tonight.
Delusions Of Adequacy
It started off just fine, I’m sat minding my own damn business.
He had just walked by, sat right on down and said how do you do.
Buy me a glass, I’ve no ID but it don’t matter.
Come see me talk, I’ll convince a billionaire that he’s really poor.
The patter soon got old, I thought then that I might regret it.
The more that I found out, the more I saw cracks were beginning to show.
Don’t make me laugh, the charity is one big racket.
Im gonna wash my hands, I just can’t sit back and be silent no more.
He doesn’t count at all.
He doesn’t count at all.
Your word ain’t anything, no bond just like your your promise.
You’re barely fully formed, seems to me you’ve got delusions of adequacy.
Figure it out, if you don’t change you won’t get better.
When you’re fully formed, you’ll be a reflection of the pin ups on your bedroom wall.
He doesn’t count at all.
She’s Every Single Bit Of Lovely
I remember when I met you, you were sitting at the bar.
I was trying to impress you, but I didn’t get too far.
So I invited you for coffee, but you were leaving on the walk.
So I gave you my number, and then you promised that you’d call.
And so I had to wait then, wait till you returned.
I came to see your office, you came to watch me sing.
I moved into your apartment, we didn’t have a thing.
But what we had was special, yeah I knew we had it good.
I knew your friends wouldn’t like my haircut, but I kinda knew you would.
I wanna say I love you, but I want you to say it too.
She’s everything a boy could want, she’s every single bit of lovely.
Everything I’m looking for, really really lovely.
I sometimes think of my proposal, at the Music Box steps knelt on the floor.
The place where Stan and Ollie, pushed a piano years before.
It seemed to be forever, for you to say I do.
Although if anybody asks you, I know you’ll say that that’s not true.
And then I said I love you, and then you said it too.
She’s everything and so much more, she’s every single bit of lovely.
I want you more and more and more, really really lovely.
And now I just wanted to tell you, you are my one true raison d’être.
I must remember to be grateful, for the very day we met.
Where back in the beginning, I made you promise that you’d call.
So just to finish off my story, you are the loveliest of all.
Im always gonna say I love you, I hope you always say it too.
You’re everything and so much more, you’re every single bit of lovely.
I love you more and more and more, really really lovely.
l want you more and more and more, she’s really really lovely.
l love you more and more and more, every single bit of lovely.
It just goes on and on and on.
Going Through The Motions
I’m going through the motions, I think of coming up for air.
Not fully in the moment.
I heard you’re feeling sorry for the world, wonder what you were thinking.
Don’t you know emotion isn’t always right.
You should be singing softly like a bird, instead it feels like sinking.
Seem its all around us but we fall short.
I’m going through the motions, I think I’m coming up for air.
Calling out to lost causes.
Im going through the motions, I feel like getting out of here.
Oh take me to the moment.
No tomorrow or be yesterday, its only now that matters.
Try to feel it, try to be on time for life.
When the mind is still, the rest will fall in to place.
Seems to be so near and yet its so far.
I’m going through the motions,I think of coming up for air.
Calling out to lost causes.
Im going through the motions, I feel like getting out of here.
Not fully in the moment.
Calling all the lovers, calling out to losers, even all the sinners.
Please don’t wait so long.
Simplify the message, easy and translucence.
Especially for lovers, please don’t wait too long.
Historically, I Really Didn't Didn't Say That
Historically, I really didn’t say that.
Remember me, when we were working down in Soho.
Historically, I really didn’t say that.
Remember me, yeah we were working thru September.
Historically, I really didn’t say that.
Historically, I really didn’t want that.
You looked at me and in a minute I was solo.
From what I see, all I can say is how bizarre.
A memory that’s what I feel when I remember.
Historically, I didn’t really didn’t say that.
Historically…
When I think about the nights that you spent in bars.
It’s hard to wonder where you are.
You think I told everyone, your drinking covers up your scars.
Don’t you think I’d remember? that I think I’d remember.
Historically, I really didn’t say that.
A remedy is maybe something you should hope for.
And suddenly I’m back to saying how bizarre.
Don’t look at me you should be looking in the mirror
Historically, I didn’t really didn’t say that.
Historically…
Leave A Light On
Ever think about lobotomy, I gotta mind like a shooting star.
When I think about this kind of thing, I just land back in the days of yore.
I think this place is kinda done, I’m heading out going way out west.
The pills you take for your sincerity, make it easier to acquiesce.
I’ve had enough of philistines who kind of lark just to kiss & tell.
What made my life seem wonderful also made it such a fucking hell.
The catholic guilt, the rampant sodomies keep me froze like an ice cream cone.
I think I need to find another out but leave a light on, coz I don’t wanna let it go.
Take me to another time yeah take me up the crooked mile.
Do I not wanna let it go, take me to another time, yeah crack me just another smile.
I moved into a house that’s new but found my fears are still as old as God.
I wanted to invite you round but I expect you’ll think you’ve found a fraud.
Do you think you’ll ever get to where you’re sick of living under clouds of doubt.
Sometimes I just want to leave a light on, coz I don’t wanna get involved.
Take me to another time take me up the crooked mile.
I don’t wanna let it go, take me to another time yeah crack me just another smile.
Do I not wanna let it go, take me to another time yeah take me up the crooked mile.
I don’t wanna let it go, take me to another time yeah crack me just another smile.
Take me to another time, spend me just another dime, crack me just another smile.
I don’t wanna let it go I don’t wanna let it show, take me up the crooked mile.
Manc Grey Sky
Heaven help us now, don’t make me set the hounds on you.
I blessed these four walls, try not make a headline.
With that Manc grey sky, you seem to be a tad subdued.
Come and see me now..
You should be happy that I’m gone, I’m always on the run, I never learned the book that way.
And I could go another mile, just to make you smile, but that would be another day.
We’ve been up and we’ve been down, hanging all around, its like a curtain being drawn.
You should be happy that I’m gone, I never was the one, we’re just too different it seems.
If I don’t a have doubt, ill find a way to constitute.
My wives are nice and warm, they watch me while I’m sleeping.
How come I’m not surprised, you got someone cleaning up for you.
Be superb always…
So you’ve been bought and you’ve been sold, many times you’ve told, me not to ever get involved.
Its a pleasant slight of hand, sitting on command, I tell the truth, the truth be told.
It must be boring to be right, each and every night, and then again in the morning.
And in a minute Ill be back, like my broken back, it never ever seems to heal.
Im almost happy that you find, somehow to make the time, and rarely see a trusty way.
Just because I wont go, don’t mean that I wont show, my feelings in some other way.
I just like living in the sun, well doesn’t everyone, theres just no other place like home.
We’ve been up and we’ve been down, hanging all around I do believe this is the,
I do believe this is the one.
This Is How It Feels To Be Alone
Sometimes I blame illusion, for the standards we hold dear.
I can’t rely on reason, so I manufacture fear.
I must learn to forget things, that I cannot control.
Reject those false suggestions, for they shall have no hold.
My glass may not be half empty, but it doesn’t mean that its half full.
Oh God be told, I’ve got minutes till I’m old.
I didn’t want to see the morning after.
I couldn’t bear to feel that way again.
I didn’t intend to be so disappointed.
But this is how It feels to be alone.
And now I’m staring at the sun I must believe I have the one in you.
But I’m a rotting effigy of everything you wanted me to be.
And now I fully see the panorama.
A Godless space indeed just full of holes.
Then you start to feel like a pariah.
Yeah this is how It feels to be alone.