All About You
(September 2002)
WHAT NEVER WAS :: Love is such a dangerous word We use it much too carelessly But when your world has turned absurd It seems to come so easily I want to explode deep inside your world And I can’t help it if I still need you girl Do you need me too? Do you ever need me too? Do you ever wonder what might have been In a different time in a different place? When your table’s feast has grown thin Will you still hunger for a taste? I want to explode deep inside your world…I will live the life you asked me too But it’s so hard to live it without you We’ll keep doing the silly things we do Keep on saying the words we know aren’t true I want to explode deep inside your world…
SEE YOU AGAIN :: The last time that I saw you It seems like a lifetime passed A red moon split your smile in two You laid your head on my chest and laughed I heard echoes in your belly rumbling I couldn’t see your eyes My words were clumsy dancers stumbling I thought I heard someone cry. I want to see you again When will I see you again? I could not hope to prepare For the life I lived today Your flashing eyes were everywhere I’m lost in fading yesterdays Holding hand kiss heresies And failures to attain Smoke screen day-glo memories Like stray dogs in the rain And I don’t care what’s wrong or right Tell me this is not the end ‘Cause I can’t stand the thought that I might Never touch you again. I want to see you again…
THIS SACRIFICE :: This sacrifice—hearts turn to stone Pay the price—I can make it on my own. Some things feel right Even though they’re wrong Day and night I will be strong. How many days can you regret? How long do I wait until I can forget? Some things feel right…
PAPER DOLLS :: Susan skips her job again Spends her day sitting on her
bed Cutting paper dolls up with a knife Feeling smaller remembering All the
things they never said And trying to make some sense out of her life. Cutting
paper dolls up with a knife Trying to make some sense out of your life Cutting
paper dolls up with a knife Isn’t that the story of your life? Susan I don’t
know you anymore And nothing’s like the way it was before She falls asleep and
dreams about A girl sitting on her bed Cutting paper dolls up with a knife
She wakes up and thinks about All the things they never said Trying to make some
sense out of her life. Cutting paper dolls up with a knife…
THE DARKEST CORNER :: Sometimes when I’m on my own With another day full of nothing much to do I’ll take my guitar and go sit on the lawn And spend some more time thinking about you. Sometimes I’ll even get inspired And try to write a new song But then I get confused and tired And all the words come out wrong. These days it’s hard to recall What being alive feels like Sometimes I can almost remember When I’m lying awake at night And I ain’t slept since I don’t know when I think I’m running out of dreams That ripping sound you hear is my heart old friend Coming apart at every seam. She never fails to fail me She never fails to fail me And she has finally jailed me In the darkest corner of her heart. My mama once told me if I made a wish And my heart was clean and true I could have anything I wanted So I close my eyes and I wish for you. But when I look around to see I know you won’t be there I guess I’ll never see you again But I can feel you everywhere She never fails to fail me…
NEVER ENDING :: I knew a woman she had fire in her bones I knew a woman she had fire in her bones Mind like a hammer and a heart full of stones I knew a woman she had fire in her bones. Nothing’s forever that’s what she said Nothing’s forever that’s what she said Her words like razors slicing up my head Nothing’s forever that’s what she said. I stuck my hand in the flame too long I shouldn’t put them where they don’t belong Do you only give as good as you get? Sometimes I wish that we had never met. I held you close and pulled you deep inside How could I know you were just looking for a place to hide? I know the secrets that you never told me I know the secrets that you never told me I saw the things that you never showed me I know the secrets that you never told me. I stuck my hand in the flame too long…
WHAT YOU’RE GONNA DO :: I wanna be your wreckage tonight Till the bright falls from the broken moon’s light Crack my bones in your hacksaw hair Scarlet my skin on your shadowbox stare. (It’s getting late now I just can’t wait now) Do what you wanna do now what you gonna do now? Summer time enchant my long leg dream Hot wet melting on your cherry cream Wrap that smile all across your face Friction those thighs let’s fill some space. (It’s getting late now I just can’t wait now…)
CAN I COME OVER TONIGHT? :: I know a guy who likes to fight He’ll hit you in the mouth if you don’t walk right He’s got big muscles and he’s kind of scary His girlfriend’s a boy and they call her Mary. I know a girl who likes to get high She’s so pretty she hurts my eyes She’s got a big dog and his name is Sam He likes to drink beer from a rusty can. Can I come over tonight? I’m so tired of being lonely Can I come over tonight? You could save me if you’d only...I got a brain and it’s soft and gray It don’t work right but that’s okay I got a brain and I like to abuse it It gets me in trouble every time I use it. Can I come over tonight…
THE ANTIMAN SONG :: I am an antiman And I come from an anti land Your world I don’t understand ‘Cause I am an antiman.I am an antiman And I have two left hands I’m doing the best I can ‘Cause I am an antiman. Tomorrow comes so suddently Aw there’s nothin’ for me there The days go by—they never suit me I wish that somehow I could care. I am an antiman And I come from an anti landYour world I don’t understand ‘Cause I am an antiman. I am an antiman And I have two left hands I’m doing the best I can ‘Cause I am an antiman.
BACKING INTO THE FUTURE :: I never was too good at solving mysteries I can’t understand the things that I don’t see I’m still trying to figure out what you’ll mean to me Should I play the fool or should I just let things be? The present’s not a place that I want to go And the past is full of things I don’t want to know On and on up and down win place or show Every time that I say yes do I mean no? I’m backing into the future I’m backing into the future Come girl come what may It’s just another lonely day. Day after day I’m putting in my time Why does trying to live my life feel like such a crime? Day after day I’m putting in my time Why does being in love with you feel like such a crime? I never was too good at solving mysteries I don’t understand the things that I can’t see I’m still trying to figure out what you’ll mean to me Should I play the fool or should I just let things be? I’m backing into the future I’m backing into the future Tomorrow girl come what may It’s just another fucking day.
ALL ABOUT YOU :: Softly like a summer rain she sings to me Into it deep vibration on the first chance free Take me to you slow as more than friends Last to admit you but always first to touch no end. It was always about you.With everything that pretty is for one alone Golden gliding like morning mist feelings never shown I have a heart and it cost me dear nothing more implied Talk in the things I want to hear the unseen side. It was always about you And nothing’s the same without you…