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UNTITLED
Surprise sometimes
will come around

Surprise sometimes
will come around

I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around

[I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around
when you're down]






NEIGHBORHOOD #1 (TUNNELS)
And if the snow buries my neighborhood
And if my parents are crying
Then I'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours,
Yeah, I'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours

You climb out the chimney
And meet me in the middle of the town
And since there's no one else around,
We'll let our hair grow long
And forget all we used to know
Then our skin gets thicker from
Living out in the snow

You change all the lead
Sleeping in my head
As the day grows dim
I hear you sing a golden hymn

Then we tried to name our babies
But we forgot all the names we used to know
But sometimes we remember our bedrooms
And our parents' bedrooms
And the bedrooms of our friends
Then we think of our parents
What ever happened to them?

[You change all the lead
Sleeping in my head to gold
As the day grows dim
I hear you sing a golden hymn
The song I've been trying to say

Purify the colors, purify my mind
Purify the colors, purify my mind
And spread the ashes of the colors
Over this heart of mine]






THE UNIVERSAL
This is the next century
Where the Universal's free
You can find it anywhere
Yes, the future's been sold

Every night we're gone
And to karaoke songs
How we like to sing along
Though the words are wrong

It really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
When the days they seem to fall through you
Well, just let them go

No one here is alone
Satellites in every home
Yes, the Universal's here
Here for everyone

Every paper that you read
Says tomorrow's your lucky day
Well, here's your lucky day

It really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
When the days they seem to fall through you
Well, just let them go

Well, it really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
[When the days they seem to fall through you
Well, just let them go]







ON MELANCHOLY HILL
Up on melancholy hill
There's a plastic tree
Are you here with me
Just looking out on the day
Of another dream

[Well you can't get what you want
But you can get me
So let's set out to sea
Beause you are my medicine
When you're close to me]
When you're close to me

So call in the submarines
Around the world will go
Does anybody know her?
If we're looking out on the day
Of another dream

If you can't get what you want
Then you come with me

Up on melancholy hill
Sits a manatee
Just looking out for the day
When you're close to me





ALL THESE THINGS I'VE DONE
When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son?
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on

I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know, no you don't, you don't
[I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I'm so much older than I can take
And my affection, well, it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out, yeah
You know you gotta help me out, yeah]
Oh, don't you put me on the back burner
You know you gotta help me out, yeah

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son?
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you gotta help me out, yeah
Oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you gotta help me out, yeah
You're gonna bring yourself down

I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier

You know you gotta help me out, yeah
Oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you gotta help me out, yeah

You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah
Oh don't you put me on the back burner
You're gonna bring yourself down

Over and in, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done

If you can hold on
If you can hold on










NEW YEAR'S DAY
All is quiet on new year's day
A world in white gets underway
[I want to be with you, be with you night and day
Nothing changes on new year's day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again]

Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it's true
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

I will be with you again
I will begin again

Mmaybe the time is right
Maybe tonight
I will be with you again
I will be with you again

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On new year's day





LITTLE MISS LOVER
Little miss lover
[Where have you been in this world for so long
Well, I love a lover that feels like you]
Would you like to tag along?

Well, I really don't need any help, little girl
But I think you could help me out anyway

Would you believe, baby?
I've been looking for a soul
That feels like you for some time
Excuse me while I see
If the gypsy on me is right
If you don't mind

Well, he signals me OK
So I think it's safe to say
I'm gonna make my play

See me coming towards you now
Hey, hey, little miss lover
There is so much you and me can discover
And I think we should start
We should start right now






PERFECTING LONELINESS
I'm a long list with no time
Sunset panic on the street
sugar and lightbulbs,
the milk of kindness is behind us now

With all those stones in your coat,
did you think I wouldn't know?

The teat leaves of trashed streets,
dirty needle sand sweets.
Zero to heaven in seven
a lifetime
a nanosecond

All the sand in your glass
is going by so fast

The radio is playing our tune.
I love it, could you turn it down?
The thought of you crying in my room,
I miss you, could you come around
sometime?

When the night comes down,
the world becomes a room
under the microscope
with a labcoat and glue

I'm fixing this hole
with everything I knew

The music is making my head split.
I love it, could you turn it off?
The thought of you is tearing me in two
I miss you, could you come around
sometime?

[This list is what went right
your name is written twice.]
We live like astronauts
and our missions never cross
The stakes are high
we're standing by

There used to be a hundred ways to put my arms around you
Everyone one seemed new,
natural and true,
perfecting loneliness
until nothing's holding us
Consider Earth:
we could be the first





CAT HEAVEN
[In the dream that awakened me
You had come and taken me
To a sea of stars
The cat stood in the flowers two ears above

And the ground that was under me
Was holding me so wonderfully
On a bed of leaves
And you were here with me and we were free

Everything we saw
Was beautiful and strong
And I knew we belonged

Then the birds came and carried us
To the sky and married us on a bed of stars
Where I was always yours
And you were mine

And in the long back eternity
I love you so perfectly
In the words of clouds
Like a bird sings to his flowers and I was heard

Everything I saw
Was everything I'd want
And this world had just begun to live
Don't wake me up
I can't wake up from this

Everyone was forgiven
Made hopeful
Made living
Made winning
Tonight

So, captain, please consider me
Let the boats deliver me
When I close my eyes
Drive, captain, drive
It's time

For everything to be perfect
For everything to stop hurting
Tonight

Don't wake me up]





THE NEW YEAR
So this is the new year.
And I don't feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self-assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So, everybody, put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one

[I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that can hold us back

There'd be no distance that could hold us back]





TWINKLE
While you were asleep
Pulled my hood to block the light from the TV
Turned the volume up to distract me from constant noises
Leaking under the apartment door
It doesn't help
I get up and I crawl out and don't hear more
Make a barricade of full trash bags and empty boxes
Perched behind them, closely watching

While you were asleep
On the couch, watching a movie, smoking weed
Rummaging through the utensils in the kitchen counter,
In the drainer, which one's sharper
When the light creeps in
loosen my grip and crawl back into my bed
Your alarm is set to go off in a half an hour
Eyes closed, fake snore, none the wiser

Victoria made me happy
Now I can only be scared
And people tell me that time can fix the wound
But that's crap
'Cause she's not coming back
And life's unfair

I'm always anxious and worried
I'm always freaked out and scared
And people tell me that time can fix the wound
But that's crap
Vicki's not coming back

And I scream, "Why did I get left behind?"
I know it's an exaggeration
to say I would rather die than
share this place with people capable
of inspiring such fear and hopelessness
that I'm frozen in my bed
but that sums it up

Teenage Halloween
Hot safety pins in nozzles of shaving cream
Spend the evening spraying cars, toilet papering houses
What's the harm in smashing pumpkins?

Decades on, with kids
And I don't let them go out past dark
I sit on the front porch with a shotgun
While they're upstairs sleeping
Total darkness
Love
Protection




MAPS
Pack up
I'm strayed
Enough
Oh say say say

Wait, they don't love you like I love you
Maps

Made off
Don't stray
My kind's your kind
I'll stay the same
Pack up
Don't stray
Oh say say say

[Wait, they don't love you like I love you]





TRANSATLANTICISM
The Atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how
The clouds above opened up and let it out
I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean
Making islands where no island should go
Oh, no

Most people were overjoyed; they took to their boats
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat
The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door
Have been silenced forevermore
The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Oh, no

[I need you so much closer
So come on]