we had our passports out and the kits to fix 'em up with.
and the hurricane lamp cast our shadows on the ceiling.
i watched 'em box with one another like punch and judy.
it was dangerous and delightful.
it was that kind of feeling
when you said you were sure there was nothing standing in our way.
and the lie ran off and hid itself in the alleys all around  the bay.

i saw you knock the lamp over while reaching for the scissors
and i wondered how we'd ever get by without it.
and you fell into my arms, sweet and gentle.
poison in the water.
little doubt about it.
and you said that one of us would be all alone someday.
and the truth of it echoed inexhaustably all across the bay

a unique energy that could quantify as a telepathic discharge upon death

We communicate with smoke signals
A code neither of us understand
For you i pine but you dont have the time,
so you go your way and ill go mine
i hope we meet up later on down the line.

so years later we meet and now im a full grown child
and you a spoiled woman
i cant give you the life you deserve or the world you crave
so you go forward and ill go back
i hope we catch up with each other on the track

ten years later you pass me by without even a glance
with some dumb guy on your arm
he doesnt yet know all you do is harm
so you go upward and ill go down
ill see you in hell we when we die

Oh Lord Of Slumber

You've walked the corridors of dream, have you not? When you go back there again, would you tell them I miss the old dreams, the ones I had when I was younger... the ones that made me what I was?

I could go off the deep end,
I can **** all my best friends.
I can follow those stylish trends.
God knows I can make amends.
But I've got an angry heart
filled with cancer and poppy tarts.

If this is how you folks make art,
its ******* depressing.

And it's sad to know
that we are not alone and it's
sad to know there's no honest way out.

I'm afraid to leave the house,
I'm as timid as a mouse.
I'm afraid if I go on I'll out wear my welcome.
I'm not a courageous man.
I dont have any big, lasting plans.
Too cowardly to take a stand, I want to keep my nose clean.

And it's sad to know
that we are not alone in this,
and it's said to know there's no honest way out.

In this life we lead,
we can conquer every thing,
if we could just feel brave to get out of bed in the morning.

Black mollies in the aquarium
Darting back and forth as though an earthquake were certain
And I turned up the heater
And I ripped off my shirt

And I grabbed hold of my stereo
And I threw it out the window
You were in town again
You'd come around again
You were dragging me down again with you

Siamese fish flashing like sparklers
It started to rain
And the telephone rang a couple of times
I put a bullet through its cold dead brain

and I got out my photographs of you
and I put bullets though all of them too
You were in town again
You'd come around again
You were dragging me down again with you

your skirt was red and flowing,
your blouse was blue
on the night i locked eyes with you.
it seemed to me like i hadn't seen your eyes since last december.

my shredding muscles
my popping joints
i saw the pupils of your eyes by firelight shrinking down to pinpoints
you were poking at the embers
there's a cold wind coming off the ocean.
there's a cold wind coming off the ocean.

i wet my finger with my tongue and pressed it in the ashes,
rubbed it up against your perfect eyelashes.
you said something really important,
something pretty seems to have slipped my mind.
walls were freezing, so was the floor.
i didn't want to hurt you anymore.
you had a sad, sad, friend in front of you,
that dying fire behind.
there was a cold wind coming off the ocean.
there was a cold wind coming off the ocean.

To you whom We have seen
Stalking at night by eyes keen
Transcendant of savages
Sating thirst sans avarice
Your coffers stay stuffed
By social graces robust
None know your nature;
save Us
None share your fate;
save Us
None welcome you as kin;
save Us.

Its A hot arizona summers day.
If i wake you there will be hell to pay.
The orange sun beats down unrelenting.
I close my eyes and dream of a long lost civilization,
I wake to a shout, and soon realize what you are about
And i think about that and i start to black out
Some things i thought i knew and some i know i do
we feed on each others fears and doubts
when i hunt down the vampires that made us this way
Ill rip out his heart with my hands.

i got your letter.
and i read what it said.
and i blushed with recognition at every word you said.
and you are my best friend.
and i have always known you.

i came to your house.
and i looked around.
and i felt the real rain falling down.
and you are my best friend.
and i have always known you.

She came from a poor home
On the wrong side of the river
Where she played out in the streets
And dreamed of better

He came from the farmland
Where he worked hard every day
Like a prince in shining armor
He came and took her away

And she never had to work
A day in her life
Everything she needed he provides
She was sweet 16 And he was 22
She'd never had a lover
And he had had a few

He had his heart broken
By a he called his wife
But in her he saw a new hope
A chance for a better life

And never did their love ever fade
And never have their hearts ever strayed
But today they sit in different rooms In the same house
Watching different TVs

They hardly ever speak
They get together to sleep and eat
And I wonder, do they remember me?
Or am I just one of their dreams That didn't work out?
I bet they'd given up on me by now

All they ever wanted out of life
Was a house and a car
And money in the bank
They worked hard
For such a long long time
But at last they got all of those things

So what do you do
When all of your dreams come true?

I went down to yale today
Just in the old way
A black dog hobbled past me
His tags jangled on his collar
It made me wish i was dead
It made me wish i was dead

Had a familiar sun on me
Just like it would always be
Rocky soil dry land
I knew it all like the back of my hand
It made me wish i was dead
It made me wish i was dead

A terrific view form here
The sky's clear
The sun's high
I let things lie
And i know what is and isn't mine
And it was good to get back to the sunshine
But 5 years is a long time
And i spent 5 years dying for you
I spent 5 years dying for you

I always held on to your eyes as I believe
That somehow you'd always be next to me
This empty room reaches out to take away the best of me
There is no silence to describe what I feel inside

Walk with me, Talk with me
Imagine there is nothing that can harm you in the world
Stay with me and Look at me Just wait before you go
This life has done you wrong, Hold on

You're faithless, you don't believe in anything
Captured by life's sadness, You're all right

You're faithless, your head down in despair
Stuck there in the blackness, you're all right

Sort of love that out lasts time
My relative annihilistic thinking left behind
I'll cover you and keep you and your beautiful smile
Vanish from the physical into my mind

Walk with me, Talk with me
Imagine there is nothing that can harm you in the world
Stay with me and Look at me Just wait before you go
This life has done you wrong, Hold on

You're faithless, you don't believe in anything
Captured by life's sadness, You're all right

You're faithless, your head down in despair
Stuck there in the blackness, you're all right

You've got the best of me
You've got the best of me

For my wife to whom I comitt my soul

down here where the heat's so fine

i'll drink to your health
and you drink to mine

as we try to make the money we scored out in vegas
hold out for a while

we drink ***** from russia

we get our chocolates from belgium

we have our strawberries flown in from england

but none of the money we spend
seems to do us much good in the end

i got a cracked engine block
both of us do

yeah the house and the jewels, the italian race car
they don't make us feel better
about who we are

i got termites in the framework
but so do you

down here where the watermelon grows so sweet
where i worship the ground underneath of your feet

we are experts in the art of frivolous spending

well it's gone on like this for three years i guess

we're drunk all the time and our lives are a mess

and the deathless love we swore to protect with our bodies
is stumbling across its bleak ending

but none of the rage in our eyes
seems to finish it off where it lies

i got sugar in the fuel lines
both of us do

yeah, the fights and the lies that we both love to tell
fail to send our love to its reward down in hell

i got pudding for a backbone
but so do you

People are wasteful they waste all the food
People are hateful and people are rude
But god I love some people sometimes
Because people are very very special

People are impatient they don't know how to wait
People are mean yeah people are prone to hate
But god I love some people sometimes
Because people are the greatest thing to happen

People are people regardless of skin
People are people regardless of creed
People are people regardless of gender
People are people regardless of anything

People are my religion because I believe in them
People are my enemies and people are my friends
I have faith in my fellow man
And I only hope that he has faith in me

I went down to town's center looking for you.
but a mouth full of anger blocked my view.
he took your hand there in the skating rink.
god will give him blood to drink.

saw the two of you leaving.
I didn't want to follow behind.
but I could see the rest of your evening,
burning in my mind.

the sky's black. the moon's pink.
god will give him blood to drink.

I looked over the railing. ice was white
on the northeast side where I saw you and your boyfriend
on a friday night.
I went mining for gold. I struck pure, fresh zinc.
god, god will give him blood to drink.

the eye of the needle lies in the teeth of the wind
the mouth of the cave lies in the skin of the pearl
the dream is the door and the star is the key.

ALL CRIES ARE WAKING!
Whitest White of all White!
Blackest Blacks of all Blacks!
Shame and Son, Sun, and Shadow!

Stronger than gods, brighter than mortals!
Only He is Awake! Only He is Alive!

He Knows the Names and the Naming!
He Knows the Wait and the Waiting!
He Enters into every Star and Moon!
He Shines through their Shadows!

One Shape, One Spelling!
One Wraith, One Casting!
From Darkness, He is Armed!
From Light, He is Warded!

He is All Things! Drake! Liche! Theomen!
On rivers of fire he comes forth!
Through storms of dreams he rides!
With slivers of steel he pierces the Heart!

All Spells, Powers, Curses Broken!
The Chains are Shattered!
The Scales Fall Away!

I see you with MY EYE!
And all is SILENCE!
I Wake!
I Remember!
LORD!

THE DREAMER IS AWAKE!

I wanna tear apart my heart
Glue the pieces to my car
Crash it into a wall
I don't wanna feel at all
I wanna break apart my heart

Douse it in gasoline
'till the fire burns clean
Then flick a cigarette
Like that movie con-air
Doused in gasoline

And if you think you are better than me your right
There's no one to love, no one to trust
In my life

I wanna pick up the pieces
And plant them in the ground
And when a tree grows there
I want to chop that tree down

Build it into a boat
And float it into a lake
And with dynamite
I will explode the thing
That makes me make mistakes

Sometimes I get so lonesome I can't breathe
Sometimes I get so scared I can't speak
Sometimes I get so worried I can't hear my heart beat...anyway
Anyway

I wanna tear out my heart
And give it away
Too a person more deserving one day
If all I see is the worst in everything
Thats all I'm gonna get, it's all I'm gonna get

i thought that i was in control.
when i saw her coming, i reached out my hand.
you would think so too
but there is something here that you do not understand.
she's got skin like you would not believe.
i saw her skin and i went out of my mind.
she's got skin more perfect that the sky,
and i reached out my hand and left the world behind.

no one knew what i was talking about,
i used to say that what i saw through my window
was brilliant sap and strong white camelias.
now i see her coming, and i just don't think so.
she's got skin like you would not believe.
i saw her skin and i went out of my mind.
i reached out my hand and i walked out into the rain.
i was right behind the clouds.
i could just see her coming.

No one will know how evil I really am
No one will know how evil I really am

Cause I like to wear disguises
And I like to disguise my plans
No one will know how evil I really am

And no one will know truly how I feel
And no one will know how I truly feel

Cause I can no longer differentiate
Between what is fake and what is real
I don't know how I feel

I was born in a hospital
My first two days were spent in the care of nuns
But my mother found it in her
To go ahead and take me back
And I love her

And I will always appreciate bad days like this
Because they grant me a point of reference
in regards to my happiness

And although I feel cold and empty
one day I hope I can feel warm and full
Stand with honor, and comfort, and dignity

Don't know if I believe in god
But sometimes I pray
Because the way I was raised
Keeps me afraid

A scientist that has to have his way
I subsist of a steady diet of shame

I hope I can forgive me
For having the nerve to exist
I hope someone can help me
Make some sense of this

I work a ten hour grave
From nine to seven
And I can't fall asleep
Until eleven past eleven

There's no drug that I can take
That will keep me from being awake
Past my, past my bedtime

Truckers are the blood in the veins of the body of America
States are the arms and the legs and the brains and the eyes
There's a disease spreading from ***** to *****
And you are the white blood cell that fixes the problem

You don't know your own power
You don't know what you're worth
You don't recognize your valor
And until you do, nothing you do will matter

I am so mad at you
for making me such a *******
giving me such high standards
I'm mad at you

But I'll find you
inside of someone else
even if finding you in of someone else
is hard to do

This never ending pursuit of happiness
is getting harder and harder to accomplish
the lies I tell myself
just so I can get by
are getting less and less convincing all the time

and I just can't shake the feeling
that I'll be alone forever
please tell me that's not the case

So I will go look for
things I find important
qualities that are unique
and traits I find attractive in other people

I'll never be the comfort
you lost when you were nine or so
I can't fill those big of holes
Thought you knew that about me

I never want to wake up
living in your fake memory
I want to wake up in your bed
******* scared

Pushing through the *******
and working up the nerve to speak

I'll never fix your car
or find you another dead end job
So lets lay on this carpeted floor
and draw with crayons

the lights are on in your room so tell me, who's your friend?
and the lights are burning in the little house on east end
and I remembered who I was and what I came here for
the moon was caught high in the branches of the sycamore

and on my neck I felt the cold wind
and it licked around my ears and it asked me to ask you, yeah, who's your friend?
and the lights came down over phoenix, blazed again before your front door
the moon was caught high in the branches of the sycamore

you come around here when the lights are down low.
and you hang around for six or seven hours and then you get ready to go.
well, i remember when you used to kiss me without me asking you to
yeah i remember when you used to.

when i lean toward to you, you turn away.
it's a quarter past one a.m. on a warm saturday.
that's alright, that's alright, i hear you.
don't do anything you don't want to do.
but, i remember when you used to kiss me without me asking you to.
yeah i remember when you used to.

I'm on an island and that island is sinking.
That island likes to stay up all night drinking.
How could I escape it?
Do you think that I will make it out alive?

The other island is one that I'm well acquainted.
For three whole years I've been back and forth 'till I nearly fainted.
I loved that island dearly,
But I've hunted all the animals into extinction.

And I was born to sail away.
And I was born to live my life.
I think I should learn to swim or build a boat to love myself again,
To learn to be self-sufficient.

I died, I died in the year 2002
Sorry my love, that I keep haunting you
sorry but it's all I can do
sorry but it's all i can do

It was july, it was july when they buried me
it was july when they laid me down to sleep
I know that you wept for me
I know that you wept for me

they put me down, they put me down
into the earth and they covered me with dirt
some people say being dead is painless and peaceful
but let me tell you, dear, it hurts
it hurts, it hurts, it hurts

I dug my way up, I dug my way up
from the grave that very day I followed you home,
I didn't want to be alone
and now in your shadows I will stay
and now in your shadows I'll stay

You were so sweet, so sweet to me
I'll always love your memory
and I won't hold it against you,
I swear I don't mind that you killed me
I don't mind that you killed me

and I don't want to go to heaven
and I don't want to go to hell
I don't want to go anywhere
I don't want to go anywhere

and I don't want to go to heaven
and I don't want to go to hell
if you are not gonna be there
if you're not gonna be there

I'm a ghost, I'm a ghost without substance,
without form but I'll haunt you
backwards through your life
until the day that you were born
til the day that you were born

In the holding tank I built for myself, it's feeding time
And I start to feel afraid 'cause I'm the last one left in line
The endless string of summer storms that led me to today
Began one afternoon with you long ago and far away

And someone leads the beast in on its chain
But I know you're thinking of me
'cause it's just about to rain
So I wont be afraid of anything ever again

In the cell that holds my body back,
the door swings wide And I feel like someone's lost child
as the guards lead me outside
And if the clouds are gathering,
it's just to point the way To an afternoon
I spent with you when it rained all day

And someone leads the beast in on its chain
But I know you're thinking of me
'cause it's just about to rain
So I wont be afraid of anything ever again

we live high, our love gorges on the alcohol we feed it
and it grows all fat and friendly, we have surplus if we need it
we hold on as hard as we can, our knuckles are white

we write letters to each other invent secrets to confess to
i learn foreign and exotic terms of endearment by which to address you
we feed fresh fruit to one another we stay up all night
and i am healthy, i am whole, but i have poor impulse control
and i want to go home, but i am home

we are strong, we are faithful, we are guardians of a rare thing
we pay close, careful attention to the news the morning air brings
we show great loyalty to the hard times we've been through
we are filled with riches and wonders, our love keeps the things it finds
and we dance like drunken sailors, lost at sea out of our minds

you find shelter somewhere in me, and i find great comfort in you
and i keep you safe from harm, you hold me in your arms
and i want to go home, but i am home

I will rise up early
and dress myself up nice
and I will leave the house
and check the deadlock twice.
and I will find a crowd
and blend in for a minute
and I will try to find
a little comfort in it.
and I will get lonely
and gasp for air.
and send your name up from my lips
like a signal flare.

and I will go downtown,
stand in the shadows of the buildings
and button up my coat,
trying to stay strong,
spirit willing.
and I will come back home,
maybe call some friends,
maybe paint some pictures,
it all depends.
and I will get lonely
and gasp for air.
and look up at the high windows,
and see your face up there

I wish I was a bumble bee
I wish I lived to love my queen
Flying from flower to flower all day
I'd dance if I had somethingto say
Everybody working to feed our babies,
Such a simple and honest community
Not making money, just making honey
I wish I could make something that sweet

I wish I was a mountain goat
I wish I didn't know all the things I know
I'd eat alpine flowers for lunch each day
I'd take naps in the sun in some secret place
Living high on peaks all covered in snow
In the valleys that no one else could go
What some people call danger I'd call my home
And I'd never have to hear another telephone

I wish I could be them both
Anything's bettert han being a ghost
I wish I was a live
I wish nobody ever had to die
I wish I was a alive
I wish nobody ever had to die...die...die...die

This is just to say hello
And to let you know
I think of you from time to time

I know I never really knew you
But somehow I miss you
And wish that you'd stayed in my life

Making contact gets harder  
As the silence grows longer
And isn't it only me

Who'd like us to see each other
How I would hate to be a bother
The way we left it was you'd ring

I'm under no illusion  
As to what I meant to you
But you made an impression
And sometimes I still feel the bruise
Sometimes I still feel the bruise

Now and then I stumble
on What I've misplaced but never lost
An ache I first felt long ago

Though you've appeared and disappeared
Throughout these past few years
I'd be surprised if you now showed

Making contact gets harder
As the silence grows longer
And why would you think of me
When you were not the one in love
When you were not the dreamer
When you were just the dream

I'm under no illusion
As to what I meant to you
But you made an impression
And sometimes I still feel the bruise
Sometimes I still feel the bruise

This song is for the rats
Who hurled themselves in to the ocean
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
Were just about to blow

This song is for the soil
That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
Where no thing of consequence can grow
Drop your seeds there
Let them go

Let them all go
Let 'em all go

This song is for the people
Who tell their families that they're sorry
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

And once there was a desk
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons I left in the top drawer

Let 'em all go
Let 'em all go

I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
And something has got to give

I saw you waiting by the roadside
You didn't know that I was watching
Now you know
Let it all go

Let 'em all go
Let it all go

let the sails catch the wind.
let them grow fat and full.
set out the trawl to catch the animals that look like aliens.
the wooden floorboards let out a full and satisfying sound when you rap your fists against them?
let the sun become hollow.
let the heat from it wash down madly.
and let me have a minute of your time.

stop the flood from rushing through its usual motions.
let the rudder lie still.
let the water eat  though it.
let its color darken as the day grows older.
let the light break off the water like a bottle on the sidewalk.
let it break against the edges of all - everything.
let me have a minute of your time.

watch the current switch direction.
watch the lines there in the center twist and turn.
look back toward the shore where it was a while ago.
you know, i can't see it either. can you?
give me that much at least.
it is far beyond our reach.
the day has disappeared from view.
and let me have a minute of your time.

let the stars come out, and the moon shine bright
we're sleeping on the porch tonight
wind blew all the power lines down
watch where you step if you go walking around

this may be the night
our bodies fill with light
and we may hover above
the surface of
our warm, lonely planet

let cooling rains come, let them fall
let the grass grow strong and tall
let the dandelions breed
give me what you know I need

this may be the night
our bodies fill with light
and we may hover above
the surface of
our warm, lonely planet

it was raining outside so i cleaned house today
spent half of the morning throwing old things away
try not to get caught up, try to think like a machine  
focus in on the task, try not to think about what it means

can't get you
outta my head
lost without you
half dead

took my spot at the window, looked out at the road
dots and dashes of traffic like a message in code
and whole boxes of memories wrapped up at the curb
i sang songs to myself, didn't have any words

can't get you
outta my head
lost without you
half dead

stole out to the backyard late last night
pine trees frozen in the silvery moonlight
rising like giants from the cold earth
what are the years we gave eachother ever gonna be worth?

can't get you
outta my head
lost without you
half dead

Today is the first day of the end of your life
It was over as soon as you looked me in the eyes
Now you're screaming and im laughing
if only you could find some way to be less afraid of me
you just might just enjoy it as much as i do

i'm never gonna turn off the television.
i'm just gonna let it run all night.
i'm gonna plant root vegetables out in the backyard
and come summer i am going to treat you right.

so put on your chairman mao coat
and let me clear my throat.
let's turn this whole town upside-down
and shake it 'til the coins come falling out of its pockets,
yeah put on your che guevara pin
call the troops on in
we're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets.

i got a great big secret written down somewhere.
i got a rosary to protect us both from harm.
i got a storage locker full of cow figurines
and a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm.
and i am never going back to cincinatti.
all those bridges have burned down to the ground.
i got the jet pack strapped to my back
and i am waiting for you to come around.

yeah, put on your chairman mao coat
and let me clear my throat.
let's turn this whole place upside-down
and shake it 'til the coins come dropping out of its pockets.
yeah put on your che guevara pin
call the troops on in.
we're gonna sink through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets.

Test a rope against the ceiling beams
I just want to live on in your dreams
Crush a vial into a *** of tea
I just want you to remember me

But I pour out the *** and
I work out the knot
Cause I know that it won’t make you stay
And I’ll be ****** if I can’t come up with some other way
Some other way, Some other way
Some other way to make you love me

Seal the doors and turn the pilot on
I just know you’ll miss me when I’m gone
Drive a fist into a window pane
There are things a letter won’t explain

But I pick out the glass and I shut off the gas
And I look to the oncoming day
And I’ll be ****** if I can’t come up with some other way
Some other way Some other way to make you love me

To make you love me...

They had a white face
They had black eyes
They had burns all over their bodies
They had love for my revulsion
And they kissed away my repulsion
They had a white face
And black eyes

The father came
From across the sea
To rescue, rescue
To rescue me

He said "If you spend all your heart
On something that has died
You are not alive
and that can't be your life"

Love what you can
Love what you can
Til it dies
Then let it lie
Let it fly
Away

Love what you can
Love what you can
Til it dies
Then let it lie
Let it fly
Away

He had a white face
He had black eyes
He had burn all over his body
And he was right

You and me
Go together like carrots and peas
We should be a happy family
Or a traveling travesty, at least

And love
Will **** us up
Love will **** us up

Breath in deep
Breath as deeply as you can breath
Breath deep til you're drunk with glee
Breath deep til you're drunk with glee

And love
Will **** us up
Love will **** us up

meanwhile downstairs
i'm setting up shop
a little too proud
to let the matter drop

i can see you up there,
isn't it romantic?
you're huffing and puffing
their chairs on the titanic
and i reach for a glass
of cool water drawn from the rivers of babylon.

meanwhile outside,
the stars have come out.
and the humid summer air
tugs at the ring in my snout.
and you come to the window,
and i spread wide my arms.
jump if you want to jump.
jump if you want to.
the water's warm.
me, i know.
i know 'cause i've been swimming.
blindly along through the rivers of babylon.

the building shook with the sound of wild kittens,
and i grabbed my scarf and i pulled on my mittens,
took my coat and i went down
to the useless lot on the outskirts of town.
the dogs were howling.
the wind was blowing.
the birds were singing.
and i saw you.

your eyes as bright as burning coals,
but ask not for whom the bell tolls.
'cause it tolls for those who ask that question.
and it tolls for those who answer that question.
dogs were howling.
the birds were singing.
the wind was blowing.
and i saw you.

Medicated, and that made it all right to be alive
The monster boy got killed by the pills that they gave him at the end of the line
It took twenty years to assemble this beast and it all fell apart in two quick weeks Underneath all the scars on his face and his mind was a brand new boy with stars in his eyes
And he exploded on the scene like a geek
And he fit right in with all the rest of the freaks
And he had a lot to learn about the world out there
After spending so long in his gloomy lair
And he made up worlds in his mind
But he didn't need them now so he left them behind

And for the first time in a long time
he was glad to be breathing
and his new face could smile "Please don't take this skin away",
he cried "I'll pay any price I have to pay",
he cried "It's great to have this chance to fail",
he said "I never knew there was life for sale, you saved me, you made me again Oh what an awful secret these scientists kept"

Now he's livin' and lovin' and makin' new friends
And he won't take for granted what everybody has
And in his chest he found a heart that had never ever ever been used He dug it up and cleaned it off and found out it was as good as new
The spark had grown into a flame

And it burned anybody that got in its way
And he took out a few bridges too, but everything burns bright when it's new
And once a monster and now he's a prince,
or at least that's how he felt when he got his first kiss
And he learned how to walk and he changed the way he talked,
and he started catching up on everything that he missed
And he tried to be invisible for so long, now it was strange to be seen
And instead of all the villagers form in a mob they threw down their swords and treated him like a king "I never knew it could get this good",
he cried "You'd never believe how bad it was",
he cried "Please don't take this skin away",
he said "I never wanna go back where I came from, you saved me, you made me at last All my dungeons and demons are left in my past"

Once he sat in his sadness as days slowly drag
Now he burns with excitement and time moves so fast
And there's a song that he will sing
When he needs to remember how things have changed
He sings, "It ain't so bad, it ain't so bad, it ain't so bad anymore
So don't you cry, so don't you cry, don't you cry anymore
No don't you cry, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore

HOW YOU SHOULD KNOW US

DEATH, DEFEAT, AND FEAR

We do not die.
We do not fear death.
Destroy the Body, and the Animus is cast into The Darkness.
But the Animus returns.
But we are not all brave.
We feel pain, and fear it.
We feel shame, and fear it.
We feel loss, and fear it.
We hate the Darkness, and fear it.

The Scamps have small thoughts, and cannot fear greatly.
The Vermai have no thoughts, and cannot fear.
The Dremora have deep thoughts, and must master fear to overcome it.

THE CLAN BOND

We are not born;
we have not fathers nor mothers, yet we have kin and clans.
The clan-form is strong. It shapes body and thought.
In the clan-form is strength an purpose

THE OATH BOND

We serve by choice.
We serve the strong, so that their strength might shield us.
Clans serve by long-practice, but practice may change.
Dremora have long served the dreamer but not always so.
Practice is secure when oath-bonds are secure, and trust is shared.
When oath-bonds are weak, there is pain, and shame, and loss, and Darkness, and great fear.

HOW WE THINK ABOUT MAN

Perhaps you find Scamps comic, and Vermai brutish.
How then do you imagine we view you humans?
You are the Prey, and we are the Huntsmen.
The Scamps are the Hounds, and the Vermai the Beaters.
Your flesh is sweet, and the chase is diverting.
As you may sometimes praise the fox or hare, admiring its cunning and speed, and lamenting as the hounds tear its flesh, so do we sometimes admire our prey, and secretly applaud when it cheats our snares or eludes pursuit.
But, like all worldly things, you will in time wear, and be used up.
You age, grow ugly, weak, and foolish.
You are always lost, late or soon.
Sometimes the prey turns upon us and bites.
It is a small thing.
When wounded or weary, we fly away to restore.
Sometimes a precious thing is lost, but that risk makes the chase all the sweeter.

MAN'S MYSTERY

Man is mortal, and doomed to death and failure and loss.
This lies beyond our comprehension - why do you not despair?

the sun came out this morning i was wide awake
and i stumbled on down to the kitchen and i cut myself
a piece of my birthday cake
raspberry filling in the middle
and i thought about you a little

and there was a time when you wanted me so bad
it was eating you up inside
this time has gone away

i pour myself a tall glass of milk
it was deep and cold
and i checked my driver's license i was 23 years old

and there was a time when you wanted me so bad
it was eating you up inside
this time has gone away

i will drive my broke car
i'm gonna ride my biz-ike
i'm gonna walk my big feet
and i'd like to think things through

and i wanna have a big heart
i don't wanna play a small part
i know i had a rough start
but i'd like to think things through

and i think you think i lost it
and i think they think i lost it
and i think i may have lost it
well that just may be true
but i think they've lost it too

and i'm gonna love my children
i'm gonna love my children
i'm gonna love my children
in the hopes that they will too

i'd like to think things through
in the hopes that they will too
i'd like to think things through

Hey, where's my pills?
They were right here on the window sill.
Should have known something was wrong
When last week you took my favorite ****.
Now it's gone.

You're messing with my drug life.
You're messing with my drug life.

Dimebags flash up the union square.
People walk in serotonin pairs.
I remember it was only play
Devil's ******* in the proteges.
Just shuffle off through the golden mist.
Take a number 'cause you're on my list
And later on, second avenue
If it comes down to the drugs or you
Baby, Its you...

The devil told my grampa The day that he would die
And my grampa told my grandma And she thought it was a lie
Then the day came and my Grampa he lay dead Just like the devil said
A train cut off his arms and legs
And it's a story that my mother told to me
Some people say that it's too hard to believe, but
You gotta believe that my mother never lies
She's never in her life and my grampa he did die, yeah

My father he's hard-workin' man
The devil's never had a hand In anything he did
He's the hardest workin' man I've ever seen
But I guess his hardest work, It never worked on me, 'cause
He thinks I'm lazy and he
Thinks that I'm a shame because I haven't got a job any Money or a name and:
He's worried about me and what I'm gonna do
How I'm gonna live I hope the devil's worried too, yeah

My lover she's what keeps me alive
She's the only thing I like in this World that I despise
She sings and her voice is soft and sweet
She whistles in the shower and Somehow she loves me
My grandson asked me once, he said "Grampa are you crazy?" and I said "Just a touch" and
I Got out my guitar, I showed him how to play and
I Taught him how to sing the song a little out of key, yeah

And the devil sang with me, and the devil sang with me
On my shoulder like a friend that never leaves
And the devil sang with me, and the devil sang with me
On my shoulder like a friend that never leaves

Feeling bogged down with the manotiny of my daily life
Feels like im reliving a car wreck of pain of strife
i try to slam on the brakes but the lines been slashed
cant stop or slow down i am going to crash

so i try to look inwardly and analyze the things that are troubling me
But all i see are reflections of me doing things i dont quite agree with