Stranger

[Verse 1]
20 years of schooling
I just never learned the math
That one and one don't equal two
They often equal half
I have tried to live the high life
The best that I know how
And I bought my share of debonair
And parlayed it on the crowd

[Chorus]
I do believe that there's no more tricks up my sleeve
The good old days have past and the good times after that
And slowly I've become undone
A stranger with a stranger heart

[Verse 2]
Well I plan to hit the bottom
The bottle then the top
And I pray that something quits me
Before I gotta stop
Because the masquerade is over
But I was barely there
The mask come off the gilded cloth
Yet I'm just barely there

[Chorus]

Shadow People
[Verse]
The rain is falling it's after dark
The streets are swimming with the sharks
It's the right night for the wrong company
And there ain't nothing around here to look at
Move along move along
The neon lights on Baltimore
Every shadow's getting famous
In some backyard in some plastic chair
Hoping these cigarettes will save us
Here we go again
Here we go again
You got rings in your ears
And you got kicked around and made up
Looking high looking low
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where did all the shadow people go?
I want to know (Whoa!)
Where the shadow people go
I stole a bike from the 2nd Mile
Saw a band play in the basement
I crossed the path of a friend of mine
And I know what that look upon her face meant
Something's gone from her eye
Something's gone wrong
You could be a woman or you could be a man
Wear the glove on the other hand
Or you could be twisted
Or you could be insane
Pushing the envelope against the grain
Just playing along
Just playing along
And I got something on my mind
And I got voices on the other line
Saying hi saying hello
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where did all the shadow people go?
I wanna know where the shadow people go

[Outro]
Where did all the shadow people go?
(Where the shadow people go)
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where did all the shadow people go?
(Where the shadow people go)
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where the shadow people go
(Where the shadow people go)

Station
[Verse 1]
Was it in a dream? I wouldn't know
I was in the lowlands where all the old folks go
I wasn't here, I wasn't home
I was picking static up on a broken radio

[Chorus]
Just leave me at the station and you can rest assured
That I'll be back sometime this time next year

[Verse 2]
I'll pack my bags, you get the door
Here's a stack of tokens for my friends on Baltimore
That look on your face, I've seen it before
I'll be gone, a long time, but I could be gone for more

[Chorus]
[Outro]
I need someone
I need something
I need to go back home

Unbearable Why
[Intro]
I'm doing time, I'm guilty
Rise in the morning, oh sleepy

[Verse]
The clouds in sky, unknown and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware and still there's a thrill in the
air
Unbearable Why
While I'm doing time I'm guilty, for now
Rise in the morning oh sleepy, dream on
The clouds in sky, alone and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware
And still there's a thrill in the air
Unbearable Why
While I'm doing time therefore now I'm not guilty
Sun rise up in the morning what a dream oh so sleepy
Lying in letters to someone I don't know
Like an old song in the waiting for something from the past
So long from now

Where’d All The Time Go?

[Verse 1]
Where'd all the time go?
It's starting to fly
See how the hands go
Waving goodbye
And you know I get so forgetful
When I look in your eyes

[Verse 2]
Now she's walking backwards
Through a parade
And I'm stuck in the shadow
Blocking the shade
And there ain't no way to sweep up
The mess that we've made

[Chorus]
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed
Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn to stone at hospitals and funeral homes
And when the fog rises
Somebody sighs who is not in disguise anymore

[Verse 3]
There's nothing to keep you
From falling in love
It starts at the bottom
And comes from above
Like pieces of a puzzle
Like a hand in a glove

[Chorus]
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed
Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn and stop at hospitals and funeral homes
And when the tide rises
Somebody sinks and is gone in the blink of an eye

Later
[Verse 1]
I've got a job
I've got to move this paper
I guess it's all the same to you
But I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you
It never works
You say you'll call me later
And then you never ever do
I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you
Just another cup of coffee
I'll sit around and wait for you

[Chorus]
I always knew
Yeah, I always knew
You were a liar
I'm not a king, I'm not a cop
I'm not here to punish you
When I really can't see anymore of what the fuss is all about

[Verse 2]
It's not my career
To wait and do you favors
I guess it's really nothing do
When I'm running late
You call the undertaker
Because you've got so much shit to do
I can't sit around and wait
Can't sit around and wait for you
Just one more cigarette
I'll sit around and wait for you

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Just another cup of coffee
I'll sit around and wait for you
Just one more cigarette
I'll sit around and wait for you
I guess I really will
I'll sit around and wait for you

I Only Wear Blue

[Verse 1]
I'm all bottled up
Floating in the deep blue
And you're an open book
Anyone could read you
I'm losing my voice
Barking up the wrong tree
When you can't be yourself
There's just too much to be
Let's get on with it
You have got too much time
And I don't want to stay here
Where the sun don't ever shine
So say the word and open up the blinds
Well it came like a dream
But it went just as fast
Like a dream
Left out in the trash
She said "I know what you mean
But I don't know who you are
Ah, we're just two of many; fractions of a part[x2]
They said it couldn't be done
But you went out and did it
But it was more than you were looking for it
And there ain't no way to get it

[Bridge]
I'm only guilty, I admit it
I'm only guilty, I admit it
[Outro]
Excuse me, Forgive me
I only wear blue
Excuse me. Forgive me
I only wear blue
Excuse me

Someday
[Verse 1]
There's a tree
Outside my home
The sidewalk's cracked
Out where its roots have grown
Someday came
And then left me alone
I should have known back then
That I stayed too long

[Chorus]
I should have known better[x4]
But I don't believe I can

[Verse 2]
If my feet
Could carve stone
They'd mark a monument
That is never wrong
I was a man
I turned to bone
I never moved and now my
My will is gone

[Chorus]
I should have known better[x4]
But I don't believe
No I don't believe
I don't believe I can

Mirror, Mirror
[Verse 1]
At the bottom there's a stir
And now surface is a blur
Tell the truth like it's a joke
And don't fix the part that isn't broke
I know I'm just a memory
And I know that's how it's got to be
So tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection here at all

[Chorus]
Mirror, mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at all

[Verse 2]
I'm so tired that I can't sleep
The secrets that my secrets keep
Down the stairway to the church
Blackbirds hanging in the lurch
I don't want to see my name in stone
I tied a ribbon round a bone
Took a ride in a yellow car
And bought myself an old guitar
Things ain't what they used to be
I gotta devil after me
Tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror mirror on the wall
There's no reflection here at all

[Chorus][x2]
Mirror mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at all

[Verse 3]
They're looking high, they're looking low
And you got something on your mind
Did someone give you bad directions?
Where you in the wrong place at the wrong time?
They found a body in the river
They found a note left in the sand
"Leave my worries to the water
And leave my body to the land"

Jackie Wants A Black Eye

[Verse 1]
Jackie wants a black eye
Some proof that she's been hit
And John wants the answers
But the questions just don't quit
And we're sitting in the rain
And we're feeling like the weather
You could say that we're alone
But we're lonely together

[Chorus]
We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts
[Verse 2]
Jackie is jumping in the quicksand
But it isn't what you think
She's safe because she knows
The more you fight, the more you sink
And John is following the black cloud
To keep him from the sun
So he bends over now
Something has finally begun

[Chorus]
We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts

[Verse 3]
And we've been hurting so long
That our pleasure is our pain
Are we madly in love
Or are we madly insane?
When yesterday's love defines you
And today that love is gone
Tomorrow keeps you guessing
The roller coaster is rolling on

[Chorus]
We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts
We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts

Shame, Shame
[Verse]
(shame, shame)
I was a loner unloved
I really didn't need any help at all
(shame, shame)
I really thought i was fine
I was living it up just despite my self
(shame, shame)
I used to wander the streets at midnight
Avoiding any signs of life
(shame, shame)
I used to suffer alone
I really did think it would make me strong
(shame, shame)
I used to write it all down
Hoping someone would read it years from now
(shame, shame)
I used to act like i was in a movie
So mysterious and misunderstood
(shame, shame)
You started hanging around
I really didn't think i could live it down
(shame, shame)
I tried to play it cool
But every single part of me felt so good
(shame, shame)
You took me someplace i would never been before
I was a foreigner in your hands
I just couldn't let it go until now

[Bridge]
A letter unopened just like a knock on the door
Do you think you're so special that no one knows what your for?
Well you can mutter on sweet nothings like you're on the other side of
town
Do you fear the attachment to things that you want?
Do you want to cut off things for fear of their love?
Well you can roll on to the graveyard and let them take you whole
Or, you can live it up and leave nothing but your bones

[Outro]
(shame, shame)
I don't know what to do
I was losing myself turning into you
(shame, shame)
I was really undone
The life that i lived seemed so useless now
(shame, shame)
You know you made me do it
And no i don't regret a thing

It
[Verse 1]
It's dark, it's light
It's today and it's tonight
It's big and it's small
It's the one and it's the all
It's the mountain
It's in the breeze
It's the lock and it's the keys
It's me and it's you
And it's the things that we didn't do

[Chorus]
It's all in how you look at it

[Verse 2]
It's alive and it's dead
It's the water, it's the riverbed
And it's love and it's fear
It's all the things that didn't get you here
And it's curse and it's praise
And it's a future full of yesterdays
It's the silence in a song
It's the sound of your voice when you sing along

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
It's the fire, it's the ice
It's a personal hell, it's a paradise
And it's joy and it's pain
It made the desert, it made the rain
It's the hunt and it's the prey
It's coming closer as it goes away
It's real and it's a lie
It's the answer and the question when you wonder why

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
It's no good, it's all right
It's the kiss and it's the fight
It's in the image, it's the eye
Sticking with you as it passes by
And it's the bottom
And it's the sky
And it's alarming, it's a lullaby
And it's cruel and it's kind
It's really nothing
It's in your mind

[Chorus][x5]

What a Strange Day

[Verse 1]
What a strange day
Maybe I was dreaming
Nothing seemed entirely awake
What uncertain light

[Verse 2]
What a strange night
It's dancing with the candle
Its atmosphere is and drunk
You can cut it with a knife

[Verse 3]
What a strange life
Even as it's passing
Its hard to see it happening at all
Like a shadow on the wall

[Verse 4]
What a strange god
If everything is nothing
Then why is nothing ever what it seems
What a hidden kind of love

[Verse 5]
What a strange word
Just because you told it
Don't mean you told anything at all
Its better from a mime

[Verse 6]
And what a strange line
Wrapped around in letters
A drawing for a symbol for a sound
Its never right before its wrong

[Verse 7]
What a strange song
A heat to beat the rhythm
A brain to move the melody along
A tune of everybody's choice

[Verse 8]
What a strange voice
Coming from the speaker
Recorded on the twentieth of may
What a strange day

Oh Man
[Verse]
Well on the other shore, there's a hook for all your hang-ups
A pier full of disasters, and a word for everything
You had to be there, I know it's somewhere
Where all of us have grown, and understood

[Pre-Chorus]
Well on the other shore, there's a week that's filled with weekends
A crick that trickles bourbon in your cup
There's always free time, it's never bed time
Your friends are around or sleeping in[X3]

[Chorus]
Where nobody's famous and nobody cares
Where everyone's broke, but nobody's scared
Oh man, oh man, oh man

[Pre-Chorus]
Well on the other shore, there's a week that's filled with weekends
A crick that trickles bourbon in your cup
There's always free time, it's never bed time
Your friends are around or sleeping in[X2]

[Chorus][x2]

Take Me Into Town

[Verse 1]
Well I've been waiting for the rain to break
But I guess my waiting's through
It's been dry as a bone since 1982
And I've been trying to protect myself
With these possessions I keep on his walls
All my books and my records but they don't give me shelter at all
We're both smart enough to know better

[Chorus]
Come on come on come on
Take me into town[x2]

[Verse 2]
Oh did you see my boots when you walked in
Y'know I guess this shirt'll do
I'm broke as a monkey and I could use a drop or two
Well i know just what I'll do when I get there
You know I saw it in a magazine
I can get so low you'll have to peel me from off of the street
We're both smart enough to know better

[Chorus]
Come on come on come on
Take me into town[x9]
[Verse 3]
Well I've been talking to the dog for days
But you know it's just no use
She's sitting like a sphinx and I can't get to the truth
And I've been staring at the floor for days
Trying to figure out what it all means
But I know when I'm awake and I'm dumber in my dreams
We're both smart enough to know better

Come on come on come on

Take me into town[x4]

Black-Red
The one is big
The other small
The winners' feet are sure
The finest trails of wolves that follow it
They never ever ever ever ever ever even swallow it
Oh it feels strange

It produces a similar call

No factory blare
And I'm just as a cloud around it
Never ever ever ever ever stop to hound it
For a cure

Oh black
Or maybe red
Or black
Or maybe red

The one is big

The other small
The winners' feet are sure
The finest trails the wolves are following
Never never ever ever think to swallow it

Oh maybe it's red

Or black
Or maybe red
Or black
Or maybe red

Ooohh
Ooohh
Aaahh
Bum Bum Bum

For a cure (cure, cure, cure)

Or black
Or maybe red
Or black
Or maybe red
Or black
Or maybe red
Or black
Or maybe red
Or maybe red
Or black