Little
Hours
I like to linger in the closing of eyes
Before I snatch up the prize of sweet slumber
I like to linger in the cool of the grass
When I fall on my ass in the dew
So do you, like to linger
To twirl time round your finger
Though the world tries to push you into tight little hours
Little hours, little hours, little hours
Little hours
I like to linger when the party is dying
And I'm the only one trying to have fun
I like to flip through all my pages of past
Make all my stories last forever
Did you ever live to linger?
To twirl time round your finger?
Though the world tries to push you into tight little hours?
Little hours, little hours, little hours
Little hours
I could live a whole life
Of play-by-plays
Of why-didn't-I-says
Of yesterday
My sense of progress has me going in circles
Just one step forward can take the whole day
I'm here in nowhere there's still so much to see
Maybe nowhere is my place to be
Maybe nowhere is my place to be
Don't you see the need to linger?
To twirl time round you finger?
Though the world tries to push you into tight little hours?
Little hours, little hours, little hours
Little hours
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Numbers
I don't want to leave a bed
With a warm body in it
But when the numbers come to flood my head
I have to float on behind
To the grind
Of the phone calls
Seven buttons
Don't you see how fast I can go through a long list of shit to do?
Make out a big check
Write a little letter
And put a sticky stamp on the post card that I send to you
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
I'm a hunchback, hunch
Hunched over scribbled notes and numbers that I can't read
Hunchback
Hunched over a cheap piano that I can't really play
The other day though
I thought I might find
The kind of faith that could ease my mind
I thought I might learn
I thought I could try
To let a day go by
When I did not sabotage myself
Don't wanna wait, I won't wait to see is there anybody out there?
Don't wanna wait, no I won't wait to see is there anybody out there?
Don't wanna wait, I won't wait to see is there anybody out there?
Don't wanna wait, I won't wait to see is there anybody out there?
Sometimes the sun slides down
Leaving stripes in the sky
And I watch my resignation fly away
And I say this was the last day
I'll let myself feel this way
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Then I wait, I wait, I wait to see, is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
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Good at
Love
My feet get dirty inside my own shoes
My head gets clouded by my own stormy blues
And it seems my little victories might arrive too late
But you say, "you're doing great baby,
You're doing just great"
You're so good at love
Well love is something that you do so well
You are so good at love, love is something you do
Well you smile when I'm acting silly
And you hold me when I'm late
And you pull me back from the precipice
When I'm dangling over the wrong fate
And you keep me from feeding each fumble
Til it grows into a crime
Then you say, "it's ok baby
We're doing just fine"
You're so good at love
Well love is something that you do so well
You are so good at love, love is something you do
It's something you do
You take me up to the rooftop
And we stand in the steamy sky
And the city crowds us cozy
And surrounds us with a sigh
And you make up a gentle melody
That you whisper in my ear
You remind me, "it's just us baby,
I'm right here"
You're right here
You're so good at love
Well love is something that you do so well
Oh you do, yea you do it
You are so good at love, love is something you do
Oh you do, oh you do, oh you do it
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Hurry
Up Sky
Once we had laughed about
A discount store and a diamond ring
Back when a flame was a friend,
A comfort, a delicate dancing thing
Back when my window held a shelter of sky
And we would watch the planes go by
Please hurry us back to that sweet time
Hurry up time speed us away
To the day when the sky doesn't rain with the why and the pain
Hurry up sky carry them home
Then carry our eyes to your blue and your calm
And away from that one black cloud
Hurry hurry up now
Hurry hurry up now
Once we were strangers
Bumping past other lives in a focused fog
Now all our stories have melted into two vivid hours
Maybe we're better now, stronger, with a deeper soul
And we'll be whole again in a different way
And this time will teach for a new day
Please a new day
Hurry up time speed us away
To the day when the sky doesn't rain with the why and the pain
Hurry up sky carry them home
Then carry our eyes to your blue and your calm
And away from that one black cloud
Hurry hurry up now
Hurry hurry up now
Hurry hurry hurry up now
Hurry
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Me Be Me
Well you got the sugar
And you got enough salt
And you got a taste that can make my breath come
To a halt
My appetite gets tempted
Every time you're around
And I thank the powers that be for this sweet man
That I've found
But of all your flavors the sweetest to me
Is the way you let me just be
Well I didn't know
What I was looking for
Til you put this taste in my mouth
Filled me up 'til I didn't need more
You might find me nasty
If I shout it out loud
But to find myself a lover like this
Well I think I should be proud
But of all your flavors the sweetest to me
Is the way you let me just be
My mind gets so hectic
Like a rush hour street
Then you come groovin' round my corners
And you smooth out the beat
And you can swing me up
And you can love me down
And when you leave me I can still feel your rhythm
All over town
But of all your favors the best that you do for me
Is the way you let me just, you let me just be
Do you have enough sugar?
Did you get enough salt?
Have I covered you in love spices
Til you're spiced up to a fault?
We can get all heated
Then we can cool each other down
Then you love me down so mellow that I can't even make a sound
Oh well you and me we can make ourselves a good stew
You let me be me
And I let you be you
That's all I do
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Passive
People
Another day slips away like a baby from a chair
I watch the fall
No one seems to care at all
Not at all
Another crime joins the line
That stretches all the way to the sea
But I'm glad it didn't happen to me
Not to me
We are passive people
At the end of the day
We let the outrage melt away
It seems that life is so much easier that way
We are passive people
There's a lot that we can take
Our hearts will dry up before they break
No questions asked, just invisible ache
The riches climb dime by dime
So happy that we've finally got it made
So the dollars aren't so evenly sprayed around
But maybe, yes, I'm sure they'll trickle down
We have heaven-sent good intent
We cry for lonely people at the movies
We feel their pain
We storm the streets but then it starts to rain
It begins to rain
We are passive people
At the end of the day
We let the outrage melt away
It seems that life is so much easier that way
We are passive people
There's a lot that we can take
Our hearts will dry up before they break
No questions asked, just invisible ache
We are passive people
At the end of the day
We let the outrage melt away
It seems that life is so much easier that way
We are passive people
There's a lot that we can take
Our hearts will dry up before they break
No questions asked, just invisible ache
Our hearts will dry up before they break
No questions asked, just invisible ache
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Manchild
He's got a t-shirt
Michael Jordan on the front
He's got knock knees
Bigger than his baby face
You can't tell
This little boy he's not a man
There's no one
He'll listen to beside his gun
And he's got
Red hair that he tries to dye blue
He's got a girlfriend
And what's it mean to you now?
If he hits her once in a while
He ain't got nothing else to do
He's just a man, a man, a manchild
He's just a man, a man, a manchild
Well he's handsome and he's got a nice car
He's straight out smart
And he knows he could go far
But that same knowledge
Is like a dark cloud
He's got too much and
He's far too proud
He's just a man, a man, a manchild
He's just a man, a man, a manchild
He's just a man, a man, a manchild
And I can hear his mama crying
When you gonna go to bed?
You're wrestling every word you ever said
To your baby
But he's not, not your baby no more
T-shirt
Dred-lock
Freckle
Semi-automatic
School book
Soldier
No job and
What's it mean to you?
Too much
Too little
Mama
Trying to raise her baby
Drop-out
Stay in
Stay straight and
Bend the rules a little
No need
To ask why
He's just a manchild oh
So strong
So silly
Lots of toys to make him feel big now
Mama
You keep trying
Keep trying like centuries past oh
Keep trying
Keep trying
I know you'll keep on trying
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Regular
Life
This was a sad day
When the disappointment that was my shadow
Came into the sun
And he slapped me dull on the forehead
And he told me he had won
So I sink into my gentle home
The streets won't mind if they don't feel my heavy feet today
The bed's inclined to ask me back to stay
But if I stay
If I stay
Then I'll
Stay
So now I wonder
Is there a method to quantify both pain and joy?
Does mine hurt as bad as yours does?
Does yours feel as good as mine?
And when you live in war
Can you still keep score
Of the burdens like bodies piled at your door?
And the bodies that lost their chance to be more than bodies
Just bodies
What muffled meaning does it hold
To be told that your story is not the only one?
No, not the first nor the last
Not the best not the worst
You are cursed by a regular life
What muffled meaning does it hold
To be told that your story is not the only one?
No, not the first nor the last
Not the best not the worst
You are cursed by a regular life
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'Til
I Get There
To soak in epic wonders
Let them saturate my skin
To look out the window of a subway train
On my way to him
To tell myself a story
Maybe no one else will hear
To let my sadness echo into music as I heal
Into music as I heal
Echo into music as I heal
Oh solitude you give me a moment
Then I wrap it round my body here
I'm gonna let you fill my mind
Til I find a way to fight against fear
Solitude you give me a moment
I can feel you make me stronger now
Til I get, 'til I get, 'til I get 'til I get there
To laugh at all small failures
To smile at all my cares
To cultivate my power
As I admire theirs
To dig up sources of my happiness
An archaeology of joy
To stretch out my limbs like a lazy cat
To play like a little boy
Oh solitude you give me a moment
Then I wrap it round my body here
I'm gonna let you fill my mind
Til I find a way to fight against fear
Solitude you give me a moment
I can feel you make me stronger now
Til I get, 'til I get, 'til I get 'til I get there
No one can take from me
These quiet mysteries
I dance to a love supreme
I plot my strategies
Snow me the silence down
And wrap it round
Preserve it and serve it as a reverent child oh
Oh solitude you give me a moment
Then I wrap it round my body here
I'm gonna let you fill my mind
Til I find a way to fight against fear
Solitude you give me a moment
I can feel you make me stronger now
Til I get, 'til I get, 'til I get no 'til I 'til I get there
Oh solitude you give me a moment
Then I wrap it round my body here
I'm gonna let you fill my mind
Til I find a way to fight against fear
Solitude you give me a moment
I can feel you make me stronger now
Til I get, 'til I get, 'til I get there
Oh solitude you give me a moment
Then I wrap it round my body here
I'm gonna let you fill my mind
Til I find a way to fight against fear
Solitude you give me a moment
I can feel you make me stronger now
Til I get, 'til I get, 'til I get 'til I get there
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Gold
An old lady once said to me
She said, " You see what I got?"
So I turned to see
She was sitting empty-handed with a secret smile
And she said,
"Well I got gold and it shines in dark places"
So I thought about this lady
And what she had to say
And I try to fit all my life, all my life in one day
Try to look for that gold in everything I do
And I think I see a little in you
Wherever I go
Wherever, wherever I go
I got gold
Wherever, wherever I go
Wherever, wherever wherever I go
I got gold
So let's see what we can put into this day
I wanna go hear my man Fred Wesley play
The trombone
Just one note a piece of gold
That he has inside it'll never be sold
Wanna stir up some trouble
Everywhere I go
Cause I wanna suck in the sunshine
And roll, well I wanna roll in the snow
There are so many things that I wanna do
And I think I, I think I wanna do 'em with you
Wherever we go
Wherever wherever we go
We got gold
Wherever we go
Wherever wherever we go
We got, we got, we got yea we got gold
Gold
Yea we got, we got gold
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City
He awakes
And puts his pride into his pockets
And decides to walk into the day
He does his strange dances
For strangers he meets along the way
Sometimes it sets him free to be his own imagining
A thing no small town would allow
Sometimes it leaves him stumbling on the streets
He takes an empty bow
And we say
I live in a city that has no past
I live in a city where dreams fade fast
I, I live in an over ripe fruit
Where passions call out and then fall mute
Where sweetness struggles to be heard
Where shame can die without a word
The purpose paints her face for her race
Through the smoke of hidden holes and greasy fires
She has no breath to waste on the taste
Of knowing other people's desires
It seems there is no fear in her
A conspirator with the arrogance of brick and steel
Too many people to wonder about
She's off to make another deal
And we say
I live in a city where stories are cast
I live in a city where illusion grows vast
I live on an island so bold
Its fiction captures us in its hold
Its voices somehow sing the same song
With furtive words we sing along, we sing along
And there's a man whose face is a pile of brittle wood
And his smile just needs one spark
To set it aflame
And there's a woman who walks with her boy bandaged up
Her face is a cup holding all his hurts
And I see a puffed up man in a three-piece pout
Not a doubt in his mind that the city is his
But what if all these faces were to welcome us in?
What a place this would be what a place to live in
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I
Could Fall (in Love With You)
If I could split you wide open
And mine the jewels from your mind
I swear I wouldn't get too greedy
I'd leave riches still to find
If I could meet you all over again
And this time I didn't hide
But I revealed to you every last little part of me
Laid all the games aside
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
If I were close enough to talk to you
If I could soothe your worried head
I would be so grateful if you would just let me in
I'd give you peace instead
If I could take the challenge you offer
Well then I would meet you on the way
Then our words would dance around each other
And we'd still have so much more to say
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
You could be the answer to my questions
And you, you could open up my eyes
Maybe, maybe someday baby we could happen
We could happen
With no compromise
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
With you
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