Around This Corner

i've been coming around this corner
i know one day we'll meet
i'll look in your eyes
and i'll look up the street
and i'll cover my heart so you can't see it beat
and i'll struggle

how can i say when i don't know
if i'll feel loving
or if i'll feel low
i may wind up and get into trouble

knowing that you've been bad
is one of the worst feelings i ever had
knowing that you've been bad
did it mean much to you?
i thought i knew you
now i wish i had

i'll be coming 'round this corner
one day real slow
and i'll see myself reflected
in someone i used to know
and i may look away
and keep going home
and try to forget it before i get to a door

but how can i say when i don't know
if i'll feel loving or if i'll feel low
i may wind up and cry a big puddle

knowing that you've been bad
is one of the worst feelings i ever had
knowing that you've been bad
did it mean much to you?
i thought i knew you
now i wish i had

how can you forgive that fast?
why do they call it the past
oh, when nothing's passed?

knowing that you've been bad
is one of the worst feelings i ever had
knowing that you've been bad
did it mean much to you?
i thought i knew you
now i wish i had

Don't Get Your Back Up

Baby, if I could keep it together
Don't you think I'd try?
And maybe if I could make something of this
Why wouldn't I?

You say I close a blind eye
That I don't put up the time
But what you see as goodbye
I don't see as a crime
I'm tired of the blame
Being put on my head
You're breathing fire
But you're not bringing back what's dead

Don't get your back up over this
If I'm so wrong and you're so right
You well you got your mind made up I guess
Won't you let me get some sleep tonight?

It's late now
And there's only four hours 'til I get up again
You know I'd wait somehow
If I thought this was something
That a little time would mend
You, you're dragging this misery on
Let's leave this thing for a while
It's too far gone
Too far gone

Don't get your back up over this
If I'm so wrong and you're so right
You really got your mind made up I guess
Won't you let me get some sleep
Won't you let me get some sleep
Won't you let me get some sleep tonight?

Don't get your back up over this
If I'm so wrong and you're so right
You well you got your mind made up I guess
Won't you let me get some sleep
Won't you let me get some sleep
Won't you let me get some sleep tonight?
Tonight
Tonight

Basement Apt.

Well you live out where the street ends
in a basement apt. with one of your friends
and the tap drips all night
water torture in the sink
The furnace is burning
but it's still cold i think

I can smell the bleach
that they use in the hall
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
It's seeping under the door
in across the floor
it's starting to hurt

Everytime I breathe
Everytime I try to leave
Everytime I breathe

Now the toaster sticks
and the empties are piled
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed
I gotta watch those things that go unsaid
God I wish we'd leave it at this

Everytime I breathe
Everytime I try to leave
Everytime I breathe

And every evening you open the door
You come down
There's nothing like watching tv all night underground
and no one is watching me slide
below street level
barely alive

Now we live out where the street ends
in a basement apt. just like our friends
We always said that we were different
but you know now that we weren't
cause there's holes in all the bottles
and my lungs hurt

Everytime I breathe
Everytime I try to leave
Everytime I breathe

Open Window (The Wedding Song)

Love, I see you there
Adrift on the air
Floating by the open window
Ah, the sentiment of love
Reflections that speak of
What can enter
When our hearts are open
Here witnesses appear
And recognize
How sacred love can be
When stated
Shared, shown for all to see
the beauty that can be
when love is cultivated

Well our love is a sacred thing
Like the mysteries of the night
In the darkness unwavering
And still so strong come the light
Well our love is an infinite thing
Like the sun's last ray on the sea
As it sets low in the west
And the moon rises

Love, I see you there
Adrift on the air
Floating by the open window
Ah, the sentiment of love
Reflections that speak of
What can enter
When our hearts are open
Here witnesses appear
And recognize
How sacred love can be
When stated
Shared, shown for all to know
the beauty that can grow
when love is cultivated

Well our love is a sacred thing
Like the mysteries of the night
In the darkness unwavering
And still so strong come the light
Well our love is an infinite thing
Like the sun's last ray on the sea
As it sets low in the west
And the moon rises

The Hideout

look at that green
out through the screen
after a quick rain came
so fast that
there wasn't time
to roll up the window
and pull the clothes down off the line
i don't care
it was so dry
and the grass is happy
and i think 'so am i'
cause i'm through thinking about you

for now i'm out at the hideout
far enough outside of town
you can come
you can stay
if there's something you need
to get away from

look at the day dropping away
hear the traffic on
a distant sideroad down the way
i think the dust has settled on me
but i don't care, it was so calm
i know i wouldn't stay forever
knew i'd get some things together
and move on

but for now i'm out at the hideout
far enough outside of town
you can come, you can stay
if there's something you need
to get away from

i just thought of you
and what you said
laid out on the pullout
did you forget?
you said you wouldn't forget

look at that green
out through the screen
after a quick rain came
so fast that
there wasn't time to roll up the window
and pull the clothes down off the line
but i don't care
it was so dry
the grass is happy and i think 'so am i'
cause i'm through thinking about you

and for now i'm out at the hideout
far enough outside of town
you can come out
you can come out, out
when there is no one around
all out at the hideout
far enough from being found
you can come, you can stay
if there's something you need
to get away from

Uniform Grey

It's perfectly suited
this uniform grey
There are no bearings
to the day
I came down from the air
and I'll leave by boat
Yeah, I'm down with your rainy town
Out on the spit
with the biggest port around
My friend is on the way
He's bringing my coat

Oh you don't do what I want you to
but I haven't been
through what you've been through
And we could use that
as an excuse
If that's what you choose
If that's what you choose

Well it was kinda hard
to pull away
He said "Buck up baby,
it's okay the sunlight
on the floor will always
fall."
And I meant to write it
on the plane
High above my earthly
pain
But I slept right through
the flight and that
was all

Oh you don't do what I want you to
but I haven't been
through what you've been through
And we could use that
as an excuse
If that's what you choose
If that's what you choose

It's perfectly suited
this uniform grey
There are no bearings
to the day
I came down from the air
and I'll leave by boat
Yeah, I'm down in your rainy town
In the spare room
with the biggest port around
My friend is on the way
He's bringing my coat
He's bringing my coat
He's bringing my coat

Capsized

when i heard about the coming day
wish i could wake up from the dream
in it i see a family photographed
and there you are, tucked in the scene
and there's a jealous net inside my chest
there's a hurt and sadness there
maybe i'd tell you all about it
if i thought you'd care

heavy heart gets lighter by your side
but there are thoughts i'd wish i'd heard
and if they ask you how i'm holding up
say i'm holding out for the words

what's the sense in being so sensitive?
can i trade this thin skin for a shell?
well there are somethings i've got no feeling about
but there are some things i can tell

heavy heart get lighter by yourself
it's been so long since you capsized
and you've been lying out there in the sun
has it begun? has it begun?

heavy heart, have you heard?
that i could use the words

Coffee Stain

There's a coffee stain
around your eye
And lines that I don't recognize
Everything changed
from being ok
the night that you came home
so late

I knew by the time
on the stove
that you were no longer
mine alone
I guess we're all
just out on loan
and everybody is only
their own

Oh I loved you
and I guess I still do
everything was going so good
I thought something
bad might happen
And then it did
if you know the difference
between bad and good
Thought that I'd know
But I cross my toes
and that's how it goes

Maybe I'm a fatalist
to let it all go at this
like some balloon
I'll probably miss
lost in a treetop

But there's a coffee stain
around your eye
And lines that I don't recognize
Everything changed
from being ok
the night that you came home
so late

Oh I loved you
and I guess I still do
everything was going so good
I thought something
bad might happen
And then it did
if you know the difference
between bad and good
Thought that I'd know
But I cross my toes
and that's how it goes

Lodestar

Out of the night, into the water,
We push the boat from shore.
Breaking the air in the stillness of the bay.

Intensity of stars reflected in the harbour,
Silently ignite.
The oar dips in to oil like water and we,
Are away.

Your hand won't write, not tonight,
But your mind may wander.
Into those deep lagoons that you know.

And your boat will go, by starlight alone.
"Da da da da da da da da"
You sang to the moon.
In the great black night with no lodestar,
In sight.

Out in the night, out on the water,
We pull the boat back to shore.
Breathing the air in the stillness of the bay.
Intensity of stars reflected in the water,
Silently ignite.
The oar dips in to oil like water and we,
Are away.
Under the moon,
In the great black night with no lodestar,
In sight.

And wait for it,
There are only two things now.
This great black night,
And the fire glow.
Listen, the darkness rings,
The darkness.
Listen, the darkness rings.
And wait for it,
There are only two of us now.
This great black night scooped out,
And this fire glow.
Listen, the darkess rings,
The darkness,
Listen, the darkness rings.
Take off your things,
And listen, the darkness rings.

You Were Here

are there no blinders on lights that glare
white noise on the eyes
from gas station lights and reflected ice glare
so that i can walk home by moonlight
alone

or can we go out to where the wind howls
and stand to lean against the trees
they've grown up so tall that you can't see the house
it's a fortress now but you know how it used to be
i can lie to myself
and say i like it
but i would love it if you were here

these words on paper smell like you
associated in random thought
on my lips the words turn blue
evidence i'm feeling lost
i can lie to myself
and say i like it
I would love it if you were here
i'm just sad for myself
because i know you're clear
but i would love it if you were here

i can just see you show me your gardens
i thought you'd grow roses and grapes on low vines
i wanted to know you when we were both older
i thought there'd be more of those wonderful times
i can lie to myself
and say i like it
gotta love it if you were here
i'm just sad for myself
cause i know you're clear
but i would love it if you were here
you were here
yes you were
yes you were

Weakened State

From the minute you saw it
By the time it left my mouth
I knew you wouldn't want it
But I had to let it out
I saw your smile, I felt
Now I just can't believe
There was no knowing deception
underneath

All that time
did it pass while you were
looking back waiting?

I asked for the truth
everytime
And now the ugly details
are stuck in my mind

And there's a premonition
I keep putting off
And the more time passes
the more I get soft
I'm standing up there
in a weakened state
and it's not great

All that time
did it pass while you were
looking back waiting?

Often I'm waiting on the one
that maybe won't come
waiting

And I'm not saying anything
You think that I forgot
Cause I'm not saying anything
But I'm thinking a lot

Often I'm waiting on the one
that maybe won't come
waiting

Everytime

I can throw away my fears
up into the atmosphere
They race away at the rate
of the smoke and rust
Look at all the poor bastards
gotta go to work while I sleep
Steel town's lights keep on glowing
From smokestacks that keep on blowing
in my eyes so I don't see it
in my heart so I don't see it
everytime

I can see it in your eyes
I can feel it on your sides
They're not like either of us at all
Look at all the poor drivers
Gotta go to work everytime
Streams of headlights come flashing
on the hills that we used
for crashing in my mind
I don't see it
Close my eyes or I believe it
Streams of headlights come shining
On wheels that we used for shining
In my mind
Close my eyes or I don't see it
Everytime