1020 AM

1020 am 1020 am
when will I ever see you again
1020 am
when will I ever see you again
 
I carry you out
it starts to sink in
when will I ever see you again
you'll be with me still
ever from now 1020 am
 
cause I remember everything you did
and
everything you were
everything you said
yeah I remember everything you did
 
1020 am
when will I ever see you again
1020 am
when will I ever see you again

ANYTHING YOU WANT

if there's anything you want
come on back cause it's all still here
I'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer
and if you and me is right
why's it the same thing every night
 
it’s just a matter of time
it's almost measurable
imagination ain't kind on us tonight
 
you're at your best you got the guns turned a hundred eighty degrees
and finding out if it adds all up right
we go through all the same lines or sell out to appease
but go to sleep in a bed of lies
I made my own more than once or twice
 
and now time is my time time is my own
and I feel so alive yet feel so alone
cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changed
since you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a light 
on the corner by sound exchange

 
BELIEVING IS ART

 

things everybody would say
believing is hard
believing is art
things everybody should know
the end will come slow
and love breaks your heart
 
so welcome to the north side
where you will se what it means to be standing in line
it's not so out of the way
just under the east and one stop away
 
I said that this is a call
yeah it might be a call
if the world could sit tight for one night
get out of the car at the corner of nine
where they take everything and just spit it all out
 
I'm staying up late at night
to take apart what I said
to make it all sound alright
waiting now and taking my time
cause I've seen what it means to be standing on line
 
this is a call yeah it might be a call
and the world is alright and alright
taking your time and I'm standing on line
it depends it depends and it comes back again
yes
 
they've got my number they've got me alright
they know my number they've got me alright
think about it a while
the end ain't that bad
take out the trash with one hand
it falls apart like a band
just hold onto it tight
 
this is a call it ain't mine not at all
and the world can sit tight and alright
taking your time and get right back online
it depends it depends and it comes back again
yes things that everybody would say
believing is hard
believing is art
things everybody should know
the end will come slow
and love breaks your heart

CHICAGO AT NIGHT

now when she went to Chicago that night she faced a wall
and when she woke up outside with all those leaves in her mouth
and felt the pall
and all night the rain came on down
but then she'd never been to Chicago at night before the fall
and it don't stop not at all
it falls all around
in the city
hits the ground
 
and now everybody's at disadvantage
speaking with their second language
 
she'd never been there before they went and set up the wall
and though nobody'd expected much from this reinvention
she still broke right down after all
because she knew that it was all over and we'd hit a wall
and like the fall this was all
now it's all around
in the city
on the ground
 
and now everybody's at disadvantage
speaking with their second language
 
and I never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall

EVERYTHING HITS AT ONCE

 

don't say a word
the last one's still stinging
back of my mind
I feel that phone ringing
and there is no way back from this 

everything hits at once
what we needs is just what we wants
I go to sleep but think that you're next to me
I go to sleep and think you're next to me

don't make a move
when I walk out don't follow me
out in the car
can feel it calling me
and ooh you're so far away

but I can still change my mind tonight
I gotta change my mind somehow
I go to sleep alone but think that you're next to me
everything hits at once tonight
outside is all lit up with ad lights
in traffic we become on the way back home
part of something bigger than just on our own

I gotta change my mind tonight
I can still change my mind tonight
merging in traffic cross the lanes and then we become
something bigger than just anyone
oh and everything hits at once
what we needs is just what we wants
I go to sleep and think that you're next to me
I go to sleep but think that you're next to me 



THE FITTED SHIRT

when I was still growing up
and dad head off to work
he put coat and tie on
over fitted shirt
 
nothing else will fit right
or seem so directly applied
than fitted shirt hung on me
fitted shirt alright
 
I long for the days
they used to say
ma’am and yes sir
for now I'm going to find
buttons for my 
dad's old used shirt
 
fitted shirt
fitted shirt
 
been looking so long now
and no one's seen and no one heard
but when I go out tonight
I'm going to put on a fitted shirt
 
one day it'll take
and they'll start to make
shirts that fit right
till then I suppose
I still got dad's clothes
and that's alright
 
fitted shirt
fitted shirt

LINES IN THE SUIT

I'm on a straight line when a man comes around
and he got lines in the suit
coming out to make us moot
I'm moving on now if I like it or not
he says I've got nowhere to go
tell me something I don't know
he's painting it out like I don't want to know

the picture has come down
I'm taking it off and throwing it out
the picture is about what could have been easier
the picture is coming around now
how come I feel so washed up
at such a such a tender age now
how come I feel so washed up
the picture is coming around now
it could have been easier
at such a such a tender age

I'm listening to the comforting sound
of some kind of work being done outside
of sounds from next door the walls don't hide
I'm listening to mountain to sound
and the way it's panned is cool
but when I get back home to you
there's got to be something more than that too

the human resource clerk
has two cigarettes and back to work
she eats right but hurts
and she says it could have been good by now
it oculd have been more than a wage yeah
how come she feels so washed up
at such a such a tender age now
it could have been easier
it could have been more than a wage
how come she feels so washed up at such a tender age

I'm on a straight line and a man comes around
and I got nowhere to go
come back and tell something I don't know

ME AND THE BEAN 

there's a girl in my yard
reading me my tarot cards
she don't know anything
but she's beautiful to me

my eyes are opening again
I see you as you're marching in
I'll bring you cover when you're cold
you'll bring me youth when I grow old

do you when remember when you were small
how everybody would seem so tall
I am your shadow in the dark
I have your blood inside my heart

 

TAKE A WALK

tough break handjob broke it all right in two
and it won't get back together with stitches and glue
and now that song's been sung
it's just the cost of what's been done
the cost of taking a walk with you
 
I can tell myself
this is for all concerned's health
and I may yet dot that I
fill it up and pour it down the inside
 
and tell you all go and take a walk
and I said all y'all go take a walk
 
tough break handjob sent me back home to ma
back to cowtown and the fish shop and the mall
 
oh yeah it sent me right back from where I came
and in the interim nothing changed
so I may yet dot that i
fill it up and pour it down the inside
 
until you all go and take a walk
and I said all y'all go take a walk

 
TAKE THE FIFTH

Wendy's walking out alone and it's Saturday night
all the boys act tough but they've gotta bite
when they do they'll get more than a slap on the wrist
and it's clear who's promoting her own myth
 
so I'll take the fifth
take the fifth oh
 
everybody talks it up all of Saturday night
and all the kids want to brag in fact that they got a right
but it ain't gonna be just a slap on the wrist
and it's clear who's gonna go and promote her own myth
 
gonna take the fifth
take the fifth oh
but I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
 
in back of the room when she walk on trough find 'em stacked against the wall
on the tip of their tongue is the word that all along could turn around the way it'd fall
 
the thinking about what she's got she's about got me backed against the wall
on the tip of my tongue cause I knew it all along I'd be back there if I wouldn't fall
if I wouldn't fall
 
if I wouldn't fall
Wendy's out on her own it's a Saturday night
and I’ve been hanging around as if to save my life
all the girls stand around with their hands on their hips
cause all the boys have already fallen prey to her myth
 
but I'm gonna take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
and I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
and I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth
and I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh