Lyrics:

 

Minutes Of The Day
I’m not even worthy of this sidewalk
But you could be the queen of the parade
Waving on the right hand side
Waving on the left hand side
As you smile and stand up in the car
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You could be a movie star
Hanging in the back of the car
Playing in this lonely enterprise
But baby please don’t vanish now
I beg you not to lose your crown
‘Cause I can’t afford the minutes of the day
But I loved you every minute of the dayAnd you are just a pauper Cinderella
But I am just a Cinderfella too
Sweeping out the fireplace
Wiping the soot off your face
As you smile for the police camera

I Found These Pictures
I found these pictures
You always looked so good
They were in a shoebox
In the corner of my room
I was in there with a broom
Getting rid of all those things that are
No longer good for me
You were standing
There with some other guy
And he was looking
Me right in the eye
And it sapped my soul to see
He was happier than me right then
I’ve never worn a stupid smile like that
I woke up from 10 year dream
Where there were rivers in between
Every single person that I knew
I’ve got spokes inside my head the gleaming chrome turns till I’m dead
I’ll ride this bike until the cycle’s through
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I found these pictures
You were a satin doll it’s true
Do you remember
Back when I was perfect too?
For that was me there next to you
Now when someone asks you who he was
Would you turn your head away from me now?

I Found Out
I found out
You left the country but had to leave
The dog behind and don’t you wish
The weather would just make up its mind
The sun, the rain
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But I found out
Just how crazy you really are
Yeah I found out
That my advice didn’t go too far
As you drink away every word as it lands
I found out
That you were wanted by everyone
Lawyers, doctors, and Wall Street bums
But you just tired them out it seems
‘Cause they all turned
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As they found out
Just how crazy you really are
And they found out
That their advice didn’t go too far
As you drink away every word as it lands
Yeah I found out
Just what goes on inside your pretty head
But it ain’t pretty so count me out
Of the little dramas you create yourself
They’ll bring you down
When you find out
Just how crazy you realy are
Yeah you’ll find out
‘Cause our advice didn’t go too far
As you drink away every word as it lands
You just talk away every word as it lands

Fireworks on TV
Blank-faced reverie
Watching you watch me
Remembering long last looks
Thumbed pages in the book
And chances that we took
Let the songbird sing
Let the phone just ring
I know it is not for me
Or one I don’t want to see
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But all these things are ours to see
But they’re like fireworks on TV.
They show reality
But not so vividlyI took a fleeting glance
Out the window by chance
I saw you walk on by
Your sad eyes telling lies
Of what’s going on inside
I thought that I saw you
But that mirage wasn’t true
Out in the halogen
I saw this story end

In A Day
I can be there in a day if I’m lucky all the way
If there’s something I can do, I’ll try to help you through
And I’ll be the man again, even if it’s just pretend
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I can do nothing for you, little star
You’ve gone too far this time
You look so helpless in that poison dress
This is the mess you’ve made
But I’ll be there in a day
These idyllic little charms that you find in my arms
You know they will not stand, ‘cause time’s out of our hands
But if it’s only for the night, I’ll try and make it right.

One, Two, Three
See the spotlight’s on her tawdry dresses on the bed beside the fire
She’s always kept her word, she’s not a liar
Walking down the Battle Road, the Lincoln woman’s family is not home
Oh, you’re beautiful you know
Oh, we beg you not to go
She probably drinks a glass a beer a thousand miles away from here
Or maybe she is underneath the sea
One, two, three, so easily
She’s walking away from it all, a highway ghost beyond the call (for me)
One, two, three, not there to see (don’t leave me) (don’t leave me)
Burn down the palace for me, son.
Sweep out the ashes when you’re done for me
We’re just the notches on the Fahrenheit thermometer, the third degree
The first, the second child, the third was me
She left a trail of blood behind, out to the woods, life has no guarantee
Oh, you’re beautiful you know
Oh, we beg you not to go
Oh, if we could hear you speak
Another dimple in the cheek
Another kiss before you slip away
One, two, three, so easily
She’s walking away from it all, a highway ghost beyond the call
One, two, three, not there to see (don’t leave me)
Burn down the palace for me, son.
Sweep out the ashes when you’re done for me
(break)
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Revealed
The swan is trapped in ice today
You don’t hear a word I say
My screams are stifled underneath the pond
Picked up on a mental scent
Sniffed the ground and off you went
A bitch beside a magic rod and reel
Has arrived to save the day
Doesn’t need my help today
Let it all away
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You chip and shred and tear apart
The fragments of a diseased heart
You try to pick my brain a bit
But I won’t give you the benefit
Ninety-nine and one per cent
You accuse and I defend
It’s a not so subtle cut
You’ll never know the way I feel
Nothing will be revealed tonight.
Trapped inside a human zoo
People stop and stare at you
You’re caged inside your natural habitat
You’re just a little monkey brain
With a forty dollar chain
You’re just a conversation piece you know
Separating me from him
I will tear you limb from limb
I can take it on the chin
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Mary Kay
I am in your prison dreams
Underneath the Judas tree
It’s a love they just don’t understand
I’m the boy you can not see
It’s a long way to look down
There are rumors going ‘round
She is leaving home and family
For the love that she just found
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Oh my gentle Mary Kay
You’re in the courthouse can
Oh you took my youth away
But now I’m a grateful man
Get in the car, let’s drive away
We’ll take the baby too
Don’t worry what they all will say
I’ll never blame a thing on you
The crowd will now disperse
Hurling insults through lips pursed
And to think of all my younger years
Our love was unrehearsed
It’s the cruelest thing they do
To break my heart in threes
They shed no tears for my teacher and
they should not cry for me
(Chorus)

Whisper to Yourself
How
How did you end up
Alone
In this little Cape Cod home
At the end
End of this dead-end
Lying up in bed
Just talking to yourself
And so, you whisper to yourself
And no, can’t talk to no one else
So you walk
In the middle of the night
You know this is no life
You know it isn’t right
But New York
Will not have you yet
You know you’ll never leave
This town you can’t forget
(refrain)
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Some nostalgia holds you hostage
And will not let you go
You’ll pace the floorboards sleepwalking backwards
The only voice you know.

Florida
And when you’ve left the ground for Florida
They don’t need you around Laguardia
We could always count on you
To make old things seem new
And now we think of you in Florida
The scales over your eyes in Florida
No more friendly skies to get to her
We drift in from the coast
but we loved you the most
But now you are a ghost in Florida
Now I see you in her its true
Her smile and her eyes are you
And now she sits alone and cries
She remembers your brown eyes in Florida
A cat has got your tongue in Florida
The lullabies not sung to us by her
The cinder blocks and stone
Are not what made your home
And now you are alone in Florida
Sinking
You will be sinking
Into the sea
You will be drowning but you might as well forget about me
I will be throwing
You to the lions
There will be so much cheering I won’t hear all your crying
A rising tide will raise all the boats
But not when you are trapped outside of my moat
I’ll raise the gate and won’t let you in
You’ll be swimming but flailing and sinking
You will be broken
Down just like me
Just like a little kitten you will be stuck up in a tree
I will be lurching
Speed through the night
I will be so far out of your fucking sight
(Chorus)
I’m obsolete set out to rust
Now think of me if you must oh yeah
Now I lay me down to sleep
You said you know me but not too deeply oh yeah
(Chorus)

Believe
The rock, paper, scissors no one has won
The sun is just a star the world’s just begun
The daily routines are still in place
I was looking for your soul but just saw your face
Won’t someone please sit and talk to me
My skeleton hurts but you can’t see
I’m disappointed in the world today
You lean in on me (you lean in on me)
You can look and see
She slithers down the aisle behind the cans
She pops down a little white Atavan
The steel-toe boots and her Asian pearls
The scowling looks at the skinny girls
Won’t someone please sit and talk to me
My skeleton hurts but you can’t see
I’m disappointed in the world today
You lean in on me (you lean in on me)
You can look and see
Don’t you believe?
Won’t you believe?
Won’t you help me?
Help me believe?
Like a black-eyed crow in the dirty wet snow
The winter weather pales in your midnight glow
The drops of rain and the rays of sun
Your adulthood days have just begun
(refrain, chorus, solo, chorus)Almost Beating
There are certain things there are about you
Like the wind, your belt buckle, and the comb
But every time I try and think about you
I realize I’m better off alone
But then the moonlight hits you from behind
You can almost play the part
With your almost beating heart
And I almost fall apart
I’m always writing when I should be living
Speaking softly from an airplane sun
But like the life that’s only been half-realized
I realized that you were not the one
But then a snowflake hits me in the eye
(chorus)
The rage we used to wear
The winter in your hair
My friends avoided me
Like strangers in the street
I almost fall apart
There were ceratin things you saw about me
Like the air and the razor and my shoe
But like a Christmas bird count in a snowstorm
I was always looking out for you
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My Radio
The history of you and me
Like passing stars up through the trees
Well we’re slipping through sleep streams
Where the waters blur our dreams
You’re my green light you’re my radio
But you’re fading fast, I know
The AM sound it’s still around I know
You’re my radio
And if our blue moon turns to gold
Or if our family home got sold
Well we’ll remember what dreams cost
But the memories won’t be lost
(chorus)
After midnight at the red light
Listen for your voice again
I turned to see you but the light changed green and then…
(chorus)