Lyrics

Do Not Leave Baggage All the Way

pay up

hey, have you got the time?
the production line really needs you
and you’re gonna need it too.

pretty soon you’ll find
you’re only killing time
’cause being normal is
the most consuming thing you’ll do

pay, cause you’ll feel left out
stay, cause there’s no way out

red brick and white front door
cute shops and specialty stores
but i just want more
look! i got a new end table,
i’m equipped and i’m able
but i still don’t belong

so pay up cause you know that’s the way it works
you need the things you haven’t got
and you say, someday, you’re gonna get outta here
well it’s not happening

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i threw a rock last night
and hit a shining star
i blocked most of it’s light
but it won’t fall very far

and it goes it comes back around

because you know i wanna see the way you fly back to my window

now i look at you,
but, yes, i wanna be true
yes, i wanna be true

and it’s not something that i believe in
so you can go on, and take it all
and when i’m back here again, i’ll for you my friend
and say i wanted to tell you all along

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in the smoggy freeway heat, with a straw between your teeth
i’m pouring over in my seat kissing circles on your knees

my beautiful girl

math is power

well it’s their great show and i don’t know whether i should believe it
who’s paying what to buy our trust that they’re just bringing the facts?

and while the tv screens sell us impossible dreams of happiness and we believe it
at least it’s better than knowing what’s really going on today

you didn’t hear what they did? they let him starve all those kids!
but now we’re storming in to save ‘em, the kids, the kids, the kids….

so when we’re hit again and you don’t understand why the hatred is spreading
you should put another american flag on the bumper of your escalade

whiskey

are you holding up the jukebox with your last coin?
making love to the neon darlin’, where the wires join

and i keep stallin’, until we’ve all been
brought around the side into my coffin
sleep until the sun’s gone
i begin to see the way inside

gimme whiskey in my hand
do you understand?
the silver cup is cut in two
and crying in the sand

have a sip of the latest fad now, bitter and cold
promises in a bottle that never grow old

would you want to drink it with me?

open your mouth

i’ve been holding back keeping you down low
i’ll be leaving here but before i go, there’s something that i got to know

i can’t drive but we need to get home soon
cause when i get you alone then i’ll say to you

there’s something that i gotta do with you
and everybody know it’s true
you are taking hold and breaking me in two

so when you open your mouth you better watch what you say
i might be gone tomorrow but for now i’ll stay
because there’s something that you got that i want

the end

at the end of it all everything is green

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i’m not here, i’m living yesterday
and covering all my walls with pictures thrown away
regret’s an anchor in a guilty sea
it’s pulling me down and i wanna be free

don’t look back at all the broken cars on the track
they’re only going nowhere fast, you’re hanging on

a million dreams and i fantasize
“a little more, that’s all i need and i’ll be fine.”
bit “a little more” is always out of reach
it’s pushing me back and i wanna be free

there’s a whole world over there
full of shit but now i couldn’t care
i don’t wanna know
cause there’s everything right now

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i woke up by the sea
at vista and willoughby
and christmas lights were hanging over me.

walked through the kitchen door
over black and white tiled floors
and those empty shelves, the way they used to be

i was one stop from letting go but then you came around right in front of me
and now i’ll never know if you will always be right in front me
i hope you think that it’s not too late
i want you to believe that i’m on your side.

stayed quiet past ryan’s room
candles and perfume touching my nose
and now i’m getting close

a bed-sheet’s still on the screen
a perfect body still unseen
and meals on the rug, a tabletop of green

the pictures on the chest are new
and your bed’s a sea of blue
so i’ll jump straight in and wait right here for you

she’s already made up her mind about it

could’ve handled everything better
never should have sent the letter
winter left and no one remembered
april felt like mid-december
but still i could not talk

and now she’s already made up her mind about it

trucks are loud when faucets are leaking
the fan’s on high but i’m not sleeping
still i can not talk

i’m writing down everything i know tonight
maybe now it’ll break through
but every time the words down come out right
she’s left to guessing and i’m explaining nothing.

and now she’s already made up her mind about it

a year and a day

i walk around today with one feeling a black hole of perpetual doubt
people’s happy expressions come at me but they don’t seem to make their out.
it was a cold autumn day just like this one when i tore our world apart
i swear one of these days they’re gonna find me on the floor dead of a broken heart.

i hope someday you’re a big big star like audrey or bridgette bardot
but in my dreams you’re already famous cause you always play the leading role
maybe one day you’ll think that i was just young and dumb and forgive all my sins
but i got the feeling it’s something you don’t believe in and you’re never gonna let me back in.

you used to say i was the sweetest little puppy every time every time you looked in my eyes
well, you know, a puppy’s still a dog and dog is so good at telling lies.

at night

when i lie down at night
with my face in my hands
i know the words you said were right
i know you’ll never understand

but i can’t sleep now
with those dreams i almost knew
and my tears are filled with doubt
and my mind is lost in you

now you’re so far away
i want to scream to you right now
but i don’t know what i’d say
you wouldn’t want me anyway
you shouldn’t want me anyway