1. CONCRETE BED

The world's locked up in your head
You've been pouring it a concrete bed
Your habits ossify
You don't realize you're fried

To find someone you love
You've gotta be someone you love

The reason's somewhere in the din
But it takes years 'til it sinks in
You've used up the easy streets
and you lost your taste for treats
So fried

Stay high if you have to
Do whatever it asks you
You've got another calling
Don't let it pass you
You know it coz you wrote it
You just didn't think you'd actually do it
It's just another wish you wished
In a very long list

To find someone you love
You've gotta call your own bluff


2. DO IT AGAIN

Well I'd snap to attention
If I thought that you knew the way
I'd open my mouth
If I had something smart to say

I bought a stack of books
I didn't read a thing
It's like I'm sitting here
Waiting for birds to sing

Let's do it again
Come on let's do it again
Please let's do it again

The hum of the clock
Is a far-away place
The azalea air holding your face
You're lying down
And the moon is sideways
From the hot to the cold
It never gets old

I spend all my energy
Staying upright
And I like the masking noise quiet
Of your breathing nearby

I want you lazy science
I want some peace
Are you the future?
Show me the keys

When I accelerate
I remember why it's good to be alive
Like a twenty-five cent game

Maybe this weight was a gift
Like I had to see what I could lift

I spend all my energy
Walking upright


3. ALWAYS LOVE

to make a mountain of
Your life is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me
Always love
Hate will get you every time
Always love
Don't wait 'til the finish line

Slow demands come around
Squeeze the air and keep the rest out
It helps to write it down
Even when you then cross it out

But always love
Hate will get you every time
Always love
Even when you want to fight

Self-directed lives
I want to know what it'd be like to
Aim so high above
Every card that you get dealt you

Always love
Hate will get you every time
Always love
Hate will get you
And I've been held back by something
You said to me quietly on the stairs
You said
Hey you good ones


4. WHAT IS YOUR SECRET

So we walked and talked
Then we sat and talked
Said it was the truth
But what is your secret?

Dragged it on and on
Even favorite songs but
Your division's wrong
What is your secret?

I don't care about you anymore
The people got tired
I don't care about you anymore
The actress was fired

You said you were yourself
Not being someone else
That this was new for you
But what is your secret?

You said just what i said
So why's the meter red?
And why's the needle pegged?
What is your secret?

You want to control
You want to be controlled
You're like a little switch
And then you take your toll

Your every reckless twist
I wasn't made for this
Thank god that life is so long
And the city's so big

I don't think about you anymore
I try not to think about you


5. YOUR LEGS GROW

If you were here
Baby we'd increase the dose
There was no fear in my room
When we got close
Call me anytime
You've got a ghost

And you're the only person in the world
I feel that way about
And if you move off to the side
I'll get swept back out
Where it's cold but not that deep
Coz your legs grow

There's a light that rises up
From the bottom of the lake
And its beam has hit me hard
Now I'm wide awake
Where it's cold but not that deep
Coz your legs grow


6. ALL IS A GAME

Do you wake up and lie there
And think it through?
Is the weight of your own life
Too much for you?

But it all is a game
You forgot to play
You did

Woke up an hour after the clock
Remembered the details
And wanted to stop
The stakes in my life
Are going so far up
That my fingers are like
Haven't you had enough

But first I gotta find money
I gotta get lunch
Tell me something funny
Coz I'm cracking up
And later when I see stars
I'll know I'm alright
I go scary far
From the dark to the light

The stove is open coz it's cold
Got a stack of possessions to be sold
There's a hallway to a doorway
To a room that you're in
And in there all day
The walls are you say
The sky's whatever you say


7. BLANKEST YEAR

to hell with it
I'm going to have a party

I had the blankest year
I saw life turn into a TV show
The person I knew
I didn't really know

Time don't move
We're the only ones who do
Bending reason
Coz it's all we hold on to

And now it's lonely
Thank god the band's doing well
But you don't own me
I'd like to return this spell
It's not my size
Your lies are so much bigger
Than my lies
And your ties are made of things
That shouldn't make ties

Oh fuck it
I'm going to have a party


8. COMES A TIME

Comes a time when
You can't judge no more
Go out shopping
Can't see the store
I can't believe that
We're really all good
One of us has gone
Where they never should

Comes a time when
You really can't judge
Should go walking
You don't even budge
I can't believe how
Far we have gone
One of us has not come along

Get up and tell the sun
that you don't feel love

How long can you
Keep circling round?
Like Paris, Texas
'Til she found out


9. IN THE MIRROR

I look in the mirror
To see what my hair is doing
Is it kind of skywalker
Or kind of stupid?
But that's not the real
Reason I'm looking
I need a reminder of what I'm doing
I need a reminder that I'm human

In my dreams I love you like
A snowstorm in the night
The windows open wide
Here comes reflected light
we can keep the covers up
We bet it all on luck

But do dreams ever do damage to life?
When you need so much
You can't get it right

Who else is here today?
I'm alone but can't obey
Swim on my back at night
Near my clothes and a flashlight


10. ARMIES WALK

I was about to change
But you stayed the same
Had pinned against the wall
That we are pre-ordained
If they gave you extra scenes
You'd hit back to main

Disappear by train
Cut my signal chain
Find a stable girl
And fill it up again
You can't foresee intent
When the writer writes all bent
Armies walk inside of me
Armies walk physically

Every day I steal a car
That's how hard it is to
Get away from where you are

Disappear by train
Cut my signal chain
Find a stable world
And fill it up again
You can't foresee intent
when the writer writes all bent
Armies walk inside of me
Armies walk physically
We'd like you to leave
Coz we've gotta breathe

Who's to say
Why we're built so strange
Disappointing ourselves
Before we change?
Grass is greener right over here
Why do simple things
Take so many years?


11. IMAGINARY FIENDS

Hey, calling all imaginary friends
Today, don't want no-one
To tell me how it ends
Took breathing for granted
And now I don't know how to breathe
Something that you planted
Just won't get up and leave

Lenny Bruce's bug eyes
Stare from an LP
Asking me just what kind
Of fight I've got in me
I harbored some ambition
To turn it up like that
I already had roadblocks so
Why'd you have to cheat?

I'm bewildered
And writing myself notes
That say if you fake happiness
Then no-one knows
Convince yourself
And then you've got it made
There'll be no black of night
There'll just be turned-out lights

It's a long story tell you later
Now the sky looks like turner
From specifics to the dawn
Got so many back-burners
That keep on

You laughed out loud
About someone who
Couldn't get their shit together
I laughed along, ha ha
I almost wish you knew me better

Hey, calling all imaginary friends