1. HOPES UP

There's just no substitute for fun
I've tried every single one
And no one can take your place
Everybody gets replaced

My time has neither come nor gone
It just slips out when I yawn
Without hope I can't go wrong
Can't go wrong

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now

It's so hard to settle down
Don't recognize my hometown
Home is where I hang my head
Lost in all these things I said

Been holding my breath for so long
I don't need air anymore
If you never let me breathe
I'll never breathe
I'll never breathe

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now

Don't know what I was hoping for
I feel like feeling better than I ever felt before

My time has neither come nor gone
It just slips out when I yawn
Holding my breath for so long
For so long

Don't want to be bored no more
I know there's so much more
Don't know what I was hoping for
I feel like feeling better than I ever felt before

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now

Don't get my hopes up
Dont' get my hopes up
Don't get my hopes up now


2. SHUT DOWN

I've been vindicated
I've been loved and hated
I've been pulled aside and told that life was overrated

No, I don't believe it
I just can't conceive it
I can write all night but in the morning I can't read it

Oh no, don't know what's the matter
Stuck up on a ladder, scared of coming down

If I don't get what I want
And there ain't enough to go around
I become oblivious to the obvious
Just ridiculous

As I flip the pages
You're a time that's ageless
In between us lies the calm before a storm that rages

Thought we were related
Couldn't be separated
Tried to get ahead but only got decapitated

If I don't get what you want (Don't know what's the matter, trying to hang around)
And you don't get what I need (Looking for a ladder, scared of coming down)
We will become oblivious to the obvious
Just dysfunctional

Shut down, shut down, shut down

When I can't get keep from getting down
(Looking for a ladder, scared of coming down)
And I grow tired of hanging 'round
(Don't know what's the matter, trying to hang around)
I become invisible, unlivable
Just dysfunctional

Shut down, shut down, shut down


3. SOMEBODY TO SHOVE

Grandfather watches the grandfather clock
And the phone hasn't rang for so long
And the time flies by like a vulture in the sky
Suddenly he breaks into song

I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone

Hello, speak up, is there somebody there?
These hang-ups are getting me down
In a world frozen over with overexposure
Let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town

'Cause I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
'Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

You're a dream for insomniacs
Prize in the Cracker Jack
All the difference in the world is just a call away

And I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
Yes I'm waiting by the phone
I'm waiting for you to call me? come call me
And tell me I'm? tell me I'm not alone

'Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

Yes I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me


4. MISERY

(One, two
One, two, three, four)

They say misery
Loves company
We could start a company
And make misery

Frustrated Incorporated

Well, I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you pay to see

Put me out of my misery
I'd do it for you, would you do it for me
We will always be busy
Making misery

We could build a factory
And make misery
We'll create the cure
We made the disease

Frustrated Incorporated (×2)

Well, I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you pay to feel

Put me out of my misery
All you suicide kings and you drama queens
Forever after happily
Making misery

Did you satisfy your greed
Get what you need
Was it only envy
So empty

Frustrated Incorporated (×2)

Frustrated Incorporated
(Put me out of my misery)

Frustrated Incorporated
(I'd do it for you, would you do it for me)

Frustrated Incorporated
(Forever after happily)

Frustrated Incorporated
(Making misery)

Frustrated Incorporated
(Making misery)


5. BLACK GOLD

Two boys on a playground
Trying to push each other down
See the crowd gather 'round
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
I've got so much left to do with my life

Moving backwards through time
Never learn, never mind
That side's yours, this side's mine
Brother you ain't my kind

You're a black soldier, white fight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
Sure'd like to feel some pride
But this place just makes me feel sad inside

Mother, do you know where your kids are tonight?

Keeps the kids of the streets
Gives them something to do, something to eat
This spot was a playground
This flat land used to be a town

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
Sure'd like to feel some pride
But this place just makes me feel sad inside

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
I've got so much left to do with my life


6. EYES OF A CHILD

She had thirteen kids, each one had thirteen problems
Three uppers, ten downers just to put up with this
And she don't know which children belong to which father
But she loves them all anyway and they each get a kiss

And the toilet ain't flushing and the toaster is smoking
The vacuum don't suck but it needs a new belt
But she saw the world through the eyes of a child
And remembers how good it was, and how good it felt

He picked up the paper from the bitter cold morning
He had just gone to sleep, he had to get up for work
By morning he's a watchman, by night he's a waiter
In the late afternoon he works as a clerk

And he can't pay the doctor bills, he just can't afford the pills
The car's repossessed and the child support's due
But he saw the world through the eyes of a child
Big problems seem smaller and old things seem new

She was just six when she turned her first trick
Now she's thirteen and it don't make her sick
And she does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol
Got a goldfish named Silver and a pimp who's named Rick

And some are like customers and some are like patients
She'd have gone back to school if she'd just had the patience
But she saw the world through the eyes of a child
None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny

She saw the world through the eyes of a child
Yes, she's seen it all and she knows they're all lies


7. PROMISES BROKEN

Streets are filled with broken glass
You get buried by the past
And give me just a little taste
Lay this mask to waste

Take me home

My mind is racing, take me home
My body's aching, so alone
I'll make you want to stay with me
Befriended by the enemy

One more time

And every little thing about this tells me
Nothing out there is ever gonna help me
All these words that I hear spoken
Just promises broken now

Looking outside from my window sill
Throw another coin in the wishing well
You'll never find
What you're looking for

Fifteen miles
Your dim light shines from so far away
Your sad smile is all I see
When I say

Every little thing about this tells me
Nothing out there is ever gonna help me
All these words that I have spoken
Just promises broken now

From the hotel satellite
Don't look like you're living right
Here's a deal you can't refuse
You ain't got as much to lose

Can you tell your troubles to
Someone who won't laugh at you?

It's alright

As I watch you walk away
Hoping part of you will stay

It's alright

And every little thing about this tells me
Nothing out there is ever gonna help me
All these words that I hear spoken
Just promises broken now


8. STRING OF PEARLS

She swings a string of pearls on the corner
The street lights reflect the light in the water
The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing
And they splash and bounce and roll cross the wet street

As she bends to chase the pearls a car swings round the corner
She darts from the eyes of the panic-struck driver
Who's racing to the delivery room
'Cause in the back seat his wife is busting out of her womb

And the sack breaks and out come the siamese twins
Who grow up to become the first president
With two heads
Are better than one

He puts his heads in his hands, says I got to put my heads together
I can become the best president ever
And not just president
Fend for yourself

Signs his name, takes the blame for all of the names with no shame
In their beliefs, they adjourn and they leave
And in walks a man with a broom and a knife and blood on his hands

And he sweeps everything under the rug
And goes home to his kids and gives them a hug
But his wife was not there, she had just left a letter
That said youd be much better off without me

Now his wife took the train to her ex-lover's funeral
Who died in the bathroom, hit his head on a urinal
When they got together, the knowledge was carnal
And the widow was at the funeral, and they had quite a catfight

And they fell into the hole where the casket was resting
And the preacher just left in the middle of the service
'Cause death was one thing, but women made him nervous
And he ran to his car and he drove round the corner

Then something in the street caught the light in his eye
He pulled over, reached down, and picked up a pearl from the gutter
And he didn't know what to think
He brought it home and washed it in the sink

And he gave the pearl to Sister Mary Theresa
Who could not accept it, so she gave it to Lisa
A young prostitute who was missing a pearl
On the necklace that broke late last night


9. CRAWL

You got me going
So get me out of here
I should be blowing
In someone else's ear

I'm looking forward to looking back
On days like today
Though I wish you would go away
Stay, won't you stay?

I'm gonna crawl, cra-ha-hawl, cra-ha-hawl

I never felt better just crawling home
I'm gonna crawl home, crawl alone
Good to see you, see you later, maybe one more beer
I'm gonna crawl home, crawl home from here

Some respond to pleasure
Some respond to pain
I'm hanging out to dry
In the pouring rain

Victims of temptation
Never can complain
I could use the sensation
You see I can't feel pain

I'm gonna crawl, cra-ha-hawl, cra-ha-hawl

I never ever said I'd never make it home
It's just a stone's throw, a crawl home
Good to see you, see you later, maybe one more beer
I'm just a crawl home, a crawl home from here

I could use someone
To drag me out of here
I am that someone
It's all become quite clear

Get me out of here

I never felt better just crawling home
I'm gonna crawl home, crawl home alone
Good to see you, see you later, and I'm outta here
I'm just a crawl home, a crawl from here


10. CAGED RAT

(Don't know what I'm doing)

Why don't you go home and crawl into your hole
Why don't you go home and spend some time alone

In the corner I looked across the room
To the other corner, I knew I'd be there soon

Caged rat (×12)

In the corner (×3) I looked across the room
I knew I'd be there soon, in the (other) corner

Caged rat (×12)

(Awoooooooooo)(x4)

Why don't you go home and crawl into your hole
Why don't you go home and spend some time alone

From the corner I looked across the room
To the other corner, I knew I'd be there soon

Caged rat (×12)

(Awoooooooooo)(×8)


11. JUST LIKE ANYONE

She walks into the outhouse
The cold night breathes into her face
The flies are standing still now
The moon it spills through the place

And she starts wondering it's like to be liked by everyone
And like everyone be just like anyone
And just wants to be so just like anyone
Just like anyone

She reaches through the darkness
Her fingers touch the porcelain seat
She spins and pulls her pants down
The cold air holds her like a theif

She starts wondering what they mean, do they just be mean to be mean
And thinking about the scene, do they just want to be seen
And trying not to seem so just like anyone
Just like anyone

The door comes screeching open
She walks into the evening air
She disappears in the darkness
Alls left the faint smell of her hair

She's done wondering what it's like to be liked by everyone
And like everyone be just like anyone
And just wants to be so just like anyone

And wondering what they mean, do they just mean to be mean
And thinking about the scene, do they just want to be seen
And trying not to seem so just like anyone (just like anyone)

Just like anyone (×9)