Soul Asylum : Hang Time
歌词
1. DOWN ON UP TO ME
Dear stranger to authority
Welcome to the minority
It's not someplace you have to go
It's not something you have to know
Don't do this, don't touch that, hey
Draw the line, burn this down, I'll speak my mind
Maybe I'll wait for another time
Sometimes good comes to those who wait
Sometimes it makes you hesitate
Some folks fight for humanity
Some folks fight for their sanity
Don't do this, don't do that, don't try this, don't touch that, hey
Do it for the last time
By the weight of the world coming down
Down on, down on up to me
Down on up to me, wait for another time
When you look down on me I get so uppity, hey
Starting my own army, just me and my friends
Said you better get ready
(Ha, ha, ha)
Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to me
Coming down, down on, down on up to me
Down on up to—
Though it might just come down to trust
It sometimes just comes down to lust
That's just one person's point of view
2. LITTLE TOO CLEAN
Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair
Furious and steaming
A stain upon your stairs
Don't you know dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there
It's only dirt around you and dirt surrounds you
It follows you everywhere
Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut
The heart of it, it sparkles the more it can corrupt
Don't you know
Dirt can't hurt you
I'm truly certain
Usually washes out
Don't you know rain
Will wash out the stain
And all of your pain
Will work itself out
Work it out
'Fraid you've lost your innocence to some-odd social scene
You're right on top but you've been replaced by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean
A little too clean
A little too clean
One day dirt will bury you and you will understand
There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand
Don't you know
Dirt will find you and
Dirt reminds you that
Dirt will always be there
It's only
Dirt around you and
Dirt surrounds you
It follows you everywhere
(Everywhere)
'Fraid you've lost your innocence to some-odd social scene
You're right on top, but you've been replaced by a shiny new machine
And dirt keeps following you and you don't know what it means
You're a little too clean
A little too clean
A little too clean
Well, my insect
I got a solid gold royalty
A little too? little too scared
3. SOMETIME TO RETURN
[Well] I ran my way
I walked a fine line
Wasted time only to find
That you were calling, I think, my name
To remind me I am fine
What you are is what you see
And you see me and we can be
Something you can call we
We are, we are
Doing what we can
Working without a plan
I'm beginning to understand
It's getting out of hand
I have seen these closing doors
I've woke up on this floor before
Picked it apart for hours and hours, and hours and hours
Of turning, tossing, and looking and listening
To you and all the fucked up things you do
But you're doing the best you can
With every grain of sand
Just trickling through your hand
Can't catch me if you can
If someday comes early
Comes whipping, comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning
Your bridges are burning
My destination's sometime to return
Throw away your calendar
And saddle up your salamander
Get up and get down
Ride into town and look around
Get up and do something
Your time to choose it
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
Doing the best I can (I can)
With or without a plan (a plan)
I'm taking what I can get
I haven't seen nothing yet
If one day you wake up and find what you make up
Come and get me, come and take me there
Into your illusion I make my intrusion
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
The hourglass is draining fast
It knows no future, holds no past
And all this too will come to pass
Never, forever, whatever
If someday comes early
Comes whipping, comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning
Your bridges are burning
My destination's sometime to return
Sometime to return (×3)
4. CARTOON
Now everybody's looking after me
If I'm dragging by some coat tail, I can't see, it's too dark
But I've got to know what's got the best of me
When the circus that you left goes on parade
In those bleacher seats of fire in your charades, it's too far
But I'm feeling like I don't dare look away
Don't look away
Did it almost make you feel that something's gotta happen soon?
When you wake up feeling lost in your own room
If you're crying in your beer you're gonna drown
If you think we'll rise above, you better look around, you'll see
It's a mountain made of sand crumbling under me
Maybe I'm chasing shadows on your wall
They loom so large but make me feel so small somehow
When you're chasing your own tail, spinning your own wheels
Dan: On a night when the wolves were all silent, and the moon howled
Dave: And I tried to leave, and I tried to stay, tried everything, tried looking away (×2)
Did it almost make you feel that something's gotta happen soon?
You're in the movies now and I'm in your cartoon
There's a ringing in my ear that's heaven-sent
There's a beast out on the ruins
Some broken down lover's lament
It goes on and on but it won't go away
5. BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS
Right before the aftermath, I saw where it would end
They said it was an accident, I guess that all depends
On who you talk to and who you know
And where you come from and where… where you go (where you go)
In your crowd of pushers and users
Takers and losers
Beggars and— beggars and—
Beggars and choosers
Your childhood days are over as you stuff your shirt and say
"Made a choice and wrong or right, it's this way I will stay"
You'll sell it to your children, you'll sell it to your wife
Buying is your business, and selling, it's your life
It's your life
In your crowd of pushers and users
Takers and losers
Beggars and— beggars and—
Beggars and choosers
The vultures are all circling around your window now
Scavengers, evangalists will get to you somehow
Your mother and your ex-best friend, letters that you never send
Your illegitimate children are coming for you now
They're always tracking you down, it's looking like a showdown
Between revenge and the ends you can't defend
Can you try to imagine, a story that has no end?
I think you'd better steal it while you still understand it
Sell it to one of your friends
6. ENDLESS FAREWELL
Rise and shine, get your razor sharp
Size up yourself in the mirror
A slice of life
To last through all the years
'Cause sooner or later
It all comes back to you
And we will remember
The fine things you can do
I'm giving back all the things that you gave to me
I'm saving up the price to pay the decree
Remember the first time you saw the rising sun
You may be done but I've just begun
The leaves are burning and the ashes have blown away
I'm turning over new leaves almost every day
You let him think you'd just as soon stay
Let him think you had nothing to say
Now you want him to just let you go away
To find some fangled security
Some strangled form of purity
To restore your faith
In all the things you've come to hate
You give and you take
And you leave, leave it alone
What I want so badly:
For this to be a place you can call home
And I haven't felt this way
Since yesterday, but I don't remember when
What I want so badly:
To be someone you can call a friend
'Til we meet again
Endless farewell
Hello, hello, hello again
Endless farewell
Hello, hello, hello again
Endless farewell
Hello, hello, hello again
7. STANDING IN THE DOORWAY
Standing in the doorway
Wonderin' if it's safe to go outside
Wonderin' if I'll come back
Wonderin' if I might just drift out with the rising tide
Sitting and waiting and hoping to find
Something you're good at to use up your time
To crawl from the ocean and lie on the shore
A moonbeam that rests on the dust on your floor
I'm not going out there
Don't try to tell me I'm paranoid
Wouldn't say I'm not scared
Though it may be safe to say that I am annoyed
In the intersection traffic lights are red in all directions
Everyone breaks the law sometimes
We all break down have foolish pride and beg for some affection
I can't say I know how you feel everyone seems to know
How you should, I would if I could help you remember
What it's like to feel good
Chitter and chatter and everything matters
I ask how you're feeling
And you just act shattered
Asleep on the couch with your eyes open wide
Standing in the doorway
Waiting as you come and as you leave
You say get out of my way
Won't you stop and talk about the hectic life you lead
They're all going somewhere
They all have some place they have to be
Maybe I should join them
I wish I could I think I have to stay here with me
It brings a tear to your eye to get out into the open
I can't believe I see myself
Coming into focus
8. MARIONETTE
Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood
Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be
Her roots are deep, they run as deep as a tree
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger
But somehow you still swing
Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss
Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips
She thinks she must be doing something wrong
Hair-pullin' strings and then they string you along
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
Now the strings attach to everything
It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle
On just what makes you swing
Hanging by a string
She is wearing thin
She's up to workin' sometimes fours a day
No, the boss he makes her do things his way
So why do you think she's so scared of ya
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove
It doesn't always have to be this way
She's savin' up for a vacation somewhere
Why do you think she's so scared of you
What do you think makes her that way
When push comes to shove she'll push and shove ya
It's very hard work when you don't get paid
And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings
9. ODE
Well, my friend Jud, he was a fuddy-dud
Chewed his cud, he was a stick in the mud
I swear he hated everyone
And he's bumming nickels and bumming dimes
But most of all, you know, he's just bumming time
And every day was a bad day
They walked out and on and over him
He was turning gray
Never knew love, he gave up on hope
Stayed in bed and stopped using soap, was a dirty old man
But he never said "Poor little old me"
Poor, poor
Well, one fine day won the lottery
Instant millionaire without a care
It didn't change a thing
Drove out to Reno, he lost everything at a roadside casino
You know he never made it into town
Where the bright lights trickled down
He was a ca—, ca— ca—, ca— ca— ca—, ca— ca— casualty, yeah
Well, he stewed and brewed and he ran out of food
And all he got was more lewd and crude
He was very rude
The only thing he hated worse than the city
Was charity and self-pity
He'd been around
I talked to him, that's what I found
Was a ca—, ca— ca—, ca— ca— ca—, ca— ca— casu—
Poor little ol' me
Poor poor casualty
10. JACK OF ALL TRADES
If I could be anything I wanted, I don't know
I'd be stuck here with myself, be an Average Joe
But if I could be like a Jack of all trades, yes I'd have it made
Glass blower, flamethrower, grass mower, firefighter
I'm tryin' to loose it up, or make it tighter
But a Jack of all trades master, I'm not dead, you're tired in bed
But a Jack of all trades,
There's stuff that gets made,
Wait for your lucky day
See my train and now it's gone
Rings the damned, threw the phone
He's studdering, he stalls
He hit the bottle of call
Ching chase and rat race,
And laid down and out of place,
And down the hall
Problem called (na, na)
Problem called (na, na, na)
Yes I'll try anything sometimes I just can't say no
And I'm learnin' to dig with my hands
I've learned to work with my mind
So much to lose, and so much left to find
So much to take, so much to leave behind
Yeah, I walked down, your thoughts are free, don't think of the dead but think of dignity
Picked you up by the side of your head, you were half dead
Say your prayers, and put you to to bed
At the end of the day stands a Jack of all trades, and the fool he has made
It's a Jack of all trades and the fool he has made of himself and his friend
But he'd do it again, yes he'd do it again
He's a Jack
11. TWIDDLY DEE
Twiddly dee fe fo fi fum
There's a giant sleeping and his pants are undone
He shows no pity for anyone
He's sure to be killed before the morning comes
Twiddle my fingers and I twiddle my thumbs
'Cause I ain't gonna quit 'til my work is all done
I'm a high society skid row bum
Well on my way to kingdom come
Well, I twiddle in the middle of the moon and sun
I'm wishing and dreaming I'm a special someone
Ain't laying my load on anyone
It's way too high and it weighs a ton
Do re mi fe fo fi fum
I'm a slave to the music, it's my father and son
I never force it on anyone
Can't keep it a secret so I keep it on the run
They may say what they say
'Bout the way that we stay
They may do what they do
'Bout the things that we do
Hey diddle diddle, did you spill your rum?
Ain't worried about the dumb things I've done
Ain't worried about the dumb things to come
When I smell the blood of a little bit of fun
Hey diddy hi diddy ho hi hum
Sometimes I wanna be friends with everyone
My friends tell me it can't be done
And some days I feel I don't know anyone
Now what goes up doesn't always come down
You'll never believe the things I've found
Amazing what you learn just hanging around
Can't put a square peg in a hole that's round
They may say what they say
'Bout the way that we stay
They may do what they do
'Bout the things that we do
Hey gabba hi gabba do da day
Ain't for winning or for losing it's the pleasure to play
Work all night and I sleep all day
Yes, I guess I'm lucky I can live my own way
12. HEAVY ROTATION
Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown
Some things don't come easy
Some things got to give
You just might have to waste your life just to live
Now did you think that I was somebody?
And did you think this was somewhere?
I will still be there
So watch out
Well, I got the right to free myself of fear
Stand over me and watch me disappear
You're sent to the death to be in another mess
To keep your mind, to keep them in
I don't know where they're meeting to pretend
Well, I am the one that soaks it up
Well, I am the one that takes a punch
And I am, I am, I am the human sponge
Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious?
Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say
'Cause you've got so much I can't follow
One more debt I can't repay
Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away
I'm just trying to live with today
And I'm just trying to live with the way
The way I am?
I am (×9)
BONUSTRACK VERSION GER
13. PUT THE BONE
Put the bone in she yelled at the store (yeah)
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car (by a car)
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in she yelled out once more (whoo hoo)
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet (you tell him)
Give the bone from the pork meat to me (can you help me down here)
Put the bone in she begged him as she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Everybody sing? (okay)
Everybody:
Put the bone in she yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
(Huh) Put the bone in she yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Put the bone in (Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww)
she yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in she yelled out once more
Put the bone in she yelled at the store (yee haw)
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in she yelled out once more?