Soul Asylum : We're the Opening Band
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1. VEIL OF TEARS
Well, a fascinating sensation
No I can't even feel it
I just had to let you know
I can't conceal it
I was recently considering
Taking the pain with the pleasure
Just to find my way to the bottom of this
I'll have to dig forever, and it's no small measure
Lift up your veil of tears
Don't be disappointed, child
If your prayers go unanswered
We are not responsible
For these sad circumstances
Secret agents and freedom fighters
On those impossible missions
Better put your toys and games away
Maybe take the kids out fishing for a family treasure
In your early years
Behind your veil of tears
So frustrated
Get up anyway
So complicated
Changes every day
So the darkness fades
And the light, will come shining through
I heard the eyes that look to a better world
Always hide beneath the veil of tears
And you hide no more
Lift up your veil of tears
Hide no more
Behind your veil of tears
Now the executioner must be executed
No I think we'll set him free instead, watch him run
And you hide no more
(Veil of tears)
Lift up your veil of tears
(Veil of tears)
You hide no more
(Veil of tears) (×2)
2. SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
Well, if there's one thing that I know
It's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say
No one's gotta know about running away
Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another crutch
All of these temptations keep me wanting, wanting, wanting
To feel your touch
It's not supposed to make you feel so helpless
Selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss, miss your kiss
Impossible to resist
Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an underdose of love
All of these temptations keep me wanting, wanting, wanting
The sky above
Oh, my desperate disposition keeps me bitching
Keeps me wishing, wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with
Nothing I can't live without
I want this, I want that
I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch
Could you get this monkey off my back?
Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without
Wanting nothing
Oh, my desperate disposition keeps me bitching
Keeps me wishing, wishing for some shelter from within
It's not supposed to make you feel this way
3. 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
[Simultaneously]
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
4. KEEP IT UP
I'm down here waitin' on a shattered heart
I'm gonna put it back together if it tears me apart
If I can keep it up
If I can keep it up
I've been complaining like a broken record
Gonna get what I want if it takes forever
If I can keep it up
If I can keep it up
Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing
Singin' Na na na na na
I know it seems funny tryin' to understand
It's just that things don't always go the way you planned
Still you keep it up
Still you keep it up
Nothin' in the world's gonna keep me down
I'm just a-holdin' out, just a-hangin' sround
Tryin' to keep it up
Just to keep it up
Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing
Singing na na na na na na
Keep it up (×4)
747's gonna take us away
Take us up to heaven, gonna be okay
If we can keep it up
If we can keep it up
Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing
Singing na na na na na na? na na na
Keep it up (×8)
5. WITHOUT A TRACE
I fell in love with a hooker
She laughed in my face
So seriously I took her
I was a disgrace
I was out of line, I was out of place
Out of time to save face
See the open mouth of my suitcase
Saying "Leave this place"
Leave without a trace (×3)
I tried to get a good job
With honest pay
Might as well join the mob
The benefits are okay
Standing in the sun with a popsicle
Everything is possible
With a lot of luck and a pretty face
And some time to waste
Leave without a trace (×3)
I tried to dance at a funeral
New Orleans-style
I joined the Grave Dancers Union
I had to file
Trying to do the right thing, play it straight
The right thing changes from state to state
Don't forget to take your mace
If you're out walking late
Liked to see your face
You left without a trace
You leave without a trace
6. RUNAWAY TRAIN
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep
It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am, just drowning in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
And everything seems cut and dry
Day and night
Earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Runaway train never coming back
Runaway train tearing up the track
Runaway train burning in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same
7. 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
8. APRIL FOOL
Quitting after one more last one
Tired of playing the clown
If I want your opinion I'll ask ya
I can get myself down
Night driving without headlights
Wearing sunglasses too
Looking good but sure don't feel right
Anything to be cool
Doing hopscotch with my legs tied
Jumping rope in wet cement
Black leather in midday sunshine
All your mother's money's spent
Doing time on the metal detector
Like to drown in your pool
Covering up everything that's defective
Anything to be cool
A burning heart
Could be so cool
Won't you be my fashion victim?
Come on, I'm an April Fool for you
Holding on to what's left of real life
Anything to be cool (×4)
A burning heart
Like an April Fool
Won't you be my fashion victim?
Come on, I'm an April Fool
I'm a mid-spring snowfall, joke's on you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool (×3)
9. TO SIR WITH LOVE
Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone
Who has taken you from crayons to perfume?
It isn't easy but I'll try
If you wanted the sky
I would write across the sky in letters
That would soar a thousand feet high
To Sir, with love
The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong
And weak from strong that's a lot to learn
What, what can I give you in return
If you wanted the moon
I would try to make a start
But I would rather you let me give my heart
To Sir, with love
Those awkward years have hurried by, why do they fly away?
Why is it Sir, children grow up to be people some day?
What takes the place of climbing trees
And dirty knees in the world outside?
If you wanted the world I'd surround it with a wall
I'd scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall
To Sir, with love
10. 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)
11. 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
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