1. BE ON YOUR WAY

Just like the old man in a candy store
The riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn
The neighbors that never meet

No one's making plans here
No one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside
It's just one more door opening for you

And whatever you do
When everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life

For a chance to feel normal
But now you're in too deep
Paint some light circles around your eyes
The rest of the world's fast asleep

No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall
No one knows what's happening to you

I never quite got that through
I know what waits for you
And no one calls with something to do with the rest of your life

Stop looking over my shoulder, it wasn't a little boulder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way

This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be going
If you're coming with me
I might be on your way

I saw you there on the corner
With my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention
It's all I ever wanted from you

Who will be the victim?
Who will be the host?
Who will you take it out on for not being there
When you needed them most for you?

I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life

I need something to feel the rest of my life's not in vain


2. 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)


3. LITTLE TO 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


4. GET ON OUT

I gotta get on…
I gotta get on out
All these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Will I be on the streets tomorrow?
Will I have to beg and borrow?
Will I have to go back to the job I left behind?

Could you still make it
With a guy who never made it
Would you look into my eyes if I were to go blind?

Gotta get on…
I gotta get on out
All these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Now, will you leave me for another, send me running back to mother?
Will I have the time to tell you how I really feel?
Am I just getting slower or are you just talking faster?
Do we need bad disaster to make it plain to see?

That all these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head
Gotta get on out of my head

Out of my head (×14)

Do I just feel like crying 'cause I'm sick and tried of trying
Trying to convince you this ain't how it has to be?
The ground you walk on's sacred, the sky above awaits you
So cast all your frustrations to the bottomless sea

Gotta get on…
Gotta get on out
All these worried troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Out of my head (×27)


5. HOMESICK

I wanna live with you
In the fifth dimension
In a dream I've never had

'Cause I just can't live like this
In a world like this
I just want a kiss goodbye

We are not of this world
And there's a place for us
Stuck inside this fleeting moment

Tucked away where no one knows it
Wrapped up in a haste
And by mistake got thrown away

And, oh, I am so homesick
But it ain't that bad
'Cause I'm homesick
For the home I've never had

And though I sometimes get annoyed
I know just where I'm at
This is my song of joy

And now I know there are no secret tricks
No correct politics
Just liars and lunatics

We are not of this world
And there's a place for us
Stuck inside this fleeting moment

Tucked away where no one knows it
Wrapped up in a haste
And by mistake got thrown away

And, oh, I am so homesick
But it ain't that bad
'Cause I'm homesick
For the home I've never had

Though I would not take it personally
It's just the child in me
Never really knew how much I had

Woe is me, I am so homesick
But it ain't that bad
'Cause I'm homesick
For the home I've never had


6. 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


7. GROUNDED

When eight turns sideways
You head on down the highway
Say this is my way
Disappearing forever

But there ain't just one way
So you choose the fun way
Sliding down the runway
On a ticket that goes two ways

And by the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
'Cause it wasn't yours to take

What once seemed like dying
Soon turned into flying
So you settle for trying
And you wish you were grounded

No, you cannot get much higher
Than your utmost desire
So you bring it down to size and
Now it seems that you are grounded

Grounded (×4)

By the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Now you find that you are grounded


8. 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)


9. 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)


10. 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


11. ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER DAY

Folks tell jokes in clouds of smoke
Making sure life won't decay
Fancy flags fly in your face
Fall polluting in my space

Pounds of sounds from shotgun rounds
Music of the hit parade
No, your father's, father's, father's
He's got nothing left to say

On the day you walked away

Another world, another day


12. 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


13. SPINNIN'

Follows me wherever we go
Undermining all that we know
Suddenly starts thinkin' been fooled from the beginnin'
When the cause is lost you find there is no point in winnin'
Then it's hard to think straight when your head it keeps on spinnin'

If I lost my mind, would you help me find it

Maybe it's you, maybe it's me
Things aren't quite the way they should be
And now it seems my peace of mind has come up for the biddin'
All those I respect and trust I guess they were just kiddin'
And they will say it's me who's lost, and you sit there grinnin'
My little world has lost control but still it keeps on spinnin'

If I lost my mind, would you help me find it
If I lost my mind, I wouldn't have to be reminded

If I lost my, mind I'm not sure I wouldn't mind
Would you help me find it
If I lost my mind, would you help me

Spinnin'


14. 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


15. NEW FEELINGS

Roll away the chains that wrap around me
Wipe the spider webs from my eyes
Tumble down the tall walls that surround me
No outside, no lies, no alibis

My new feelings
New feelings (×5)

Daydream screams sometimes don't seem? so far away

No, I'm not possessed by my possessions
Lift my head to clear my right to die
You're in love with your evangelist investment
I don't need an alibi

My new feelings
New feelings (×5)

Daydream screams, they just don't seem? so far away

(Ohhhh, ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh)

My head's like a wrecking ball and you look like a wall
Mopping up the tears that fill your eyes
This is my life, my right and that's not all
I just laughed my head off and cried

My new feelings
New feelings (×5)

Daydream screams, they just don't seem? so far away


16. CLOSER TO THE STARS

Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to?
You know that pretty soon, you'll be able to fly
How is this going to affect you?

Do you think it might wreck you?
Your friends might reject you
Say you took it too far
You say you want to be, want to be, want to be, want to be

Hooked on glossy pictures and drugs I've never seen
Treat you with advice from a fashion magazine
One day she just walked into that magazine
I wonder if she'll ever come back

And they all said she would crack
They said her mind was one-track
Said she took it too far
You say you want to be, want to be, want to be, want to be

Closer to the stars

(Ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh)

Every time you move your lips
Let me give you a few tips
Yesterday you were too young
Tomorrow you will be too old to regret all the things you've done

Who're you trying to hustle?
Somebody you wanna show your muscle
Second-hand excuses never went too far
What's this scene you're making?

Your ideas have been taken
We'll seek when you awaken, alone in someone's car
You just stood there shaking, you stood there shaking
They said you were faking

You say you want to be, want to be, want to be, want to be

Closer to the stars
Closer to the stars


17. 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