1. 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


2. 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


3. 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


4. 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


5. NEW WORLD

Lives in a little, lonely town
No one's around except for the drinking
Nobody ever gets around
But those who leave the township sinking

May you rot in heaven
Gotta be home by seven

And the field burns away
The sky breathes it in
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?

I'm coming out across your border
With new orders for you to take
I'd really like to take out your daughter
Down in the water, down by the lake

When the cold water's on her skin
I can feel how long it's been

And the neighbors will all be there
And no one will know what to wear
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?

I got a lot I've got to do
Just to get through the end of the day
It hardly ever even happens
But I go to sleep the same anyway

And you can't believe in yourself
You can't believe in anyone else
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?


6. 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)


7. 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


8. 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


9. GROWING PAIN

(Whooo, whooo)

Riding into town when the sun goes down
And the natives get restless and the crowd comes 'round
Pacing in place in a backward race
While stating my case to another blank face

I'm just sitting on the roadside
Watching all the cars and the clouds roll by
They may pass me by
But I need a better reason to cry

Growing pain, it leaves a stain
It's similar but not the same
It's down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who's a little insane

(Whooo, whooo)

Now everything's lovely if you're ugly
What you would, what you should, and what you could be
Mister Right spends his life
Stabbing himself with a butter knife

I'm just sitting on the roadside
Watching all the cars and the clouds roll by
They may pass me by
But I need a better reason to cry

Growing pain's a spinning blade
Whirling round you like a razor-edged chain
It's down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who's a little insane

Growing pain, it leaves a stain
And it's similar but not the same
It's down the drain and what remains
Maybe you're the one who can make that change

(Whooooa, huh)

Can't shake hands with boxing gloves
With whips and chains you'll never make love


10. 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


11. 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


12. RIGHT PLACE WRONG TIME

(No lyrics available)


13. 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


14. 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


15. 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


16. NEVER REALLY BEEN

Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in
And there goes my hero with his head between his legs
And all this time I believed in him

Now, what is the sound of snow falling down
On the tombstone in the dead of the night?
And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound
Who speaks English when the watchman's not in sight?

And where will you be in 1993
Still sitting in the same chair
Sinning is for sinners and I'm just a beginner
But I've never really been punched there

Hey, ain't it strange how some things never change
Ain't it strange how nothing stays the same
You were thinking I was distressed about some universal press
But I was just depressed about my last pinball game

I've learned to accept and not to expect
The respect and neglect that I get
And I try not to forget about what hasn't happened yet
And on this, I place my last bet

Hey, did you give what you get
Did you get what you give of your fair share of wear and tear
Winning is for winners and I know spring follows winter
But I've never really been touched there

You know, it's hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice
And you can't find peace anywhere
Love's just not for lovers, get off your high horse brother
Drop your fist and get out of here


17. 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


18. SEXUAL HEALING

Baby, hot for your lovin'
Hot like an oven
Baby, can't hold on much longer,
It's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling,
I want sexual healing
Sexual healing, baby
Makes me feel so fine
Helps to releve my mind

Sexual healing, baby, it's good for me
Sexual healing is somethin' thats good for me

Whenever blue teardrops are fallin'
And my emotional stabilty is leavin' me
Honey I know there is one thing I can do
I can get on the telephone, I can call you up baby
'Cause honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
'Cause what you're dealing will heal me
If you don't know the things youre dealin'
I can't tell you darlin' that it's sexual healing

Get up, get up, get up, get up, lets make love tonight
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, 'cause you do it right

Baby, got sick this mornin',
It's stormin' in side of me
And baby they got capsizin',
The waves are risin', and risin'
And when I get that feelin', I want sexual healing
Sexual healing, baby, it's good for me
Makes me feel so fine, and it's such a rush
Helps to relieve my mind, and it's good for us
Sexual healing it's good for me
Sexual healing is something that's good for me

Good for me, it's so good for me, my baby
Just grab ahold
Just take control over body and mind
Soon we'll be makin' it, honey yeah we're doin' fine
I never said open up and let me in
Oh darling you're so great, I can't wait for you to operate

I can't wait for you to operate

When I get that feeling, I want sexual healing
When I get that feeling, I want sexual healing

Please don't procrastinate
I won't have to masturbate


19. FREAKS

Make your killing
Guts start spilling
Here's a piece of a puzzle (piece of your trouble)
Piece of somethin else (yourself, myself)

But I'm so untamed, without a clue
Think I can find something better
Something better to do

I should be so excited
I'm into something new
Could be some new kind of old thing
Could be just something to use

Maybe I should practice it one more time
Maybe I'm afraid what it might do
Maybe it might upset someone
And maybe that's what it's supposed to do

You've put up quite a violent resistance to change
And you put another existance, that's what you're trying to say

I'm not pushing you out
I'm not pushing you off
I'm not pushing you out

I'm pushing you under the next
With panel of experts to tell you what to do
And you come back to the next panel of experts
Experts like me and you

And look what you've done to me
Look what I've done to you
Look what they've done to us
Now we're like no one else

They're laughing at you
Talking about you
All these new things
All these new things

I bought them used

And I'm working so hard what I'm thinking is real
Everybody does once just to see how it feels
It's not a sensation and it's not for sale
And what can you call it now?

Have you forgotten?
They'll spoil you rotten
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?

You're just another freak
A beautiful freak
We are freaks (we are freaks)