She says it's cold outside, and she hands me my raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She says it's all gonna end, and it might as well be my fault
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining

She says baby
It's 3am I must be lonely
When she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
And the rains gonna wash away I believe it

She's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing
And in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all
She swears the moon don't hang as quite as high as it used to
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining

She says baby
It's 3am I must be lonely
When she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
And the rains gonna wash away I believe this

She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days and days
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
Yeah and outside, it's stopped raining

She says baby
It's 3am I must be lonely
Yeah when she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
And the rains gonna wash away I believe this

It's 3am I must be lonely
When she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes

2. Forever December

I reach within my isolation
I harbor it
I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer
Of course you would
You have no choice

And I cry coz the weather has gotten to me
And I laugh at the people that I can't be all their lives
Silly pictures

Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
The tide is turning
Turning us away

You build the wall I'll build the fountain
We'll wrestle it
We'll conquer it
I think we'll live to see the mountain
Of course we will
We have no choice

And I cry coz the weather has gotten to me
And I laugh at the people that I can't be all their lives
Silly pictures

Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older, baby's getting older
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
The tide is turning, don't turn me away

And I can remember
Forever December
The center of dying
The heart of the pain
The rose in the bottle
The thorns in the bottom
The stars surround me
The cold astounds me

And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
And I laugh at the people that I can't be all their lives
Pretty pictures

Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older (baby's getting older)
Baby's getting older (baby's getting older)
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
The tide is turning
Turning us away

Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older
Baby's getting older
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
The tide is turning
Turning us away

Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older, baby's getting older
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
The tide is turning, turning us away

3. Here Comes Horses

Help me to remember girl if you don't mind
Coz I feel just like the jester when the music died
Haven't seen you lately
But I know that nothing's changed

Feeling kinda shaky but the wounds have healed
There's a crack there in the doorway where the walls have peeled
Well I still see the sun go down, on a clear day

Here comes horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothing
Here it comes again

I was thinking I was angry but I'll let it go
I was waiting on a miracle but nothing showed
And they say our new messiah is at the local bar

Greetings from the homefront have you heard the news
That daddy bet his paycheck on the horses shoes
And we won't feel that way for a long, long time

Here comes horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothing
Here it comes again

Sitting in a taxi at the evenings end
I was trying to remember where it was I'd been and
Whether I've got someplace else to be

I ask you why you come here you say just because
I guess I could do without it if I knew what it was well
It really doesn't matter, when you look at me that way

Well here comes horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothing
And here it comes again

Here comes horses
There goes the rain
Here goes nothing

4. Paint Me Blue

There's not enough of me well
There's way too much of you
I think I saw some happy people yesterday and that'll never do
There's never too much violence
Ain't it time we had a war
You leave on your shirt and I'll be skins
And we'll go flying through the door

These are violent times
And I only want to do my part
To sink to hatreds depths and
Smile at what we've all become coz

I need understanding
Just a pack or two
To help me with my troubles, and what to do's
I don't feel no raging
There ain't nothing new
Drop me in the ocean
And paint me blue

I don't have a worry
I don't have a care
I don't have a sound piece of mind
But I manage to fare
I don't like my neighbors
Well they're just not my kind
I think it might be all for the whales
And I really don't mind

If these are the golden years
Then I think it's time to cash them in
To sit in our rocking chairs
And talk about the good old days

I need understanding
Just a pack or two
To help me with my troubles, and what to do's
I don't feel no raging
There ain't nothing new
Drop me in the ocean
And paint me blue

These are violent times
And I only want to do my part
To sink to hatreds depths and
Smile at what we've all become coz

I need understanding
Just a pack or two
To help me with my troubles, and what to do's
I don't feel no raging
There ain't nothing new
Drop me in the ocean
And paint me blue

Baby won't you paint me
Won't you paint me blue

Baby won't you paint me
Won't you paint me blue

Baby won't you paint me
Won't you paint me blue

Baby won't you paint me
Won't you paint me blue
Paint me blue
Paint me blue
Paint me blue

5. Dear Joan

Dear Joan
I've almost forgotten
The pane in the window
The blue dress in the doorway

Dear Joan
Help me remember
The face I forget
And the traps that I've sprung

I guess I've grown tired
It's just what's expected of me
To tear your heart
From the inside to the outside
You know I was wired
I just couldn't help it
The hundred thousand times I hurt you

Dear Joan I wanted to say
I'm sorry for the screaming last night
And the nights before
I've wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan

Dear Joan
Your face has a brightness
That I've never seen
In the years that I've known you

Dear Joan
I'd pick up the pieces
But some scattered too far
See they flew when I kicked them

I know you believed
When I said it was over
You stood by me patiently
Waiting and brooding
So deeply in love
With every face that I've shown

Dear Joan I wanted to say
I'm sorry for the screaming last night
And the nights before
Well I've wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known

Once I forget
Twice I'm a fool
Three times I wrap
My hands around your neck
While you're sleeping
You're quietly sleeping
Sleeping and dreaming

Dear Joan
Don't walk out the doorway
Because if you did, I believe
I could honestly kill you

Dear Joan I wanted to say
I'm sorry for the screaming last night
And the nights before
Well I've wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known

Dear Joan I wanted to say
I'm sorry for the screaming last night
And the nights before
Well I've wanted more from this
Than anything I've ever known
Dear Joan

6. High

She had said, don't cry
Said it only hurts forever and all we have is time
Yeah, she said she will never know
So close your eyes, turn down the lights
And I can start this show

Yeah well I can't sleep so I believe
If the shades are drawn then the slate is clean
So don't look at pride, well there is no other way now

Don't try to make no sense of this scene
It's just between Caroline and me
And we keep changing
Yeah we can grow like a board on the shore
She says I'm restless just a little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high

Yeah we knew just who we were
Yeah well who we thought we'd try to be
And who it's gonna hurt
Oh but if I'd said, if I was strong at all
Well then I wouldn't be with someone else
I know where I belong

Yeah still I can't sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn, then the slate is clean
So don't look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah

Don't try to make no sense of this scene
It's just between Caroline and me
And we keep changing anyway
Yeah we can grow like a board on the floor
She says I'm restless just a little more time
A little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high

Yeah well I can't sleep, so I believe
If the shades are drawn, then the slate is clean
So don't look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah

Don't try to make no sense of this scene
It's just between Caroline and me
And we keep changing anyway
Yeah we can grow like a board on the floor
She says I'm restless just a little more time
A little more time
Well you know damn well she wants to feel this high

She wants to feel this high high high high high

7. Unkind

Bring it on baby, what you getting into
Is living on pain the thing that's getting to you
Write my name, pin it up with my picture
And say it's the only thing coz I'm not around to be around

I'm beating and battered
Hell if my dreams get shattered then
Pain gives me the right to be unkind

Bring it on baby, what's with sudden devotion
I trade a river of tears for just a little emotion
You can curse my name, pin it up with my picture
And say it's the last time that I'll be around to be around

Oh well I'm torn and I'm tattered
So the thoughts in my head they get scattered
And well pain gives me the right to be unkind
And it sets me here

Right back to the heart of it
Jones Crazy is a slight defense from it
Jones Crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone
Dig

So bring it on baby, what you getting into
Well I swear at once it was the little things that mattered
But it all seems true to you
Say the hell with my name and say the hell with my picture
Yeah but swear for the one time you need me around to be around
Well I'm around right now

And here I'll stand like it matters
Only once gets through then gets scattered by the rain
But pain gives me the right to be unkind
And it sets me here

Right back to the heart of it
Jones Crazy is a slight defense from it
Jones Crazy is a place I call my own

Right back to the heart of it
Jones Crazy is a slight defense from it
Jones Crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone

Right back to the heart of it
Jones Crazy Jones Crazy
Jones Crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone, when I'm alone, when I'm alone

8. Jesus was an Alien

Elvis is alive at your local grocery store
And if you believe that boy well then sit down and I'll tell you more
Lee Harvey Oswald, well you know he acted alone
And Charlie Manson only wanted to make his house a home

Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said "boy I like your face"
So the story began

Girl I love you and the check is in the mail
I found religion inside myself
I drank the blood the flesh was stale
Reach in your pockets, and give us all you can
You know the one that's going to heaven is gonna be the richer man

Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said "boy I like your face"
So the story began

Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said "boy I like your face"
So the story began

I see you shaking boy, do you find it hard to believe
That the one you been living for would cut your wrist to watch you bleed
You found that the truth is a lie and it makes you feel unwell
But see the church of the almighty dollar is all we have to save us from hell

Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said "boy I like your face"
So the story began

Jesus was an alien
Flying through space
And God was an astronaut, who said "boy I like your face"
So the story began
So the story began

That's the story from my side, to your side
To your side

9. Tired

You've been talking for an hour
And I swear to God that I can't hear a word you say
So would you come to me, come to me
I get caught up
And the waves of conversation they wash over me
And they cover me yeah
They cover me

Should I just pack my things and leave
Would I be a bigger man if I
Built a wall around your heart and dared you to come in
I could lie to you and say I didn't mean it
But hurt's a funny thing and it makes you stronger

All is nothing in moderation
It's a dirty feeling and it makes you stronger
So I believe I'm just plain tired

There's a funny way your lip shakes
When I know that you've been lying, and it touches me
It comforts me, it comforts me
Well I guess I should be satisfied
Did you say you love me half the time
Well let's settle there
Yeah well I can build from there
Build from there

Yeah
Would you be happier if I was only half the man I am
You could shadow me and dare me to come in
I could lie to you and say I didn't mean it
But it really doesn't matter
When you stop to think about it

All is nothing in moderation
It's a dirty feeling well it makes you stronger
So I believe I'm just plain tired
Yeah the end is coming she don't even feel it
It's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy
Well I believe I believe I'm just plain tired, I'm tired
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Should I just pack my things and leave
Would I be a bigger man if I
Built a wall around this heart
And dared you to come in
I could lie to you
Say I didn't mean it
But hurt's a funny thing, hurt's a funny thing

All is nothing in moderation
It's a dirty feeling and it makes you stronger
So I believe I'm just plain tired
Yeah the end is coming she don't even feel it
It's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy
Well I believe I believe I'm just plain tired, tired
Yeah well all is nothing
Moderation
Dirty feeling
Strange is stranger
Well I believe I believe, I believe I'm tired

10. Swing

Still don't mean nothin'
Was written on the concrete
The words weren't on my tongue
Cause we don't talk about it
Day or no evenin'
Fashion or superman
Just little warped people
With little black minds

Well I wasn't sure just what to think
Say the lights went out
Somebody, somebody swing

Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
Somebody swing
Don't wanna talk no no

What if we're tainted
Who can we lie to
What if we're dying
Would you just walk around it

Well I wasn't sure just what to think
Say the lights went out
Somebody, somebody swing

Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
Bring boy, can you bring me down
Can you swing
Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore

Shut your violence, keep your head down
Watch your anger boy, realize you could lose
This is violence, look for reason
This don't have to make sense to anybody at all
Then everybody, won't you swing

No still don't mean nothin'
Words written all over the concrete
All over the concrete
Rage gets you out, so you swing

Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
Bring boy, can you bring me down
Can you swing
Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore

I don't wanna talk no no no no
Can you swing

Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
Bring boy, can you bring me down
Can you swing
Don't wanna, yeah don't wanna talk anymore

11. 3 AM

12. Forever December