You said adjust your heels girl, they stick out like an anchor
Don't touch the flowers, cuz you can't hear them well
Couldn't last forever, lord ya know it's gonna end sometime

This is not an order, you don't have to be here
Can you understand me, screamin like the wind blows
Did I blow your mind, leave you breathless

I guess I've changed but yeah couldn't you
Given all we've been through
Heaven knows I've been around and around

Eighty six the candles, I'm scared of the bright lights
Girl, try not to touch me, so you don't feel me
Or you can touch my shoulder, put your lips to my ears and scream
Is there anyone home, won't you answer me

I guess I've changed but yeah couldn't you
Given all we've been through well
Heaven knows I've been around and around
I guess I've strained well how bout that
Here's my life, here's a doorstep
Heaven knows I've been around and around

I guess it's been a good year, for roses and aggressions, for flowers and freeways
I guess I'll put a smile on, or get a new girlfriend, ya put a new hat on

This is not an order, you don't have to answer
Only need to listen, if only for a moment
Did I blow your mind girl, did I leave you breathless, I said

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02. 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 cuz I'm not around to be around

I'm beaten 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
Oh well pain gives me the right to be unkind
And it set's 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 and then gets scattered by the rain
But pain gives me the right to be unkind
And it sets me here

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03. Here Comes Horses

Help me to remember girl if you don't mind
Well 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
And 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

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

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04. 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, 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

Once I forget, twice I'm a fool
Three times I wrap my hands around your neck
While your sleeping
So quietly sleeping
Sleeping and dreaming

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

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05. 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 cause 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, 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 cause the weather has gotten to me
And I laugh at the people that I can't be all their lives silly pictures

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

Repeat Chorus x3

06. 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, 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 hurts a funny thing and it makes you stronger

All is nothing in moderation
It's a dirty feeling and it makes you stronger
Well 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
I guess I should be satisfied, did you say you love me half the time
Well let's settle there, we can build from there, build from there

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 and it makes you stronger
Well I believe I'm just plain tired
The end is coming she don't even feel it
It's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy
Well I believe I'm just plain tired, I'm tired

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 can lie to you, say I didn't mean it
But hurts a funny thing, hurts a funny thing

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07. 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

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
And I think it might be all for the whales, and I really don't mind

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

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

Repeat Chorus

08. 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

Repeat Chorus x2

09. Dizzy

And outside, the sky is falling
People dodging raindrops, staying dry
And inside, I never gave a damn about those outside people anyway
And it hurt me, they don't even know who I am

And inside, there's no rainbows
And inside, I try I try I try, I try to clear my head
And outside, the rain is drying, and inside, I'm dying

'Cause in here, I'm staring at the rings my coffee cup has made on the table
And in here, I know I know I know, that this is as good as it gets
And in time I hope to be the one that talks about the other half
Until then, I count the cracks on the wall, until it's time to lay my head

And inside, I play with shadows
And inside, I know I know I know, that I'll feel this way all day, all day
And outside, there's hope for trying, and inside, I'm dying

You walk before me, lord knows I can't follow
You walk behind me and I don't think I can lead
You walk around me, please don't walk around me
'Cause you know how dizzy I get

10. 3AM

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
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 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
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
And outside, it's stopped raining

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
Says the rains gonna wash away I believe it

It's 3AM I must be lonely
When she says baby, well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
Says the rains gonna wash away I believe it

11. Blue Monday

She wanna give it all away, yeah
She say when come the rain
I get the feeling there's something more to talk about here
So I see him and earn my keep (unintelligible)
You know then she moved away

I pray for nothing, I'm saving it all for one time
I said hold me now, be there when shit goes down
Don't try to pick my head sometimes I don't make sense

I'm no good just believing in someone else
Would you think I were weak if I just break down
Oh now it's coming on again
Hold on, it won't take long
Blue Monday, it's a big Monday ahead

There's a remanence to me (unintelligible)
Yeah, when it stands where I stand
Yeah, we want nothing more of this and
I hate what I do to myself

I said hold me now, be there when the shit goes down
Don't try to pick my head sometimes I don't make sense

I'm no good just believing in someone else
Would you think I were weak if I just break down
Oh now it's coming on again
Hold on, it won't take long
Blue Monday, it's a big Monday ahead

I wanna give it all away because there's something that was nothing
Now she swears that she needed when she didn't know anything at all
I believe her and she wants to say, well
She's more than a nothing, I say she loved ya, well

I'm no good just believing in someone else
Would you think I were weak if I just break down
Oh now it's coming on again
Hold on, cause it won't take long
Blue Monday, it's a big Monday ahead