Time and time again

translation seems to sabotage

the words

you know what is said

is not what is heard

Damn this mean device

It makes a whispering man sound as if he cries

It's the pinnacle of what is cynical

CONVERSATION INTERCOM

you hear what i say but

it comes out all wrong

CONVERSATION INTERCOM

you say what i see still

you speak in different tongues

Don't act like a fool

It makes you so uncool and

that's what it does best

'cause if anything

it's just a temper-test

Fill in your own words

yeah

1-800 Dial-to-be-heard

It's the pinnacle

of what is typical

CONVERSATION INTERCOM

you hear what i say

but it comes out all wrong

CONVERSATION INTERCOM

you say what i see still

you speak in different tongues

........

clap your hands and you know what to do...

my ears attend to you...

as people listen intently...

can you copy?....

do you receive?...

do you receive?...

Damn this mean device

It makes a whispering man sound as if he cries,

SATURDAY

saturday, oh saturday

how cruel of you to go away

you turn us on and you don't even have the decency to stay

we think that we're so cool

and make the others drool

walking like a chameleon

turn around and turn me on and make that sound you do so well 'cause

i'm not dancing i'm just shifting weight

i thought that you could tell

we think that we're so cool

and make the others drool

talking like a chameleon

SOMETIMES love KILLS TIME

IT JUST MIGHT TONIGHT

neon claws and drama queens agree to like the local band

everyone is smoking filter cigarettes all over again

we think that we're so cool

and make the others drool

walking like a chameleon

SOMETIMES love KILLS TIME

IT JUST MIGHT TONIGHT

SOMETIMES love KILLS TIME

IT JUST MIGHT TONIGHT

SOMETIMES love KILLS TIME

IT JUST MIGHT TONIGHT

SOMETIMES love KILLS TIME

IT JUST MIGHT TONIGHT

WHEN LOGICS DIE

And the place of sadness

I occupy with dignity

was left like a dream among stones

and the words that you spill

from the mouth that you fill

they abandon their grace and fatigue

oh, to feel without touching

and speak without talking

you'll spill

the tissues of lies

how I wish we could mend this

or learn how to throw away

as we look for someone to blame

love's been denied

don't be polite

I owe u nothing

when logics die

I'm the orgy and the distant cool

the friend you will never fool

i like the way you oppose me

let the last thoughtd languish

and try and distinguish

you'll spill the tissues of lies

how I wish we could mend this

or learn how to throw away

as we look for someone to blame

love's been denied

don't be polite

I owe u nothing

when logics die

MUCH AGAINST EVERYONE'S ADVICE

I

seem to have a history

at missing the point

at this stuff

apparently

very absentmindedly

I care

but never enough

for

...

you

TIIIIIIIIIME-to set the record straight

TIIIIIIIIIME-to stop communicating

please anticipate

AND I'M TRYING TO COMPREHEND THE THINGS I WRITE

AND I'M LIVING THE LIE THAT I CANNOT SATISFY

MUCH AGAINST EVERYONE'S ADVICE

I'M STILL TRYING I'M TRYING I'M TRYING I'M TRYING

faith

cheated me of everything

but I laughed until

I stopped

publicly

very, very openly

I sat alone with my thoughts

for

...

you

TIIIIIIIIIME-to set the record straight

TIIIIIIIIIME-to stop communicating

please anticipate

AND I'M TRYING TO COMPREHEND THE THINGS I WRITE

AND I'M LIVING THE LIE THAT I CANNOT SATISFY

MUCH AGAINST EVERYONE'S ADVICE

I'M STILL TRYING I'M TRYING I'M TRYING I'M TRYING

OVERWEIGHT KARATE KID

Like an overweight karate

kid you could moonwalk over my heart

using candour as painkiller

tastes like vanilla to me

occasionally

someone please make go home, I'm

the worst at being alone

just tell me I ought to watch

INFOMERCIALS FOR LOVE

and buy all of their trust

saturdays have shown us I'm not

the world's most talkative guy

you say it's fine

but I can always try and answer

with amplified anger, and

then cry inside

someone please make go home, I'm

the worst at being alone

just tell me I ought to watch

INFOMERCIALS FOR LOVE

and buy all of their trust

PROVERBIAL PANTS

Don't let this heart pollute you

cross your legs and hope to die, 'cause

saturday night was god's way

of telling me I ought to

know- proverbial pants

please not again

oh proverbial pants

please not again

All i can do is warn you

in some stupid-half way

please tell me that you love me

but not too loud

oh-proverbial pants

please not again

DON'T COME TOO CLOSE CAUSE YOU'LL RUIN IT

YOU'LL HOLD IT AGAINST ME

INEVITABLY

CONSEQUENTLY

tell me what am i wearing

when you think of me?

this ought to be embarassing

you- not me

oh-proverbial pants

please not again

DON'T COME TOO CLOSE CAUSE YOU'LL RUIN IT

YOU'LL HOLD IT AGAINST ME

INEVITABLY

CONSEQUENTLY

THE SALTY KNOWLEDGE OF TEARS

Somebody,

take this love and run away

'cause I don't care

it is all i can say

I KEEP ON LOSING YOU

AND FINDING YOU

Take me upstairs and

into your arms

Do not be deceived by my charms

I KEEP ON LOSING YOU

AND FINDING YOU

That's why I fear

all the salty knowledge of tears

Just shut your mouth and kiss me

just close your eyes

punish yourself with a handkerchief

I don't reply

That's why I fear

all the salty knowledge of tears

FLYING WITHOUT WINGS

If love ever comes barging in like that again,

that's it, I'm calling security.

If time ever tries to pull one of those stunts again,

you'd better believe, it ain't me, it ain't me.

'cause everything you try to conceal

is everything you want to reveal

flying without wings

i wish i just couldn't feel a thing

it goes to show: you never know

MORE THAN THIS

guess i had it coming

ambition is my worst vice

next thing I know

time is having it's way with me

working hard at putting skin on baloney

it all makes sense in some way i forget right now

somehow i manage to fool

myself and everyone else

that this is really just

only, maybe, only,

just the meantime

meantime

frequent liar mileage

as if I had a choice

limp to the edge of patience

and let yourself fall

wearing out mirrors

all over the world

i hope i can get far playing

air guitar

in the meantime

meantime

there has to be more than this

there has to be more than this

somehow i manage to fool

myself and everyone else

that this is really just

only, maybe, only,

just the meantime

meantime

there has to be more than this

TOO MANY DJ'S

everybody wants to be the dj

everybody thinks it's oh so easy

you think you belong and you come on strong,

but I can still tell the right from the wrong.

I could never be that kind of girl

nobody takes the time to turn

you always act as if it's understood,

but sweet revenge is finger-lickin' good

if only I could sell myself

the way that even I would buy

if only I could sell myself

the way that even i would buy

Something's got to give

'cause I don't know

Here's one thing how to understand me

loneliness tastes like cotton candy.

You answer "I love you" with "I know",

never check the messages on your answerphone

if only i could sell myself

the way that even i would buy

Something's got to give

'cause I don't know

TEMPTEDLY YOURS

Maybe I'm wrong

but I could've sworn

I saw your eye twitch.

Didn't object,

what did you expect?

Now I have to tell you:

Don't come back to tempt me.

I'm happy in my misery.

You asked what I did,

I did what you asked,

but I couldn't get it

right from the start

you went for my heart,

now i have to ask you

Don't come back to tempt me.

I'm happy in my misery.

It was your idea in the first place

and I know it takes two but on certain days

I try not to think of how it would be if....

I don't pretend

to know where it ends

wish I could care less.

One time I cried more

in 1994

but that doesn't count I guess.

MY CRUEL JOKE

I used to think cupid was a real jerk

A child star -tormented

A faded star of yesterday now toothless and jaded

He shoots his arrows wildely with bottles

Scattered across the sky - he trips on clouds

With a face like Keith Richards

I Am your voice what you propose

I Am your voice your vow to be

Whatever you do I'll agree

Please forgive me my cruel joke

I'm everywhere - partial and entire

I'm on the inside of everything

And on the outside

I'm trembling like a man away from home

But I can't speak my heart

In case they hear me

Now, no one will listen to our song

I Am your voice what you propose

I Am your voice your vow to be

Whatever you do I'll agree

Please forgive me my cruel joke

I used to think cupid was an asshole

The lonliest soul in the universe

And as the wrinkled birdman approached me

I could smell his smouldering cigarette breath

And he looked at me out the corner of his head and he spoke

So, you ask me why no one stays together anymore

You're never around when I need you

You're never around when I need you

SCREAM

Like she was scream

I try to hear

what's in my dreams

I gotta fear

I cannot breathe

please hold me tight

I try to feel

don't talk so fast

this radioactive she

what she does to me

caught her inside, cuts like a knife

she's like a scream to me

I'm not afraid

I cannot help

there's no disguise, no alibies

what do I think

I cannot say

something about me

like she was here

this radioactive she

what she does to me

caught her inside, cuts like a knife

she's like a scream to me

WASN'T IT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY?

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