1. Sometimes

Large fingers pushin' paint
You're God and you got big hands
The colors blend
The challenges you give man

Seek my part
Devote myself, my small self
Like a book amongst the many on a shelf

Sometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself, dear God

2. Hail Hail

Ah, is there room for both of us
Both of us apart
Are we bound out of obligation
Is that all we've got?

I get the words and then I get to thinkin'
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
How do I feel?
How do I?

If you're the only one will I never be enough, yeah
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

Oh, how I'd love ya till the day I die... and beyond
Are we goin' to the same place?
If so can I come?
It's egg rollin' , thick and heavy
All, the past we carry
Oh, I could be new
You under-estimate me

If you're the only one will I never be enough, yeah
Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

I sometimes realize...I could only be as good as you'll let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Bandaged hand in hand.

Black lining,
On the run, in a race that can't be won, yeah

Oh, Hail, Hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

If you're my only one
So good, you, only one
I want to be your one
Enough, you won, your one, your one

3. Who You Are

Come to send
Not condescend
Transcendental consequence
Is to transcend, where we are
Who are we? Who we are

Trampled marrs on your souls
Changes all, you're a part
Seen it all, not at all
Can't defend, fuck the man

Take me for a ride, Before we leave

Circumstance
Clappin' hands
Guidin' winds
Happenstance
Off the track, in the mud
Patch the marrs, in the aforementioned verse

Just a little time, Before we leave

Stop light plays its part
So I would say you've got a heart
What's your part? Who you are
You are who, who you are

4. In My Tree

Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah
No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm tradin' stories with the leaves instead, yeah

Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
Sidewalk, Cigarettes, and seen the tempted

It's up here so high I start to mistake
Up here so high in the sky, i scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
A deep breath in my chest
Just like innocence

I remember when, yeah
Swore I blew everything away, yeah
Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah
It's growin' up just like me, and yeah

I'm so light, the wind he shakes
I'm so high up in the sky, I scrape, yeah
I'm so high I hold just one breath
To go back to my nest...sleeping innocence

Up here so high the boughs may break
Up here so high in the sky I sway

And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence... Really got it... Still got it

5. Smile

Don't it make you smile? (2X)
When the sun don't shine
Don't it make you smile?

Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
Oh, when the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all, yeah
Don't it make me smile?

I miss you already
I miss you always
I miss you already
I miss you all day

This is how I feel

Ah, I miss you already
I miss you always
Three crooked hearts... Swirls all around her
I miss you all day

6. Off He Goes

One...Two...One...Two
Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's movin' much too fast

Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

He's yet to come back
But I seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size

He's been taken...where, I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles... And he's still strong
Nothing changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown

And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next

Before his first step, he's off again

7. Habit

See it happen to a couple of friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Takin off for what's an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about

It's not your way... not your way
It's not your way

Another habit says he's in love with you
Another habit says he's long over due
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self

It's not your way... not your way
It's not your way

Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (6X)

Speaking as a child of the 90's

Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never thought you'd
Never thought you'd habit (3X)
I never thought you'd, never never thought you'd

Never... Never me... Never you... Never me

8. Red Mosquito

Giant one, might he find

Watched from the window
Little red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down and now it's comin' up
Somewhere in the time between

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting

Red man's your neighbor
Call it behavior
And while you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of you, punctures in your neck
Hoverin' just above your bed (2X)

I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence Lettin' me know he's waiting
He's waitin'... Hopin'... Yeah

If I had known then, what I know now (4X)

9. Lukin

Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk so I can curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches. . . stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket. . . people stare like I'm a dog

I'm gone to Lukin's... I gotta spot at Lukin's
Unlock the door at Lukin's. . . open the fridge
Now I know life's worth

I find the key but I return to find an open door
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered by raping my son
I find my wife. I call the cops. This day's work's never done.
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.

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10. Present Tense

Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire>
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays. A lesson to be applied.
Are you getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, ohh,
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who can forgive yourself. Oh.
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked your hands and studied the lines.
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way to live.
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip.
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, ohh,
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself. Oh, ohh.
Makes more sense to live in the present tense

11. Mankind

You'll be goin' out with radio
Goin' out with disco
Goin' out like bacchanal

I'll be goin' out with telephone
Goin' out alone
To the radar zone

It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?

I'll be playing with my magazine
Usin' up my listerine
Like ovaltine

And you'll be dippin' in your battleship
For the latest tip
For the latest drain

It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?

It's all just inadvertent imitation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?
What's got the whole world fakin' (4X)
What's got the whole world fakin' it, yeah

12. I'm Open

A man lies in his bed in a room with no door.
He waits hoping for a presence, something, anything, to enter.
After spending half his life searching he still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he's staring.
He's alive but feels absolutely nothing. So is he?
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him,
by nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact.
No tradebacks.
So this is what it's like to be an adult.
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I'm open, (x2)
Come in. (x4)
I'm open, (x2)
Yeah... Woo...
Come in. (x4)
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers he decides to dream.
Dream up a new self for himself

13. Around The Bend

I am wishing you a well
Mind at peace within yourself
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watchin' as you breathe
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend

I hold you deep in my arms
My fingertips, they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend (2X)

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me, won't you dear
Please forgive and let me share
With you around the bend

You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend