1. True

Well when I've had enough
I'll get a pick-up truck and
I'll drive away. I'll take my
last ten bucks just as far as
it will go. Well sometimes I'm
easily fooled, take a painful
step and I get knocked back two.
I do all I can and it's all I
can do to be true.
And if I had the choice I'd
take the voice I got 'cause it
was hard to find. You know I've
come too far to wind up right
back where I started. And they
tell me who I should be, I'll
never let those monkeys make a
mess of me. I am who I am and it's
all I can do, but I'm true.

One more sunrise
open my eyes up --- true
one more sunset
lay my head down -- true

They talk you up and then they
talk you down and you begin to
doubt, sometimes the reasons seem so
very far away. But I'd stop breathing
today, 'cause if I can't walk proud,
I'd rather walk away. I do all I am
and it's all I can do, but I'm true.

I'd give all I am
and I'd give it to you.

2. Your haunted head

...the blackest eyes I've ever seen like
moonstones shine...and all the while behind the
dancing eyes the boy was crying. He creeps
like ivy on the stairs, you know I liked him
then...when we would sit and drink for hours
& watch the sidewalk spin. No no no.

I don't wanna hear your secrets.
I don't share your pain.
I don't wanna know about the wrinkles in
your bed and I don't wanna know about the
ghost inside your haunted head, inside
your haunted head.

...I don't need your tragedy and I won't
share the blame...you can't keep your promises,
you just keep naming names...he laid his
troubles out to me like a deck of playing cards,
well don't you know that I can tell the kings
and jokers well apart. No no no.

3. Dance along the edge

sometimes we laugh like children
go running holding hands
i never felt like this before,
i never will again
sometimes we cry like babies
i hold you to my heart.
i just can't stand to see you sad.
it tears me all apart

and we're so afraid and it's such a
shame, there is no reason we should doubt it.
the things we want to say we've never said!
and we look away & it's all ok & never really
talk about it...it's a shame the way we
dance along the edge...dance along the edge.

we always seem so careful,
we're always so unsure.
our past mistakes they make us
shaky...eyes on the door.
when do we stop searching
for what we're searching for?
then when it comes, we question
love & try for more!

and we're happy here but we live in fear
we've seen a lot of temples crumble.
some sort of flesh and blood from love under glass.
will we come undone? will we turn and run?
and will we know it when we find it?
it's a game the way we dance along the edge.
and we'll walk the line and we'll do our time
for just as long as we've been given, and
pretend that we don't hear the things they've
said. can we promise love? is it all too much
and do our old souls still believe it?
it's insane the way we dance along the edge.

4. Still in Hollywood
 

5. Song for Kim (She said)

Oh Kim
Your diary said-
The voices calling you
from the edge.
They finally called you
Away-
You know I hear them too,
They're telling me to stay.

Oh Kim
Remember when
we mad a million plans
and we believed them.
Angry words
ring in my head
I'd give every song I got in me
to get it back again.

She said, I could.
She said hold on, hold out
'cause it's good.
She said it's right.
She said hold on, hold out
'cause I know that you can fight.
I know you can.
You're right again.
There is an easy way
out of this world.
I'm staying.
I wonder why?
It may be all I have,
but it's mine, it's mine.

6. Beware of darkness

watch out now...take care, beware of fallen singers
dropping all around you. the pain that often mingles
in your fingertips---beware of darkness.
watch out, now, take care & beware of thoughts that
linger...winding up inside your head. the hopelessness
around you in the dead of night...beware of darkness.
it can hit you. it can hurt you. make you sore and
what is more, that is not what you are here for.
watch out, now...take care & beware of softshoe
shufflers, dancing down the sideboards. as each
unconscious sufferer wanders aimlessly, beware
of darkness. watch out, now, take care & beware of
greedy leaders, they take you where you should not go.
while weeping at the cedars, they just won't grow...
beware of darkness.

7. Over your shoulder

I WATCH YOU EAT
I WATCH YOU SLEEP
I SEE YOU IN BETWEEN
YOUR SHEETS. OH! NO,
THERE I AM. WHEREEVER
YOU GO, WHATEVER YOU DO,
WHATEVER YOU SAY, I'M
WATCHING YOU. OH! NO,
THERE I AM. OVER YOUR
SHOULDER, OVER YOUR
SHOULDER, OH! NO,
THERE I AM AGAIN.
MY EYES, WHEN YOU SEE,
MY EARS, WHEN YOU HEAR
YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO--
THERE I AM.
WHEREEVER YOU GO,
HOWEVER YOU DO IT,
BABY, I'M THE ONLY ONE
TRUE TO YOU. THERE I AM.
OVER YOUR SHOULDER...
EVERYTHING WE DID,
EVERYTHING WE SAID,
IF YOU'RE EVER WITH ANOTHER
I'LL BE IN YOUR BED..OH! NO
THERE I AM, TRYING TO
FORGET MY FACE AND MY NAME
AS HARD AS YOU CAN. IT
WON'T BE THE SAME AT ALL.
OVER YOUR SHOULDER...

8. Little sister

mama's nest is empty, all the babies grown & gone
and you're talking. I can hear me...you should hear you.
look into a younger face that used to be my own
years a part they make it harder to be near you.
Little sister
Little sister
All the times you couldn't tell her how you miss her.
but I'm only half a heart away,
only half a heart away.
over all the time and distance i am where you are.
and i love you. above all we're flesh and blood.
Little sister
Little sister
all along the way the road gets turned and twisted
and it hurts some, yeah you know it hurts some
trying to find your way home.

9. (You're the only one) can make me cry

Coming soon... maybe :-)

10. Cold part of town

dear darling,
haven't seen you in a while
found some change in my pocket
thought i'd take a chance and dial
i'm allright
just right now a little down.
it get chilly over here.
it's a cold part of town.

dear darling,
you were right about them all
when it all came down,
they never came around or called.
that's allright
i don't miss them anyhow,
but it gets lonely over here
it's a cold part of town

i'll go now.
someone's waiting for the phone
it's raining
getting dark & i'm alone
yeah i'll call you.
can i sometime cometime come around?
it's so lonely over here,
it's a cold, cold part of town.

11. True (Instrumental)

12. It'll chew you up and spit you out

Well, I was trippin down the street early this morning
when the psychic lady pointed at me
she said come on in and I gave her my money
I said tell me tell me what you see
and she said she saw the angels dancing with me
dancing to the beat of my feet down the street
she said she saw the angels dancing with me
but keep on keep on keep on now

Still in Hollywood
oh why would I be outta here by now
still in hollywood
my mind is running on a wheel
and I don't know why I don't know why

and i ran into tony pony what a god damn phony
had a new fish on the line
well the last one left with the last bad check
the only good one that he ever had died
I gotta live and let live
I gotta learn to forgive
you know that everybody's got a right
but there's evil all around in this broken down city
it's a 24 hour fight

Still in hollywood
oh wow I thought I'd be outta here by now
Still in hollywood
my mind is running on a reel and I don't know why
Still in hollywood
oh wow I thought I'd be outta here by now
Still in hollywood
oh my my my I'm running on a wheel
and I don't know don't know don't know why

so let's me and you go get a new tattoo
we can hop on the Harley and cruise
we can start at the pier and share a beer
head out to the desert I can feel it from here
ride all the way to where the lizards play
riding on and on and on
there's a million stars
it'll blow you away
and it's all so concrete blonde

I'm still in hollywood
that's right you know we can ride it out all night
still in hollywood
hey hey hey I got to get away gotta get away
still in hollywood
my my my yes I'm glad to be alive
still in hollywood
oh momma, gonna be somebody someday sometime
still in hollywood
oh yeah oh
still in hollywood
wanna get out alive wanna get out alive don't you know I'm
still in hollywood
oh doin fine oh you're so fine
still in hollywood
oh I wanna be outta here right now

what's the matter my true young man
(call of Hollywood gonna be a big truck)?
that towns gonna suck you up and spit you out
you aint gonna have a pot to piss in
don't come back to me for a job
you made your bed
now sleep in it...

If you can understand the words better than I can, email me: trince@geocities.com

 

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