| Can You See? Written in the Autumn of 1999 and first performed live in December of that year at the GAMH in San Francisco.It was played live through to the Spring of 2003 solo & with a band. Along with the version that appeared on "The Invisible Man", there is a solo live version on the "Live On WFMU" CD recorded in April 2001. |
| Can you see what the world is It pulls you on, it tricks you that it's always a Spring morning When you even say that another man's hell could be your heaven and if this is being blind and wrong, gimme more and more and let me light up the hand and let me pull the truth through but if the truth don't make you happy, what will you do? The truth is that I'm happy when I'm with you Can you see what the truth is It's a place where you can hide from the moldy old skeleton costume and so you're flying like a moth at the streetlight but it's too late you're bumping wings with far too many others wearing your outfit that you chose from your endless supply of reflections and self-disgust and you don't have any belief in what's worth your love and trust and you scatter your riches like a mirror ball that's covered in dust with the vain understanding that some of the light would stick and invest your moth-like face with wisdom from another world but instead all that shows are wrinkles and a tick around your compound eyes filled with a fond history of ecstasy and alibis Can you see what the world is It pulls you on, it tricks you that it's always a Spring morning But I know all you really want is to leave behind the color blue and if the truth don't make you happy, what will you do Because the truth is that I'm happy when I'm with you |