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ATTENZIONE
JAM
[18.02.92]
four hundred people, riding on my face
in the littlest time
in the littlest place
i want so bad
i want so bad for you to be happy
after all, what is being happy?
i don't know
but i want you, ooh, to be happy
in the littlest way
it was the littlest place
ahhh attenzione
ahhh attenzione
ahhh attenzione
i want you to be happy
i want you to be happy
i want, i want, i want, i want, i want...
BACK OF MY MIND [30.08.00]
all behind this smile
it's always in the back of my mind
thought i made it through the hardest of days
sometimes you don't get back what you gave
i'll try to rise
i'll try to call
i'll try as hard to continue on
but it's always here, all the time
always there in the back of my mind
always in the back...
of my mind
the back of my mind
i am not the same
because, because of my...brain
BEE GIRL [02.10.94]
bee girl, you're gonna die
you don't wanna be famous, you wanna be shy
do your dances alone in your room
becoming a star will become your doom
bee girl, be a girl...
bee girl, be a girl...
you know time is long
and life is short
begin to live while you still can
believe in nothing believe me
those who can be trusted can change their mind
the anxious is the present
unwrap your gifts take your time
everything you imagined needn't be stuck in your mind
bee girl, be a girl
bee girl, be a girl
BEST FRIEND [05.10.96]
out on the streets
i'll cry alone
i'll pass by people
they're happy in their homes
i'll dream i was one of them
i'll dream in my car
i'll forget the pain that my life gave to me
i'll wake my friend
i'll take him home
i'll say
let's take a drive to South Carolina
and i'll feel the day get brighter
i'll feel the ocean's rain
i feel so much stronger
oh with my best friend
oh with my best friend...
CAME HERE WITH NO BAGS
[20.02.98]
came here with no bags
don't need nothing
don't need no clothes
i don't need sunblock on my nose
there's some people
they just don't know
what they got around their souls
all those people
they have regrets
they finally figure figure figure figure it out at the end
COMEBACK AGAIN [WHY DO
YOU?] [08.04.92]
where did you go when you went here?
where did you go?
they don't remember
what did you see while you worked here?
why don't you go...don't you go back there?
where did you go when you came here?
what did you see?
do you remember?
why don't you care to make changes?
why do you bother to comeback, back again?
To comeback again?
why do you comeback?
to comeback again?
again...
again...
again...
what did you see when you came here?
what did you do?
do you remember?
why can't you change when you got those problems?
why even bother coming back, back, back, back again?
yeah, don't come on back...
come back again, yeah...
don't, don't you come back...
come back, don't come...
CORNERSTONE [24.06.98]
there's gotta be more
there's gotta be more
than just this house
the cornerstore
i see you, i see the world
one of these days i'll take you there, girl
i swear i'll get outside of here
you hold my hand like you care
you hold my hand if you dare
there's gotta be more than this house
in the cornerstore
DON'T DRIVE ME [01.04.03]
don't
drive me, i'm an suv
don't drive me, i'm an suv
oh don't drive me, i'm an suv
i can seat thirteen but there's always just one
guzzling gas that's paid for in blood
blood, blood, blood...
DROPPED THREE TIMES [22.09.98]
it's sometime amazing to me
oh what you can do in the twenty four hours of the day
swim the ocean, i dropped three times
not playin with you tonight
swim the ocean
i dropped three times
dropped three times...
FALLING DOWN [20.06.95]
oh something to remember me by
oh something to place in your hand
oh something so you will feel all grown up when you call my name
oh, i'm falling down, down...
i'm falling...
i don't know when i'll be up
before your call please remember
frozen like stone, yeah
he'll be flesh and blood
i'll be gone
oh just a memory passing like pages in a book
i'm falling down...
i'm falling...
i'm falling...
don't know if i'll get up
you're a boy...
you're a boy...
you're a boy...
i know why you'll be...
can't guess your side
oh no, the cry of a newborn child
can't feel the heat
of something fresh coming
can somebody hide me
i cannot apolo...
i cannot apolo...
i cannot apologize
FIRST TIME
oh, the first time...
everyone always told me it would be better the first time
there's nothing like the first, nothing will replace it
never ever forget the first time...the first time...
i'm here to say
i'm here with proof
i'm a living example
that the second time around
that the second time around
it could be better
better
better
better
the second time around
let me tell you that there ain't nothing
there ain't nothing like your very first... fuck
the very first time, ain't nothing to live by
trying to live your future, trying to live your past
the second time around, there will always be
there will always be a second time around
there will always be, there's got to be a second time around
FOUR FEET [03.04.94]
[jeff:]
ladies and gentlemen, dave abruzzese
otherwise known as 'four feet'...
HOLD ME
give me, give me, what i really need
give me, give me, what i really need
hold me, hold me, hold me in my sleep
give me, give me, what i really need
all our children in there, doing something swell
spread out what begins my hell, there's nothing left in our way
give me, give me, give me what i need
oh, give me, oh hold me, oh treat me for today
what i'm talking about
what i'm talking about
is just the kind of things, of the doubt
give me, give me, give me...
give me, give me, give me what i need
ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...
hold me, hold me, hold me in my sleep
oh, hold me, hold me, hold me in my sleep
HOLD ON [11.04.94]
nothin' left for me
i can't live down here no more
i can't fall from a tree
i got wings, it ain't my fault
understand what's right
it's so hard to be alone
it's never tight
it's been so loose for so long
hold on...
hold on...
understand my fear
i've never been this hot before
i can't fall from cheer up...
it only takes a breath to believe...
i can't face one more day
i have tried so many ways
my love and work, all i failed
i can't waste away on zeal
hold on...
a voice tells me hold on...
somewhere i feel...hold on...
hold on...
IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU
[28.02.92]
it's all you
it's all you, and...
it's all you, and...
we couldn't do anything if it weren't...
we couldn't do anything if it weren't...
we couldn't do anything if it weren't...for you...
i ????
we would be nothin
we would be strangers alone in a strange place if it weren't for
you...
I LEFT HOME [18.06.00]
i left home 3 years ago
i came back, i was alone
all of the faces were worn
the clothes were ?
i dont remember where i left my love
i swore it was buried in the dark
so i dig up every stone
i found love, but it wasnt
my own
think i dont love
I'M AT HOME [04.10.00]
i'm at home
all alone
where'd you go?
i miss you...
i said i'm at home
nothing left
i miss your breath
i don't eat, i don't sleep
and it's all in my head
i'm gonna take...
what i am faced with...
what can i breathe?
it's not your face
I MET THIS GIRL [18.10.00]
i met this girl
in a big big world
she felt like [caught in a wave]
i felt like taking her on
i met this girl
on the side of the world
she felt like running away
and i told her i could take her away
told her i could take her away
baby
you can tell me
all your secrets
if you want me
i said baby
you can let me
tell me all your secrets
i won't mind
i'll take you
i'll make you mine
that is love
that is love
acceptance is love
love....
IN THE MOONLIGHT [11.06.00]
take a ladder up to my room
take a ladder up to the moon
i'm a light reflecting...
off of the moon, to you
so far away, running out of room
running out of time, meet me on the moon
on the moon
we'll have it all to ourselves
we'll be there, no one could tell
ah, the hour so true
sharin' our kiss on the moon
sharin' our kiss on the moon
the german sky...
don't ask me why
it's ten o'clock and my only thought is of you and the moon
it's ten o'clock and my only thought is of you...and the moon
and the moon
and the moon
it's ten...
i'll share a kiss with you...on the moon...
IT'S BETTER TO NOT BE SANE
it's better not be sane
it's better not be sane
it's better not be sane
it's better not be...
better not be, better not be, better not be...
better not be sane...
it's better not be sane
it's better to not be sane
it's better to not be sane
i think it's better to not be sane
IT'S GOOD [10.05.00]
did you see the snow today?
let's cut work and leave anyway
let's take my car and run
owe to them, my four damn tires
it's good, it's real real good
did you see the mountain tops?
opened up and open out
all the golden midnight flowers
i want to feel like a brand new star
it's good, it's real real good
it's good, it's real real good
i caught my friend, he had some pot
we ended up uh making out
she was good and i was bad
it was the best time i'd ever had
it was good, real real good
so damn good, yeah real real good
so glad i left the...so glad i left the...
so glad i left the city behind
i said i'm so glad i left the...so glad i left the...
so glad i left the city behind
i said i'm so glad i left the...so glad i left the...
so glad i left the traffic behind
said i'm so glad i left the...so glad i left the...
so glad i left the people behind, ah yeah
it's good, it's good, real real good
I'VE HEARD IT SAID [17.03.95]
i've heard it said
i've heard it said
for the ultimate thrill...
you gotta pay the ultimate price
i don't know if that is right
i don't know if that is right
but i just might try, i just might try
i just might, just might, just might, just might
try...
i've heard it said
JACK IRONS CHANT [05.02.95]
jack irons
jack irons
jack irons
jack
jack...
and his son zach
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
[13.11.99]
i'm writing my last will and testament
it's not my, it's not an easy thing to do
you think about everyone you've known and what they've meant
you think about everything they've done for you
i started low and i went high
so what was there for me all throughout my life?
i don't want to die
but if I do, i'm leaving...
i'm leaving...
i'm leaving all my everything to the who
LIFE [23.09.98]
yeah, yeah...
wave your hands
it feels good, to wave your hands
wave them to the sky
wave them and ask, i wonder why
it don't matter when you get to here
there's no matter except for the years
there's nothing matters except for the soul
and nothing matters that we ain't going to have to grow old
it doesn't matter we're someday gonna die
cuz we were here and we had a good time
yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
LOVE YOU, HATE YOU [18.02.92]
doctor said i, i'd be alright...
oh, everything that i believed, it wasn't true
i found it out when i got close to you
i thought you were different, like a dream
things they ain't never what they seem, whoa...
thought i could trust you with my soul
but you can't do that anymore
the doctor said i'd be alright, but i still feel blue...
the doctor said i'd be alright, but i still love you...
love you, hate you...love you, want you...hate you...ah, yeah...
i'm different
me myself, i'm different than all the rest
i can only speak for myself, but people can trust me
MEANINGLESS [18.2.92]
peaceful times have come and gone
it's time to fuckin' kill somebody
i try, don't blame me...i try, peacefully...
that time has come and gone, now it's just me...
just me...this means nothin' no more
this don't mean nothin' no more
i don't want to see this no more...
unless you're ready, less you're ready, to stand behind it...
i don't give a fuck...
let the words that you say to me...
unless the actions sustain it
it's meaningless...we're all meaningless...
the world will go on...and we're all meaningless...
the world will spin...we're all meaningless...
i refuse, i refuse, to believe...
we're meaningless, meaningless, we're meaningless, i refuse...
i won't give up, yeah...
meaningless...we're not meaningless...
we're not invisible...we're meaningless...
MY MAMA TOLD ME [15.5.92]
hey hey hey hey hey hey
my mama told me
you'll never make it out of the city
my mama told me
you'll never make it anywhere
my mama told me
you'll never make it to san francisco
my mama told me
you'll never make it
you'll never never make it
my mama told me
my mama told me
my daddy told me
and i said fuck off bitch
fuck off you sucker
MY SON [14.10.00]
my son was running for president
i taught him everything he knows
i know this cause i know what he knows
and he's slow...
i used to be able to go outside and breathe
but i can no longer because of the companies
its the way it goes...my son is slow...
NOTHING BUT POLITICS [24.09.96]
your emotions are nothing but politics
your emotions are nothing but politics
your emotions are nothing but politics
so get control
your emotions are...
nothing but, nothing but
nothing but, nothing but
nothing but, nothing but...
but politics, yeah..
politics
politics
ONCE IN OUR LIVES [17.06.92]
once in our life, at least once in our lives
someone's gonna call you crazy, someone's gonna tell you you're
crazy
at least once in your life, for me at least once every day
someone's gonna call you crazy, someone's gonna say you're crazy
but i know they're the ones, they're the ones
i'm not crazy, they're the ones...
i'm not crazy...
i'm not crazy...
i'm not crazy...
they're the ones...
ONE OF THOSE DAYS [08.07.95]
one of those days, you're havin one of those days
one of those days again
one of those days, you're havin one of those days
one of those days again
i don't want one of those days ever to happen
one of those days again
i don't want one of those...fuckin...
cuz i'm havin one of those days
havin one of those days
having one of those days
OPEN ROAD [13.09.95]
smokin the television
to get on it already
this bus is makin way too many stops
i can't get a-movin'
where's my destination?
i take a deep swallow in my frustration
i'm takin all i got
it fits in this little bag
all my life i had empty pockets
all my life i saw evil eyes in old dark sockets
i cut em off, i cut em off...
i said i don't need them to make life work
i cut em off, i cut em off...
i'll never think twice
into them i never ever talk...
so here i go
i'm finally on my way
once i said goodbye
that was my last wave, whoa
here i am on the...
on the open road
i've never felt better
then when i am alone
PART WHERE I PLAY THE POPE
[12.05.92; 13.05.92]
this is the part where i play...i play the pope...
feed the people...love the people...
the people got to live, the people got to breath...every day...
you don't meet the people...god gave the people bread...
leave our tired...leave our tired here, yeah...
be careful with your brother
PRICE OF
EVERYTHING/PRINCE OF PAIN [06.02.95]
i don't know whether i can show, but i...
i would if i had to pay
i don't know what the contents hold
not now, pay for that...
price of blood has gone up
the price of pain, no...
the price of everything has gone up
i'm still poor
up...
up...
up...
SAYING NO [02.03.92]
he says to her he wants it easy
he expects her, to be easy
he wants it, to be, easy
but she says no, but she says no, i don't want to
she says no, she says no, i don't want to
he expects it too, easy...
but she says stop, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop
when she says stop, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop
when she says stop, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop
when she says stop, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop
he wants it, he wants it
so badly he wants, he wants it
but she says no, she says no
she says, 'go to hell if that's all you want me for', she says
no...
when she says no, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop
when she says no, you gotta stop
when he says go, you still gotta stop, yeah...
she did nothing to deserve it
he just wants, he wants to observe it
we sit back, like they taught us
keep quiet like they taught us
he does nothin' to remove it
he's just as hurt `cause he wants to prove it
we sit back, like they taught us
keep quiet, just like they taught us
he just wants, he wants to prove it
he's just hurt, she don't remove it
we sit back, like they taught us
like they taught us, like they taught us...
SEVEN YEARS WAITING [01.11.95]
i'll dream a dream of you tonight
i'll see a picture of you in my head tonight
if i can't hear you, oh in real life
i'll make it up all my life
tonight i'll dream only of you
i got off of the ground
oh how it seemed tonight
these moments slip away
all the days so great, great...
seven years gone by now
oh still it's in my eyes
i'll walk away, walk away...
you're just about to miss the
best part of it all, of it all...
of it all, of it all...
SHE WRITES A LETTER [07.11.96]
[poor little girl, she's a poor little girl...]
she writes a letter to a stranger
she writes a letter, spells it out
she doesn't feel like she can talk to
anyone, anyone...
but she writes it out, writes it out
to a perfect stranger
she says my life was a mess
she says she don't wanna live
she says i'm the only man that she can fully win
she says all these things
i say...
i say...
and i say...
i say...
SOME PEOPLE [02.06.95]
there are some people in this world
that i don't mind waiting around for
and certain people come down
i don't mind waiting around
oh i wish they wouldn't take their time
all the love i have is theirs
but if they want to take it all
and as we understand what life is worth
some people i don't mind waiting around for
some people i don't mind waiting around for
some people i don't mind waiting around for
some people, some people...
TAKE IT ON MY BACK [21.02.95]
don't
don't you dare...
i can cross another path
i won't take it on my back
i don't even worry here
i don't know what crying is
i don't
i won't take another route
i wont
i've got nothing else to see
i've got nothing in my hand
i don't even understand
i don't call another pack
i don't take it on my back
i don't take it on my back
i won't take it on my back
take it on my back
yeah, on my back
i don't take it on my back
i won't take...
i won't see another track
i don't even wonder why
why
why
i don't need another try
i don't even want to know
i won't take another chance
i...
i don't even wonder why
i don't want to fathom why
i...cross...
and I don't believe in anarchy...chy...chy...
oh when I stay at home
i don't...i say is wrong
i don't...in my...
i don't...say it so long
i don't...
i don't...
i won't another back
i fucking kick your fucking ass
i don't even wonder why
i don't want to take...
i don't want to be my friend tomorrow
who will be my friend tomorrow
ohh one more time
don't even want to try
don't even want to try
don't really want to try
don't really want to try
THANK YOU [05.11.93]
thank you for all your presents
thank you, i just want you to know
thank you for heaven to help me
thank you for lettin go
thank you...
THERE'S NOTHING WORSE
[26.05.00]
there's nothing worse than at the end of a day
i lost my purse before i fell asleep
i don't want to apologize for the life i've lived
because i got my love and, man, that is all i need
TURN THE CORNER [02.11.00]
turn the corner, comin' home
i'm so sorry that i left you alone
please welcome me with open arms
i didn't want to go that far
that far, that far, that far...
i'll be landing soon, you know
i just wanna cry when i see the front door close
close, close, close, close...
WIDE [04.08.00]
There are more of us, there are two of us
There are three of us, the moon is full
There is something else, there is nothing else
There is everywhere and i've been there before
There is eighteen feet on every street
Outside, i'm glad i'm not awake
And then something arise, and then someone tries
And a difference between you and me
There's a difference between you and me
There's republicans, and those democrats
And there's nothing else inside my eye
I don't see the difference anymore
They're just two men wearing the same hat
And the sky is wide, and the sides are wide
And my life is wide and my head is wide
And my eyes are wide, and my hands are wide
And my life is so uptight...
There's those in front, there's those in back
There's those on the right hand side
There's those on my left, those are your left
And it doesn't matter here tonight
Cause it's somewhere near and i don't know where
And i'm sick of feel like this
It's a big, big world, but i'm glad i'm here
And i'm glad i'm not someone else
And i'm glad i'm not someone else...
WORDS SEEM OUT OF PLACE
[20.06.95]
i seem so overcome, yeah...
words seem so out of place
words they fall off my altar
how did i get to this place?
seems so, sounds so familiar
lost in my dying, cold cry...
all their dreams, there's a million, yeah...
so does it feel time to say a prayer?
hey, yeah...
hey, yeah...
words they seemed out of place
words they seem out of place
falling out on my face, yeah...
words just seem out of place...
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