In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed,; Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door; Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Well, I try my best; To be just like I am,; But everybody wants you; To be just like them.
Where black is the color, where none is the number
Well, you're on your own, you always were,; In a land of wolves and thieves.
She knows there's no success like failure; And that failure's no success at all.
I just can't fit; Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?; I've tried my best to love you, but I cannot play this game; Your best friend and my worst enemy is one and the same
People on the platforms; Waiting for the trains; I can hear their hearts a-beatin'; Like pendulums swinging on chains
If you're looking for assistance, babe,; Or if you just want some company; Or if you just want a friend you can talk to,; Honey, come and see about me.
I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed; You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road
You should be made; To wear earphones
You could make me cry if you don't know.
Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time
No time to suffer or blink; And no time to think
All right, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
Oh, baby, that god you been prayin' to; Is gonna give ya back what you're wishin' on someone else
I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized
It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit; Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it; Using all the devices under the sun.
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
I wish that for just one time; You could stand inside my shoes; You'd know what a drag it is; To see you
Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
That long black cloud is comin' down
Your cracked country lips,; I still wish to kiss,; As to be under the strength of your skin.
Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
What was it you wanted; When you were kissing my check?
You were snow, you were rain; You were striped, you were plain,;
When we meet again; Introduced as friends; Please don't let on that you knew me when; I was hungry and it was your world.
What good am I if I say foolish things; And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings; And I just turn my back while you silently die,; What good am I?
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud; Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
your pleasure knows no limits
Today on the countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch
Guess it's too late to say the things to you; That you needed to hear me say.
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough
Roses are red, violets are blue; And time is beginning to crawl
And every time you get this close; It makes me want to scream
If God's on our side; He'll stop the next war.
Now the moon is almost hidden; The stars are beginning to hide; The fortunetelling lady; Has even taken all her things inside
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
Do I need your permission to turn the other cheek?; If you can read my mind, why must I speak?
I'll see you later when I'm not so out of my head,; Maybe next time I'll let the dead bury the dead.
I still can remember the way that you smiled
Well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe,; To see that you're madly in love.
We grew up together; From the cradle to the grave; We died and were reborn; And then mysteriously saved.
We're idiots, babe.; It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
Now, don't crowd me, lady; Or I'll fill up your shoe
The angels play on their horns all day,; The whole earth in progression seems to pass by.; But does anyone hear the music they play,; Does anyone even try?
Sooner or later, one of us must know; That I really did try to get close to you
We never thought we could ever get old.; We thought we could sit forever in fun
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
They say ev'rything can be replaced
It was then that I got up to leave; But she said, "Don't forget,; Everybody must give something back; For something they get."
You know, news of you has come down the line; Even before ya came in the door.; They say in your father's house, there's many mansions; Each one of them got a fireproof floor.
