3 a.m. (earlier version)
she says it's cold outside and she hands me my raincoat she's always worried about things like that she says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault and she only sleeps when it's raining and she screams and her voice is straning
(chorus) she says baby it's 3 am I must be lonely when she says baby well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it
she's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothin' and in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all she swears the moon don't hang as quite as high as it used to and she only sleeps when it's rainin' and she screams and her voice is strainin'
(chorus)
she believes that life is made up of all that you're used to and the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days she thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway but outside it's stopped raining
(chorus)
Forever December (earlier version)
reach within my isolation I ponder it, I honor it you say you'd like to see me closer of course you would you have no choice and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me and I laugh at the people that I can't be, all their lives, silly pictures
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby tide is turning, turn us away
I'll build a wall, I'll build the fountain wrestle it, conquer it I think we live to see the mountain of course we will we have no choice and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me and I laugh at the people that I can't be, all their lives, silly pictures
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby tide is turning, don't turn me away
and I can't remember, forever december the sins of the dying the heart of the pain the rose in the bible thorn's in the heart stars surround me the court astounds me astounds
and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me and I laugh at the people that I can't be, all their lives, pretty pictures
baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby the tide is turning, turn us away
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby the tide is turning, turn us away
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby the tide is turning, turn us away
Here Comes Horses
help me to remember girl if you don't mind cause I feel just like a jester when the music died haven't seen you lately, but I know that nothing has changed feeling kinda shaky, but the wounds have healed there's a crack there in the doorway where the walls have peeled well at last you'll see the sun go down on a clear day
(chorus) here comes horses and yeah there goes the rain here goes nothing here it comes again
I was thinking I was angry, but I let it go I was waiting on a miracle, but nothing showed and they say I knew messiah, he was at the local bar greetings from the hopeful, have you heard the news that daddy bet his paycheck on the horses shoes and we won't feel that way for a long long time a long, long time
(chorus)
yeah can you feel this
sitting in a taxi at the evenin's inn, I was trying to remember where it was I'd been and baby I've got someplace else to be I ask you why you come here, you say just because I guess I could do without it if I knew it was, well really doesn't matter when you look at me that way
(chorus)
Paint Me Blue
not a never from me well...beats watching you I think I saw some happy people yesterday that I never knew never too much violence any time we had a war you belong shirt and now the skins and well we're flying through the door
these are violent times and I only want to do my part sing till hatred steps and smile at what we've only thought, cause
(chorus) I need understanding just a pack or two help me with my troubles and what to do's and I don't feel no aging there ain't nothin new yeah well drop me in the ocean and paint me blue
don't have a worry, I don't have a care I don't have a sound piece of mind, but I managed to dare I don't like my neighbors, well there just not my kind I think it might be home for the wails and I really don't mind
these are the golden years well I think it's time we cash them in we sit in our rocking chairs and talk about the good old days, cause
(chorus)
these are violent times and I only want to do my part sing till hatred steps and smile at what we've only thought, cause
(chorus)
baby won't you paint me, won't ya paint me blue......
Dear Joan
dear joan I've almost forgotten, the pain in the window blue dress in the doorway dear joan help me remember, the face I forget and the traps that I've sprung I guess I've grown tired it's just what's expected of me to tear your heart from the inside to the outside you know I was wired, I just couldn't help it the hundred thousand times I hurt you
(chorus) dear joan, I wanted to say that I'm sorry for the screaming last night and the nights before well I've wanted more from this than anything I've ever known dear joan
dear joan your face has a brightness that I've never seen in the years that I've known you dear joan I pick up the pieces, but some scattered too far you see they flew when I kicked them
I know you believed when I said it was over you stood by me patiently waiting and broading so deeply in love with every face that I've shown
(chorus)
once I forget, twice I'm a fool, three times I've wrapped my hands around your neck while you're sleepin', you're quietly sleepin', sleepin' and dreamin' dear joan don't walk out that doorway because if you did I believe I could honestly kill you
(chorus)
High
she had said, don't cry said it only hurts forever, and all we have is time yeah, she said, she will never know so close your eyes, turn down the lights, and I can start this show yeah well I can't sleep, so why believe if the shades are drawn, then she can't see so don't look at pride, well there is no other way now don't try to make no sense of this scene, it's just between Caroline and me and we keep changing yeah we can grow like a board on the shore she says I'm restless just a little more time well you know damn well she wants to feel this high
yeah we knew just who we were yeah well who we thought we'd try to be and who it's gonna hurt oh but if I'd said, if I was strong at all well then I wouldn't be with someone else I know where I bet all yeah well I can't sleep, so why believe if the shades are drawn, then she can't see so don't look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah don't try to make no sense of this scene, it's just between Caroline and me and we keep changing
yeah we can grow like a board on the floor she says I'm restless just a little more time, just a little more time well you know damn well she wants to feel this high
yeah well I can't sleep, so why believe if the shades are drawn, then she can't see so don't look at pride, well there is no other way, yeah don't try to make no sense of this scene, it's just between Caroline and me and we keep changing yeah we can grow like a board on the floor she says I'm restless just a little more time well you know damn well she wants to feel this high she wants to feel this high...high high...high-high
Unkind
wait on baby, what you're gettin in to is living on pain, the thing that's getting to you write my name, paint it up my picture say it's the only thing cause I'm not around, be around beaten and battered
what if my dreams get shattered, then pain gives my the right to be unkind wait on baby which with some indevotion I'd trade a river of tears for just a little emotion you can curse my name, paint it up my picture say it's the last time that I'll be around, be around oh well I'm torn and tattered
saw the thoughts in my head be scattered, well pain gives my the right to be unkind, girl and it sets me right back to the heart of it joan's crazy is a slight defense from it joan's crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone
so wait on baby, what you're gettin' in to well I swear once it was the little things that mattered but it all seems truely you say the hell with my name, and say the hell with my picture yeah but swear the one time you need me around, to be around, i'm around right now well I'll stand like it matters
only once got screwed and then gets scattered by the rain and pain gives me the right to be unkind girl and it sets me right back to the heart of it joan's crazy is a slight defense from it joan's crazy is a place I call my own right back to the heart of it joan's crazy is a slight defense from it joan's crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone right back to the heart of it joan's crazy yeah, joan's crazy yeah joan's crazy is a place I call my own, when I'm alone, when I'm alone when I'm alone
Jesus Was an Alien
Elvis is alive at your local grocery store and if you believe that boy well sit down and I'll tell you more Lee Harvy Oswald, well you know he acted alone Charlie Manson only wanted to make his house a home
(chorus) Jesus was an alien, flying through space God was an astronaut who said boy I like your face, so the story began
girl I love you, when the check is in the mail found religion inside myself, I drank the blood, the flesh was stale so reach in your pockets and give us all you can you're the one that's goin' to heaven, it's gonna be the rich young man
(chorus)
(chorus) I see you shakin boy, do ya find it hard to believe that the one you been living for would cut your wrists to watch you bleed found out the truth is a lie, and it makes you feel unwell say the church of the all mighty God is all we have to save us from hell
(chorus)
(chorus) so the story began that's the story from my side to your side to your side, yeah
Tired
Tired you've been talking for an hour and I swear to God that I can't hear a word you say so would you come to me, come to me well, I get caught up in the waves of conversation, they wash over me and they cover me, they cover me
should I just pack my things and leave would I be a bigger man if I I built a wall around your heart, dared you to come in I can lie to you, say I didn't mean it but hurt's a funny thing and it makes you stronger
(chorus) well all is nothing in moderation it's a dirty feeling, it makes you stronger well I believe I'm just plain tired
there's a funny way your lip shakes when I know that you've been lying and it touches me I said it comforts me, it comforts me well I guess I should be satisfied when you say you love me half the time well I'll settle there, we can build from there, build from there
would you be happier if I was only half the man I am you could shout at me, and dare me to come in I can lie to you and say I didn't mean it but it really doesn't matter when you stop to think about it
(chorus)
say the end is coming she don't even feel that it's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy well I believe I'm just plain tired i'm tired, yeah yeah, yeah
should I just pack my things and leave would I be a bigger man if I I built a wall around your heart, dared you to come in I can lie to you, say I didn't mean it but hurt's a funny thing hurt's a funny thing
(chorus)
say the end is coming she don't even feel that it's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy well I believe, I belive I'm just plain tired
(chorus)
well the end is coming she don't even feel that it's a strange sensation, I'm almost happy well I believe, I believe that I'm just plain tired
Swing
still don't mean nothin' was written on the concrete the words weren't on my tongue so we don't talk about it day nor evenin', fashion or superman just little warped people with little black minds well I wasn't sure just what to think say the lights went out somebody, somebody swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore somebody swing don't wanna talk no...no
what if we're tainted who can we lie to what if we're dying would you just walk around it well I wasn't sure just what to think say the lights went out somebody, somebody swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore bring boy, can you remember me dead can you swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
shut your violence, keep your head down, watch your anger boy, realize you could lose this is violence, looks for reason this don't have to make sense to anybody at all then everybody, won't you swing
no still don't mean nothin' words written all over the concrete all over the concrete rage gets you out, so you swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore bring boy, can you remember me dead can you swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore I don't wanna talk no no no no can you swing
don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore bring boy, can you remember me dead can you swing don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
3 a.m. (later version)
she said it's cold outside as she hands me my raincoat she's always worried about things like that she said it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault and she only sleeps when it's raining and she screams and her voice is straning
(chorus) she says baby it's 3 am I must be lonely when she says baby well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it
she's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothin' and in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all she swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to and she only sleeps when it's rainin' and she screams and her voice is strainin'
(chorus)
she believes that life is made up of all that you're used to and the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and days she thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway but outside it's stopped raining
(chorus)
Forever December (later version)
I reach within my isolation I harbour it, I honor it you say you'd like to see me closer of course you would you have no choice and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me and I laugh at the people that I can't be 'cause all their lives are silly pictures
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older
I'll build a wall, I'll build the fountain We wrestle it and we'll conquer it I think we'll live to see the mountain well of course we will we have no choice and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me I laugh at the people that I can't be 'cause all their lives are silly pictures
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older hey now now now hey now hey baby the tide is turning, don't turn me away
And it won't take long, we both knew this and I wasn't quite prepared for my sins of the dying the heart of your pain all my words get lost and I can't speak got my head stripped down, well I get weak and the words fall out like Forever December soon it won't matter, she won't mean nothin' she don't mean nothin', she won't mean nothin'
and I cry cause the weather has gotten to me I laugh at the people that I can't be 'cause all their lives are pretty pictures
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, baby's getting older she don't mean nothin'
hey now now now hey now hey baby the tide is turning, don't turn me away she don't mean nothin'
hey now now now hey now hey baby baby's getting older, my baby's getting older she don't mean nothing
hey now now now hey now hey baby yeah, the tide is turning, don't turn me away
Dizzy (hidden track)
and outside, the sky is falling people dodging raindrops, staying dry and inside, I never gave a damn 'bout those outside people anyway and it hurt me they don't even know I am
and inside, there's no rainbows and inside, I try I try I try, try to clear my head and outside, the rain is drying and inside, i'm dying
'cause in here, I'm staring at the rings my coffee cup has made on the table and in here, I know I know I know, that this is as good as it gets and in time I want to be the one that talks about the other hand they want you now, count the cracks on the wall until it's time to lay my head
and inside, I'm playing with shadows and inside, I know I know I know, that I'll feel this way all day, all day and outside, there's hope for trying, and inside I'm dying
you walk before me, and the Lord knows I can't follow you walk behind me and I don't think I can lead you walk around me, please don't walk around me 'cause you know how dizzy I get
Lyrics copyright Tabitha's Secret and/or Forbidden Records.
