Matchbox 20

Real World


I wonder what it’s like to be the rainmaker I wonder what it’s like to know
that I make the rain I’d store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone
and you can come see them when I’m...done, when I’m done


I wonder what it’s like to be a super hero I wonder where I’d go if I could fly
around downtown from some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow
sun boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they’re stunned


(chorus)


straight up, what did you hope to learn about here if I were someone else,
would this all fall apart strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me


I wonder what it’s like to be the head honcho I wonder what I’d do if they all
did just what I said I’d shout out an order, I think we’re out of this man get
me some boy don’t make me wanna change my...tone, my tone (chorus)
please don’t change, please don’t break the only thing that seems to work
at all is you please don’t change, at all from me to you, and you to me
(chorus)


3 a.m.


she say 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 straining (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 nothing 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 raining
and she screams and her voice is straining (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)


Push


she said I don’t know if I’ve ever been good enough I’m a little bit rusty, and
I think my head is caving in and I don’t know if I’ve ever been really loved
by a hand that’s touched me, well I feel like something’s gonna give and
I’m a little bit angry, well


this ain’t over, no not here, not while I still need you around you don’t owe
me, we might change yeah we just might change (chorus) I wanna push
you around, I will, I will I wanna push you down, I will, I will I wanna take
you for granted, I wanna take you for granted I will


she said I don’t know why you ever would lie to me like I’m a little
untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya and I don’t know why
you couldn’t just stay with me you couldn’t stand to be near me when my
face don’t seem to want to shine cuz it’s a little bit dirty well


don’t just stand there, say nice things to me I’ve been cheated I’ve been
wronged, and you you don’t know me, I can’t change I won’t do anything at
all (chorus) oh but don’t bowl me over just wait a minute well it kinda fell
apart, things get so crazy, crazy don’t rush this baby, don’t rush this baby


(chorus)


Back 2 good


it’s nothing, it’s so normal you just stand there I could say so much but I
don’t go there cuz I don’t want to I was thinking if you were lonely maybe
we could leave here and no one would know at least not to the point that
we would think so


everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else it’s
best if we all keep it under our heads I couldn’t tell, if anyone here was
feeling the way I do but I’m lonely now, and I don’t know how to get it back
to good


this don’t mean that, you own me this ain’t no good, in fact it’s phony as
hell but things worked out just like you wanted too if you see me out you
don’t know me try to turn your head, try to give me some room to figure
out just what I’m going to do


and everyone here, hates everyone here for doing just like they do it’s best
if we all keep this quiet instead and I couldn’t tell, why everyone here was
doing me like they do but I’m sorry now, and I don’t know how to get it
back to good


everyone here, is wondering what it’s like to be with somebody else
everyone here’s to blame, everyone here gets caught up in the pleasure of
the pain, everyone hides shades of shame, but looking inside we’re the
same, we’re the same and we’re all grown now, but we don’t know how to
get it back to good


everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking ‘bout somebody else it’s
best if we all keep this under our heads I couldn’t tell, if anyone here was
feeling the way I do but it’s over now, and I don’t know how, it’s over now
there’s no getting back to good


Bent
If I fell along my way
Pick me up and dust me off
If I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk


If I need some of your love again
Give me more than I can stand
When my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again


Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again


CHORUS:
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep breaking me in
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent


If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot


I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just falling
Just breaking the skin


CHORUS


Start bending me
It's never enough
Till I feel all your pieces
Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in


Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again


CHORUS


Without understanding
Hell, I'll go there again


Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Yeah, you're breaking me in c
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent


If Your Gone


I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone.
I think I'm finally scared now
You think I'm weak - But I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
But now I'm relaxed - I can't be sure


I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - I think too much
I know this is wrong it's a problem I'm dealing


If you're gone - maybe it's time to go home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone - baby you need to come home
Cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you


I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the room just won't shine
I bet my hands I can stay here
I bet you need - more than you mind


I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - that I know too much
I can't relate and that's a problem
I'm feeling


If you're gone - maybe it's time to go home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone - baby you need to come home
cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you


I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - do I talk too much
I know it's wrong it's a problem I'm dealing


Mad Season


i feel stupid - but i know it won't last for long
i've been guessing - i coulda been guessin' wrong
you don't know me now
i kinda thought that you should somehow
does that whole mad season got ya down


i feel stupid but it's something that comes and goes
i've been changin' - think it's funny how no one knows
we don't talk about - the little things that we do without
when that whole mad season comes around


so why ya gotta stand there
looking like the answer now
it seems to me - you'd come around
i need you now
do you think you can cope
you figured me out - i'm lost and i'm hopeless
bleeding and broken - though i've never spoken
i come undone - in this mad season


i feel stupid - but i think i been catchin' on
i feel ugly - but i know i still turn you on
you seem colder now, torn apart, angry, turned around
will that whole mad season knock you down


so are you gonna stand there
are you gonna help me out
you need to be together now - i need you now


now i'm cryin' - isn't that what you want
i'm tryin' to live my life on my own
but i won't
at times - i do believe i am strong
so someone tell me why, why, why
do i feel stupid
and i came undone


Unwell


All day staring at the ceiling
Making friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices telling me
That I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for something


Hold on
Feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why


But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be...me


I'm talking to myself in public
Dodging glances on the train
And I know, I know they've all been talking about me
I can hear them whisper
And it makes me think there must be something
wrong with me
Out of all the hours thinking
Somehow I've lost my mind


But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be


I've been talking in my sleep
Pretty soon they'll come to get me
Yeah, they're taking me away


But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be


Yeah, how I used to be
How I used to be
Well, I'm just a little unwell
How I used to be
How I used to be
I'm just a little unwell