Incubus Lyrics - Morning View

Nice to Know You
Better than watching Gellar bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing newborn nebulaes in bloom
She who sees from up high smiles and surely sings
Perspective pries your once weighty eyes and it gives you wings

I haven't felt the way I feel today
In so long it's hard for me to specify
I'm beginning to notice how much this feels
Like a waking limb, pins and needles, nice to know you

Goodbye, nice to know you
Goodbye, nice to know you

Deeper than the deepest Cousteau would ever go
And higher than the heights of what we often think we know
Blessed she who clearly sees the wood for the trees
To obtain a bird's eye is to turn a blizzard into a breeze

I haven't felt the way I feel today
In so long it's hard for me to specify
I'm beginning to notice how much this feels
Like a waking limb, pins and needles, nice to know you

Goodbye, nice to know you
Goodbye, nice to know you

So could it be that it has been there all along?

Circles You saw me lost and treading water
I looked pathetic
I looked as helpless as a stinger without a bee
But underneath my presentation (yeah)
I knew the walls were coming down
And the stones that fell were aiming away from me

Hey! what would it mean to you
To know that it'll come back around again?
Hey! whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles

I saw you standing in my headlights (blink, blink, blink)
I thought I'd run you down for the weight you left on me
Instead I pushed rewind, reversed and drove away
And seeing you disappear in my rearview
Brought to me the word reciprocity

Hey! what would it mean to you
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey! whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles

Round and round we go
Who could've known it'd end so well?
We fall on and we fall off
Existential carousel

Wish You Were Here
I dig my toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy, happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFO's
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy, happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here

The world's a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air

I wish you were here

Just a Phase
I am bottled fizzy water and you are shaking me up
You are a fingernail running down the chalkboard
I thought I left in third grade
Now my only consolation
Is that this could not last forever
Even though you're singing and thinking
How well you've got it made

Who are you? When will you be through?
Yeah, it's just a phase
It will be over soon
Yeah, it's just a phase
Yeah, it's just a phase

Call it 'women's' intuition
But I think I'm on to something here
Temporaryism has been the 'Black Plague'
And the 'Jesus' of our age
I know I must sound opinionated
Maybe biased and quite possibly jaded
But sooner than later they'll be
Throwing quarters at you on the stage

Who are you? When will you be through?
Yeah, it's just a phase
It will be over soon
Yeah, it's just a phase
And I am waiting for it to be over too

11 AM
7 am
The garbage truck beeps as it backs up
And I start my day thinking about what I’ve thrown away
Could I push rewind?
The credits traverse, signifying the end
But I missed the best part
Could we please go back to the start?
Forgive my indecision
Then again, you're always first when no one's on your side
But, then again, the day will come when I want off that ride

11 am
By now you would think that I would be up
But my bed sheets shade the heat of choices I made
What did I find?
I never thought I could want someone so much
'Cause now you're not here
And I'm knee deep in that old fear
Forgive my indecision
I am only a man

Then again, you're always first when no one's on your side
But, then again, the day will come when I want off that ride

12 pm and my dusty telephone rings
Heavy head up from my pillow, who could it be?
I hope it's you

Then again, you're always first when no one's on your side
But then again, the day has come, and I want off that ride

Blood on the Ground
I don't wanna talk to you anymore
I'm afraid of what I might say
I bite my tongue every time you come around
'Cause blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground

Hand over my heart I swear
I've tried everything within all my power
2 weeks and 1 hour
I slaved and now I've got nothing to show
Oh, if only you'd grow taller than a brick wall
From now on, I'm gonna start holding my breath
When you come around and you flex that fake grin
'Cause something inside me has said more than twice
That breathing less air beats breathing you in

I don't wanna talk to you anymore
I'm afraid of what I might say
I bite my tongue every time you come around
'Cause blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground

Hand over my mouth
I'm earning the right to my silence
In quiet, discerning between ego and timing
Good judgment is once again proving to me
That it's still worth its weight in gold
From now on I'm gonna be so much more wary
When you start to speak and my warm blood starts to boil
Seeing you is like pulling teeth
And hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil

I don't wanna talk to you anymore
I'm afraid of what I might say
I bite my tongue every time you come around
Cause blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground

High fives to better judgment
by saying less, I will gain more
Low twos to you my fickle friend
You brought the art of silent war

I don't wanna talk to you anymore
I'm afraid of what I might say
I bite my tongue every time you come around
'Cause blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground

Mexico
You could see me reaching
So why couldn't you have met me halfway
You could see me bleeding
But you would not put pressure on the wound

You only think about yourself
You only think about yourself
You better bend before I go
On the first train to Mexico

You could see me breathing
But you still kept your hand over my mouth
You could feel me seething
But you just turned your nose up in the air

You only think about yourself
You only think about yourself
You better bend before I go
On the first train to Mexico

Warning
Bat your eyes girl
Be otherworldly
Count your blessings
Seduce a stranger
What's so wrong with
Being happy?
Kudos to those who
See through sickness

Over and over and over and over and oooh

When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
"Don't ever let life pass you by"

I suggest we
Learn to love ourselves
Before it's made illegal
When will we learn?
When will we change?
Just in time to see it all fall down

Those left standing will make millions
Writing books on the way it should have been

When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
"Don't ever let life pass you by"

Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi
We are like frogs oblivious
To the water starting to boil
No one flinches, we all float face down

When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
"Don't ever let life pass you by"

Echo
There's something about the look in your eyes
Something I noticed when the light was just right
It reminded me twice that I was alive
And it reminded me that you're so worth the fight

My biggest fear will be the rescue of me
Strange how it turns out that way, yeah

Could you show me dear
Something I've not seen?
Something infinitely interesting

There's something about the way you move
I see your mouth in slow motion when you sing
More subtle than something someone contrives
Your movements echo that I've seen the real thing

Your biggest fear will be the rescue of you
Strange how it turns out that way, yeah

Could you show me dear
Something I've not seen?
Something infinitely interesting

Have You Ever
To get up and walk away would be too easy
So stay and stand your ground
Just watch your mouth with me
On the back of every right
There's a wrong looming
So here you and I should tread as soft
As these razorblades for boots will let be
Have you ever tried to step in my shoes?
Have you ever tried to balance on that beam?
And if you ever tried to fit in my shoes
They'll never be quite as soft as they seemed

Unabashed honesty would be ideal
But a prophet did once say
That honesty is a lonely word
So where do we go from here--
Abandon ship now?
My problem is you make me melt
And I don't want to be frozen anymore

Have you ever tried to step in my shoes?
Have you ever tried to balance on that beam?
And if you ever tried to fit in my shoes
They'll never be quite as soft as they seemed

Have you ever--have you ever tried to?
I have never--I have never tried to

Have you ever tried to step in my shoes?
Have you ever tried to balance on that beam?
And if you ever try to fit in my shoes
They'll never be quite as soft as they seem

Are You In?
It's so much better
When everyone is in
Are you in?
It's so much better
When everyone is in
Are you in?

Are you in?

It's so much better
When everyone is in
Are you in?
It's so much easier
When sea foam green is in fashion

Are you in?

Under My Umbrella
When I close my eyes
I can see for miles
There's comfort in my dark seat
And chaos in the aisles

These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see

When I close my eyes
I remember why I smile
Under my umbrella
I'm an accomplished exile

These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see! If this is right, I'd rather be wrong
If this is sight, I'd rather be blind

Aqueous Transmission
I'm floating down a river
Oars freed from their holes long ago
Lying face up on the floor of my vessel
I marvel at the stars
And feel my heart overflow

Further down the river

Two weeks without my lover
I am in this boat all alone
Floating down a river named 'emotion'
Will I make it back to shore?
Or drift into the unknown?

Further down the river

I'm building an antenna
Transmissions will be sent when I'm through
Maybe we'll meet again further down the river
And share what we both discovered
Then revel in the view

Further down the river

All lyrics by Incubus, copyright 2001

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