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Intro

As I walk through the streets of my new city

my back feeling much better, I suppose

I've reclaimed the use of my imagination

for better or for worse, I've yet to know

but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me,

I guess that's why it took so long to get things right.

Suddenly I'm lost

On my street

On my block

Oh why, Oh why

Oh why haven't you been there for me?

Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time?

This time it's for real, I can see

All the trees are turning red

The beggars near bodegas grin at me

I think they want something

I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe

and be calm.

Be calm.

I know you feel like you are breaking down.

Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes.

Be calm.

I'm scared that everyone is out to get me.

"These days before you speak to me you pause."

"I always see you looking out your window."

"After all, you lost your band, you left your mom."

Now every single crack, every pain that I pass,

says I should either leave or pick it up

But with every single buck I've made

I'm saddled with bad luck that came

the moment I was baptized

or when I found out one day I'm gonna die

if only I could find my people or my place in life

then when they come to 'carolin'

so loud, so bright, the theremin

will lead us to a chorus

where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes:

Oh be calm.

Be calm.

I know you feel like you are breaking down.

I know that it gets so hard sometimes,

Be calm.

Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.

You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive

and e-very--thing's wrong

It just gets so hard sometimes

Be calm.

I don't remember much that night,

Just walking, thinking fondly of you

Thinking how the worst is yet to come

From that street corner came a song

And I can't remember the man,

The panhandler or his melody.

The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee.

Oh be calm.

Be calm.

I know you feel like you are breaking down.

I know that it gets so hard sometimes,

Be calm.

Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.

You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive

and e-very--thing's wrong

It just gets so hard sometimes

Be calm.

Be calm.

Holy ghosts,

When do you come out to play?

'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,

He'd better start looking today.

Riff

Last week my baby hit the slopes.

I spent the weekend setting traps in the road.

I should have been cutting out my eyelids,

[riff]

you'll never guess what baby did when she got home.

Oh-oh Na na na na na

Now at least the birds are singing to me,

but what they're trying to say,

I don't know.

(you're beautiful)

I think they come from the cold

(for all your big mistakes)

I think they come from the cold

(you stayed the same)

to the city that don't snow.

So I drove until we both broke down.

I was stranded in a border town

believing the motel TV would bring me to safety,

but between MTV and Mr. O'Reilly

I've come to find, that I can't be defined

so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross

Took one last look at the gold

[riff]

as it shattered on a mountaintop

Now I believe the sun, it's like a symphony.

But what it's trying to play,

I don't know.

(you're beautiful)

I think they come from the cold

(for all your big mistakes)

I think they come from the cold

(you stayed the same)

to the city that don't snow.

C'mon, Holy ghosts

When do you come out to play?

'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,

He'd better start looking today.

So I can rise with the river

We all float before we sink

We pray for satellites,

Pray for courtesy

I pray that it can climb mountains to me!

I say goodbye to the canyon.

I will set sail to the streets

where I don't care to be forgiven

I want to be forgotten.

I don't care to be forgiven

When Lord I only want to be forgotten!

Singing oh oh oh na na na

Oh oh oh

I'm Singing oh oh oh na na

Oh-oh Oh-oh

I'm Singing oh oh oh na na na

Singing oh oh oh

I'm Singing oh oh oh na na

Oh-oh na na na Oh-oh

Now I receive a call from my family

and what they started to say

brought me home.

(you're beautiful)

They think I'm beautiful

(for all your big mistakes)

They think I'm beautiful

(you're beautiful)

[riff]

for all my big mistakes.

for all my big mistakes.

for all my big mistakes.

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Intro

[OR PLAY THE CHORD "C"]

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

So I call your name, cross my fingers

uncross the others, hesitate.

Oh I don't think straight with nothing to prove.

I don't wanna say I'm leaving

I'll stay until the weekend.

And you can take all the things;

the boxes and rings

and get going.

'Cause I've been waiting for...

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?

I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.

So I call you out

Just to feel a little bit better about myself

I do, baby I do, I do, I do

Until their lips start to move,

and their friends wanna talk music

I say "I've never heard the tune!"

But I have, I just hate the band

'cause they remind me of you.

Every single night ends up the same,

I don't say much at all, but I bring up your name.

(Over and over and over)

I think it's striking me out.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?

I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.

But not you,

you still wear boots and your hair is too long

and then this one doesn't want to admit she's fallen in love

Oh c'mon, oh c'mon, what's a boy to do

When all the pretty girls can't measure to you.

Solo

I don't understand your reasons

Please just stay over the weekend

You can't take all those things

They define you and me

everything we've become,

You're all that I need

Please don't make me face my generation alone.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?

I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.

But not you,

I feel your faith is destroying the world

and then this one never even understood

the 80s is over and done

Oh c'mon, what's a boy to do,

when all the pretty girls can't measure to you

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.

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Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra

Pa-ra Pa

Were you named for the river that surrounds

All my biggest my mistakes or the way that I made it out

All the muscles in my mouth never smiled or said profound things

Until the day she handed you to me now

For all the steps you'll take and all you'll overcome

I wanna be the one to put in a song

Take every single tear for all the world to hear

I wanna be the one to put it in a song

Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra

Pa-ra Pa

Cigarettes are raining hard on the Upper East Side

She brings me a cake we celebrate I have arrived

And I know that it's been sang before but you're my human holiday

I put my hands to the table and dare say the love of my life

And your brother with his best friend

Shares a name I'm gonna need

Really couldn't bring me down

For everything you lost and all you overcome

I wanna be the one to put in a song

Take every single tear for all the world to hear

I wanna be the one to put it in a song and make it last forever

Clever comes in truth when truth begets the past

Its sends its call out to the moon

And the moon can see the beauty that surrounds your heart as it pounds

It starts the beat inspiring me until I make the sound

I wanna be the one, I wanna be one, I wanna be the one, no-no no-no

For everything you lost and all you overcome

I wanna be the one to put in a song

Take every single tear for all the world to hear

I wanna be the one to put it in a song

Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra

Pa-ra Pa

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Have you ever wondered about our old nu-metal friends and what became of them?

Turns out I saw them a couple of days ago,

They were laughing and drinking and smoking and singing.

C’mon, can you count all the notches in your belt?

I'd rather not, let's just say I'm starving myself.

Baby, put your name down on a piece of paper

I don’t want no savior baby, I just wanna have a good time

Oh-oh oh, Oh-uh oh

At least I’m not as sad as I used to be

And they said,

"Hey Nate, yeah it’s been a while,

Are you gonna sing?"

I began to smile and I said,

"You should’ve seen me a couple of years ago,

I was laughing and drinking and smoking and singing."

C’mon can you count all the loves that didn’t last?

It’s such a gas when you bring up the past.

Baby, put your name down on a piece of paper.

I don’t want no savior baby

I just wanna get it out.

Oh-oh oh, Oh-uh oh

At least I’m not as sad as I used to be

Oh-oh oh, (get it out) Oh-uh oh

At least I’m not as sad as I used to be

(Just get it out)

At least I’m not as sad as I used to be

And they say we would’ve seen you two years ago

Had you stuck around or come out to a show,

But youth’s taken over by rock and roll,

While we were laughing and drinking and smoking and singing....

So I left, That is it. That’s my life, Nothing is sacred.

I don’t keep friends,I keep acquainted,

I’m not a prophet, But I’m here to profit.

That’s all, I’m gone! That’s my life, Nothing is sacred.

I don’t fall in love, I just fake it.

I don’t fall in love. I don’t fall in love.

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Light a roman candle with me

Just a roman candle, you can wear your sandals

and I'll pour you just one cup of tea.

Then you can go and rest

you haven't seen my best, so...

Just spend an evening with me

Just a lazy evening, then you could be leaving

or we could stay and talk until three.

I will think it's magic and I'll hope you'll agree, so...

Light a roman candle with me

Just a roman candle

Just a perfect apple

Light a roman candle with me

Just a roman candle

Just a perfect apple

If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together

a sandwich with everything on it,

at least we would know that the sparks didn't glow

but we owe it to ourselves to try,

so we aim and ignite!

So often I call and I plead with you:

"Give me a chance!"

It's not often that I understand

the ins and the outs of what's wrong and what's right

So don't think of tomorrow tonight.

Oh, I know, it goes on, it gets old

But for now we're young, we smell good, we're alone, so alive

You look for a legend,

I'm looking for common ground.

Your heart isn't breaking,

and mine isn't making a sound.

Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old

Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old

Light a roman candle with me

Just a roman candle

Just a perfect apple

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Walking alone 'cause the night is dead.

Crossed my mind when I crossed the bridge.

How you lost your mind,

and your wrist got bruised,

and you wanted better love

when it was sleeping in your bedroom.

Hold on,

Stay on my side,

Don't go-oh-oh-oh

(* *)

If you could see me

Whoever I am.

It's not like the movies,

it's not all skin and bones.

So come on love

(come on, come one, come all and go)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

Now I'm walking alone 'cause the night is dead.

My feet don't glide like they did back then,

when I would call you up so we could shoot the moon.

These days I'm left to howl in tune.

Hearts do break

and I must admit

I gotta better set a chorus

so I might have been faking it.

Think I really have only cried just once.

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

(* *)

If you could see me

Whoever I am.

It's not like the movies,

it's not all skin and bones.

So come on love

(come on, come one, come all and go)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

After all the shows,

after all the boys of summer gone,

amid all the confusion

this friends I've been losing

I always thought from the start

I'd be the one moving on.

I guess I'll never know

Where all the boys of summer go

but I'll miss what we made

and the days were not wasted.

There are some things I may never know.

How you lost your mind

and your wrists got bruised

and you wanted better love

well it's sleeping in your bedroom.

Hold on,

Stay on my side,

Don't go-oh-oh-oh

If you could see me

Whoever I am.

It's not like a movie,

it's not all skin and bones.

So come on love

(come on, come one, come all and go)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

(* *)

If you could see me

Whoever I am.

It's not like a movie,

it's not all skin and bones.

So come on love

(come on, come one, come all and go)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go

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Intro

Never in all of my life

Have I seen eyes as empty as these streets of my city

on a Saturday night,

all the green of your eyes says "Go, leave it all behind."

But I don't need to be reminded a change is gonna come.

I can feel it on the tip of your tongue.

And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive.

We met up once we'd settled the sun

Between the heat and the work week

The fear is we could use some sleep

but sleep to a superfluous man means better use for beds

and I'll bet I'm coming home alone tonight.

I don't need to be reminded this is how it was.

I moved on, I passed a billboard down my block

that asks if I've had enough, and aloud I say "I've had too much"

when the truth is, I'm just getting started.

Now all the barlights are blinking in time

to Mexican music, it's taunting the pavement

And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive.

One of us sings, and one of us drinks,

and one of us has nothing at all.

So he calls us all sheep

I'm the Little Bo Peep of the bunch.

(I take their tales and I'm ready to go)

Then he swears he's gotta take this call

Man, I'm scared he's gonna leave us too soon.

We were the get rich quick kids,

We never got it right

So we settled for the center in town

Where all the rich white kids is out looking for a fight

got the blond one staring me down.

and I really wanna take a swing

I can't help but remember James Dean

See we are part of the few who agree

that hey, he lived life fast

but he died.

he died.

he died.

Me, I'm gonna live forever.

(And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive)

Now all the barlights are blinking in time

to Mexican music, it's taunting the pavement

and for the first time,

in a long time,

I feel alive.

Slow down,

we've got time left to be lazy

All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.

We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden

I don't care to beg your pardon,

We should live

until we die.

We were barely eighteen when we'd crossed collective hearts.

It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.

and then you turned, put out your hand,

and you asked me to dance.

I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.

I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.

I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.

Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields

I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.

So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.

It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.

So we moved to Arizona to save our only son

and now he's turning to a man,

although he thinks just like his mother,

he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.

And even though she moved away,

we always get calls from our daughter.

She has eyes just like her father's

they are blue when skies are grey

And just like him, she never stops,

Never takes the day for granted,

works for everything that's handed to her,

Never once complains.

You think that I nearly lost you

When the doctors tried to take you away.

But like the night you took my hand beside the fire

thirty years ago

to this day

You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time

Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.

So just take my hand, you know that I'll never leave your side.

You're the love of my life, you know that I'll never leave your side.

You come home from work

and you kiss me on the eye

You curse the dog you say that I should never feed them what is ours

and so we move all to the garden

look at everything we've owned

now the kids are coming home

so I set the table

You can make the fire.

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Take your time coming home.

Hear the wheels as they roll.

Let your lungs fill up with smoke.

Forgive everyone.

She is here and now she is...

...home

We had plans, we can't help but make...

...love.

It's a beautiful thing when you love somebody,

(when you love somebody)

And I love somebody.

Yeah I love somebody, home

Take your time coming home.

Hear the wheels as they roll.

Let your lungs fill up with smoke.

Forgive everyone.

I don't think I'd been misled,

it was a rock'n'roll band,

I'm still standing,

Take your time coming home.

Home

See, of everyone who called,

Very few said "We believe in you."

The overwhelming choice said

I'm just a boy inside a voice

and if it's true, if it's true, if it's true,

then what the fuck have I been doing the last six years?

How did I end up here?

And I find love and conquer all my fears?

See, I made it out.

Out from under the sun.

And the truth is that I feel better because I've forgiven everyone.

Now I'm not scared

of a song

or the states,

or the stages.

I'm not scared.

I've got friends,

took my call,

came courageous.

Now I feel like I am home.

One more think, I keep having this dream

where I'm standing on a mountain

Looking out, on the street

I can hear kids in low-income housing singing

"We're through with causing a scene"

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

what it means

But I too, I'm through with causing a scene.

She is here and now I think she's ready to go.

For every love that's lost I heard a new one comes.

So come on with me, sing along with me,

Let the wind catch your feet.

If you love somebody,

you'd better let them know.

Take your time coming home.

Take your time coming home.

Hear the wheels as they roll.

Let your lungs fill up with smoke.

Forgive everyone.

I don't think I'd been misled,

it was a rock'n'roll band,

I'm still standing,

Take your time coming home.

Take your time coming home.

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