Misplaced Friend

the world waits | straight story | love's white lie | change | big wheels
ounce of regret | dawn | stalker | offspring | ms take


the world waits / top

passing quickly through the veins of america
the moonlight shadows no matter how near or far
i stop to watch as the twilight loses again
a cowboy's playground begins where the sidewalk ends

resting only to continue on 
the sunrise helps me on my way

the world waits outside your door
why wait inside
the world waits outside your door
until it's time for a resting place

in every town there is a town there is a
main street, a mainline, a man of means

i've heard john cougar sing about it
but the face don't always match the names

the world waits outside your door
why wait inside
the world waits outside your door
until it's time for a resting place

the highway speaks to me of what will be
with every car that travels on and on


straight story / top

this is a sad sad world that wants us to break apart
where is my joan of arc to bring on love's crusade

i know a girl who sees the world
covered in footprints off the road
she's taken the drum to steal the beat
riding the waves to stay afloat america's hands around her throat 
while they render her gender obsolete

this is a sad sad world that wants us to break apart
where is my joan of arc to bring on love's crusade
we got a long long way emotions to figure out
in love there ain't no doubt you either get lost or saved

on capital hill they'll change the times
when every voter stands in line 
screaming a protest from the street
pressing our face against the glass
looking for someone's second chance
but it stay's foggy from the heat

do you wanna get down to it 
you send a message that just does not make sense
paranoia's your best defense
you can't look forward when you can't stop looking back

i know a girl who loves a girl 
doesn't that help to heal the world?
when happiness breeds in pairs of two 
love is blind but knows the way 
to save us all from judgement day 
even with such a narrow view


love's white lie / top

alone again, the movie rambles on and
my hands hold nothing but the chair
the sweet refrain of kisses come and gone is 
almost more than I can bare

i can't write this song without you 
there is so much I can't say

i can't relate when love songs sing to me
i have no reference to guide
the hand of fate whose eyes are closed and tongue is tied 
is taking too much time

i can't write this song without you 
there is so much I can't say
i can't write this song about you
when I don't even know your name

i know all the words to hank's so lonesome 
i am killing time till you come round 
here people sometimes take what they can find
love's white lie

if love's affair should ever turn me on
and I get weightless for awhile
when I can't bare the thought of losing you
it will have made the weight worthwhile
i can't write this song without you 
there is so much I can't say
i can't write this song about you
when I don't even know your name


change / top

we all have the right to move on
from running in circles without any easy way 
out of mind once again
the same situation except for the casting has 
changed me

to wipe the slate clean in the end
I have to start from the very beginning 
again I'll have someone around
to fill up my winters and watch for the seasons to
change me 
like sand into glass rearrange me
from ash into ashes 
his endless cycle always ends with

i try but my memory fades 
and I can't remember the first time that we
ever kissed I've forgotten again
it's almost religion the search for somebody to 
 
change me 
like sand into glass rearrange me
from ash into ashes 
this endless cycle always ends with

change

won't somebody change me
like sand into glass rearrange me
from ash into ashes 
this endless cycle always ends with
change

the rest of my  story's the same 
cobwebs on canvas nothing but permanent changes





big wheels / top

your life after high school was a plan to see the world and every detour on the way
but right out of south beach you left a piece of you behind, a leaving reason you should stay

and though your thoughts are on the tales of tomorrow
will the rest of you return to your past

can you still here the ocean from where you are
did you drink all your conscience away
you've got big wheels and bad dreams left back home
and all the pictures that will never get framed

your brother's familiar, you keep him far enough away 
to ever know what's going on
and your father's a head stone they just ain't put him in the ground
your rights of passage made you wrong

and though the distance is a rocky reminder
of a town that holds your seed in it's hands

can you still hear the ocean from where you are
did you drink all your conscience away 
you've got big wheels and bad dreams left back home
and all the pictures that will never get framed

first grade he won't know the basic facts of taking back his own
he'll have his eyes filled on father's day and that's no way to grow up lonely

can you still hear the ocean from where you are
did you drink all your conscience away 
you've got big wheels and bad dreams left back home
and all the pictures that will never get framed

you live in silence that should make you ashamed 
and all the lives you never could rearrange


ounce of regret / top

looking out from my room the seasons would change 
as a child I'd assume this all was magic nature's cartoon
thoughts would form in my mind of things I have done
that bring shame or remind of all that is tragic 
made by mistake

what one ounce of regret doesn't weigh down
like a cloud made of lead
who would be better  to try and let go the past 
than living each moment in pain
when that pain doesn't last

it's the shelter we seek in from the cold
whether headstrong or weak you can avoid it
take it from me

is heaven above me
does anyone change 
your life is a tree growing stronger with age
so don't burn your life for one page


dawn / top

one foot out, one foot in, there is something underneath my skin
the past is here and here is now and now too long have i been keeping this in

dawn the first of sun the morning comes you turn me off you turn me on

at winter's end will I pretend for all the things that I've been keeping within
I'd live without without a doubt console my soul as a matter of sin

dawn the first of sun the morning comes you turn me off you turn me on


stalker / top

i want you inside me 
swimming in circles all over my skin
the weight of your body
pinning me down for a moment of sin

you will not ignore me
i won't be the dirt you sweep under the rug
to treat the affliction
i'll be the needle if you are the drug

i need a reaction 
i need something more than hello and goodbye
this mindless attraction 
is fueled by the tears that you don't see me cry

the second to last girl
the one who is waiting in line for your love
the oyster with no pearl
even forever is never enough

i'm standing behind you
wherever you go I will always be there
emotion to motion devotion
the weight of my words seem to hang in the air

i ache and i tremble 
you're telling me no with the look of a bluff
my heart disassembles
of thinking my love may be never enough

you know you never cover me with kind words
you know you never seem to have that long
but if you could take a good look around you
you would understand that we belong
you are my artist you are my savior you are everything I need
i want to breathe you in till the light caves in 
and the wall's the only thing you see

it's deeper than diving 
into a pool filled with Darwin or god
both having an answer 
which is the one that i don't want to hear


offspring / top

this young man had run from his king and dominion
stopping only to fight for his life and opinion
passing on what he'd learned
from the schools of diego
and the lessons he learned came from under the table

growing up in this womb she's a constant reminder
of the life she had ruined and her mother stands behind her
and in the end she will see
she's grown up just like me 
and everything you have done
is everything you become

so don't blame me, I'm just an innocent offspring
what you don't see, is a mother and father beside me

hold your ground
don't stay too far behind
so much more have I faired as a child and an elder
those who gave me a chance spent there life as the builders
placing all of these blocks in a certain direction
leaving only a space to insure my protection

they stayed with me, although I was always a mystery 
environment is key, now the offspring must carry the history


ms take / top

the gravitational pull of this hillside reminds me 
of every bullshit direction that you pushed me to go
weighted down by the various reasons you gave me
it was apparent i was better of being alone


 i said it's better of  to B
          in relation to the I 
you wind up crossing 
                          all my T's
        i'd love to throw
                   you in the C
                         to the H
baby i am free, now at 
least i know better 
and i feel sorry for the man 
who has to look you in the 
face and try and keep his 
straight
 
you weren't exactly a vision of perennial pleasure
from far away in the dark you know you weren't half  bad
and you walk into the room everybody around you
would stop to talk about your make up and the size of your ass

i said it's better of  to B
          in relation to the I 
you wind up crossing 
                        all my T's
        i'd love to throw
                   you in the C
                         to the H
baby i am free, now at 
least i know better 
and i feel sorry for the man 
who has to look you in the 
face and try and keep his 
straight
 
what was, what was i thinking
what was, what was i thinking
what was, what was i drinking
what was, what was, what was i thinking

so here some words from a guy who laid his heart on the table
before you're living with a vision that you think is the bomb
pay a visit to the guy that she dated before you
cause he may have already written this song
	



i said it's better of to B
        in relation to the I 
you wind up crossing 
                       all my T's
       i'd love to throw
                 you in the C
                        to the H
baby I am free, now at 
least I know better 
and I feel sorry for the man 
who has to look you in the 
face and try and keep his 
straight