Amazing Disgrace

please return it


Now, now is the time
Time to reckon
Time to beckon, be surprised
Like a letter
I just sent it, please return it, just forget it
When we live the life we live
It's never ours completely
Not completely
Like a movie, like a style, please return it, please return it
Like a favor, like a glance, please return it, please return it

8, 8 is the hour
Hour of our trials, ours too sickening to live
Please return it
Put it back, i take it back, i can burn it
When you let me live my life
You didn't do it completely but you were discreet
Like the year i spent comparing me to you, please return it
Like a servant, like a sewer, please return it, please return it

There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside'

When you took me by surprise
That's half the fun of everything
Do you miss the point like i do?
In the certainty of friendships you can ask
Please return it
Bring the balance back to you
In returning

There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'

When i see you cry
Talking on the phone at night
You never tell me why
When it all goes down
And you know shit gets around
And rumors are true
I'll never have a friend quite as lovely again

And i'm not responsible for the ending that i know is inevitable

Yes, i understand you're happy now
And i understand your hand-me-down towel
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Better to be happy than to never know

Well it pins me to
An exaggerated view --
Correct me if i'm wrong
And it's man's best friend
And the tin's empty again
Degrade yourself now
I never took a pill wasn't guaranteed to thrill

And i ought to know you standing up sober
I ought to know your black & white look
I ought to know just like your dad told you
I ought to know mistakes you mis... took

You can paint it black
You can use thickest shellac
And still be see-through
And with everything i say
I mean it in the best way
To have it be true

And it's not impossible
For a friend to heed the slack behind the pull

Yes, i understand you're happy now
And i understand your hand-me-down towel
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Better to be happy

And i ought to know you standing up sober
I ought to know your black and white look
I ought to know just like your dad told you
I ought to know mistakes you mis...

Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand you're happy now
Yes, i understand...
Better to be happy
Than to never know

It's another detachment
Same arrangement, different placement
I'm the saddest of moments
All alone in my unspoken
I was dying to feel you
To be in you, and to heal you
I was grieving the distance
Realizing my insistence

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world

We were such an amazement
When i found you in the basement
Spent a night on the ceiling
What a feeling, what a feeling

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world

(instrumental)

And i see the only real i know i feel i have it all

You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world
You are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world
You're the only world you are the world, you are the world

Here's how to understand your friends
It's been like six years of the same thing
Nothing can be believed unless you say it
Nothing but good times up ahead for you

Here's how to occupy your mind
Take some skills and learn to build a reason
Nothing can be perceived 'til you betray it
Nothing but fine times up ahead for you

And if we build a car that drives on empty eyes
And call it "laughing matter"
Nothing matters
It's all up for you

I can't cry, i can't apply a word to sum it up
Under stress i can't repress the moment it erupts
Hear the sound of paper drums and shredded paper voice
Got to turn up 'keep hanging on' as if i had a choice

Prairie fires and pitchfork choirs inspire as they create
Turn it up, it's too far down, until we can relate
Minnesota new day rising first day in the store
Take the couch at someone's house and wait around to score

Nervous children making millions: you owe it all to them
Power trios with big-ass deals: you opened for it then
I can see, i can see, i can see it all with my one good eye
For a start take two grant harts and call me when you die

Don't look around at the scenery today
'cuz you probably won't understand it
Don't settle down in a permanent way
'cuz you haven't the right to demand it

I'm writing you a hate song
I don't want to have to hold your hand
I'm writing you a hate song
And i'm hoping that you'll understand

Let it be said that it hasn't been said
When there wasn't the will to unearth it
Relive the germs to awaken the worms
Just to ask them if it's worth it
So let's get one thing straight:
The halls have narrowed, leaving aphids in the marrow...

So you say so
And i say what
And the difference ain't worth debating
I never wanted the mud in the face
But i couldn't have known what was waiting...

There isn't time to tell you all you need to know
But i get as scared as any and i wish it wasn't so

And i don't like it
Any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...

We're going to make a listing of all the things we don't need
And then we will wean them slowly, all the fears we feed

And i don't like it
Any more than you do
Not any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Sense swinging out of sight
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
No, no no
No, no no

I don't like it
Any more than you do
I don't like it
Any more than you do
Not any more than you do

But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Left swinging to the right
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
But you'd better hold in spite of doubt
Sense swinging out of sight
Never lose what you found out
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
You can fight it if it doesn't kill you
You can fight it if you want to fight...
No, no no
No, no no