Holy Smokes

You did everything you could
You had to go away from your home
I never realized when i was a kid
How alone, how alone
Yeah well back in your neighborhood
They knew you when you blew through town
Behind your back they were putting you down

They had
Rules for this
Rules for that
Rule on top of rule
Broke your back

Once upon a time i was holding your hand
A lady off the street came up
She said hey mister i need some money
You can't give enough
I'll never forget the look in your eye
As you dug into your pocket to give
That look of love gave me a reason to live

There are
Rules for this
Rules for that
If you put rule on top of rule
You can break someone's back

Break the rules

Just the other day i was breaking a rule
My whole self was ashamed
I thought the sky would open and cry
Thunder and rain
Yeah well there are many reasons
I don't feel so good
I'd forgive if i could

But i got
Rules for this
Rules for that
Rule on top of rule
To break my back

Break the rules
Break the rules

What's wrong
Hold it a minute
I'm happy
Send up a flare

Some of the dreams
I forgot
They came true
I'm happy
Just to see you

Breathing
Fifteen years old
We made it
In from the cold
Lovey, where you were hardly alive
We had some biggies to climb

I'm tired
Can't climb anymore
I see you put
One foot out the door
Go ahead open it
Find your way
You can come back home any day

Buy listen
Be who you are
And listen
To your own heart
Sometimes i listen to nothing
And hear
The secret of breathing
Out in the clear

I'm happy
Hold it a minute
Please dear
Don't come home late
Tomorrow you have to clean up that mess
You left in your room
And she said yes

Breathing
She's breathing

I live in an eggshell
Sometimes, if i'm careful, i can make a pinpoint
Through the shell
And see the light.
I'm too big to fit through the hole, though,
And that's my tough luck.

Inside my eggshell i am secure,
As long as i am careful not to move.
But i have no control over what happens from the outside.
I huddle there and worry that something i can not see
Will bump into me

And when it does!
You wouldn't believe what happens in an eggshell then!
I get scrambled.
My brains run like bean soup into my veins, bursting them.
And my blood spatters up against the wall
Worst of all.
A little bit of me seeps through cracks
And trickles away forever.

People who live in eggshells have only one alternative:
They can get hard boiled.

Listen to a story
Of somebody so bad
Living invisible
Trying not to make anybody mad

Had to get going
Float your boat away from here
Dark is the ocean
With only one star

Being all alone in the middle of nowhere
Right out of the blue did you appear
Saying stay
Stay with me
Stay a little longer

Out there in the moonlight
The two took a look at the scars
It was different that the daylight
Where there's a bandaid on who you are
Sorrow exploded like a rainbow up in the sky
One of them cried i'm lonesome
I know you are was the reply

Being all alone in the middle of nowhere
I don't think i'm prepared i guess i'm really scared
You can stay
Stay with me
Stay a little longer

This kind of a story
Has no snazzy end
It's in the telling
You really need an ear to bend
So much for the story of somebody so bad
Living invisible
Trying not to make anybody mad

Trying not to make anybody mad
Trying not to make anybody mad

Scared of the dark
In the middle of nowhere
I am not alone you know
If you are there
Stay
Stay with me
Stay a little longer

Is it love or is it hate
I'm a stand there fence
You're a swinging gate
If i were a shoe
I would walk away
Walk away

I threw at you a book of love
It said that we might be able to rise above
These feelings
I'm lost and found and kneeling down to pray
Just what do you say when you pray

Holy smokes
We are fighting
In that bag of miracles and lightning
Is there anything in there to make this
All night a little less frightening
The way we fall apart is bustin up my heart

This sad song stays on my mind
All crossed out and underlined
Hiding there afraid that i might find
The worst thing is how you are so beautiful and kind
When i am leaving you behind

Holy smokes
We are fighting
In that bag of miracles and lightning
Is there anything in there to make this
All night a little less frightening
The way we fall apart is bustin up my heart

The phone rings ... who could it be
That religious guy from brooklyn
Did we meet by accident ... yes we did
Did we communicate ... i guess we did
He says i pray throughout my salesman's day
Stay late at a bar and i hey hey hey

His wife doesn't like him ... six kids he's got
The holy thing has him tied in a knot
He thinks i'm lucky and free
To be who i am unashamed or guilty
But i pray as every sinner may
The deep down blues won't go away ... go away

High above way up in the sky
Is there a good guy or anybody watching down
Help is on the way but you don't know when
There's nothing to say
Just don't go all the way around the bend

Goodnight
Put your head away
Reach across ... turn off the light
Soon you fall into a dream
Far in the distance a fade away scream
I pray that we will be all right
Thanks again ... we were alive today