The Sound Of A Tree Falling

I was kind of hoping you'd ask me to dance
But you were groping for change in your pants.
We grew apart too soon after all was
Said done in advance
If what you're saying is what i suspect
And all you're slayings is just stuff you decked
I'll turn you in if that's what you want or
If you want i'll protect you
Bad boys and girls hang the night in the street
That's all i hear curled up underneath my sheet
As i dream those thoughts about you
How 'my gonna get to sleep?
I'm not so wild anymore like i was
I'm differently wild now and that's because
Those same things don't work anymore
But i still want the same buzz

If you move into my life and take over my soul
Charm all my friends and play the rescuer role
Let me quit my job to go on your dole
And make your approval my ultimate goal,
I will begin to shrink back into the corner of my own skin
Until i'm so small and pink that no one would see me
Even if they got in -

Your enormous index finger would be probing to find me
As i darted between the walls of my own personality
Which would be changing as i left most of it behind me
Disappearing into a new reality...

And when you tried to trot me out to show me to your friends
They'd say "what girlfriend? we don't see any girlfriend."
As you open the door of your mercedes benz
Now you got the oyster you don't need the pearl when
You can have my beautiful smile
That wonderfully elegant style
All my show business connections
Both of my cats affections
The clothes you bought me are yours
That timex watch endures
My good relationship with your mom
My ability to remain calm,

But here i'd be like a dead person looking down
On the cemetery where they placed a stone
With a name on it like jane smith or john brown
That i no longer recognized as my own

Hold me tight and i'll just shed my skin, slither away,
No matter what's happenin'.

I like it here don't wanna move
Just wanna stay here in this same old groove
No need for growth now or any adventure
No need to be shown how to pay attention or start my engine.
I like it here i like it now
Not over there where i had to kowtow

And i had to be present for those things in the past
That were truly unpleasant and over with at last.
I like it here don't wanna change
Not looking towards next year or back home on the range
I'm gonna glue my backside to the living room wall
And i ain't gonna backslide i'm just not gonna play ball.
Cause i like it here don't wanna change
Just wanna stay here why is that so strange?
And if you were inside me then you would come to see
Things the way i do and you'd like it here too.

Every time she thinks about leaving that night she has the
Same dream
And it goes like this:

She's walking across the river
She's walking across the street
Looking down she starts to shiver
Looking down she has no feet.
The irs is in hot pursuit
Disguised as grandmother
She tried too hard to hide all the loot
By giving it away to somebody or other
Who works in a skyscraper
Where there's a receptionist at the door
But she doesn't have the right piece of paper
And her pants aren't on anymore.
Suddenly she's sitting on the toilet
Right there in plain view of the man
As usual she had to go and spoil it
Just when everything was going according to plan.
Then the bus came by and she missed it
So it came by again and she missed it again
The third time it came by she kissed it
Which put her in the arms of her ex-boyfriend
Who was alive again, he was alive!
And she no longer grieving
But she throws off his embrace and runs from the scene.

Nobody's doing the job they want to be doing
Don't you see that's the whole problem?

The waiter wants to be an actor
And the dentist wants to be a violinist
The lawyer wants to be just about anything but a lawyer
But still make a fortune and live off the interest
The baby wants to be a big girl
And the teacher wants to be a performer
The dancer used to be the thing she always wanted to be
But now she's the maitre d'
The businessman wants to be a musician
And the housewife wants to be a magician
The doctor doesn't want to be a physician
But the restaurateur now he's found a cure
For the nine to five blues
But the messenger he doesn't want to bring the news
The bus driver wants to win the lottery
And the thief has to be what he's gotta be
And nobody wants to be a bum
The piano player wants to beat the drum
Mostly everybody thinks they'd like to be a star
Except celebrities in magazines you read
That say how difficult it is to be the thing they are
And that something else is really what they need.

I woke up on a mountain i had walked around the world
My family would have been so proud
I never had that kind of courage when i was a girl
Of all the children it was me who always cried out loud.
I cried out loud when a boy in my class
Poisoned my best friend.
He put her body in a box on the grass
I had so much to tell her but i never saw her again.
I'm trying to be true to what i believe in.
I grew up on the east coast of a place they call the west
I had a set of rules to go by
Followed them so faithfully i needed me a rest
So i took up with the guru but i didn't really know why.
Guru said "the pain you're in is nothing but a dream"
I told him "i'm unable to believe."
"well, that's a start," he said and then he ran out of gasoline
But i still think he's got something up his sleeve.
He's trying to be true to what he believes in.

I'm gonna work a couple a years here
Then i'm gonna go home
Where they treat women with respect
And don't make 'em go out of the house and work
That's how the home gets wrecked."

If you want to meet a man from pakistan
You might try riding in a new york city taxi cab
And if you are so inclined as to ask the man about his country
I think that you will find it is a very different place
From new york.
I got in the cab and the man started to tell me about his
Family
And he said "miss are you interested in my country?"
And i said "yes."
So there we were and i found out about his country.
"well" he said "l come from a place that is so much more
Relaxed than here" and he told me that i would not believe
The difference
And i said to him "how would you explain it to me?"
And he said "l'm gonna work a couple a years here
And then i'm gonna go home
Where they treat women with respect
And don't make 'em go out of the house and work."