The Globe Sessions

i watched the sun come up on portland
i waved goodbye to all my friends
i packed my car and headed to la
i gave away all my loose ends

somebody said you gotta get away
to wanna go back home again
i left my universe standing there
holding the hand of my best friend

and it's laughter that i feel when i think of you
it's one more dusty rose about to turn
i'll see you when i reach new mexico
if i'm in the mood to crash and burn

i wrote a letter that i never mailed
i rehearsed a dialogue in my head
in case you ever wanted to track me down
i'll take my cell phone to bed

and it's laughter that i hear when i close my eyes
and it's one more punchline i forgot to learn
i call you up when my bottle's dry
i'm on my way to crash and burn

antigone laid across the road
and let a mack truck leave her there for dead
just because her lover split the scene
well love might be great but why lose your head

well it's laughter that comes up when i cry for you
and my heart may break again before it learns
and i might be stupid enough to want to fall again
cause i've gotten use to the crash and burn
i say i've gotten use to the crash and burn

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i was riding on the e train
i was whistling to the rhythm
i was thinking about my live in
i was feeling pretty fine
i asked the time
got a poke in the eye

when i read the latest news
how we can't believe he wore those shoes
should we have the man impeached
or should we shoot him in the foot
well you waste my time
you waste my time
looking for two hundred ways to hang a guy

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allegations
interrogations
investigations
then more taxation
national past time is aggrivation
i think i'll move out to a desert isle
just for a while

to avoid all that's distracting
like newspapers and magazines
insipid propagandizing
to tell me what a loser i've elected
but you've neglected to tell the truth
that your politics is tied around his foot
and we too are dangling

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do you think that we are crazy
low i q that we are lazy
that we sit here watching sitcoms
that we have no clue to what is going on
well you got that wrong

wait and see the boom will fall
the morning eggs will hit the wall
and everyone i know will call
to say that change is hanging in the air
you'd best beware
you'll wake up and average joe is in your chair
just because he'd kinda like to do what's right
but more cause all you politicians do is fight

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we lay around just like gurus
in borrowed robes
and talk about nothing
well maybe that's something
maybe that's something

you stretch out across a long long table
without hesitation
you say i'm willing and able

maybe that's something
maybe that's one thing more than i've seen
maybe that's something more than nothing

you say good i say you should will you be there
making miracles is hard work
most people give up before they happen

maybe that's something
maybe that's one thing more than i've seen
maybe that's something more than nothing
more than nothing more than nothing

maybe that's something
maybe that's one thing more than i've seen
maybe that's something more than nothing
more than nothing more than nothing more than nothing

i light your cigarettes
i bring you apples from the vine
how quickly you forget
i run the bath and pour the wine
i bring you everything that floats into your mind

but you don't bring me anything but down
you don't bring me anything but down
you don't bring me anything but down
when you come 'round

you are a raging sea
i pull myself out everyday
i plea insanity
cause i can't leave but i can't stay
you say won't you come find me and yes is what i say

you don't bring me anything but down
you don't bring me anything but down
everything is crashing to the ground
maybe i'm not your perfect kind
maybe i'm not what you had in mind
maybe we're just killing time

you with your silky words
and your eyes of green and blue
you with your steel beliefs
that don't match anything you do
it was so much easier before you became you

you don't bring me anything but down
you don't bring me anything but down
everything just crashes to the ground
when you come around
when you come around

no more playing seek and hide
no more long and wasted nights
can't you make it easy on yourself

i know you wish you were strong
you wish you were never wrong
well i got some wishes of my own

every step of the way
we walk the line
your days are numbered
so are mine

time is piling up
we struggle and we scrape
all boxed in
nowhere to escape

the city's just a jungle
more games to play
i'm trapped in the heart of it
trying to get away

i was raised in the country
been working in the town
i been in trouble since i
set my suitcase down

i ain't got nothing for you
i had nothing before
don't even have anything
for myself anymore

sky's full of fire
and the rain is pouring down
there's nothing you can sell me
so i'll see you around

all my powers of expression
and thoughts so sublime
could never do you justice
reason or rhyme
there's only one thing that i did wrong
i stayed in mississippi a day too long

the devil's in the alley the mule kickin' in the stall
say anything you wanna i've heard it all
i was thinking about the things that she said
i was dreaming i was sleeping in you bed

walking through the leaves falling from the trees
feel like a stranger nobody sees
so many things we never will undo
i know you're sorry well i'm sorry too

some people will offer you their hand and some won't
last night i knew you tonight i don't
i need something strong to distract my mind
i'm gonna look at you 'til my eyes go blind

well i got here following the southern star
i crossed that river just to be where you are
there's only one thing that i did wrong
i stayed in mississippi a day too long

well my ship's been split to splinters it's sinking fast
i'm drowning in the poison got no future got no past
but my heart is not weary it's light and it's free
i've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me

everybody's moving if they ain't already there
everybody's got to move somewhere
well stick with me baby anyhow
things should start to get interesting right about now

my clothes are wet tight on my skin
not as tight as the corner that i painted myself in
i know that fortune is waiting to be kind
so give me your hand and say you'll be mine

the emptiness is endless cold as clay
you can always come back but you can't come back all the way
well there's only one thing that i did wrong
i stayed in mississippi a day too long
yeah the only thing that i did wrong
was stayed in mississippi a day too long
the only thing that i did wrong
was stayed in mississippi a day too long

i think i was wrong
i think you were right
all my angry words
will keep me up at night
through the old screen door
i still hear you say
honey won't you stop
treating me that way

if you could only see
what love has made of me
then i'd no longer be in your mind
the difficult kind
cause babe i've changed

tell it to me slow
tell me with your eyes
if anyone should know
how to let it slide
i swear i can see you
coming up the drive
there ain't nothing like regret
to remind you you're alive

if you could only see
what love has made of me
then i'd no longer be in your mind
the difficult kind
cause babe i've changed

i crossed the canyon a thousand times
but never noticed what was mine
what you'll remember of me tonight
well it almost makes me cry
yeah it almost makes me cry

oh ballbreaking moon and ridiculing stars
the older i get the closer you are
don't you have somewhere that you need to be
instead of hanging here making a fool of me

if you could only see
what love has made of me
then i'd no longer be in your mind
the difficult kind
but you won't see the change in me
if you could only see
what love has made of me
but i'll forever be in your mind
the difficult kind
but you won't see no you won't see
the good in me
but babe i've changed
cause babe i've changed