Free

Outside in the hall there's a catfight
It's well after midnight
I guess i'll be allright
I'm laid out on the floor
Drunk and ppor
How much longer how much more

Rock me to sleep
Strong & deep.
The screaming cats they give me the creep
But aside from all that i feel no pain
Staring up at the ceiling stains
...neon in the window
...sirens far away
...news on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday

They're at it again next door
This whole floor i swear
They're out to drive me crazy
Not right now i'm high as a cloud i'm soft and gray and lazy
...neon in the window
...sirens far away
...news on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday

Fly me
Out the window.
Somewhere far away
Singing on the radio

My eyes are jaded and complicated,
Tired of the liars and the masqueraded
Who steals our innocence away,
Like a thief in the night?
Who took away our faith in what we know to be right?
That was another world, then
That was another time
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime.

Whatever became of the child i was
I never want to lose her no
I won't give her up
And now my heart is harder,
My skin is getting tougher and tougher
That was another world then
That was another time
You can never go back to the place where love is blind
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime

Whatever became of our sweet blind love
As long as we could be together it was more than enough
Now we're all grown up and we need so much
I never knew that the price would go up as such
That was another world then, then
That was another time

Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime.

Part the dark and chase it gone
You're the sweet and sunny one
As bright as any star tonight.
You smile like a beam of light
You can
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray of
Sun.
Just until the morning comes
I'm the gray and cloudy one
Raining for so long, so long
Like a candle blowing in a storm
But you can
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Of
Sun.

The little conversation
was over very soon
And i watch in admiration
From my corner of the room.
They shine on you with starry eyes...
They rain a friendly storm.
Like kids around a christmas tree
And then you smile all nice and warm

These little conversations
If i tried my very best
You know i never could say anything
In twenty words or less.
Somewhere, sometime, down the line
Someday i may confess,
And tell you all. that's all

The little conversations
On me are very rough
They leave me all in pieces
You know there's never time enough
It's like a book with missing pages
A story incomplete
It's like a painting left unfinished
It feels like not enough to eat.
Starvin'

These little conversations
Well for me they'll never do
Now what am i supposed to do with
Broken sentences of you?
I'll stay in my corner `cause
That's all that i can do
Let the others speak for me.
Little conversations
Are we.

There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair
It's like a moment frozen forever there

Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man
"...so proud."
Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down
By some teenage car chase war out of bounds
It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun.

Shoot straight from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
You know, it could have been
It could have been your brother.
Shoot straight shoot to kill
Blame each other, blame yourselves
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone

They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me
Well i'm a high school grad i'm over 5 foot 3
I'll get a badge and a gun and i'll join the p.d.
They'll see
He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand
But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran
And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance
And it's sad sad sad

John lennon, doctor king, harvey milk
All for goddamn nothing
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone

You go crazy
You get tossed
You go running around
Until you know you're gonna fall off
He knows what you need he, knows how much, how much you want

Knock familiar,
Welcome in,
Can't believe that you let him
Introduce you as a friend.
But you're always polite
In case you need him again
No not again,
No not again.

Can't believe the way i see you
Run, run, run,
Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, run, run,
Are you having fun?
Run-

Hands are shaking. lips are cracked
You swore (i heard you swear) that you were
Never coming back, but...
One more time. just one more night
And once again, you lost the fight
Fight
So fight a little harder now.

Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, run, run
Can't believe the way you need to
Run, run, run
Are you still as young as you started
When you started to run?

Can't believe the way i see you
Run, run, run,
Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, run, run,
Are you having fun?
Run, run, run,
`till you drop.

Today i went & bought myself a bottle
...like we used to do
Reminded me of you.

Today i saw a train roll by a river
Blowing off her steam
Reminded me of me
That's when i threw the bottle in the river
Then i started running for the train

Carry me away carry me away

Its seven o nine california time
Whoever said it was a small world was either a liar or a fool
Cause it's not true
And any promise you'd make is as easy to break
As the plastic people on a wedding cake so says you
But you know, i do

Time and time and time and time away i hear you thinking
Time and time and time and time
We' keep trying crying lying and drinking
Carry me away carry me away