This Desert Life

All I want is something good
It gets harder every time
She is leaving here tonight
Take a breath, take your time
Spread your wings and rise

Make a mark upon the wall
Paint your face and pass the time
Close your eyes and she ascends
Hold your breath and ease your mind
Forty thousand times
Time fades into the night

They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen Ohio rise?
It has been four days and nights

All I want is something fine
It gets harder every time
She is sleeping far away
Take your breath, take your time
Spread your wings and rise
Rise into the black Ohio skies

They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen Ohio rise?
It has been four days and nights, nights



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What's there that makes you want to be lonely
What's there that keep you sitting at home
He'd always say no no no as if he wanted you to be hungry
Well the same things you're missing could get you into something else

Better leave when to stay is only nothing but being alone
What I wanted you to know is
Kid things, seemed like nothing at all
Kid things, make it better than it was
Kid things, seemed like nothing at all
But kid things, make it better than it was

Hey what you got that makes you want to be lonely
Hey what you got that makes it a better way to be
She said: "No no no I can't get any love and it's a sunday"
I said "Oh yeah, what makes you think I wanted it that way"
Cause one or two more smiles from you and I don't need anything else
What I wanted you to know
Is kid things, seemed like nothing at all
Kid things, make it better than it was
We're just kids, we spend all night on the phone
It's a kid thing, but I sleep better when I'm not alone

What I want right now is just some more, more, gimme more
Hey what you think is you're not getting any younger
What I know is that you're not really very old
I know you wanna say: "No no no it feels much better in the summer"
Well if it isn't warm where you're sittin' then kitten come on in out of the cold

Cause all I know is that I want you and well I don't need anything else.
What I wanted you to know
Is kid things, seemed like nothing at all
And kid things, make it better than it was
We're just kids, we spend all night on the phone
It's a kid thing, so I sleep better when I'm not alone
Kid things, seemed like nothing at all
Kid things, make it better than it was
We're just kids, just like driving a car
It's a kid thing and the further out the closer in you are



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Thought I might get a rocket ride
When I was a child but it was a lie
That I told myself when I needed something good
At seventeen, had a better dream.
Now I'm thirty-three and it isn't me
But I'd think of something better if I could

All my friends and lovers leave me behind
I'm still looking for a girl
One way or another, I'm just hoping to find a way
To put my feet out in the world

Caught some grief from a falling leaf
As she tumbled down to the dirty ground
Said I should have put her back there if I could
But everyone needs a better day
And I'm trying to find me a better way
To get from the things I do to the things I should

All my friends and lovers leave me alone
To try to have a little fun
One way or another I just wish I had known
To go out walking in the sun
And find out if you were the one

Does it make you wanna come a little closer now?
And did you wanna dance with me?
Did you wanna hum a little harder now?
Can you see her waiting there?
Can you see her? Because I'm almost there
Can you see her waiting there for someone like me?

All you want is a beauty queen
Not a superstar but everybody's dream machine
All you want is a place to lay your head
You go to sleep dreaming how you would
Be a different kind if you thought you could
But you come awake the way you are instead

All my friends and lovers shine like the sun
I just turn and walk away
One way or another, I'm not coming undone
I'm just waiting for the day



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If I could make it rain today
And wash away this sunny day down to the gutter
I would just to get a change of pace
Things are getting worse but I feel a lot better
And that's all that really matters to me

Amy hit the atmosphere
Caught herself a rocket ride out of this gutter and
She's never coming back, I fear
But any time it rains
She just feels a lot better
And that's all that really matters to me

We've waited so long for someone to take us back home
It just takes so long
Meanwhile the days go drifting away
And some of us sink like a stone
Waiting for mothers to come

There has to be a change, I'm sure
Today was just a day fading into another
And that can't be what a life is for
The only thing she said was she feels a lot better
And that's all that really matters to me

We've waited so long for someone to take us back home
It just takes so long
Meanwhile the days go drifting away
And some of us sink like a stone
Waiting for mothers to come

Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
All I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know
All I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know
All I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know
And All I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know



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Well I woke up in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast

Well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
If you've never stared off into the distance then your life is a shame
And though I'll never forget your face,
Sometimes I can't remember my name

Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry
Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything

Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
And the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl will linger inside of your head
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin them forever instead
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in bed

Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
I said hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep

So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
Ah, but I'd sure like to find out so why don't you climb down off that movie screen

Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn
Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
And orders another, well, I wonder what he did that for
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door

We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
We stand up at the Palace like it's the last of the great Pioneertown bars
Oh, we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
Oh, you can see a million miles tonight but you can't get very far

Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch and
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me



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