Everclear

He reels around the nightclub
Like the hubcaps off of a car
That just crashed into a sign that said
"this way to the nightclub."

He says you ain't worth a dime
To his life support systems
They still keep him talking
On the chance that he'll say something

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that we're on a stormy sea
I'm having trouble keeping down the light that i've stolen
He said, "come on and do the crabwalk with me."

He's just trying to breathe some new life into the jukebox
But it doesn't take his crap it just keeps on staring back
And the quarters that he pours down its throat
Well they're just starting to get his goat
The song plays,
"i gave you everything and i never got anything back."

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that we're on a stormy sea
I'm having trouble keeping down the light that i've stolen
He said, "come on and do the crabwalk with me."

He went fishing in the ocean
And all he got was a couple of tires
And they came up dripping with emotion
And you know how fisherman are liars
The five hundred thousand dollar country guitar
Sits at home sad and lonely
No one has any pity for the life of the party

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that we're on a stormy sea
He's having trouble keeping down the light
That he's stolen
He said, "come on and do the crabwalk with me."

How do you live traveling like this
You laugh too much like things used to be funny
And now it's all a big state of bliss

We had a little party somewhere outside memphis
We hid a six-pack under the seat
It's never too late to forget

I can see them all standing around the bar
With big crowns of gold on their heads
And they're all blind to who you are
At the royal cafe

If you keep laughing, i'll forgive you anything
Watch the towns pass by like tears
After all the scenery is just a blur
And the world is just ringing in our ears

Hey princess,
This passage suspended between now and then
Make no problem don't worry about anything

Hurry hurry make sure there's no time
For them to get their claws in us
Raise a toast at the end of the line
At the royal cafe

But the harder your pain
You got to find a way to survive
With all your pain
You got to find something to keep alive

Don't worry about the magic kingdom
They wouldn't even let us near the gate
Yeah we're just a couple of anchors
Dragging an empty slate

Are you ready to go
You'll be happier i know
Are you ready to go to the royal cafe

The things you love don't give us too much hope
When you've lost your appetite and you're sick and tired
Maybe what you need is some food for your eyes
To make them rise

Don't tell me how to tell the truth
You're like a store that only sells guns and knives
Tell me how to make something beautiful
Flash before your eyes
Let them make you rise

It only costs a buck for three tries
Though money never buys enough of anything
And i'm a moving target trying to shake some lead
From your eyes
Let them make you rise

The price of your soul is less than the cab fare
That gets you home before the living end
The dead part of you leaves me with a blessing
From a destruction of your beauty
Your self-hatred your self-pity

There's so little of you left

The dead part of you takes me out
And says the beast in me is fading fast
And leaves me with a great big goodbye hug
It's busy clinging to the dead part of the past

You only love one thing
And there's so little of it left
He has taken everything
And there's so little of you left

You're just a baby in the back seat
That a door slam sends crying into the world
And a cab driver's in a hurry that matters more than
More than anything we can hope for from the world

You only love one thing
And there's so little of it left
He has taken everything
And there's so little of you left

C'mon let's waste another thousand years
Sitting around your kitchen table
We'll turn the brandy into beer
Later they'll say, "what a miracle."

You say all you need is a right position
'cause nothing in this world helps you to see
You say that you never do it
Unless someone gives it to you for free

You say i never listen to you
Well you're right about that
But i thought that i love you
More than that

I know you're strong enough to live
In a world where are the magic's gone
I watch your hands tremble, you reach for another sip
Now all your luck is gone

Look at the moon ain't it pretty at night
Don't look away give it a chance for once
In it's own way it's just alive as any of us
In any way it's where you face

You say i never listen to you
Well you're right about that
But i thought that i love you
More than that

The take-off makes no sound
It's high and far away
Your blue sky by the moon
It takes my breath away

Why do you choose
What you choose to throw away into the undertow
A happiness like we'll never know

You can overcome your bitterness and pain
And you don't remember how
To start your life again

You were born to please
Born to put on a show
But you always run away
From a happiness like we'll never know

No hiding place in all the sky
No camouflage to keep you warm at night
No clothes you got seem to keep out the wind or the rain
No way out from your shame

The take-off makes no sound
As you fly away with that look on your face
That gives it all away

Secrets that the sea would never tell the soul
But where the current flows
A happiness like we'll never know