Suit and Tie

Start of the Act

Cue up the lights

Shaving your back

Massaging your pride

Right down the drain

Waving goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

And you look like a liar

With your suit and your tie around your neck

It’s called denial

Cause you feel it…

Losing your cat

To the Great Outside

Kitty come back

Or drop me a line, a line, a line

And you look like a liar

With your suit and your spare tire

You know it’s called denial

But you feel it….

You say you’ll write a letter

It’ll make you feel much better

When you order that enhancer

That you saw while watching Sportscenter

It might take a while

But your job is just so vile

All you do is file

Your feelings

Answer machine, more lonely than you

Just one bell will ring, it’s your microwaveable food

Sometimes you sing, the neighbors complain

You hide behind your Acura YOU

Want to stop it

But you know it takes a lotta, What you don’t got

You gotta but you can’t stop, The knot in your chest

There’s no denying, That deep deep inside

You feel, you feel you feel….

More alive

Operator

The street smells like glycerin                                               

There’s something sweet on me tonight

And my brothers bike

The air is like honey

It’s thick and it’s sticking to my ride

The pedals stop at the

Dial tone                                                                                

Got no quarters

To atone

From this payphone

So alone

It’s why I loiter

Oh Operator

Age is a numbers game

And I lost cause you’re throwing me away

Why judge a guy by his birthday?

Is that you paging me?

I know it’s lame but I’m only 23

I’ll get a phone when I need one

Dial tone

Got no quarters

To atone

From my payphone

So alone

It’s why I loiter

Oh, Operator!

But girl I need you now                                             

It’s the only moment that I know                                                      

Won’t you please accept my charges

This was a bad idea

And now I’m really late for work

I’m just a grocery clerk

It’s just a stop for me

On the greater highway that I see

My whole life’s ahead of me

Gina Knows

Take a number and wait in line

You can yell at me but not on my dime

So many questions I plead the 5th

Keep on punching I can take the hits

You must be some kind of private eye

You should start a new career as a spy

You really think I’m that kind of guy?

I only whisper when I’m caught in a lie

(I’m caught in a lie)

Oh no no no, Gina Knows

Pack up my clothes, Gina Knows

Only bad men do the whodoneit

Lock me up in a cave on a summit

Where I can only make out with myself

I won’t tell on me, you know I won’t tell

Oh no no no, Gina Knows

Pack up my clothes, Gina Knows

She knows!

I’m only guilty of nothing to say

You look so angry with your face that way

So much finger pointing coming my way

I think I might need a place to stay

This really blows, Gina Knows

So many highs and lows, Gina knows

I think I’m really hosed, Gina knows

She knows

I think I gotta go….

Let’s go.

Blind

Must’ve been a few things I left along the way

But that’s an easy thing

To do

I’m hoping for a lost and found at the end of the day

So I can get back the time

That I blew

But it’s worse than being blind

I got my sight, but I can’t find

My way on back

To you

Must’ve been something bad I did to deserve

The beating I took (from you)

I’m not bruised, and I ain’t got any visible scars

Except a broken heart

My broken heart

And it’s worse than being blind

I got my sight, but I can’t find

My way on back

To you

I got wings and I can fly

But it’s not like being high

I can’t find my way back to you

If I had it all to do all over again

I’d get right back to where you stand

Throw my arms around your neck

So we could be back together again

I’m sorry for what you call my inexcusable charm

There’s nothing worse than a salesman in the cellar

I wish I could say something that hasn’t been already said

Even that there sounds familiar

And it’s worse than being blind

I got sight but I can’t find

My way on back

To you

I got sight but I can’t see

The road in front of me

And I can’t find my way back to you

A Lot to Learn

I think I fell

I fell apart

I fell to pieces

Get the glue, it don’t’ stick right no more

When I was new

I never knew

I’d expire,

my fire wouldn’t burn bright no more

I sit and watch the world go by

Like an astronaut hanging from a satellite

I can conjugate the spins and turns

Of its axis but I still got a lot to learn

About you and I….

The picture is a mess

What a mess

I’m  a mess

I think I missed it when you counted to three

Such a bad shot

I’m looking shot

I need a shot

I need something, inject me oh please….

Standing on the edge of a cliff

I could slip and float into the afterlife

I can make the world go around

I’m the god of my ground

I got a lot to learn

About you and I

Gotta take a ride

Take her right

Take it easy

It’s not easy, adapting with me

We’ve got so many hours                  

The days are ours

We’ve come so far

We’re much stronger than we pretend to be

Rock Song

I hear the sounds eminating from my radio

I get excited when I hear a song I didn’t know

5 o’clock never comes too fast

Each day feels like the last

I think I have to quit 

Never trust a man who promises

He’s the boss so he doesn’t mean a word he says

The day turns into night

Let’s get this party started right

And now you’ve waited too long

And it’s just another rock song

And you don’t know the words

But if we try to get it right

We can party on a Tuesday night

Scream and we’ll be heard

I hear the sounds eminating from my radio

The cubicle is small

I keep the music low

Break the monotony

Who cares if we have to be back here at 8am

Yeah we’ll call in sick again

The day turns into night

We’ll get this party started right

I think I’ll call my friends

Where are all my friends?

Rockit

You better bring gold if you bring it with me

I’ll hang you on the wall with your integrity

I pick the hits in the solace of my car

I drive it, used

I sometimes win…but I never lose

If I didn’t feel low, I wouldn’t get so high

I know it’s wrong, but it makes me feel right

I’m a shell of myself, in my war with you

I’m losing ground

Just bring it—back me down

Gentle to the touch

It means so much

I don’t care what you say to me

I’ve got a rocket in my pocket that will set me free

I don’t car what you say to me

I’ve got a rock it in my pocket that will set me free….

Real Life

Everybody cares

Everybody listens when they’re scared

Making their lists

Making a fist without you here

Even if we can

Even if we don’t quite understand

Only you know me

No one else knows dick about me

I’m so inclined

To come by

Anytime

A glass of wine

Could set us straight

It’s a date

It’s a real life

These are big shoes

They feel raw and slightly used

Walk them on down

To the edge of this desolated town

Back of the bus

It’s a lonely world but what’s the fuss

I think about my dad

He never wanted the son you're lookin at

Humbled by the rush

Our clock is set too fast for us

Slow it on down

Realize we all end up in the ground

It's a daunting task

(Pro)creation kicks me in the ass

But here I go, I’m

Packing only love down this one way road

Long Way

Love is kind of twofold

She said

You tear it down the middle

And you wrap it around the edge

As you stand out on the ledge

It's a long way down

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the wrong way

Your love is flying blind, she read

She says it takes the right man

To practice what he says

Knows when the light is red

Knows when to stop

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the wrong way

If the party's on then take it

If the job is long then fake it

I'd rather die alone than make it

That's right

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the long way

Everybody takes the wrong way

St. Louis

I’m back home

I feel depressed

I found your clothes

And your new address

Why leave a note?

Why leave a note?

Your words are a joke,

The breeze makes me choke,

And all the time the answers were in front of my face

I try to think about tomorrow, but  I can’t forget today

I found my old records

And all my books

I found my old Bee Gees

But the turntable you took

I called on in to work

I said I can’t make it in today

I’d sleep it off

But I’m too awake

And all the time the jokes that did not make any sense

I finally figured out the punchline…was at my expense

So I’m back home

Or what remains

I watch the snow

Drift off my windowpane

So much wasted spit

So many envelopes

All these silver gifts

With nowhere to go

And all the time the answers were in front of my face

I try to think about tomorrow, but I can’t forget today

Walk it Off

When red changes to blue

What will you do

To covet the medal that’s around your chest

You did your best

But it’s no fun being second to none

And so you

Walk it off

The leaves are changing and the sidewalk talks

And you keep it crazy for another block

Your feet are aching and you wanna stop

But you walk it off

You’re trapped

You played the sap

You designed the map

And now you’re really lost

You know you’re near

Inside your ear

You’re running free

You wanna let it be

And so you

Walk it off

The snow is melting underneath your socks

So you keep it crazy for another block

Your feet are aching and you wanna stop

But you walk it off

When bad

Goes to worse

You take your purse

And you pay a nickel

For another verse

The band, it plays

Remember today

Is the day before tomorrow

And you

Walk it off

The leaves are changing and the sidewalk talks

You keep it crazy for another block

The days are heavy when the nights are long

So you walk it off

Homesick

I can’t stop thinking of her face

And she’s just a few miles away

I’ll probably see her when she gets home today

But I can’t stop thinking of her face

I miss the tender of her lips

And the warm welcome when we kiss

I’ve 3 days yet to practice what I’ll miss

But I can’t stop thinking of her lips

I’m just so homesick already

Thinking how I’ll be denied

I close my eyes to etch her smile

It brands it’s color for a while

It fills me up

I close my eyes

To etch her precious little smile

I’m just so homesick already

Thinking how I’ll be denied

Give me courage to be strong

I’m just no good when I get gone

What she does to me she gets me along

Give me courage to be strong

You see, on Monday I’m going far away

And I don’t know how I’ll get by.

Will I be all right?

Will she be all right?

Will I be all right?

Will she be all right?

St. Louis

I’m back home

I feel depressed

I found your clothes

And your new address

Why leave a note?

Why leave a note?

Your words are a joke,

The breeze makes me choke,

And all the time the answers were in front of my face

I try to think about tomorrow, but I can’t forget today

I found my old records

And all my books

I found my old Bee Gees

But the turntable you took

I called on in to work

I said I can’t make it in today

I’d sleep it off

But I’m too awake

And all the time the jokes that did not make any sense

I finally figured out the punchline…was at my expense

So I’m back home

Or what remains

I watch the snow

Drift off my windowpane

So much wasted spit

So many envelopes

All these silver gifts

With nowhere to go

And all the time the answers were in front of my face

I try to think about tomorrow, but I can’t forget today