BLIND SIDE

Empty heart
Full of contradiction
Empty arms
Waiting for your direction
But who am I to expect your surrender
Who am I to think that I can make you fall in love with
me

Patiently wondering if I'll ever find peace
Work out my problems by playing
Screamed out my throat
And left my heart hanging

But the blind side of love
Yeah it moved right in to you
Blind side of fate
Yeah it fell right on you
But now I've felt me in you
And I want you to
Come on and blind side me

'Cause I love everything about you
And I don't even know you
So I hope everything I've made up about you is true
'Cause your smile yeah it's stuck in my eyes
And your mouth makes me forget what I'm saying
And your lips make me wonder if your taken
Tell me are you taken?

Blind side of love
Yeah it moved right in to you
Blind side of fate
Yeah it fell right on you
And now I've felt me in you
And I want you to
Come on baby
Blind side me
Yeah come on baby
Blind side me

'Cause I'm not sure I've got it
It being life and how to live it
But I could try with you
'Cause I seem to stutter
When I lie to you

Blind side of love
Yeah it moved right in to you
Blind side of fate
Yeah it fell right on ya
And now I have felt me in you
And I want you to
Come on baby
Blind side me
Oh yeah come on baby
Blind side me...yeah
Blind side me

BLUE SKY NIGHT

Julie skips the light
Saves her cigarette
For later tonight
She grabs the hand of
Johnny's hip
She loves the way that they fit
They walk below the stars
Talk of dreams and traveling far
Steady in these streets of rage
They wander endlessly
In this blue sky night
The streets are lit
And their hearts beat tight
They're wandering through
The blue sky night
So they sit in a garden's grass
Talk of their love
And how it will last
Johnny says "Love's forever only 'cause it will die"
Julie says "Yeah but then we can dance in the blue sky"
The blue sky
Johnny feels his head swell
He writes another page
Of the silent yell
Julie feels him drifting away
N' she kisses him hard and brings him back to stay
In this blue sky night
The streets are lit
And their hearts beat tight
Wandering through
The blue sky
Wandering through
The blue sky
Wondering through
The blue sky night

BREAK UP SONG

Maybe I'm off, yeah, I'm strangely askew
Maybe I ran away just when you started to get a good
view
Maybe I turned out to be, nothing like the me you made
me out to be
and so another one's gone, yeah, another love lost
and I'm bitter and rusted and I want off with my heart
convinced I'm over, I'm convinced I'm through
I'm certain of one thing is that I'll never love anyone
again
not the way that I loved you

yeah cause I'm blank, I'm still, but I'm numb from the
pain
and I'm fine with the weather and with us being not
together
and I'm tired of faking cause I've been faking it for
years
and I'm sick of writing this song about how love always
disappears
I know, know you tried, I know, It's just gonna take me
sometime
yeah for me to stop hearing my voice telling you good
bye.

Cause I was taught that love grows
So why does it always seem to just fade on me
It's hard to admit that I was wrong
I was wrong to lead you on that way
Yeah I told you that pain is temporary
and I made you believe that our love exists
Do you wanna know what the saddest part of all of this
is
the saddest part is that right now, I don't even give a
shit

cause I'm blank, I'm still, but I'm numb from the pain
and I'm fine with the weather and with us being not
together
and I'm tired of faking cause I've been faking it for
years
and I'm sick of writing this song about how love always
disappears
I know you tried, I know it's just gonna take some time
yeah I know, I know you tried
I know its just gonna take some time
yeah for me to stop hearing my voice telling you good-
bye
good-bye
good-bye

So I dropped you at the curb
leaned over and gave me a 'so long'
And I pull out and turn the radio on
I took a long deep drag ... to our break up song.

BREAKING VOWS

Love
Spreads like desire
Like a disease
All across my body
In my headaches everyday
For this lack of
Par-ti-cipation
In the other half
The talk it out and make it last-half
That's supposed to make up a good
Re-lation-ship
But this ship
It ain't going nowhere
This ship is
Docked-out
Parked-back
Stuck on this rock
With a hole in the bow
And she is breaking
Yes she's breaking
Yeah she is breaking
This vessel is
Breaking vows
N' my heart
Spreads like a flag
In wicked wind
It tears at the end
Straight out
Cutthroat
No give at the rope
Fly-high
Full-mast
Dear God this wind had better last
Or I'm gonna break
And mutter
Do it again do it again
Do it again do it again
But this ship
It ain't going nowhere
This ship is
Docked-out
Parked-back
Stuck on this rock
With a whole in the bow
And she is breaking
Yes she's breaking
Yeah, she is breaking
This vessel is
Breaking vows
Do it again do it again do it again
yeah ...

BURN THIS GUITAR

won't you burn this guitar
stop all the sorrows
silence my voice from singing
and set my soul's desires on overdrive
so they just disintegrate from spinning
cause I have made a huge mistake out here on my own
I'm a soldier in the quicksand
and I'm gasping for air
but if I just stop struggling
maybe you could find me
you my love my great escape

so pull me out of here
pull me out of myself
take me home with you sit me down
and tell me to just shut up
tell me stories all night long about yourself
cause I wanna know everything about you
cause I'm sick of myself

all of my hopes and glories
consumed with my ego but still unable to say no
yeah but I'm still moving forward
though I have no destination
yeah wherever I end up I pretend that is where I wanted
to go
it's like cassidy and kerouac
Neal Cassidy I am
all messed up by my existence
yeah and why the hell I am
do I deserve this
no I don't think so
so would you do me a favor baby
and burn this guitar

so pull me out of here
pull me out of myself
take me home with you sit me down
and tell me to just shut up
tell me stories all night long about yourself
cause I wanna know everything about you
baby everything about you
my great escape

then you say the point is
that there ain't no point at all
and there is no destination
cause we're all just on our way
yeah but maybe the only hope I have for my ego
is to let my guitar stay right here in its way
yeah maybe the only hope I have for my ego
is to let my guitar stay right in its way

so pull me out of here
pull me out of myself

CLOSER

-Well I feel so messed up
I can't get clear
And I don't know what to do
Cause I'm neck deep in fear
My back feels like its been holdin' up the weight
of this house and these three cats
And my truck filled up with crap

But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take, I get closer
A second at a time, usin' my breath
Maybe it's true I've got a fear of success
But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take
I'm gettin' closer
I'm gettin' a little bit closer

Yeah, cause life is not so simple
No it ain't just blah, blah, blah
I imagine my brain looks like a carousel on fire
And when I go into hiding
you know to just stay clear
You get it's not about you it's just
me fightin' me, fightin' me, fightin' me out here.

But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take, I get closer
A second at a time, usin' my breath
Maybe it's true I've got a fear of success
But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take
I'm gettin' closer
I'm gettin' closer

And I still can't sit still
And I'm so tired but I lay here awake
wonderin' what you see
I wonder what is it you get
And why am I so lucky
Cause you haven't left me yet
Oh, you haven't even left me yet

Why am I so lucky?

But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take, I get closer
A second at a time, usin' my breath
Maybe it's true I've got a fear of success
But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take, I get closer
A second at a time, usin' my breath
Maybe it's true I've got a fear of success
But with every little bang, every little push
every little step I take
I'm gettin' closer
I'm gettin' closer
I'm gettin' closer
I'm gettin' a little bit closer
I'm gettin' closer

COME ON LIFE

Come on life, I mean, give me a little more
Behind my back, that singer is stabbing
And what gives here, my karma is begging
What is it I did to deserve this
It

CRACK THE MIRROR

Stuck in my bed
I'm a catastrophe in my head
I got 8 things in the air
The phone's ringing off the hook
And I can't bare to look

Ya they told me that this would
Happen
That it would all get to be too much
And I'd find myself alone

Crack the mirror
And hang a sign on my door
That says
That girl doesn't live here anymore

So the weeks go by
Yeah into my descent
'Till I do not know
How far down I have gone

It's like when you're swimming in
The ocean
And the bottom becomes the top
And you don't realize that the
Whole time
You have been swimming down for air

Crack the mirror
And hang a sign on my door
That says don't bother knockin' here
Anymore
Crack the mirror
And hang a sign on my door
That says
That girl doesn't live here anymore

So every week now
I go and talk about myself
Yeah why I can't eat
And why I can't get to sleep
And the doctor says
It's a neurological thing
But what the doctor doesn't know
Is that my soul can't
Breathe

Crack the mirror
And hang a sign on my door
That says don't bother knockin' here
Anymore
Crack the mirror
And hang a sign on my door
That says
That girl doesn't live here anymore

CRACKER JACK KID

If there's anything left you will need it now
So reach deep inside yourself
And show them all how
You can survive
And you knew it wasn't gonna be easy
So ease your hand
And take a long drive to unwind
The Cracker Jack Kid
You've got to search for the prize
And always remember
I. me. mine
And you the youngest
Fullest of heart
Yeah you the restless
You could never go to bed
Yeah you the speechless
You pretended that you could read
Until you were ten
The Cracker Jack Kid
You've got to search for the prize
And always remember
I. me. mine
The Cracker Jack Kid
You've got to search for the prize
And always remember
Jump jangle jiggle and rock
Fly through the sky
Sail across the top
Spin out. give out. give in
You're alive
Remember, memories
Don't hold you down
Some of them even make you
Laugh out loud
Yeah you are a smiling
Squinty eyed brow
You've got some kind of something happening
Inside you now
The Cracker Jack Kid
You've got to search for the prize
And always remember
I. me. mine

DO IT OVER

Start over
cuz i don't understand
and i am moving as fast as i can
so, pull over
and watch me walk the line
cuz i can't believe my eyes

times up
yeah it's over
gotta get stand up and cross over
head up off my shoulders
now's my chance to do it over

so it's a change of hands
and turn around and there i am
just waiting in the hall
ans watching my life fall

but time's up
yeah it's over
gotta stand up and cross over
head up off my shoulders
now's my chance to do it over

so when i don't know yeah
which way i am to go
i stop to see
you know, all i've done
and all i want to be

so it's a sunrise
the first that i have seen in years
is bleeding blur and bottled light (?)
fill my heart
and force the tears

cuz time's up
yeah it's over
gotta stand up and
cross over,
head up, off my shoulders
nows my chance, to
time's up
yeah it's over
gotta stand up
and cross over
head up off my shoulders
now's my chance to do it over