I don't need anyone's love
I couldn't afford it anyway
With my penny's worth of hope
It's not funny but it's a joke
And I got a good one for the collection agency
It's a wish
That I could wish the world away
Don't watch TV it's all lies
I watch TV day and night
I believe everything I see
And I can't turn it off
The only thing that held me together in the good old day
Was a wish
That I could wish the world away
Where's the message in the bottles
Where's the miracle in the pills
Where's the nurse with that needle
Where's all of my free will
Count down backwards from ten and everything's okay
You can wish the world away

If you ask the man in the tollbooth
well IÂ’m sure heÂ’d tell you
That on the highways thereÂ’s a million ways
if you wanna disappear
Should you take a left or a right,
well IÂ’m sure I donÂ’t care
All I want out of life is to hide somewhere
Will you find me?
Each Halloween your faces get more frightening
The closer I look the more I can see
your limits begin to show
The astronaut won first prize,
it was was a ton of moon dust
All I see in his eyes are years of hate and mistrust
Will you find me?
"Come out come out wherever you are,"
said the fisherman to the sea
"Oh I miss you, I miss you love. Where can you be?
If I have to wait anymore then I wonÂ’t believe
In the love that IÂ’ve known
or in the life that I have known."
Will you find me?

Will this night fulfill all the promises
And bury us in peace
Will it leave us free and forgetful
Or at least bring some sleep
Your eyes don't catch the little things
As they narrow on your fall
I'm checking your pulse 'cause you're so quiet
I'm kissing you but you don't feel it
Why do you do this to me?
Showing me all that i'm good for
Is to watch you sleep as lifeless as an angel
She was the most beautiful cloud
That ever passed before the face of a girl
Seems like nothing's too good for this life
Some things are too good for this world
And our names and our faces
Well they're just spare change
In memory of a soul
Kept dropping spare change
Why won't you stay?
In memory of a little girl
Who was far too much in love with the world
And who didn't really wanna stick around for the end
Why won't you stay?

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

Time for me to go away
I'll get a new name, I'll get a new face
Time for me to go away
No I don't belong in this place
But I'm not gonna ask you why
You think the parade has passed you by
Or if everything good is gone into the western sky
I hate to see you look that way
All the beauty has left your face
That's such an easy thing to give away
That's impossible to replace
So I'll take you in my two weak hands
And I'll throw you so high
Watch you fall forever in the western sky
And when you land you'll turn into some kind of prize
Into somebody's sweet prize
I won't see you no more
Who am I to rate that high
The world's a shadow of what went before
The world gives off none of its own light
So please be happy baby
And please don't cry
Even though the parade has passed us by
Well you can still see it shining in the western sky
So why won't you stop crying
You can still see it shining

The wind pulls me around
and everything it touches turns weak
An antique or an eyelash stuck to your cheek
The paper thin skin of a crowd chasing you
Down a long and dead-end trail
With a guilt no alibi can curtail
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair
Land ahoy I fill my weak lungs with this joy
Dizzy on the deck I hope I last until we land
With an envelope burning a hole in my hand
Bearing the names of the winners who walked away
From the games that the slaves love to play
To replace the air and the sea
Leaving you no way to fly to me
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair
Through the window
the warm summer air does a two-step
I wish there was some way I could keep it
And clear away the Mission Street in my head that
Keeps this watery weariness in our bed and
Sets up more windmills that I'll waste my time missing
When it should just be your lips that I'm kissing
Don't tell me that you don't hear
The clock ticking on the shelf by our bed it's near
There's a light turning green just like fear
There's a light that turns green
and leaves us without a prayer
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair

This year, oh what's the look this year
Is it the look of things to come
Has it all been said, has it all been done
The sun upon the sea
Did you dress that way for me
This year everyone just stood around
And watched my family tree burn down
Watched it crumble on the ground
Making no protesting sound
As if justice was finally found
And anything beautiful
That you can contrive
Has no desire to survive
This year the mirror the wall
It cracked right through the middle
And spring turned into fall
Love the most beautiful killer of them all

Child keeps its toys hidden away
Till it wants to break them
Take your share and go away
Make sure you get the last word
Sit back out of harm's reach
Watch the little cup of poison
Chasing its own tail around and around
Until it's exhausted at its wits end
United Kingdom
I try my best I wait for you to nail me
Now I try and never do
Anything they tell me
'Cause waiting about an inch
Under human nature
Tragedies and comedies
And a touching sense of failure
United Kingdom
When you held me in your arms
At the limits of your patience
I knew I'd always lose
Every scene of violence
When you held me in your arms
Why didn't you want me
When you held me in your arms
Why didn't you touch me
Well I used to know how
To slip through your blind spot
And now I just watch myself
Set the alarms off
I'm happier now in my shame
And don't look to you for anything
United Kingdom

The thorn in my side is gone
It was too sharp for the laws of the world
Like my need for you
It doesn't register on the scale of the world
When they talk about the strength they usually mean
The way blood sticks to the hand
When they talk about strength I know
They don't mean a touch that only love understands
I'll never leave you
Love never lies
I swear you could see me
If you could open your eyes
There's a beast in the trees
Dogging my heart,
step by step
I begged it to leave me with something
'Cause my fear was like a wind
Tearing the song from my breath
I'll never leave you
Love never lies
I swear you could see me
If you could open your eyes

This song is dedicated to the chain of lies
Handed down from generation to generation
Like cancer through the ages
Well you seem to be waiting
For the thunder or the lightning
To blow away all your bad luck baby
Well you seem to be waiting
For a big landslide to take you away
But I don't think that a million bucks
is really gonna change your luck
I'm here to tell you that's too high a price to pay
'Cause it don't take much of the right thing
And if I stay by you
Don't worry about it
It don't take much for me to stay by you
And if I love you too much
Don't worry about it
It don't take much for me to love you
And they say that the world's gonna end with a whimper
Well that's just the sound it makes anyway
And I'm sure a bottle of some more million bucks
would make it feel better
But believe it or not I think that's too high a price to pay
'Cause it don't take much of the right thing

The thorn in my side is gone
It was too sharp for the laws of the world
Like my need for you, I know
It doesn't register on the scale of the world
When they talk about strength they usually mean
The way that blood sticks to the hand
When they talk about strength I know
They don't mean a touch that only love understands
And I'll never leave you
I'll never leave you
Love never lies
I swear you could see me
I swear you could see me
If you could open your eyes
There's a beast in the trees
As old as some dog in my heart
Step by step
I begged it to leave me with something
'Cause my fear was like a wind
Tearing the song from my breath
And I'll never leave you
I'll never leave you
Love never lies
I swear you could see me
I swear you could see me
If you could open your eyes

Once upon a time me and Vudi met
A major American rock star in a shop
We were immediately jealous of his hair
And his fuel-injected sports cock
He made the usual stupid sexual jokes
About the way he comes on top
But I could tell it was a lie
By the way that he walked
How did you pass the Presiden'ts Test
Even if I can't match your ability to compete
At least give me a chance to cheat
He said, "Are you losers making fun
Of our serious vocation?
You just gotta bring the music to the people man
And then go score a hole in one."
The pleasures of a treadmill and the factory
Took all the innocence from his eyes
Leaving him to spurt unashamed
By the size of his dull suprise
How did you pass the Presiden'ts Test
I never felt honest telling those virutous lies
And my toupee always gets into my eyes
How do you pass the President's Test
I don't even want to know my score
I don't know who's telling me the truth anymore
I said, "The only thing that we're good for
Is being forgotten."
And I know you're big enough of a star
To make sure that the job gets done
How do you pass the President's Test
I swear one day they'll build a monument
To the man with the most reasons for his embarassment
How do you pass the President's Test
No I don't even want to know my score
I don't know who's telling me the truth anymore