Songs

  1. Written at 35 No Pill
    Chorus

    Living in this dream
    Not remembering
    Like another bout with a fever
    No pill is going to relieve you.

    Verse

    Dreaming in color
    With eyes wide open
    Dream in stereo
    Does dreaming equal hoping?

    Chorus

    Living in this dream
    Not remembering
    Like another bout with a fever
    No pill is going to relieve you.

    Verse

    Awake while sleeping
    When all eyes are closed.
    Can't hear to listen
    Does having equal knowing?

    Chorus

    Living in this dream
    Not remembering
    Like another bout with a fever
    No pill is going to relieve you.

    Bridge

    Daylight, twilight, midnight, any time's alright
    Daylight, twilight, midnight, get your head right

    Verse

    Can't feel when touching
    Like a stranger within
    Like someone else
    Is wearing your skin.

    Chorus

    Living in this dream
    But not remembering
    Like another bout with a fever, no pill is going to relieve you
    Like another bout with a fever, no pill is going to relieve you
    Living in this dream.

  2. Written at 22 After All

    Mike Anderson, drums

    Intro

    Into your head and your heart
    Head and your heart

    I

    Anything that you need is alright by me
    I'd give anything you've taken from me.
    Anyway it's just a matter of time you see
    I can wait
    We're dealing with your life
    And mine
    And why I'm so quick to decide.
    I can't think of any other way
    I'd rather spend my time.

    II

    Anything that you want you can take from me
    I'd give anything, willing fully.
    Anyway it's just a matter of time you see
    I can wait
    We're dealing with your life
    And mine
    And why I'm so quick to decide.
    I can't think of any other way
    I'd rather spend my time.

    Bridge

    A restless shadow crosses your face.
    Some searching look from some deeper place.
    So many times lately, too bright to see.
    Too loud to hear. Too close to feel.
    Fight to control increasing heights.
    No creative answer appears to be right.
    A restless shadow reveals all you hide.
    After all, we're just dealing with time.

    III

    Anything that you do is alright by me.
    I don't want to take, so give it to me.
    Anyway it's just a matter of time you see
    I can wait
    We're dealing with your life
    And mine
    And why I'm so quick to decide.
    I can't think of any other way
    I'd rather spend my time.

  3. Written at 21 Without You I Would Die
    Verse

    I know it's not my nature.
    But I'm so amused.
    Every motion interests me.
    Everything you do.
    You used to seem so distant.
    You seemed so far.
    Right now, I'm quite content.
    To be here, right here where you are.

    Chorus

    Can you tell me why?
    Without you I would die

    Verse

    Used to put up barricades.
    I raised defenses.
    It was me not you that caused.
    Me to build those fences.
    You fought your conscience.
    I fight mine.
    Separate battles fought together.
    Are such a waste. Why do you waste all my time?

    Chorus

    Can you tell me why?
    Without you I would die

    Bridge

    Used to be time for everything
    But I've run out of time for all this.
    All these years later still thinking about you.
    But I can't say that you're missed.
    I would die…
    I would die…
    I thought I would die…
    I thought I would die…

    Verse

    A personal question:
    Did you sink like a stone?
    Was it you not me that died?
    After you, ended up broke and alone.

    Chorus

    Can you tell me why?
    Without you I would die

  4. Written at 21 Never Was
    Intro

    Heard voices,
    Heard screams,
    Heard everything.
    Never was what it was, or meant to be.

    Verse

    Felt the rhythm, felt the strain
    Felt nothing. Again.
    Felt the thunder, feel like rain.
    Felt nothing. Whenever what it was began to change.
    Saw the future, lived it first.
    Disappointed. So rehearsed.
    Saw the distance. Held the past.
    Avoided that whatever it always was, was fading fast.

    Chorus

    Never understood why you let it take you.
    If you didn't want it, why did it let you?

    Verse

    Added distance, lack of touch.
    New idea? No not much.
    Delayed reaction, delayed response.
    So many motives. What it always was wasn't what I thought.
    Not too simple, not too plain.
    Not much different, not the same.
    Not worth hiding. Not worth shame.
    Not worth anything. Not worth what it was worth when this began.

    Chorus

    Never understood why you let it take you.
    If you didn't want it, why did it let you?

    Bridge

    You can't complain, there's no luck without trying
    To believe the wrong in what you see
    Which seems to be what you see in me
    I can't believe.

    Verse

    Felt the rhythm, felt the strain
    Felt nothing. Again.
    Felt the thunder, feels like rain.
    Felt nothing. Whenever what it was began to change.
    Saw the future, lived it first.
    Disappointed. So rehearsed.
    Heard voices, Heard screams,
    Heard everything. Never was what it was, or meant to be.

    Outro

    Never was.
    Things never meant to be.
    Better left undone.
    Never was.

  5. Written at 19 Gone Away

    Thomas Caves, piano

    Verse

    I thought that I knew you
    For a little while.
    And I did, like usual,
    I looked past what I denied.
    I thought that I knew me,
    When I knew you.
    But I didn't know anything,
    I didn't want to.

    Chorus

    Now I sit around, watch the sun go down.
    I've got nothing better to do.
    I'd keep in touch if I felt I must
    But I don't have much to say to you.

    Verse

    You have to realize
    You'd have to agree.
    In the wasted time we spent,
    I wasn't much like me.
    Now it doesn't matter.
    They're faded and they're gone.
    Those pictures in my mind,
    That didn't belong.

    Chorus

    Now I sit around, watch the sun go down.
    I've got nothing better to do.
    I'd keep in touch if I felt I must
    But I don't have much to say to you.

    Verse

    What was the purpose?
    What was the reason?
    For the things I told myself,
    They were so misleading.
    There was an emptiness,
    There was a space to fill.
    God knows it wasn't wasted,
    I had some time to kill.

    Chorus

    Now I sit around watch the sun go down.
    I've got nothing better to do.
    I'd keep in touch if I felt I must
    But I don't have much to say to you.
    I sit around,
    And don't have much to say.
    I'd keep in touch,
    But now I'm gone away.
    Gone away.

  6. Written at 36 Closer to You (I've Been Told)
    Intro

    I've been told that I've grown old.
    And away from you.
    What was once is gone, there's no holding on.
    It's not quite as secure.
    But everyday I get the feeling
    That there's more and more to see.
    What you want, and what you need
    Are rarely the very same thing.

    Verse

    Deliver me from myself, my man
    This time I really need it.
    Deliver us from all this, I'm your fan.
    It's getting deeper.
    Don't you know I'm unconventional.
    And I might have an edge.
    A heart of gold and a shell of cold.
    Standing on the ledge.

    Chorus

    Bring me closer to you,
    I'll be your fool.
    Anywhere and nowhere
    I need you.
    Faithful that you'll see me through.
    Why would you bother to?

    Verse

    Don't you feel inspirational when others beg?
    Why so detached when misery dispatched?
    Square hole, sharp round peg.

    Verse

    Everyone wants what somebody else has.
    I want yours, you want hers.
    Did you ever want to lose everything?
    To lose yourself? To totally immerse?
    The rich are poor, the poor are rich.
    Look at all of your toys!
    What did you want? What did you need?
    Did it bring you enough joy?

    Chorus

    Bring me closer to you,
    I'll be your fool.
    Anywhere and nowhere
    I need you.
    Faithful that you'll see me through.
    Why would you bother to?

    Outro

    Every second, of every minute.
    Time and time again.
    You seem to know what's bringing me down,
    What's causing me to bend.
    Any part of every action
    That seems to lack design,
    It's not random, but a bigger thing.
    Not just space and time.
    Which seems to move, slower and slower,
    With each passing day.
    Or is it just me, acting thoughtlessly,
    Being weak while you're away?

  7. Written at 16 Trees Are Green

    Thomas Caves, synthesizer. David Moreland, bass, recorded 1990 at Weststreet Recording, Raleigh, by Dayna Wittman

    The trees are green and the sky is blue,
    I'm not where I should be, I'm missing you.

    It was my choice and it seemed just right.
    Now I can't even sleep at night.
    It's so awkward when I see you now.
    I'm all alone and you're not around, oh how.

    Well there's something happening but what I can't trace.
    Can't you tell by the look on my face?
    It seems I've deserted all of my friends.
    Time to start all over again…

    The trees are green and the sky is blue,
    I'm not where I should be, I'm missing you.

    It's starting to rain and it's starting to pour.
    I need you again, just a little more.
    I thought with a little time it would pass.
    But you found someone new to share your romance.

    The moon is blue, the sky is black.
    I lost something I need and I can't get it back.
    You once were mine, I once was yours.
    Now, we pass through different doors.

    The trees are green and the sky is blue,
    I'm not where I should be, I'm missing you.

  8. Written at 38 Psychic Knowledge

    Dave Harrell, vocals

    Verse

    I know what it's like,
    To know what it's going to be like
    When the thing I knew was going to happen
    Finally does.
    I know what it's like.
    To never really be surprised.
    When the stuff I thought was going down
    Really was.

    Chorus

    Psychic Knowledge
    Psychic knowledge.
    Psycho Logic.
    Catastrophic.
    Condition chronic.
    Does it bother you
    When you see into
    A future you wish you never knew.
    The one you're living through.

    Verse

    I know what you'll do
    Before it even dawns on you
    To think feel or do some of the things
    I know you will
    I know what you did
    Before your brown eyes betray what you hid
    You'd think to already know would lessen the blow.
    It seems more real.

    Verse

    I know how it feels
    When reality becomes unreal
    When the door to the next place opens up
    Just crack.
    I know how it is.
    To be holding on, to elect the risk.
    When there's a good chance your luck runs out.
    You're not coming back.

    Outro

    Did you fall that easily? (Why'd you fall?)
    Did you forget simplicity?
    Mistakes were made, I agree. (I agree.)
    Mistakes between you and me.
    Even though I always know. (I always know.)
    Which way the wind is gonna blow.
    You go and you surprise me so. (Don't let me go.)
    I can't change what I've been shown.

  9. Written at 36 Crave
    Verse

    What do you crave, when you're all alone?
    What do you crave, does it make you stoned?
    What do you crave, did it make you fat?
    Did it make you a slave, was it worth all of that?
    I used to crave what I didn't have
    Now I crave what I just had
    Again and again, yet another time
    I'll get yours and you'll pay for mine.

    Chorus

    What if we all reveal our desires? What do you crave?
    Even in truth we're really liars. What does she crave?
    Intensity always inching higher. I know what you crave.
    Hidden cravings spark burning fires.

    Verse

    What does he crave, will he sell his soul?
    What does she crave, can she take it all?
    What do you crave, do you understand?
    Cravings come from deep within.
    Remember the first time? How about the last?
    How much time do you think has passed?
    Situation's different, positions have changed.
    What do you mean, when you call out my name?

    Chorus

    What if we all reveal our desires? What do you crave?
    Even in truth we're really liars. What does she crave?
    Intensity always inching higher. I know what you crave.
    Hidden cravings spark burning fires.

    Bridge

    Go crazy. What I might do
    Because I can't get enough of you.
    Tell me what you want and what you think you need.
    Your cravings I will feed. Like you feed me.
    What do you crave? What does she crave? I know what you crave.

  10. Written at 55 Still Looking
    Verse

    Here I am another time
    Asking you to help me find
    Something I never lost
    I'd have paid any cost.
    Promises have all been broke
    You caused the effect, we awoke
    To find a different shade
    Are the colors starting to fade?

    Chorus

    I'm still looking for
    Something that I believe.
    What I've found out
    I don't know anything.
    Falling into things,
    Lucking into you,
    Makes the black & blue
    All worth going through

    Verse

    Rolling over miles of road
    Seems we have a ways to go
    Are you still riding with me?
    I'm so glad you're still in that seat.
    When the world leaves us cold
    And the new has finally gotten old
    I'm hopeful to finally see
    All the things I believed…

    Chorus × 2

    I'm still looking for
    Something that I believe.
    What I've found out
    I don't know anything.
    Falling into things,
    Lucking into you,
    Makes the black & blue
    All worth going through