Long Time Missing
The people all around said they don’t understand
The wonder kid’s gone and some one will have their say
But he worked hard for yesterday
He came upon the scene with a definite plan
I know about the woman who wished upon a star
They said he’d never get that far
I read the news that shook the world apart
now I know
You’ve been a long time missing
And the world won’t listen
To the long time missing in your life
The balladeer man with a ward from the wings
is selling his soul for so many things we knew
but never dreamed they would come true
The girl on the phone said she’d go it alone
Waking up the world to find what she always knew
Will leave you lost and lonely too
Got his number it’s so hard to ring
even though
You’ve been a long time missing
by your own admission
There’s a long time missing in your life that we found
Now I lay me down
Tomorrow’s gone forever
Like the weather
Maybe never will our dreams be found
I listened to the kids and I thought I could hear
A thousand and one tiny voices ringing clear
Another day in your career
Around the corner there’s a newer breed
Even though I thought you would succeed
You’ve been a long time missing
by your own admission
There’s a long time missing in your life
You’ve been a long time missing
now the world will listen
To the long time missing in your life
Getting Out From Under You
Don’t look down
We’re dead in the water
And I know you’ve got a lot to say
Patience now
Ahead in the slaughter
Will surely guide the disarray
I fanned the fires down
I’m wandering round and round
To see a means of escape could be
Any light eventually
Jealousy is writing a letter
Explaining all you mean to me
What a way to go
But I remember
When we touched I thought I saw the lightning
It meant so much but now it’s all through
It’s been so hard
Getting out from under you
The crimson tide is flowing away
Now I want to ride the endless sea
But I don’t know how I’ll have the courage
To ever really be set free
Dislocate away
Far from never
Don’t look back
Just go and pull the rug out
Drawing black on all we’ve been through
It’s been so hard
Getting out from under you
Right now it seems so automatic
This was your lucky day
I tried so hard to be diplomatic
You throw it all away
I fanned the fires down
I’m wandering round and round
Still I remember
When we touched I thought I saw the lightning
If it meant so much
Then why’s it all through
It’s been so hard
Getting out from under you
Take Me Back
Was it some time ago
In a place that I should know
Now I feel that I’m longing for the time
When the world was serene
And the things I’d never seen
Were always grey
So far away and in between
Where few dared to dream
Won’t you take me back
To cruise around the sidewalk scene
I fell off the track
(Where) nobody knows
Taking partners in crime
In a melancholy time
Where guilt and fear
Would only soon appear
Had to forfeit a lot
And that’s all I ever got
Along the way what I could feel
But not reveal
Were equally real
Won’t you take me back
To gaze upon the sidewalk scene
I can’t ask you back
But I thought you should know
That whatever you feel will soon come to pass
Where nothing is real
Except for the past
And I know the darkest hour
Is right in front of you
So take the blinders away
And simply cast away
Or multiply all the things you can’t deny
Nothing much to declare
And strictly unaware
Forgotten shame will take the blame
Another time
Please call the line
So won’t you take me back
To cruise around the sidewalk scene
I fell off the track
And there’s a world that’s in between
The blue and the black
If only I could find that scene
I can’t ask you back
But where did you go?
Where did you go?
Never Really Been Gone
Never believed much in apparitions
Or any confrontations
With someone I know who once went away
Calling all the ghosts inside me
Or anyone to guide me
All along the way
I’ve fallen through
Throw your heartaches away
When you’re here I wanna stay
Now I know you’ve never really been gone
There was a time when I felt so jaded
And very overrated
There’s a picture I’ve just begun to see
Just a bell but I know I hear you
And though I long to see you
I know that I’m not alone anymore
So call my name in the wind
Now I know just where you’ve been
When I say you’ve never really been gone
Yeah I feel alright to be here
Inside we are two
Everything is getting clearer
I know it’s true.
In a silent night I wonder
If I’ll make it through
If it’s just the spell I’m under
Please say it’s you
So clear away all the devastation
Cause there’s a new elation
We’re riding on to bluer skies
Throw your heartaches away
When you’re here I wanna stay
Now I know you’ve never really been gone
Yeah I know you’ve never really been gone.
The World Outside
Laughing with your mother
She saw through your eyes
Now time has run away and left us feeling so
High and dry
When I fall apart you’ll face the world outside
But don’t walk away until your feelings die
Some things go together
We learned all too well
Now I can’t shake away these feelings that you’ve never
Heard me tell
When I fall apart you’ll face the world outside
But don’t walk away until your feelings die
Somewhere in time I could live without you
Now can I learn no to dream about you
I’ll find a way somehow
Laughing with the others
They saw through your eyes
Now time has run away and left us feeling so
High and dry
When I fall apart you’ll face the world outside
But don’t walk away until your feelings die
When I fall apart you’ll face the world outside
But don’t walk away until your feelings die
Einstein’s Day
Chairs next to the windows
Carpets touch the halls
Time slides through the windows
And slips behind the walls
In the dark of night
or in the light of day
Underneath the painting
Where it once was clear
Well I was rolled in water
I was rolled out past the pier
In the tray of colors a whirlwind appeared
(Roger Miller / Mission of Burma)
Battle Lines
There we were just coming down the mountain
Getting ready to go
Everyone had learned something that nobody would know
I remember you in 1982
Very much aware
You didn’t listen
Fortunately you didn’t even care
Now battle lines are fading
Real life’s rearranging
In the end nothing sentimental lasts that long
From the ocean I ran into the rivers
Tried to save my soul
All to late I realized my one and only goal
Nothing’s broken now I have awoken
I’ve got my head on fine
I’ll get around to fighting if I ever find the time
And battle lines are raging
All the while, we’re re-staging
In our lives could we ever really stray that far
Common binds withstanding
Several years you’ve been handed
In the end something sentimental lasts too long
And the war goes on
Please leave me just the way you found me
I just can’t live without it now
Don’t follow the world around me
We were walking round and round in circles
I should have been so different like a martyr
Not a wayward soul
You left me here so jaded now with nothing left to show
And nowhere else to go
Now battle lines are fading
Real life’s rearranging
In our lives did we ever really stray that far
When battle lines are raging
Count the years you’ve been waiting
In the end something sentimental lasts too long
Still the war goes on and on
Happy When You’re Sad
If we had a reason
And there was still time
Look into the season
Where ya gonna hide?
Thinking ’bout the summer
When you’re happy when you’re sad
I want to go back now but I just can’t confide
In anyone around here
In anyone at all
I’ve lost the time of wonder
I lost it in the fall
They told me not to stay here
To be around this curtain call
And the way I’ve grown away from it all
All the lights that shine for me
Give me a reason to be free
I think I’ll wait here for a while
And feel alive
Gazing back behind you
In any port of call
They’ll be there to find you
And watch you when you fall
Alone into a whirlpool
Of sad faces come to pass
You’ve got to save away
For these dreams that never last
Burning down the road now
Falling through the sky
Looking through a window
Of only you and I
I’ll only find another
You’ll be happy when you’re sad
In the aftermath
Come tomorrow, I’ll be glad
Love Dies Down
Once love came upon us
I never made this promise
Got caught up and I got in the way
In this borrowed leisure
A round of hearts I measure
I take mine back and throw it away
To where I go unknown
I know I’ll stop alone
I’m off this elevator
Did we get very far
In the endless stream of ruination
Can’t you see where you are
Washed away
When love dies down
Though I was a hip shooter
Now my mind’s polluted
Factless understanding
Time was so demanding
While the days away
I know I will not sway
I’m over wasted triumphs
When you look from afar
At the trials ahead that soon await you
No you know where you are
Washed away
When love dies down
Far from home all the while
They’ll try to inundate you
When you’re alone now you know
They’ll try to recreate you
Complicate you
Not you take as you are
To where I go unknown
I know I’ll stop alone
On to the next sensation
Did we get very far
in the endless stream of condemnation
Can’t you see where we are
In the way
When love dies down
Now you look from afar
There’s a road ahead that soon awaits you
Now you know where you are
Washed away
When love dies down
Tuesday Morning
Tuesday morning
I wanna relive that day
A new scene’s calling
I better be on my way
In your lifetime
You’re walking around
With your head hanging down
You’ve got to look ahead
Just to see what’s around
There’s time to save the day
Change the headline
There’s something I’ve got to say
Leave your deadlines
And throw all your cares away
Here’s tomorrow
You’re banging your head
On the wrong side of the bed
You’ve got to understand
Al the things that you dread
In time will fade away
With your gravity in line
You’ll think all the world divine
Gray skies can’t begin to sway
What I want to feel today
And what I know is down the line
Good vibrations
Are cascading down
While the room is spinning round
I’m saving up the nights
For the days that we found
So gather all your woes cos we’re leaving today
Now Tuesday’s here to stay
Waiting Without You
I walked along until I got caught in a turnstile
I never knew the politics of living in exile
When our lives are only made up stories
I’m gonna lie in Purgatory tonight
Please leave me here
I’m dreaming about you
Now that I know
I’m waiting without you
Another alteration from the latest edition
How was I to know I was just a transition
Over here there’s still compliance
I’m casting off a strange reliance I know
Never again will somebody doubt you
Now thatI know I’m waiting without you
A lot of thoughts go by
Till there’s nothing left of the past
I let the future die somehow
And yeah it’s going fast
If you’re alone and find yourself away from the action
You’ve got to dream away to see some satisfaction
When our lives are only made up stories
I want to try and find the glory again
Please leave me here
I’ll walk in the sunshine
Now that there’s no one here
In the meantime
Please leave me here
I’m dreaming about you
Now that I know
I’m waiting without you
Waiting without you
Weak And Watered Down
Won’t you come back
You’ve been gone days
But I’ll find you in a gentle haze
(The) news has come
From where you been seen last
Escaping from a wretched past
The world has stuck in time
Something new has taken over now
Please leave me here I’m blown away
Now fear has left you weak and watered down
In someone else’s eyes
The saddest thing may never happen now
Stuck inside these weak and watered down days
Take the high road
Following the sun
You’re bound to see a different one
Leaving only what you never lost
Will someday prove to pay the cost
I know they’ll never find
And calendars will just spill over now
Forever here they’ll make you stay
The year has left you weak and watered down
If only for a while
You’ve got to get your feet back on the ground
Wandering through these weak and watered down days
Leave the carnival outside
Many fortune tellers lied
Just in case they file you away
Living only for today
And calendars will just spill over now
Forever here I’m blown away
Now fear has left you weak and watered down
In someone else’s eyes
You’ve got to get your feelings turned around
Stuck inside these weak and watered down days
Twilight’s In Town
In a month of Sundays
Morning lights my way
Even here we stumble
Only to betray
In the darkness coming
No one hears a sound
An elusive chatter
Going underground
As daylight falls away to shadows
There’s no one else around
In the meantime
Twilight’s in town
To begin the madness
Who will pass this way
To replace the sadness
A lifetime matinee
The evening falls before the shadows
They won’t let me down
For a long time
Twilight’s in town
Just behind the rainbow
Now you’re in the front row
Dreaming of tomorrow
Now I’m finding out tomorrow’s here tonight
The evening falls before the shadows
They won’t let me down
For a long time
I walked around in the sunshine
But even so in the daytime
Twilight’s in town
The last show around
Twilight’s in town
The last show around