Mood ep

WITHOUT
when i'm in my car going town to town is when i think of you in a bridal gown such a big ol' world when you're by my side but here in my car it's a lonely drive can i be without? i'll go round the world just to see you smile, heard it all before but it's been awhile i even miss you when you're in the other room, then i see you smile and everything is cool can i be without? down in milwaukee i'll give you a call out on the bay bridge you could be my girl austin and boston, cleveland and prague i want you with me wish that you could go because everything would be perfect everything so divine, everything would be perfect you and i dreaming and scheming, taking over the world.

COMMERCE
there's a small group of men who have stolen all our money, people laugh and joke and they think that it's funny... but not me, it seems to me that there was a day when a man could shine shoes for a living and get paid and have a child or two or three and pay the rent but now a teacher can't afford to buy a home. the priorities of this life can never be obtained , when the pennies that we get are being fucking drained. they dish it... we try it... they sell it... we buy it... 'cuz when the television tells us that it's time to buy a car, we reach for the telephone and give away our heart. working at a job we hate sowe can get that car. wonder why none of us are getting very far? i'm not gonna do that. in this world you never know what you're gonna find, gonna be, gonna own, well do you? one more time look around go to your old high school, i bet it looked a lot better when you went there. full of themselves the people who could give the money to the school, would rather give it to their friends to built another pool. insurance is a scam designed to suck us all dry with the promise of help that will never arrive... and i'm still paying it. 'cuz they'll take away your car for even saying it. now i'm not the one who pulled out the gun, i try to get my point across by saying it. now why did you have to go and be like that? i'm not gonna do that. in this world you never know what you're gonna find, gonna be, gonna own, well do you? watch them walk and hear them talk, oh what's the use in looking up to all the fools that have enough but take from you to buy more stuff that no one needs but people want to stand above to reach the top. oh where's the fun in giving up or growing up or living up to all the rules they set for you, you keeping thin you buying food, or exercise 'cuz we're watching you. they're selling cool in little tubes. sell your soul, buy our stuff, man are we confused. 'cuz really all that matters are the people that you love, things you want to do, why you worried bout that stuff? in this world you never know what you're gonna find, gonna be, gonna own, well do you?

METROPOLIS
your love has gone away to see another time, lost within the weight of what is on your mind. that someday you might meet the one you want to find. someday you will know. reminded of your fate, you see with open mind. tried to be a friend, to those you'll see in time. and one day when you've met, you'll still wonder why. one day you will know. i don't want to smile, i don't feel alright today , it's ok. i don't want to cry , i don't want to feel the pain. the one thing that we've gained, with all our wicked ways, while living under spite is life is filled with change. thunder heads the rain, oceans move in time. nothing that's awake is less than you or i. one day you might be anything alive someday you will know i don't want to smile, i don't feel alright today , it's ok. i don't want to cry , i don't want to feel the pain the one thing that we've gained, with all our wicked ways while living under spite is life is filled with change so anytime you're filled with hatred or fear just remember life is something so dear and you're the same as anybody from there to here we're all the same.

EQUAL
yea i seen them come and go you better be equal you better be equal hell i feel like letting go you better be equal you better be equal to my love babe i'm feeling kinda cold you better be equal you better be equal to my love i've got my feet on the ground, but you can't hold me down, i've got my hands in the air, but i won't make a sound. you've got to do the things you do i'm running out of room to make the change that i'd want to but i'll stop, just to make you mine. i'll stop just to make you mine. i'll do anything you want all you have to do is ask and i'll be on your side babe i need you like a whore you better be equal you better be equal where you think i outta go? you better be equal you better be equal to my love.

SHELLY’S A NICE LADY
shelly's a nice lady, she got a fickle eye. she'll travel sea to sea to see you cry. back in the hotel room you'll see her simple side, feet kicked up on a chair she gives advice. the children follow her, they see her inner light. she'd stand up anywhere to do what's right. but she don't know what to say because she's finding out in other ways. some people laugh at her, "she never gets it right!" the children don't compare, they know her plight. shelly's a nice lady, so don't you be uptight. someday you'l need her eyes to give you sight. but she don't know what to say because she's finding out in other ways shelly she don't mind the times, or ride the lines. she's in your mind.

WAIT & SEE
your expectations are unreasonably soon. the elevation is too high to be confused. your invitations' far too vague to be abused. the one condition you've been given is to lose. wait and see, it's only here to be... wait and see, it's only here. you tried aggression, and it left you in a cell. such a hypocrite, with your liberty bell. there's no solution, at least none that you can own. some intervention is best done alone. wait and see, it's only here to be... wait and see, it's only here. tied your own high, set a record for low. exclamations will need to be controlled. matching haircuts are a sure sign of fools. so hard to break free, while your following rules. wait and see, it's only here to be... wait and see, it's only here.

THE FUNCTION
so i don't know what happened so i'll wait it out at home, get my lady all alone. maybe flowers will give me power like they did before i was walking out the door so i'll just sell it all tommorow what do i need it for when i'm walking out the door i don't know so i'll keep on trying again. i'm way down when you're next to me girl. you're way down when you're next to me girl. got a fire in my pocket when my baby's by my side want to go take a ride but everybody's digging holes and tunnels anyway gonna need it if you stay, but i don't know why nothing ever seems to be the same, when we're playing little games. i don't know so i'll keep on trying again. i'm way down when you're next to me girl. you're way down when you're next to me girl. yea, i got the function down, get up to be the best cuz i been livin less. shape up on the fact i got by baby round no need to play it up when i'm down. needing a lift when i get to be loud leading to what you can do to get the funk around my libido. i'd be shining out like a beacon next to my love a monday feels like a weekend on a houseboat, so we'll lay down and float and watch the otters eating out of shells . being the peeps that we are we'll get down, dancing around in the dark we'll do the limbo and the fandango. did you get a hold of that angle? or did you think that i was just sad and all tangled in my own head?! no thoughts left for bed or the happy things that we can do well. living right up to the edge we'll be strong, living our lives on the line you know we'll be alright...

TWO STEPS FROM HOME
two steps from home could lead you to roam, maybe the high road is the way you need to go. waiting for life is like a disease with you in it's hold , leaving you cold. because you don't need to know, you don't need to grow you don't need to go and you don't need to know. two steps from home is nowhere to go, pack up your nothing, have a seat and loosen your load waiting for life is like a disease with you in it's hold , leaving you cold. because you don't need to know, you don't need to grow you don't need to go and you don't need to know. find a sunny day, find a way to reach for the world, you know, on your own. find another way, find a way to stand up to all that holds you at home, all alone, and unknown, just a bone on the skeleton in someone elses closet. well, you know. two steps from home is nowhere to go, pack up your nothing, have a seat and loosen your load by the horizon you can see the end of the road, the one thing you're owed, you better be sure and free of your doubt just leave it to me, the real in your life

Walking Dichotomy

AUTHENTIC
Hey don't you want something from the heap? Or do you need it at all? Wait nothings there in the purse you keep And you haven't tasted the world Yea someday you'll be king And find those words to sing Be real Hey don't you know what you want to be? Why waste your seed in a stall? Wait that's the way that you earn your keep But you don't believe in it all Yea someday you'll be king And find those words to sing Be real You're coming up this time Seeing things you like Walking tall and proud Making your opportunity You're growing up so far Being things you are Screaming out "I'm Free!" Forevermore be real

THE VERSUS OF DOWN
Let me ask one question Did you know that I'm here in pain? For you own invention I'm believing you been down on me and cold for sure but You'll be down You'll be down You been drinking answers but you never asked me at all Drunk on misinformation You treat me like the dirt beneath the dirt beneath your foot You'll be down You'll be down With your buddies you're still lonely sad and filled with lies and hurt Your depression mystery to you Spit on others instead of her One day you'll get what you been dishing I'll be watching laugh at you Yea you'll be down

A MURDER
We were done with the bloody steak We were quick to the cab we had almost lost our way Ended up in a figure eight it was late we were tired Near the ranch we paid the fare then walking there Well we were frozen by the windy lake Red river snow was running up our legs and seeing that we turned around and ran the other way Then we laughed like we had seen the dead we were quick to the back there was nothing in our way Then we crashed Yea we had figured then We left tracks in the snow simple map to where we stayed Our deaths we'd made You know our hearts were feeling unprepared and at the bloody steps we'd left I stared and seeing that we cleaned the rest of what we'd seen that day Now if you're good and never ask much then why would you move on? Is there a task or maybe you're someone's son who isn't born yet? So what is that outcome? Nothing to try for? Or nothing to fake? Oh yea Then in the morning when the air was still We took a walk to where we'd seen the kill And seeing that A man was lying cold Been dead a day or so He had a little note Stuck down between his toes I pried it out of there And read it with despair You never seen so cold A word betrothed All right here's what it said “you need your dead”

MORE THAN THAT
Tell me why you cry at night Tell me why you eat so fast Tell me all your hidden fears speaking of your haunted past I believe that you can do much more than that Tell me why you beat your kid Tell me why you cheat and lie Tell me all the things you did When you didn't want to try Tell me why you've been so loud Putting down your love so much Are you feeling big and proud? Are you living out of touch? I believe that you can do much more than that Way down where you go It's another time Find your way back home I'll go back to mine I don't want to make a fuss I don't want to start a fight I don't want to break your trust Sleep alone another night Maybe we can make it good Maybe we can make it right I don't have the only way I don't have some inner sight but I believe that you can do much more than that I don't want to be afraid

SINCE YOU BEEN GONE
Since you've been gone all of my dreams came true Yea I waited much too long All of the things I see remind me it's good we're done Maybe you're happy now like you said when you moved on All of these things I feel Yea I need to get out yea I need to get out I'll never see you anymore Let me out let me out I'll never need you anymore Oh no Since you been gone all of the things I never did when you got home Suddenly seem to be the things I'm doing now Thank you for seeing through the wasted years we crowned All of these things I'll feel Yea I need to get out yea I need to get out I'll never see you anymore Let me out let me out I'll never need you anymore Oh no

SO MUCH CONVERSATION
So glad to meet ya did you know the way home? Or seen the teachers? Giving up the hope we'd kept So much conversation yet we don't say a word C'mon and greet us we been gone a long day You know that teacher? She been filled with heartache yet So much conversation yet we don't say a word And when you see where it all belongs And when you breathe where did it all resolve? And who's been having fun So glad to meet ya Do you know the way home?

CALIFORNIA FREEWAY
Nothing ever seems to matter on a California freeway Yea no one ever gets involved because we're all driving on our way anyhow No one ever seems to notice When they're zoning out on the freeway Yea we don't know which way to turn But we keep driving on our way anyhow Turn your speakers up Don't remove your cup Seatbelt safely drive Keep your thoughts alive for me Nothing ever seems to matter on a California freeway Yea no one ever gets involved because we're all driving on our way anyhow Turn your speakers up Don't remove your cup Seatbelt safely drive Keep your thoughts alive for me

THE EASY WAY OUT
The easy way out same as it was before Look in your mind see all the things you have done The easy way out life through a gilded whore Dream all you want see all the things you ignore Save up your time sell it when your tired and old You could always work it out some other way So you don't need fear being smothered And all of your words stay recovered And nobody else steals your covers The easy way out

ANOTHER CLICHE
You wear age like a soldier but what'd you find? Who decides? Although you're done till recess circumstances never lie You're getting paranoid and losing your mind It's in your eyes The writing's on the wall Because no one ever finds the magic when they're young Dispelled all of your brothers who could stand to breathe their lies It's been a long dark weekend hiding out and getting high You're getting paranoid and losing your mind It's in your eyes The writing's on the wall Because no one ever finds the magic when they're young

NOTHING TO FEAR
Hired empath dreamed of leading a Rome Times a contrast to the leagues in your bone You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Free your soul Certain outcome seems to have teetered and grown Interest offered we believed in the loan You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Free your soul Tilted ego lost without any home Open inside and you won’t be alone You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Get on down You've got nothing to fear Free your soul

LIVING NEVER
You'll be what you want in time Redeem the sorrow in your eye Your will is fine Some say the past is on your mind Retreat to where you lost your line Your thoughts were blind Inside you can live a lie Say you're happy all the time You’re feeling fine Days gone seems that you've been tired Maybe the songs just in your mind and you will find Windy roads and a windy smile leave you lost forever Empty time yea it means so much you've been living never warm and tender Lights out Windows closed so tight Sun free day was turned to night Depressions might " Take me" Cold from mouth to eye You’d scream, "Nothing here's alive" You live to die Painting hues of black and white Colors are far too loud and bright to prove your spite Recede deep into your fire You’ll see that life is just a sigh for you to buy Windy roads and a windy smile Leave you lost forever Empty time yea it means so much You’ve been living never Warm and tender I lay down my head for everyone No more I can stand no way Sometimes I pretend my own Sun I'll be living here today