overlaugher
overstepper
overdriver
overeater
overloaded
overlooked
i can see your swollen hands
reach for the door
and pity the china shop's poor proprietor
i say go
i say go.

overplayer
oversinger
overreacher
overrainbows
oversexed
overlooked
i can see you laughing so hard
there's a tear in your eye
so no one will notice when you start to cry
i say go
i say go
i say good-bye

i know where you live
i know what car you drive
l know what time you leave
i know when you arrive
you think that you're so safe
you don't realize
just the striking of a match : cry.

all of the ways that it can crumble down
and fall apart
so far behind that the wind is ahead
and the rain falls unkind.

there's a ripple in the wall
a crack that you can't see
where a billion hungry fingers
are scratching to get free
and you've bottled up your heart
you fenced humanity
and the money that you hide
still needs electricity.

all of the ways that it can crumble down
and fall apart
so far behind that the wind is ahead
and the rain falls unkind.

But the Meek, survive.

you know where i live you know what car i drive
you know what time i leave
you know when i arrive
i know that i'm not safe
as long as you're alive
the striking of this match : everybody crys.

monster come and bring his friends
monster come begin the ends
 and there ain't nothin we do
pull apart the piece by piece
fill the cart with grease and grease
 and there ain't nothin we do

no monster clocks no watch or buzz
always happen all at once
and it's a happenin same,same,same
gravity is floating you
 but the skin is stretching through
so fast it seem so slow

hungry monsters will eat paper
paper people will eat monsters
it's the way we roll, it's the way we go

sleep becomes the enemy
monster creep in bloody dream
 and there ain't nothin we do
monster like to touch you there
monster make it better there
 and there ain't nothin we do.

mexico is texas town
texas town is mexico

catapillers
rained from the sky
to set up their tents
as far as the eye
before they slept
a terrible meal
stripping the green
from your head to your heel
love blood
love blood

snake on her way
pondered the rock
pondered the flower
that grew from the rock
heat from the earth
made her aware
a capable flower
can grow anywhere
love blood
love blood

a beautiful vulture
slept on the wind
circle and circle and circle
pulling him in
smelling the truck
and the dust in it's wake
smelling the tires that
flattened the snake

wonderful,wonderful,
wonderful world

black flys came down
down from the moon
to feast on the catapillers
still in their wombs
this brought the toad
to snap up the fly
the toad to the road
in the belly where the
flattened snake lies
love blood
love blood

it's blasphemy down on a word busted street
the pigeons all scatter to the chrome churn beat
a taboo tale so plain so right
to taste an answer that's full of light
on this winter's night

a tattoo once now burned away
that bled for love in a lovesick way
but the proper heads are nodding in time
they disappear after robbing you blind
so he shrugs it off and turns out the light
cause he knows this ain't that kind of fight
on this winter's night

oh i can see the winters oh so clear
and the things i used to hold as dear
there's nothing for me here

the block got blacker every summer by summer
but the sons and daughters they made it clear
i could stay and play and trade for trade
and have no fear to make what i made
but november wind got a nasty bite
so she put me on the very next flight
on that winter's night

she can not go back again
back to rusty snow to spill another ten
and you know it's true
they grind you up
and hand it out in years
there's nothing for me here

on this winter's night
on that winter's night
on that winter's night

lay it down and let it go
despite the gentle of the storm
take a chance with all the venial
blood upon your hands that we
won't notice all your sins
here's the time
there's the line
behind which greater men have stood
and eventually we'll see
you did everything
you could

in the time it,in the time it takes to walk into the room you've conquered
occupied with roses,souls 'a drying on the vine
i circumnavigate the world and talk to everybody
twice they answer in their tongues i somehow understand
   it's a matter of the action love

in the place you,in the place you cultivate and cut the landscape to your
pleasure of the fashion to be breaking bottles there
i find a corner to observe the plumage of the scare
it's another world,another time,another chair
   it's a matter of the action love

bind my eyes and cut my ears
put my head upon a stake for all to fear
for you,it's just another way of saying:"i love you"
yes,i love you

in the suit you,in the suit you wear with passion pressed into the creases
that all the monkeys wove and sewed with murder in their sleep
not a sound a rustle or a rubbing when you walk
but i can hear the dark and dance
that shatters when you talk
   it's a matter of the action love

you are broken
so damn broken
she's all busted up in frays of notes
bitty cry that's broken
that high and lonsome
so bad so sad it's all alone
   no walking out to carry her away
   no walking out to carry her away

she glides through the house each night
her face all aglow
bare feet never make a sound
with the tag up on their tippy toe,
off in the distance
she can still hear the guns
counting the cadences of muskets and drums
so you say
so you say
so you say
a ghost on a drum

and i know you love me
and i love you true
we've gotten everything
that we wanted to.

it's almost a full
hanging low and orange in the sky
the wind rubs the hickorys together
sound like a baby cry
bernadette is closer
to the black irish bar
where her sister is waiting
in their daddy's new car
so you say
so you say
so you say
a ghost in the car

and i know you love me
and i love you true
we've gotten everything
that we wanted to.

All you see all you hear
what is right is what's wrong.
Now you know it's just a dream
and it won't last that long.

so we've come to an arrangment
that everything's real
the spirits that walk with me
they know how i feel
those who know,they don't talk
those who talk,don't have a clue
there's such good music
on the air tonight
it's the best we can do
so i say
so i say
so i say
it's the best i can do.