Like The Daylights
What do you care
Waving the curtain back
"We're on our way"
I've listened this and to what they say
Bring up my name
Reveal a war of words
Are you still in that hiding place?
My concern is easily traced
It's just terribly placed
I was under the overpass
I was looking for you
It was not so easy
I won't dress in those rags again
I've never been so ashamed
Without a dollar to my name
I'm starting to find
This backward thinking is fine
One step ahead, only leaves you behind
Turn on your heel
Wary of falling down
Where's the luck you were aiming for?
Well it doesn't live here anymore
It's just not like before
I was under the overpass
I was looking for you
It was not so easy
I won't dress in those rags again
I've never been so ashamed
Without a dollar to my name
And I know one day you'll fall apart
Bending a branch in my hand
Screaming like the daylights
And I know one day you'll come undone
Pressing your palm into mine
Exploding in the twilight
I've broken, not just sprained, my emotions
They're shattered, bleeding fast in the sand
Where you're afraid to stand
For fear of sinking
A thousand hands wave out to sea
And I know one day you'll fall apart
Bending a branch in my hand
Screaming like the daylights
And I know one day you'll come undone
Pressing your palm into mine
Exploding in the twilight
I was under the overpass
I was looking for you
It was not so easy
I was drawing on innocent memories I won't pretend
I never tried to forget
I Put My Foot Down
Cruel and thoughtless me
How can I invite you?
When your hand's on my knee
I don't even like you
And I'm too far our to sea
Too shallow to be perceived
I may be sentenced to never, ever be believed
And it's high time I put my foot down
I'm feeling ill at ease
From begging on my knees
My apology
Spent years in the making
I'm afraid, I'm ashamed
So much for explaining
And I don't think I can smile
I've written myself off the page
I'm too angry and frustrated for someone of my tender age
And it's high time I put my foot down
I'm feeling ill at ease
From begging on my knees
And it's high time I put my foot down
I'm feeling ill at ease
Will someone help me please
And it's high time I put my foot down
Dad's Dress
My Mother was clever and I'm sure you could have guessed
That she never let me rest
My Father was handsome he looked good in a dress
Put my Mother to the test
And my sisters they got married in the fall
But by Christmas a divorce for one and all
My friends are petty thieves they don't leave it to chance
If we raid the high school dance
The teachers and students and the faculty staff
Couldn't help but laugh
But we'll all be cracking text books in the fall
And by summer there'll be nothing to recall
Be it a thousand years
(In a way I never knew better)
In a million ways
(In a way)
I'm gonna get to say that I love you
I love you
A captain was sailing on the rollicky sea
With a message for me
"Bring all your things we've got plenty of room,
And we'll be docking soon."
In a month my life was hanging out to dry
And I got so sick of him I thought I'd die
So I rolled back into town with everyone there
If they want to let them stare
Cause I got myself a job making dresses for Dad
Now that really makes Mom mad
There's a picture in the paper everyday
Of the boy who drove this simple town away
Be it a thousand years
(In a way I never knew better)
In a million ways
(In a way)
I'm gonna get to say that I love you
I love you
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long for my life to begin
Space is a gap that your love falls through
Too much space and your mind goes too
Love is a trap that you fall into
Space is a gap that your love falls through
Too much space and your mind goes too
I wouldn't be wearing a sinful grin
But such is the state I've been living in
Smoking In Bed
Air casulty
Bad weather, no options
Bad Company
Now You're moving somewhat closer to me
Down on the street, will they believe what you've said?
When all the local papers find you're smoking in bed
Down on the street, they're just amazed with your head
But you can't think for burning when you're smoking in bed
Air casually
On the side of who's giving opportunity
A fake smile on a faded picture
How do you feel?
A new comfort for the old symptoms
And is it real?
The close contact makes it harder to breathe
Down on the street, will they believe what you've said?
When all the local papers find you're smoking in bed
Down on the street, they're just amazed with your head
But you can't think for burning when you're smoking in bed
Are you awake? Did you just hear what I said?
How can you lead, you just so easily lead?
So easily lead
Down on the street, will they believe what you've said?
When all the local papers find you're smoking in bed
Down on the street, they're just amazed with your head
But you can't think for burning when you're smoking in bed
When you're smoking in bed
Johnny
Johnny's still alive
He's playing with feeling
And all the words he sings
Are very revealing
And every songbird on the wing
Declare that Johnny is everything
Johnny's still alive
He's no missing person
They found him on the bench
He wasn't in prison
And a hundred holy offerings
Will never equal the joy he brings
Johnny I thought we lost you in the flood
You scared the living daylights out of us
Just to teach us what it was
To really fear for somebody
To really feel for somebody
Johnny's still alive
Though stranger than fiction
He's lower middle class
And ready for action
Though heros my die for a greater cause
They're bound to envy his applause
Family Tree
If there's a question:
Do you intend to be free?
Or is your past repeating your story of slavery?
And if there's a moment
To have a word with you
Will you share the shadow
That climbs our family tree?
Our family tree
If there's a reason
I fail the way I do
I've loved an imitation
Of what I thought was true
And if you can stand this
Display of poverty
Walk here in my footsteps
Around our family tree
Our family tree
I scored all the time off you
I struggled to hid from you
I stripped all the pride from you
And failed in spite of you
You swallowed the lie for me
Disguised it entirely
And stayed up and cried for me
Stood sleepless in agony
I never could offer much
I couldn't decide for us
I thought this would right itself
We'll never survive ourselves
And if you should find me
Crawling in the dirt
Leave me at the bottom
Of our family tree
Of our family tree
Uptown
Kiss me and prove what you've been thinking is real
Ditch all your old clothes,
Can't you see the style that you've been lacking?
Is it your plan to shock this man from the ledge?
Painting your nails while I'm head first in the greenhouse I was building
Uptown, where the breeze blows
Feel a stranger in your own clothes, watch me now
You dropped all your change from shopping too fast
A bottle of wine and swap meet sweaters you found while you were driving
I feel remorseful pangs of a life unlead
Embarrassing you by the way I'm acting you need space to rent in
Uptown, where the breeze blows
Feel a stranger in your own clothes, watch me now
A little patience is required, before you set the house on fire
(Why do you smoke those low-grade cigarettes?)
I'm losing all my sense of self. Why don't you dance for someone else?
(Why do you smoke those low-grade cigarettes?)
Now you're undressing for clients in private booths
I stop to adjust my tie the situation gets less attractive
I thought you used to hang with a challenging crew
They've only provided standard issue reasons for falling down in
Uptown, where the breeze blows
Feel a stranger in your own clothes, watch me now
Marian Catholic
Bridges to burn, bridges to burn Mary Basic
With your hands on your thighs calling plays from the side
Ahead in the lead, ahead in the lead Marian Catholic
With your holy ideals, it's the Hawks turn to steal
The six foot senior drives inside for the tie
And Captian McClain will cry herself to sleep
for the hundreth time
Sleeping In
If you float over
Remember the dust that fell in our eyes
And stand as sudden silence
Fell on fields where we once played
You could set a storm to rise
Every wave a widowed cry
I
if you'd stop sleeping in
Oh well
Spare us the fate of knowing too late
Oh well
I don't want to speak too soon
Time is a birdsong
Whistling past our best defense
We fake just like actors
making plans for no-good deeds
I'll wear your picture on a chain
I'm too tired to be brave
From all my sleeping in
Oh well
Spare us the fate of knowing too late
Oh well
I don't want to speak too soon
There is a standard by which we're measured
When we get older
I'm just beginning to stand for something
There's no denying
I adore you ceaselessly
Tens of thousands just like me
Have stopped their sleeping in
Driving To New Orleans
Driving to New Orleans
Through a path cut by a lake
I'm gonna try to get my courage up
Think I'm gonna need it down the line
You ask me how I feel, I feel fine
I hate to have to do this
There's a knot inside my throat
I'm gonna recreate the scene for you
The characters are real, the names have changed
You ask me how I feel, I feel strange
And I know I'll complicate things further
But in case you haven't heard there's an impending storm
Down where the lions roar
Driving to New Orleans
And I hope to stay awake
I'm gonna get myself together there
Set my rubber ducks all in a row
You ask me how I feel I don't know
You ask me how I feel well I don't know
Baby don't cry when there's nothing left
A sigh of relief a promise someone forgets
A faint and wounded blossom on the road
Now I believe that somehow something exists
Beyond the gate, I don't know how big it is
To think we're gonna make it on our own
Driving to New Orleans
Cause I've earned my second chance
I wanna stumble into Storyville
Thumb down trails from my memory
You ask me how I feel, I feel free
You ask me how I feel, I feel free
all lyrics by J.
Moody © 2008 All Rights Reserved.
music by Moody, Kallstrand, Shin ©2008 All Rights Reserved.