Fishbowl

Coming down from the trees changing up the scenery

The ground is softer than you think you need not worry

It's in your head it's in your lung it's in the grass

It's in the fun time

Do not quit do not slow no one knows the dead line

 

When the rolling hills come to change their tune

And the leaves begin to fall

When the hall way feels like a crowded room

And your trying to find the wall

 

Come on down from the moon baby your just lovely

And every time i see your eyes i swear i've seen the universe

 

Just a toss of a ring at a carnival

 

Now the goldfish got a brand new name

Let's see how long before he goes insane

Swimming around and around and around this little fishbowl

City Lights

Life's a bitch and then your dead

It's what my fathers' father said

So raise your glass and fill your head

With any song you like 

 

I always thought that I loved you more

But all is fair in love and war

So grant me if you will

Just a phone call and I will kill your time 

 

See the light from your city shine 

The night will never win 

Seize the day, put it under lampshade

Now you can turn it on

 

Feeling love and I'm feeling high

Show me yours and I'll show you mine

The lines are losing hold

It's the greatest story ever told 

 

See the light from your city shine

The night will never win

Seize the day, put it under lampshade

Now you can turn it on

 

Bang bang the morning light

Hits my head hits my eye

Whatever it is I did last night

I'll keep it in my shoe

 

 

Life's a bitch and then your dead

It's what my fathers' father said

So raise your glass and fill your head

With any song you like 

Talkin'

Every night I've been praying

Every night with my lamp down low

Every night my mind is racing

Something I know, I can't let go

Something I know and I can't let go

 

The life I led when I was lonely

The things I done before I met you

They do not hold me anymore

All of my time baby just for you

 

And on my mind honey it's only you

 

I talked myself outta talking

Talked myself outta thinking too

But you come around, baby I ain't broken

I've just been waiting on loving you

I've just been hoping that you'll love me too

I've just been hoping you'll love me too

Well I'm hoping and praying for it every long day

 

Lately I've been driving,

Driving in my beat up car

We've been hitting the road and seeing it all

We're working all the way to the top

And you know we're gonna shine

Babe we're gonna shine

 

Stubborn as a mule when you met me

I did not know I'd be letting it go

But now I see that I'm ready

For something we've started

We'll watch it grow

 

Take my hand we're gonna watch it grow

I talked myself outta talking

Talked myself out of thinking too

But you come around, baby I ain't broken

I've just been waiting on loving you

I've just been hoping that you'll love me too

Gasoline

Let us move like lovers might

Let it all begin here

Hey, what's that that they say? 

It's only natural ain't it

Hey, what's that that they say?

 

When we're out your so cool and I'm all a mess

And when I'm driving I can't keep my anxious thoughts to myself I guess

Blush glowing in the headlights

There's a band ringing out of the Belmar tonight

Forget your friends calling and ride around out here on the streets with me tonight 

 

When that freight liner sounds and the highway falls around us, could you pull your window down some?

Cause like fuel that's coming down the line I'm burning up my hearts a fire

And you're flooding through these veins like gasoline

 

And the atoms sputter around, my ebbing heart it pounds

When your legs leave the ground

Like fuel that's coming down the line I'm burning up my hearts a fire

And you're flooding through these veins like gasoline

Lemonade

Well it's lemonade, lemonade standing on the corner in July

Heart beats slow but the condensation moves quick

In the summer air with a silver spoon I mix the lemonade

 

Now when I pass, baby when I die

I don't want no sympathy or a tear in anybody's eye

Just a glass of that wet, yellow breeze and a beautiful girl standing right there next to me

I might call her lemonade

 

It's lemon tea a little coffee on your knee when you're riding in the van

But all these towns and all of this tea I just can't wait to get back and have a nice tall glass of lemonade

 

Well it's styrofoam cups and it's heartbreak and hotels when you're riding down the line

So all of you gals and all of you jacks don't forget to sit back and fix yourself some lemonade

Out in that sweet summertime shade

The Waves

Drove like hell the night you left me all alone

I had to clear my eyes on the side of the road

Time ain't doing what they said it would

About getting old

And this city don't shine for me anymore

 

Take me back to the days

When we would let the waves knock us in the sand

We'd be laughing and we'd get up

So we can do it all again

 

Then we'd sing ahhhh ahhhh

Oh honey I'm getting old

Ahhhh on the side of the road

 

Mama's crying cuz the baby moved away

Another birthday coming soon

But baby's losing sleep and talking on the phone

Every time she calls there's no one home

 

Take me back to the days

When we would let the waves knock us in the sand

We'd be laughing and we'd get up

So we can do it all again

 

Then we'd sing ahhhh ahhhh 

Oh honey it's coming soon

Ahhhhh

Maria Constantina

I can remember the sidewalk, still see every scene

All my friends faces, the white dust trails on the street

Damp, dark, dirty North Country New York out in the earliest days of Spring

Covered up in salt

 

Down on luck, a little green I would say

Had no idea about the fire that was coming my way

I was walking up the left hand side of the street, she was walking down the right

A burning comet of light

 

Please, Please, Please, Oh My

Is that Maria Constantina from the poplar hillside?

Where?

Right there, swinging all of that sunshine

Have I been so blind?

 

Just fourteen never had I seen something shine so bright

Never had I seen such a ringer, a light bulb in the head

A shot so true and so dead, I was down on the East Side you know

Where all of that riff raff it seemed to flow

She Aqua Net in her hair I'm sure and I stood up there on the stoop

 

Please, Please, Please, Oh My 

Is that Maria Constantina from the poplar hillside? 

Where? 

Right there, swinging all of that sunshine 

Have I been so blind? 

 

Owner of the night, capturer of the heart

Careless as a title wave it comes

Careless as the scarlet stains that run down the front on a boy's jeans who fell down lookin

Maria Constantina Please

Too Afraid

Oh my oh my falling for your lies again

Falling for your lies again but you look so damn good

 

If I if I look into your eyes again

Look into your eyes again

It feels like going home

 

But i'm too afraid too afraid to be alone

 

You talk like talk like you should be my friend

Talk like you should be my friend

So tell me what it is that you want

 

Oh my oh my losing all my lines again

I'm losing all my lines again but you look so fucking good!

But i'm too afraid too afraid to be alone

Lost Cause

Pull the shroud over my eyes

As if you don't know what I'm talking about

As if I don't know what you're laughing about

Behind closed doors

 

Nobody ever asked me why

Nobody ever asked how I'm feeling inside

Nobody ever tried

They just walked on by

Gave me that awkward stare in the eye

 

But I got a feeling life is more

I got a feeling and it's coming on

You gotta take it

 

You gotta take a little more

You gotta carry what you're trying to build

Or you'll be sleeping on the floor

You'll be wondering how

 

It ain't supposed to be easy

If it's gonna be right

It ain't supposed to be easy if it's gonna be right

You gotta take it

 

I got a feeling life is more

I got a feeling and it's coming on

I got a feeling life is more

I got a feeling and it's coming on

You gotta take it

Skin and Bone

If you look too close forget everything

I wrote these words inside of my hand

A hot spot light a blue ink stain

It's gone for good in the shape of Spain


So long I wave my hand

Feel the blood rushing in

Hear the voice of everyone

Their hands are reaching for the sun

 

Oh oh man it's killing me

Oh oh wayfaring

Oh oh man give it away

Oh oh man until my hands

Are skin and bone

 

Don't relax the city is near

Streets like veins on the back of my hands

The crosswalk counts down

Flashing light in your eyes

Now everybody's waiting for what on the other side

 

Oh oh man it's killing me

Oh oh wayfaring

Oh oh man give it away

Oh oh man until my hands

Are skin and bone

 

Gonna make them smile, gonna make them smile