High School Paycheck | The Sun's Going Down | Roller Coaster | The Carburetor and the Steam Engine | Before I Rust | Words Come True | Outer Space | Company Store | Time Is | Buffalo Street | Brother

High School Paycheck

Clock your face it's too late

Don't you wait for the time

'Cause it's fast and it don't last

'Till you've gone out of your mind

If you are the thing you are

Then I'll know we're the same

As it were it always was

For it's etched in your name

Don't you know you’re crazy?

Don't you know I'm lazy?

But you’re wise to despise

Your high school

If you go things will show

If you stay they will too

Don't look back 'cause I will not stack

All these pallets with you

Don't you know I'm crazy?

Don't you know you’re lazy?

But I'm wise to despise

My paycheck

Because it lies

It lies, it lies

To yourself to the trees

And you work while you breathe

And it brings you to your knees

And you think it's what you need

But the only dime you’re ever gonna keep

Is the dime that fell under your feet

And you call it heads or tails

You can call it rocks or rails

You can call it faith or fate

Or god or mother nature

Because you are and so am I

you are and so am I…..

The Sun’s Going Down

Where I go I go, who I know I see

I’m not one for nostalgia or the changing of scenes

Where I go I go, who I know I see

And I’m stubborn and lame and not about to change

No kind of lifestyle for no kind of dame

I know what I am and I know what I want

Well the sun’s going down so if you want me around

If you want me I’ll be right here

You know where I am and you know where I stand

You want a chaperone girl in her own little world

To come up from downtown and put your head in a whirl

I know what what you are and I know what you want

All you bottletop kids with your brains in your hands

abusing those feelings you don’t quite understand

I know what you know and I know who I am

Well the sun’s going down so if you want me around

If you want me I’ll be right here

You know where I am and you know where I stand

Roller Coaster

Gonna bring it in and count up all these earnings

Gonna hold on and shine it for a while

Then I’m gonna see it gone and ride a roller coaster, ride a roller coaster

Maybe find love down deep in the heartland

Been working on coals but fire it doesn’t help no

I wash these clothes and still they’re never clean

Can you turn up the light and answer all these questions? Answer all of these questions

So that I know that I’m doing it all right

Will the moonlight sting your eye?

Will these childhood dreams survive?

And will they let that rollercoaster ride tonight?

Just like any mother’s troubled son could find his way back home

The pullies and the wheels spin you round

But you’ll never be too far away from me

Will the moonlight sting your eye?

Will these childhood dreams survive?

And will they let that rollercoaster ride tonight?

The Carburetor and the Steam Engine

Like any port in a storm when I’m talking to you

Or any fish in a boat when we’re in the same room

I want to live in the see but I want to step on the sand

I want to warm my feet in a sinking chair

I want to feel that karma coming in my veins

I want to know what it’s like to make mistakes again

I want to hear you tell me I’ve been thinking and the pain it don’t stick like before

And you know a home it ain’t quite what it was before

Well what’s the sense I mean and what’s the sense I mean?

I know everybody wants to keep their records clean

But they’re telling lies when they say it’s good

If I could save us all and burn it down I would but this fire it don’t come like before

And you know the river it can’t hold everybodies sin

Well you know the Carburetor and the Steam Engine had their time

And it seems though we’ve had ours

Before I Rust

Whether I walk or whether I run

I’m always looking out at the setting sun

I want it so bad

Into your room and into your head

Sleeping in the back seat instead

I want it so bad

Surely I will surely I must

Somebody get me there before I rust

When you coming off, when you coming home?

I’m tired of giving out on the telephone

I want it so bad

Won’t you look out for me, look out for me

I’ll meet you at the top, gonna see you at the top

I want it so bad

Surely I will surely I must

Somebody get me there before I rust

Words Come True

Words they ring in my head

You know they follow me, they swallow me down

And when I wake, I shake it off

And then my color’s back, my color’s fine again

And when I talk, here and there

You know that people turn and people watch

And when the microphones fill my eye

I just open wide, I open wide

And my words they ring and the press it sings songs

Like birds and like sailors

And if my eye shows an inch of doubt

You know they all show up and they pull me out

You gotta stay on top, you gotta float and sting

And then they shove me in, they shove me in

And my words come true, my words come true

The same as yours do

Sure as taxes bring sunshine

Do you wanna sleep with one eye

On the safe you keep or on the stars outside?

And do you wanna eat with the lions

Or with the lowly, average, collared man?

Words they ring in the air

You know they’re everywhere, they’re everywhere

But just because they sound real sweet

It doesn’t mean they’re true, it doesn’t mean they’re true

Outer Space

Inside outer space

The lights are low and all your faces glow

But there’s no sound no

Ghost are in your house

The ghosts are in the Stevenson Dam

And in the blue they drowned for me

So I could be your man

Man don’t stop, he don’t know

Until he’s speeding through black holes

God save us

Inside outer space

Looking back how my stomach aches

When I told you I would be ok

And there was nothing you would say

Man don’t stop, he don’t know

Until he’s speeding through black holes

God save us

Cape Canaveral looks nothing like it did in my dreams

But oh to see the ground again

And all the cars come rolling in

You take down that olive gown

And I will be your man

Man don’t stop, he don’t know

Until he’s speeding through black holes

God save us

For your country, for your common man

For the love that brought you to where you stand

Will you leave everything to circumstance?

Or will you own it?

God save us all.

Company Store

Hoping that my prospects are good

I see all the signs they said I would

And they're green and white and they shine at night

Don't know what they mean they just roll right off my tongue

And they roll and they roll by my van

Out of my pockets and into your hands I'll come

When I'm walking funny, please take me

When you get tired of working at the company store

Hold tight to the roof I'll build you a floor

And get down on one knee

And ask for your hand

The miles are smiling back at me

I see on neon no vacancy but

It's just like love to block my view

My heart is my home and my heart is with you

But you never know

If you never ask

Even if you do

The good don't last

It becomes a crime it becomes a test

Call it what you will it's love at its best

Hold tight…my hand, my hand…..

Buffalo Street

Down on Buffalo Street, Down on Buffalo Street

Lonely hearts don’t go unnoticed

And the world looks fine to me

She likes the pit pat of my feet

She wears the boots that her mama wore

Back when sunny fought in Nixon’s war

And her daddy worked for love

And now I’m walking through the jungle

I’m a rolling up my pants high

There’s a table set for twenty

And there’s a waiter with a lisp

Down on Buffalo Street, all the hippies work the gold mine

Man there’s girls on the left and right

Call in the jubilee tonight

She likes the pit pat of my feet

She wears the boots that her mama wore

Back when sunny fought in Nixon’s war

And her daddy worked for love

Down on Buffalo Street, Down on Buffalo Street

Lonely hearts don’t go unnoticed

And the world looks fine to me

Time Is

Time by no man’s code

Is the time I want for my own

But I keep on fooling around, staying up all night

With a little lamp on and a clock light burning bright

And time brought you here today

But you won’t be here with me always

You know where you’re going to, you walk and me I talk

But even saints have to use a politician’s tongue sometimes

And I want you to know I’m here

Want you to know I’m here

And I’ve never wanted less or more

No I’ve never wanted time to slow down like now

And I find it all hard to believe

Sing along with me and I’ll teach you to wear your clothes all right

Sing along with me and I’ll talk you down nearly every night

For there’s no one like time to put it in lights

And I know changing your mind ain’t something you like

But I wanted you to know and now you know

Brother

See them gulls, watch how free they fly

And if you’re holding on, to any wrong you’ve done

Brother you’ve been waiting too long

And kiss the lips, of a curly headed girl

And if she don’t pull back, if she don’t spin round

Then brother you’ve been waiting too long

Man I walked out of the house last night

And the water on the grass was glowing so bright

I ran up the hill and I tailored all my steps

Like a warrior with battle marks painted on his chest

And when I got up to the top, I heard the ages in a sparrow’s song

And I knew that I’ve been waiting too long

Hear my voice, ringing in your ear

And if you’re waiting for your sorrows to be gone

Brother you’ve been waiting too long