Elise, it doesn’t matter what you say
You know I’ll stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this
Elise it doesn’t matter what you do
You know I’ll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire the way they should
To (may? ) the blue will pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least I’d lose this sense of sensing
Something else that hides away
From me and you this world’s to part
With aching moves
And breaking hearts
And all the smiles your hands can take
But I can take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I’ll throw it all away
Like throwing faces as the sky
Like throwing arms round yesterday
I stood and stared like stone in front of you
And the way I stared it seemed I looked right out of you
And even the way I stand
I stand away from you
Elise believe me take me away from this
And secretly we’ll slip into all our promises
Away from it all in the cover of the night again
And we’ll watch the years fall
And we’ll dream it all back like we do
Elise it doesn’t matter what you say
You know I’ll stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same the way
We act out
Every way to smile
Forget and make believe we never needed any more than this
Any more than this
As fast as I pick it up
It falls away through my clutching hands
As fast as I pick it up
It falls away like falling sand
But there’s nothing else I can really do
There’s nothing else I can really do
There’s nothing else I can really do at all...
A Letter to Elise
A Japanese Dream
I’m going back to the land of the blind
Back to the land where the sun never shines
I’m going back there and I’m hoping to find
Everything just as it was before
I left it all behind
I slept at nights there hysterically
Twisted and turned
But I just couldn’t get free
Opened my eyes
But I still couldn’t see
But I could feel her
China white girl
So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey
Mmmmmm that was a japanese dream alright
The sound of the storm
And the flickering light
And the way that her scent used to fill up the night like...
Like her scent used to fill up the night
So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey
Just look at me now
Just look at me this way
It looks like I am quite insane
It looks like I am trying to eat off my face
It looks like I’m going to the land of the blind anyway
Back where the sun never shines
Back to the land of the blind
Back in a japanese dream
A Forest - Show Version
Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
If you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes
I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees
Into the trees
Suddenly I stop
But I know it’s too late
I’m lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It’s always the same
I’m running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again
She said could you take me home tonight?
It’s the only way I know.
She said could you take me home tonight?
There’s no other way I know.
She said you know the way you used to do.
Of course I’ll take you home.
You know the way you used to do.
Of course I’ll take you home.
This kiss could cost my life.
Is all you see in her eyes.
This kiss could cost my life.
Is all you see in her eyes.
It’s all you see in her eyes.
She said take my hand, take me home.
She said take my hand, take me home.
Take me home.
Take me home.
A Forest
Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
If you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes
I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees
Into the trees
Suddenly I stop
But I know it’s too late
I’m lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It’s always the same
I’m running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again
A Foolish Arrangement
Christabel strips
And slips like a dream
Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
Disdain...
She throws her head
And glides against the stream
Throwing me her bravest smile
Defiant
Glittering
Shivering guile
Catching a cold is quick this time
But fish? ... fish may take a while...
Christabel dips and slips from me
And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
Triumphant
Reluctantly
Struggling six legs held up for me to see
Don’t be scared
It’s nothing new
It’s the same old game; only fun with two...
But fast and over and over
I can’t play this game with you
Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will
Christabel trips
And grips my hand
But never to be saved
For a second I understand
And I fall with her...
I’ll never leave you
Love you
See you change into the man I want
But it’s not for long this thing
It’s not for long...
A Few Hours After This
The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look and it will all come true
And we can fall outside
Into the fizzy night
Or pull me down in here
You know it’s all the same
I only want to see if you are happy again
Or we can roll around
And find out upside down
A few hours after this and we’re apart again
Like two white chicks
Like opposite poles
In a secret game
(like nothing like these I suppose...)
I really should have known by the cut of your smile
That the answer would be simple
It still took you awhile to get it out of me
I thought you’d do it easily
Just put your hands around my heart
And squeeze me until I’m dry
I never thought you’d ever start to ever ask me why
I never saw you again
39
So the fire is almost out and there’s nothing left to burn
I’ve run right out of thoughts and I’ve run right out of words
As I used them up, I used them up...
Yeah the fire is almost cold and there’s nothing left to burn
I’ve run right out of feeling and I’ve run right out of world
And everything I promised, and everything I tried
Yeah everything I ever did I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
But the fire is almost out is almost out...
And there’s nothing left to burn
No there’s nothing left to burn
Not even this...
And the fire is almost dead and there’s nothing left to burn
I’ve finished everything...
And all the things I promised, and all the things I tried
Yeah all the things I ever dreamed I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
But the fire is almost out...
Half my life I’ve been here
Half my life in flames
Using all I ever had to keep the fire ablaze
To keep the fire ablaze
To keep the fire ablaze
To keep the fire ablaze...
But there’s nothing left to burn
No there’s nothing left to burn
And the fire is almost out
There fire is almost out
Almost out, almost out
Almost out, almost out...
And there’s nothing left to burn
2 Late
So I’ll wait for you
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I’ll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up ’til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late
If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat’s all off
And I’m gone away
10. 15 Saturday Night
10.15
10.15
Saturday night
Saturday night
And the tap drips
And the tap drips
Under the strip light
Under the strip light
And I’m sitting
And I’m sitting
In the kitchen sink
In the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
Waiting
Waiting
For the telephone to ring
For the telephone to ring
And I’m wondering
And I’m wondering
Where she’s been
Where she’s been
And I’m crying
And I’m crying
For yesterday
For yesterday
And the tap drips
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
It’s always the same
It’s always the same
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