1. BLACK GOLD

Two boys on a playground
Trying to push each other down
See the crowd gather 'round
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
I've got so much left to do with my life

Moving backwards through time
Never learn, never mind
That side's yours, this side's mine
Brother you ain't my kind

You're a black soldier, white fight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
Sure'd like to feel some pride
But this place just makes me feel sad inside

Mother, do you know where your kids are tonight?

Keeps the kids of the streets
Gives them something to do, something to eat
This spot was a playground
This flat land used to be a town

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
Sure'd like to feel some pride
But this place just makes me feel sad inside

Black gold in a white plight
Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
I've got so much left to do with my life


2. APRIL FOOL

Quitting after one more last one
Tired of playing the clown
If I want your opinion I'll ask ya
I can get myself down

Night driving without headlights
Wearing sunglasses too
Looking good but sure don't feel right
Anything to be cool

Doing hopscotch with my legs tied
Jumping rope in wet cement
Black leather in midday sunshine
All your mother's money's spent

Doing time on the metal detector
Like to drown in your pool
Covering up everything that's defective
Anything to be cool

A burning heart
Could be so cool
Won't you be my fashion victim?
Come on, I'm an April Fool for you

Holding on to what's left of real life
Anything to be cool (×4)

A burning heart
Like an April Fool
Won't you be my fashion victim?
Come on, I'm an April Fool

I'm a mid-spring snowfall, joke's on you
I'm an April Fool for you

I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool (×3)


3. SOMEBODY TO SHOVE

Grandfather watches the grandfather clock
And the phone hasn't rang for so long
And the time flies by like a vulture in the sky
Suddenly he breaks into song

I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone

Hello, speak up, is there somebody there?
These hang-ups are getting me down
In a world frozen over with overexposure
Let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town

'Cause I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
'Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

You're a dream for insomniacs
Prize in the Cracker Jack
All the difference in the world is just a call away

And I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
Yes I'm waiting by the phone
I'm waiting for you to call me? come call me
And tell me I'm? tell me I'm not alone

'Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

Yes I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me


4. BLACK GOLD #2

(See lyrics on track 1)


5. SQUARE ROOT

Living faster, thinking slower
Happy with what you don’t know
Your confident incompetence
You gotta change it
You gotta change it

You want go the square root,
Gotta head on back to school
Sit down going nowhere root
I’ll be getting 'round to the square root really soon

No religion, only vices
Guiding by the light of crisis
Late night friends are rolling dice
You can’t help it
You can’t help it
Never listen, always lyin’
Cheatin’, stealin’, never tryin’
Just can’t change your evil ways

You want to go the square root,
Start breakin’ all the rules
Sit down going nowhere root
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to the square root really soon

Yes you want to go the square root, set this homeland straight
Finally get somewhere root
I’m afraid the square root’s gonna have to wait

I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to the square really soon
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to the square someday soon
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to the square root
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to it someday soon
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round
I’ll be gettin’ ‘round to it someday soon


6. BY THE WAY

If I could remember what makes me feel good
I'd pound it down like a nail in wood
I'd never let go of that feeling again I know

I know that I felt this way before
I'd pound it down like a cellar door
I want you to know I'm behind you, by the way

By the way that you look when I confront you
By the way that I affect the things you do
By the way did I tell you I can't leave you, by the way

I'll be waiting for you on judgment day
To watch all these judgments pass away
And by the way the details fall, by the way

By the way all the people that care about you
Are all watching to see what you're gonna do
By the way have I told you I can't leave you, by the way

By the way that you built me up again
Back to a time when I was intense
And now I know you play for what you pay

By the way that you make me feel all right
By the way that you put up such a fight
By the way that my trust and faith is safe with you


7. 99%

I don't own you, but I know you're mine
Never disown you, never treat you unkind

Once in a while, you get on my nerves
Once in a while, you get what you deserve

I want you 99% of the time
99% of the time (×3)

If I asked you what's on your mind
Would you say me, would they be thoughts unkind?

Once in a while, I'm not myself
Once in a while, I think you're someone else

I want you 99% of the time
99% of the time (×3)

(Let's move in together, happily ever after
Let's move in together, happily ever after)

I can't touch you, 'cause you feel so fucking fine
Let's just stay like this, and waste some more time

Once in a while, you get in my way
Once in a while, you know I got to say

I love you 99% of the time
99% of the time (×8)


8. THICK & THIN

Some may got so much to hide, some tell everybody
Others just let it all ride; they just think its funny
But I decided yesterday, not to let it get in the way
I’m giving up on giving in
You can’t keep me down
I don’t know where to begin
I’m a loser about to win

I’ve never been in any state, but mind over matter
I’d like to leave but I got to stay, I’m a loser about to win
Before they throw me out again, you think you could get me in
Cause I’m giving up on giving in
You can’t keep me down
I don’t know where to begin (loser)

I’m a loser about to win (loser)
Loser about to win (loser)
I’m a loser about to win

Now I’m fendin’ for my life, depends on everybody
Without you I can’t survive
Without you I’m nobody
Say I lost my faith and trust, but I base it all in you
I’m seeing you through thick and thin
If you put me out, I’m gonna do myself in (loser)

I’m a loser about to win (loser)
I’m a loser about to win (loser)
Loser about to win (loser)
Loser about to win


9. NEW WORLD

Lives in a little, lonely town
No one's around except for the drinking
Nobody ever gets around
But those who leave the township sinking

May you rot in heaven
Gotta be home by seven

And the field burns away
The sky breathes it in
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?

I'm coming out across your border
With new orders for you to take
I'd really like to take out your daughter
Down in the water, down by the lake

When the cold water's on her skin
I can feel how long it's been

And the neighbors will all be there
And no one will know what to wear
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?

I got a lot I've got to do
Just to get through the end of the day
It hardly ever even happens
But I go to sleep the same anyway

And you can't believe in yourself
You can't believe in anyone else
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin?


10. GET ON OUT

I gotta get on…
I gotta get on out
All these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Will I be on the streets tomorrow?
Will I have to beg and borrow?
Will I have to go back to the job I left behind?

Could you still make it
With a guy who never made it
Would you look into my eyes if I were to go blind?

Gotta get on…
I gotta get on out
All these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Now, will you leave me for another,
Send me running back to mother?
Will I have the time to tell you how I really feel?
Am I just getting slower or are you just talking faster?
Do we need bad disaster to make it plain to see?

That all these worried, troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head
Gotta get on out of my head

Out of my head (×14)

Do I just feel like crying 'cause I'm sick and tried of trying
Trying to convince you this ain't how it has to be?
The ground you walk on's sacred, the sky above awaits you
So cast all your frustrations to the bottomless sea

Gotta get on…
Gotta get on out
All these worried troubled thoughts
Gotta get on out of my head

Gotta get on out of my head

Out of my head (×27)


11. RUNAWAY TRAIN

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am, just drowning in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

And everything seems cut and dry
Day and night
Earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train never coming back
Runaway train tearing up the track
Runaway train burning in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same


12. GROWING INTO YOU

You never grow out of mischief making
You never grow out of taking
You never grow out of complicating
When simple things are waiting

But I'm growing into you
I'm growing into you

There's one thing that I know that's perfectly clear
You never grow out of fear
You never grow out of fear

You never grow out of contemplating
It ain't worth debating
You never grow out of mistake making
You never grow out of faking

But I'm growing into you
I'm growing into you

There's one thing that I know that's perfectly clear
You never grow out of fear
You never grow out of fear

I'm growing into you
I'm growing into you

There's one thing that I know that's perfectly clear
You never grow out of fear (×6)

And will I ever, ever, ever get over it
Get over it (×3)


13. EASY TO AVOID

I recognize you
I recognize you

(Hey, hey) be in bed, feeling blue
(Oh, oh) about the troubles puttin' you through
(Hey, hey) ain't looking for sympathy
(Oh, oh) just have a little mercy on me
Cause I'm good inside
I've got nothing to hide
But my pride has been destroyed
And you make me feel so easy to avoid

(Hey, hey) feelin' funny and I'm not sure why
(Oh, oh) feel like I wanna lay down and die
(Hey, hey) beat my head against the same old wall
(Oh, oh) get no answer every time I call

I recognize you
I recognize you

No I ain't that bad
Ain't the best you've ever had
But if you just get annoyed
How can I be so easy to avoid

I recognize you
I recognize you

No I ain't that bad
Ain't the best you've ever had
But if you just get annoyed
And you make me so easy to avoid

So easy to avoid
I recognize you
I recognize you


14. SOME OBSESSION

Some obsessions are not good for you
Some obsessions are just what you need
I am obsessed with you if we can be,
It'd be convenient for you to be obsessed with me
Some possessions are not good for you
Some possessions are just what you need
I am possessed by you if we can be,
It'd be convenient for you to be obsessed with me

Before I was after your heart
Before I was after your heart
I didn't know where I should start
Before I was after your heart

Some expressions just don't express you
Some impressions just don't impress I must confess
I'd be with you if you could be the best for me
Some obsessions are not good for you
Some obsessions are just what you need
I am obsessed with you if we can be,
It'd be convenient for you to be obsessed with me

Before I was after your heart
Before I was after your heart
I didn't know where I should start
Before I was after your heart

Some obsessions are just what you need
I am obsessed with you if we can be,
It'd be convenient for you to be obsessed with me
Before I was after your heart
Before I was after your heart
I didn't know where I should start
Before I was after your heart


15. STRAIGHT UP

We know the galaxy's full of black holes
We don’t know which ones have the pay tolls
Ooh take a look out, take a look inside
This is whole new kind of illusion
Based on a brand new kind of confusion
Built on wise decisions, based on foolish pride
And you wonder why you wasted all this time
Ooh trying to find gold in a salt mine
And now you reached the limit, but the limit is the sky

Ooh straight up one more, straight up one more time
Oh straight up one more, straight up one more time

This is a character assassination
This is a character that needs a vacation
Too soon, too long, too much for one mind
We got to step back and take inventory
You're only seeing one side of the story
And a good story is changing all the time
There is always one more sucker doing fine
One more trucker driving that white line
Delivering nothing to no one everywhere

Ooh straight up one more, straight up one more time
Oh straight up one more, straight up one more time

It's much easy to give up
It's much hard to get up
To another day just like yesterday
And this time there is no escape this time
And any explanation would be fine
And now you've reached your limit, but the limit is the sky

Oh straight up one more, straight up one more time (x4)