1. WITHOUT A TRACE

I fell in love with a hooker
She laughed in my face
So seriously I took her
I was a disgrace

I was out of line, I was out of place
Out of time to save face
See the open mouth of my suitcase
Saying "Leave this place"

Leave without a trace (×3)

I tried to get a good job
With honest pay
Might as well join the mob
The benefits are okay

Standing in the sun with a popsicle
Everything is possible
With a lot of luck and a pretty face
And some time to waste

Leave without a trace (×3)

I tried to dance at a funeral
New Orleans-style
I joined the Grave Dancers Union
I had to file

Trying to do the right thing, play it straight
The right thing changes from state to state
Don't forget to take your mace
If you're out walking late

Liked to see your face
You left without a trace
You leave without a trace


2. SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING

Well, if there's one thing that I know
It's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say
No one's gotta know about running away

Trying to make something out of nothing
Leaning hard on yet another crutch
All of these temptations keep me wanting, wanting, wanting
To feel your touch

It's not supposed to make you feel so helpless
Selfless, crying for some tenderness
I miss, miss your kiss
Impossible to resist

Find some budget to support my habit
Suffering an underdose of love
All of these temptations keep me wanting, wanting, wanting
The sky above

Oh, my desperate disposition keeps me bitching
Keeps me wishing, wishing for some shelter from within
There ain't nothing I can't live with
Nothing I can't live without

I want this, I want that
I wanted just a little slack
It's like an itch that I can't scratch
Could you get this monkey off my back?

Trying to make something out of nothing
I can't live without

Wanting nothing

Oh, my desperate disposition keeps me bitching
Keeps me wishing, wishing for some shelter from within

It's not supposed to make you feel this way


3. CARTOON

Now everybody's looking after me
If I'm dragging by some coat tail, I can't see, it's too dark
But I've got to know what's got the best of me

When the circus that you left goes on parade
In those bleacher seats of fire in your charades, it's too far
But I'm feeling like I don't dare look away

Don't look away

Did it almost make you feel that something's gotta happen soon?
When you wake up feeling lost in your own room

If you're crying in your beer you're gonna drown
If you think we'll rise above, you better look around, you'll see
It's a mountain made of sand crumbling under me

Maybe I'm chasing shadows on your wall
They loom so large but make me feel so small somehow
When you're chasing your own tail, spinning your own wheels

Dan: On a night when the wolves were all silent, and the moon howled
Dave: And I tried to leave, and I tried to stay, tried everything, tried looking away (×2)

Did it almost make you feel that something's gotta happen soon?
You're in the movies now and I'm in your cartoon

There's a ringing in my ear that's heaven-sent
There's a beast out on the ruins
Some broken down lover's lament
It goes on and on but it won't go away


4. VEIL OF TEARS

Well, a fascinating sensation
No I can't even feel it
I just had to let you know
I can't conceal it

I was recently considering
Taking the pain with the pleasure
Just to find my way to the bottom of this
I'll have to dig forever, and it's no small measure

Lift up your veil of tears

Don't be disappointed, child
If your prayers go unanswered
We are not responsible
For these sad circumstances

Secret agents and freedom fighters
On those impossible missions
Better put your toys and games away
Maybe take the kids out fishing for a family treasure

In your early years
Behind your veil of tears

So frustrated
Get up anyway
So complicated
Changes every day

So the darkness fades
And the light, will come shining through

I heard the eyes that look to a better world
Always hide beneath the veil of tears
And you hide no more

Lift up your veil of tears
Hide no more
Behind your veil of tears

Now the executioner must be executed
No I think we'll set him free instead, watch him run

And you hide no more

(Veil of tears)

Lift up your veil of tears

(Veil of tears)

You hide no more

(Veil of tears) (×2)


5. KEEP IT UP

I'm down here waitin' on a shattered heart
I'm gonna put it back together if it tears me apart
If I can keep it up
If I can keep it up

I've been complaining like a broken record
Gonna get what I want if it takes forever
If I can keep it up
If I can keep it up

Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing

Singin' Na na na na na

I know it seems funny tryin' to understand
It's just that things don't always go the way you planned
Still you keep it up
Still you keep it up

Nothin' in the world's gonna keep me down
I'm just a-holdin' out, just a-hangin' sround
Tryin' to keep it up
Just to keep it up

Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing

Singing na na na na na na

Keep it up (×4)

747's gonna take us away
Take us up to heaven, gonna be okay
If we can keep it up
If we can keep it up

Though the rain weighs down your wings,
Still the caged bird's got to sing

Singing na na na na na na? na na na

Keep it up (×8)


6. 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)


7. 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


8. 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)


9. SOMETIME TO RETURN

[Well] I ran my way
I walked a fine line
Wasted time only to find
That you were calling, I think, my name
To remind me I am fine

What you are is what you see
And you see me and we can be
Something you can call we
We are, we are

Doing what we can
Working without a plan
I'm beginning to understand
It's getting out of hand

I have seen these closing doors
I've woke up on this floor before
Picked it apart for hours and hours, and hours and hours
Of turning, tossing, and looking and listening
To you and all the fucked up things you do

But you're doing the best you can
With every grain of sand
Just trickling through your hand
Can't catch me if you can

If someday comes early
Comes whipping, comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning
Your bridges are burning
My destination's sometime to return

Throw away your calendar
And saddle up your salamander
Get up and get down
Ride into town and look around

Get up and do something
Your time to choose it
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it

Doing the best I can (I can)
With or without a plan (a plan)
I'm taking what I can get
I haven't seen nothing yet

If one day you wake up and find what you make up
Come and get me, come and take me there

Into your illusion I make my intrusion
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere

The hourglass is draining fast
It knows no future, holds no past
And all this too will come to pass
Never, forever, whatever

If someday comes early
Comes whipping, comes whirling
To take you for all you have learned
The tables are turning
Your bridges are burning
My destination's sometime to return

Sometime to return (×3)


10. 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


11. FREEBIRD

(No lyrics available)


12. RAMBLIN' ROSE

Love is like a ramblin' rose

The more you think, the more it grows

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose

You try hard

Love is like a ranblin' rose

Cant think, but you can't let go

That thing for the more you know

You try hard

Try fuckin' hard

Love is like a ranblin' rose
Cant think, but you can't let go

Ramblin' rose (×8)


13. 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


14. 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)


15. STRANGER

I said hey brown girl, I've seen your tears through the window
Of the junkshop downtown
Selling trinkets from your far off homeland
Did the promised land let you down?

I said now hey young boy
I notice that you ain't afraid to walk next to me
Old man, you look like you're dying
Is that all you want, is a quarter from me?

Oh, you know, sometimes I feel like a stranger
I feel like a stranger

(He, he, he, he)

I'm just another face in a faceless crowd
I'm just another king in a headless crown, I'm so alone
You know, I live here in this city
But this place it just ain't nobody's home

Now how many times do I got to tell ya
There's no such thing as a man made world?
And how many times do I got to tell you
There's no such thing as a man-tamed girl?

Sometimes I feel like stranger
I feel like a stranger

I want to buy some flowers for my mother, if I only had a mother
You see I… I've got a happy family, but that's oh so far away
You see I've got it all here inside me, but I just can't seem to get it out
But I know with a little imagination we can work this whole goddamn thing out

Oh, don't make me feel so strange, I feel like a stranger


16. HOPE

Why can't you say you'll talk to me
You're already thinking about someone else
When he comes home you'll be in his arms and I'll be gone
But you know my day will come I know someday I'll be the only one

So now you wait for a spark you know it will turn you on
He's gonna make you feel the way you want to feel
When he starts to lie when he makes you cry
You know I'll be there my day will come I know someday I'll be the only one

My day will come
I know someday I'll be the only one

Call me selfish call me what you'd like
You think it's right to want someone for all your own and not to share her love
If I have my way you won't have a say anyway
But I've got to you don't stand a chance
So now you wait for a spark you know it will turn you on
He's gonna make you feel the way you want to feel
When he starts to lie when he makes you cry
You know I'll be there my day will come I know someday
I'll be the only one. My day will come
I know someday I'll be the only one

Now you want perfection to your self-destruction
You don't know what you want it's gonna take you years to find out
I'm not giving up when you've had enough you take your
Bruised head and come running back to me you know that I'm gonna be the only one