THE DREAMLESS SEA - Lyrics

THE WORLD WITHOUT US
I have seen the end my dear
All the trains are packed and feared
All the people's schedules cleared
All the songs they never wrote disappeared

Not sure how the devil found me
Must be all this lust around me
The sagging sun seems to agree
Just enough light to waste the time alive, please

All the rules that were applied
All the buildings side by side
Caused the pigs and poets to collide
All the kids we never had died

WHAT LIFE FEELS LIKE
That's not sand in your eyes
It's not love, It's not lies
It's not underneath your skin
but still it made it in

It's not shortness of breath,
that's no tightness in your chest
It's not sickness not time for rest
It's not even the end of the night

It's what life feels like

Where's the wind at your back?
Where's the love, where's the slack?
When you need it the heart attack?
Did you think I could do without that

It's what life feels like

You think how can I be bored
you got your shit turned on like never before
you're going to go to war
it's going to be all right

You are under attack
there are eyes watching your back
you think you think you think you think
you are right you are right

it's what life feels like


WHEN I GO
There's nothing in the way
Nothing on the TV today
I should know I've watched it all damn day

I take the garbage out
I throw a 40 down
me and my laundry hit the town

i walk down 8th the same
they took the scaffolding away
to see the sky sure is strange

my day has just begun
december daylight's gone hon
gotta wait till march to see the sun

I'm gonna take it with me
when i go
and you and I will
i'm gonna take it with me when I go
when i go, when i go

bus stop on 43rd
my dirty feet kick the curb
I always use the same damn words

i guess they're good enough
when I don't know shit from luck
i guess i'm just making it up

i'm gonna take it with me, etc...

ten feet out my front door
my coffee hits the floor
i buy my paper buy the war

and if I gotta die
then i won't think to ask why
just how am i doing on time?

i'm gonna take it with me etc...


URBAN PLANNING
I know you saw me looking at the sidewalk
But right now I can't find the strength to care
Yeah I miss what I lost
You guessed right
But I'm content to leave it there

Cause I don't spread out like the street
And its wide reach never meant that much to me
I see the curb and the curb sees me
I check my face and you're watching

I know you think I'm thinking a thought in here
Kindly you'll give it a rest
Every moment costs me something I recall
Are you next?

Cause I don't spread out like the street
And its wide reach never meant that much to me
I see the curb and the curb sees me
I check my face and you're watching


LIFE AS A MOVIE

THE BREAKUP SONG
I know since you've been free
you've seen a lot of cats like me
we fall asleep on the stairs and
wake up at tables in chairs

it doesn't make much sense to you
I still leave all this residue
I still mistake luck for wine
and progress for logic & time

believe me, I know it's been rough
I think about it way too much
I shouldn't flaunt and pretend
I didn't start, so why would you end?

I know you've seen the last of me
I know that it'll never be close to what I had with you
but that's fine
cause I want something new

I'm gonna hit the road
I'm gonna move to Cleveland
I'm gonna die
I'm gonna grow old


BURNING YR BRIDGES
All the weirdos with their groceries
Let you know
All the charts on all the TVs
Let you know
All the smokin all the slow sleep
Dries your nose

and all my holes are full of shoes so let it snow
all your friends
All the charts on all the TVs
Let you know
All the smokin all the slow sleep
Dries your nose

and all my holes are full of shoes so let it snow
all your friends they got the flu
so it goes
all my friends all caught the muse
split for the west coast
me I got the booze
so what did I lose?

All the bitchin all the coffee
Lets you know
All the paranoid dreams
And flight of thought
Either way it's a relief if you really wanna know

If you see me staid, say hello
And all the gaps in all the days take their toll
I would really love to stay but Well, you know
all the baggage I must move
to get on the couch with you

When I'm on the couch with you
Makin out
It's distracting but it's true
What was it we were just talkin about
I was alive for a minute there wasn't I?
Wasn't I?
Wasn't I?


EVERYTHING'S AHEAD OF US NOW
I'm so glad I woke up this morning
With all my limbs and all my doubts
I am taking breathers but the year is closing in
and I ain't done a goddamn thing with it yet
but I got time
and I got these hands of mine

Shower drink strong coffee till my hands shake
stretch out naked on the hardwood floor
thinking could it be that practicing not caring works
could it be that life pays off
could it be my ex was wrong?

cause I'm on time
and I got this foul mouth of mine
And I'm done waiting
and I'm done fucking around
I'm through feeling sorry for this town
everything's ahead of us now

Who is this I'm writing?
What's the world look like from over there?
Where I come from we begin by shouting
throwing rocks and eggs and killing bugs and punching air
we had all the time
we had the bright Yonkers sunshine

Now my days are full of shade
I'm so broke my head hurts
I am all removed from this once rent gets paid
but I don't think I'll make it
cause everything is overheard

but I got time
and I got my hands clasped over this foul mouth of mine

and I'm done waiting
I'm done fucking around
I'm through feeling sorry for this town
everything's ahead of us now

suffering is worth it if it's earned
you laugh and say and I don't blame you
how postmodern
it makes no more sense to me than anything else
cause I've seen better and I've seen worse and
I'll see better and I will see worse

in due time, with a lil luck from this headamine
I'm done waiting, I'm done asking around
I'm through not knowing what you sound
everything's ahead of us now


NORTHERN ALLIANCE THEME SONG


LIFE AS A MOVIE II
It could be two days ago
It could be today you know
It could be two years from now or never

Standing on the same romantic curb
Yes I hear you what the hell's the word
I'm still here apart but I feel better

yes i know this is not a game
but ink keeps leaking through the page
my wrists smile in joy but I've upset her

she says I don't say it anymore
i ain't sharp and i ain't hardcore
I said that I could do this forever

chorus:
but she said "That's from a movie
Everything's from a movie
and there's nothing to live for"

she said "I seen that movie
and I know you seen that movie
but there's nothing to live for"

I want a place that drives for weeks
as sullen as your tear-kissed cheeks
I'm not sure it's for me that you're after

I remember stoned in buffalo
canceled flights to her Chicago
demonstrating what I couldn't ask her

so lean the curb over and slowly do
see my footprints seven years from you
one hundred and forty miles and so many hands

so hand me down, hand me my blindfold
hand me my last request
and hand me my cigarettes

chorus

i guessed due west from the sound of it
phonecard smile hanging round a bit
i have pleased others to let me sell out

what was that I whined about
passed and drunk out on a stranger's couch
clear from meditating on a blackout

but it could be six years from then
it could be last week all over again
it could be my fault it could just be best

but i can't judge the distance from the curb
I'll close my eyes take you at your word
all that I want now is all that is left


READING THE NEWSPAPER IN THE DARK
I can't afford anything
It's so hot in here, I can't sing

I belong at the bar, I'm a free man
I can't fucking read yr mind, fill me in

take me to the couch, no cheating
take me to your bed, let me sleep in

i am tired of breaking my heart
just let me know where to start
i'm reading the newspaper in the dark

NOT QUITE