FALL
i got up early on monday
and it suited me fine
that the leaves had started
turning and it was cold outside
because the sun surely shined
the autumn ought to come
you used to say you liked it
well i still like it
i never got your message
i didn't think
that you cared anymore
now that you're out in los angeles
you kind of closed that door
but soon i'll need some warm air
i'm coming out in november
will you be there?
will you be there?
in the fall
tell me could the reddest tree
definitely give you something
to figure out?
or is that impossible now?
i wore that red fuzzy sweater
thru the frosty grass today
and it made me feel so safe and warm
like cherry marmalade
so it looks like i might
plant myself where i am
and just travel light
it looks like i might
fall

THIS DREADFUL LIFE
oh the simple days in a haze
out on peaceful seas
and you shook me out of my dungarees
and its true
it's not a lie
how time does fly
especially in good company
elevated by the view
and i got myself so terribly unglued
by the simple days
i'm amazed despite my strategies
that there can't be many days like these
so gimme gimme gimme gimme everything
this dreadful life has got to adore
they said i had enough
but now i think i really need some more
because i like the sound
of my feet hitting the ground
don't be so afraid
you got it made
you're only 25 but johnny black and humboldt
green made it worth the drive
and it's not a lie because it's true
youth is wasted on youth
especially when you let it pass you by
elevated by the view
get me up and out cause i'm totally confused
everybody gets so wrapped around the variables
but i was never very good at math at all
still everybody gets so wrapped around them
and i guess that i would too
but i'm not in the mood
gimme gimme gimme gimme everything this dreadful life.......

SATELLITE
the witness said it's extraordinary
she's shiftless in red maybe some dead
and buried love
might make a scene
you know what i mean?
for crying out loud
with cosmos pink
they all toasted you bye
but i needed another drink
just to look you in the eye
'cause i don't want you to go
i don't want you to go
i miss you already
satellite
you're blue salt water taffy
so don't ride down to the vegas strip
satellite
i want you to be happy
if you'll smile for me
we'll pretend like you never left
i wish i tried to meet you at the airport
i wish that you lied
the west was your last resort
but if i can keep the black coat
you can keep the veuve clicquot
satellite....

CHADY SAVES THE DAY
i said its only worth doing
to bother you
and he said well you must be tripping
yes that was true but i came here to rescue you
now i'm a stone on a lake
and i'm skipping
chady lights the way
chady saves the day
we were at best with a drink
and a cigarette
and we darkened a fine line
i was busy ignoring his litany
of regrets
it was by grand design
chady lights the way
chady saves the day
all those photographs
pulled from gilded frames
all the breaking glass
i want it back
now you're so pure
propped up by your ghost
all the cheap allure
i want it back
but memory fades and lies
i just want a life
i don't want to hurt anyone
but sometimes you have to
i just want a life
i don't want to hurt anyone
but sometimes
chady saves the day

SHELTERING SKY
it was a gift to forget what i said
'cause what you heard
those were just empty words
like a blast it's a telling telegraph from the past
was it the empty things
that are gonna last?
and it made me free
the way i wanna fly
in your sheltering sky
redemption was like
a ticker tape parade
keep my mouth shut smile and wave
with a fistful of luck this is a stickup
so now you now the world is saved
from lipstick boobs and babes
and it made me free....
so the words hurt and my head said
you got the fire lit
so now i get it
i'll live for you if you live for me too

PRINCELY GHETTO
a lesser girl might have
just given up
but i stopped listening to my mind
and still i summon the will to chase you
like you've committed a crime
i just want what's mine
so i watched the sun
through the dust off my tires
as i sped my way to you
and i've told myself so many damned lies
often times i don't even know what's true
color my baby blue
and the light spilled out around us
so i wore it like stiletto
and you shoulda hid
but i gotcha kid
ain't this a princely ghetto
my fingers on your faded blue jeans
where my eyes had already been
you're not too young
don't be scared
nothing's wrong
did your mama say it's a sin?
just let me in
and the light spilled out around us....
diamond and ruby and aquamarine
sapphire, emerald and tourmaline
opal and onyx and amethyst and you
a lesser girl might have just given up.....
and the light spilled out around us.....

MADE IN THE SHADE
walk out the door
turn around
pick up the phone
put it down
your voice gets so disappointed
and i don't want to hear that sound
said the queen bee
get thee back
and trampoline me to the right track
i said i'm sorry
and i can't say it any better than that
every moment gets replayed
and recreated in my head
i go back to all the perfect things
i wish i would have said
i'd be made in the shade
fantastical sweet surprise
maniacal was my demise
it left me standing
with a solar landing in my eyes
said the queen bee
everything's wrong
so go ahead
and get along
but first do your worst i got my best happy ending face on
every moment gets replayed...
if you're having trouble understanding what i mean
what i've been meaning to say
is we've got to call our own armistice day
and if it's all a circle
everything to me's a circle
i'll just cover my eyes
and when i cover my eyes
i miss the parade
said the queen bee
take it bac
k every moment gets replayed...

FADED DRESS
like a grade school valentine
my heart is asking and aching all the time
when are you gonna know?
this demon time
gets to moving awful slow
so let's talk about the way the world should be
it's not fair when i'm cast as gatsby
and i should have seen you coming
like a speeding car
but you know me
perennial cassandra
if you want to hurt me its an unqualified success
and i don't want to hang around like a faded dress
when i was young i thought
that i'd remember everything that
i'd been taught
now it's clear i never learned anything
'cause i come up empty
when it comes to you dear
so let's talk about just how it's gonna be
forget the love
and just bring the happy
and i got a sneaking feeling about you
such as you got other better things to do
if you want to hurt me it's an unqualified success
and i don't want to hang around like a faded dress
on the way out
if worry is the color of currency
then i've paid well for this movie
and i can't help but watch it
again and again
'cause at the end when i rewind it
you're right back with me
like a grade school valentine...
and i got a sneaking feeling about you
such as you got other better things to do
if you want to hurt me it's an unqualified success...

HAPPY TO BE HERE
i wanna go to the show
can you buy us a ticket
then let's wrap me up
in a red velvet blanket
first the perfect light
then somebody else's life reappears
and i'm so happy to be here
the lights go down
i just can't wait to meet her
so i hold on tight to my seat
at the theatre
she's my celluloid hero
across a silhouette veneer
and i'm so happy to be here
and i think you sink so deep
you come and wake me from my sleep
and it's good
so good so far
so i dream of you beneath
red velvet stars
and i think you sink so deep
you come and wake me from my sleep
you must be my lucky star
'cause baby i'm the luckiest by far
i wanna go to the show
can you buy us a ticket
then let's wrap me up
in a red velvet blanket
i'm alive and breathing
and this will be my greatest year
i'm so happy to be here

GALAPAGOS
the mighty badlands
south dakota
i'm tired of sitting down
we said goodbye to seattle
it's 7:00 am now
should i be saved? i'm going home
should i be scared? well i don't know
there was a question in my heart
but i've forgotten what it was
i guess it went the way
of all the passing miles
and yesterday's coke buzz
there's no excuse at 29
to be so absurdly like a child
so i can't stay up all night with you
the kick don't kick like it used to
and i've made mistakes
heaven knows
but i'm scared of being alone
so make this bad ride fly galapagos
my watch is set now to eastern standard
with sioux falls rolling by
and it makes me tired how i make tired
it seems most all the time
so you'll see the ocean and the truth
and i won't be of any use to you
and you'll want back your old guitar
and you'll want back
your brand new start
and i won't deny nor oppose
your needing to be alone
so make this bad ride fly galapagos
i can't stay up all night with you
the kick don't kick like it use to
and i've made mistakes
heaven knows
but i'm scared of being alone
so make this bad ride fly Galapagos

MEAN STREAK
don't wanna hear you on my radio
in fact i don't wanna hear your voice ever again
i'm not receiving you through my stereo
and i don't wanna see
your stupid face in no magazines
it ain't easy man and i'm not proud
but it's not beneath me to appreciate
the mean streak that's inside me when it's
so hard to miss you the way that i do
i just want to kiss you
do you miss me?
do you miss me too?
don't want to see you, don't want to be seen
so when you come around
with your sparkly new girl
i duck and weave just like i'm sugar shane
then i trip and fall and disappear
right off of this great big world
and though i try to keep it to myself
it's not beneath me to appreciate
the mean streak that's inside me
when it's so hard to miss you...

TRANS - NEPTUNIAN OBJECT #1
with starry eyes ever after
you're a chapter
i'm a page
and you send me so stratospheric
i gotta fear it in a way
and nothing could be jaded
i couldn't orchestrate this love
i'm beyond trans - neptune object #1
(refrain)
anywhere you go
from the depths up to the stars
i am a moonlit window
daget dagut dagur.
don't she never
ever worry
cause her mama tell her
she's interstellar

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