I'm a Russian Jew American Impersonating African Jamaican What I want to be is an Indian I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end I guess I bought a gun Because it impresses all the little girls I see And then they all wanna sleep with me Oh where did we disappear Into the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end Where these people who impersonate our friends Say come again, come again, come again Into the dark Italian underground With disco lights and disco sounds and skinny Girls who drink champagne Then they take me on their knees again, And pull me up and out the door Past railway cars and tranny-whores And mornings spreading out across the feathered thighs of angels Oh were did we disappear to The silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end Where they try to push you out to keep you in And say Come again, come again, come again... In fourteen hundred nintey two Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred nintey three he came home across the deep blue sea In fourteen hundred nintey four he did it with the girl next door In fourteen hundred nintey five he barely made it out alive In nineteen hundred sixty four these sailors left me at the door In nineteen hundred seventy some people got their hands on me Now I am the king of everything I am the king of nothing now I am the king of everything I am the king of nothing Oh where did we disappear To the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end Where these people Who impersonate our friends Say come again come again come Come again Oh where did we disappear To the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end When they try to push you out to get you in And all these people who impersonate our friends Say come again come again come Come again come again come again

She brings her friends so we wont have to be alone Fear I might lose my composure without warning I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires And I was born inside the sun this morning This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree They say good evening when they dont know what to say They say good morning when they wish you would go home You open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside and then freeze to death alone This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree She calls a waitress when its time for her to go And I know everyone is eventually leaving I got a pair of wings for my birthday baby and I will fall down through the sun to see you mine This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree For me, for me, for me

Dancing like the nights are down in Nashville But I seem to know the ghosts who like to run I got a call to go to a late night picture show So I traded in the darkness and I'm already glad I'm already there And I'm trying to make some friends So if you see that movie star and me If you see my picture in a magazine Or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV Well honey I'm just tryin' to make some sense Outta me I left a lot of ghosts in San Francisco And now you wanna say you see through me But what you wanna see ain't your memories of me So why you turn around tonight But I'm already there I'm already there And I'm just trying to make some friends So if you see that movie star and me If you should see my picture in a magazine Or if you fall asleep while you're watching TV Well honey I'm just trying to make some sense Los Angeles Boston gets cold this time of year Seems like each day just leaves me numb I gotta get out of here Go walking in the sun Well if you see that movie star and me Or if you should see my picture in a magazine Or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV But honey I'm just trying to make some sense Honey I'm just trying to make some friends Baby I'm not trying to make amends For coming to Los Angeles Oh Los Angeles No more Boston, no more Nashville, no more Oakland Oh baby come on out to the sea Come on take a walk down sunset with me Oh we gonna get drunk Find us some skinny girls, and go street walking Street walking baby in Los Angeles And man its a really good place to find yourself a taco

Coloured rubbers and a bedroom set I wouldn't know it if it hit me You take a little step and then it feels like love I think I better get a little of it in me Give me a kiss I think it feels like love Give me a kiss I think it feels like sunshine C'mon baby, light me up I wanna look into your eyes until I go blind and... You think that you can do without me I can't do anything at all You think that you can do without me But I don't believe in Sundays And I don't believe in anything at all Your mother make you in a parking lot My mother made me out of flesh and wire Try to remember what you might forget I try to remember everything Try to remember so you don't disappear Try to remember so you don't fade away Your mother made you out of smoke and rain Your mother made you in a fire that's faded You think that you can do without me I can't do anything at all You think that you can do without me But I don't believe in Sundays And I don't believe in anything at all I wanna touch you for the things I'm losing I wanna touch you for my self-respect Give me a reason or I might stop breathing Give me a reason why I'm soaking wet Gotta stop breathing cuz the sky is falling I might go out and watch the moon explode Give me directions to the highway crossing I'll go lie down in the middle of the road You think that you can do without me I can't do anything at all You think that you can do without me But I don't believe in Sundays And I don't believe in anything at all I don't believe in Sundays And I don't believe in anything at all I don't believe in anything at all

Can you see me Up on the building From down on the pavement Or out in the crowd? Can you see me In the glare of the lamppost? 'Cause I am walking a tightrope Into the moon I don't want to feel so different But I don't want to be insignificant, and I Don't know how to see the same things different Now Oh can you see me? I am one in a million Yeah, I'm Icarus falling Out of the sun Could you see me fall in the light of spotlights and jackknife Through night as black as a bedroom And white as a lie? I don't want to feel so different But I don't want to be insignificant, and I Don't know how to see the same things different Now Diving through the dark While the night turns blue Hey Are you aware of your intentions? Because I wear my intentions So clear If you see me Wading through water Come drown in the river Right in front of the world You can wash your face and hands In the stream of my anger It's as bright as white paper And as dark as a girl I don't want to feel so different But I don't want to be insignificant, and I Don't know how to see the same things different Now

Cowboys on the road tonight Crying in their sleep If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand And some promises to keep Who wanted to change the world What's as easy as murder? It's all headlights and vapour trails And Circle K killers And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall under the eyes of anyone But you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now Come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now This is a list of what I should have been But I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I'm not seeing The look in your eyes As his fingertips slid down your neck And made you shiver I'm just turning away from where I should have been Because I am not anything Oh, anything, oh The President's in bed tonight But he can't get to sleep 'Cuz all the cowboys on the radio are killers And I believe she loves you 'Cuz you never make her feel like anything She said, I wouldn't feel a thing But I can feel, I can feel... And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall under the arms of anyone But you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now Come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now This is a list of what I should have been But I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I am not seeing The look in your eyes As his fingers are unzipping your dress And it makes you shiver I'm just turning away from what I shouldn't see Because I am not anything Oh, anything, no Everyone's in bed tonight But nobody can sleep 'Cuz all the satellites are watching through our windows She says she doesn't love me, like, like she's acting But it's as if she isn't talking 'Cuz Mr. Lincoln's head is bleeding On the front row while she's speaking I said, come on all you cowboys All you blue-eyed baby boys Oh come on all you dashing gentlemen of summer I'll wait for you where Saturday's a memory And Sunday comes to gather me Into the arms of God who welcome me Because I believe, oh I believe And I know I could look at anyone but you now I could fall under the eyes of anyone But you now, now, now, now So come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now Come on, come on, come on Oh, come on through now This is a list of what I should have been But I'm not This is a list of the things that I should have seen But I'm not seeing you look at me So please, won't you look at me? 'Cuz I'm not seeing you look at me Oh, oh, I, I will make you look at me Or I am not anything Oh, anything No no no no No no no no No, no

I sold my piano It couldn't come with me I locked up my bedroom And I walked out into the air When nothing I needed Was left there behind I walked out through the shadows Of Washington Square I wandered the highway From Dublin to Berkeley And I heard the songbirds Of Bally Pooreen But I loved like a fountain And it left me with nothing Just memories of walking Through Washington Square Now I live in the shadows Where light is electric And time is a number That rests on a wall And nobody knows me My friends and my family Are as far from this city As Washington Square So cover this warm night In a blanket of starlight And I'll follow this freeway Out into the air In case you should wander And wanted to find me I'm traveling homeward To Washington Square

Take a message to your head Just stay beside her in the bed You were so stupid to believe in things You couldn't see Then make them all you want If you haven't got the reasons Just make up any reasons Then pick them 'til they're torn Take it all away You took your coat today But they all go back in the morning Make a time to find your way I got a little further today Wash your eyes clear of anything Make them empty circles Dress yourself in black or grey I'm hungry like a wild waif Or only child this lithium Is heroin to me It makes it all withdraw All the anger and loss But it all keeps coming back In the morning You keep yourself too clean You dig yourself a dream That we won't be Coming home alone Not this time not this time Not this time not this time

Well you know I don't like you but you wanna be my friend Well, there are bodies on the ceiling and they're fluttering their wings It's ok I'm angry But you'll never understand When you dream of Michelangelo They hang above your hands And I know that she is not my friend And I know cause there she goes Walking on my skin again And I can't why you'd want to talk to me When your vision of America is crystalline and clean I want a white bread life Just something ignorant and plain, But from the walls of Michelangelo I'm dangling again And I know that she is not my friend And I know cause there she goes Walking on my skin again and again Saturn on a line A sun afire on strings and wires To spin above my head and make it right But any time you like You can catch a sight of angel eyes all emptiness and infinite And I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed I see god upon the ceiling I see angels overhead And he seems so close as he reaches out his hand But we are never quite as close as we are led to understand And I know that she is not my friend And I know cause there she goes Walking on my skin again and again

I'm always thinking Of someone new I'm never sitting Ok with you There's always something else on my mind There's always something I can't find You think about anything you can I think about you I'll think about anything it's true I'm almost perfect Some of the time I'm also sinking Some of the time I'm almost ready Yeah, it's almost true For almost anyone but you You think about anything you can I think about you I'll think about everything it's true I'm always sinking Beneath the sand You're holding nothing in your hand You think about anything you can I think about you But I'll think about anything it's true

Anything's hard to change But hey I got you down on your knees again You watch the sky It's a pale parade of passing clouds That cover the bed upon which we laid in the dark And the memories that I made of a laughing girl But you're just my toy and I can't stop playing with you baby If you think you need to go If you wanted to be free There's just one thing you need to know And that's that you can't count on me I'm coming along real good But I still can't do most of the things I should I watch the sky coming down to bury me And I can't stop this crawling out of my skin I know that you see yourself flying in out of the sky Coming down to carry me but I won't come out So if you think you need to go If you wanted to be free There's one thing you need to know And that's that you can't count on me I watch all of the same parades As they pass on the days that you wish you'd stayed But all this pain gets me high And I get off and you know why So if you think you need to go If you wanted to be free There's just one thing you'll need to know And that's that you can't count on me

Wasted time running scared When all of love needs Is to be believed in All those springs Come and gone Passed like trains And box cars, leaving But I would be lying If I didn't tell you The truth They will leave you They will leave you So come now let's go dance To the silent song Come now leave your damage Behind and gone Some are lost to you Wasted time running scared All I need is to believe in Something like a summer And I know you need somebody Just like I do And all of these foxes Go down in their barrel to hide They will leave you They will leave you behind So come now Let's go dance To the silent song Come now Leave damage Behind and gone So come now Let's go down To the dance floor Come now Lose your mind And look badly gone Some are lost Some are leaving Some are lost Some are leaving But I'm not gone at all I'm not going Anywhere at all Some are lost to you Wasted time Running scared now Autumns fire Is ashes on the breeze And it spends away Like dust on pearls As winter comes To usher in the evening All of these drummers Go stand on The hillside alone They will leave you They will leave you At home So come home now Let's go dance To the silent song Come now Leave your damage Behind and gone So come now Let's go down To the dance floor Come now Lose your mind At Le Ballet d'Or So come now Come now Let's get out While the getting's good Just come now There's no one Left in the neighborhood

A picture of Amsterdam Bare trees under glass Framed in the afternoon light Of a winter long past When I was a raiser To Dublin I'd roam She was a bareback rider Some miles from home Come back to me She's a carnival driver Hung in the sky Cutting through time like a memory Strung on a wire The color of anything Fades in the air But she is the film of a book of the story Of the smell of her hair Come back to me When every thing's over And every thing's clear When everyone's older And no one is here I try to remember A girl on a wire Tumbling and diving above Stephen's Green Like a kite on the air Come back to me

Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been? Little pieces blowing gently on the wind They have flown down California They have landed in L.A. Little pieces slowly settling on the waves I'm one of a million pieces fallen on the ground It's one of the reasons when we say goodbye We'll still come around We will come around I have waited for tomorrow from December 'til today I have started loving sorrow along the way I am calling from some city And I won't be there too long I could wait and I could waste away But what comes back is I hear you say we're gone For all of the times that I go spinning up and down When all of the things have died between us Well, we'll still come around We will come around After I've been missing for a while And you hear that summer's song Haven't all the fading lines lingered on? What I know is: she's going When you know it, it's alright So you put yourself between you and your pride If you wait for what's coming And you listen to her lies, Then she'll say the things you need to hear And the only one who'll disappear is you And one of the million lies she said Is All of the things you love are dead. But I've seen what she thinks is love And it leaves me laughing so we'll still come around Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been? Little pieces blowing gently on the wind They have flown down California They have landed in L.A. Little pieces slowly settling on the waves I'm one of a million pieces fallen on the ground It's one of the reasons when we say goodbye We'll still come around We will come around I have waited for tomorrow from December 'til today I have started loving sorrow along the way I am calling from some city And I won't be there too long I could wait and I could waste away But what comes back is I hear you say we're gone For all of the times that I go spinning up and down When all of the things have died between us Well, we'll still come around We will come around After I've been missing for a while And you hear that summer's song Haven't all the fading lines lingered on? What I know is: she's going When you know it, it's alright So you put yourself between you and your pride If you wait for what's coming And you listen to her lies, Then she'll say the things you need to hear And the only one who'll disappear is you And one of the million lies she said Is All of the things you love are dead. But I've seen what she thinks is love And it leaves me laughing so we'll still come around