St Michael My Pet Rat Make Sure They Hear Sleeping Beauty Homeland Pastoral Roll Away My Stone Green Eyes I Am Fassbinder Song Of The Mole
St Michael My Pet Rat
you got to help my pet rat doc - he's always glum
though i give him lab cigarettes, sawdust, even a wheel to run
i tell him: you should be happy there's no reason to
stare
i play him Mariah Carey - so there's butterflies and rainbows in the air
his name is st michael and he's a bit of a class clown
he laughs with people who always laugh him down
he would hang himself except he already chewed threw his rope
he would rise on heavens wings except he's miserable as the pope
i know the party's over
but whoops would look at that my glass is still half full
i show it to st michael but his eyes they drift like frost
while he watches all the goodness in his heart burn away like exhaust
remember when i mentioned my half full glass
it comes in handy when you always want more
it magically fills as the boasts get empty
from the tired swimmer who can no longer see the shore
yeah i know the parties over
i'm a little relieved but what will i do know
i'll be nicer to st michael that rat really makes mr laugh
when he says - in the end there are no saints there are no liars
there are just sparks falling down wires
they have no heart but they always sing
they are the heroin in everything
a beauty easy to explain away
but how do you make it stay:
you got to fight for it...
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Make Sure They Hear
don't let them ask you what you believe
they'll only take it
don't let them ask you what you'll believe
they only want to break it
under your breathe you say
this night will end - this night won't last
under your breathe you say
the day day will rise - the sun will come
those who rise to your defense
are only as strong as the song they hear
those who rise to your defense
is your call clear - you got to make them hear
you got to make them hear
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Sleeping Beauty
as i drove away over the dead leaves of your southern town
i watched you wave and wave - in the mirror i saw you wave
as the autumn fell - until i made my turn and i said oh well
this could well bee the last time i see your beautiful hands
your frozen hands your trembling hands that could not hold on
to any heart that's warm to any lie that's cold your hands
were made to burn in the sun
i like to get there safe i like to get my sleep
selfish with my time like it was something i could keep
oh but you know the truth it never helped you much
it only beat it drum it woke sleeping beauty up too much
it woke her up too much x2
the bankers the liars and the thieves
they want to sell you into a life of fear
they call it a plan that will make you free
but nothings free - you taught me that my dear
no one can love the way you love
with the blind purity of a honey bee
but now that sweetness feels like a mistake i grieve
it poisons my life - becomes a prison i don't want to leave
as i drove away over the dead leaves
and merged into the stream of those who know their lines
stagnant reason why we travel so far away from our hearts
like flies caught in jars
little flies buzzing in cars
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Homeland Pastoral
there's a new spirit in our homeland
we placed our fates in our fathers strong hands
in our hearts burn the fire of a brand new dawn
the storm is coming it time for us to be strong
beat the drum here comes the victory of our times
in the cathedral of light our hearts rise free of chains
and when we sing
our heart pours from our veins
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Roll Away My Stone
what's going to turn me into an honest man
what's going to scare the ghost out of my soul
i don't want to have to comfort another victim
i just want to learn to use the things that i stole
i got to roll my own stone away
when i was with you it made me less of a fake
a coward who has to make all the rules
remember the charmer always becomes the snake
who always feeds it hunger and never suffers a fool
i got to roll my own stone away
when you lost your heart you thought your life was poison
only good to dissolve like sugar in water
your love is a bell that rings underneath the ocean
heartless as your preacher your dealer and your mother
i got to roll my own stone away
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Green Eyes
the truth that lived in her green eyes would never let her be
it itched and burned and tripped her up would never make her free
sometimes hunger is a law that cancels every other law
her eyes were green much greener than the ocean's long drum roll
her frightened eyes could always see the coward in your soul
her eyes were green much greener than all the cash she stole
but you threw here out because compared to hers your life was a minor role
achilles heel appendix burst a wart a mole a saint
most people cut away the things that give them some complaint
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I Am Fassbinder
god help me i think i'm about to die
and guess what i wasted my whole life
all the times i hurt you with my lies
can you see any sunlight left in my eyes
that's why i had to push you away
can you find something in me to love
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Song Of The Mole
he was so pissed off he was dying
he would only play hall and oates
he said if my days are numbered
i'm going to blast the world with hall and oates
so with his finger on the button he
shook his walls and windows with his wounded pride
it was my youth he thought was burying him
i became the soldier that puts the sword in his side
he listened for my footsteps every day
it was almost like i was in his veins
he wanted my footsteps to go away
it was almost like i was in his veins
i was the ghost he hated - he called me the mole
Hall and Oates
| Top | (all lyrics copyright Mark Eitzel 2005)
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