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My song lyrics...I think I'm ready to record. Any musicians around?

1. Nighttime Lovin

In the evening the stars, they dazzle but
We cant see them during the day.
In the nighttime you lay affection on me but
In the morning you wont look my way.

After midnight, as we lay wrapped in sheets and arms you
Whisper all Ive ever wanted you to.
I know tomorrow in my strange and sunny solitude Ill
Still be all wrapped up- but will you?

Chorus:
Well, nighttime lovin is not enough to keep me warm I
Need a pair of arms to guard me from the daylight storm so
Think long and hard if thats something you can be
Because nighttime lovin is not enough, not enough for me.

I go for long walks and let the questions turn and turn but
All I come to is thoughts of you baby.
Is the risk of pain worth the chance to burn?
Oh your kiss is so good that I think it may be.

Chorus

Bridge:
Oh, but when I think of a night without stars
I think of a black life without a love thats ours
You could be with me for infinity, but the thought would haunt
That its not worth my time if its not what you want.

Chorus X 2


2. Falling Out

The journey that Ive taken
Circles around you in silence have left
Paintings on the cavern walls of me
But I can strike
My own match to see them
And I can measure them with my own ideals-
I dont need you to show me how far I have gone
Or to separate what I know from what I feel.

Steps backwards, steps backwards, steps backwards count
And in the ricefields of well-being
Standing still beneath the moon
I can feel the softness of my own hair on the flesh
I can feel
Sitting on my own bones
All of which reach
Out into the universe around me for you,
A symptom of withdrawal from the
Intimacy Ive know.

Steps backwards, steps backwards, steps backwards count

Chorus: (x2)
Half the time I took with you
Is all that it will take to get me through.
I will wait for time to heal the wounds of
Falling out of love with you.

And I can feel my soul clench tight around my heart within the dark of me
I can feel the tears fall simply, undramatically,
Cross a straight, surrendered face from the place
Where the absorbed projections live,
The wide eyes,
To be caught in a quiet mouth that leaves their
Silent salt to die.

Chrous x2, with refrain inserted within


3. Singing Down Varrick

Remember that night when we two went out
To see what was going on
And we got to the bar and the band was so bad
We slammed our drinks and were gone?

We walked down the street for a breath and a smoke-
It was April but it was so warm!-
Our bodies were hung with this glorious night
And thats when he began to perform.

Well there was no one around, but we two and the man
And his dog on his front porch stair
And the sounds that we heard sent a chill down my spine
Despite the temperature of the air.

He strummed on his fiddle with a passion that left us both
Stirred and amazed with delight.
His voice was like gold, like pure lavender soul
As it rode on the peace of the night.

Chorus:
Well he was singing down Varrick, like we all often do
And he was strumming a vision that would not come true.
His voice was the echo of urges we feel
But that night down on Varrick, the dream was real.

Well he was sixty years old but his body
Looked older as he got up to stand.
He said if we knew anybody who played
He was thinking of starting a band.

Well, Im 23 and sometimes I forget
How short our human lives are.
Ive been saying for years Id be starting a band
But it hasnt happened so far.

Chorus:x2
Because Im

4. Heartbeat

Did you catch me stare too long?
Did you see when I looked at your mouth?
And is that the time when I became your prey
Cause you knew that you could have your way?

A living doll upon a string-
I cant tell you anything.
Do it once and shame on you,
Do it ten more times, shame on you too

Chours:
Cause Ive got a heartbeat
That you choose to dance to
You can feel my rhythm from across
The room.
Its how you choose to use it
But you cant tell the difference
From the blood that pulses
And the bass and drum.

You took a look into my eyes
What were you trying to synthesize?
You held my fingers and turned chartreuse-
I knew I had to cut you loose.

I duck into an alley to hide from you-
Somehow you will find me, too,
Cause you can feel my heartbeat
From across the world.

chorus


5. The Eleventh Hour

She wouldnt have stayed if she had known that it would cost her an arm and a limb.
She didnt have anything at all that she didnt get from him.
She thought that they could just take a break, yeah, it couldnt do no harm.
She thought that their love had just hit the hay, but turns out it had bought the farm,
Yeah bought the farm

Stayed up for three long nights in a hotel room, yeah, she was burning the midnight oil,
Trying to figure out just what to do to resolve her inner toil.
But on the third night she was just dozing off and it was near the eleventh hour,
When a voice, maybe real or maybe in a dream, shook her with its power.

Chorus:
It said hey girl- dont get all bent up now!
Its time to get your bells on cause were approaching the eleventh hour.
Hey girl, get up and hit the streets.
Theres a thousand miles of open road ahead
So dont you drag your feet.

So she jumped outta bed and she packed her bags cause she couldnt wait no more.
The clock on the wall read 11pm as she hurried out the door.
Oh well she shot that breeze so sharp that soon she knew it in and out
And whenever she seemed to drag her soul the voice in her head would shout:

Chrous.

6. Martini Sky

Shed been thinking all of her life that she had to get out,
Out of the town where she was born and raised.
So she moved to a concrete jungle, culture-bound
And after months the lights began to fade.

She unfolded her napkin cross the lap of her little black dress
And ordered a glass of wine to complement her meal.
She must have drank that glass just a little too fast
Cause it wasnt long before she started to feel

Chorus:
The moon hung like an olive in the martini sky.
She remembers looking up and thinking Lord, where am I?
It wasnt long before she realized she had to go
Back to where the gin runs slow.

She replaced her river with a crowded subway car
And traded her jams for a pulsing techno beat.
She couldnt remember the last clean breath she breathed,
She couldnt remember just who she used to be.

Chorus

Bridge:
OH! And she remembers looking up and saying to the city:

I dont know you, we never met.
Ill go away now and try to forget.
Distorted Chorus

7. Room to Grow

Ive been accused of letting my wheels spin,
Of chronic procrastination and taking too long to begin.
Ive started down every road in sight
And drove myself insane trying to force them to be right.

Lord knows Im moving slow,
But Ive met so many people who did just what they were told
And ended up more lost than they began
And it made me glad that I did not adhere to the plan.

Chorus:
Now Ive backed myself into every corner of my room to grow
And after all of this bullshit I have seen there is just one way to go.
The moon is full and the sky is wide- the stars know what its about.
Im too big now for this room to grow so I think Im checking out.

Ive worn away this rough rock into smooth
And Im thinking that it might be time for me to make my move.
Its time to show whats been going on in this room to grow,
So here I go, yeah, here I go, yeah, I think that you should know.

Im so certain Im not scared
To execute the plan that my subconscious has prepared
And revealed itself to me just in time
When up is the only direction left to climb.

Chrous x2


8. Requiem

Living is at first frightful- for most at least.
His story is one of an attempt to make sense of questions.
In the face of the rise and fall of empires,
The birth of new religion,
Suffering and art-
Where do we start?
Oh where to we start
To unravel them?
Oh, requiem
Requiem
Requiem

Went to the party down the street, in an attempt to relieve our strife
And to drink up cups of the darkest beer into the wee hours of the night.
But it seemed that the shadows lingered around us
Where eyes showed once as candles,
Fireworks and flares
Brilliant, teeming stares
Oh what can we make of them?
Oh requiem
Oh requiem

A trembling aspen and a tamarack,
Theyre never going to get him back.
In a zeppelin-stickered Cadillac
He went out of the blue into the black.
X2

Yellowed squares of photos removed from albums,
Theyre now in frames and somehow more important.
They search for something in an image
An indication
Of what was bound to befall them-
Body language clues
Of what they had to lose-
Dont try to decipher them
Oh requiem.
Requiem


9. Harold

My babys gone- up the river
Behind bars, away from me.
So now I sit all alone here
In the land of the free.

Well I could plead his innocence to you
But I know you wont believe
And I could beg the jury pardon him
But that, too, would be nave.

Chorus:
Well I could bake a cake on his birthday
And inside would be a file,
No I wont take a breath until the day
Oh when I see, Oh when I see
My babys smile.

Oh well I work behind the counter,
The same faces everyday.
And now their eyes, they judge and pity
As I plan our getaway.

Chrous

Oh, Harold
Oh, Harold
Youre not a hardened criminal
Youre just a guy who loves a girl.
All you know has been denied
But I will wait for you here on the other side

Chorus

10. Outta My Brain

Well Im on my way to work
With a hat on my head
And a notion in my brain of where Id
Like to be instead.

Oh, it dont matter to me, no, no,
If it dont matter to you.
But I might tell a joke at your expense
If Im surprised by what you do.

Chorus:
I cant get you outta my head, no, no, no.
I cant get you outta my brain.
Well, Im off to Tuscaloosa on the 5:30 train.

Well Im gonna take it easy, oh yeah,
Thats just what Ill do.
I just hope I dont go bananas if I
Have a drink or two.

Chrous

And if a fella looks my way
I will have someplace else to be.
Im gonna hole up in some bar somewhere
Where my karma cant find me.

Chorus

Universe & Epitaph (11 & 12)

I cant remember all these lyrics right now and cant find them

13. Call Me

Baby, youd better call me
Cause its true- I wont be calling you.
Maybe its something I was taught
But its something that Ive always thought
That the man should be the one to pursue.

Yeah, baby, now if you see me looking
You know thats your cue that I wanna talk to you.
Imay be old-fashioned but I wont act coy
I wont take no shit from no stupid boy
Youd better do everything just like a mans supposed to.

Chorus:
You think that women are complicated
And when it comes to games you dont wanna deal.
But the truth is we know weve got something you want
And need to make sure youre for real.

Theres this really weird bridge that comes in right here

Chorus.

Oh, baby, now that youve got my number,
You know what to do-
Call me up in a day or two.
I may have visions of us walking down the aisle
But you know I wont break down and dial
But if you call me I will talk to you
Til my face turns blue.