Elevator
I was looking for some sustenance
I was checking out the vibe
I was looking for an audience
With
the members of my tribe
I was beating out the part of me
That had led me to this place
I was beating
out the symphony
And the part I had to grace
Chorus
No elevator took me higher
No wooden ladder
to the sky
No music set my soul on fire
Like the CD I would buy
I was feeling out the populace
I was getting quite confused
After all my travels, I had strayed
To the doorway of this room
I
was looking into part of me
I had never known before
I was seeing what comes after me
I was closing other
doors
Chorus
No elevator took me higher
No other voice I’d recognize
No other music had
such fire
As the CD I would buy
And it was ADD – The highest quality
And I was ADD --- The
best “I” I could be
Ever
After
Ever after
It’s not as they told you
You’ve earned your freedom
But they still want to hold you
Down down down down
Down down down
You’ll come around 'round 'round
'round
Round round round
(Chorus:)
You’re very expressive
So full of your passion
Free of depression
Hung over with fashion...
Making your own bed
Sleep through an evening
Not going or coming
Just feeling uneven
There there there there
There there there
But you’re
not aware 'ware 'ware 'ware
'Ware 'ware 'ware
Your mind is like lightning
Just sparks and some moments
And what is more frightening
You thought you had gone
Insane sane sane sane
Sane sane sane
(But what’s in a name name name name
Name name name?)
(Chorus 2:)
Stoke yourself another fire
Burn books with your brand new flame
Don’t tell them how late you’re arriving
To the New World, it’s just the same
‘Cause you’re very expressive
So full of your passion
Free of depression
Hung over with fashion…
The parenthetical lyric doesn’t
appear on the CD, but we use it live.
Model Citizen
Gather round and I'll tell you all
How morality led to our nation's
fall
We became captive to high ideals
Crushed beneath the masses heels
Is this the end of Civility;
An easier life for you and me?
Is this the end of Humanity;
Don't care for the poor or the suffering?
Eat your food and drink your wine
Open a cashier for every line
The poor walk each day on American streets
Where life is dirty, but life is sweet
Is this the end of Civility;
An easier life for you and me?
Is this the end of Humanity;
Don't care for the poor or the suffering?
I just don't know where
to begin
I want to be a model citizen
Evil and justice -- My foe is my friend
Somebody teach me to be a
REAL American
They starve as we fill up our plates
They suffer through our moral debates
We’ve
done away with the jobs they seek
Life is dirty, but life is sweet
Where is the food for their children’s
mouths?
Where is the Justice that sorts it all out?
The land of the free and the home of the brave
Leaves
us with only an image to save
Is this the end of Civility;
An easier life for you and me?
Is this
the end of Humanity;
Don't care for the poor or the suffering?
Coda (chant)
The land of
the free and the home of the brave
Leaves us with only an image to save
(x 3)
Wishing Well
Run through my hair
See if I care
I tend to stare
Run through my hair
Your fingers
(chorus)
Like water
Your hands are
Like water
Filled with water
Run through my mind
See what you find
Sometimes I’m blinded
Run through my mind
Four pennies
(chorus)
Like water
Your questions
Like water
Filled with water
(bridge)
And waves are crashing
Upon some shore
And we are crashing
And there we soar
And once the land erodes away
We'll crash no more
We'll crash no more
(chorus)
Like water
We’re crashing
Like water
Filled with water
Waiting
This is the place I hate to be
Yours is the face I'd like to see
I’m so afraid that I can't stay
And tell you the things I'd
like to say
(Chorus: )
But it's all about the right time
To tell you it's true
It's
all about the right time to say
I really do
This is the state I'm in today
Though you're
around, you're far away
I can’t tell if you're here with me
Yours are the thoughts I'd like
to see
(chorus)
Waiting I remain
Waiting I remain
Waiting
Waiting
And If I say nothing, then I have nothing to lose
But that may be the difference in
who you really choose.
This is the place I hate to be...
(Waiting I remain)
This is the place I hate to be...
(Waiting
I remain)
This is the place I hate to be...
(Waiting I remain)
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Doubt
I formed a dream and it includes you
Together we’re bound
and driven through Time
Comfortable
with what we cannot know
Learn to love Today and yearn for Tomorrow
How complicated is your life to you
Do you pass the days,
or do they pass you?
How many judgments can be made each day,
And how many things
once believed just fade away?
(chorus)
Do you notice me in the world around you?
Do you notice me
and the world around you?
Can you ever really know?
Can you ever really know?
A flight of Fancy and
it includes you:
Nothing between us
but versions of Truth
I’ve learned not to question your opinions
of me
Turn away with a smile, and from shadows be free
How complicated is the world to you?
There’s
a method in madness,
and your guide is a muse.
How many whispers do you choose to believe?
Turn and way
with a smile and from shadows be freed!
(chorus)
Is there substance in the world around you?
How much do
you allow your life to include?
Can you ever really know?
I see your doubt just pouring out....
Either you don’t know or you really don’t want to.
Be quick to decide,
but no judgments are final
Comfortable with what you cannot know.
You’ve learned to love Today and yearn for Tomorrow
I’ve
learned not to question your opinions of me
I turn away with a smile and from shadows I’m freed!
Can you ever really know?
How can I ever really know?
Down in the Dumps
Don’t try to treat me nice
If it’s hard you don’t
have to be my friend
Let me give you some advice
If it’s hard, you don’t have to pretend
Any way I see it, it’s not to clear
Once I think I’ve seen it, it’s disappeared
(Chorus:)
And I’m down in the dumps about it
I’m down in the dumps about it
I’m down in dumps, I’m
down in the dumps
I’m down in the dumps about it
Feel free to speak your mind
If it’s
hard, you don’t have to look at me
You don’t have to be kind
If it’s hard, it’s not a
part of me
‘Round and ‘round I take it, it still isn’t straight
Then I re-arrange it,
but at any rate
(Chorus)
(Bridge:)
I try to lift myself out of this game
Every move
I make starts to seem the same!
(and I’m down in the dumps about it…)
(inst break)
Let me go on my way
If it’s hard, pretend I’m gonna stay
I may return one day
If it’s
hard, remember not to wait
And if and when it happens, don’t ask why
When we come to that bridge,
don’t say good-bye
(Chorus)
Justify
With nothing on our side but hopes and dreams
--Romantics try to tell you
--As TV adverts sell you
An image of a world of easy living
You can’t justify
How I hurt inside
Or use those favorite
lies
I know so well
Always seeing less than what you’ve got
--The arguments and the fire
--Frustration burns your desire
The smoke keeps you from trying to get higher
You can’t justify
How I hurt inside
Or use those favorite lies
I know so well
You can’t promise love
‘Cause
it’s something you know nothing of
And chances are
You never will
(Bridge)
They say you’ve
only lost
if you’ve stopped learning
But look at what you’ve got to do
For that karma you’re
earning!
Nothing deserved and none undeserving.
--Politics defile you
--While Boredom tries to beguile
you
And precious things are lost for sheer convenience
You can’t justify
How I hurt inside
Or use those favorite lies
I know so well
You can’t promise love
‘Cause it’s something
you know nothing of
And chances are
You never will
You can’t justify
How I hurt inside
You can’t justify
How I hurt inside
Unsure
It’s called “being real”
It’s “playing it cool”
It’s being in touch with your feelings
Without being a fool
It’s called being nervous
Or just “insecure”
It’s “subject to certain conditions”
It’s not being
sure
And I know my good from bad
Know what I should’ve had
And what should be mine
I
know how to get along
Know what’s right from wrong
I’ll get by…
It’s called
being noble
It’s called “being clear”
It’s called something different each moment
Then it’s disappeared
It’s called being harmless
Being without a face
It’s called
being over-self-conscious
It’s called Second Place
And I know my bad from good
Don’t
do as I should…
Why should I?
And I know my wrong from right
I’ve all the world to fight
Do or die
It’s called “mass production”
It’s being “on track”
It’s called “don’t call me, I’ll call you”
It’s not looking back
(inst)
It’s called being famous
It’s called being known
It’s called being one with
the people
It’s called all alone
It’s called making decoys
It’s called making love
It’s something you can’t say in public
Something I can’t think of…
I can get
the things I want
Cost is not the point
I’m still young
And if it all comes back to me
Even
then at least
I can say I had some fun…
A Common Destination
Why should I wait for you to meet
me here?
If you’re
about to go, get up and
Disappear!
Even while you’re here it’s like
you cannot stay
If you must turn and go, then
go about your way!
(Chorus:)
It takes too long sometimes
To
get to a common destination
It takes too long sometimes
To reach a common destination
I’m in
shelter here. Waiting for the day
But when that moment comes, what will I have to say?
“Be with me forever”
or “No, this cannot be”?
Searching for a dungeon, or setting myself free?
(Chorus)
(Instr. Bridge)
I have no regrets about the way I feel
But I don’t feel as strong as I thought
I would be
Let us spend the time the day after day
To face up to our fears, and not to run away.
(Chorus:)
It takes too long sometimes
To get to a common destination
It takes too long sometimes
To
reach a common destination
To reach a common destination
To reach a common destination
A common destination
A common destination
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