En Concert

Oi, lienda,
Bella che fa?
Bonita,
Bonita, Qué tal?
But, Belle,
Je ne comprends pas français
je suis désolé, mais je voudrais vous aimer
vous aimer
vous aimer

You hardly even notice when I try to show you
this song is meant to keep ya
from doing what you’re supposed to
like waking up too early
Maybe we can sleep in
I’ll make you banana pancakes
pretend like it’s the weekend now

And we can pretend it all the time
Can’t you see that it’s just raining
there ain’t no need to go outside

But just maybe,
like an ukulele
mama made a baby
Really don’t mind the practice
cause you’re my little lady
lady lady love me
cause I love to lay here lazy
we could close the curtains
pretend like there’s no world outside

And we can pretend it all the time
and can’t you see that it’s just raining
there ain’t no need to go outside
ain’t no need ain’t no need
Can’t you see, can’t you see Mmmm MMmmm
rain all day
and I don’t mind.

The telephone singing ringing it’s too early don’t pick it up
we don’t need to
we got everything we need right here and everything we need is enough
just so easy
when the whole world fits inside of your arms
do we really need to pay attention to the alarm?
wake up slow, mmm mmm wake up slow
But baby

You hardly even notice
when I try to show you
this song is meant to keep ya
from doing what you’re supposed to
like waking up too early
Maybe we can sleep in
i’ll make you banana pancakes
pretend like it’s the weekend now

And we can pretend it all the time
Can’t you see that it’s just raining
ain’t no need to go outside
ain’t no need ain’t no need
rain all day and I really really really don’t mind
Can’t you see, can’t you see,
you gotta wake up slow

If I had eyes in the back of my head
I would have told you that you looked good as I walked away
And if you could have tried to trust the hand that fed
You would have never been hungry but you’d never really be
More of this or less of this or is there any difference
Or are we just holding on to things that we don’t have anymore

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I’m going to win you back
When you’ve got eyes like that
That won’t let me in
Always looking out

A lot of people spend their time just floating
We were victims together but lonely
You’ve got hungry eyes that just can’t look forward
Can’t give them enough but we just can’t start over
Building with bent nails we’re falling but holding
I don’t want to take up anymore of your time
Time time time

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I’m going to win you back
When you’ve got eyes like that
That won’t let me in
Always looking out

Do you remember when we first met? 

I sure do, it was some time in early September 

You were lazy about it, you made me wait around 

I was so crazy about you I didn’t mind 



So I was late for class, I locked my bike to yours 

It wasn’t hard to find, you painted flowers on it 

I guess that I was afraid that if you rolled away 

You might not roll back my direction real soon 



Well I was crazy about you then and now 

The craziest thing of all is over ten years have gone by 

And you’re still mine, we’re locked in time 

Let’s Rewind 



Do you remember when we first moved in together? 

The piano took up the living room 

You played me boogie-woogie I played you love songs 

You’d say we’re playing house now you still say we are 



We built our getaway up in a tree we found 

We felt so far away but we were still in town 

Now I remember watching that old tree burn down

I took a picture that I don’t like to look at 



Well all these times they come and go 

And alone don’t seem so long 

Over ten years have gone by 

We can’t rewind, we’re locked in time 

But you’re still mine 

Do you remember?

Trouble travels fast
When you’re specially designed for crash testing
Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon
Come on and tell us what you’re trying to prove

Because it’s a battle when you dabble in war
You store it up, unleash it, then you piece it together
Whether the storm drain running rampant just stamp it
And send it to somebody who’s pretending to care

Just cash in your blanks for little toy tanks
Learn how to use them, then abuse them and choose them
Over conversations relationships are overrated
“I hated everyone” said the sun

And so I will cook all your books
You’re too good looking and mistooken
You could watch it instead
From the comfort of your burning beds
…Or you can sleep through the static

Who needs sleep when we’ve got love?
Who needs keys when we’ve got clubs?
Who needs please when we’ve got guns?
Who needs peace when we’ve gone above
But beyond where we should have gone?
We went beyond where we should have gone

Stuck between channels my thoughts all quit
I thought about them too much, allowed them to touch
The feelings that rained down on the plains all dried and cracked
Waiting for things that never came
Shock and awful thing to make somebody think
That they have to choose pushing for peace supporting the troops
And either you’re weak or you’ll use brut force-feed the truth
The truth is we say not as we do
We say anytime, anywhere, just show your teeth and strike the fear
Of god wears camouflage, cries at night and drives a dodge
Pick up the beat and stop hogging the feast
That’s no way to treat an enemy
Well mighty mighty appetite
we just eat ‘em up and keep on driving
Freedom can be freezing take a picture from the pretty side
Mind your manners wave your banners
What a wonderful world that this angle can see

But who needs to see what we’ve done?
Who needs please when we’ve got guns?
Who needs keys when we’ve got clubs?
Who needs peace when we’ve gone above
But beyond where we should have gone?
Beyond where we should have gone
We went beyond where we should have gone
Beyond where we should have gone

I know she said it’s alright
But you can make it up next time
I know she knows it’s not right
There ain’t no use in lying
Maybe she thinks I know something
Maybe maybe she thinks its fine
Maybe she knows something I don’t
I’m so, I’m so tired, I’m so tired of trying

It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don’t tell me you might just let it go
And often times we’re lazy
It seems to stand in my way
Cause no one no not no one
Likes to be let down

I know she loves the sunrise
No longer sees it with her sleeping eyes
And I know that when she said she’s gonna try
Well it might not work because of other ties and
I know she usually has some other ties
And I wouldn’t want to break ‘em, nah, I wouldn’t want to break ‘em
Maybe she’ll help me to untie this but
Until then well, I’m gonna have to lie too

It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don’t tell me you might just let it go
And often times we’re lazy
It seems to stand in my way
Cause no one no not no one
Likes to be let down
It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don’t tell me you might just let it go

The harder that you try baby, the further you’ll fall
Even with all the money in the whole wide world
Please please please don’t pass me
Please please please don’t pass me
Please please please don’t pass me by

Everything you know about me now baby you gonna have to change
You gonna have to call it by a brand new name
Please please please don’t drag me
Please please please don’t drag me
Please please please don’t drag me down

Just like a tree down by the water baby I shall not move
Even after all the silly things you do
Please please please don’t drag me
Please please please don’t drag me
Please please please don’t drag me down

It’s as simple as something that nobody knows
that her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes
on the feet of a queen of the hearts of the cards
and her feet are all covered with tar balls and scars
It’s as common as something that nobody knows
that her beauty will follow wherever she goes
up the hill in the back of her house
in the would she love me forever,
I know she could

I remember when you and me mmm
how we used to be just good friends
Wouldn’t give me none
But all I wanted was some
She’s got a whole lot of reasons
She cant think of a single one
That can justify leaving
and he got none but he thinks he got so many problems
Man he got, too much time to waste

His dreams are like commercials
But her dreams are picture perfect and
Our dreams are so related though they’re often underestimated

It’s as simple as something that nobody knows that
Her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes
On the feet of the queen of the hearts of the cards
And her feet are infested with tar balls and

La da da da da da

Well I was eating lunch at the D. L. G.
When this little girl came and she sat next to me
I never seen nobody move the way she did
Well she did and she does and she’ll do it again

When you move like a jellyfish
Rhythm don’t mean nothing
You go with the flow
You don’t stop
Move like a jellyfish
Rhythm is nothing
You go with the flow
You don’t stop

It’s as common as something that nobody knows it
Her beauty will follow wherever she goes
Up the hill in the back of her house in the wood
She’ll love me forever, I know she

La da da da da da

If you would only listen
You might just realize what you’re missing
You’re missing me
If you would only listen
You might just realize what you’re missing
You’re missing me

It’s as simple as something that nobody knows that
Her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes
On the feet of the queen of the hearts of the cards
And her feet are infested with tar balls and

La da da da da da

i’m just a waste of her energy
and she’s just wasting my time
so why don’t we get together
and we could waste everything tonight
and we could waste
and we could waste it all tonight

i don’t pretend to know what you know
now please don’t pretend to know what’s on my mind
if we already knew everything that everybody knows
we would have nothing to learn tonight
and we would have nothing to show tonight
but everybody thinks that everybody knows
about everybody else but nobody knows
anything about themselves,
because they’re all worried about everybody else

love is just a waste of our energy
and life is just a waste of our time
so why don’t we get together
and we could waste everything tonight
and we could waste
and we could waste it all …

but everybody thinks that everybody knows
about everybody else but nobody knows
anything about themselves
because they’re all worried about everybody else

Well I can’t give you everything you want
But I could give you what you thought you need
A map to keep beneath your seat
You’ll read to me in time I’ll get you there
But fold it up so we don’t find
Our way back soon nobody knows we’re here

We can park the van and walk to town
Find the cheapest bottle of wine that we could find
And talk about the road behind
How getting lost is not a waste of time
Le Bois d’ amour will take us home
In the moment we will sing as the forest sleeps

It’s all for the sake of arriving with you

Well I will make the table into a bed
The candle is burning down it’s time to rest
I can’t take back things already gone
But I could give you promises for keeps
And I would only take them back
If they become your own and you give them to me

And it’s all for the sake of arriving with you
Well it’s all for the sake of arriving with you
We could make this into anything
We could make this into more than words we speak
This could make us into anything
It could make us grow and become what we’ll be

How will we really know?
It’s just like it feels

It’s really too bad 

He became a prisoner of his own past 

He stabbed the moment in the back with the round thumbtack 

That held up the list of things he got to do 

It’s really no good 

He’s moving on before he understood 

He shot the future in the foot with every step he took 

From the places that he’s been because he forgot to look 



He better staple it together and call it bad weather 



Well I guess you could say 

That he don’t even know where to begin 

Because he looked both ways but he was so afraid 

Digging deep into the ditch every chance he missed 

And the mess he made 

Because hate is such a strong word 

And every brick he laid, a mistake they say 

That his walls are getting taller, and his world is getting smaller 



Better staple it together and call it bad weather 



It’s really too bad 

He became a prisoner of his own past 

He stabbed the moment in the back with the round thumbtack 

That held up the list of things he got to do 

It’s really no good 

He’s moving on before he understood 

He shot the future in the foot with every step he took 

From the places that he’s been because he forgot to look 



Better staple it together and call it bad weather 



If the weather gets better we should get together 

Spend a little time or we could do whatever 

And if we get together we’d be twice as clever 

So staple it together and call it bad weather

I was sitting, waiting, wishing 

You believed in superstitions

Then maybe you would see the signs 

But lord knows that this world is cruel 

And I ain’t the lord no I’m just a fool 

Learning loving somebody 

Don’t make them love you 

Must I always be waiting, waiting on you? 

Must I always be playing, playing your fool? 



I sang your songs I danced your dance 

I gave your friends all a chance 

But putting up with them 

Wasn’t worth never having you 

Maybe you’ve been through this before 

But it’s my first time so please ignore 

The next few lines because they’re directed at you 

I can’t always be waiting, waiting on you 

I can’t always be playing, playing your fool 



I keep playing your part 

But it’s not my scene 

Want this plot to twist 

I’ve had enough mystery 

You keep building it up 

But then you’re shooting me down 

But I’m already down 

Just wait a minute 

Just sitting, waiting 

Just wait a minute 

Just sitting, waiting 



Well if I was in your position 

I’d put down all my ammunition 

I’d wonder why it had taken me so long 

But lord knows that I’m not you 

And if I was I wouldn’t be so cruel 

Because waiting on love 

Ain’t so easy to do 

Must I always be waiting, waiting on you? 

Must I always be playing, playing your fool?

The light was leaving in the west it was blue 

The children’s laughter sang 

And skipping just like the stones they threw 

Their voices echoed across the waves 

It’s getting late 



And it was just another night 

With a sunset and a moonrise 

Not too far behind to give us just enough light 

To lay down underneath the stars 

We listened to Papa’s translations 

Of the stories across the sky 

We drew our own constellations 



The west winds often last too long 

And when they calm down, nothing ever feels the same 

Sheltered under the Kamani tree 

Waiting for the passing rain 

Clouds keep moving to uncover the sea 

Stars up above us chasing the day away 

To find the stories that we sometimes need 

Listen close enough and all else fades

Fades away 



And it was just another night 

With a sunset and a moonrise 

Not so far behind to give us just enough light 

To lay down underneath the stars 

Listen to all translations 

Of the stories across the sky 

We drew our own constellations

the horizon has been defeated
by the pirates of the new age
alien casinos
well maybe it’s just time to say
things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the troubles just seems to stay

future complications
in the strings between the cans
but no prints can come from fingers
if machines become our hands
and then our feet become the wheels
and then the wheels become the cars
and then the rigs begin to drill
until the drilling goes too far

things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the horizon begins to fade …
fade away

thingamajigsaw puzzled
anger don’t you step too close
because people are lonely and only
animals with fancy shoes
hallelujah zig zag nothing
misery it’s on the loose
because people are lonely and only
animals with too many tools
that can build all the junk that we sell
sometimes it makes you want to yell

things can go bad
and make you want to run away
but as we grow older
the horizon begins to fade away …
fade, fade, fade …

You win it’s your show now 

So what’s it going to be? 

Because people will tune in 

How many train wrecks do we need to see? 

Before we lose touch

And we thought this was low 

Well it’s bad, getting worse…. 



Where’d all the good people go? 

I’ve been changing channels and I don’t see them on the tv shows 

Where’d all the good people go? 

We’ve got heaps and heaps of what we sow 



They got this and that with a rattle a tat 

Testing, one, two, man whatcha gonna do 

Bad news misused, got too much to lose 

Give me some truth now, who’s side are we on 

Whatever you say 

Turn on the boob tube, I’m in the mood to obey 

So lead me astray 

And by the way now… 



Where’d all the good people go? 

I’ve been changing channels and I don’t see them on the tv shows 

Where’d all the good people go? 

We’ve got heaps and heaps of what we sow 



Sitting around feeling far away 

So far away but I can feel the debris, can you feel it?

You interrupt me from a friendly conversation 

To tell me how great it’s all going to be 

You might notice some hesitation 

Because its important to you, it’s not important to me 

But way down by the edge of your reason 

It’s beginning to show and I really want to know is… 



Where’d all the good people go? 

I’ve been changing channels and I don’t see them on the tv shows 

Where’d all the good people go? 

We got heaps and heaps of what we sow



They got this and that with a rattle a tat
Testing one, two man whatcha gonna do
Bad news misused give me some truth
You got too much to lose
Whose side are we on today, anyway
Okay, whatever you say
Wrong and resolute but in the mood to obey
Station to station desensitizing the nation
Going, going, gone

All at once
The world can overwhelm me
There’s almost nothing that you could tell me
That could ease my mind

Which way will you run?
When it’s always all around you
And the feeling lost and found you again
A feeling that we have no control

Around the sun
Some say it’s going to be the new hell
Some say it’s still too early to tell
Some say it really ain’t no myth at all

We keep asking ourselves
Are we really strong enough?
There’re so many things
That we got too proud of

I want to take the preconceived
Out from underneath your feet
We could shake it off
And instead we’ll plant some seeds
We’ll watch them as they grow
And with each new beat
From your heart the roots grow deeper
The branches, well they reach for what?

Nobody really knows
But underneath it all
There’s this heart all alone
What about when it’s gone?
It really won’t be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart
Is no place to be singing from at all

There’s a world we’ve never seen
There’s still hope between the dreams
The weight of it all could blow away with a breeze
But if you’re waiting on the wind
Don’t forget to breathe
Because as the darkness gets deeper
We’re sinking so we reach for love

At least something we can hold
But I’ll reach to you
From where time just can’t go
What about when it’s gone?
It really won’t be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart
Is no place to be singing from at all

look at all those fancy clothes
but these could keep us warm just like those
and what about your soul is it cold
is it straight from the mold and ready to be sold
and cars and phones and diamond rings
those are only removable things
and what about your mind does it shine
or are there things that concern you more than your time

gone going gone everything gone give a damn
gone be the birds when they don’t want to sing
gone people all awkward with their things, gone

look at you out to make a deal
you try to be appealing but you loose your appeal
what about those shoes you’re in today
they’ll do no good on the bridges you’ve burnt along the way

you willing to sell anything, gone with your herd
leave your footprints and we’ll shame them with our words
gone people all careless and consumed, gone

gone going gone everything gone give a damn
gone be the birds if they don’t want to sing
gone people all awkward with their things, gone

in times like these
in times like those
what will be will be
and so it goes
and it always goes on and on…
and on and on it goes

and there’s always been laughing, crying, birth, and dying
boys and girls with hearts that take and give and break
and heal and grow and recreate and raise and nurture
but then hurt from time to times like these
and times like those
what will be will be
and so it goes

and there will always be stop and go and fast and slow
action, reaction, sticks and stones and broken bones
those for peace and those for war
and god bless these ones not those ones
but these ones made times like these
and times like those
what will be will be
and so it goes
and it always goes on and on…
and on and on it goes

but somehow i know it won’t be the same
somehow i know it’ll never be the same

Angel

I’ve got an angel
She doesn’t wear any wings
She wears a heart that could melt my own
She wears a smile that could make me want to sing

She gives me presents
With her presence alone
She gives me everything I could wish for
She gives me kisses on the lips just for coming home

She can make angels
I’ve seen it with my own eyes
You’ve got to be careful when you’ve got good love
Cause them angels will just keep on multiplying

You’re so busy changing the world
Just one smile and you could change all of mine
We share the same soul

Better Together

There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard

And no song that I could sing but I can try for your heart

And our dreams and they are made out of real things

Like a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving

Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart

Like why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it’s so hard?

It’s not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving

I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together



It’s always better when we’re together

We’ll look at the stars when we’re together

It’s always better when we’re together

It’s always better when we’re together



And all of these moments just might find their way into my dreams tonight

But I know that they’ll be gone when the morning light sings

Or brings new things for tomorrow night you see

That they’ll be gone too, too many things I have to do

But if all of these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene

I’d be under the impression I was somewhere in between

With only two, just me and you, not so many things we got to do

Or places we got to be we’ll sit beneath the mango tree now



It’s always better when we’re together

We’re somewhere in between together

Well it’s always better when we’re together

It’s always better when we’re together



I believe in memories they look so pretty when I sleep

And when I wake up you look so pretty sleeping next to me

But there is not enough time

And there is no song I could sing

And there is no combination of words I could say

But I will still tell you one thing

We’re better together

Go On

In my rear view
I watch you
Watching the twilight
Behind the telephone lines
With nothing to prove
Or to assume
Just thinking that your thoughts
Are different than mine

In my rear view
I watch you
And I gave you your life
But you give me mine
I see you slowly swim away
As the light is leaving town
To a place that I can’t be
But there’s no apologies

Just go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood that’s moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start

I see your perfect little eyes 
Watch the shadows of the clouds
On the surface of the ocean
Out the window of the plane
I get nervous when I fly
I’m used to walking with my feet
Turbulence is like a sigh
That I can’t help but over think

What is the purpose of my life
If it doesn’t have to do
With learning to let it go
Live vicariously through you
You could do the same
It’s the least you could do
Because it’s a lonely little chain
If you don’t add to it
So go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood and love
From the moment that we start

Just go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
Just go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood that’s moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start

Upside Down

Who’s to say what’s impossible 

Well they forgot this world keeps spinning 

And with each new day

I can feel a change in everything 
 


And as the surface breaks reflections fade

But in some ways they remain the same

And as my mind begins to spread it’s wings 

There’s no stopping curiosity
 


I want to turn the whole thing upside down

I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found 

I’ll share this love I find with everyone 

We’ll sing and dance to mother nature’s songs

I don’t want this feeling to go away
 


Who’s to say I can’t do everything 

Well I can try, and as I roll along I begin to find 

Things aren’t always just what they seem 
 


I want to turn the whole thing upside down

I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found 

I’ll share this love I find with everyone 

We’ll sing and dance to mother nature’s songs
 


This world keeps spinning 

And there’s no time to waste

Well it all keeps spinning spinning 

Round and round and upside down
 

Who’s to say what’s impossible and can’t be found

I don’t want this feeling to go away
 


Please don’t go away

Please don’t go away

Please don’t go away
 


Is this how it’s supposed to be?

Is this how it’s supposed to be?