No Address Album

Don't you strut like you think you're cool?
look how you walk with a giant step.

Makes the cute men drool
the rest just stand there with their long hair.

Do you feel like the way I do?
Wanna scream out the way I do?
Do you fight like the way I do?

or are you Perfect?

Why don't you come out
with what's on your mind?
Show them all how
you bought your time.

Your Perfect, so Perfect

When you step inside the club
your eyes-they light up-like an ashtray.

When you smoke a diamond stick
the cute men light up with their wallets.

Do you feel like the way I do?
Wanna scream out the way I do?
Do you fight like the way I do?

or are you Perfect?

Why don't you come out
with what's on your mind?
Show them all how
you bought your time.
Oh you're so perfect
with your golden rings.
The more you go on
the more I think it's time for me to leave.

You turn around and then they come
to let you know

Katie's just a little girl who
always, never, talk laugh listen.
She just wants me to wait here by her side.
But since I really don't like waiting
and since I think it doesn't matter:
Katie you can see me when I'm gone

I don't like this
I just won't buy it
And I don't want to try it no more

Maybe on the weekend we can
go out to the movie theatre
catch some dinner down there at the scene

But when I go and make some time
Katie says that I'm not truthful
And there's always something I don't say

I don't like this
I just won't buy it
And I don't want to try it no more

Katie can you see me when I'm gone?
Katie you can see me when I've

gone away in the park
without you in the dark

girl when you went to stand
I just couldn't help but to pull your hand.

Now she walks around the town with
her fat lip bulging

She shows her crooked teeth
and her eyes are all wicked

Love at your momentum
I'm skipping like a stone
I'm tired of screwin' up

Let's hop a train
and stow away
down into Mexico

And on the way
as music plays
we'll let our beards grow tall

She don't like me singing songs
She don't want to sing along

It's still the same
She only likes me when I'm gone

I spilled my drink
across the bar
said, "Baby what's your name?"

Her boyfriend stood
and smashed a bottle

I met a girl from Brownsville
she kamikaze head-turn got me into a frill,
I told her about my friends back home
what they'd say-

How she spoke

Lasting Words in the lasting night
and every time I see a boat by a lake
I want to jump up and say
let's row away from everything.

Said she was a cutter
and I said my dad's a preacher man.
I took her to the boat out down by the lake

I kindly took her by the hand
just to make her understand
I took her to the boat out down by the lake

And just when everything was said
I hugged her hard around her head
I told her there are things that we shouldn't say

Now watch me say them

I tore her down today

Everything just goes away
but the scars you hide today
and you don't want to say

Most nights she keeps a very sharp knife
next to a burning stove.
So hot that the water tops off
and she tumbles down onto the floor.

She holds her head in her hands.
What a cruel heaven she must have.

But it's all right
it's all right
it's just a hard old world
and we both know
it's all right.

Her hand grabs a heavy lead pipe
the one that used to let her know
How hard her Daddy could hit
she remembers that on the floor.

Heard the man for mayor
did this thing

so you crossed the street
to let him see

long time since that weekend
fling and he

got to see his old sweetie

You broke another nail
that's too bad for the soul
what to do besides go read
a magazine and smoke

How could I ask for more?

Everything's the same
I woke up on the floor
Yesterday I got a job
down at the liquor store

How could I ask for more?

But you want more
so here you go
another page
for your notebook
Force a smile
yeah life is good

How could I?

Once I stood too tall
I twice fell to the floor
Three or four times
I just could not answer at the door

How Could I ask for more?

Go buy yourself some clothes
now you don't feel lost
the hangers in your closet

There are places that I've been to
places part of me
Places that I've left
and I don't remember them

There are things I want to tell you
secrets that I keep
Things I've got to tell you
but they're better left unsaid

People that I talk to
think they're wasting time
think that they are trapped
but I know that's just a lie

Pull your candle in closer
Put your hand above the flame
Smash your glass on the table

Now talk about love

Well there's love I can remember
love not far away
Lovers I remember
but there's nothing left to say

Pictures I've forgotten
pictures part of me
Pictures on the wall
all get put away

Let's stop all of this talking
just sit and take it in
Stop or I am walking

Mom and Dad won't you listen to me
listen to me cuz what I'm thinkin' is

Cool the quiet little look in your eye
the bigger surprise is I'm doing fine

I zip my jacket up when it rains
I brush my teeth like two times a day
and though it seems so stupid to say
I'm really okay, I'm workin' hard on everything

I can't let you come in
it's just too confusing
either you tell the truth and leave here

or I am never coming back

When there's something simple to say
you shrug it away, I watch you shrug it away
Cool the quiet little look in your eye
the bigger surprise is I'm doing fine
I zip my jacket up when it rains
I brush my teeth like two times a day
and when it all falls down on my head
and I'm down on my head-I'm belly laughing again

I don't care what you might think
You just don't mean that much to me
I'm awake-the night is loud-mom is quickly running out
I don't care what you might think
You just don't mean that much to me

Do you remember lunch that day

Heard that you were messing around love
I never wanted that at all

When I come around
baby I know what to do

Always knew that you were leaving
Never wanted me to keep you

I'm driving round this town
but baby I know what to do

There's always someone else
but baby I know what to do

It's just that

You're always too proud
and when your heart starts breakin'
a little bit of love is all you need

I hear the whining cars screech by
I listen for the song of your cry

I'm driving round this town
but baby I know what to do

The night you stammered in your robe
I couldn't talk cuz I was choking

Thinking of it now
baby I know what to do

Your biting on your lip
and baby I know what to do

Your love is curious
cold and curious
is it gone from us?

What would be enough
to turn your head around?
From your heavy tongue
the heaviest of-

so I go, tremble shake

I am just a step away

Here's your song
at your feet
show them how
they trample me

Hearts are dragging all across the pavement slam the dirt so I
make you take the worst and you can't help but go and ask for

more

I throw these words away
as autumn hits the ground
I'm sorry mom and dad
I just can't listen

Your smoke just burns my face
I fake a stomach ache
What I hate to say

You come to see
what's been going on with me

Ain't got no doubts
as you sit down on my couch

Girl I feel low
just thought you should know

So you blow your little smoke
right in my face

Honey there's a lot of things
we should really, really say.

You know it takes time
but time doesn't notice
not at all.

Got fired from my job
cuz I was lying to my boss

My shirts all got holes
I got no money, no control

My soul's getting down
she said to me as she started to frown

Don't go blowing your mind on things
you'll never, never know

Sadly she said, I think it's time for me to go

God, love, and money
is baffling me
and even though I'm losing you honey

She's just a pretty girl
who comes around here
to make you smile

Red wine all stains your lips
and baby I'd like to wipe it off
But I can't bare to touch you now

Your eyes are looking down
right into the pavement

And I hope you know

that I tried to change your mind

Twenty floors up baby says
she just sometimes wants to jump
She holds a drink, she holds a dream
but that's not all

Hand in your pockets
jingling on your keys and I can't stop it

Your brown eyes are so wicked,
the sky is yellow.
The ocean fell asleep
with one hefty bellow.

Could you love me each and every day?

You sulk right past the boardwalk
and I come follow.
I know that I am not
your one only fella.

You should walk away from me
right now just go ahead and walk away from me

We coughed our love into the sun
the sea all bent right as we drown

You should walk away from me right now.

I wear no shirt, your short skirt
has me all jealous-
I hope it rains on you