Rhett Miller Album

Love in the asylum is a beautiful thing
Stars when your head hits the floor
Shock therapy loses its sting baby you want more
Sex in war-time is sweeter then peace
Yeah, its the one sweet thing about war
One of you is worth a million of these
Baby get out on the dance floor
Get out on the dance floor

Make up your mind, my, my valentine
You say you love me, yet you treat me unkindly
Got to make up your mind, my, my valentine
Give me a signal, baby, show me a sign

Laughter and wartime is a beautiful song
Where does that highway lead
You'll be glad someday that you brought me along, baby
You will have a need
You will have a need

Make up your mind, my, my valentine
You say you love me, yet you treat me unkindly
Got to make up your mind, my, my valentine
Give me a signal, baby, show me a sign

Make up your mind, my, my valentine
You say you love me, yet you treat me unkindly
Got to make up your mind, my, my valentine
Give me a signal, baby, show me a sign

Operation overload, without a doubt
My, my valentine would you please step out
We got to smoke some grass
We're gonna shake our asses
Right this instant

Time passes
You got to reel against it
Time passes
You got to reel against it

Make up your mind, my, my valentine
You say you love me, yet you treat me unkindly
Got to make up your mind, my, my valentine
Give me a signal, baby, show me a sign

Give me a signal, baby show me a sign
Don't keep it secret baby, I'll show you your mine

Help me Suzanne
I got to figure it out
Why the whites of my eyes are red
What I wouldn't give
For a bed or a fire or a phone
Who could I call?
Or what would I say?
I've been working all week for you
Where would I go to
Even if I could go home?

I've been living on the memory of a dream I once I had
You gave me the reason
For feeling like I do
You gave me the reason
I'd like to thank you

Help me Suzanne I've got to set my sights on the bright sunshiny day
Cause my whole world's gone grey and its going wrong
You got a big heart beat and a body in work you could do me a world of good
Yeah you could and you did and I am begging you to keep on

I've been living on the memory of a dream I once I had
You gave me the reason
For feeling like I do
You gave me the reason
I'd like to thank you
I had lost my way
Like I always do
You gave me the reason
I'd like to thank you
Oh

And I'm living on the memory of a dream I once had
You gave me the reason
For feeling like I do
You gave me the reason
I'd like to thank you
I had lost my head
I had come unglued
You gave me the reason
I'd like to thank you
I'd like to thank you
I'd like to thank you
I'd like to thank you

Love gets you in the gut
Takes the top off of your head
And makes you wish that you were dead

Drugs help but not enough
Take the loop off of your mind
And scoop out everything you find

(CHORUS)
Meteor Shower
Meteor Shower

I cannot make light I'm so burnt out
I know where you are
I cannot believe how much it hurts
I'm a fallen star

(VERSE 2)
Time sneaks up from behind
Puts you six feet underground
While the world keeps spinnin' round

(CHORUS)

(Break)

(CHORUS)

Love gets you in the gut
Take top off of your head
And makes you wish that you were:

Verse:
Breathe in you are strong all the barriers are gone let it carry us somewhere
unreachable
I would never hurt you baby my virtue has proven itself unimpeachable

Chorus:
Let's just say there are those long days there is this dumb luck
There is a brand new way opening up

Verse:
Streets buildings and cars faraway stars my fingers move over the borderline
Breathe in you're the stranger there is no danger you'll fall into that rogue
right hand of mine

Chorus:
Let's just say there are those long days there is this dumb luck
There is a brand new way opening up

Mid

Verse:
Skin all over you I'm a worrier it's true I came over to cushion your breakables
Breathe in you are stronger you don't have to wander you know my conviction's
unshakeable

Chorus:
Let's just say there are those long days there is this dumb luck
There is a brand new way opening up
There are these long nights there is this good love
There is a brand new way opening up
Opening up opening up

You were sittin' on a gold mine.
Workin' in a shop.
I was rollin' around in a ghost town.
Waitin' on a record to drop.

You say you wanna get Happy.
In your own skin.
Well you shook it up for awhile
and I'm beggin you to do it again.

We had a long weekend and then you were gone.
Wanted to be one in a million
Baby isn't that wrooooooong?

I've had it up to here with nothin!
I need everything for a change.
Ain't that strange? Ain't that strange?
Ain't that Strange? Ain't that Strange?

You got a sad transmission.
From deep, deep space.
Tried to keep it hid, but I sensed it,
And I brought you back to my place.

We had love supreme as you could find.
I wanted to be one in a million, baby do you mind?

I've had it up to here with nothin!
I need everything for a change.
Ain't that strange? Ain't that strange?
Ain't that Strange? Ain't that Strange?

ROCK ON!! YEAH!

Hurry up and figure it out!
Cause I'm only waitin' round for you for so long.
And if you want it, and you know it, that you want then you gotta:
come on, Come On, COME ON!!! OOOW!!

(Uh)

I've had it up to here, I've had it up to here, I've had it up to here with nothin' I need everything for a chaaange!!
Aint' that strange? Ain't that strange?
Ain't that Strange? Ain't that Strange?

ALRIGHT!!

Although she's none the wiser
Although we've barely met
I can recognize her
From the treatment that I get
So it's my duty to advise her
If she breaks the rules
I've said I'll quit though
I'll admit that hasn't happened yet

I believe she's lying
I trust her to undermine my faith in her, in time
I have every confidence that she'll dismantle mine
Given time

As sure as she is sitting here
She's sure that she's awake
And as soon as we're committing
We're admitting our mistake
So of course it's only fitting
That the course we're going to take
Is drawn and whereupon I'm slamming on the brakes

I believe she's lying
I trust her to undermine my faith in her, in time
I have every confidence that she'll dismantle mine
Given time
It's a given, given time

The power of suggestion
The element of chance
And the subject now in question
Is the same old song and dance

And the time that we invest in
Setting traps out in advance
So we could spend the weekend staring in a trance

I believe she's lying
I trust her to undermine my faith in her, in time
I have every confidence that she'll dismantle mine
Given time

(w/ Rachael Yamagata)

You... looked just like my mother
Did when she was 19
Not afraid to die
I... started planning our future
You were just 19
Still a firefly

You got... terrible vision
You shoulda seen I was leavin'
When I first appeared
I... got bit by the footlights
I got caught in the headlights
in any place but here

Never say
You'll never leave
Cuz you'll never know til you try
In a jar
fireflies
Only last for one night
Only last for one night

Trains roll... like gamblers in slow mo
Tryin' to find good luck
When they couldn't find love

Oh yeah, and I'm... gonna sleep on the train tracks
It's gonna be a peaceful night
Then it's gonna get rough

Never say
You'll never leave
Cuz you'll never know til you try
In a jar
fireflies
Only last for one night
Only last for one night

I must have had a reason for leavin'
- Not one I could see
I must have had a reason for leavin'
- Must have been me
- Must have been me...

You... looked just like my mother
Did when she was 19
Not afraid to die

For the last time... I'm not your mother
And I was only 19

Verse:
Well you can tell it to the radio tell it to the television
They are not listening they are only machines
I could sit around all day worrying and wishing
I was one of them so you could tell it to me

Chorus:
Talking to you girl is like long division yeah
I been trying to find you may I remind you I'm under oath now
I been trying to see you 'cause I can see you want the truth now
I been trying to tell you that I can tell you are
A singular girl singular girl singular girl

Verse:
Blame it on the moonlight blame it on plate tectonics
You thought I wasn't listening but I was
Talk about attraction talk about electronics
You are the reason you are because

Chorus:
Talking to you girl is like long division yeah
I been trying to find you may I remind you I'm under oath now
I been trying to see you 'cause I can see you want the truth now
I been trying to tell you that I can tell you are
A singular girl singular girl singular girl

Chorus:
Talking to you girl is like long division yeah
I been trying to find you may I remind you I'm under oath now
I been trying to see you 'cause I can see you want the truth now
I been trying to tell you that I can tell you are
A singular girl singular girl singular girl

This is a girl
On a different planet
In a constellation faraway
We are in love
And you can't deny

I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la
I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la

Livin alone
Livin all alone in a black hole I call Hollywood
Looking for love, that I could not find
I had a dream
That she would orbit around me
Her heavenly body hovering
We were in love
And I closed my eyes
Now

I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la
I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la

I was underground
I found a whole new world to put my troubles in
You lived miles above the earth
Until you came down to bring me home again

Now I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la
I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la

We will be wed
And we will procreate
And we will examine life on another plane
And we are in love, with the big blue sky

I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la
I'm with her
Sha-la-la-la
[Repeat]

Verse:
You had every psychological reason for what went down
You drove your car off the end of a bridge
You told your mom you were comfortably numb
You left everybody over here hanging by a thread downtown
You know I'm getting on a plane tonight
I'm gonna find you and bring you home

Chorus:
I was just down I was not over you
I am accountable I can't be held
It's just like you said it's all
Just like you said all wrong
I was in love with you but you were delicate

Verse:
You had every emotional reason for what went down
You found a broken glass hotel
You told your mom you were going to war

Chorus:
I was just down I was not over you
I am accountable I can't be held
It's just like you said it's all
Just like you said all wrong
I was in love with you but you were delicate

Verse:
You know they are not getting any younger in the old hometown
You left a message on my machine
You're not dying anymore

Chorus:
I was just down I was not over you
I am accountable I can't be held
It's just like you said it's all
Just like you said all wrong
I was in love with you but you were delicate
I was in love with you but you were delicate
I am in love with you but you are delicate

Outro:
If you are my friend then why are you over there

Activity killed you
When are you gonna find half of things that you knew in your body were wrong
I wanted to be friends with you
Now I have come to find it was mistaken
In passion nobody was wrong

And I believed you

They sat down in London
Had to be hard to be hard to keep hating yourself when these people are so well behaved
You did time in Duncanville
Part of you is living there still in a hole where the souls of the lost geared to save

And I believed you

(CHORUS)
When you said happiness
Is all you wanted
You said this
Is all you wanted
How I miss
We almost made it
Happiness

All of your good friends
All of the people like me keep a list of the things in this world that we trust
You are here in after referred to as someone who gave it a shot, gave it off, left the cruel world to us

And I believed you

(CHORUS)

You won't get nervous
You won't come down
You won't feel helpless
You won't be around anymore (x7)
Anymore
Anymore

She woke from a dream
Her head was on fire
Why was he so nervous
He took her to the park
She crossed her arms and
Lowered her eye lids

Someday somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight
Ive got a question for you

She'd had no idea
Started to cry
She said in a good way
He took her by the hand
Walked her back home
They took the long way

Someday somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight
Ive got a question for you