Screaming Trees Album

If you see my birds flying
On your way past people crying
Give them all a wave and tell them
That I'm going to save some time for them

If you pass me in the square
Just pretend that I'm not there
Just reach over into pocket
Take the paper and written on it's what to do
It's up to you, transfiguration
Hey, babe

If you think I'm taking too long
Just imagine that I'm gone
Everybody wants to sleep
But sleep is something
They must keep from getting into
You know and I know

Playing cards, we count to ten
But only you would remember when
Close our eyes and see each other
One last time and you know my mother said it's true
That it's up to you, transfiguration

Ten thousand different things to be
It's impossible, that's all
If you decide which one you want
Then I'll help you if you fall

Transfiguration

If you see me try to swim
Backwards up the stream
Remember I'm the only one
You know who had that dream
If you jump into the water
And try to swim but then you sink
Try not to look behind yourself
Just have yourself a drink

Ah, transfiguration, hey babe
Hey, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm burning baby, catch on fire with me
There's a ghost in my head
And he's chasing me through my dreams
I want to take a train today
I'd take it straight to any place

I keep on riding, keep on rolling away
Woah yeah

I'm burning baby, got no place to go
It's just a crawl through the weeks
To destination unknown

And doesn't it seem strange
Some things never change
Some things never change
Woah yeah

Get burned away, yeah
I get burned away

I'm burning baby, catch on fire with me
There's some ghosts in my head
And they're chasing me through my dreams
Yeah, I want to take a train today
I'd take it straight to any place
I keep on riding, keep on rolling away
I get burned away

Yeah, I'm leaving town
In the midnight rain
I been burned away

Yeah, I can see for miles and my time is empty
I bounce on a wire just try and stop me [ha, ha]
A million things I could think of today
'Cause my mind is racing
I want to stay and get lost in your eyes
A canvas world when you cry, hey

I'm walking down a spiral staircase
Never gonna ever be able to face
The kind of things I see and hear
A room that's washed in burning tears
But I walk that one by
A canvas world when you cry, hey

Today my world has been painted light
Wednesday snow has painted white
a million things I could think of today
'Cause my mind is racing and I just want to stay
And get lost in your eyes
Don't stop me, don't even try
Tomorrow's gonna pass on by
A canvas world when you cry
[World's painted, world is painted, painted white]

Don't look down
As we begin to travel, mysteries unravel
This road just seems to twist around
Follow me and all that sound
Don't look down

Never find the key somewhere
So fire traps your walking stick
It's served me well but now it's gone
Changing shape and then disarm
Don't look down, don't look down

I get the strangest feeling
Jump up, become the ceiling
Closer, feel you
Closer to the secret I'm revealing
Don't look down

We go back to the time when
Things weren't quite so lumbered
Like ashes in the air
I'm being scattered everywhere

As we begin to travel
The mysteries unravel
This road just seems to twist around
Follow me and all that sound
Don't look down
Don't look down
Don't look down

Well clouds and I see a shape
Pretty girl through the night and day
Run around fast away
I pass the shadows where I stay
Long, long hair and I'm not there
And when the wind dissolves the clouds
The street light girl is the only witness

The girl behind the mask
She's the one who never has to ask, yeah

With magic pouring from her eyes
There's nothing she can't recognise
Makes me want to understand
Makes me feel like melting black
When your the last flash and time stands still
I ask what if all I could recall
Had never been in the dream that she could see

Girl behind the mask
She's the one who never has to ask
She reaches through your disguise
It's too late - you never realised
And I never realised

Up the stairs a picture's waiting
In my room she might be waiting
We're baptised still getting blind in the darkness
If I get back to her I'd walk away into the forest
And then I'm thinking 'where can I go Lord?'

Girl behind the mask is the one
Who never has to ask
She's reaching through your disguise
It's too late
You never realised, you never realised

[Please don't, please don't, please don't]

Moving around in the outer reaches
Hiding out with all creatures there
The dirt is drifting down upon us
But my friends never, never crack a frown

We're going to the poison planet
We're going to it now
Moving beyond this point in time
Seems unreal somehow

Time to know just what I'm buying
Cold stone walls remain and I'm flying

Trapped in the valley of love you're giving
Special power, now what was that
Looking to you with gratitude
That seems unreal somehow

It's time to know just what I'm buying
Cold stone walls remain and I'm flying, flying

Moving around in the outer reaches
Hiding out with all creatures there
The dirt is drifting down upon us
But my friends never, never crack a frown

A million ways our soul is gutted
It seems unreal somehow
It's hard to know just what I'm buying
Cold stone walls remain and I'm flying, flying

I walk in cold rain
With my telescope in my hand
I had to go 27,000 miles with this cane
Now it's broken into pieces
And so little time remains

I hear these voices in the air
And I know they're just repeating
The language of the land
And the sky that I survey

I'm reciting all the verses
Praying straight from a book beside my bed
It's different now I'm here
Every question's coming dead

Yeah, I've gone so many places
That I don't know where I'm at
Came right out of the story
And now I can't come back

And these voices lead me on
But I know they're just repeating
The language of the land
And the sky that I survey
Everywhere I have to go
Is so very far away, away
Yeah, so far away - too far away

I get these voices in my head
But I know they're just repeating
The language of the land
And the sky that I survey
Everywhere I have to go
Is so very far away

I walk in cold rain
I've got my telescope in my hand
I had to go 27,000 miles with this cane
But it's broken into little pieces
And so little time remains

I walk in cold rain
I walk in cold rain
[Cold rain coming down]
I walk in cold rain, cold rain
[Cold rain coming down]
I feel it [cold rain coming down]
I feel it [cold rain coming down]
And it's cold rain coming down

You try to think but you find your head full
Time slips into the hands of the wrong people (I know you know)
Crashing, howling, something's coming at you (You know I know)

Turns to go when you don't want it to, yeah
She turns her head and never tells you who, yeah

I'm moving fast so I'm unveiling
The many ways that I am failing to see (I can see you)
I'm feeling like two people I can't be (You can see, too)

So many things that got away from you
Turns to go when you don't want it to, yeah (Alright)

Hey, I try to speak with so many voices
They cloud the space with the other noises
(I know you know)
Other days on different planets, yeah
Turns to go when you don't want it to
The girl with silver eyes is calling you, hey
So look into the sun, it's shining blue, yeah

[With bad intent]
Yeah, come on!
Come on!

The sound of the ocean destroys the silence
And he stands on the edge of the morning
With the rising tide that he's watching daily
His will is strong but his legs are failing

Yeah, on the pathway
Moving ever further down the pathway

The flowers form electric circles
No mother, father, brother, sister
The whole of the ocean bathed in sunlight
His first contact is his only sight

On the pathway
Moving ever further down the pathway

The sound of the ocean destroys the silence
As he stands on the edge of the morning
Maybe the answers don't come at all
Just the fading echo of his call

On the pathway
Moving ever further down the pathway
Moving ever, ever further down the pathway

Pathway, pathway

Winds are fake but you're over there
Didn't sit here long inside my stare
In this pale blue sky you saw the error
Strange to see how your vision narrows

An unspoken thing
In your ears it rings
You know where it's at now

If you've time for one inspection
You took off in the wrong direction
And nobody wants to hear
Like so many did when their days were clear

An unspoken thing
In your ears it rings
You know where it's at now

Something died when you said goodbye

Hardly time for one last look
Giving up on what we took
It's no good unless we stand face to face
So long my friend

An unspoken thing
In your ears it rings
You know where it's at now
You know where it's at now

Something died, when you said goodbye

I watch the shadows fall across the floor
And the wind blows wild
I step outside into the night
Step outside myself a while

It all comes apart but then my eyes
Try to put it back together
It all comes apart and I am blind
Put it back together

A yellow truck rolls to a halt
How come the dogs go mad
I'm walking all alone down a one way street
Best time I ever had

It all comes apart and my eyes
Try to put it back together
It all comes apart and I am blind
Put it back together

I watch the shadows fall across the floor
And the wind blows wild
Step outside into the night
Step outside myself a while

It all comes apart and my eyes
Try to put it back together
It all comes apart and I am blind
Put it back together

It all comes apart and my eyes
Try to put it back together
It all comes apart and I am blind
[And I can't] put it back together

(Seriously folks, I just rolled into town boys)

Ah, come on now
Won't you tell me how you feel
Black and white explaining
That my eyes are all but sealed
Sentimental memories call you back to your lives
But a vaguely clouded window pane
Distorts my views to the night
Come on baby
Do like a cat on the prowl

Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Got a lot of miles to take me
Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Want to live in the forest baby, yeah

Now I don't want to hear it
If you're telling me your lies
I want to leave the city and the million staring eyes
All the leaves surrounded by the massive green
I got a pain inside my heart now can't you see
Baby, like a cat, say "meow"

Alright now...
Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Got a lot of miles to take me
Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Want to live in the forest baby, yeah
Not a lot of miles to take me
Out here in the forest baby, yeah

Hey, come on out into my forest
Out here, they're going to all ignore us
In the middle of a brand new day
I want to love you mama, yeah
As many times as I can
I want to see this town explode without a sound
'Cause no-one else would come around, yeah

Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Got a lot of miles to take me
Got to go where my thoughts would take me
Want to live in the forest baby
Got a lot of miles to take me
Out here in the forest baby

Oh, out in the forest it's just white and black
They can't call me or turn me back
This animal's wild and he roams where he wants
Don't care about the people
'Cause I can't here them talk
Out here in the forest, out in the forest, yeah