Tommy Stinson Album

Lookin for a little peace
Maybe some days you don't need to hear the truth
There's a place for every war and every other tear
A place for everyone
And everyone's fears
Do you trust yourself at night
Do you trust yourself at all
Take another look outside do you see it raining
Or maybe even worse

Not in my house
Not in my room
Not in my home
My home without a view

Got to take a walk outside got to hear the traffic
I need a little noise
A murder on the bus
A dealer and his shame
A baby that just wants a different name
Do you ever even think twice
Do you ever even think at all

Everybody's talking loud and all at once
With a poison in their tongues

So tell me what's wrong
Your pretty white knuckle's bout to bleed
You're holdin on for dear life now
You ain't holdin on to me
And I saw this magic piece of clay
And you saw a burning at the stake
They're both up on the same wall now
I saw you start to shake

We fall apart
We fall together
We're getting worse
We're getting better

Not a moment too soon

See these skies of blue
Can't you see the flowers smile at you
There's clouds inside your eyes now
Where everything there is dying too
I want to hold you if I can
Like there's nowhere else to stand
But you're nowhere to be found now
And there's nowhere you can land

We fall apart
We fall together
We're getting worse
We're getting better

Not a moment too soon

There's things I wish I could say to you
And days I wish I didn't think they were true
There days I wish I'd never met you
And days I wish there were more of you
That weren't slippin from my view

Came here feelin blue
In an old hat and painted shoes
Thought I'd see what's goin down
I saw the Ghost dancin with some clown

Something's wrong with this whole thing
Something's wrong and it's o.k.

The DJ just spinnin round the floor
Nowhere to be found
I saw you hangin from a thread with your hack of a painter friend

Something's wrong with this whole thing
Something's wrong and it's o.k

Don't tell me what you want to know I ain't hearin it
You're hiding what you ought to show, and all I'm seeing is
It's time for you to leave me alone

I heard about the things you've done
From the dry cleaner's girlfriend's son
Something bout some psychic cat
And the boy who could swallow rats
Looks like you need same sleep
With a walk that defies your speech
You're doin good you're feeling fine
Lookin tore up between the lines

Something's wrong with this whole thing
Something's wrong and it's o.k.

Just tell me what you want to do
I'll do anything
Tell me where you want is go
No one's anywhere
And now it's time for me to find my coat
What the hell am I doin here
They don't serve my kind of beer
It's getting hard to be sincere
And I need to get some sleep
Have I gone in way too deep
It's getting heavy on my knees
It's all givin me the creeps

How many ways
Do we have to say goodbye
How many days
Are we gonna need this time
If only I could tell you
If only I could tell you anything
But I couldn't wait to miss you

How many things
Can you really want from someone
How many ways
Could you really need someone
And I couldn't wait to miss you

Always feels predictable
I don't want to be predictable
Oh so predictable now

How many ways
Are you gonna say my name
How many days
Are you gonna stay the same
I couldn't wait to miss

You always feels inseparable
I don't want to be inseparable

Fade into the soulless night
I shut the door on all my will to fight
Shouldn't be so hard to function
All my thoughts just make me itch
I'm bleeding on the outside
Creepy on the inside
I couldn't just step aside
No I had to be pushed
And you weren't first in line
But it's o.k,
Fallin apart
And it's o.k.
Being all alone
And it's o.k.
You were born to be useless
It's o.k.
If you can live with yourself

Everything I took far granted
I would gladly give it all right back
Wasn't very much to start with
Didn't know that all you had
I thought I said I'm sorry
Tried to leave your party
And now I feel so numb
I can't get up
And you can't take me down
But it's o.k.
Feeling uneasy
And it's o.k.
If you want to die
And it's o.k.
Just put your thumb on the trigger
It's o.k.
If you can't make up your mind

They used to throw your birthday parties
With your juggler and a fortune teller
Telling lies to everyone
They made you feel dumb

But it's o k
Losing control
And it's o.k.
If you want to hide
And it's o.k
You feel like jumpin out the window
It's o.k
If you can't make up your mind
It's o.k.

You've got the answer for everything that's wrong with everybody else
You've borrowed insights
Should have borrowed someone else's mouth
And I have
Seen you fallin through the door
When no one would even help you off the floor

You dyed your hair you read Bukowski now and live by every word
You'd look the part
If not for the clothes you wear that you're wearing out
And I, heard from a man named Seth
That life, don't come to those who wait for death

When you kiss and tell
You leave a mark
Til someone else bites your tongue

You've got your poets and now
Your singers singing show tunes in the car
You weren't so clever
In your flowered prints and your ghetto scars

And I, want to watch the sunset on the beach
Yeah, it's always been too far from my reach

You took a turn at Silver Lake
And now you're calling it your home
Too bad you can't grow up
You're growing down in your wedding gown
And I, swear to god I've seen this play before
Yeah, I smelt the popcorn on the floor
When you kiss and tell you leave a mark

I can see you're bleeding from your laugh
You tried to stop it with an axe
You fill the holes with styrofoam
You drive your hammer with a nail
Plastic made of sheets
Your claustrophobic dreams
Your dyin to make it
Feel so real

Arm and arm you fall into your day
There's always something missing from your lips
You break the silence with a scream
He's never even seen you move your mouth
Watched you grind your teeth
Feeling so complete
You're dyin to make it
Feel so real

You laugh
You're dyin to make it

We'll always make it through the day
There's always gonna be a better way
Always be someone else's way
Even when we know we've gone too far
Closer to the edge is so much further
Than we'll get without a car
And everyone's lookin for some place
They're just killing more time than space
Some nights I wish that the sun would
Never show its face

You're so beautiful at night
The moon's got a way of lighting you
The way no picture is ever goin to
Even when the stars begin to weep
We'll laugh at the expense of all their grief
You never made me feel like I'm a creep
And everyone's lookin for some space
We're just killing time all over this place
Some nights I wish that the sun would
Never show its face
Wouldn't want to face the light of day
With anyone like I'll face the night with you

Just look at everyone
No one really knowing why they're here
Tryin so hard not to disappear
Doesn't take a lot to make you dance
We're making such a scene
With two left feet
Never even sing or hear the beat
And everyone's looking for some place
They're just killing more time in haste
Some nights it feels like the moon is

A thousand fires burn out of control
And no one's ever there
To see them
We're dyin of thirst our voice is lost
From all this screaming
I came down in a lonely state
And now everyone is leaving
Our souls so charred beyond recognition
And I'm trying to find the reason
Yeah

There's a widow at my front door
She said she heard that I was freezin
They said she's done time
But no one said she's done time for treason
They say she don't take anything from anyone
Which ain't worth giving
I say I don't give anything to anyone which ain't worth stealing
Yeah

Hey you
Did you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue
Hey you
Did you come to watch
Have you come to ridicule

Everything's gotten so far out of hand
There's not much that we could do
Hey you
Did you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue

The city is falling apart
And the clouds and the earth have started bleeding
You just stand around like you don't understand
What it is you're seeing
Time stands still like a broken clock
When our life is so deceiving
You got close once before
And now you're only dreaming

Hey you
Did you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue
Hey you
Did you come to die
Did you come to be ridiculed

Everyone's gotten so bent out of shape
There's not much that we can do
Hey you
Have you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue

I ain't waiting for the proof
And I ain't waiting for the future
I've seen too many signs now
And everyone was wrong
I'm just waking up the truth
And I ain't waiting round for you

Hey you
Did you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue
Hey you
Did you come to watch
Did you come to ridicule

Everything's gotten so far out of hand
They say there's not much that we could do
Hey you
Did you come to fight
Have you come to the rescue

Yeah you ought to see yourself
Through the eyes of anyone
Who ever knew you when you were more useful
There used to be no place
For anyone who wanted to come play around your backdoor
Now they're sneakin through your cat hole

Yeah you got a lot of nerve
It ought to be illegal
Always taking up so much space
They never see you come
They'll only see you leaving
Cause you've always got your hands full
You even steal all the shadows

Ain't the lies ain't the freaks
It ain't your mother
But what's your motivation
Ain't the wine ain't the creeps
It ain't your father
Tell me what's your motivation

Yeah you said you knew me when I was easier to be around
Knew me like we were really friends
You let me wear your hat
When all I really wanted was to know why you wake up
Tell me where you hide your make-up

I never see you without it
Tell me what's your motivation

Yeah I saw your monkeycat
He's dancin on the corner with a brother and his moonshine

You've got a close eye on the world outside
From the inside of your cage
You're staring through the cracks in the drapes for a key
With a midget on your back goin blind and mean
How much could you ask for
How much would you ask for

Something of use will come
Of these worn out shoes
Something of use will come
Of these painful dues

The bastard's wearing the dresses now
He bitches no one calls him by his name
My baby she's got the blues
Another rapist grows into his running shoes
How much could you ask for
How much would you ask for

Dear god can't you just leave me alone
Said the martyr to the thief
There's not enough room in this reflection for two
And now one of us is gonna have to leave in peace
Someday something of use will come
Of these dried up tears
Something of use will come
Of the blood and the blues if we waste another year
It's always someday

You lift yourself from the gutter to the grave
They'll fax you your last rights
Well maybe I said everything is all right
Well they're just not unbearable

Yet how much would you
Ask for how much could you ask for
Someday something of use will come
Of these lives that we choose
Someday something of use will come
Of the blood and the blues of this wasted youth