Where was I when you were talking out loud

About all these things you're telling me now

Was I daydreaming then

Am I daydreaming now

 

It's hard to make sense of so much at once

I feel like I'm drowning

Like I'm spinning down some deep dark hole

That I'll never climb out of

 

These things take time I know to work themselves through

If I could make it right now, what would I do

Once I was alone then out of the blue

I found you

 

It's hard to believe the distance that's grown

I feel like we're falling

In different directions, into seperate worlds

Where the past gets no mention

 

 

A bird on a fence looked at me as if it had something to say

I was just about to ask it what, when it flew away

Leaving me alone and wondering for the rest of my day

What could a bird on a fence possibly have to say

 

The man in the moon looked at me as if he had something to say

I was just about to ask him what, when he faded away

Leaving me alone and wondering for the rest of my day

What could the man in the moon possibly have to say

 

Hallucinations ain't revelations

I must be going through some kind of breakdown

 

 

So take a stand, take a stand

Just don't stand there too long

Someone will come and with a push and a shove

Knock you back to where you started from

You got to start it with yourself

When it's time to get the job done

 

So speak your mind, speak your mind

Just don't preach it too long

Someone will come and with a push and a shove

Shout you back to where you started from

You got to start it with yourself

When it's time to get the job done

 

 

How many times, how many times have I

tried to be what someone thought I should be

How many times, how many times have I

failed to see what someone thought I should see

How many times...

 

How many times, how many times have I

tried to be that someone somebody saw in me

How many times, how many times have I

failed to see - that's the one person I'll never be

How many times...

 

Does it even matter

Alone or together

If it comes down to this

 

 

You say one thing, then something else

which is true, which is not, am I supposed to guess

What if at the end of the day it makes no sense

no wonder I feel I'm in this all by myself

What am I to think of someone content

to just walk the fence

 

All the things we try to protect get taken away

what little time we get we can only waste

trying to save face

 

Think back on another time, do you remember when

we talked through the night 'til every thought was spent

but that was then

 

When did you become so content to just walk the fence

 

You're one way one day, then you're someone else

where it begins and ends is getting hard to tell

when I say what's in my mind you say "oh well"

no wonder I feel I'm in this all by myself

What am I to think of someone content

to just walk the fence

 

 

You think you know your own mind 'til someone breaks your heart

it's then that you find how long you've been in the dark

every word spoken, every look exchanged

The thoughts in your head keep moving

from doubt to confusion

now you don't know what to do

 

Do you fight against the tide or do you go with the flow

try to figure out what you can't possibly know

spend every second no thought to the cost

When all of a sudden something happens

the last thing you expected

now you don't know what to do

 

And now you don't know what to do

it's honest to think it's beyond you

and hard to face what you know is true

mistakes were made, the silence grew

You blamed her and she blamed you

neither really had a clue

you thought you knew yourself

because it appeared that way to you

and now you don't know what to do

 

 

Oh, I'll get a bomb, and you'll get a bomb

we're gonna have some great big fun

blow this world to kingdom come

just in time for dinner

 

Oh, let's together and brew some germs

rule the world on our own terms

stack the dead and watch them burn

just in time for dinner

 

Oh, hi-di-diddlee-i...

 

Oh, let's get a plane and some poison gas

tell the world to kiss our ass

laugh as everyone breathes their last

just in time for dinner

 

Add one part christian n one part jew

throw in some muslims and the hindus too

toss in an atheist, let's make some stew

just in time for dinner

 

 

Sometimes we all wait too long

sometimes we take things all wrong

sometimes we forget until it's all gone

 

 

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

who he is and where he comes from, no one knows for certain

persuasion and suggestion, is how he makes his living

he's the spinner of the rhyme, the giver of the reason

 

He's the man beneath the mask standing on the gallows

the face that's out of focus in the background of some old photo

that feeling that you get when you swear you're being followed

the one who whispers in your ear, then melts into the shadows

 

He's all rumour and innuendo, excuses, and alibis

the doubt that makes you question what you saw with your own eyes

a seller of ideas, whose influence dwells between the lines

he is that fear that lingers in the back of your mind

 

 

Well, I heard I was back, but back from where I just can't say

I remember feeling I was drowning in wave after wave

Expectations got the best of me

I didn't know who I was, or who I was supposed to be

 

I'm unstuck in time, in a phase of life I can't account for

at what point did I not realize I was walking out the door

Now where is the man I knew, is he gone forever

did he go down fighting, or did he just surrender

 

I was out of control, like the car was driving me

watching things come to pass that were never meant to be

Working through change ain't easy, and can always come undone

but life goes on with or without us

 

 

It wasn't my idea to come here

here sure ain't where it used to be

It wasn't my idea to come here

there seems a better choice to me

 

Every answer begs a question

every blink, a moment passed

every mystery, another deeper than the last

 

I've been waiting here for hours

waiting seems to be all I do

I've been waiting now for hours

hopeful, but without a clue

 

Every answer...

 

I don't believe you're having visions

I don't believe I'm chasing one too

I don't believe one ver gets there

but I do believe in you

 

 

No I don't mind sittin on the front porch

chewin the fat over how in the course of events

our lives led to this moment

sippin lemonade n talkin bout nothin

 

Ain't it fine miss jennifer's garden

is doin so well, did you hear about her daughter

she's goin off t school way in california

they say it might rain, but not until tomorrow

 

And I don't mind watchin the world go by

sittin on the porch n losin all track of time

there goes another day

what difference could it make

 

Does it seem to you the world's movin faster

can't tell anymore what folks are really after

my newspapers filled with nothin but disaster