LISA LOEB & NINE STORIES - TAILS (1995)
Sorry sir, I stole your money
Sorry sir, I feel, but it's so, so twisted, so unreal
It was what I'd heard of and what I didn't have
But I cannot give what I do not have
And I cannot take what I do not have
I can't take it
Don't stultify, don't hold me high
Don't stultify, don't hold me high
Too many things held precious, too many things held dear
That's what I hate, that's what I fear
Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely
Too little leaves me nothing, nothing
The drone in your voice and the fly on the wall said
"It's over, it's over, it's over, it is."
What do I wish for you, what do I wish?
It's over, it's over, it is
Are we still solemn and bleeding?
Are we still swimming to water that was wet?
You can't give away certain things that you get
From the outside to the inside I couldn't tell you how it really was
There has to be more on one hand
Keep your head above water on the other, the other
The drone in your voice, and the fly on the wall said
"It's over, it's over, it's over, it is"
What do I wish for you, what do I wish?
It's over, it's over, it is.
Are we still solemn and bleeding?
And are we still swimming to water that was already wet?
I can forgive, but I won't forget
I'll wish for you, I'll plead and I'll steal
Hold me precious, hold me dear
I'll wish for you, I'll sing and I'll feel
Don't stultify, don't hold me high
Like a Gothic staple, a last good-bye
One way to float is if you die.
And it's over, it's over, it's over
It's over, it's over, it's over
It's over, it's over
It's a bad day, it's a train ride, it's a bad day
You're my medicine, it's a snow day, it's a full moon, it's a snow day
When'd you get down to my bones?
Where'll I find that wishing stone?
The beads, the records, all the calls, and the drinks alone
First by mind, then by music you'll make this all less confusing
It's a slow dive down, a fast distraction, a strange fall forward
my lame reaction
It's a bad day, it's a long ride, it s a bad day
You're my medicine
It's a sinking feeling, pulls me through the seat of chairs
When will you come rescue me, find solace, and then take me there?
You'll say, "You re not too tired for this life
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice.
You're not too tired for this life
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice."
When' d you get down to my bones?
Where I'll I find that wishing stone?
The beads, the records, all the calls, and the drinks alone
It's a bad day, 2 miles to go
It's a bad day, you're my medicine
You'll say, "You're not too tired for this life
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice
You're not too tired for this life
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice
You're not too tired for this life
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice
If you fall down, if you fall down."
You're my, you're my medicine.
You're my medicine, you're my medicine.
You're my medicine, my medicine, my medicine
My friend's got a bruise on his leg, a bruise on his leg
Everytime you speak
My friend's got a bruise on his leg, where I press my knee
Everytime you speak
Actually, bottom line, you tell the truth sometimes
Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy
My friend's got a bruise on his arm, a bruise on his arm
Everytime you speak
My friend's got a bruise on his arm, where I shove my elbow
Everytime you speak
Actually, bottom line, you tell the truth sometimes
And sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy
My friend's got a bruise on his ribs where I poke my finger
Everytime you speak
My friend's got a bruise on his ribs, his rib cage is now numb
Everytime you speak
Actually, bottom line, you tell the truth sometimes
And sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy
When all the stars were falling
I reached up like you said
All the stars were falling, one hit me in the head
And I fell down, down, down, I fell down, down
When all the stars were falling, they fell from above
And I thought of hate, and I thought of hate and then I thought of love
And I fell down, down, down, I fell down, down
And I've learned how to dance from a Vincent Van Gogh
And the nights were wrapped in a white sheet
And now no one even says hello, 'cause I couldn't stand on my two feet
I fell down, I fell down
Down, down, down
Now the peace you will find, in your own you have found
The lights of the city are the stars on the ground
"I may not be a quaalude living in a speed zone,"
But I could be restful, I could be someone's home if I fell down
And I fell down, down
Now all the stars have fallen
Do you eat, sleep, do you breathe me anymore?
Do you sleep, do you count sheep anymore?
Do you sleep anymore?
Do you take plight on my tongue like lead?
Do you fall gracefully into bed anymore?
I saw you as you walked across my room
You looked out the window, you looked at the moon
And you sat on the corner of my bed
And you smoked with the ghost in the back of my head
And I don't know, and I don't care if I ever will see you again
I don't know and I don't care if I ever will be there
Do you eat, sleep, do you breathe me anymore?
Do you sleep, do you keep me anymore?
You kick my foot under the table, I kick you back
I can't say I'm able to stand for you or fall for you ever again
Wish for a perfect setting?
Wishing that I am letting you take me where you want me all over again?
You can't give yourself absolutely to someone else
And I don't know, and I don't care if I ever will see you again
I don't know, and I don't care if I ever will be there
I saw you as you walked across my room
You looked out the window, you looked at the moon
And you sat on the corner of my bed
And you smoked with the ghost in the back of my head
Do you eat, sleep, do you breathe me anymore?
Do you sleep, do you count sheep anymore?
Do you sleep anymore?
I don't know, and I don't care if I ever will be there
Will be there?
Skeleton boy by the side of the road
He warned me, he told me
He said: "There's this woman, she's a hurricane
She will heal your heart up, she is hurrying."
He said, "Don't look for holidays
Don't look, just run away
Go suffocate, and choke your own cry
Go where the water, where the water, seeps from the pink sky
But behead this woman, she's a hurricane
She will heal your heart up, she is hurrying
Remember your reflection in a pool, in a puddle"
And the leaves sped top-speed towards me and my image was muddled
I'm a lightheaded wonder, she said
Don't you see my mind slow down?
I'm a lightheaded wonder, don't you see my mind slow down?
Slow down
I've compassion for strangers
An affinity for danger
Won't you be my sacrifice?
I'm a lightheaded wonder, don't you see my mind slow down for you?
And for you?"
No you're a headless woman, you're a hurricane
You will heal my heart up?
No, I will heal my own heart up, because you are hurting
Cause I'm a sunburn slap upon your arm, I'll twist you til you break
And you're a hurricane
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
Shabby tried to comb her hair with the gift from her grandma
Her blood tangled she got halfway.
Sticky and powdered with dirt from the ground where her mamma had left her
Had left her, had left her
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
With your eyes open wide
Rusty the screen door, she opened it
Raised from the ground
Mamma left me her ring, mamma left me no family
Just barstools, and boyfriends, and whiskey at nighttime, and bedtime
Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime
I'll go with the man who looks like my father
The neighbors all tell me to go with him
He better take caution, he better take care of me
'Cause if he don't, he better beware of me
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes closed
Those were rose-colored times on rides with your eyes open wide
With your eyes open wide, with your eyes open wide
Wide, wide, wide, eyes open wide
She can't tell me that all of the love songs have been written
'Dause she's never been in love with you before
Your skin smells lovely like sandalwood
Your hair falls soft like animals
I'm tryin' to keep cool, but everyone likes you
I want to kiss the back of your neck
The top of your spine where your hair hits
And gnaw on your fingertips and fall asleep
I'll talk you to sleep
But I'll be the one, I will have chosen
I'm tryin' to keep cool, but everyone here likes you
I'm not the only one
Your skin smells lovely like sandalwood
Your hair falls soft like animals
And nothing else matters to me
She can't tell me that all of the love songs have been written
'Cause she's never been in love with you before, in love with you before
Your hand, so hot, burns a hole in my hand
I wanted to show you
I want to be by myself, sometimes I do
I don't want to be left behind, but sometimes I'm left by you
I press my tongue to the top of my mouth
Cause my jaw, was tired from the thinking
And I stretched my toes to the end of the couch
'Cause my back, it was aching from sleeping
So what is this weather, and what is this darkness,
And why do I feel so alone?
And when will it snow, it's been raining for hours
And why do I feel so alone?
And when I'm left at home, when you're with someone else I'm all alone
You do not cheat me of my childhood
You bring me blankets for the walls of my forts
There is no anger with the eyebrow raised
When you do the fantastic I am amazed
So what is this weather, and what is this darkness
And why do I feel so alone?
When will it snow, it's been raining for hours and why do I feel so alone?
You were leaving some bar, and you're coming downtown
You're not ripping out stitches, but you want me around
Just to call you my love, just to call you my love
You are the treasure custodian cleaning the moon for me
Scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright
You stand straight-faced, and tip-toed on top of a ladder
And I, I wait and I, I wait, and I, I wait
And when I'm left at home, I'm all alone but I'd rather be alone with you
So what is this weather, and what is this darkness
And why do I feel so alone?
When will it snow, it's been raining for hours
And why do I feel so alone?
Oh, why do I feel so alone?
Waiting for Wednesday, my stomach doesn't hurt enough
Pain always is the sign
Waiting for Wednesday, no proof of mine exists
So l don't have to take it back
Don't want to show you good-bye, show you good-bye, show you goodbye
Show you good-bye
But you're waiting for Wednesday, waiting for Wednesday
Waiting for Wednesday, I pray you'll put me on the spot
I do believe you, that you'll love me that you'll leave me
Don't want to show you good-bye, show you good-bye
What will I do when you come near to me?
You'll put me on the spot
You've been doing this a long, long time,
Not that you're better than me, but that you do it a lot
Now I'm waiting for Wednesday, waiting for Wednesday
Waiting for Wednesday, I'm waiting for Wednesday.
I'm gonna show you good-bye, show you good-bye, show you good-bye
Show you good-bye
Now I'm waiting for Wednesday
You're back from out of town, the West is dry, your mind is clear
And I don't want to be here, I don't want to be here
I don't want to be here
To show you good-bye
And I'm waiting for Wednesday, waiting for Wednesday
I'm waiting for Wednesday, to show you good-bye
I don't want to be here, to show you good-bye
Waiting for Wednesday, I don't want to be here.
Waiting for Wednesday, to show you good-bye, to show you good-bye
Who would steal on Sunday?
Who'd made them believe, make believe?
Who'd buy a prayer when you can pray for free?
If the way you drank your coffee was the way you looked at me
Then I could take both my hands off the TV
I've been sleeping on half of my bed lately
And thinking about what you said to me
"You're tipsy, you're turning, you are alive, you are burning
Lisa, won't you listen?
The moon shines for you
You're tipsy, you're turning, you are alive, you are burning"
A sweet man will sing a seafaring song
And a dear, strong woman coos gently along
Good guys at the Cozy are servin' folks for free
Did you ever notice there are so many people in bands in the city?
I've been sleeping on half of my bed lately
And thinking about what you said to me
"You're tipsy, you're turning, you are alive, you are burning"
And I will not judge you by the way you play your instrument
No, that's true as fiction, sometimes I do
But the moon shines halfway sometimes too
Lisa, won't you listen?
The moon shines for you:
You're tipsy and turning, you've got one foot on the floor
You're alive, you are burning
You always wanted more
I see the lights move on the ceiling
And I see the stars up in the lights
I see the moonbeams on your forehead there
And I think about the Garden of Delights
You see the curtains draped in front of me
And you see the sun come up alone
You want to show me just what you can see and I, I turn away
You see my face, you hate my words, I hate you too
You see my heart, it likes the feeling that it gets when I'm with you
I look right at your eyes I look right through your eyes
And I change conversation thought for you
I throw a look that you can't catch from far behind and you, you turn away
You are my Jesus boy, you're laying on a bedly cross
I've got you taped up to the wall
But really don't feel bad 'cause you do to me all the things I do to you
I do to you
I see the lights move on the ceiling
I see the stars up in the lights
I see the moonbeams on your forehead there
And I think about the Garden of Delights
I see the lights move on the ceiling
I see the stars up in the lights
I see the moonbeams on your forehead there
And I think about the Garden of Delights
You say I only hear what I want to
You say I talk so all the time so
And I thought what I felt was simple
And I thought that I don't belong
And now that I am leaving
Now I know that I did something wrong 'cause I mised you
Yeah yeah, I missed you
You say I only hear what I want to:
I don't listen hard, don't pay attention to the distance that you're running
To anyone, anywhere
I don't understand if you really care, I'm only hearing negative: no, no, no
So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up
And this woman was singing my song:
Lover's in love and the other's run away
Lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay
Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
Dying since the day they were born
Well, well, this is not that
I think that I'm throwing, but I'm thrown
And I thought I'd live forever, but now I'm not so sure
You try to tell me that I'm clever
But that won't take me anyhow, or anywhere with you
You said that I was naive and I thought that I was strong
I thought, "hey, I can leave, I can leave."
Oh, but now I know that I was wrong, 'cause I missed you
Yeah, I miss you
You said, "I caught you 'cause I want you and one day I'll let you go
"You try to give away a keeper, or keep me
'Cause you know you're just scared to lose
And you say, "Stay."
You say I only hear what I want to