GETAWAY
I’m sick of just waiting here
I’m up out of this place
Take a powder and disappear
You don’t have to lose faith
Take all of you with me
Inside my head
Carry all of your shit around
Now I got to find a way to put ya down
Gotta Getaway
Yeah
Hiding three thousand miles away
You don’t get to me here
I’m a refugee runaway
Now my heart is in gear
Take all of you with me
Inside my head
Carry all of your shit around
Now I got to find a way to put ya down
Gotta Getaway
Yeah
Say that you don’t love me
Well, I’ll buy that baby
Tell me you don’t want to
Well I’ll buy that baby
Now I got to find a way to put you down
Got to find a way to put you down
Now I got to find a way to put you down
Now I gotta find a way…
Gotta Getaway
Yeah
POSTERCHILD
( Eisler / Deley )
Posterchild, find a happy place
For your California face
Can we drain a little money from you?
Posterchild kindly hide the pain
The lies are coming down like rain,
But everybody wants the best from you
‘Cos everybody knows that you’re the fool
And everybody knows we’re not like you
Posterchild you’re the movie star
Ride in limousines and cars
There’s just want more thing we need you to be
Annie Oakley, get your gun
For your all-American sons
…and you wonder why we don’t buy this shit no more…
‘Cos everybody knows that you’re the fool
And everybody knows we’re not like you
Posterchild ignorance is bliss
There’s one more ass you have to kiss
And I just wonder baby
How do you sleep?
‘Cos everybody knows that you’re the fool
And everybody knows we’re not like you
YOU ARE
( Eisler / Dickson )
Mother’s not herself today at all
Now we’re all crawling up the wall
And you don’t know if you’re coming or going, but you say you want it all
Everywhere you are
Everywhere you are
Took your time finding me
However gone you are
All around we can be
Everyone you are
Took your time finding me
However gone you are
Couldn’t tell me what I need to know
So what use are you at all?
You think that it’s enough to be my savior
For every time you know it all
Everywhere you are
Everywhere you are
Took your time finding me
However gone you are
All around we can be
Everyone you are
Took your time finding me
However gone you are
…for everyone you are
BY NOW
( Eisler / Deley )
Streetlights are walking me home
Couples on 6th Street pretend they’re alone
I climb the stairs and I see
If sleep couldn’t take all these feelings from me
My heart is the coal
That’s picked from the walls
From dark halls with wooden beams
Under the earth
And these solid black stones
Will stay in the ground
If I don’t get it by now
If I don’t get it by now
Streetlights they take me away
Crashing in through the window to keep me awake
And I’d sleep but I’m wasting my time
It’s a wonder how minutes and hours go by
My heart is the coal
That’s picked from the walls
From dark halls with wooden beams
Under the earth
And these solid black stones
Will stay in the ground
If I don’t get it by now
If I don’t get it by now
Prescriptions and TV and lost yesterdays
Everything to keep me at bay
Fortunes lie in other’s lives and showing every day
Time will not take this away
If I don’t get it by now
If I don’t get it by now
NOTENOUGH
(Eisler)
Wake up, this time try to breathe
Set the day to make-believe
Bending rules, you try to speak
But the noise is so obscene
How does it feel to have to fake it
Wondering how to complicate it
I’m not enough for you
One more mistake not to be
Take the evidence and dream
How bad does this make you feel?
You run miles but you never leave
Given to take you’re such a misfit
Run for your life
How dare you risk it?
I’m not enough for you
There’s nothing here to see
There’s nothing here you need
Is it not enough that you don’t believe?
How does it feel to have to fake it
Wondering how to complicate it
I’m not enough for you
MAN OF THE WORLD
(Eisler)
Yesterday I met a man of the world
Peace and love and hate were all the things he sold
Yesterday I met a man of the world
As I ran away I think I heard the words
What you gonna do?
Yesterday I shook the hands of a murdering hero
Yesterday the man could hardly pay the bills
Such a shame that you can’t eat all the medals they gave you
You were busy trying to make them eat their words
How does it feel to be a man of the world?
How does it feel to know how it goes?
Did they hold your hand when you pulled the trigger?
Will you be there the next time you will?
What you gonna do?
Yesterday I met a man of the world
Yesterday I drank to all the lies he sold
Yesterday I they sent him far away from home
Yeah he said I hate you baby I love you still
What you gonna do?
STRANGEST KIND OF DAY
(Eisler)
Stepping into your machine
Made me wonder where I’d been
It’s not as simple as it seems
What you had to say
Wondering how I’d gotten here
How I’m standing next to you
You left me sifting through the fear
When you went away
Can I have another day?
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up it’s the strangest kind of day
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up baby I’ve got news for you
There’s nothing more that you or I can do
In the early part of me
I used to find it hard to breathe
And having someone to believe
Was the strangest way
Can I have another day?
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up it’s the strangest kind of day
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up baby I’ve got news for you
There’s nothing more that you or I can do
Wake up baby
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up it’s the strangest kind of day
Wake up all is beautiful
Wake up baby I’ve got news for you
There’s nothing more that you or I can do
GONE
( Eisler / Elena )
Hello, what’s your problem?
Is there nothing wrong?
…when you told me you could walk on water and I could swim along…
Hello, what’s my hangup
Trying to leave this place?
You could say there’s nothing to break up
But this here charming face
Hello, you’re so gone
Nothing turns out wrong
Who’s left to turn on
When you’re so gone
If I ask you too many questions
I have a feeling you’ll leave
…and if you’d care to shoulder my burdens so I can make-believe
Your pain is lighter than a feather, and I’m the weight of the world
So pack your bags and write another chapter
…and be a sober girl
Hello, you’re so gone
Nothing turns out wrong
Who’s left to turn on
When you’re so gone
Hello, you’re so gone
No pain to prolong
It’s time to move along
You’re so gone
GO DOWN
(Eisler)
When I ask you what you want
You say you wouldn’t know
Everybody that I ask says you’re as pure as driven snow
I would tell you the truth but then you wouldn’t take me home
I wouldn’t be stuck here climbing out your window
18 years of kneeling, not a single dirty word
The things you left me feeling made us both look quite absurd
Clinging to your Rosary like you could never let go
I’m just sitting here climbing out your window
Go Down Go Down
And tell me that you love me
Go Down Go Down
And let’s see what you can’t see
You can tell me what you like and you can take your time
You can beat about the bush and I’ll take care of mine
Now you make friends so easily when before you never let go
They’re crawling by the dozen out your window
Go Down Go Down
And tell me that you love me
Go Down Go Down
And let’s see what you can’t see
Go Down for the mystery
Go Down to prove you can
Why won’t you go down for me don’t you know who I am?
Now I could tell you what you are
But you wouldn’t like the say-so
And I’m found swinging freely from your window
Go Down Go Down
And tell me that you love me
Go Down Go Down
And let’s see what you can’t see
UnAMERICAN DREAM
(Eisler)
“I guess you know how it feels”, says the ticket man
“Got the wind at your heels and you’re so gone”
“It’s such a pleasure to serve, all you hopeful hearts.
Boy how’d you work up the nerve to be so strong”
UnAmerican Dream, UnAmerican Dream
Don’t let them tell you it’s not what it used to be
Your UnAmerican Dream, UnAmerican Dream
Don’t let them tell you it’s not what it used to be
“One foot in the grave, one hour too long,
I’m just a gold watch away from the end of my song”
“No need to watch this space”,
He says drawing the line
“They’re all in such a rush to leave the dust behind…”
UnAmerican Dream, UnAmerican Dream
Don’t let them tell you it’s not how it used to be
…and if the sky falls in you should take it up with your local governor
You got the shock of your life to find out you were no longer good for her
Your UnAmerican Dream
Dead for some time
What a big surprise that it’s all a lie…
UnAmerican Dream, your UnAmerican Dream
Don’t let them tell you it’s not what it used to be
UnAmerican Dream, your UnAmerican Dream
Don’t let them tell you you’re not who you used to be
BE
(Eisler)
Whatever will be will be
Sweetness of the darkness
So illuminating
…when I don’t know quite which way I’m facing
I watch your childish progress
With a car crash fascination
What I mean is, what I mean is
Whatever will be will be
I’m scatterbrain delightful
What you wanted to be
I’m a sideshow fascination
Quite aside from me
Boy I had to sink so low, to find the words for verse three
What I mean is, what I mean is
Whatever will be will be
There’s a beauty that I find in your despair
In the black sea of white lies
You twirl your hair
…but I’m so busy falling that I don’t see your demands
And you find no redemption in a hundred one-night stands
And whatever will be will be
MY FUCK YOU TO YOU
(Eisler)
Show your true colors
Let ‘em shine
Be proud of who you are
I wouldn’t mind
‘cos I’d always see you coming from afar, wherever you are
Did they sail you down river
Did you think you were the taker or the giver?
Has your life been so hard, your sympathies been scarred?
Well my heart’s just bleeding for you
And this is my Fuck You To You
By the time you were out of my blood
I was all of seventeen
You were the light of my life
And the darkness in-between
Did they sail you down river
Did you think you were the taker or the giver?
Has your life been so hard, your sympathies been scarred?
Well my heart’s just bleeding for you
And this is my Fuck You To You
I used to see you in my dreams when I could hardly breathe
But then you taught me the value of never losing sleep
Now you sink like a stone and you can’t believe it’s me
…and I’m all out of sympathy
Did they sail you down river
Did you think you were the taker or the giver?
Has your life been so hard, your sympathies been scarred?
Well my heart’s just bleeding for you
And this is my Fuck You To You
This is my Fuck You To You
