Fluorescent

If you feel like going down, so do I. Stick around.

Follow me, follow me, follow me.



If you see a shooting start or a broken taillight on an old blue,

follow me, follow me, follow me.



If you're looking for a sign, I hope it's mine.

Follow me. Follow me. Follow me.



Sometimes enchanting, 

Sometimes reprimamding.



If you'd like to be a child or lose yourself for a little while,

follow me, follow me, follow me.



What are yout expectations ?

I'll leave it tu your imagination.



If you feel like going down, so do I. Stick around.

Follow me, follow me, follow me.

Two T-shirts in a plastic bag. Tennis shoes underneath the seat.

I lost my license in the last hotel or maybe this morning when I stopped to eat.

Left San Francisco late Tuesday night.Three day ride through the desert sun.

Riding down on a collision course.I don't want to talk to anyone.

And I wait and pray. Try to find a way out of this mess.

And I take the blame and let off a call of distress.

Donna left Dallas two weeks ago in a beat-up Ford that her father gave her.

She was tired of all the people that had let her down.

She was tired of all the people that had tried to save her.

Shielding her eyes against the sky, she stopped off at a diner close to Arizona.

I was thinking about a friend that l'd left behind.

I stopped off at a diner and I tried to phone her (ch).

Stopped off at the diner and I got some coffee.

Two seats down Donna asked for tea.

I was tired of learning things that I already knew.

I looked at Donna and she looked at me.

Twenty minutes later she was out the door and thirty minutes later I was

gone for good.

I wish I had a better story to tell you but sometimes things don't work out

just the way they should(ch).

Was it mostly aggravation?

Was it just a train that pulled out from another station?

I always understand over my shoulder. Carelessly. Carelessly.

Did it come with some restrictions?

Did I try to read too much into a work of fiction? (ch)

Is there nothing to be savored when the best things are bewildered and much

belabored ? (ch)

Havana was burning and there was nothing I could do.

Put a record on the stereo and wrote a letter to you.

I read it for you as well; stories I couldn't tell that came true.



Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's allright now.

Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's time to burn it down.



Robert Mitchum was dying but I wouldn't take the blame.

The blood looked better in black and white but it was color just the same.

The heroine looked like you. What else could I do but turn away ?



Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's allright now.

Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's time to burn it down.



The national anthem was playing but I didn't bother to rise.

So, I unplugged my phone and I closed my eyes.

These days when I dream, nothing ever seems to make any sense.



Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's allright now.

Carry a torch, carry a torch. It's time to burn it down.

But if you open up your heart, you know what you'll see. 

A little bit of light and a lot of misery.

Open the door. See what it all was for. 

Like a ship without a mast rolling through the ages.

A man without a past rattling the cages.

Open the door. See what it all was for.

In another place and time you might find the way.

But when it all comes down you'll find you've lost another day.

Morning comes by the fluorescent light -what a fright!- 

and every line reminds you of what used to be. 

Crawling back into bed, you laugh, raise your head and say "Hey, do you

remember me?"

Now that you're older and the mornings are colder and the lights are less

forgiving.Now that your older and you're feeling much bolder and the lights 

are less forgivin , forgive me for living.

The time to shine was about to begin but the fog rolled in leaving stains

across your fingers.Now you're finding that it's not a game.

What a shame that beauty fades but reputation lingers. (ch)

It's an emotional residue that washes over you leaving everything that much

clearer.Oh, it's not so bad what you had to face in the mirror. (ch)

Strip a piece of paper from the wall

Take in your hands and let it fall

Do you believe there's a reason for everything you see?

Well, that's alright with me



Stand a little closer to the light

I want to see everything you try to hide in the night

Do you believe that there's somebody watching over you?

I do believe that you do



Take off the shades you wear

Can't you see that I just don't care

Layer by layer by layer

it will come down to you



Ah, there's nothing in the language

Nothing in the way that you close your eyes

Do you believe...     there's someone watching you?

Do you believe...     there's someone watching you?

Do you believe...     there's someone watching you?

Do you believe...     there's someone watching you?



Strip a piece of paper from the wall

Take it in your hands and let it fall

Do you believe that the center of everything is you?

I do believe that you do



Layer by layer

Layer by layer

Layer by layer

Layer by layer



There's someone watching you?   Layer by layer by layer

There's someone watching you?   Layer by layer by layer

There's someone watching you?   It will come down to you

Now the highway's gone and the signs are bare

and the bad winds blow no good

And the roads aren't headed anywhere 

like I always thought they would



Out in the fields, that cold rusted steel

has jumped the track

And there won't be no returning now

that's why I wear black



In my mind there's a picture of Sally-Ann

She's the last, she was the first

Now she's dead or in the arms of another man

And I'm not so sure what's worse



Out in the fields, that cold rusted steel

has jumped the track

And there won't be no returning now

that's why I wear black



In my dreams there's a road that leads me home

In my dreams I'm turning back

But my dreams they fade and the chains remain

That's why I wear black

Cut the cameras, dim the lights

You look so perfect all dressed up in white

You know that wedding bells are ringing again

Wedding bells are ringing again



Silk, black satin and lace

It's alright, it's all over your face

You know the wedding bells are ringing again

Wedding bells are ringing again



Open up! Step outside!

Fasten your belts it's gonna be a bumpy ride

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride again



Quicksand, ashes and lime

Why does it have to hurt so much every time?

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride



Open up! Step outside!

Fasten your belts it's gonna be a bumpy ride

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride again



Quicksand, ashes and lime

Why does it have to hurt so much everytime?

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride again

Here comes the bride



You know that wedding bells are ringing again

Wedding bells are ringing again

The phone rang from across the halland it felt like Christmas morning

Seagulls smashed their prey against the walland devoured them without warning

Through a fool's eyes every place is paradise

and the mistery won't be revealed to metill the sun rises in the west

747 crashed outside my window and the media arrived

cameras and reporters asking questions:"Was anyone alive?"

Some things are so obvious but you know I couldn't care less

And the mistery won't be revealed to me till the sun rises in the west

The mistery won't be revealed to metill the sun rises in the west

Some things are so obvious but you know I couldn't care less

The mistery won't be revealed to metill the sun rises in the west

The mistery won't be revealed to metill the sun rises in the west

If you want to be with any woman downtown

you better get a deal and a wedding gown

what ended with a lawyer started with a kiss

I swear no amount of loving is worth all this



look ahead, look behind

never say what's on your mind

first you're found and then you're lost

you better look both ways or you gonna get crossed



there's a man on the phone trying to tell me what to say

dogs in the kennel but the cat's gone away

monkey see and monkey do

she'll steal from me and sell it back to you



ch.



she got fired and I got dropped

we split up when the money stopped

now I'm counting all my money, my nickels and dimes

she can't have what's hers

I'm keeping what's mine



ch.

Last night the dealer offered me a new hand

laid out so simply, he thought I'd understand

with a different name, different place, different town, different face

in the same little world



when there's nothing left to salvage

when losing all doesn't mean a thing

I pray for the never ending rain

to wash it all away

to wash it all away



I set out on foot straight down the grade

laying crumbs and seeds to mark the paths I'd laid

I found the northern lights, western shore,

eastern front, southern cross and soon I was home



ch.



Every day I read the papers and I pray for the flood

but the rain always stops at the first signsof mud

I wanna feel it fall, feel it burn, watch it twist and 

fell it turn and leave nothing behind



ch.