Melting in the dark

Speak my language.  Do a little damage.  Nothing left to salvage.  Never mind

the carnage * Why do birds fall from the sky every time that you walk by?  I

don't know why, I don't know why * Get a little lowdown. Gonna be a showdown.

Not enough to go 'round.  Look what I found * Kinda like a dancer.  New

romancer. Spreading like a cancer.  There's no answer.

Darling, it's a shame the way they play you like a game. Baby, it's  sin the

way you never seem to win * Shelley, don't you understand?  I only want to be

your friend.  Shelley, can I say it again?  I only want to be your friend *

Honey, I want to know why everybody seems to scare you so? Darling, what can

I say?  I only want to let you do it your way * Baby, is it fair the way

nobody seems to care?  Darling, is it known why anyone should end up allalone?

Here in this place we call home; torn and divided but never alone.  Shadows

reveal what we try to conceal.  Here in this palace of broken glass; Nothing

is promised, so nothing is asked.  Nothing delivered when nothing is severed.

 I love you, I hate you, caress and berate you * No miracles, no more.  Only

the shadows (badly lit from above). What we call love * Here in this heaven

for fools; it's loser take all till we change all the rules.  Darkness

becomes you and silence betrays you.  I want you, I crave you, I kiss and

enslave you * Come on, walk across that line; the one that you drew when you

said you were mine.  Slightly insulting when something is nothing.  She knows

something that I want to know; barely concealed but never to show.  Trying to

tell you I love you, I need you, I rip you apart and I suck you and bleedyou.

Has everybody calmed down?  I think we better go now.  Frightening the

children.  That's the way it goes * I come undone. It's the only way that

I've ever known.  I turn and run * You shouldn't oughta do that.  Standing in

the corner.  Holding on to your neck.  Is this still what you want? * and the

rain doesn't even fall.  It just hangs there in the air, that's all.  and the

darkness never comes.  What makes you think that it will get any better than

this? * Come along now.  No one's gonna hurt you.  We're gonna go home now.

On the day that he left, they placed a ring around his neck so they'd know

where he came from.  He was tired of the lies and all the shallow ties and he

was tired of acting dumb.  But on the third day alone, he was waiting by the

phone for any familiar voice and he recalled another day when he wished

everyone away but now he didn't have the choice. * and the angels won't talk

to me anymore. * On the day that she left, she said it was for the best.  She

said a person's got to grow.  She left all of her friends, she said

"everything ends and we'll stay in touch, you know." But she couldn't

believe, she couldn't hardly conceive that they would take her at her word.

 Staring at the wall, wishing anyone would call, and it all seemed so absurd.

* On the day that she left, he thought he never would regret what he said or

what he'd done.  He had struggled for years against frustration and tears and

now he didn't need anyone.  But after throwing all the switches and pulling

all the stitches, everything felt so flat.  And he thought about pleading to

show how badly he was needing but it was much to late for that.

In the corner room, they do what they want to do.  Oh no, baby can I follow

you down the hall?  In the wee hours they don't want to know your name.  Oh

no, baby what's your favorite game?  Can I play?  In the old days did you

have a killer line?  Oh yeah, I bet you really spoke your mind.  Smooth and

slow * Don't talk again.  It doesn't matter now.  Don't want to hear a thing,

no way no how.  Unbending.  Unending.  Unlikely.  Unsightly.  Degrading and

hating until the final bell. *  When the day breaks, where you gonna lay your

head?  Oh yeah, would you like to go to bed all alone? When the news leaks

are you gonna show your face?  Oh yeah, are you gonna show disgrace to

yourself? * When the film ends will you let the credits roll? Oh no, will you

find a pot of gold by your head?  When your good friend has a sudden change

of plans, oh yeah, when the money changes hands what will you do?

Day breaks the night in tiny pieces.  Pounds on the light and then increases.

 I don't want to have to face the day.  Landslide, falls aside and fades

away.  Silence is your only friend.

When the devil is at your door (It's like an invitation) and he won't listen

any more (It's like a celebration). Flying in the face of recrimination.

 Breaking down the walls of illumination.  Right there before you: don't you

know you got to stare it down * When the lightning splits the skies (It's

like a holy thunder) and nobody seems surprised (It's like a touch from

under).  Looking for clues in a roomful of strangers.  Brushing back the hair

from the face of danger.  Right there before you; don't you know you got to

stare it down * In a dream I was overcome (but I was only sleeping), silent

and acting dumb (as it was slowly creeping). Laying in a pool of my own

determination, swear it was more than my imagination, finding the truth in a

hallucination, turning the corner on elimination, right there before you;

don't you know you got to stare it down

Listen to the wireless.  They say they'll catch you nonetheless. No

disturbance, no duress * Smooth, water off your back.  You never had to fight

because you've never been attacked.  Surrounded by the heat again.  The

flames are rising from your feet again and Lady Eve is looking sweet again *

Smooth, water off your back.  You never had to fight because you've never

been been attacked.  Smooth, man without a face.  Never leave a calling card,

never leave a trace. * There was a partner in Versailles who wouldn't look

you in the eye.  And when the whole thing went awry, you never stopped to

wonder why.  You just kissed him on the cheek and then you said  "Goodbye."

The moon might fall tonight, leaving shadows in the sky.  For all I care it

can fall, for all I care.  * The starts might fade tonight, leaving nothing

but the night.  For all I care, they can fade, for all I care. * Is there

nothing I can do? Nothing I can say? Nothing I can be to make you want to

stay? * The sun might die tonight, leaving nothing but the sky.  For all I

care, it can die for all I care.

In another life I must have been bad.  In another life I must have been bad.

 Strip down, break my pride straight through the other side.  Rip through my

memory; nothing that I want to see * I love the way you punish me * In

another life, I must have done wrong.  Don't tell me what I've done.  Don't

 see what I've become. Ravish me, tear me down, stub my life into the ground

* I love the way you punish me.

Come to where they always love you.  It's another way to bring you down.

 Come to where they always need you.  It's another way to bring you down. *

Raise me up with greedy fingers.  Lay me down where nothing lingers.  * Come

to where they always hate you like another way to bring you down.  Come to

where they always break you like another way to bring you down.

8th and Alvarado, I thought I heard bells.  McArthur's Park was melting in

the dark but so was everything else. * Laid out cold at midnight, flown like

a kite.  Hiding in the shadows of love and searching for night. * Uptown,

lost and found, nothing here to find.  'Cause I know that I'm not looking so

I know that I'm not blind.  I'm not looking for an answer, I'm not looking

for a sign.  Come on, she said, let's take a look around 'cause I wanna see

what's mine.  I can walk way.  I can walk away.  I can walk away anytime.