My Midnight

Finally stashed away the vices

Like a shield against the coming crisis

See what drops and see what rises

Watch out for the falling prices 



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Stripped away so you could hardly tell 

Leaving nothing but the shell



Remember when she was a comer

Brighter but a little dumber

Something went down late last summer

I don't suppose you have her number (ch)



Never made it to the coda

The CIA destroyed the folder

Brighter but a little older

A teleprompter and a soda (ch)



Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

A victim of a bad divorce

Take a little from the source

Standing in the middle of a delicate tension

Got a lot on my mind but not enough to mention

A short attention span and a big imagination

A positive constriction and an obvious afflictionIt's a shame It's a shame

Everybody knows it but just the sameIt's a shame, it's a shame

You don't want to play my favorite game 

School's out of session with a definite obsession

A long forgotten legend and a minor transgression 

Are you with me, are you with me, are you with me,are you with me

Dogs that want to bite me and dogs that want to sniff me

It's a shame it's a shameEverybody does it but no one takes the blame

It's a shame, it's a shameYou don't want to play my favorite game

Cholera, bulimea, insomnia, collateral

A chemical imbalance and a chronic analytical

You can't stand the heat but you still want the sweets

You don't like my mission then get out of my kitchen

It's a shame, etc

I don't know

Where does it go

What's left to show

I don't know



I don't mind

There's nothing to find

No kind of sign

I don't mind



I know they say the evidence is real

Anyway it's not the way I feel

It's no big deal 



Cats and Dogs



Are you sad

To feel you've been had

Is it so bad

Are you sad 



All of the fears 

And all of the tears

And then it appears

They fade into years



I know they say it fades into the night

Anyway, we fight and fight and we never get it right



Don't wanna know

Where will you go

Don't wanna know

Don't wanna know



What can I say?

So many days

And then just haze

Sometimes I'm amazed

If the dreaming keeps you up

I'll try to turn it down a notch

Just a reflex, just a joke, just a way to keep it primed

If you want to take a break

Or maybe turn it down a notch

I can only wish you all the luck and all the time



ch:

Oh, you look so beautiful, oh you look so radiant

Oh you look resplendent in your element and in your prime

Oh you look so dangerous, so obvious and so elusive

Like a falling comet in your prime



I don't want to bring you down

So let me reinvent myself

Everything that rises must resolve

Open up that almanac

And point a finger to your favorite page

Cut to black, a hazy green dissolve (ch)



Think of all the flesh that feeds the worms

That feed the dust that feeds the earth

That rises up to strike us down

With its cool revenge again and again and again and...



If you want another cup

Well let me crack the seal

I love to see the candle fade away

If you want to raise a fuss

Well, I'm the audience you want

It's so hard to make it today (ch)

Breaking bad news

Never was anything you could use

There was just too much time for worry

Memory fades

Into deeper shades of grey

Everything's fine, you barely notice now 



Mandy Breakdown



Bruises and scars

In shapes of the stars, good stories in bars

Good for a laugh if you let her



Yellow and brown

One lifts you up and one brings you down

I can't say which is better 



Mandy Breakdown



All that you know and nowhere to go

And the walls are closing in

Breaking you down again

Hanging around and

Shouting and sobbing and talking all night



Squirrels at play

They've come to take the nuts away

I wouldn't worry if I was you 



Sick and diseased

Crouching down on your knees 

It's all so old that it feels so new 



Mandy Breakdown

I was the king of common sense

I guess you know my name

And then I cracked and you know the rest



It's don't do this

And don't do that

And can't you keep it

Down in the level

Down in the lay of the land



It smells so bad, it's dark in here

Six by nine by twelve

And nothing left to chance in here (ch)



And then one day I'll rise above

Where the angels sing.

Ride around with wings all day (ch)

You are so hypnotic 

You, so metronomic 

You do something to me



You know how to play me

You can't help but slay me

You do something to me



Ch:

You take me out of this world

Oh, so high above this world

You do something to me



You have elevated

You, what God created

You do something to me You are levitation

You are my sensation

You do something to me (ch)

My midnight's never just and never fair

It haunts me like a ghost when it's not there

And when I think I've learned to know its call

My midnight shakes me down to nothing at all



My midnight's never late and always slow

A smile and a nod and it's time to go

And when I start to think that I'm wasting my time

My midnight strikes me down with a single chime



My midnight's never brave and never strong

It just waits patiently until I come along

And when I think I've found a place and a time

That's when my midnight comes and leaves me blind



My midnight laughs at me when I run away

Shades of blue and gold and white and grey

And when I see my chance and I think I can run

My midnight strikes me down before I've begun



My midnight hates me much like I hate myself

Always steps between me and someone else

And when I start to fear I'm growing too old

That's when my midnight comes and releases its hold



My midnight comes in ways I can't explain

Blotting out the sun with the wind and rain

And when I start to learn to love the night

My midnight blinds me with its flashing light

Hello endless night

Hello darkness and pain

I've come to blot out the night

I've come to see you again



ch:

Broken by my own promise

Haunted by my own name

Hiding from the world

Wearing the mask of shame



I played the '21'

I played the gambling wheel

I guess I had my fun

I guess I made a few deals



Broken my own promise

Cornered by my own game

Hiding from the world

Wearing the mask of shame



The children hold their ground

And stare from across the way

The mothers say 'mark my words

Or you'll end up like him someday' (ch)

Let me scrape the dust off of you

I wanna see you now

Let me be the one who knows you

I wanna be you now

Let me show you scars and bruises

I want to hurt you now    

Let me take you down



Let me smash your favorite dishes

I wanna please you now

Let me blow out all your candles

I wanna see you now

Let me burn up all her photos

I wanna know you now

Let me know you



We've been hanging out



Let me come across the table

I wanna please you now

Let me take you for a stroll

I don't deserve you now

Let me try to be the one

Who always lets you down

Let me take you down



We've been hanging out



I'll pretend you're still a baby

I wanna feed you now

Let me tell you why I chose you

I won't refuse you now

I can smear you like a picture

I want to know you now

Let me take you down

Shelley was a ghost and she never wrote back

Jackie had a story for everything she lacked

Sarah slept forever and I thought that she was dead

But she wasn't dead, she wasn't dead

And all I want is tea and some chocolate and a book

And a cigarette and coffee and a dangerous look

And all that I want, more than anything I want Is to just be alone, just be alone

Hey, can I look in your eyes again? Hey can I look in your eyes?

Suzy was a tourist and her sister was a guide

Janet was cruel but she was sweet insideCindy had teeth like a carving knife

Betty liked to tell me what to do with my life (ch)

Janie, she was pretty outside of Kansas City 

It really was a pity that she stayed in Kansas City

Frieda said to sack it when she didn't want to back it

She knew she couldn't hack it in a blue bomberjacket, a blue bomber jacket	

And all I want is tea and some chocolate and a book

And a cigarette and coffee and a dangerous  look

And all that I want more than anything I want 

is just to be alone, just to be aloneHey can I look in your eyes again 

Hey can I look in your eyes?

I'd tell you that we've been through thisI know I've told you that before

I'd try to find out where we missbut it gets to be such a chore

Ever since that time I told you it's soSomething gets my mind and I don't let go

and then the stories and wordsthey're here and gone

cause that's what you always sayI'd try to sit and talk with you

but you know moods change all the timeI'd try to wait a week or two

but by then I'd probably changed my mind.

everybody's talking about Jesse James

the way he lived and the way he died

but in love, even crime can draw a tighter bind

this is the story of Bonnie and Clyde



in his life, Clyde dreamed of the perfect lover 

until one day his prayers came true

drawn together like a bow and arrow,

enter Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow



passion levels all that it encounters

like a drug, it needs no rhyme or reason

blood was spilt and lives were torn asunder

Clyde and Bonnie filled the land with wonder



fantasies of years they'd spend together,

shattered by a politician's pledge

always one step before the gallows

a lust for crime that wouldn't let them rest



headlines scream

POLICEMAN DEAD IN DALLAS

the long arm of the law was not amused

brighter shades of love were turning darker

curtains for Barrow and Bonnie Parker



the thrill is gone and panic takes its place

hope is growing dimmer by the hour

flashes of light against the black

carefully take aim and then attack-tack-tack



the final flickers of a dangerous life

Clyde sees the blood run from his dying wife

Bonnie breathes her last breath in despair

a vision of the corpse of Clyde Barrow



they laid them in the ground before the morning came 

to stay together till the end of time

no coffin, no headstone and no marker

the end for Barrow and Bonnie Parker

Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie and Clyde

The word from outside and she is on the ledge againdrawing a card

and threatening everythingI'm here wanderingwhere I got in

Everybody says I don't carebut I'm just trying to remember

the days of wine and rosesThe priest from the parishis looking for persuasion

the man with the notepadwants verificationsomebody says this was my creation

Her mother says it's your faultyou never looked after herHer father arranging to

get back the furnitureI'm here wanderingwhat the reasons were.