blueheat, dreamson, my excuse, she said, revenge of the father, so much

blueheat

there's nothing in that jukebox i'd rather hear
than your voice forming just the right words to me
the climate is perfect out tonight
the timing is as bad as i've ever been
i'm writing you love notes i can't hit
and the worst of me feels the best when i'm near you

i guess you've got to live a little and die a little to sing the blues
and you've got to love a little and lose a litte to sing like you

they don't make them as cruel as me where you come from
i'm dangerous because i don't care what i become
i'm colder than ever in the summertime, that's when
the momentum of her heat rules my mind
you're talking about heading north
but i'm thinking i like this heat

because you've got to live a lot and die a little to sing the blues
and you've got to love a little and lose a lot to sing like that

look at where my wolves are running now
my forests are filled with falling chimneys
these bricks will stay under leaves of time
but i'll always be wilder than the pioneer
and though i may never tame
you can still find your refuge here

because you've got to live a lot and die a lot to sing the blues
and you've got to love a lot and lose a lot to sing like you
i'd live forever and die every day to sing the blues
i'd love you all and lose you all to sing like that

she said

she said "it's over"
"it's only just begun"
"i love you"
"doesn't that mean anything?"
"one day, you'll find out what real love is"
"you have so much love you just don't know what to do with it"
she said she hated me with all the passion of her life

i said life was complicated
she said "life's not complicated, it's just like breathing"
i said "it is breathing"
she said "well then there you go" i said love was complicated
and she said "oh. that's a whole other pile of shit."

"who are you"
"I used to know"
"what can i do"
"to make you not go"
"up those stairs, out that door"
"should have known to love you more"
she said: "goodbye"

revenge of the father

i couldn't understand her words at first
had she been unfaithful no quite the opposite
so now i'm taking you to task for running behind my back
and sending your lackey to talk down to me
accept it as yours, you'll get your due
she's no whore, and she still needs you
keep her alive and off the street
and give the child plenty to eat
but now it's my turn to speak straight to you...

omniscient, and you still can't see
how you've treated me so badly
in all your pretentious glory
and i'm more than a little angry
because i've waited patiently, you know i had plans too
i was going to have a lovely family
now she's telling me and so are you
it was your world i was living in all the time
it's not fair this woman and child they were mine
but you took them without asking anyone
and it sounds like it may never happen again
but now it's time you took responsibility

omniscient, and you still can't see
how you've treated me so badly
in all your pretentious glory
and i'm more than a little angry
because my name's joseph
and i've got something to say
i'm gonna take that boy and raise him like mine
teach him my trade so he can be a man
he'll learn to hammer iron nails so anything stays in place
carpentry's gonna be the death of him someday...

So Much

so much for yesterday
even the ashes of the bridges i've burned
have all blown away
looking through to different worlds
those doors don't exist anymore
it's pointless for me to keep the key
to you... it doesn't fit... anymore

so much for today
24 hours a few too short
to say everything i have to say
i speak so fast you misunderstand my
syllables stretching from here to ear
they bounce away and fall into the fire
they are burning tonight....

so much for tomorrow
even though it's not that far away
i can't see myself there
standing next to you
or maybe standing at all
i am burning
tonight.