This Way
Album - 31 ottobre 2001 - Debaser id 17341

Cutting through the darkest night are my two headlights
Try to keep it clear, but I'm losing it here
To the twilight
There's a dead end to my left
There's a burning bush to my right
You aren't in sight
You aren't in sight

Do you want me
Like I want you
Or am I standing still
Beneath a darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you passing me by

Mothers on the stoop
Boys in souped-up coupes
On this hot summer night
Between fight and flight
Is the blind man's sight
And a choice that's right
I roll the window down
Feel like I'm gonna drown in this strange town
Feel broken down
Feel broken down

Do you need me
Like I need you?
Or am I standing still
Beneath a darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you passing me by

Sweet sorrow is a call tomorrow
Sweet sorrow is a call tomorrow

Do you love me
Like I love you?
Or am I standing still
Beneath a darkened sky
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by
Or am I standing still
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you passing me by

CHORUS

Oh you're passing me by
Passing me by

Do you need me like I need you to?
Do you want me like I want you?
Or are you passing me by?
Or am I standing still?

Mary heard boys talking in voices low
Said she weren't no spring chicken
Like she didn't already know
So she called up Jack from a few years back
She turned him down once in his one room shack
She said "Now baby, you don't look that bad"

CHORUS:
Cuz everybody needs someone sometime
Everybody needs someone, can't you see?
Everybody needs someone sometime

Spivy Leaks was a drip of a man
He looked like a potato shoved into jeans
He recollects it wasn't that long ago
That he could walk by
Make the young girls scream
But he thought he'd just let it all slide
Let it all pass
Cuz he thought love was best on the run
He said "Now baby, it don't seem that fun"

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Hey there honeybee
Will you give me...sugar?
And if you shake real cute
I might give you some sugar
I was doin' alright on my own
Now I might just take you home sugar

Sister Mary used to be a nun
She thought that she'd retire and have her some fun
Mr. Joe of the Philadelphia Joes
Well he walked in the post office one night
He said "Hey sweetheart, you know you look alright"

CHORUS to fade

I will meet you
In some place
Where the light lends itself
To soft repose
I will let you undress me
But I warn you
I have thorns like any rose

You could hurt me
with your bare hands
You could hurt me
Using the sharp end of what you say
But I'm lost to you now
And there's no amount of reason
That could save me

CHORUS:
So break me
Take me
Just let me feel your arms again
Break me
I'll let you make me
Just let me feel your love again

Feels like being underwater
Now that I've let go
And lost control
Water kisses fill my mouth
Water fills my soul

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Kiss me once
Well, maybe twice
Oh, it never felt so nice

CHORUS

Just let me feel your love again

Met her on a Friday afternoon
In a neon dayglo pink chiffon satin room
She never looks back
She always looked good dressed in black

Oh...You're so special
Oh...Who gives a...
Do you want to play?

She lived beneath the disco discount store
With pictures of Randy Newman scattered all across the floor
I said, "This is place looks sort of desolate"
She said, "Are you only half alive or have you always been this inarticulate?"

Oh...You're so special
Oh...Who gives a...
Do you want to play?

Don't think too hard
Don't think too fast
Don't ever give away what you can't take back
Don't try and understand what you can't comprehend
Underneath the disco neon daylight chandelier disco deity of the chivalry
I said, "Take it back
Take it back
Take it back"

Oh...You're so special
Oh...Who gives a...
Do you want to play?

Mirror, mirror
Do you like what you see?
I'll dance for you
And you'll dance for me

Who says a woman cannot serve?
It would be my pleasure
Who says it is not my destiny
To let you control me

CHORUS
Underneath the disco light
Everybody's feeling alright
Get on your hands and knees
And praise the new deity
Serve the ego, serve the ego

Two ships sailing on a neon sea
Eat the flesh, spit out the seeds
Feathered hair and lam?(pronounced la-may)heels
What turns me on is so surreal

CHORUS

Tutt tutt
To discover
Oh no
Yesterday's lover

CHORUS

Went walkin' underneath the shadows
Where dark and sweet secrets lay
When night's light falls gently down
Hearts helplessly fall to the ground
Underneath the velvet sky
Only words can lie

CHORUS:
I wanna tell you everything
I wanna make your toes curl
You'll be my only boy
And I'll be your only girl
There's not much I can say
You're in Cleveland today
You're in Cleveland today
Stewardesses like Cosmo magazine
Vogue makes me nervous
I feel so plain
I could face the world fearlessly
If you would face it here with me
Just our four hands and four eyes
Traffic cops will compromise

CHORUS

Daffodils and roulette wheels and rusty automobiles
Somewhere our things share the same windowsill
Somewhere our hearts exist independent of time
Somewhere we are whole
One body, one body and one mind

From the air our things look so ridiculous
Our fears so small, our fights so vain
I wanna pilot a plane with you
So all our problems look small too
It's just an inch from me to you
Depending on what map you use

CHORUS

I saw you standing there
You had gold dust in your pocket
You had combed barbed wire through your hair
You thought I didn't notice
The skin on your teeth had a tear

To make me notice you started to shout
Then you and all your minions
Started flapping your tiny arms all about
They said you were a wise man
When they teach wise men to pout?

I tried to forget you
But you tied bells to your name
They jingle everytime I thought of you
Without shame

I've tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?

What's the matter?
Did your love need a home?
Alright then
Love me just leave me alone

Your mother was a wolf's bite
Your daddy was a cigarette
Your brother was a rose bud
Cross bred with a car wreck
Your sister was a stockbroker
But you - you ain't nothing but a turtleneck

What's the matter
Did your love need a home?
Alright then
Love me just leave me alone

It's not your little boy's smile
It's not your little boy name
It's those big boy hands that are the ones too blame

Baby
I've tried to be unlovable
Why couldn't you do the same?

What's the matter?
Did your love need a home?
ALright then
Love me just leave me alone

What's the matter?
Did your love need a home?
Alright then
Love me just leave me alone
Love me just leave me alone
Love me just leave me alone

You see the ghosts of the buffalo
Moving both fierce and slow
Like glittering prophesies
On the edge of the horizon

As you drive glittering highways
And beaten-up by-ways
That straddle and girdle
A great and many-faced nation

There are lambs in the ghettos
Who worship their Gapettos
Believing in, though never seeing
The strings they think bind them

So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within
And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show

CHORUS:
Welcome to the new wild west
Each man for himself
A nation of civilized steeples
And lonely people
Welcome to the new wild west

There are so many fractions
And cue-card reactions
It's hard to keep clear
The possibilities here
'Cause there's no force to unite them

Privilege has ruled for thousands of years
Wars have been fought with bibles and tears
Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
And soon becomes the oppressor

Show me a leader who's fit to lead
Who don't sew his seed in anything
Wounded enough to breed
Because after all what fun is power
If you can't act like a rock star?

CHORUS

See me, I've been cruel
I've been petty and unkind
But I know my own mind
And since it seems clear
There's no one leading us here
The only thing left it appears
Is to task ourselves to be better each time
Then those before us

We'll be an army of theives
Of self-freed slaves
Of mild-mannered maids
We'll fight with whispers and blades
So get ready, a new day is dawning

CHORUS

Sometimes it be that way

Night with its shattered teeth attempts to speak
My pen is present but courage left via the sink
And I'm sorry I snuck up on you from behind
I'm sorry not all my love letters did rhyme
And I'm sorry that Jesus died for my sins
And I swear to God it won't happen again
And I'm sorry if it was my swerve that tempted you to sway
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

And Romeo was a very nice man
He said "Jewel, I don't think you quite understand"
And I'm sorry if you had to explain it like this
I'm sorry I was a point you were destined to miss
And I'm sorry I spoke to you irreverently
Down in the hollow by the old olive tree
And I'm sorry if my heart breaking ruined your day
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

REFRÃO:
I said "Oh well, I got nothin' left to sell
This love was a bell that rang unheard in the air
I was bound to find out that you didn't care
Said, oh well, sometimes it be that way"

And Aphrodite with her neon lamp
Kissed Neptune and they put her face on a stamp
And I'm sorry I used it to mail a letter to you
I'm sorry I'm glue and the rest bounces off of you
And I'm sorry not even this jet's metal wings
Could get across these simple things
And I'm sorry if I ever sang your name in vain
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

And Goldilocks, well she knew three bears
They all ate oatmeal and tiptoed upstairs
And I'm sorry I never got to find you like this
Sleeping like a baby and swaddled in bliss
And I'm sorry for all the times
I forgot to imply something in between the lines
And I'm sorry if I caused you pain
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

REFRÃO

And shadow's long fingers they dance on the wall
Electricity chases its tail in the hall
And I'm sorry if my arms to you were just empty rooms
I'm sorry I never could comfort you
And I'm sorry St. Petersburg is a miserable town
And I'm sorry if I am bringing you down
And I'm sorry if I caused you pain
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

Now flame licks the air with its silver tongue
Night has many hands, but I have just one
And I'm sorry I walked in on you unexpectedly
I'm sorry I didn't serve you camomile tea
And I'm sorry I didn't always have a match
That could start a fire big enough for your heart to catch
And I'm sorry if it was my swerve that tempted you to sway
Oh well, sometimes it be that way
Oh well, sometimes it be that way

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Às vezes é assim

A noite com seus dentes abalados atenta a falar
Minha caneta é presente mas a coragem escoou pela pia
E eu sinto muito por ter zombado de você pelas costas
Eu sinto muito que nem todas as minhas cartas de amor tenham rimado
E eu também sinto muito que Jesus tenha morrido pelos meus pecados
E eu juro por Deus que isso não iráse repetir
E eu sinto muito se foi a minha rápida mudança que te balançou
Bem, às vezes é assim

E Romeu foi um homem muito bom
Ele disse: "Jewel, eu acho que você não entendeu direito"
E eu sinto muito se você teve que explicar desse jeito
Eu sinto muito que eu era um objetivo que você estava determinada a perder
E eu sinto muito ter falado com você de maneira irreverente
Láno vale, na velha árvore de oliva
E eu sinto muito se o rompimento do meu coração arruinou o seu dia
Bem, às vezes é assim

REFRÃO:
Eu digo: "Oh bem, nada me resta para vender
Este amor foi um sino que tocou e sumiu pelo ar
Eu estava para descobrir que você não se importava
Disse, bem, às vezes é assim

E Afrodite com sua lâmpada de neón
Beijou Netuno e eles puseram seu rosto num selo
E eu sinto muito por ter usado para te mandar uma carta
Eu sinto muito por ser a cola e o resto tirar o seu ímpeto
E eu sinto muito por nem estas asas metálicas de jato
Poderem atravessarem por essas coisas simples
E eu sinto muito se eu alguma vez cantei seu nome em vão
Bem, às vezes é assim

E Goldilocks, bem, ela conhecia três ursos
Eles todos comiam farinha de aveia e subiam escadas nas pontas dos pés
E eu sinto muito por nunca ter que te achar assim
Dormindo como um bebê e completamente feliz
E eu sinto muito por todas as vezes
Que eu esqueci de insinuar algo nas entrelinhas
E eu sinto muito se eu te causei dor
Bem, às vezes é assim

REFRÃO

E os compridos dedos da sombra dançam na parede
Eletricidade persegue sua cauda pelo corredor
E eu sinto muito se meus braços para você foram apenas salas vazias
Eu sinto muito por nunca ter te dado conforto
E eu sinto muito por St. Petersburg ser uma cidade miserável
E eu sinto muito se eu estou te deixando pra baixo
E eu sinto muito se eu te causei dor
Bem, às vezes é assim

Agora as chamas lambem o ar com sua língua de prata
A noite tem muitas mãos, mas eu só tenho uma
E eu sinto muito por andar em sua direção inesperadamente
Eu sinto muito não ter servido à você cháde camomila
E eu sinto muito por nunca ter um fósforo
Que poderia iniciar uma chama grande o suficiente para fazer seu coração pegar fogo
E eu sinto muito se foi a minha rápida mudança que te balançou
Bem, às vezes é assim
Bem, às vezes é assim

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