Expecting to Fly
Album - 12 febbraio 1996 - Debaser id 32504

when i am sad and weary
when all my hope is gone
and i can't put my finger on the time things first went wrong
i have a little secret i like to tell myself
and until now i haven't told anybody else

you may not see things my way
like my method or my reasons
but you can't tell me that i'm wrong

there's no heart you can't melt
with a certain little smile
and no challenge should be faced
without a little charm and a lot of style
so don't put your faith in time - she heals but doesn't change
and only a fool won't take the chance to stay the same

when i am sad and weary
when all my hope is gone
i walk around my house and think of you with nothing on
i have a list of things i go over in my mind
when i can just sit right back and watch the world unwind

you may not see things my way
i don't care 'cause i'm not asking
but you can't tell me that i'm wrong

there's no heart you can't melt
with a certain little smile
and no challenge should be faced
without a little charm and a lot of style
so don't put your faith in time - she heals but doesn't change
and only a fool won't take the chance to stay the same

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

Seems like you’re always a million miles away
As far as I’m concerned that’s where you can stay
But all the time I’m reminded

Used to be a time we had a lot in common
But now as far as I can see, you’ve got something coming
And all the time you’re behind me

And all the time you remind me
Of blitzkrieg and the doodlebug
Salt upon a bubbling slug
You say I can talk to you anytime
But I just wanna cut some rug
Turn yourself away and shrug and say that I can talk anytime

It’s easy living in a bubble
No complication or trouble
But it’s hard to have responsibility
And judging by you a personality

And all the time you remind me
Of blitzkrieg and the doodlebug
Salt upon a bubbling slug
You say I can talk to you anytime
But I just wanna cut some rug
Turn yourself away and shrug and say that I can talk anytime (x3)

Where did you go
when things went wrong for you,
when the knives came out for you?
Where did you go?
All you needed was a friend.
You just have to ask and then-

You don't have to have the solution,
you've got to understand the problem,
and don't go hoping for a miracle.
All this will fade away
so i'm coming home.....i'm coming home

What did you learn,
locked away all on your own,
chance and your head all blown
What did you learn,
It was unfortunate,
you missed you chance to find out that

You don't have to have the solution,
you've got to understand the problem,
and don't go hoping for a miracle.
All this will fade away
so i'm coming home.....i'm coming home

[Instrumental]

You don't have to have the solution,
you've got to understand the problem,
and don't go hoping for a miracle.
All this will fade away
so i'm coming home.....i'm coming home......i'm coming home

But just for a short while

You left me unguided
You left me divided with room to complain
So I’ll say in this song, the wait is too long
I thought I had seen it, I thought I had learned
There’s something around each corner I turn
Can’t stay still forever, got to get it together
If you’d seen with these eyes and lived with these lies

I thought about father and I thought about here
And I knew that this wasn’t for me

Now the beast can subside, a boy needn’t hide
Oh, if you’d seen with these eyes

Never dares to sow, on and on she goes
Knowing what she knows – nothing
Major’s whipping boy, facing one old toy
Distance through the void – nothing

Nothing I can do could ever bring those feelings back
I've taken everything - my body is a bloated sack
The days behind me start rolling into months
Is time running out?
My head feels too heavy
My legs feel too weak
All I can do now is sleep

Everything is empty now, the things I knew are gone
Darkness lays dormant now - a colour once shone
Hope reminds my conscience just to get me through the day
Is this my reward?

And I'm going on journeys
I'm exhausting my muse
I'm taking from everything
To see what I can use

If I found a brand new colour
Something no-one had ever seen
I dug it up right there in my garden
That would be the greatest thing

Nothing I can do could ever bring those feelings back
I've taken everything - my body is a bloated sack

The days behind me start rolling into months
Is time running out?

And faced with having to
Have and then lose
I'd choose never to have had, yeah

If I found a brand new colour
Something no-one had ever seen
I dug it up right there in my garden
That would be the greatest thing

I only want to speak to you
I only want to let you know
That time and again my feelings
Never seem to show

If I found a brand new colour
Something no-one had ever seen
I dug it up right there in my garden
That would be the greatest thing

Time and again (repeated)