Pressing crowds and passengers
Waiting by the carousel
Will your bags remind you of home
And who you've left in hell?

I can't take the thought of you here
I can't put you out
Close your eyes and look at me here
Across the miles
Look at me

Can't you feel th

I come stumbling in
Like a prodigal son
That's where I'll begin
I didn't know I was looking for someone
To show me my place

Short on affection
And a long way from home
The path to perfection
Was a way I hadn't thought of before
Until the first embrace

hrough the passing strange I fell
To the wide-eyed opposite
My agenda was hidden well
Now I don't know where I left it

I woke up in Escher's World today
My mother said it was okay

Up's down, down is out, out is in
Stairways circle back to where you've been
Tim

Creep quasimodo
Yeah, I am a likely target
Sure I'll play the part
Born with the face of an old DeSoto

If misery loves more
Then why am I crying alone?
I'd make a better bore
If there were someone to practice it on

I need somebody
I'm on the outside lookin

As we walk the wire
Across desperate times
Will tomorrow find us
Will you still be mine

Will we hold our child
Will he have a place
Is there a hope for the human race?

If it all comes true
And our dreams fall like bombs from the blue
Oh my love come stand

Never read much, but she loved to quote
Love is a dead language

All she offered in her parting note
Love is a dead language

I close my eyes and it's all I hear
It rings as hollow as a high school cheer
Who did you plagiarize this time, dear?

Love is a dead langu

Don't be scared
It's for a good cause
Put your hand out
And try to act calm

I can still feel those
Hairy little fingers
Pluck a nickel from my
Sweaty little palm

He scratched me!

Collar goes tight
Fat man's cranking
And the monkey's reeled in

When did you last look up in the sky?
really look at the sky and wonder?
used to be you could see forever
now there's cracks in the canvas we're under

This is the sound of the rooftop coming down
this ain't a murder mystery
this is the sound of the four walls falling in

And you still play God
How'd you get so good?
So mysterious
So misunderstood

And you still play God
How'd you get so good?
Shall I genuflect
In the likelihood

You're a suite on the seventh level
You're the keys to the ancient door
You're the portrait o

Emptying out my pocket's things
Wondering why the caged bird sings
Charged with the same dang crime
Sentenced for the third dang time

I'm not innocent
I never said I was
But my lawyer doesn't have a tongue
Like Jesse Jackson does

But here inside this prison ce

Now you've had your honeymoon
In the Poconos
Now you've had your heart-shaped tub

Bring alone the time-lapse photo
Of the two of us
Wrestling on a bearskin rug
Come on

Take me to love canal
Take me to love canal

'74 I left my neighborhood
Looking for

She was a cool blue redhead
She was a virgin vixen
She had the eyes of Lassie
She had the lips of Nixon
Lips like Tricia Nixon

I stole a sideways glance at her continental shelf
And I know she was the devil himself

It's a barstool yawn to a stuttered come-on
I

Dad said he wanted a boy
Held me like a bundle of joy
These days he don't even smile
Like I'm cramping his style

"Son, it's not true
Of course I love you
But the pressure thing's building again"

Dad's gone AWOL...
Absent without leaving

The rub of love

Dave Perkins: Hello?

Female voice: Hello.

Dave: Yes.

Female voice: Is this David Perkins' residence?

Dave: This is it.

Female voice: Is this David Perkins' residence?

Dave: This is it.

Female voice: It is?

Dave: Yes.

Female voice: Well is he

I see you now and then in dreams
Your voice sounds just like it used to
I know you better than I knew you then
All I can say is I love you

I thought our days were commonplace
Thought they would number in the millions
Now there's only the aftertaste
Of circumstance t

Hey, don't I know you from some other life?
You were wide-eyed and green
And a little bit taller
And you didn't look away
When spoken to

Do you still take two sugars?
You seem a little tense
And I can't help but notice how hard you appear
When I look into your e