The Things I Will Say Are All True

the moon is a cheshire cat
smiling upon you,
the stars are his frozen tears
of pain, joy, and gospel
according to john, you
grow lovelier every year.


the moon is a loveseat
that hangs from a willow,
and i hear the view's mighty fair;
the stars are the cars
that our loved ones drive,
and the headlights that lead them there.

The River

yes, things have changed,
but there's still blood in my veins
so it's still somewhat the same
even though you're not here

I still get up and go
I still put on my clothes
I still love because I know
how to fight against the fear

I still love you
but life goes on without you
I still love you
but the river rolls on without you
I still love you
but life goes without you,
the river rolls on without you,
the river rolls on.

I still put on a show,
I still feel it in my bones
when the music shakes my soul
even though you're not here

I still consume and create
Still know how to celebrate
I still love because I hate
living lost, alone, in fear

I still love you
but life goes on without you
I still love you
but the river rolls on without you
I still love you
but life goes on without you,
yeah, the river rolls on without you,
the river rolls on.

Yes I miss you
but I'm not alone without you
Damn I miss you
but life goes on without you
Yes I miss you
but I'm not alone without you
life goes on without you
the river rolls on

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
But with or without you, life's a ball with me

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
but with or without you, life's a ball with me

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
But with or without you, life's a ball with me

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
but with or without you, life's a ball with me

I still love you
but life goes on without you
I still love you
but the river rolls on without you
I still love you
but life goes on without you,
yeah, the river rolls on without you,
yeah, the river rolls on.

Yes I miss you
but I'm not alone without you
Damn I miss you
but life goes on without you
Yes I miss you
but I'm not alone without you
life goes on without you
the river rolls on

I still know how to live
I still know how to give
I still know how to love
how to fight and forgive

I still know how to laugh
I still know how to cry
And I'm still gonna live
every minute until I die

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
But with or without you, life's a ball with me

Life was never cream & sugar cuppa tea
but with or without you, life's a ball with me

Satisfied

Eb
I got my passion
F
I got my pride
Dm
I may be a fool,
Bb
but I'm satisfied,

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my life,
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my friends,
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my path,
Bb                               F
I don't need to pretend

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I'm goin'
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I've gone
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my dreamin'
Bb
I keep it comin' on

                     Bb                       Fm                             Fm
Some people need to pretend that they're happy
Bb                               Eb                 F
I don't need that, no, don't need no lies
Bb              Eb         F
I just keep on bein satisfied

Eb
And I will keep my passion
F
And I will Keep my pride,
Dm
If there's a thing I cain't do,
Bb
It ain't because I ain't tried

Bb                                  Dm
But I'll keep-a this life,
Bb                                            Dm
and i'll keep-a these friends,
Bb                                            Eb
Keep-a travelin' this path
Bb                              F
and achievin' my ends


Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I'm goin'
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I've gone
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my dreamin'
Bb
Keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin' on

     Bb                       Fm                             Fm
Some people need to pretend that they're happy
Bb                               Eb                 F
I don't need that, no, don't need no lies
Bb              Eb         F
I just keep on bein satisfied

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my life,
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my friends,
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my path,
Bb                               F
I don't need to pretend

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I'm goin'
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I've gone
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my dreamin'
Bb
Keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin' on

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my life,
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied with my friends,
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my path,
Bb                               F
I don't need to pretend

Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I'm goin'
Bb                                            Dm
I'm satisfied where I've gone
Bb                                            Eb
I'm satisfied with my dreamin'
Bb
Keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin', keep 'em comin' on

Regret and Happiness, pt. II

I'm done pretending I'm not happy
just to justify myself
done denying smiling, trying,
you do that to me, i can't help
it, if I could I wouldn't, shouldn't,
I'm not dumb enough to try;
I'm not gonna sigh and cry
and hide the twinkle in my eye

I'm in love and it's thrilling, really
i'm in love and it might be silly
I don't give a fuck 'cause it'd kill me, kill me
Chill me, thrill me, fulfill me, fill me, oh!

Deal me in 'cause I'm playin, playin,
I'm in love, I'm just sayin, sayin,
smiling, whiling away the day and
if I get a say then you're stayin, stayin, oh!

I'm done pretending you're the only
one I live for anymore
I'm done pretending that I'm lonely
just because you're insecure
I'm in love with someone else
just like I told you I would be
I never lied to you, I felt
much more for you than you'll believe.

i'm in love and i will be happy
though that's not how you would have me
not what you want, no, not exactly
if you wanted to keep me you could have asked me, oh! (/asked but no!)

i'm in love and it's not selfish
to want to love each moment, relish
every single second of it,
i am happy, i can't help it, oh!

Regret and Happiness pt. I

I'm done pretending I regret
everything I ever said
moping, hoping you'd forget
the girl who's living in my head
I'm honestly on to an opera plot
I'm a girl who once knew who she was but forgot
I love who I love but my heart's a mess
more devil than woman in this crimson dress
I don't have enough small change to second guess
"Forever" is a word that's meaning less and less
"Forever" is a word that's ever meaning less and less
"Forever" is a word that's meaning less and less

Pilot Lights

Pilot lights
don't go out at night
don't go out when fires are dying
they are there to stay
until the end of days
they will comfort you when you are crying.

Pilot lights
are a lovely sight
to behold after goodbyeing;
they will light the way
back to the path from which you strayed--
they can see that you are trying.

Pilot lights
never get in fights,
never yell at you for lying.
They will still be there,
even when you're scared,
when your eyes show no sign of ever drying.

Pilot lights
are like fireflies:
they can teach you tricks like flying.
If you listen, Dear,
you can almost hear
their music over your sighing.

No Grievances

I have no grievances--
and no regrets!
I have not sold my soul away, at least not yet!
I like the way I've lived my life so far, as of today,
I cannot think of a single thing
I'd do again a diff'rent way,
which I guess is a good thing, cuz I know,
I'll never get another go at it, but even so:

Never the Same

F    Bb
Why did you go on home?
   C
You didn't have to go,
  F
But you left me alone,
  Bb
and I can't accept you're gone.



F Bb
How could you leave us here,
   C
How could you disappear?
   F
Oh boy we miss you dear,
    Bb
and we can't believe you're gone



F Bb
You were just dancing there
 C
Feathers in your hair
F
I can still see you there
   Bb
and I can't accept you're gone



Bb C
I didn't know you well, was never close
Bb      C
but i loved you just as well, even though
Bb   C
we rarely talked, you barely knew my name
Bb   C
i loved you just the same, almost the same



Bb
i didn't know you well, or your favorite color
Bb
but i loved you just like i love any other
Bb
we rarely talked, you barely knew my name
Bb
but i'll never be the same, never the same



F   Bb
i saw you friday night
C
thought you looked alright
F
knew you'd be alright
 Bb
now i cry because you're gone



F  Bb
i saw you friday night
    C
i never thought that i
F
would ever ever cry
   Bb
would turn to tears because you're gone



F  Bb
i liked the way that you danced
C
you were your own kinda man
 F
we were your own biggest fans
Bb
a bad romance now that you're gone



Bb   C
i didn't know you well or where you lived
Bb   C
but i knew almost too well what you had to give
Bb   C
we rarely talked you barely knew my name
Bb   C
but you left me just the same, almost the same



Bb   C
i didn't know you well or your favorite color
Bb          C
but i loved you just like i love any other
Bb   C
we rarely talked you barely knew my name
Bb   C
but i'll never be the same, never the same



F     Bb
Got to shut down my head
C
So I can go to bed
F
I know you'd laugh at that,
     Bb
that I don't believe you're dead.



F Bb
You ran with a crazy crowd
    C
You sang your Gaga loud
     F
You left me without doubt
Bb
that we'll never be the same

Memento Mori

You are you
and I am I,
and someday
both of us will die;
and we will both
be laid in dirt,
so while I live,
I'll love and hurt.


You are sex
and I am love,
but I will stay
with you because
I want to give
you all I can,
and prove that I
can love a man.

     You are love
     and I am sex;
     you are roses
     I'm a red dress;
     but I won't stay
     with you this time--
     I can't accept
     your sacrifice.


I am love,
and you are just
another man
in love with lust,
so I pretend
that I don't care
so I can keep
my hands in your hair.

     I don't care
     that much for you,
     but, gods, I swear
     the things you do
     are well worth lying
     to your brain!
     I'm a liar born,
     but I refrain.


This joy and pain
can never last,
so while I live,
I'm living fast.
I cannot speak
for both of us,
but I will live
'cause live I must.

Letter From My Present Future To My Future Past

It's not quite cold enough to numb the pain,
just enough to make me wish I were back in bed again.

I'm not just touching the sky, I'm kissing it,
but somewhere there's a point to all this and I'm missing it.

Yes, I still love you, and I miss you, believe me,
but I still can't decide if I'd cry if you leave me.

You let your hair grow out, you're lookin' like Nick Drake,
and who we are keeps changing like the Swan in Swan Lake.

I'm sitting with my legs dangling over the Seine,
I kinda wanna go back, do it all over again.

I've seen the whole world, almost seen it twice,
and settling down has started to sound kind of nice.

The good days aren't over, but you can't make 'em last--
So ends this letter from my Present Future to my Future Past.

Just Like Other Men

I wish you weren't worth it
wish I could blow you off
wish I could stand you up
wish I could let you down
and never think of you again
wish you were just like other men
if you were just like other men
I'd never think of you again


I wish I didn't like you,
wish I could screw you and be through,
forget your name, your face,
wish I could leave this place
and never think of you again
wish you were just like other men
if you were just like other men
i'd never think of you again.

Jealous Girl

I'm a jealous girl
and I got no right to be
cause I'm a wanderer
and I fly free

I am a traveller
but that don't mean
that I've forgotten my love
left him far behind me

I am a wanderer
I'll never settle down
And if I ever do
I'll still get around

I am a traveller
Seen everything to see
___
____

I am a wanderer
I got no claim on you, child
But if you'll let me I'll love you
Just for a little while

I am a traveller
I know this tree ain't my own
but I'm a free bird,
wherever I hang my heart is my home

I love the sycamore
I love the apple tree
Old Man Willow and
Rowan and Beech

I'll find it deep within me
to love the lovers of my loves
Life and Love are the beginning
Letting go is yet to come

I'm a jealous girl
and I got no right to be
cause I'm a wanderer
and I fly free

If You Love Her

whether 'tis nobler in the mind
to let a lover leave
or to take up arms
against a seas of sorrows

whether 'tis nobler in the heart
to let her say goodbye
or cough up word swords 'bout the part
you promised me that you would try
(If you love her)

is it my watch? is it my right
to ask that you stay?
to try and help, to try and fight,
when you would walk away?

If you love her,
if you love her,

If I convince you to stay
is that a rape of the heart?
is it consent when you're this spent,
when you're half what thou art?

If I love you
will I let you
will I let you just be?
Will i let you leave,
will i let you leave me?

if you love her,
if you love her

if you love her let her go
if you love her let her go
if you love her let her go
if you love her let her go

Hope and Happy Tears

Hope and Happy tears
'sbeen too long since you been here
and I've been so afraid
of losing, losing everything
and now you're saving me
i have faith in me
and faith in faith in everything

Hope and Happy tears
'sbeen too long, been four long years
since we were best of friends
what goes up comes down again
and this went up in flames
when you played fucking games
but now your mice are turning men

Frankenwoman

Em
You're a Frankenwoman,
D
Where's who you used to be?
D
Where's you heart, where's your mind,
Em
Where's your soul?
Em
You've been pieced back together
D
like a bleeding machine--
D
You're a Frankenwoman,
D
You're not whole


Em
Screw your head on straight,
D
Sew your hands together--
D
Far better late
Em
Than never ever.
Em
Can you spirit be fixed,
D
or must you live with no soul?
D
You're a Frankwoman,
D
You're not whole.


Em
Four to the floor!
Dm
Frankenwoman
Am
Frankenwoman
Em
Frankenwoman
Em  D  Em  D  Em
Oh  -  -  -  -  !


Em
You're a Frankenwoman,
D
Where's who you used to be?
D
Where's you heart, where's your mind,
Em
Where's your soul?
Em
You've been pieced back together
D
like a bleeding machine--
D
You're a Frankenwoman,
D
You're not whole

Forbidden Literature (Blue Eyes Blues)

I came to you to write about your blue eyes,
but I could never write about your blue eyes.
I could try "dark," or "clear," or "beauty," or "deep,"
but hey, ceci n'est pas une pipe.

There are a lot of other things, besides,
besides your beautiful deep blue eyes.
Behind every visible thing's another thing that hides,
and there's a gentleman and a laugh behind your blue eyes.

The story of my life is not worth telling,
but the story of your eyes is that I fell in;
and from a completely objective point of view,
I fell into your eyes before I fell in love with you.

I came to you to sing about your blue eyes,
but if i'm honest i'll admit that it's a poor guise;
still I could sing "funny," "kind," or "perfect," or "blue,"
but ceci continue de n'être pas vous.

ERS

The past is what I never care to be
You murder my past, you kill my memory
but murder my future and you murder me

Who am I? Who are you?
in the past we've been two-faced
i'm in god's living room
his clock is too fast-paced

if god and the devil
are one and the same
and Abraxas passes time
by making life a fucking game

then tell me do I have a right
not to be forgotten
when you leave a person overnight
and wake up and they're rotten?

then tell me do I have a right
not to be forgotten
when you leave a person overnight
and wake up and they're rotten?

I suffer from an uncommon disease
I fear that no one will remember me
Like Father Mackenzie or Eleanor Rigby

I'm far too important
though I've nothing done
that makes me really worth
being referred to as someone

i've got too much to do
too many days to waste
my past is full of nightmares
and they've left a bitter taste

so tell me do I have a right
not to be forgotten
when you leave a person overnight
and wake up and they're rotten?

so tell me do I have a right
not to be forgotten
when you leave a person overnight
and wake up and they're rotten?