How do one and one make one? Where's the love?
Isn't this just what we strive for?
This is how I say I'm sorry. I'm sorry
I never meant to push you out
I never meant to push you away

You don't know how much I wanted
To be an angel in your eyes
I'm sorry

Yeah, I'd say that I was wrong all along
And I regret the indiscretions
But every line I draw is in sand. Distractions
And temporary at best
No sooner crossed than they're wiped away
(Like sugar off my hand)

You don't know how much I wanted
To be an angel in your eyes
And what you see is how far I've fallen
When all I wanted was to rise

(Rise)
Just don't say there's nothing left
Cause I ain't got much myself

SOLO

CHORUS

When I'm walking out the door, this is how I say I'm sorry
And as I creep back in at 4, this is how I say I'm sorry
When I tell you that I'm bored
This is how I say, this is how I say I'm sorry
When I stop myself short
This is how I say I'm sorry
When I'm staring at the wall
This is how I say, this is how I say I'm sorry
When I act like I'm not here at all, this is how I say I'm sorry
When I tell you that I'm wrong
This is how I say
I'm sorry (rise)

She's tearing the old ones down
To make room for the new ones coming up
They're scattered all around my bed
And all the songs she sings to me, I think of almost constantly
When she turns to the right or
when she turns to the left

And she says, "Everything will be alright"
She says, "Everything is gonna be just fine"
And I hear very word she says to me
And hold on to things she thought she'd left behind

She's gathering clouds above
And underneath my light's dim. Isn't it?
A half a now or never seen
She sings the pain and starts to smile, or says something more juvenile
Than I might have expected
And then I stand corrected

CHORUS

Behind

CHORUS

Scattered 'round my room denied
All she let go
I'm still holding on to all she let go.

Everything's alright while I'm holding on
Everything is fine until she lets go
Everything's alright until she lets go

Hey baby, you can take it in stride
And maybe devise an alibi
Oh Mary, can we take a walk
Outside down by the fishing docks?
Oh Mary, my my Mary
Is it necessary to dig those bones?

Baby, can you save me
When daddy comes, daddy comes
You're baby daddy comes home?

Oh Sadie, why you want to do me wrong?
My lady, she's been gone to long
She sing on, can we take a ride?
Come on, put the car in drive
Oh sadie, my my lady
Will you still be hatie when Gordy's eighty?

CHORUS

SOLO

Hey baby, don't want to change my mind
My lady, she make me feel so fine
Oh Mary, can we take a walk
Outside down by the fishing docks?
Oh Mary, my my Mary
I know you hate to be all alone

CHORUS

For three days I've been feeling so down
Cast aside and tied to the ground (world spinning 'round and 'round)
There's nothing left to talk about now

Cause I don't know what to say, and I don't know what to do
I don't know how to feel, how to feel about you

My voice can take impetuous tones
And sometimes I wish she'd just go home
Indifference is changing my routine
And habits that I thought I'd outgrown

CHORUS

You say that it's over. (ahhhhh)
Just what makes you think that I don't know?
Yesterday's gone before I figure it out
Went away and

She left the plastic flowers and vase
Carnations lifeless under the clock
A pile of photographs, torn in half
And a footprint on my back as she walked

CHORUS

Instrumental

I'm no closer than you are (ahhhhh)
To realizing why it's all gone wrong
Tomorrow appears to never get here
While I'm waiting.

For two weeks I've been feeling so down (feeling so down)
Worn away and tied to the ground (world spinning 'round and 'round)
I still can't say I've got all the answers (la la la la la la)
There's nothing left to talk about now

CHORUS

World spinning 'round and 'round

Counting the mistakes I've made. Picking up a pen
The ugly shapes are coming through my teeth again
Put on a show. Yeah here we go. You attack and I'll defend
And leave the mess here for whoever's wrong

You'll be gone

Is that you beneath my skin I, thought you felt it to
The bursts of static as they bounce around the room
Beyond my means, and now it seems that I'm running out of you
Maybe I deserve this trip I'm on

I feel gone

SOLO

Separate and anxious, I found myself in there
So I got chronic 'till I passed out in a chair
I felt like shite for half the night. The other half I didn't care
Maybe I deserve this trip I'm on
Yeah, maybe I deserve this trip I'm on
I feel gone. I feel gone

Gone

"I've never taken any money for this", she said
Well, what could I say?
And though I never thought of paying for it, I thought
I'd thank her anyway
She had a slight resemblance to
Robert Smith from 1982.

I counted off the empty bottles in front of her
"Say how do you feel?"
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy
Ba da da da, feeling groovy
It never seems like logic counts
When alcohol's around in these amounts

"This place is closing in a couple of minutes so
So where do we go?"
A couple blocks and a left at the clinic
Up three flights. The door by the green pay phone

Somewhere in my mind
There's a place and time
When it would be you
Here

Turn the key, and open up the door
The morning waffles congealing in syrup,
'Neath a peace sign painted on a tie-dye sheet
The song remained the same I saw
A black light Zepplin poster on the wall
She grabbed my collar and proceeded to drag me to
The couch and announced she'd be 17 in July

CHORUS

In the bathroom,
Forehead to tiles
I'm trying to cool my brain
Dirty laundry on the floor in a pile
And this room sways like a weather vane
Could this be the down and out
That Gordon Sumner told me all about?

Good night Conscience
Good-bye Consciousness
She left me hangin' to dry
Just like on a clothesline
And when I looked around I didn't know this place
And all I found was a book of matches

No looking back. Remember talking to me?
You're never looking back
Remember talking to me?

Jump off the ledge. Maybe the fall isn't all that important
Now you've found you think about the ground instead
You're filling the space because you're afraid to be alone
You're not the same since your day in the sunshine
Now that you think that your life is in order
You've been kicking my heart in the meantime
You don't remember, but you ought to

You're never looking back (come on, come on)
Remember talking to me? (you know you really like it like that)
(come on, come on)

You're coming around. Wouldn't you know that below
The surface of the end is a place to start again. And now,
You've got a voice. You can rewind or keep on course
We don't arrange for the time of a moment
We're only here to be moved by the changes
Sometimes it's lost. Sometimes stolen
Sometimes it's here, just not when we need it

CHORUS

Take it away
Don't you realize it's just another day
And then it goes, before you know
You'll never get it back
(Remember talking to me?)

Jump off the ledge. Maybe the fall isn't all that important
Now you've found you think about the ground instead
You're coming around. Haven't you found your way back home?
You're not the same since your day in the sunshine. (you're not the same)
Now that you think that your life is in order (now that you're thinking)
You've been kicking my heart in the meantime
(Your life's in order)
Don't you want it?

CHORUS

As I let you linger in the corner of my eye
You change the shape of my heart
And I get so distracted every time that you walk by
And each time I start to say,
I can't hold on
And feeling like this I know I can't be wrong
Come to my room. I'll be your lover tonight
My lover tonight

Turn me on. Watch me spin
Everything is new again
And every time you look at me I crumble
When you do what you do
Is when I lose all sight of you
My lover.

But who's fooling who?
I see you react when I pull my hand back
And it's not to soon
To leave them behind. I think we both know that
I'd be with you and no other tonight
My lover tonight

SOLO

Show me what I'm missing and never make a sound
From here I could fall
I wonder if you 'de catch me or if I'd hit the ground,
And would you even notice at all
That I can't hold on
And feeling this way, I know I can't be wrong
Come to my room, and I'll be your lover tonight
My lover tonight

CHORUS
Come inside. Close the door
What the hell we fight it for
My lover

Come inside. Find a place
You could stand to lose a couple days
So stay
After all there's never been
Any way to get back out again
So stay
Take the telephone (cut the cord in two)
Now you're not at home (and you're feeling good)
Just turn the lights down low
They'll never see you go up in smoke

And if it makes you feel like (something's gonna happen)
It wouldn't be the first time (oh no)
Just tell me what it felt like (when you found there's nothing)
That there's nothing here for you
You never knew, effects of the things you left
Behind you (doesn't it remind you)
Doesn't it remind you (of home)
But if everything is fine (give us all a sign)
Cause it might as well be you

On the table, by the bed
There's a stack of books that you have read
How long?
Have you been anywhere,
That the pages didn't take you there?
How long?
And the afternoon (when it's come and gone)
Gets away to soon (is there something wrong?)
Just appreciate the time of day
For what it is

CHORUS

Come inside. Find a place
You can afford to lose a couple days
So stay

And if it's something that I said let me explain it
Just tell me what it was, and what you think I've done
And if you can't believe a single word I've told you
Why do you even ask?
Didn't you learn the last time?
I told you
So

And all the things I'd settle for, I won't accept them anymore
There's nothing in it for me
And this is truth you're looking at
Remember all those times you asked? Well, here it is
I've had all that I can

Take the pieces
In cohesive to each other's reasons
Throw them in the air

So this is where we stand now. I guess you 'de call it common ground
But it's hollow underneath
So if I put my foot down and when you look I'm not around
I've fallen, but I guess it's my mistake

CHORUS

Throw the pieces
Into the air (throw them in the air)
Throw the pieces in the air

And if it's good-bye, then I guess it ends this way
Let's put it aside, with no anger and no blame
I'll be who I am, you'll be where you want to be
And maybe in time, we'll understand what good-bye means

Not today I
Can't find my way out
Can't find my way out now

No not today
I won't say it's alright, but I guess it's what you need
And I don't want to fight, as I turn and watch you leave
You'll be where I am. I'll be alone and free
And maybe in time, we'll understand what good-bye means

CHORUS

Not today, find my way

And if it's good-bye, then I guess it's what you need
Let's put it aside, as I turn and watch you leave
I'll be who I am, I'll be alone and free
And maybe in time, we'll understand what good-bye means

CHORUS

Breathing in anything so strange
In the holes and corners. In the pocket with my change
Thirty minute high in tiny bitter pills
And though I hold my ground, now
If I have to move, I will

And all the jealousy I threw out in the rain
Comes back to me on better days
Through my window I hear every word they say
But nothing ever changes

Cigarettes, the ashes of the day
Fall dead into my ashtray and I'd like to want to care
Shut it out. The anger and the doubt
Too heavy for my hands
When they fall out of my mouth

And all the jealousy I threw out in the rain
Comes back to me on better days
From my window I hear every word they say

If it's closer to the way you want to feel
If it's closer to where you want to be
If it's closer to the way you want to feel

SOLO

CHORUS

All the jealousy I threw out in the rain
Well, it's coming back again
Cause these are better days
These are better days

After the hammer falls recover (these are better days)
Reflect on what we told each other
Rotation of a life, recycle
Anticipate my re-arrival
And in my better days rebuilding
Beginning of an end. Reversal

Call the orchestra down from the stage. We could
Find a trapdoor and leave them. Amazing how
Things look different from either side of the room

I've been rising to meet better days
I could use a diversion to make my get away
In a hurry to hit the next wall
And lean up against it before I forget it all

If we scream as loud as we can they might
Hear the words and they might understand why we
Kicked the door down. We never did think that they'd mind

Through the smoke I almost recognized you
But thought you were someone else standing behind you
I'd say by the look on your face, you don't know what I mean

Reverberating. Beyond and now back
And it's hard concentrating. It's here and gone to fast
All I want is to make myself clear
Why do you think that I've always been standing here?

CHORUS
At all

If we scream as loud as we can they might
Hear the words and they might understand why we
Kicked the door down
We never did think that they'd mind

Through the smoke I almost recognized you
But thought you were someone else standing behind you, well
Things look different from either side of the room

I've been rising to meet better days
I could use a diversion to make my get away
Though I never did make myself clear
Next time you look it might not be me standing here