You dig down underground now
Through the soil, through the cooling clay
As the din fades above you
You’re moving
You’re secret
You’re nowhere
It’s all good
And no lights lead you onwards
No signs point you on your way
Just earth in all directions
It’s endless
It’s mapless
No compass
No north star
You’re all gone ‘cause they can’t find you
You’re lost ‘cause they don’t know the way
They blame themselves they blame each other
They’re angry
They’re sorry
They’re worried
You don’t care
The shovels scrape somewhere up there
They just want to know if you’re OK
Morse code tapped with hammers
You hear it
You know it
You’re on your way
Oh, but at some point you’ve gotta come up for air
You wipe the rocks and mud and dirt out of your hair
You’re blind and queasy with a growing sense of despair
You don’t know anyone
You look around trying to find someone you know
You put your hand up in the air
Just kinda wave hello
But if they do care, oh, they’re not letting it show
This can’t be new to you
There’s a feeling coming back
Connected by a thread
Pulling at your hands like a spider web
Like a kite that isn’t there…
If it’s a life of possibilities
That pulls you away that claws and tears
And challenges you to stay, well, then
If it’s a life of possibilities
That you’ve gotta live then
Don’t be surprised when they don’t remember you
Or simply don’t want to, yea yea yea…

Red wire: right temple
Black wire: left temple
Red wire: right temple
Black wire: left temple
There are times I think eternal life ain’t such a bad gig
Smoke all you want and see the planets
If and only if they find a way to cure the longing
The distant panic
Someday, I’m telling you
They’ll make a memory machine
To wax our hearts to a blinding sheen
To wash away the grief
Someday, I’m telling you
They’ll make a memory machine
To wax our hearts to a blinding sheen
To wash away the grief
There are folks that say to have a soul you’ve got to suffer
Well lately I’ve had my RDA of that
And call it fascist but I know that someday happy
Will be all that matters
Someday, I’m telling you
They’ll make a memory machine
To wax our hearts to a blinding sheen
To wash away the grief
Someday, I’m telling you
They’ll make a memory machine
To wax our hearts to a blinding sheen
To wash away the grief
Poetry, Aldous Huxley—yeah, yeah, yeah, it’ll be a relief
If they can make machines to save us labor
Someday they’ll do our hearts the very same favor
The wails of ruined lives brought to a halt
By the serene hum of computers in air-conditioned vaults
Red wire: right temple
Black wire: left temple
Red wire: right temple
Black wire: left temple

I lost my membership card
To the human race
So don't forget the face
'Cause I know that I do belong here

Go down the checklist let's see
Feelings are good
Dishonesty is bad
And keeping it inside is worse still

You want a problem
Well, I guess we got one now
I really don't know how
There's injuns over every goddamn hill

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it
What do you want me to say, yeah?

I see it coming from
A million miles away
What else can I say?
The only way you know that I love you

And there's no eye-to-eye
Just Moses on the mount
Or I'm in for the count
You need your man above or below you

I cannot cry at will but I do wish I could
'Cause it'd do you some good
When every joke
I make is treason

There was a time when
You could make me laugh at will
And you can do it still
But never is it for the right reasons, yeah

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it

What do you want me to say?
What do you want to hear?
To let you know that I do mean it
What do you want me to say, yeah?

Check out, check out
Check out, check out
Check out, check out
Check out, check out

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it

What do you want me to say?
What do you want me to do?
To let you know that I do mean it

What do you want me to say?
What do you want to hear?
To let you know that I do mean it
What do you want me to say, yeah?

[Incomprehensible]

The only thing worse than bad memories
Is no memories at all
From the age of 20 to 22 I had five friends
None of whose names I can recall

And as I would walk down K Street
To some temping job
As winter froze the life out of fall
Yeah, I must've been having a ball, yeah

Different scene outside your window now
Same VCR, the same cats
Different people at the very same job
Similar alley, different rats

The trash goes out on a Tuesday now
You got to make a note about that
Yeah, this time you're where it's at

You can't say it
But I know that it's in there
You don't know it
But I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely,
A spider in the snow

Now you find the very same pit
Still yawns
Deep down within the very same gut
The very same ghosts still seem
To haunt you down
Down those lines you always tried to cut

You thought you just might need a little change
And now you find you got nothing but
How can a body move the speed of light
And still find itself in such a rut?

You can't say it
But I know that it's in there
You don't know it
But I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely
Afraid to not let go

You can't say it
But I know it's in there
You don't know it
But I know that you're scared
Obvious and lonely
A spider in the snow

No one means what they say
And you can tell as clear as deep-sea fish
All internal organs and glowing eyes
I've been good, I've been busy
I've realized my friend's true intentions
Cut all ties

I've been doing ten thousand pushups a day
Plastic cube filled with pus that sits atop my supervisor's desk
The feeling of ice on the inside of a wrist
Always tired, need a nap
I have to make myself brush my teeth
I've made a list of everything I've ever owned

When the days bring nothing new
And the sound of laughter makes you sick
And snide
You know you've got the jitters

Nothing's wrong, I'm just fine
I've realized I just don't like jokes
I'm thinking of moving I can't call anyone back
You can tell every time they lean away
When you just want to talk
You couldn't buy their interest now
Stolen cars in a heap
A naked body on the neighbor's yard

When they let you down on cue
When you give up way before you even try
You know you've got
You've got the jitters

They glow as they near
Then disappear
Like highway signs on a starless night
And it's so hard to tell who's being fled
And who's in flight

Oh here we go again!

I love a magician
She can cut me in half
She can find quarters behind my ear
And make me laugh
One two one two
Is this thing on? Let's assess
Oh yes, she's the best
There is no contest

But I must confess
That there are times like when
She floats me straight up in the air
Over thirty miles. I don't care
Well maybe a little it can really stop
You from doing something cause
You wonder if they'd really drop you

She simply wiggles her nose
And disappears all my clothes
Really makes me wonder now
Really makes me wonder, wonder

Now she vanished into thin air
And doesn't see why I care
Really makes me wonder
Really makes me wonder, wonder now

I love a magician
She does things
To keep me amused
Like when she sticks my hair
Straight up in the air
For the benefit of her stuck-up friends
Well, I think it's funny
But it's a touchy subject

She likes to set me a trap
And makes me come with a clap
Really makes me wonder
Really makes me wonder, wonder

She says she can't read my mind
I know she does all the time
Really makes me wonder
Really makes me wonder, wonder now

There are times I don't know you at all
There are times I don't know you at all
There are times I don't know you at all

I got it in the mail one morning
There was no return address
Just my name
In gold leaf on the front

There was no time or location
There was really no info at all
No date, no place
No time, no RSVP

But it said
You are invited
By anyone to do anything
You are invited for all time

I didn't think much about it
It seemed like a really dumb joke
But later that week
It was Friday once again

So I took it down to a disco
That wouldn't have me in am million years
I flashed it once and
I was inside with a drink

I really didn't stay too long there
'Cause no one was having much fun
I made my way to a party
All the way across town

It was thrown by the friend of an ex-thing
I wasn't sure if I should go
But when I got in the place
There were smiles all up and down

I grabbed my ex in the kitchen
I told her I was sorry I came
But she looked at me
With a glazed smile and said

You are invited
By anyone to do anything
You are invited for all time
You are so needed
By everyone to do everything
You are invited for all time

I headed home kinda early
The party wasn't all that great
I saw my neighbor out crying
On his front porch

I stopped to see what his deal was
I couldn't catch much through the sobs
Something about a party
And he didn't go

I thought about it for a second
The invite in my hand
I threw it down at his feet
And I said

You are invited
By anyone to do anything
You are invited for all time
You are so needed
If you really want to go
You are invited for all time

For all time

She's wearing too much lipstick tonight
A little black dress a little too tight
She tries to make small talk but it drips with spice
She knows that he's coming; it's really all right

Nobody here could know how she feels
Not getting drunk and she hates wearing heels
She tries to stand but the room seems to bend and reel
Her friends all keep asking why can't she just deal

If she spins fast enough than maybe
The broken pieces of her heart will stay together
But ain't no gyroscope can spin forever, yeah
If she spins fast enough than maybe
The broken pieces of her heart will stay together
But ain't no gyroscope can spin forever, yeah

He says it's over and it's such a relief
It's finally happened and he's making his peace
All the reminders don't bother him in the least
The Jekyll and Hyde shit will finally cease

His eyes on fire and his hands kind of shake
Like his voice is ready to break
You kind of wonder how long this boy's been awake
Or how much less sense one person can make

If he spins fast enough than maybe
The broken pieces of his heart will stay together
But ain't no gyroscope can spin forever, yeah
If he spins fast enough than maybe
The broken pieces of his heart will stay together
But ain't no gyroscope can spin forever, yeah

Happiness is such hard work
And it gets harder every day and it can kill you
But no one wants to be that tacky about it, yeah
If you spin fast enough than maybe
The broken pieces of your heart will stay together
But some things I've seen lately makes me doubt it

Now I notice the streetlamp's hum
The ghosts of graffiti they couldn't quite erase
The blank-faced stares on the subway
As the people go home
The parks lay empty like my unmade bed
The streets are silent like my lifeless telephone
And this is where I live, but
I've never felt less at home
So I'm not unsympathetic
I see why you left
There's no one to know
There's nothing to do
The city's been dead
Since you've been gone…

Sometimes I stand on my roof at night
And watch, as something seems to happen somewhere else
I feel like the breeze will pick me up and carry me away
Out and over this iridescent grid
Up and away from the bar fights and neon lights
Out and away from everything that makes me what I am
So I'm not unsympathetic
I see why you left
There's no one to know
There's nothing to do
The city's been dead
Since you've been gone…

Oh I never had just whatever it is you want, baby
And I really tried, I tried with all my might-it made me crazy
To try to figure out what it is I've done wrong every time
When everything I love, everything I hold dear
Heads out sometime
And all I ever say now is good-bye.

If I don't
Have s-s-s-s-s-s-sex
By the end of the week
I'm g-g-g-going to die

If I don't
Feel a p-p-p-p-pair
Of s-s-s-soft l-l-l-l-lips on my own
Oh, I'm going to hang my head and cry

If I don't feel a waaaarm
Breathe on the n-n-n-nape
Of my n-n-n-n-neck
Or feel a nice post-coital sigh

C'mon baby, now you can tell the cops why

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Woah no no Woah-ho no no
Oh oh oh oh oh
Woah no no Woah-ho no no

And ya don't
K-k-k-know th-th-th-the ice ice
C-c-c-c-c-old vice
That grips my head

And ya don't
K-k-k-know th-th-th-the burning
Th-the burning I feel
When I try to get out of bed

And ya don't
K-k-k-know how these urges
All these urges, all these urges
All these urges can be so very very misread

C'mon baby, was it something I said?

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Woah no no Woah-ho no no
Oh oh oh oh oh
Woah no no Woah-ho no no

When it's there, inside the day or night
You know it's girl o'clock
I don't know, but I've been told it's so
You know it's good as gold

You know it's tick tock ya don't stop

If I don't
Have a n-n-n-n-nervous b-b-b-breakdown
By the end of the week
I'm gonna be very, very surprised