The Chaw

(instrumental)

if the puzzle piece aint going to fit

just jam it on in instead

and if your mind is running and don't want to quit

tell the body now its already dead

doing everything wrong, wrong.....

take your troubles out to the trash

when your neighbors they stop to ask

tell them the preacherman says it's tuesday

it aint till wednesday we receive the ash

doing everything wrong, wrong.....

lets say you build a chair to hold the world

go on and sit watch desire unfold

built from a shipwreck but the wood was curled

a sail of reason in a storm unfurled

to build that boat you tore apart your house

after the banker he caught you just like a mouse

we'd call that home after buying the sign

before anything wrong ever entered a mind

doing everything wrong....

i feel i might have bought the lie

there's somebody up stairs, pacing the whole night through

boot heels pounding, the whole night through

it sounds like a time table made for me and you

and i always thought that dawn would be the one to put an end to his sound

i swear its the other way around

one of these nights he's going to walk right out of his room

and the dawn that was looked for will never come from under his doom

he's still upstairs pacing the whole night through

boot heels bounding, boom boom boom boom boom

it sounds like a timetable maybe made for me and you

and i still think that dawn will put an end to his sound

i swear its the other way around

one of these nights he's going to walk right out of his room

and the dawn that was looked for will never enter under his doom

somebody's up stair pacing the whole night through

boot heels going, boom boom boom booom

steady as a time keeper made for me and you

somebodys upstairs, pacing, pacing, pacing

the whole night through

through the deep and the dark

melpomone is alive

trust in all the wheels that turn, turn

though it's cold in the night

keep on the drive for a while

just keep on the drive

he's got his thumb in his hand

and all your life in his smile

he says i'm going farther than you

to the end of the mile

keep on the drive for a while

just keep on the drive

he says i know you and we’re just one man

there is no distance with the gift in his hand

come on and reason me out

in the wake of the mile

there's people running on the town

or just in your smile

keep on the drive for a while

he says i know you and we’re just one man

there is no distance with the gift in his hand

no i never wanted to know

no i never wanted wanted to know

that you'd be here waiting for me

that i'd be there waiting for you

that i'd be there waiting for me

that you'd be there waiting for you!

keep on the drive for a while

well i can’t seem to get any love from you

no i can’t seem to tget

well your not now the only one to hold the blues

no you never were the only one to hold the blued

well you’d think a rat from the cage

is gonna stand up to a new name

its a long, slow, walk now right back in

well i can’t seem to get what i need from you

no i can’t seem to get what i need from you

go on tell me now, you’ve got everything to lose

it’s too late, you’ve been bent by the world

well you’d think a rat from the cage

is gonna stand up to a new name

its a long, slow, walk now right back in

well friend, i’m already here

ya i’m already here

(instrumental)

tell me now you don’t believe the father

and that you’d never trust his son

and if we knew where the wind went

there wouldn’t be any trouble since it all begun

you’ve been given a life with a plowshare

they claim and use all but the sun

you could call that a rift in understanding

could it matter now however it begun

never is there an end to the feuding

even when you thought you’d won

endlessly, endlessly you’ll be repeating

if you’re wondering how it begun

there’s a feud there’s a feud with your neighbor

there’s a feud with the father and with his son

tell me now you won’t concede to the father

just like his reckless son

and nevermind any hearts that need mending

its the conflict now that will have won

given life oh they use like a sailor

you take it all like a nun

could you look for a balance to the seasons

could it be the only world to come

there’s no end to where the spirit goes

or what the feud could become

tell me who’s living on the mount

tell me who’s living on the mount

can he hear us scream and shout

can he hear us scream and shout

why can’t we drink from the delta

why can’t we drink from the delta

can you hear the laughing mountain

can you hear the laughing mountain

thank god you let the sun over your brow

said i’m trying to tell you something you already know

and i feel it most days

so much so i can feel it in my bones, in my bones

well it comes and goes

the harvest is plowed

its plowed then resown

i’ve no idea no what you’ve prayed to the changer

a stranger is coming and the truth is getting old

i’d tell you all of my erring ways

you’d return with a compassionate gaze

and only i will hold the black box of errors

life fast away, you soon after

well it comes and goes

the harvest is plowed

its plowed then resown

i’ve no idea no what you’ve prayed to the changer

a stranger is coming and the truth is getting old

getting old, getting old

if you have an love follow me around

if you have an love follow me around

it isn’t desire there is only you

there is no limit to what i will do

if you have an love follow me around

if you have any love follow me around

i understand, but it's the only way

i’ve been lost before, but it's the only way

oh but you, you pull me out of all that’s blue

into the midnight air

and i with you

i’d love to love