
Date of issue: 20.03.2005
Song language: English
Living the Dream |
'You', another tired second-person address, |
Words written hastily and under duress |
Im cold and holed up in the back of the van, devoid of eloquence or elegant plan |
And Im paranoid, and I can’t help but think, |
That somewhere someone is listening in But all the words that I kept in my pockets, jotted down on supermarket |
receipts, |
At base turned out to be solid masonry |
And Im scared of the kids who come to our shows, |
And scared of the words that they seem to know, |
Because in truth all my high ideals are in ruins, in truth I don’t really know |
what Im doing |
Growing out of these clothes turned out to mean losing certainty |
So sing, 'your' voices level the land, |
My Jericho, |
My rock and sure foundation! |
Every love that made me lose my reasoning, |
Every line that made my conscience ache, |
Every day spent counting hours well, none of them come close |
To singing back a song inside my head |
I always had a song inside my head |
And yes, there are times when I am tired and stressed, |
When I am hasty and Im under duress |
Im a narcissist and Im not at my best I have to say Im not impressed |
Of all the things that I believed in my teens, Im left with unread books and |
badly made zines |
Some might-have-beens that somehow even yet |
Bring a spring to my step |
I remember calloused hands and paint-stained jeans, |
And I remember safe-as-houses self-belief |
So sing 'your' voices are sure destruction, |
My rock and sure foundation |
And every line that made me lose my reasoning, |
Every chord that made my conscience ache, |
Every sound a memory that’s all I ever need |
I always have a song inside my head |
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To Whom It May Concern | 2005 |
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Bread & Circuses | 2005 |
Father My Father | 2005 |
Margot Kidder | 2005 |
Holloway Prison Blues | 2005 |
Achilles Lung | 2005 |
Breaking the Back | 2012 |
Pornography for Cowards | 2012 |
Bovine Spungiform Economics | 2005 |
I Am the Party | 2012 |
Smiling at Strangers on Trains | 2012 |
A Song to Ruin | 2012 |
Carthago Est Delenda | 2005 |
Macgyver | 2012 |
Plan B | 2005 |
The Kids Are Going to Love It | 2012 |
Relentless | 2012 |
After the Rush Hour | 2005 |