I left town just the other day looking for my home Not a place for anyone but for me to call my own And that state of mind may just be fine al though a mind does roam How was I to know that I would just end up alone? Cause the world is like a new born baby The world is like a point blank gun The world is like an eight ball baby Predicting what I'll become I set my sights on places that were all just out of sight Burned myself on match stick men that I could never light I longed for vindication when my actions all felt slight I'll start it all again by chance that I might get it right Cause the world is like a new born baby The world is like a point blank gun The world is like an eight ball baby Predicting what I'll become

Well I was moving forward yesterday Leaving footprints to follow on my way But I guess I was too slow And you were getting close Though I was sentimental in a thought Weary with an age's moment When she said I was store bought And I knew what real was So I turned to my television screen To watch more reality by scene Though they said it was quite cold I was warm with desire Like a candle flickering on a gas leaked stove I was destructive within my very nature And I'd sooner die before I loved I was wrong from the start And I hope you can speak freely when we meet On a weekend in late December And with daylight trampling our feet We can say the worst of all of this is over We can say the worst of all of this is over We can say the worst of all of this is dead

Now he wants a new rush Searching for things he has not sought While he sees familiar faces in places He knows he's long forgot And he climbs on to a mountain just to stand tall And he's looking down But he'll stand his ground And he's looking down But he'll stand his ground Now he's bending over Cause his burden weighs a ton He divides himself among them Just to find his entire sum But he's dancing on the ground where he once crawled And his problem's solved And his world's revolved And his problem's solved And his world's revolved Now his road his winding So he stops the car with a thud And he stands beside a graveyard To look at lilies in the mud That sprout from tear soaked roots deep in the ground And he thinks he's found He'll put his burden down In a place he's found He'll put his burden down He'll put it down

I waited for the afterglow to she its light on me I waited for the aftermath to place where I'm to be But I cannot stand for these demands or pushing idle hands To sell me alibis Cause they were more than I was told Here with my fool's gold It took me half my lifetime to learn that I could speak You'd say more in an hour than I could in a week But I can't repent for my lament though my time was better spent Out singing lullabies Until they all were sold Here with my fool's gold The truth is burning like a cigarette before your eyes You're casting stones at your brother's thrones to bring out their demise You sit and fit you hypocrites with all your blind merits But you still don't realize The power that you hold Here with my fool's gold

Monday morning she'll be asking me if I am clean I'd tell her yes but this dirt's still in my seams She said you can come up if you don't ever let me down And I said I'd do the best that I can Don't you know that Someday I may change for you Just a little bit But I know that you won't recognize it Tuesday morning she'll be asking me if I'm alive I'd tell her yes but I have no sex drive Wednesday morning I'll be looking for a better job And I'll pretend that my problems are all solved Don't you know that Someday I may change for you Just a little bit But I know that you won't recognize it Thursday morning I'll be writing letters I won't send And I'll be late on the rent again By Friday morning I'll be asking you to live with me And I'll be begging that you forgive me You know I'll be asking you I'll be begging you That you would be telling me true That you could ever see this through I'll be begging you That you do See this through And forgive me Don't you know that Someday I may change for you Just a little bit But I know that you won't recognize it But I know that you won't recognize it

A trial for the lifetimes we’ve been through Sitting up straight I know what you won’t do Speaking for things that I just don’t understand A trial for the lifetimes we’ve been through Make a clean slate but nothing can feel new Still finding myself but I am a full grown man Is that alone she smiles? Is that alone she smiles? Is that alone she smiles? I think I see right through you I’ll be a highway child Without a phone for miles Is that alone she smiles? I think I see right through you

Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found Was blind but now I see Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed Through many dangers, toils, and snares We have already come Twas grace that brought us safe thus far And grace will lead us home

If I could see clear through this pun Into the lives of everyone See what they fear and what they revere And whom deep down that they hold dear Shield my eyes and hold my tongue You feed my thoughts so words will come And teach me versions of your tale And that success now will never fail But when will I begin? But when will I begin to see through the walls of this cell Cause I'm sick and tired of being well Cast away your curses and your spells Cause I feel a day away Like a baptized child the rain did rinse I shed myself of innocence Or maybe it was just blind ignorance Either way I haven't been there since And I don't know if times to blame Familiar places don't feel the same They look just how they've always been Except now I'm out and looking in But when will I be in? But when will begin to seen through the walls of this cell Cause I'm sick and tired of being well Cast away your curses and your spells Cause I feel a day away I keep pictures in the clothes I wear Of the few people now my time still shares It was hard to know that I'd outgrown The places I've been and the people I'd known

I held a hurt She wore a skirt Temptations tempt and smiles flirt I said hello And begged let go Mistook me for a kind fellow Some things still went unsaid So how was I to know I was half bad When she said I was half good to me instead But I kept my health And sold my wealth Cause it wasn't anything I felt I asked for more I could ignore Tried it all out until I was bored Some things misunderstood So how was I to know I was half good When she said I was half bad to me instead But I knew it went Where it was sent Until time had killed the innocence We said close cut And had close ties To a jailhouse wailing out alibis We kept it safe Didn't misbehave Till it wasn't anything we craved We threw ourselves We threw ourselves We threw ourselves away

Josephine, are you an evergreen? Same color in winter as in fall Yea and on a whim when you think of me Do those green leaves blush at all? Without a morning light to ride Could you look for a smile or a glow? When city lights are a better guide Is there really any place for me to go? I'd like to think I sold my heart away For a wicked love and a trip to Pompeii Where I could burn in those volcanic sunsets That outline her face and shed light on my regrets Cause I haven't found it yet Everyone is rushing around Looking for that place just where they need to be But if the whole world's a traffic jam Is there really any place in it for me? I'd like to think I sold my heart away For a wicked love and a trip to Pompeii Where I could burn in those volcanic sunsets That outline her face and shed light on my regrets Cause I haven't found it yet Though I wonder if this is all that's waiting to be Well then maybe its better that it never That it never comes to me That it never comes to me Will it ever come to me? Josephine, are you an evergreen? Same color in winter as in fall Did you run away, despite what some might say And find the world around you is small Josephine, are you an evergreen? Same color in winter as in fall Did you run away, despite what some might say And find the world around you is small And find the world around you is small And find the world around you is small And find the world around you is small