Never Enough

1. Ain't It Heavy
2. 2001
3. Dance Without Sleeping
4. Place Your Hand
5. Must Be Crazy For Me
6. Meet Me In The Back
7. The Boy Feels Strange
8. Keep It Precious
9. The Letting Go
10. It's For You

 

 

Ain't It Heavy

Sometimes I know that it's never enough

Survival is fine but satisfaction is rough

I try with an angel tonight

Spread these wings and I'm on for the ride

Cruise these streets where my innocence hides

There's some things you can't deny

What is it about this human condition

I need some kind of promise

Some kind of submission tonight

Heavy

Ain't it heavy

Ain't the night heavy

I'm feelin' kinda loose

I'm feelin' kinda mean

I've been feeling kinda wild since I turned seventeen

Or is it madness

Tell me where can a woman find any kind of peace

When does the fury and the agony cease

How long have I got to say please

There's a hole in my jeans I only wanted to fade

I've been ripping out seams

Somebody else made tonight

Heavy

Ain't it heavy

Ain't the night heavy

 

 

2001

Well I've been looking

Looking for an answer

Somebody promised me one

And I've been waiting

Waiting for the chance

Well somebody said it would come

Wake me up when we hit 2001

I've been talking

Talking to the maker

Of the compromise

They said she's fine

Call the undertaker

You shouldn't look surprised

Wake me up when we hit 2001

It's barely alive with a story at five

So turn your video on

We live in these years dark age of fear

Meet me in 2001

I saw my sister

Saw the ones who twist her

A social suicide

If looks could kill

Each and every cheap thrill

Could be a homicide

Wake me up when we hit 2001

It's barely alive with a story at five

So turn your video on

We live in these years dark age of fear

Meet me in 2001

I've searching

Searching for a reason

To either fight or fly

Either way patriot or treason

It's gonna be one long hard ride

Wake me up when we hit 2001


Dance without sleeping

I don't want to talk about it

I've done enough I think

I don't want to spend more money

Don't want another drink

I would scratch out all the images

If I had the chance

Don't ask me what I'm thinking

Can't you see I only want to dance

Dance without sleeping

Dance without fear

Dance without senses no message I hear

Dance without sleeping

Dance till I'm numb

Dance till I think I can overcome

Walking on the edge of rage and understanding

Between the black and the white

This child is so angry

Alone here tonight

Alarming desperation

Leads me to believe

With all my shields and protection

It's only me I deceive

Dance without sleeping

Dance without fear

Dance without senses no message I hear

Dance without sleeping

Dance till I'm numb

Dance till I think I can overcome

The eyes on a magazine

The voice on the radio

The kiss on the movie screen

This is the story I know

Fathers hold on and they never go

Mothers hold on and they never go

Lovers hold on and they never go

Lovers they come and they never go

Dance without sleeping

Dance without fear

Dance without senses no message I hear

Dance without sleeping

Dance till I'm numb

Dance till I think I can overcome

 

Place your hand

I've an image in my pocket

Of some dark demon

That temptation brought to life

And it chokes all of my breath out

I'm scratching and screaming'

'Til morning comes to night

Place your hand

My body will decide

Place your hand

My anger will subside

There are fragments of possessions

Shards of past relations

Splintering my skin

A fear so black and hollow

It can suffocate creation

And refuse to let you in

Place your hand

My body will decide

Place your hand

My anger will subside

And they speak to me like prophets in my dreams

Speak to me like prophets in my dreams

Shouting like prophets in my dreams

Sometimes I think it's easy

Too easy for the living

To receive the Promised Land

Can flesh provide the answer

The reaction for sensation

Justify your hand

Place your hand

My body will decide

Place your hand

My anger will subside

 

Must Be Crazy For Me

You tell me not to call you up

'Cause it ties you down

Don't tell your friends

You've been hangin' 'round

You must be crazy for me

You say you'll see me once or twice

Every week or two

There's more important things

That you've got to do

You must be crazy for me

'Cause when I kissed you last night

In my own backyard

You ran so fast

And you fought so hard

You must be crazy for me

You must be crazy for me

You don't like my hair

You don't like my car

You don't like my friends

You met at the bar

You must be crazy for me

I see you shake you head

And you roll your eyes

Your firm remark

To remove my thigh

You must be crazy for me

'Cause when I kissed you last night

In my own backyard

You ran so fast

And you fought so hard

You must be crazy for me

You must be crazy for me

Do not expect you to wait

Do not expect you to phone

Do not expect anything

When I catch you alone

You must be crazy for me

'Cause when I kissed you last night

In my own backyard

You ran so fast

And you fought so hard

You must be crazy for me

You must be crazy for me

 

Meet Me In The Back

Meet me in the back

Don't make me wait too long

I could change my mind

And tell you that it's wrong

So meet me in the back

Where the light don't shine

First show me yours

Maybe I'll show you mine

My hands are shaking

My heart is beating fast

Is love worth making

When it can never last

Meet me in the back

Don't make me wait too long

I could change my mind

And tell you that it's wrong

So meet me in the back

Where the light don't shine

First show me yours

Maybe I'll show you mine

I'm gonna give directions

I'm gonna take it slow

But if I don't get protection

I will just say no

Meet me in the back

Don't make me wait too long

I could change my mind

And tell you that it's wrong

So meet me in the back

Where the light don't shine

First show me yours

Maybe I'll show you mine

I can hear the music

Pounding through the walls

And to the beat of dancing

I will give you all

Meet me in the back

Don't make me wait too long

I could change my mind

And tell you that it's wrong

So meet me in the back

Where the light don't shine

First show me yours

Maybe I'll show you mine

 

The Boy Feels Strange

And he looks at me in wonder

And he looks at me in fear

Wrestling with his anger

His pride and stony tears

To place me in his life

Will be hard and slow

Does he want it need it

I might never know

The boy feels strange

Oh the boy has changed

Looking from my tower

I can see his fortress strong

Surrounded by his army

Where do I belong

Does he ever find the answers

In the cars as they go by

Does he ever want to ask me why

The boy feels strange

Oh the boy has changed

And he's seen with all the women

Who think that he's a god

And he blesses whom he pleases

Holding fast to the facade

I want to reach out and believe him

Through his miles and miles of pain

But lately when I touch him

The boy feels strange

And he speaks to me of business

When I ask him how he's been

Keeps me at a distance

Never getting under the skin

Can he make a new beginning

Does he even want to try

Or will he only let it die

The boy feels strange

Oh the boy has changed

 

Keep It Precious

You brought me to trust you brought me to tears

In one tender touch the pain disappears

I have been to the sword seen it come seen it die

As we enter the dark I beseech you to try

In prophecy all good things must end

So take care my love my friend

Keep it precious

Keep it precious

This yielding is fine this promise rare

One day at a time we've agreed to dare

Holding you tight with wide open arms

I'm letting you go no stranger to harm

Go on ride your way do not break or bend

Just take care my love my friend

Keep it precious

Keep it precious

And the wonder let the wonder never cease

And the madness of the pleasure and ecstasy

Danger believing me

Wounding and healing me please

Keep it precious

I believe in your eyes

I believe in your fate

I believe we can fly on the wings we create

A voice from behind calls up anger and fear

We can silence that scream it's simple and clear

Nothing must die only if failed to mend

So take care my love my friend

Keep it precious

 

The Letting Go

I came here to let you know

The letting go

Has taken place

I have held the winter's son

Become one

Set my pace

Isn't that what we wanted all along

Freedom like a stone

But I can say goodbye

Now that the passion's died

Still it comes so slow

The letting go

Piece by piece I take apart

This complicated heart

And I hope to find

Something I can prove is real

I can feel is truth

I can say is mine

That's all I ever wanted to be

The closer that I got

The further I could see

But when lovers change

And the night feels strange

We choose our road

The letting go

I came here to let you know

The letting go

Has taken place



It's for you

Hey you watching as this light bleeds all over me

Shadows rise and fall listen as I call is this reality

I will be with you tonight

and tomorrow be 1,000 miles away

I will be with you tonight

I will be with you as long as you say stay

One little piece of my soul

One little piece of my whole life

I give to you

Take it now

I'm with you

I'm not with my lover

It's not for another broken heart

It's for you

Not just for some shattered dream I once knew

It's for you

It's for you

Hey you looking through a mirror to a cage

I'll take you away this miracle you pray for on the stage

I will be with you tonight

I will be with you 1,000 miles away

I will never leave

Inside of you a piece of me will stay

One little piece of my soul

One little piece of my whole life

I give to you

Take it now

I'm with you

I'm not with my lover

It's not for another broken heart

It's for you

Not just for some shattered dream I once knew

It's for you

It's for you

Come closer now

I'm with you

I'm not with my lover

It's not for another broken heart

It's for you

Not just for some shattered dream I once knew

It's for you

It's for you

 

 

 

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