Lyrics to Here Comes The Sharp Things

I Will Always Be Swimming In This Sea
I will always be swimming in this sea
Lights off the shore don’t burn for me
I will always be swimming in this sea
Eyes on the dunes
Please pull me through
And oh,
Would you believe it if I said I would make it right
And oh,
How could I blame you for watching me drift out of sight
I will always be swimming in this sea
Fell from the bow
Pulled me straight down
I will always be swimming in this sea
Riding the crest
Losing my breath
And oh,
Will you relieve me when I become tired and weak
And oh,
Need your salvation now
Everything’s mired and bleak.
I will always be swimming in this sea

Boys Club
Standing outside the boys club
Got my arms across my chest
I’m serious
I don’t fit in here
They’ve invited me in
And if you don’t have the answers
Then the questions waste my breath
I’m curious
I don’t know why
I don’t know why
The wall reciprocates the stare now
Running rings around my halo
And it’s hard to tell the evil from the good
So I’m going home
Standing outside the boys club
My instincts say to leave
I don’t know why
I got a feeling
Like I’m watching the re-runs
And if you don’t have the answers
Then the questions waste my breath
I don’t know why
I don’t know why
The wall reciprocates the stare now
Running rings around my halo
And it’s hard to tell the evil from the good
So I’m going home
I don’t know why I kept your picture
I don’t know why I kept your picture
Standing outside the boys club
Got my arms across my chest
I’m serious
I don’t fit in here
They’ve invited me in
And if you don’t have the answers
Then the questions waste my breath
I’m furious
I don’t know why
I don’t know why
The wall reciprocates the stare now
Running rings around my halo
And it’s hard to tell the evil from the good
So I’m going home
I don’t know why I kept your picture
I don’t know why I kept your picture

Vacationing
The Great Chefs of China slip their menus ‘neath my door
And the neighbors wife is screaming
I could hear her through the floor
Airplanes and subway trains
Rumble through my walls
And the strings of Mantovani
Swimming spermlike down the hall
Oh, it is morning
I’ll take cover from the light
While the hopeful, happy minions
Are immune and taking flight
Please tell my friends I’ll see them
When the Good Earth bleeds their bones
And in the end, I’ll think of them
Lord have mercy on their souls.
And I’ve come to understand
That there’s no point in continuing
But just for now
Please tell them I’m vacationing.
From my window
I will watch the world fall by
And the sirens out there sing my name
But I can’t even try
I’m doing as the Romans do
And watching Paris burn
I’m hoping to be hopeful soon
Someday, it shall all return.
It is the evening,
Oh, the day’s been a disease
Weakening me slowly as I fall into its sleeves.
So, tell my friends I’ll see them
When the Good Earth bleeds their bones
And in the end, I’ll think of them
Lord have mercy on their souls.
And I’ve come to understand
That there’s no point in continuing
But just for now
Please tell them I’m vacationing.

Demon Of Love
The empty vial on the nightstand
I am here!
The empty barrel
Smith and Wesson
Never fear!
So many lost in love
And jumped into the river
I dared them to.
I’ll sell your lonely heart
For eager, idle hands
The weaker your resolve
The more I will command.
My voice is older than the wind
Or weeping willow
You’ve heard me, too.
I’ll be the only relief you’ll know
I’ll be the only relief you’ll know
I am a whisper, I’m a lizard, I’m your man
I am a demon and I am your biggest fan,
I’ll tell your ego everything it longs to hear
All those stupid words.
And when you’re caught between your life
And no return
And when you’re sure there’s nothing left in you to burn
I’ll take you from the impact
To the undertow
Just let yourself go.

Right
Right, right
Sure the ocean is blue
Right, right
Sure the ocean is blue
And time stops for no one but you
And I wanted you
And I thought that we could be one
Right, right
Sure my love is true
Right, right
Sure my love is true
And I felt the earth move
And I’m sure you felt it too
And I thought that we might be one
Right, right
Throw this notion at you
Heard her say
Right, right
Throw this notion at you
It’s not real what you feel
You’re ruled by the wrong king
And I thought that we might be one

Lies About You And I
Pull you for a kiss
I thought you wanted it this way
But you just turned away.
We co-exist
Your flaccid, fumbling little wrists
Is all the love you feel to give
And you want me, don’t you?
Yeah, you want me
Or do you want me to believe in all your
Lies about you and I
Lies about you and I
Lies about you and I
It’s better to believe that there are ghosts in the sky.
Oh, you little bitch
You could have anyone you want
But you preferred to torture me.
Oh, lucky me
My hopeless countenance says, “PREY”
I could’ve walked away.
But you need me, don’t you?
Oh, you want me,
Or do you want me to believe in all your
Lies about you and I
Lies about you and I
Lies about you and I
It’s better to believe that there are ghosts in the sky.

Precious
Together
We’ll live in a house of cards forever
Winded by the ordinary
Words that bordered legendary
Covered by the pictures on the wall
Man is measured
By the way he braves the weather
Never state the obvious
Or let your senses down for love
You’ll never get to heaven if you try
Say bye bye
Tenderness bye bye
Love it when you lie
Truth is such a bright light
Together
Disparate as crinoline and leather
Breathing fire through your torches
Climb atop my raging glory
And let your love shine down
Just one more time
Oh precious
You’d walk a million miles to make one impression
Gifted with your telepathic
Loosely based on the fantastic
Waves my every thought is in disguise
Say bye bye … (repeat chorus 2x)

Lament
She falls into the room
Loose and lacquered lips
Sinking battleships
Squinting stoically
At my embarrassing poetry
The light is in my eyes
Something I regret
Kills my happiness
Lover’s last revenge
Dying in the garage…

A Million Things
Looking out on Greenway Square
You once said you love me here
Whatever it was going through your head
Is it dead? Is it dead?
Now your picture’s turned face down
This music’s just an empty sound
This place, it holds no mystery for me.
And I thought that I’d find something here
A part of me I lost last year
Beneath the cold stone monuments
And broken glass
A Heaven’s send
Anthony, Anthony
I come up empty again…
Cathedral far away from home
Walls of alabaster stone
A thousand miles and I can’t run from you
Is it true? Is it true?
I mourn your passing like a death
A million dreams, I set to rest
A million things I want to say to you
REPEAT CHORUS
Looking out on Greenway Square
Did you say you loved me here?
Whatever it was going through my head,
Is it dead? Is it dead?

It Took Forever To Get Home Tonight
I see you sitting in the window
And there’s love in everything
And I might as well be weeks away
Though I don’t know where I’ve been
Thought I saw you in the sky tonight
Thought I saw you on the train
But it’s all hazy in my memory
And it’s slipping from my brain
It took forever to get home tonight
And I’m sorry for my sadness, girl
And all the time you spent alone
Does our love still live inside your heart
Does it live inside our home?
I’ve been following a ghost tonight
Down the streets where we once walked
Past storefronts full of splendid daze
And the best laid plans we made
And my home was my heaven
And your arms were my heaven
Now I’m blinded by flourescent light
And the ebb and flow of my mind
And this stop and go reality
Where an evening runs like a lifetime
It took forever to get home tonight

Lonesome For The Man
There you’re blind again
The world is black
The morning comes
He won’t be back
Stole the pills inside your bathroom case
And left your house without a trace
Night will fall like lead
And the love you bled
Spills onto the floor
You’re lonesome for the man
Even when he moments from the bed
You just can’t ignore
You’re lonesome for the man
Can’t recall a day before you met him.
There you’re quiet again
The world is blue
And time has had its way with you
Lift your head again you weary child
Tomorrow it will seem like miles
But today you fall like the dead
And the love you bled
Spills onto the floor

Missing The Daze
25 years and I’m left to wait
26 years and I missed the date
Anyway, yesterday was too late.
By the way, who’s to say when.
Never look down
You could miss the daze
Don’t believe life
It’s a masquerade
Saw your face on a train
Way too late
Anyway, who’s to say when
Should know the history
The fool is in and writing every line
Happens every time.
27 years standing at your gate
(You really should know better)
28 years and still I wait
(I warned you, I warned you)
Anyway, yesterday was too late
By the way, who’s to say when.