song lyrics

No glamour and no gold, just give me someone dear to hold, when the nights have grown so cold, and I haven't got a dime.

If only she could hear my songs, about the empty difference between rights and wrongs.

I let you see the parts of me that weren't all that pretty, and with every touch you fixed them.

All the livin' that you're saving won't buy your dreams for you.

Learned the language of the mockingbird, she took and twisted all my words.

I'm so tired of driving down the same old street for the same old empty house that greets me when I come home

From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you

A box of books, a book of rocks, one for the birds, one for the knots that I will learn how to tie around this day to keep my life from sliding away.

I'd never say 'I love you', dear, just to hear you say it back.

Churches and trains, well they all look the same to me now, they'll shoot you some place, while you ache to come home somehow.

The central thought within my mind is how to stay within these lines and still be free.

It's better to feel pain than nothing at all, the opposite of love's indifference.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face, the past she is haunted, the future is laced.

White collared conservatives flashing down the street, pointing their plastic finger at me, they're hoping soon my kind will drop down and die, but I'm going to wave my freak flag high.

In the end, fair-weather friends may break your heart.

So the world is spinning faster, are you dizzy when you're stoned, let the music be your master, will you heed the master's call?