A Song From Under the Floorboards
Baby I Love You
Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
Down at the Lake
In Awe of Industry
Kidz Without Curfew
Photograph
Pretty Ballerina
She's Not The Enemy
Song For Her
The Hard Way
They're Coming To See Us
Tomorrow Will Be Too Long

I am angry, I am ill, and I am as ugly as sin
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit
I know beauty, and I know a good thing when I see it

This is a song from under the floorboards
This is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habit, I am an insect
I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that

I know the highest and the best
I accord them all due respect
But the brightest jewel inside of me
Glows with pleasure at my own stupidity

This is a song from under the floorboards
This is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habit, I am an insect
I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that

Used to make phantoms I could later chase
Images of all that could be desired
Then I got tired of counting all of these blessings
...And then I just got tired...

This is a song from under the floorboards
This is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habit, I am an insect
I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that

This is a song from under the floorboards
This is a song from where the wall is cracked
My force of habit, I am an insect
I have to confess I'm proud as hell about that

Have I ever told you
How good it feels to hold you
It ain't easy to explain

And though I'm really tryin'
I think I may start cryin'
My heart can't wait another day
When you kiss me I just gotta say

Chorus:
(Baby I love you)
So come on baby
(Baby I love you)
Oh, baby
(Baby I love you)
Baby I love only you


And I can't live without you
I love everything about you
I ca't help it if I feel this way

Oh I'm so glad I found you
I want my arms around you
I love to hear you call my name
Oh tell me that you feel the same

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Let me show you what I mean

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When I got back home I found a message on the door
Sweet Regina's gone to China crosslegged on the floor
Of a burning jet that's smoothly flying:
Burning airlines give you so much more.

How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay?
I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day.
Maybe she will do a bit of spying
With microcameras hidden in her hair.

I guess Regina's on the plane, a Newsweek on her knees
While miles below her the curlews call from strangely stunted trees.
The painted sage sits just as though he's flying;
Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard.

When you reach Kyoto send a postcard if you can,
And please convey my fond regards to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan.

I heard a rumour they were getting married
But someone left the papers in Japan.
Left them in Japan, left them in Japan...

It was in the summer
The kind that never seemed to end
We had just moved there
The land of the suburbans
I was playing my new guitar
Someone yelled from over the wall
This was intriguing
He must've been six feet tall
I had nothing to say

Chorus:
Meet me down at Lake Lindero
Bring your extra skateboard
Tell your mom you'll be late for dinner
We've got someplace else to be

The year was 1980
And how were they supposed to know
Things were changing quickly
I mean we were down with Costello
After Armed Forces
I was never the same
Laughing at our game
Didn't feel a bit of shame
Singing in the rain
I would follow my old friend
To that lake again

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Ever wonder what it's like to see
Slow motion images that race to catch up but can't keep up the speed
With your hands right in front of your face
Reach one high above your television screen and you'll see what I mean

And all of the things that I did
When I was a little kid
Are very ingrained in me still

Chorus:
Please remind me of the sound of machinery
I spend half of my life in awe of industry
And please remind me of the sound of machinery
And please rewind me

Try to sleep on your way back home
But the rhythm of the wheels on the street's like a symphony
If I only had more than my one tongue
I could reproduce the movement that propells me from insanity

I wanted to fly a plane
And drive a rig across the states
Or lose myself on the back of a train

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simplicity....

Please remind me of the sound of machinery
I spend half of my life in awe of industry
And please remind me of the sound of machinery
I spend half of my life in awe of industry

And please rewind me to the sound of machinery
I spend half of my life in awe of industry
And please rewind me to the sound of machinery
I spend half of my life in awe of industry...

I never knew something so true or so very new
Tell me again how it began my memory's drained no longer stained by all the consequences

Chorus:
'Cause what I feel inside
I can no longer hide
I shut so many out
Which comes without a doubt
I don't follow you
Because you want me to
If you forget and forgive
Then understand this is my only way to live

We walked in and out of people's lives walked in maybe we should have ran
Yes it was the two of us that found this great big town running around like kids without a curfew

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There will be time for us to give
Each other the things we need to live

Tell me again how I pretend my memory's drained no longer stained by all the consequences

'Cause you're a friend to me
Always have been with me
I guess I just assumed
We can always resume
We may last but things
When we were raised ?
Before we reach the end
Shouldn't we try to ??

There will be time for us to give
Each other the things we need to live
There will be time for us to give
Each other the things we need to live
There will be time for us to give
Each other the things we need to live

I'm outta luck, outta love
Got a photograph picture of
Fashion killer, you're too much
You're the only one I wanna touch

I see your face every time I dream
On every page, every magazine
So wild, so free, so far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

Ahh, look what you've done to this rock and roll clown
Ahh, look what you've done (I gotta have your)
(Photograph) I don't want your
(Photograph) I don't need your
(Photograph) All I got is a photograph

I'd be your lover if you were there
Put your hurt on me if you dare
Such a woman, you got style
You make every man feel like a child

You've got some kind of hold on me
You're all wrapped up in mystery
So wild, so free, so far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

Ahh, look what you've done to this rock and roll clown
Ahh, look what you've done (I gotta have your)
(Photograph) I don't want your
(Photograph) I don't need your
(Photograph) All I got is a photograph

You've gone straight to my head

Ahh, look what you've done to this rock and roll clown
Ahh, look what you've done
(Photograph) I don't want your
(Photograph) I don't need your
(Photograph) All I got is a photograph

I wanna touch you

(Photograph) I don't want your
(Photograph) I don't need your
(Photograph) All I got is a photograph
(Photograph)
(Photograph)
(Photograph)

I had a date with a pretty ballerina
Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
I asked her for this dance and then she obliged me
Was I surprised, yeah
Was I surprised, no not at all

I called her yesterday, it should have been tomorrow
I could not keep the joy that was inside
I asked for her to tell me if she really loved me
Somewhere a mountain is moving
Afraid it's moving without me

I had a date with a pretty ballerina
Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
I asked her for this dance and then she obliged me
Was I surprised, yeah
Was I surprised, no not at all

And when I wake on a dreary Sunday morning
I opened up my eyes to find there's rain
And something deep within said, "go ahead and find her,
Just close your eyes, yeah
Just close your eyes and she'll be there..."

She'll be there...

Oh if you wanna talk to her, just go up and talk to her and she won't mind
Do yourself a favor boy, in this world for hesitation there's no time
Serve her up a slice of life, she don't have to be your wife to enjoy
Give her something interesting and something no one else can sing, you followin' me?

Chorus:
She's not the enemy
No she's not the enemy
She's not the enemy
No she's not the enemy

Yeah let's talk about the stratosphere even though we're stuck down here it's alright
It's just another cracked idea but I can tell you what you feared late last night

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Gotta keep tellin' yourself
Gotta keep tellin' yourself
Just keep tellin' yourself

If you wanna talk to me, just come up and talk to me, I won't mind
Do yourself a favor girl, in this world for hesitation, there's no time (there's no time)
Say you want the slice of life, you don't have to be my wife to enjoy
Nothing ever ends it just begins, again, you followin' me?

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Oh everyone loves my baby, baby
Oh and she's the one that's so crazy, crazy
And angels cry the way hurts she herself sometimes
But those angels sing when she's laughing with her friends

Everyone loves my lady, lady
Yeah, she's the one that's so crazy, crazy
But angels cry when she hurts herself sometimes
But those angels sing when she's laughing with her friends

She goes...

Yeah she turns away and rejects the mindless
Ooh, and I'm somewhere grinning madly timeless
And angels cry the way she hurts herself sometimes
But those angels sing when she's laughing with her friends

And you can't see
You can't see all you done for me
Gonna fly away
With those wings you've given me

Something good is happening right before my eyes
I found in perfect skies so blue which should come as no surprise

Oh tell me like it really is, no need to be untrue
There's no one in this worn out place who's gonna listen to you

Walk along the edge with me and tell me what you see
The crowds are clearing out again, they always do in the end

Tell me all about the times when you were with the king
It seems I've won the compromise I know, 'cause you're just like me

Chorus:
I think I just found out the hard way
How you can give away too much
And I was always so happy to see you baby
And so inspired by your touch


I saw you driving yesterday with a man who looked like me
and in your eyes there was true love it wasn't all that hard to see

I saw him touch you like I did and drive you crazy with his smile
In your eyes there was certainty, you'd better stick with that a while

I couldn't bring these things to you and you the same for me
I'd see you in the afternoons, that's the only time I'm free

Now that these things are on my mind I should just let them go
When your torture seems less sublime that's when I know I should go

(chorus 2x)

by your touch....
oh...I am in love...
oh I am in love...with you...with you...

My brother said he saw a little green man jump out of the sky
At least he thought he was green
No one really believes him

Think I want to believe him

(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't believe us)
We're driving their cars
(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't beleive us)
We're driving their cars

Driving on the freeway I saw two red balls of fire in the sky
Up, up above me
No one else driving even looked up

I couldn't believe it
They're in my own neighborhood
Checking up on all of us
Making sure we still have what they want, what they want, hey...
What they want, yea...
What is it they want, hey...
Whatever that is

(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't believe us)
We're driving their cars
(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't beleive us)
We're driving their cars

(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't believe us)
We're driving their cars
(They're coming to see us)
See how we are
(They couldn't beleive us)
We're driving their cars

Go easy, go easy, go easy

Go easy on your promises
And charity shown to clowns
Chansons d'amour are rising
on the other side of town

Chorus:
Listen to the music fade away
Blessed by a broken wand
Today has passed forever
Tomorrow will be too long

Somewhere a tide of harder eyes
brings guns to bridal suites
The interrupted lovers
stand and shiver in floodlit streets

(chorus)

The tears of the devil have
burned the seeds of pity
Radiation leads them
To the heart of a dying city

(chorus)