Better Than Ezra Album

We're all a scene in Mona's dream...

A Paris street
A quiet stream
Far away from cabrini green
Forgotten love at seventeen
Where her children got a chance
Not a dead end street

Cause some got religion
And some got drugs
Some got money and some got love

All of her days in a dry-eyed haze
Just another scene in Mona's dream

One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing just lock your doors
And drive around

One more murder in this town
Don't worry the rain will
Wash the chalk marks from the ground

Saturday night, shots rings out
Add one to the body count
You come alive to see another's end

Plead it to a lesser count
D.A. says without a doubt
In 3-5 you're on the streets again

One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing
You get accustomed to the sound

One more murder in this town
Block off the street and
Wrap the crime scene tape around

Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!

Saturday night you're going out
Parking lot, a figure come about
Feel a piece click against your head
Pleading to his sympathy
"Take the car, I got a family"
You hear a laugh
"It don't mean shit to me"

One more murder in this town

Maybe I should drop you at your door
Or leave tonight and vanish up the shore
Anywhere but here

It's three o'clock we're driving in your car
You're screaming out the window at the stars
"Please don't drive me home!"

Chorus:
Blame us because we are who we are
Hate us because you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose you would go?
I've already learned enough to know

Tell me all the places we could go
And count the headlights passing on the road
A long, long time ago

Chorus

Bridge
Here we are
Foreign to their world
Straight and composed
Your sermons I can do without
And I finally found
That everybody loves to love you
When you're far away

Could it be we've done something wrong
We'd make it back to your place before dawn
"Please, don't take me home"
"Please, don't take me home"

Chorus

That calling from that porch again
Low dress blowing in the wind
(I should have known I'd regret it later)
But she blow like a Tsunami

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

Terra cotta, window pane
Brown skin soaking up the rain
(I should have been a cynical writer)
But she don't care just where he be

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

She can move you!
She can move you!
What's your name?
Destiny

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

"Calmly, like a razor
I got us on the door"
Or "I got a tape of 'clerks'
Someone left the night before"

So I go over later
You're sitting in that chair
Smoking on your cigarette
Fingering your hair

So I get drunk and stoned
Every time you come around

Twenty-nine and aimless
You bartend down on fourth
Your parents pay insurance
And the Parson's audit course

Over-schooled and uninspired
A trust fund up your nose
All that wasted talent but, uh
Ain't that how it always goes?

So I get drunk and stoned
Every time you come around
Yeah, yeah yeah

So long Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

(Come up higher, take a step higher)
Sometimes you understand
The reasons how you went astray
But least of all the answer
That it hurts to watch you waster away

So I get drunk and stoned
Every time you come around
Yeah, yeah yeah

So long Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

Along the edges, colors blur at seem familiar
While you read your magazine
I was counting all the markers

And California seemed to draw you like a siren
From a postcard, or a letter, in a frame of film melting

But under you, I hear your breath move in, out slowly
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me

A Hollywood flat where we'd laugh about our fortunes
Well we held jobs in this bar down at 3rd and San Vicente
And Ramen noodles at 4:30 in the morning
When we barely could survive, I was never more alive

Under you, I feel your blood flowing out slowly
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me

You moved in slow degrees
A sudden memory
You're a Leonard Cohen song

But every now and then I'd swear I see you standing on a sidewalk
In a restaurant, from a taxi cab passing

Under you I feel you moving in/out slowly
Under you let go completely feeling you take over me

Take over me

Don't fear
Even though you're at a loss
I'm numb
A shell of empty thoughts
But you glow
You stretch and pull me out
Does that trouble you?
Does that trouble you?

Chorus:
Love me
Hate me
Make me live again
I need you around

Heal me
Hurt me
Make me live again
I want you around

So long
I never had experienced this bliss
So how could I resist?
And I'm fine
A little light-headed
Does that worry you?
I didn't mean to worry you

Chorus

Now retreating from the light
I love it when we fight
It makes me think
At least you still care

Give up, you're not going anywhere
Moonlight, illuminates your stare
And it's great, captivating you
Does that trouble you?
I didn't mean to trouble you

I wrote a three page note
So I could ask you why you live your life
(Disregard the pretense that you made)
Come alive, come alive, watch the city go by
Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up

Your face is creased by the pillow case sheets
The bedroom is a mess
Can I get some room service please?
Are you lucid? Drug induced?
Through bloodshot eyes the city come alive, come alive, come alive

Ah, how wonderful you are
Ah, how wonderful you are

Outside, you feel like you were born with a kick-me sign
Taped permanently to your back
I can relate, video tape
You got a laugh when you feel face first on the floor

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

Are you listening?
Are you breathing?
Give me something, I can believe in
Because you give me soul
Illuminating everything!
Aw, push it boy, push it like you never should

Understate
You were great
Summering out on the cape
I said last night how I feel about you
But you wouldn't recall no
You don't recall anything do you?

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note

You come walking like somebody's lover
You come talking like somebody's friend
You wouldn't be here if I were a neighbor
We both want the same thing

Pull
we both want the same thing

Brother, sister
Anoint me, absolve me
Take me with you
Below hell
You won't be here if I were unwilling
We both know what I bring

Pull
We both want the same thing

Around, surround
You subjugate
Me feel your pull
Effortlessly
Fuck me up
I'm begging you please
We both want the smae thing

Pull

Your pain makes you beautiful, you love to lose control
And mediocrity's rewarded so set your standard low
IN an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you

Suck me in, I'm willing, I get off when you go on
Let me be your fate. 
Pour it on, pour it on
In a country fair or union square, I implore you
In a shrouded face or a spray of mace, I implore you

Cryptic? Elemental
You transcend when you succumb
One last shred of frailty left
Embedded in our bones
In an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you

So do it again, do it again, do it again
This is what it means particle

So do it again, do it again, do it again

Photo stills
In your wallet with the unpaid bills
And you show it like it means something
You could never know the pain it brings

And here you are
Standing in our drive
(when absence suits you best)
Letters and your cards
With no return address

Chorus:
Now you come around
Now you come around
Your familiar sounds
We are your beautiful
We are your beautiful mistake

Waiting for this day
Well I memorized the things I'd say
How you broke her when you disappeared
How I hear her say

"You'd make your father proud"
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget all a mother's tears

Chorus

Bridge:
No, don't say a word
Leave while you still can
Put out your light


Now I guess you're going
A figure through the door
And your taillights faded
Like twenty years before

Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore
It must be something in the water here

Give me up
I confess
I feel as though I'm living less
The strangest gravity affects my way
Because I was born incomplete
Drowning in the brevity
Kind of like a road you're travelling on

Chorus:
Everything in 2's
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2's
You never knew
You'd make me whole again

Someone said, someone wrote
We're floating tethered to a rope
So complicate me
I could use the weight
In how you move the scenery
Lover, how you mirror me
But stop me if you've heard it all before

Chorus:
And now and again
You find yourself over your head
IN a cynical time, in you I find
A reason to live

Chorus
Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore

A) Low

I push the limits of good taste
Whenever I open my mouth
You got a worn in your ear
Like Chekou from Kahn

Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low

All the way from south Dakota
I like a green leprechaun
She got a sun dress in heat
He got his latex gloves on

Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low

And if you ever come here
You're tweaking on the phone
"I got a new connection"
I never leave the light on

Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low...

B) Coma

All the time
A loss
Black like you were blessed
I was sobered blind
Let you take me there
And laughed loud when they found
I was devoured, devoured

You in your coat
Writing a note
"Dear Sal, I hope you'll agree..."

Then catching a bus
Just after dusk
A one way trip to the city

A cold water flat
A hot plate
A hat
The want ads are strewn on the floor
And you get so mad, when your ma and dad
Reflect when you look in the mirror

But I see you there
Nude at the top of the stairs
(But so far away)
And I recall all
Your dreams and your schemes
Moving me
The plans that we made
A street serenade

You can't be like your brother and Mike
Content just to live and get by
I hope that your fine
At 13th and 9
Waxing or waning?
Your call

But I see you there
Alight at the top of the stairs
But so far away
And I recall all your hands and your plans moving me