Gary Jules Album

Keep up conversation
Pick up catch phrase
Lay it down
On the freaky side of town
Don't let me seem so
Don't let me wander too far
Don't let me take too much
I didn't need anything from you

Don't let me seem so
Don't let me feel so down

I know a girl who waits
All her life she's been waiting in shame
Anticipating a change she can't explain

Don't let me seem so
Don't let me feel so down

There's a better way

Keep up competition
Pick up new phrase
Look around
On the freaky side of town
Find me a hero
Find me a chain neither binding nor broken
Name me a new find
A new name
I am not the same

Don't let me seem so

Old man on a barstool watching TV
Got up and came over to sit closer to me
He said "You look familiar to someone I knew
But when were your age we were older than you
Jimmy was twenty and I seventeen
And to us there was nothing but girls and machines
Jimmy got married and I went to war
I still don't know what we were doing it for
But if you'll buy me a drink--turkey on ice
Then I could give you some advice

"You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
As long as you're drinking
Then you've got the world in your hand

"There's no shame in hanging your world by a string
And you know there's no harm in not thinking a thing
But trying to find a place for yourself in this world
Is like trying to make a wife of an American girl
If you'll trade me a drink for a story or two
Then you'll know what you need to do

"You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
You know love is for sissies
It's whiskey that makes you a man"

Now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street
He'd been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me
I didn't have the money to cover his bill
But I found me a man who looked like me, younger still
And said, "Buy me a drink and I'll tell you a tale
About the old man who taught me so well

You just stay in the bar
For as long as you can
Hell I know you're a friend
I can tell by the shakes in your hand
You just stay in the bar
For as long as you dare
As long as you're tipping

Running along the rocks of the river
And the water's as cold as the snow
The man is chasing behind me
And I can't afford to falter or slow
I find solace in what we believe
Or the hush of a cool gentle rain
But there's something we love in the mystery
Of a man in the midst of a change

She laughed and said I was going nowhere
'Cause it's nowhere that she's ever been
When I get to that place she'll remember my face
And say "Hey man, I knew him when he was younger"
But she never loved me at al

She laughed when I was in pain
'Cause there's something that we are all frightened of
In the man in the midst of a change

Out on the roof to inquire of the sky
The existence of ghosts in my life
Who's to blame you or I?
No one would answer me
They just stared with the weight of the world I pretend not to feel

The windmill is poised for the battle
But the fool understands not the game
He believes in his mission, predestined position
Amazing the grace of her name
Oh he loves her now as he loved her then
Rocinante rememebers the days
When I whistled and sat waiting patiently
With the man in the midst of a change

Running along the rocks of the river
With the freedom to step where I choose
Though I can't stop to rest I like traveling best
And besides, I've got nothing to lose from it
I find solace in all the extremes
In pleasure as well as in pain
I just wish he would let me explain to you

Don't you know nobody lives here by choice anymore
Don't you know no one rides for free
Don't you know there's nothing that's just pretty like before
Or so you keep telling me

The ocean ain't breaking its back to look friendly
No, the killer sleeps cold
We run through the veins of the city in borrowed cars and frozen shoes
We do as we're told
Over and over and over again
Can't make a circle so end over end we go

Come away from the window
The dogs will appear
I've seem them around
And now, as the head turns to hear
You speak with a passion
You know me so well
Why should I build
It's so easy to sell

Push

Push

It's never just a little
It's never enough