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Hootie & The Blowfish
Hootie & The Blowfish


Background information
Origin Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Genre(s) Rock
Pop Rock
Alternative Rock
Post-Grunge
Years active 1986—present
Label(s) Atlantic Records
Vanguard Records
Website Website
Members
Darius Rucker
Dean Felber
Jim Sonefeld
Mark Bryan



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Hootie & The Blowfish Album


Musical Chairs (1998)
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Aboard his ship he stops to stare
Needs to smell her, touch her hair
Say's "I can't be without her"
Tonight he's going to be without her

"It's late now", she say's
Makes her mind up goes to bed
Another night alone without him
Another night alone in Charleston

When I wake to find the solace of
All that we've become
I can't wait to make the promises
I've been leery of

I'll be there waiting for you
In the morning when times have changed
I'll be there through the lies and all
Standing like your soldiers
You hold your secrets
Through the days when I need to be alone
I will wait for you
Through the lies and all

She was left behind so they could stay
God to feel him this she prays
It would make her feel so much better

. . .



I met a girl just the other day
Stop to talk she had a lot to say
She told me all about her politics
Then she told me something that made me sick


Michele Post knows all about it 
But she don't want just to talk about it
She got everything that she believes in

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take a little bit of everything baby
I'll be all right
don't just settle for living the lie
that I thought you might


put on your disguise
let me see that you're bigger than me
tell me that tomorrow
I'll wake and yearn for you


And when I call your name out 
You leave and take a bow
You say what do want from 


Call off the service now baby
No one really knew
That I would have to leave
But now I'm a better man


I thought you realized
I wanted you but
You left so suddenly
I know I promised but now I lied


And when I kiss you someday
If you feel that your aloud
You say "what do you want from me now"


Burn all your candles
Turn out the light
Forget the feeling you've been feeling
Deep inside of me we'll be alright


Now it's the morning after
And I'm doing what you said
No one answers 
So I cope cause you are gone
Oh I just wanted you baby
But I have to deal cause
My heart isn't big enough
To love you even if I please
And if I need you someday
You will not make a sound


Just think what do you want from me now 

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Las Vegas nights
Have been calling
But I wait to see her float down stairs

There she stands with her eyes full and yearning
I look
And I know gotta be there

Is there another chance
To bring her closer
Make her feel I know we could be happy again

Is there another chance
To bring her flowers
So she will only whisper my name

A chance to make things right for her
And make my lies seem true
I'm begging Do

Don't go down to the station
Somehow we won't live that long
Don't go now, desert flower
Cause you just won't bloom
And your memories made need more room


See that mirror there
Will she look inside
To see the one I fear standing alone

And on my phonograph
Will she put them in 
The songs that only remind her of me

A chance to make things right for her
And make my life seem true
I'm begging Do

CHORUS 

I step outside The Joint
To clouds of guilt and fear
And there are shades of red dancing in view 

Las Vegas nights
Make me wonder
How much longer I will be a fool 

A chance to make things right for her
Make my lies seem true
I'm begging Do 


. . .



It's almost like
We came back wet
Back from the dead
And I'm thinking of you 

We traveled long
We traveled hard
To long to bear
Hard just to come through 

And when I stop
I see you there
You make me feel
What more must I do 

My revolution is reigning peace
And there is nothing I can see
Is there a reason we should seek 

Please let me see
That I can bleed
And I can answer
To all that is true 

I stumbled long
And I fell hard 
We loved so strong
For all that we knew 

Please hear me now
And hold your anger somehow
But why must it be me 

My revolution is reigning peace
And there is nothing that I can see
Is there a reason we should seek
When the end is all I see 

And when I wake
I sing your song
Somewhere you stir
Cause your wanting me too 

Don't listen to
The others answers

. . .



Your letter came yesterday
Your, flying home for Christmas
Could you stop to see me smile 

I sat down to remember
All the pain we shared
But I drifted to times not so hard 

Oh I see you in the corner of
Life's grand ballroom
And I tremble to see you again 

Let's all go home again
Find where we have been
Time is never understood
I see you holding me 
Please don't let me be
Tonight just may be our last 

The bell rings to tell me
You're here now
And I wonder if your eyes glow and sparkle in the night 

And I can't believe you look this way
Like a doll in satin
On a birthday afternoon 

Hold me tightly 
Like never before
You've come to say your alive 

CHORUS 

The sun arrives
You wake and peek outside
Touch my hand and walk right away
I hear you close the door
I don't feel joy anymore
And my heart is racing to who knows where 

And I say it's our last night
And clutch my soul so tight
But I'll let go to have you again 

CHORUS 

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Do you see heaven
Like I do
Or is it just me 
Wanting you 

Tonight I'm special 
Like no one else
I hope you need me
For yourself 

Does it make you happy
To be so free
The times we shared
You loving me 

And as you leave 
And walk away
Your eyes they tell me
Someday you'll stay 

What's going on here
What must we fear
To live in this fantasyland in your mind
Who'll carry the load
For dreams left untold
Can you live in this world all mine 

I would walk this journey
To say goodbye
To have you close would
Make me high 

All the good things
That made you see
It was the strong thing
Being with me 

CHORUS 

Just look high above
And you'll see where we should be
And if tomorrow makes
If tomorrow breaks us 

Then you stand still and I'll
Show you me 

Like you never knew
Or is it just me
Wanting you
So as you leave
And walk away
I knew you'd come back
Now let's play 

CHORUS 

. . .



You must retreat now
I just can't talk anymore
Your words make me empty inside
There's nothing left of you 

Time seems to change 
Thoughts I have for you
Now I'm so alive
But you seem to be 
Drowning every minute 

I say that's life
You say it's alright 

I can't be your answer and
I don't want to follow you
Into your cloud 

I am tired of being the one
To live and learn from your mistakes
I'm just so sick of my mind 

It sees us like a light
Shining bright
In the middle
Don't you see us smiling now 

You say that's life
I say it's alright 

CHORUS 

Please open your eyes
See where you sleep tonight
I hope you never call it home
But your bound to live bound to die in it
You say that's life
I say I'll still be here 


. . .



Three
In my family say
"we've never been anywhere" 

"to the left sea
can we go please
we don't care we want to
sit and stare at it" 

can we try
to hold up our head
feel the power of the land that we trampled once 

can we go
where you go
we know you always need us behind 

it's me it's me
calling around looking for your reply
let me tell you where the story
can run to now 

we came together 
we will leave here one by one
let's go on and remember
where we've been 

aunt Inez 
from Virginia she
makes me feel like I could be president 

of all I see
and all I dream
in these eyes that have held so much punishment 

CHORUS 

When she laughs
I hold up my head
She makes me feel like I could walk on water now 

Can she go 
Where I go
I know I'll always need her behind 

CHORUS 

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Robinn' Robin in the tree
Won't you come down here and rescue me
Cause there's someplace else I gotta see
And you can stand in for me for awhile 

Come on now hurry down
No time to play around
I need someone to walk this mile
She jumped and said like a child 

Love is gone but now I see
You've got to capture me to set me free 

Miss Mina came to me in a dream
She said, "boy come and walk with me
There's someplace I've got to see"
So we strolled along the mountain high 

She called me boy my friend
And I wondered if or even when
I'd see Greta and my Rose again
The time has come for dealing 

Lessons learned but now I see
You've got to capture me to set me free 

I flew on the wings of a bird
And I whispered names of girls I once knew
Then she disappeared into a fallen stream 

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At least you tried
That's more than anyone around you
And if you lied
Would it fade out of your memory 

Wishing it all away from you
Wishing is all you'll ever do
Wish I was here with you
Then I'd be fine 

And if you died
Would they gather all around you
And if you cried
Would it wash away your misery 

It's worse at night
Spirits flying all around you
Without the light
They can take away your sanity 


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Hello again
Your words they make me smile
As I drift away 
In my little room upstairs 

Oh I spend my nights
Imagining your face your touch
Then I realize
How I don't even know your name 

If we could share our time
Would I disappoint your fantasies
I believe that you could be the one I'm needing
'cause I'm 

only lonely on the inside
didn't mean to take away your dreams
only lonely on the inside
when you close your eyes to your deepest thoughts 

I could start to give apologies
For all the stupid things That I will say and I will do 
If we should ever cross the same place at the same time
Would your world skip a beat 'cause it was me 

If we could share our life 
Would I disappoint your memories
I believe that I could be the one your needing
And I'm 

CHORUS 

If I could give back your hopes your joys your treasures
Don't you think that I would change my world
But there's so many things trying to pull us together
Even though we're far apart I can still watch you walk away 

Only lonely on the inside
Didn't mean to take away your dreams
Only lonely on the inside
When you close your eyes do you see me 

(in your deepest thoughts do you see me)

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