Jellyfish Album

I hope you remember me, I was your daddy once,
Wearing a sailor cap and dirty nails
To you I'm just a picture on your mother's mantlepiece
who chose to fight the good fight in time to fail

into battle
and in your shadow
your daddy loves you still
yes i do

I never thought it'd be so hard to see you grow so fast
and turn into the man I used to be
but I hope you have more sense than I in matters such as these
medals don't mean shit when a family is lost at sea

I save every moment I've reached out and almost touched you
but they all fade away must be a bad memory

Though it's hard to admit it's true
I've come to depend on you
You and your angelic shout
Loud enough for two

And that is why
I'll confide in you the truth this time
That is why
I just can't go on and live this lie

Yesterday all was right as rain
But now the forecast's not
It's partly cloudy with trouser stains
And his copy of enquiring minds

But that never meant that much to her
She chose to keep her nose too clean
She'd rather keep it pointed anyway
In the spine of a magazine

And when you say I trust in you
I promise you the truth
And when you say I bet you won't
You know I will
And it'll be better in the end

So when you think you've got it figured out
Then you know you don't
Like all the rest you'd like to sit and pout
But of course you won't

So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The red and greens but mostly reds
For you he's stopping

In seeing him she knows him less
His stick is wet, she's half undressed
And all and all they're both obsessed
With so much nothing

I know it's hard for you to see
What lies behind's a mystery
If words could speak they'd mean even less
When the king is half undressed

She dots her "i's" with a smiley face
A work of art in all but taste
The fool deserves the bed he's made
Where idiots slumber

Divine she is to aire this fate
A crack of smile through all this hate
Means nothing more in this nervous state
Of so much nothing

I know it's hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak they'd mean even less
When the king is half undressed

Blue autumns
Sunshine kisses
Hearts and flowers
And broken wishes

I know it's hard for you to see
What lies behind's a mystery
If words could speak they'd mean even less
When the king is half undressed

I know it's hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak they'd mean even less
When the king is half undressed

I Wanna Stay Home (A. Sturmer)

When you need someone
And there's no one there
There is always the nine o'clock train
To take you out somewhere

I take the train in town
Like I did for years
There is only seven more blocks
I could walk from here

I wanna stay home
I wanna stay home right here
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay

It's only six o'clock
When my day begins
There is always my alarm clock
To wake me up again

When I realize the weight
That's firmly on my shoulders
I just try and find the place
I can take a walk on my blind side

When these memories fade
In my ripe old age
Please remember my dear...

I wanna stay home
I wanna stay home right here
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay

I wanna stay
I wanna stay
I wanna stay
I wanna stay

He writes her a letter
tells her he won't be home soon-she still loves him
he lost his temper
belted his love cross the room--she still loves him

drinks when he's sad
gets happy then mad at the world--she still loves him
never remembers that day in September when wed--she still loves him

So she recalls the days when they were younger
flowers could heal her wounds
but now those days are gone forever
and her pain just fills every room

Faces aglow
as the light from the t.v. show
just separates them now--she still loves him
all they wanted to be was as happy as couple no. 3 on their favorite game show
she still loves him

He recalls the days when they were younger
the future could heal their wounds
but now those days are long since gone forever
now her pain just fills every room

I know someday this will all work out
she'll never face this alone
the light in her eye may be flickering dim
but she still loves him

Ever since I was a twinkle in my father's pants
They told me I could have it all and more when given chance
"We'll get you anything that you want"
A Ferrari on my 16th birthday
"We'll get you anything you need"
But what I need from you is so much more

All I wanna be is wanted
All I wanna be is wanted by you
All I wanna be is wanted
All I want is everything

I think I'd like to play guitar and be a Beatle
That'd be so swell
And every show I would just dedicate this song to you
And I would envy all my fans
While I bitch about the price of fame
To my french maid Lou-Ann
She looks so sincere but she don't understand

All I wanna be is wanted
All I wanna be is wanted by you
All I wanna be is wanted
All I want is everything

All I wanna be is wanted

All I want is everything
All I wanna be is wanted
All I wanna be is wanted by you
All I wanna be is wanted
All I want is everything
All I want is everything
All I want is everything....

It's not the same without him here
20 years of him dead and gone
This vodka does a memory clear
Though it's too hard to imagine what these tears are for

A walkin' posterboy for all that's good
He got swallowed by the cracks before he understood
She likes to think he loved her but it hurts so bad
'Cause now she knows she's wrong

It always seemed to strike her strange
His working late until the morning spending so much cash
And the sweet smell of his angel's hair
That seemed to cling to his lips just like a wax mustache

A walking monument to DNA
Makin' love under the podium at the P.T.A.
He's the principal of principles this love gone bad
'Cause now she knows she's wrong

It hardly seems worth it baby
Too late in asking why
He juggled his honesty
With 2 balls and an alibi

Now she knows that
Now she knows that
Now she knows she's wrong

A walkin' posterboy for all that's good
He got swallowed by the cracks before he understood
She likes to think he loved her but it hurts so bad
'Cause now she knows she's wrong

A walking monument to DNA
Makin' love under the podium at the P.T.A.
He's the principal of principles this love gone bad
'Cause now she knows she's wrong

Jimmy
His secret's out
The one he locked inside and denied every word about
He's guilty so his story claims
Twisting in his seat he repeats alone his name

Counting the woes
Between his every line
Searchin miles and miles to define
Just what it all means

Jimmy
As quiet as a church mouse
Painted every graphic scene but with few details
His accomplice had made sure of this
When she sealed it with a bedspring kiss
And when her time had come to go
Jimmy washed all of the bloodstains from her clothes

But with a needle in his vein
It became too hard to explain
Just what it all means

Counting the words between his every line
Searchin' miles and miles to define
Just what it all means

Killing his time
A monkey in his vein
He knew he could not explain
Just what it all means
Just what it all means

I knew that when I saw her
That my life would soon move over from the fast lane
Gone would be the days of all my drinkin' and my carrying on
But when I settled down
The party king uncrowned
This stubborn memory hadn't faded
Too many dumb mistakes
And all the grief it makes
Left nothing else to be debated

And if you say that you understand then you're lyin'
But if you figure that I'm alright now I can't deny it

Baby's comin' back
Baby's comin' back
So I'm on my best behavior
I can't take it anymore
I just woke up on the floor today
I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way

If I had a dollar
For every single time I fought her
I'd buy a handgun (I'd buy a handgun)
But that couldn't shoot away
The bullseye that she made on my heart

And if I sound like a beaten man well I guess so
But on her way is the sweetest prize and I can't let go

Baby's comin' back
Baby's comin' back
So I'm on my best behavior
I can't take it anymore
I just woke up on the floor today (yeah, yeah)
I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way

What I told her on the telephone was that I'd been so bad
I wouldn't blame her if she mowed down these wild oats I'd sown
But when she said she'd give me one more chance
I said knock three times when you arrive

Baby's comin' back
So I'm on my best behavior
I can't take it anymore
I just woke up on the floor today (yeah, yeah)
Baby's comin' back, my darlin'
Baby's comin' back this evenin'
I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way

Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah cause you're the one
I know it sounds unfair, she's like a painting standing there
I thank the heavens up above for the one I'm thinking of
Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah, cause you're the one
Sometimes it's awful hard to take, the way she takes me all the way
She's delicious beyond compare
I'd love to tell her but instead I stare
Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah
And when you ask me if I really love you I can't wait to tell you
And if you ever feel you don't believe and don't you trust your feeling
Cause it'd be so hard to take your away i wouldn't last one day
That's why I'm calling sarah crawling back to sarah
Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah cause you're the one
and when you ask me if i love you i say ye ye ye
and when i ask you if you want to you say ye ye ye
and when you ask me if i miss you you say ye ye ye
and when i ask if i can kiss you you say ye ye ye oh you say
and when you ask me if i love you i say ye ye ye oh i say
and when i ask you if you want to you say ye ye ye
and when you ask me if i miss i miss you i miss you
and when i ask if i can kiss you you say ye ye ye
Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah
Calling Sarah, crawling back to,
Cause you're the one