1.
From Bad to Worse
2. Fire & Water
3. If We All Die Twice
4. Oh, Fortuna
5.
Fumbling Over Your Lines
6. The Eternal Question
7. I Let Her Slip Away
8.
What's It Like To Be Poor?
9. Dependable Girl
10. Fortune Waits For No One
11.
Family & Friends
12. When You Always Look Ahead You Fall Behind
13.
I Will Remember You
FROM BAD TO WORSE It's hard to know
where you stand
So much trouble meets the man
I'm not sure if I'm
at good, bad, or terrible
But one thing is indisputable That is that no
matter how bad things get
They can always get worse
Until the worst of
all happens
I think Virgil or Dante noted that in ancient verse But Plato,
what can your logic offer
For a dying man?
When you can't remember the
meaning of the noble things
When you can barely stand I can say, now,
that I appreciate all I have
Dearly, sincerely
Is this the revelation
of a man who can't remember
Where he was the day before? Life moves so
fast
It's hard to know where you are anymore
Ailing body, ailing heart,
ailing mind
Things can always get better, I've heard them say But good
times are a black and white movie
A memory from a past that's a million miles
away
But, oh well
That's enough of this kind of talk for today It
won't be so bad, so no need to curse
The fact that things go from bad to worse
FIRE & WATER Put yourself first?
That won't do you any good
Do all the things
That you should Live by the principals
Burn the
wood on the fire
The splashing water will take you higher Love your family,
love yourself
Love the baby you never had
Love the famous people
You
always thought were bad Live by the principals
Burn the wood on the fire
The splashing water will take you higher IF WE ALL DIE TWICE You
were young and healthy
And health was such a great thing
But you didn't
comprehend
You didn't comprehend Love is a beautiful thing
Even the
pain was wonderful
But you let it end
You let it end To say, "Don't
take your health for granted"
Is useless advice
Unless you believe that
we all die twice A body is a healthy thing
It's vital and fantastic
Who would want it to end?
Who would want it to end? Your town, your home
Your civilization burned to the ground
That's when you recognized
The beauty in your home town To say, "Don't take your health for granted"
Is useless advice
Unless you believe that we all die twice
So let's
resolve to tell the truth
To be alone, to be aloof
The fantasy of the
meaning in each of these old buildings
Will keep you alive, one more day
To say, "Don't take your health for granted"
Is useless advice
Unless
you believe that we all die twice OH, FORTUNA Your body feels like
it is old and gray
The telephone drips with the philosopher's spray You
need a pattern to forge
You need a dream to indulge - but health is fleeting
What is deceptive is the motto that hard work will pay off
Or that good behavior
will be rewarded You cough and cough
And the songs play
Oklahoma is
so far away
Point the finger, run away I've been thinking that life is
just a feeling
When you feel good behavior should be rewarded
You will
feel thwarted
Because everything is within the realm of fortune It's wrong
to think that the wise will be rewarded
It's wrong to thing you deserve the
fortune you've been afforded
Time reveals that luxury is a farce
A lie
that's been distorted
Everything belongs to fortune
But if she offers
me a choice
I will choose the preferable path
Oh, Fortuna
Oh, Fortuna
FUMBLING OVER YOUR LINES The galleries are filled with visqueen
The soothsayer is a teenage dream
We all see Mary Belle
She's lonelier
than hell
Her eyes show the secrets that we all know well
As she dances
by the old sea shells
She listens to me, like she listens to the song from
those old sea shells She walks like a runway queen
She sweet talks like
it's from a movie scene
She rocks like a stargazer with a sheen
But she
balks like a new starlet
Fumbling over her lines Oh Roberta, I love you
so much
I longed for the wisdom in your touch
I'm not sure it was you
But my logic's misconstrued
When I'm in need, God throws me a picture of you
And how you captured the beauty of a sound She lights the hallway with her
gown
She picks fights with the hellhounds
She writes from her soul to
the crown
She builds a ladder to heaven from the ground
She can see heaven
But she can't see the street
Beneath her feet, on the ground THE ETERNAL
QUESTION I wrote my dreams on paper
I knew they'd come alive
You
in your strapless shirt
In the military hive We are part
Of the same
Eternal question
And eternal brain
Gouge your eyes out
Trying to stay
sane
When the thing alludes you
That you thought some God
Or some
hero overcame Uncork the Pallouetto
Take of sip of the surprise
There's
so much that you can't express
But it's only there in your eyes We are
part
Of the same
Eternal question
And eternal brain
Gouge your
eyes out
Trying to stay sane
When the thing alludes you
That you thought
some God
Or some hero overcame I LET HER SLIP AWAY I had a
warm bed
Where I would lay
And a warm body with whom to stay
She was
too kind
She didn't confuse or threaten my mind
Till I let her slip away
Every time I found my
Way through a crowd
Struggling and pushing
The whole way
I didn't see the design
Behind my fortunate life
Till
it was taken away It sucks to be alone
It sucks to compromise
And
love will play tricks on your head
But it's simple, babe When the bottom
line strings are played
You'll notice that symphonic love
Fumbling through
your head
Fumbling through your head So if you have the privilege
To be in love
Make sure you know just what it is
'Cause once you've lost
it
You'll know the true cost
Of what you let slip away WHAT'S IT
LIKE TO BE POOR? You bartered for love in Bakersfield
You made a deal,
you copped a feel
Isn't it true?
The finest tuition money could bring
In the spring, the chamber choir at the garden party
They'd sing for you
The poster on the wall was hung proud
You announced your full name in conversation
and you said it loud
But luxury disappeared in a mushroom cloud
And the
debutantes slipped behind a satin shroud
And locked you out on the other side
Of luxury's door What's in store?
You're not rich anymore
Fancy clothes
scattered along the floor
Oh, what's it like to be poor?
Of the future,
oh, you're so unsure You threw a penny into the well
A fear to quell,
keep you out of hell
But it didn't work
The mumbling men invite you in
Sippin' gin in the solid oak den, wipe off your grin
With a hollow smirk
Where do they go, the ones who decide?
Who holds the gauntlet and who's taken
for a ride?
They write the checks and they play with your pride
Throw
you on the street, no one cares that they lied
There's always some one who
can ruin you
With their thoughts of the score What's in store?
You're
not rich anymore
Fancy clothes scattered along the floor
Oh, what's it
like to be poor?
Of the future, oh, you're so unsure A DEPENDABLE
GIRL What was the name of the street we lived on?
Back in '96 when
your life came undone
Father packed his bags with a smile, stepped into the
milky hall
The whole is greater, babe, than the fury that cascades like a
waterfall
But you, my dependable girl
You're my dependable girl Who
made off with the photos of the Saturday night club?
You were so, so, so
beautiful and I never understood why you hung out in that smoky pub
I thought
that the whole world loved us
My, how I was wrong
I might be wiser now,
but then I was so strong
But, you're my limelight girl
You're my limelight
girl We'd sing our hearts out to each other, "La, La, La" You're my dependable
girl
You're my dependable girl FORTUNE WAITS FOR NO ONE Fortune
can be cruel to a baby bear
The Civil War babies tried to care
For all
the magic and bravery they saw and shared
Whoever said we should expect the
best?
You expect the worst and you'll be impressed
With a life that leads
you to feeling quite depressed
Smile, and as you digress, always remember
Don't second guess, but Oh, Fortune waits for no one
It's hard to control,
but you gotta try son
Oh, Fortune waits for no one
You may feel better
when you lose the hope Watch a beautiful girl passing by
Head for a private
moment, maybe you'll cry
But you'll get old and she will, too
You might
realize fortune was smiling at you
You'd be wise to not aggravate what is
so far from a lie Oh, Fortune waits for no one
It's hard to control, but
you gotta try son
Oh, Fortune waits for no one
You may feel better when
you lose the hope FAMILY AND FRIENDS The light fades, before you
And the path is overgrown with weeds
And nothing you dreamed of has happened
yet
Stop for a moment and wonder
About what the miller throws
The
darkest night and also the brightest light, but the sun will set Pick up the
phone
Drop a letter in the postal cone
There's only one person you can
count on to be home
The fireworks on the 4th of July
The weeping mother
wiped a tear from her eye
Because they are all you've got
Family and friends
Oh, family and friends WHEN YOU ALWAYS LOOK AHEAD YOU FALL BEHIND
Who, but God, would know
Why we chose what we did back then? You got the
oak to bend
We were more than lovers, more than friends I will carry all
those pictures
And store them in a box of mine
When you always look ahead
you fall behind We were always pushin'
Always tryin' to take the cookies
from the jar Each time we tried to grab
What we wanted seemed a bit too
far away I take nothing with me for granted
I'll use the memories, they're
nobody's but mine
When you always look ahead, you fall behind I WILL
REMEMBER YOU I will remember you
I will remember you
As sure as
the sky is blue
I will remember you I will remember you
I will remember
you
After all of the crap we've been through
I will remember you | 
