1.
Cleveland Can Wait
2. The Juice
3. The Spark
4. Strangers
5. The Charmed
Life
6. The Measure of a Man Who's Sick of Home
7. Someone You Know
8.
Cartoon On Carnival Street
9. Save It For The Innocent
10. There Is Nothing
But the Now
CLEVELAND CAN WAIT Take a step back
and look ahead
All the golden slumbers in your head
Make you drift away
Early
in the mornin' you cry
That if the revolution dies
You might trust what
they say Gonna launch a campaign from a car trunk
Hacking through the
weeds of people's closed minds
Hiding in plain sight from the wisest men
Puttin'
you on a pedestal
Feelin' hungry when you're full
I won't let you ever gouge
my dreams out Oh, Cleveland can wait
Someday you can mate and bid a farewell
to arms
Your dream girl she ran away
But you won't forget her; she's in
your head to stay Walk along you're the docks of your hometown
Where
the thieves and the clowns
Keep your head at play
Leaving everything unresolved
Old
problems dissolve
And then they go off like time bombs and ruin your day Gonna
launch a campaign from a car trunk
Hacking through the weeds of people's closed
minds
Hiding in plain sight from the wisest men
Puttin' you on a pedestal
Feelin'
hungry when you're full
I won't let you ever gouge my dreams out Oh,
Cleveland can wait
Someday you can mate and bid a farewell to arms
Your
dream girl she ran away
But you won't forget her; she's in your head to stay THE
JUICE The piano is missing a couple keys
I broke it when I jumped on
it with my knees
I can't seem to find the time to pay the bills
To replace
the keys
To fix the sustain pedal
No, I can't seem to do it You don't
have anything left to give
Your friend is dying
You can't believe it, you
say, "He must live"
Anyone could go at any old time
He's so strong,
such a bull
God only knows But I'm lookin' for the juice
I am not
quite battered, yet
Lookin' for the juice
But my thoughts are scattered
Make
sure you've got the juice before you run out
And you'll know,
Yes, one day
you'll know
The juice is all that mattered All my dreams come from the
celluloid
That is where I will find solace
Alcohol ravages the system so
badly
Leaves me lookin' strange and acting madly But I'm lookin' for
the juice
I am not quite battered, yet
Lookin' for the juice
But my thoughts
are scattered
Make sure you've got the juice before you run out
And you'll
know
The juice is all that mattered THE SPARK I wanted you
so bad
To watch a movie with you
To dance in the dark
To create a spark We
loved each other
And love made us feel so warm
We walked through the park
And
felt a spark You look at the lighter
You look at the fire
And you
feel that there's something real to admire
You don't know what makes it
You
don't know what lights the dark
But you know that you love to feel the spark
You
know that you love to feel the spark I've been so rational
Trying to
take a cold shower
Trying to do some more gardening
But the reality is cold
and stark Look at relationships in a rational way
Before the edges start
to fray
And love slips away
And you try things on a lark You look
at the lighter
You look at the fire
And you feel that there's something
real to admire
You don't know what makes it
You don't know what lights the
dark
But you know that you love to feel the spark
You know that you love
to feel the spark Maybe that was just the lighter
But maybe what was
great
Was the combination
Maybe we created the spark STRANGERS Met
a stranger in a bar
Bought her a drink
She looked like you But not
as cute
It bummed me out
If you only knew The strangers have never,
ever provided any solace
The strangers fade into the scenery
We share no
history
We share nothing
There's no one else like you around
The strangers
always let me down
The strangers always let me down It's funny how you
can be attached
To those who are close to you
Even though you might not
have much in common You know how I never wear this shirt
Unless I'm very
down
And need something to define myself Anyways, the strangers have
never, ever provided any solace
The strangers fade into the scenery
We share
no history
We share nothing
There's no one else like you around
The strangers
always let me down
The strangers always let me down
THE CHARMED
LIFE
You always said you were special
And I believed that you were
You
were stronger than your brother
And you were prettier than your sister We'd
smoke cigarettes and sip margaritas
And write our dreams in the sand
You'd
talk about the curtain call
And I'd give you a big hand Oh, I hope the
charmed life has found you
You never know you're lucky, it just surrounds you
I
hope you are able to make everyone you've ever wanted
Fall in love with you
I
hope you then save yourself for the special few
And I hope you get what you
want
And can wear the mask enough
The make-up, not quite cracking
To
fend off reality when it comes a-rapping
At your door
Oh, I hope the charmed
life has found you
Just as lovely as before We all have big dreams
You've
got a new car
We all steal mean scenes
Your mother, she wants more I
know you can't explain how
The charmed life still is a chore
It still can
be a bore
You still feel pain, you still get sore Oh, I hope the charmed
life has found you
You never know you're lucky, it just surrounds you
I
hope you are able to make everyone you've ever wanted
Fall in love with you
I
hope you then save yourself for the special few
And I hope you get what you
want
And can wear the mask enough
The make-up, not quite cracking
To
fend off reality when it comes a-rapping
At your door
Oh, I hope the charmed
life has found you
Just as lovely as before THE MEASURE OF A MAN WHO'S
SICK OF HOME "I don't want to be anybody but me"
I hear
them all say, but they don't know anyway
To be nothing but free, to serve no
God but thee
It's a cruel trick to think that you can escape misery Write
down your dreams fast, make it all last
Make a little cash and a bit of a splash
They
say, "Ben, this doesn't really sound like you!"
But I never am the
man that you thought you knew Seldom is a man the man you thought you knew
Seldom
is a man the man you thought you knew Oh, each of us is a critic and we're
all artists
I know stockbrokers get their kicks playing poker
The lawyer
has the history books on the wall
The orchestra pit bull cellist has a doctor
to call It's a myth that one can be original
It's a myth, there's always
some trick to pull
Look at the writers and they'll feed you bull
What do
they know about fillin' your tank till it's full? Rarely is a man the man
he says he is
Rarely is a man the man he says he is I heard a record
today and it blew my mind
Just the kind I like, guitars and organs unwind
And
the writer he writes with a pen so fine
That it makes you think of scenes from
pages that you've never read Well I can't live up to the grand idea
I'll
hang in Barcelona and we'll sip Sangria
I could never sip enough around this
town
To turn the rivers blue and the ocean brown Rarely is a man who
he thinks he is
Rarely is a man who he thinks he is SOMEONE YOU KNOW She
eats candy all day while she sits at her desk
She raps with the delivery guy,
then gets depressed
She was late to work and can't stand stress
Sound like
someone you might know? She says she'll quit smoking then she makes a mess
Of
her personal space, she can barely get dressed
It's funny that she would be
the one I'd address
Sound like someone you might know? At this girl at
the desk with the sun on her dress
The life full of stress, the need to impress
I
love her, in all of her superciliousness
Sound like someone you might know? Cash
all your checks
Place all your bets
Things will turn out like you never
would guess
Well, there are so many ways to look at a situation
Use your
logic to check you into the right station
But when the ticket collector calls
your name
It's time to go
Sounds like a situation we both know Some
might argue which is the best one
But arguing is just for fun
Arguing is
just for fun Cash all your checks
Place all your bets
Things will
turn out like you never would guess
Well, there are so many ways to look at
a situation
Use your logic to check you into the right station
It's time
to go
Sounds like a situation we both know CARTOON ON CARNIVAL STREET He
insists on being photographed with a lime in one hand
A lion in the other,
and never on the sand
He insists that cheating is the way of a man
He looks
for cucumbers and cooks them in a pan And the oil from his back is the kind
you could use
In fashion model photos, he always has nice shoes
So finely
polished, they invoke the great muse
He always has such nicely polished shoes Like
a cartoon on carnival street
You have so many characters to meet Nice
hair, nice clothes, a Parchese penchant
Like Pirates of Penzance in a pair
of ruffled pants
The walls are all red, the marble walk elegant
He hauls
off into the woods with a small elephant Logic would kill him and his sapphire
imaginings
His oak marbled bed, his visions of queens and kings
The harp
of the hayseed player and the trouble that it brings
Oh, if he could live there
it would be a wonderful thing Like a cartoon on carnival street
Make
a date, don't be late for the characters you'll meet SAVE IT FOR THE
INNOCENT Packed my bags in New York City
Sold the house, found a
girl who was pretty
On the docks I would serenade
And talk about orchids
in the Everglades, then We bought a house at the edge of town
It's hard
to break a good man down but
There was some leeway God gave
Felt the crunch
of fate
Softly as the radio played Stash away all your good times honey
If
you've got the time, I'll bring some money
Push the envelope as the edges fray
Bust
through the seams to the break of day And we'll build it up
Let it down
slowly
We save it all for the innocent
I know, it might sound sleazy
But
save it all for the innocent Life builds me up and let's me down slowly
Save
it all for the innocent
I know, I won't go gently
But I have a tip for the
innocent:
Roll when the waves are crashing
Duck when the fists are bashing
Think
when the checks aren't cashin'
That soon you'll be old and no longer dashin'
THERE
IS NOTHING BUT THE NOW
All of those pretty words
I'm not sure if
they came from me
Or if they were part of a script
>From a show that
I watched on TV There is nothing but the now
There is nothing but the
now All of the times that I reassured myself
With those words, those
beautiful words
I'm not sure who spoke those words
Did they come from a
book? It's so absurd There is nothing but the now
There is nothing but
the now Never being able to come up with the words
They are just incomprehensible
Those
experiences: What are they? What were they?
For now, they are wholly indescribable There
is nothing but the now
There is nothing but the now All of the greatest
moments
Heaped upon one another
They appear in dreams
But they can't
be recovered There is nothing but the now
There is nothing but the now
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