- Believe Me
The sun is setting on our innocence
We are the children of our medicine
Secrets don’t ring true when you shout them out
We’ve heard this already before
Believe me I still care, you’re the one who’s not there
You never cared at all, you were so ungrateful
So needy, so jaded, I pressed on
- Empty Men
Don’t believe me when I say I’ve got enough
Because I don’t know what that means
This one is for country, for god and love of money
They’re the same thing, there’s no wrong it seems, and I’m wondering if what it means
Is that I was never like you and it’s because of what you do
You won’t hesitate, no, to isolate, isn’t this great? Let’s call it fate, yeah
- Paradise
The America of Theodore Dreiser was a tragedy, not far removed from the West Egg home
of Gatsby
In the ring, in one corner was Jack Dempsey, but other than the heavyweight champ the
ring was empty
We are all ghosts, we are all fiction
And I will never be a part of it
In a nation of characters of every sort what vision can we have
- Pieces
So pick me up
I can’t afford dementia now, I think I’ve lost faith in this town
Lost my faith in this direction, I hope it all comes crashing down
And there’s a lot that wasn’t said, and even more that wasn’t felt
I think we’re losing our momentum, I don’t think we’re doing too well
Here we are, wearing thin
There’s something broken deep within
- The Navigator
Today I’m making all this go away
Because I’ve found you’ve got nothing left to say
We’ve always run just from ourselves but now I’m running from this place
Because it’s not getting worse, it’s getting better at too slow a pace
I don’t care if I lose myself along the way, as long as I’m leading myself
Don’t think I need a hanger-on facilitator
I’ll always be the navigator
- Tomorrow Came Early
These illusions of myself on my best days
Aren’t exactly what I want to be remembered for
What do I get for my patience and my take on adulthood?
Just a picture of a million times regret
These days I’m missing everything, so close it can make you go insane
Try now, it might work better this time, I wanted to not have to wait