Playlist The Wallflowers

the wallflowers - heroes

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them
Forever and ever
We can be heroes
Just for one day

Oh I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing, nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes
Just for one day
We can be, yes!
It's just for one day

I, I remember
Standing by the wall
The guns, they shot above our heads
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall
And the shame was on the other side
Oh, we can beat them, forever and ever
Then we could be heroes
Just for one day

We can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes, just for one day

the wallflowers - one head light

So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
So I wondered how she hung around this place

Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me and Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
We'll run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothin' left
She hit the end-it's just her window ledge

Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me and Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

Well this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
Well it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
I think her death it must be killin' me

the wallflowers - sleep waker

Maybe I could be the one they adored
That could be my reputation
It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore
I'm an educated virgin

Now sleepwalker don't be shy
Don't open your eyes tonight
You'll be the one that defends my life
While I'm dead asleep dreaming

Cupid don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
I'll never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me and god
Only know that I've tried

Let me in, let me drown or learn how to swim
Just don't leave me at the window
I could be the one to be your next best friend
You may need someone to hold you

Sleepwalker take this knife
You may see someone tonight...
You'd be the one to save my life
When I'm dead asleep dreaming

Now cupid don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me and god
Only know that I've tried

I'm in your movie
And everyone looks sad
I can hear you
Your voice in the laugh track
But you never saw my best scene
The one where I sleep
Sleepwalk into your dream

Now, sleepwalker, what's my line
It's only a matter of time until I
Learn to open up my eyes
When I'm dead asleep dreaming

Now cupid, don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
Never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
Now the sleepwalker in me
Now the sleepwalker in me
And god only know that I've tried

the wallflowers - sixth avenue heartache

The sirens ring, the shots ring out.
A stranger cries, he screams out loud.
I had my world, strapped against my back.
I held my hands, and never knew how to act.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
Well good old me, I was a homeless man.
Singing songs, I knew complete.
On the steps alone, this guitar in hand.
These fifty years stood where he stands.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
Walking home, on the streets.
The river winds, they move my feet.
The subway steam, like silhouetes in dreams.
You stood by me, just like playing games.
Well the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
Yeah 6th avenue heartache.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
Looked out the window, and got up on that street.
And gone like midnight, was that wind.
But I sit here with 6-strings, leane against that wall.
And all those things, they all look so small.
I got my fingers crossed, on a shooting star.
Just like me, just moved on back home.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
6th Avenue Heartache.
Well the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me, and now it's drawing me in.
Yeah 6th avenue heartache.

the wallflowers - reboot the mission

Where you're going has no signs
And you're not going in a straight line
You ought to have me on your mind
I dare you to think otherwise

One day the water, more water
You keep diving and you won't be recovered
You need a clue, I'll come in closer
I want to tell you, you've had it coming

Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I've lost the sight, but not the vision
Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I lost the sight, but not the vision

Move your body, look alive
Oh, don't you think of what's out some time?
It's even better than you've implied
Dice on the table, let it ride!

The movie's showing over the building
Midnight shifts just beginning
Oh, let your hair down,
I watch you singing
I've got to say, you had it coming

Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I've lost the sight, but not the vision
Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I lost the sight, but not the vision

No matter how you use it, which way you swing
Even the longest day at some point ends
I'll throw your shoes off, hat in the ring
Show me a hookshot, the whole thing

Welcome Jack, the new drummer,
He jammed with the mighty Joe Strummer
I see Rami, Greg and Stewart
I got to say: Jay, we've had it coming!

Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I've lost the sight, but not the vision
Eyes on the prize, reboot the mission
I lost the sight, but not the vision

the wallflowers - love is a country

No, there won't be an ambush anytime soon
If the birds are returning, it's safe enough to say that much is true
In the desert that borders between me and you
Where more than a few good men have failed to come back or get through
And the only things living around here don't wanna talk
And the wine isn't working and the vacancy signs are off
The hardships of marching they've only just begun
Love is a country better crossed when you're young

I'm staring in the window of a moving train
That looks almost human as she barrels down the tracks and comes my way
This no good dog of mine's got the heart of a stray
And is down in the ditch lights before
I've even a chance to call his name
I'm watching the clouds overwhelming the evening sun
It's just after lightning and before the thunder comes
When nothing really happens and suddenly then it does
Love is a country better served with someone

I remember the evening you last came home
It was warm as the devil sat back up with his boots put back on
He said you never get boring, you keep me young
There's more work than ever and still only one of me to get it done
Now her ring's on the seat riding shotgun next to my hat
With her name on the window where fog settles down on the glass
Nowhere in the middle of somewhere that has no past
Love is a country you leave and not welcome back
You leave and not welcome back

Love is a country that won't be overcome
That won't be overcome

the wallflowers - misfits and lovers

We wrote our names on the last day of summer
On the insides of each other hands
With empty cans and walls of graffiti
The kind just kids understand
It's not glass or the wires at our feet
That gets us dancing this way
It's the backbeat of these hearts that don't feel the world
That is slipping away

This overpass wasn't made for going down south
For them coming in or us getting out
A temple of concrete that sits
With losers and orphans under it
It?s full of misfits and lovers that just need the cover that it gives
Be counted on and counted in

The well is dry bags are full of grass
There's bottle caps in the rocks
It's louder than you thought and the best kinds of trouble
Happen when the gate is locked
This overpass wasn't made for going out west
For taking a shot or placing your bets
A temple of concrete that sits
With losers and orphans under it
It?s full of misfits and lovers that just need the cover that it gives
Be counted on and counted in

Counted in

It's not the hustle or the high that doesn't last
The dead leaves or the cheap romance
It's not the pills or the punches they pack
It's the magic that brings us back

This overpass wasn't made for going up north
For Taking a seat and going back and forth
A temple of concrete that sits
With losers and orphans under it
It?s full of misfits and lovers that just need the cover that it gives
Be counted on and counted in

Misfits And Lovers?.Be counted on and counted in
Misfits And Lovers?.Be counted on and counted in
Misfits And Lovers?.Just need the cover that it gives
Be counted on and counted in

the wallflowers - from the bottom of my heart

Fire on the porch on a summer?s night
All of my things are there inside
Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher
I smell leaves and burning tires
Dogs in the meadows barking wild
Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done

I?m not drunk and I?m not sad
There?s nothing inside that I want back
Let me touch your lips, let me see where you?re at
Do you wonder how I am tonight
Then don?t lose time looking in my eyes
Not every tear means you?re gonna cry

From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
There is nothing but dust
In the layers I?m peeling

From the bottom of my heart
Beats a rattling drum
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun

Now under crushing skies of grays
Paralyzed with phantom pains
Before this room became just a place

Where I just sleep through endless days
Spinning webs and carving names
Where thoughts break up, exploding in space

But I once crossed a quarter mile
Through black pools of razor wires
And cut through steel with the edge of a file

While singing rhapsodies in stride
Hell-bent and dignified
Now my time has come, ?now who you fooling and why??

From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
There is eminent death
To the promise I?m keeping

From the bottom of my heart
Comes an army of one
Marching back up the steps
Into the rays of the sun

Pale-faced and hollowed eyes
Buried under ruptured skies
Not every smile means I?m laughing inside
Two-faced and compromised
I?ve enraptured you with lies
Everything means nothing and tonight everything is mine

From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
I have buried so much
In the layers I?m peeling

From the bottom of my heart
A battle will come
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun

From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
Wrapped around tight
With no sign of leaving

From the bottom of my heart
A ballad is sung
Through a whisper she comes
Into the rays of the sun

the wallflowers - somebody else s money

We can buy that mansion on the hill
We'll fill it up until it's filled
We'll buy a big black Cadillac
And we'll keep an extra one in the back
We'll sit home just listening
To the sounds of the winds when they're breaking
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money

We can buy you that flower garden
With every rose that's ever risen
With a blanket and a safety pin
We'll keep away all the boogie men
And we can buy you that swing
Swing through the skies openings
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money

We can tattoo nickels on our skin
We'll drain our veins and put honey in
We'll buy new fingers two times ten
We'll even put pennies in our chins
We'll buy a silver set of wings
Lay 'em on our backs for the winds
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money

We'll crash in on the neighbors wedding
We'll steal the cake and go running
You'll head straight for the jewelry
And I'll steal the money like a lottery
We'll buy a set of legs just for walking
And another set of tongues for when we're small talking
Another set of lips for being obscene
And another set of heads for Halloween

And we can buy you that swing
To swing through the skies openings
We can buy that diamond ring
Just about any other thing
With somebody else's money

We can buy babies for the babies
We'll give them both big red ponies
They'll live in that mansion on the hill
That we'll keep on fillin' until it's filled

We'll watch the neighbors fatten up with greed
Watching us buying everything we don't need
I know they're listening
Through a telescope from across the street
Watching us fillin' up the bathtubs with sweets
Money, money, money

Money on the floor put money in the beds
Put money in the drains
Money coming out of our heads
Money, money, money

We can kill many a dirty man
Work by the church when they bring us in
We can buy anything
Because there's always something
That's so funny about spending
Somebody else's money

the wallflowers - i ve been delivered

I could break free from the
wood of a coffin
if I need
But nothin's hard as
Gettin' free from places
I've already been

I've been waste-deep
in the burnin' meadows
of my mind
In the engine
In cold December
shootin' fire from the hose

Now turn off your lights
'cause I'm not comin' home
'til I'm delivered for the first time

I was first-born to a parade
that follows in rows
down a narrow cold black river
faceless shadows
movin' slow

I would move swift when
the sounds of a trumpet would blow
I've been the puppet
I've been the strings
I know the vacant face it brings

Now the bells of curfew
They may ring before I'm through
But soon
I'll be delivered for the first time

You might keep clean
in the back of an angel motorcade
It doesn't matter who walks in
you know, the joke is still the same
You'll just wake up
like a disposable lover
decomposed
I've been gone
I've been remembered
I've been alive
I've been a ghost

So now, if downtown explodes
I'll still be on this road
'til I'm delivered for the first time

I have drawn blood
from the neckline
when vampires were in fashion
You know I'd even learn
to cut my throat
If I thought I could fit in

'Cause I, I once heard
that you gotta learn
how to blend in to this mess
Where nothin's hard
nothin's precious
and nothin's smooth or flawless

Now, no more amused
just screaming to be delivered
for the first time

Now I'm 10 miles in the deep
and mighty blue sea
Looking back, towards a long white beach
burnin' up into yellow flames

And I just wave back
like a little boy up on a pony
in a show
'cause I can't fix
something this complex
any more than I can build a rose

So just keep on letting go
'cause I must be close
to being delivered for the first time

Now I'd rather bleed out
a long stream from being lonely
and feel blessed
Well than drown, laying face down
in a puddle of respect
I was once lost
in the corridors of the arena
in blindfolds
I've been the bull
I've been the whip
I just pulled down the matador

So now, turn on your lights
'cause I'm comin' home
I've been delivered for the first time

the wallflowers - angel on my bike

She knows just what I like
The angel on my bike
She found me down on a two ton anchor
Tangled up in wire
She always gets it right
The angel on my bike
I could be killed if the train goes faster
Well angel watch my life

I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's a prayer

It's 45 miles on that highway
Angel double prayer
I have to sleep with my eyes on the white lines
Elvis need of repair
I only wanted to believe
That angel it's me that you need
And there's only, only one heart on that highway
Angel double prayer

I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's a prayer
I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's a prayer

Now it's hard time on these wheels
These fairytales
Turn to rusted steel and it's
Gettin' hard now to believe
She's seein' me
Angel, please, tell me
Can't you see
Angel it's only me
Angel it's only me

Well I can't take a care
Man, I want, but I can't be there
While angel's a prayer
I can't handle a care
Well, I want, but I can't be there
While angel's a prayer

the wallflowers - hospital for sinners

Some have crosses bells that ring
Most have angels painted with wings
Old men and blind ones can find their way in
Got statues and apostles and other godly things
In desserts they build them of mortar and clay
In barrios they stick them by fire escapes
They outlast the setbacks of earthquakes and plagues
They burn them like haystacks and another one is raised

In the backwoods of the country and the empire state
Wherever there's somebody at the crossroads that waits
At the junction of right now and a little too late
You'll see one before you with wide open gates
It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints

There could be a casket bums on the steps
A baby in a basket being left
It's a good place to shuffle when you've gone through the deck
It's the closest to heaven on earth you can get

It's a shelter a poor man it'll humble a great
It's where derelicts and outlaws can hide for a day
The worst hearts you've known can be salvaged and saved
In the same room that lovers' vows are exchanged
It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints

You'll sin till you drop
Then ask to be saved
If it's a comeback you want
Then get your hands raised

There's more than a few on nearly every map
More than a couple alone on this path
You ought to be in one when you beg your way back
Cut off at the knees at its feet you'll collapse
It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints
It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints

the wallflowers - everybody out of the water

On your mark
Get set let?s go
You got to move on
Before she explodes
Look out the window
Lookout below
Back away from the glass
There she blows
The city?s been leveled
Hills are in flames
Streets cracked open
And they?re pushin? up clay
Temperature?s dropped
Sky is grey
And it ain?t even over
Here comes drivin? rain
It ain?t me
That you feel
There?s something moving
Around in here
That?s blood
That?s tears
This ain?t a warning...

Everybody out of the water
Up on dry land
Take what you can
Cause? you won?t be here again
Everybody out of the water

Now I?m treadin? high water
To get back to you
Been looking for a low spot
Or something to cling to
There?s too many bodies

There?s not enough room
God help me
And God help you
They say nobody panic
Help is on it?s way
We?re already on it
You?ve got to be brave
If you can fix it now
Then don?t make us wait
Man there ain?t nobody coming
Back away from the gates
That bell
That you hear
That?s hell
Ringing in your ears
I fear
That my dear
This ain?t a warning?

[chorus]

Now I?m looking up
And the shit keeps coming
Like shooting ducks
In a barrel of honey
Got to learn how to pray
Love won?t be enough
Admit it now
Your information sucks
As I slip
Down in
I think of us someplace
High on a mountain
Smoke clears
Fog lifts
Little by little
We rebuild again
Till? then?

[chorus]

the wallflowers - here he comes

Here comes your drunken marionette
Dragging his mess of threads
There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs
He says, ?Who will ignore me when you?re gone??

Come on lift me up
I wanna dance by your tin cup
A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue
"Who will ignore me when you?re gone??
He says, ?Who will ignore me when you?re gone??

Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn?t ever part
With the drunken marionette

Been mainlining bad thoughts
Been drinking things I wish I?d not
Intoxicated with sad songs
"Who will forgive you when I?m gone?"

They sing Auld Lang Syne
I?ve got mutiny on my mind
A guilty conscience means at least you?ve got one
"Who will forgive you when I?m gone??
He says, ?Who will forgive you when I?m gone??

Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn?t ever part
Who?s waiting on a spark that hasn?t happened yet
For the drunken marionette

Carry on and turn the lights low when you go
In the hours left
I hope you feel
The things that I know I won?t

What you give is what you get
These days I worry about your debt
Who carries evil out
Evil will come
"Who will defend you when I?m gone??
He says, ?Who will defend you when I?m gone??

Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn?t ever part
Who?s waiting on a spark
that hasn?t happened yet

Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn?t ever part
Who?s waiting on a spark that hasn?t happened yet
For the drunken marionette

the wallflowers - the difference

One, two boys by the river
Down by the water
Tellin' riddles in the dark
With fireflies under the moonlight
Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife
Ever hear the one about the boy's big sister
His best friend come along
He tried to kiss her

The only difference
That I see
Is you are exactly the same
As you used to be

One boy lives in a tower
With bow and arrow
And the artificial heart
With his girl
Maid of dishoner
He loaded the cannon
With a jealous appetite
They say that children now
They come in all ages
And maybe sometimes old men die
With little boy faces

The only difference
That I see
Is you are exactly the same
As you used to be

You always said that you needed some
But you always had more, more than anyone

The only difference
That I see
Is you are exactly the same
As you used to be