How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Aruntraveller]

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night

[Robbie]

Don't be scared to fly alone
Find a path that is your own
Love will open every door
Its in your hands
The world is your
Don't hold back and always know
All the answers will unfold
What are you waiting for
Spread your wings and soar

[Nearly Sane]

On our block all of the guys call her flamingo
Cause her hair glows like the sun
And her eyes can light the sky
When she moves she walks so fine like a flamingo
Crimson dress that clings so tight
She's out of reach and out of sight
When she walks by she brightens up the neighborhood
Oh every guy would make her his if he just could
If she just would
Some sweet day I'll make her mine pretty flamingo

[Robbie]

If I close my eyes and imagine you are here
It'll last for awhile before you disappear
So I close my eyes, cause the only thing I fear
Is waking up one day, forgetting you were ever here

Darling, it's you I remember with your red dress on
Dancing in the moonlight till the break of dawn
It's you I remember dancing with your red dress on

Dancing with your red dress on
Woah
Dancing with your red dress on

[Nearly Sane]

Feel how the wind blows, december despair,
Bring me a ribbon to tie up my hair,
I'll be your bride, go where you go,
All of my life, you'll be my beau.


Kiss me and I might
Put on a white dress,
If you'll take me dancing tonight.
The night's in your face, sky's in your eyes,
The day's in my arms when you're by my side,
Whenever you're weary I'll sing you a song,
Whenever you're lonely I'll show you you're wrong.

[Robbie]

Put on your red dress baby
'Cause we're going out to night
Put on your red dress baby
'Cause we're going out to night
You better wear some boxing gloves
In case a fool might wanna fight

Put on your high-heel sneakers
Wear your wig hat on your head
Put on your high-heel sneakers
Wear your wig hat on your head
I'm pretty sure now baby
'Cause you know, you're gonna knock 'em dead

[Nearly Sane]

So you wanna be a boxer
In the golden ring
Can you punch like a south-bound freight train
Tell me just one thing
Can you move in a whirl like a humming bird's wing
If you need to (ooh thats fast!)
Can you bob, can you weave can you fake and deceive when you need to?
Well, you might as well quit
If you haven't got it

[Robbie]

This goes on a bit but couldn't make mind up which bits to take out.

You create a hell for the ones to buy your illusion
You design a spell that you cast upon the forsaken
Hortative
You engender temptation
Re-create
Invent the latest sensation
Procreate
Produce the perfect delusion
Your god is digital
You erase the deviations
Adding beauty to the frail
Dreams contrived upon a drawing-table set the pace of the vain
Trust the vagaries of fashion
Do what an the others do
Total loss of independence
You've always wishing you were someone else
You behold your victims inane
Opinions cast aside
And when they try to change
And try to find their native demeanor
They are frozen out. precluded from the coven from the mass of fools
There's a message and receivers who will see it as a rule
There's an image made to covet
Global mass-manipulation complete
High-technology will cover all the errors in the way
Can't you see that you deflower and deform the generations to come
I will have to confess
The music you listen to now
Is pretty damn far from the truth
In league with machines
That help me to play all of the harmonies born in my head

   

[ekim]

I've been alive forever, and I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs.

[Robbie]

Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me

Without the beat I'm nothing
Without a song in my heart
I'd be a different girlfriend
But we're all here so let's start
The things her says are always true start
He's never gonna change his tune start
And though you're still the boy me
Music is my life you see

Music gets the best of me
But guess who gets the rest of me
And there's no need for jealousy
Music gets the best of me

[Nearly Sane]

Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's serious
Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know, it's really serious

There were times when I could
Have murdered her
But you know, I would hate
Anything to happen to her

No, I don't want to see her

Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do you really think
She'll pull through
Do ooh ooh ooh

[Robbie]

Anyway
I got a story here for you guys
Any of you guys
Got an ol' lady that just love's to talk and talk
You know what I'm sayin'
And just talk about everything?!!

Sa, ya know
I went to bed the other night
And I was thinking this in my head
I was like, ya know
What would happen like say if
like , my girl died, ya know?
And I was like cool -
cuz, she like talks so damn much!
I can't even get her to shut up half the time

So, anyway
I woke up the next mornin' -
and there she was!

Lying dead, lying dead in the bed

[Nearly Sane]

I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me on
my birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me
'cause I'm dead & bloated

Ohh yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
Ohh yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run

[Robbie]

I still hang out with my best friend Dave,
I've known him since we were kids at school.
Last night he had a few shots,
Got in a tight spot
Hustling a game of pool,
With a couple of red neck boys,
And one great big fat biker man,
I heard David yell across the room,
Hey Buddy how bout a helping hand.

I said Dave!
I ain't as good as I once was,
My how the years have flown,
But there was a time,
Back in my prime,
When I could really hold my own,
But if you want a fight tonight,
Guess those boys don't look all that tough,
I ain't as good once was,
But I'm as good once, as I ever was.

[Nearly Sane]

And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was

[Robbie]

A thousand times I've seen you standing
Gravity like lunar landing
You make me wanna run till I find you
I shut the world away from here
Drift to you, you're all I hear
As everything we know fades to black

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But, love remains the same

Find a place where we escape
Take you with me for a space
The city bus sounds just like a fridge
I walk the streets through seven bars
I have to find just where you are
The faces seem to blur
They're all the same

Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending

[Nearly Sane]

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

[Robbie]

Up in the sky, nothing is insane
Like a rocket driven plane you can fly above the rain
Up in the sky, you just feel fine
There is no running out of time and you never cross a line
I wanna live in the sky

Up in the sky, you can fly
You will make it if you try
In the sky you are far away
Up in the sky you can sing
And you can do everything
And no matter what they say it's true
I'm going to the blue

Up in the sky, there's no religion
There are no cars and no phones and you can't not be controlled
Up in the sky, you just feel fine
There is no money making crime but a lot of good wine
I wanna live in the sky

[ekim]

This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again
For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
At skyfall

[Aruntraveller]

It isn't the way that you look
And it isn't the way that you talk
It isn't the things that you say or do
Make me want you so

It is nothing to do with the wine
Or the music that's flooding my mind
But never before have I been so sure
You're the someone I dreamed I would find

It's the way you make me feel
The moment I am close to you
It's a feeling so unreal
Somehow I can't believe it's true
The pounding I feel in my heart
The hoping that we'll never part
I can't believe this is really happening to me

I close my eyes and count to ten
And when I open them you're still here
I close my eyes and count again
I can't believe it but you're still here

[Nearly Sane]

I know you're trying to diet
 But your eyeing everything that you see
 So there ain't no use in hiding
 You need someone to confide in
 And your secret's safe with me

 Just in case you wanna stop in, I clock in
 Everyday at quarter to noon
 And if you just happen to be round much, after lunch
 I can take my break real soon for you

 I'm always early shift on the weekend
 If you want something sweet and
 I can feed your appetite
 And if you want a slice of baked heaven
 I'm here till eleven tonight, night

[Udayana]

They say "Can I place an order for three weeks ahead?
I'd rather have your jelly than my own baked bread
'Cause I'm just crazy 'bout your jelly
I'm so wild about your jelly roll
You're the only man bakes jelly and you keeps it in your soul"

You can take all my women, you can sure keep 'em all
I've got a brand new secret that your men can't catch on to at all
I'm a jelly roll baker
I bake the best jelly roll in town
I'm the only man baking jelly and I'm keeping my damper down

[Nearly Sane]

Spring was never waiting for us girl it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance
 'Tween the parted pages and were pressed
 In love's hot fevered iron like a stripped pair of pants
 I recall the yellow cotton dress
 Foaming like a wave on the ground around your knees
 And birds like tender babies in your hands
 And the old man playing checkers by the trees
 MacArthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green icing flowing down
 Someone left the cake out in the rain
 I don't think that I can take it cause it took so long to bake it
 And I'll never had that recipe again oh no

[Robbie]

Now ever since I was a mite
I've 'ad a whackin' appetite
My 'ollerin' for dinner would raise the rafters
I'd swallow me befores as well as me afters
Till one sunny afternoon
They bunged something in me spoon
And I'm sure it must 'ave been ever since then
That I've 'ad an irresistible yen.....For

Jellied eels, jellied eels
Wogg-a-ling about like wonky wheels
Why d'ya frown and look so sickly
Slide 'em down your throat and quickly
Don't bring up any empty cup
Though I knows just how ya feels
When you gets the taste, you won't wanna waste
Them lovely jellied eels

[Nearly Sane]

Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!