How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Robbie]

Here's the situation
Sometimes I feel like I don't have control
About the things in my life and my decisions
I just wanna' try to do things on my own
I'm not trying to disrespect
But I gotta' live my life
I wanna' see the world and do it right
Although sometimes it's rough
I still find time to shine
Hey

Baby, let me spread my wings
Don't tie me down to the floor, floor, floor
Don't wanna' be held back
I know I can do so much more, more, more
Tonight it's going down, down, down, down, down
Tonight, I'm gonna' do it
Yeah, I'm gonna' do it
It's going down, down, down, down, down
Tonight, I'm gonna' do it
Yeah, I'm gonna' do it

[Nearly Sane]

I want all the world to see
To see you're laughing, and you're laughing at me
I can take it all from you
Again again again again
Again again again and deeper and down

Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Get down deeper and down

[Robbie]

Sinking I'm sinking fast
In your eyes
The memories dance
Waking up this heart of mine
This crazy love
It's you and I
Can't you see
This was meant to be
So far from where we've been
We'll carry on the ties that never end
Will bring us home again

[Nearly Sane]

I try hard to hide my hurt inside
This old heart of mine always keeps me cryin'
The way you're treatin' me leaves me incomplete
You're here for the day, gone for the week

But if you leave me a hundred times
A hundred times I'll take you back
I'm yours whenever you want me
I'm not too proud to shout it, tell the world about it 'cause I

I love you-ou-ou
This old heart (this old heart) is weak for you
I love you-ou-ou

[Robbie]

Keep on running, keep on hiding
One fine day I'm gonna be the one
To make you understand
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be your man.

Keep on running, running from my arms
One fine day I'm gonna be the one
To make you understand
Oh yeah, I'm gonna be your man.

Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is talking about me
It makes me feel so sad.
Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is laughing at me,
It makes me feel so bad,
So keep on running

[Nearly Sane]

Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind

People stopping, staring
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes

I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes

[Robbie]

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away
All the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits
And they've forgiven my mistakes

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world that I'm coming
I'm back where I belong
Yeah I never felt so strong

I'm feelin' like there's nothing that I can't try
(I'm back, baby)
And if you with me put your hands high
(Put your hands high)

[Nearly Sane]

Everything is open
Nothing is set in stone
Rivers turn to ocean
Oceans tide you home
Home is where the heart is
But your heart had to roam
Drifting over bridges
Never to return
Watching bridges burn

You're driftwood, floating underwater
Breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces
Just driftwood, hollow and of no use
Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you

[Robbie]

Though you're always on my mind
Found a sickness that was mine
Chose a life out on the run
All alone inside this game until I'm done

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more

Seems I've failed you all my life
Youthful dreams you'd be my wife
Before I fall into the sun, yeah yeah
If there never is again, you were the one

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more
So I don't feel that I can love you anymore

On this settling down
Oh, I better lay down and rest awhile
On this settling down
Oh, I better lay down and rest awhile

[Nearly Sane]

I could plant a pretty garden
 Or just send myself flowers
 Be a jet set Friday
 Or a Sunday hometown girl
 I could stay a little lonely
 Or let you get to know me
 Yeah, I could love a picket fence
 If it wrapped around the world



I’m a little wild child and a homing pigeon
 Caravan and an empty kitchen
 Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
 I’m one heart going both directions
 One love and a couple of questions
 Am I settling up
 Or settling down?

[Robbie]

Just who do you think you are
Stop acting like some kinda star
Just who do you think you are
Take it like a man baby if that's what you are

Cause I'm moving on up
You're moving on out
Moving on up
Nothing can stop me
I'm moving on up
You're moving on out
Time to break free
Nothing can stop me

[Nearly Sane]

Hey baby
You go your way, and I'll go mine
But in the mean time

When were together
Touching each other
And our bodies
Do what we feel
When were dancing
Smooching and swaying
Tender love songs
Softly playing

Move closer
Move your body real close
Until we, feel like we're really making love
Ooh, move closer
Move your body real close
Until we, feel like we're really making love

[Robbie]

Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you

[Nearly Sane]

So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're just time away

Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
Oh, how I wish I could
But you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you

But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away

[Robbie]

You're here, but won't be for long
Just 'til that certain song
It set you off
Heart is broken
They won't ever stop
I don't wanna know
I suppose where you are
Don't go far

They've told us all
Both know that's hard
Don't go, don't go far
Just leave me alone

Mind of mine
You waste my time
I'm not taking steps anymore that size
I don't need to know
I suppose where you are
But don't go far

We should try to let go
Even though it's hard
But don't go, don't go far

[Nearly Sane]

I've seen the yellow lights go down the Mississippi
 I've seen the bridges of the world and they're for real;
 I've had a red light of the wrist without me even gettin' kissed
 It still seems so unreal.

 I've seen the morning in the mountains of Alaska
 I've seen the sunset in the east and in the west;
 I've sang the glory that was Rome,
 And passed the hound dog singer's home;
 It still seems for the best.

 And I'm far, far away
 with my head up in the clouds
 And I'm far, far away
 with my feet down in the crowds
 Lettin' loose around the world
 But the call of home is loud still as loud

[Aruntraveller]

They were summoned from the hillside
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking
Make it sing this cheery song

Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
'Til the boys come home.

[Nearly Sane]

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance
When our earth is turning
How do we sleep
While our beds are burning

[Robbie]

There's an edge to the wind
Cutting into my skin
And the air's like an icicle
As the night starts to fall

And there's no one around
(No one around)
My ears strain for a sound
(Sound)
As I search through these canyons
So cold and so tall

Armageddon, oh no
(Oh no)
Armageddon
It came too soon

In this city so proud
Full of noises and crowds
This once was a monument
Now, it's a grave

And they warned us about
(They warned us about)
When reason gave out
(Reason gave out)
Now, it's too late for miracles
There's nothing to save

[Nearly Sane]

Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch a heel crush, crush, uh oh, this means no fear
Cavalier, renegade and steer clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine

[Robbie]

We gotta take life as it comes
And never worry about who's right or wrong
It's an uphill climb
To the finish line
We're gonna try to make it
One more time

Starting all over again is gonna be rough, so rough
But we're gonna make it

[Nearly Sane]

Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Till you find your dream.

A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.

[Robbie]

I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside
You'll only see my reflection
It's always best when the light is off

I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know we're friends till we die
And either way you turn
I'll be there

Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

[Nearly Sane]

As I peer through the window
Of lost time
Looking over my yesterdays
And all the love I gave all in vain
(All the love) All the love
That I've wasted
(All the tears) All the tears
That I've tasted
All in vain

Through the hollow of my tears
I see a dream that's lost
From the hurt
That you have caused

Everywhere I turn
Seems like everything I see
Reflects the love that used to be

In you I put
All my faith and trust
Right before my eyes
My world has turned to dust

After all the nights
I sat alone and wept
Just a handful of promises
Are all that's left of loving you

Reflections of
The way life used to be
Reflections of
The love you took from me

[Aruntraveller]

I watch his lips caress the glass,
His fingers stroke its stem and pass
To lift a cigarette at last, he dries his eyes
From a shadow by the stair
I watch as he weeps unaware
That I'm in awe of his despair, but I am there

In his face age descends on youth, exaggeration on the truth
He caught me looking then but soon his eyes forgot
And everything he seems to do reflects just another shade of blue
I saw him searching into you and ached a while