How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Udayana]

Mister jelly roll baker, can I please be your slave?
When?...? your?...? on I'm gonna rise from my grave
For your sweet jelly roll
Bake the best jelly roll in town
You're the only man baking jelly and you're keeping your damper
Down

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]

Make it work
Make it easy
Make it clever, craft it into pieces
Make it sweet
Crimp the edges
Or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges
Even doubt
Can be delicious
And it washes off of all the dirty dishes
When it's done
I can smile
It's on someone else's plate for a while

I'll place it on display
And then I'll slice and serve my worries away

I can fix this
I can twist it into sugar, butter covered pieces
Never mind what's underneath it
I have done it before
I'll bake me a door to help me get through
I learned that from you
Mama, it's amazing what baking can do

[Udayana]

...

Oh to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leavin' there too soon
You're leavin' there too soon

There's a girl just down the aisle
Oh to turn and see her smile
You can hear the words she wrote
As you read the hidden note

...

[Nearly Sane]

Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Super Hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

As ninety-nine red balloons go by

[Nearly Sane]

It's a hundred degrees
Why you feelin' down? What's the problem?
We just here to be free
It don't feel like this often
Bumpin' to the radio with the air so cold as the moonlight glows
No, we don't give a fuck, we ain't gotta change a thing no more

[Nearly Sane]

You're used to that sound of a heart that's breaking
I know it don't phase you anymore
You're the king of the game that you played
I know you played it a hundred times before
You fill your bedroom up with trophies
Then you get a kick out of closing the door
Got all the words to keep on hoping
I know you said them a hundred times before

But then there's me, a fox for your gun
Then there's me, just love me for fun
Baby, there's me, no use or pretend
Oh, there's me, a 101

[Nearly Sane]

I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
Okay, you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked alright before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a-running
Take a run and hide yourself away
(Foxy on the run) F-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away

[Nearly Sane]

Driving home I see those flooded fields
How can people not know what beauty this is
I've taken it for granted my whole life
Since the day I was born

Clouds hang on these curves like me
And I kneel to the wheel
Of the fox confessor on splendid heels
And he shames me from my seat
And on my guilty feet
I follow him in retreat

[Nearly Sane]

Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
(Should have known better, yeah)
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

[Nearly Sane]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end

[Nearly Sane]

Now she found herself in the fast lane
Livin' day to day
Turned her back on her best friends, yeah
And watched her family slip away
And just like a lost soul caught up in the Hollywood scene
All the parties and the limousines
Such a good actress hiding all her pain
Trading her memories for fortune and fame


Just a step away
From the edge of a fall
Caught between Heaven and Hell
Where's the girl I knew a year ago?


Win big, mama's fallen angel
Lose big, living out her lies
Wants it all, mama's fallen angel
Lose it all, rolling the dice of her life

[Nearly Sane]

He was a hard-headed man,
He was brutally handsome,
And she was terminally pretty
She held him up,
And he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city

He had nasty reputation as a cruel dude
They said he was ruthless, said he was crude
They had one thing in common, they were good in bed
She'd say, "Faster, faster. The lights are turnin' red."

Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane

[Aruntraveller]

Lonely hearts are welcome here
Take my hand let's disappear
Serenity is almost here oh Lord

Don't let life pass you by
Jump on in, get ready to fly

Gimme some, gimme some gasoline
Tell me what you want, know what I mean
And scream if you wanna go faster baby
(Scream if you wanna go faster)
Scream if you wanna go faster
(Scream if you wanna go faster)

[Nearly Sane]

But if anything should happen and my plans go wrong
Should I stray to the house on the hill
Let it be known that my intentions were good
I'd be singing in my alley if I could

And if I'm called away and it's my turn to go
Should the blood run cold in my veins
Just one favor I'll be asking of you
Don't bury me here, it's too cold
Take me back, carry me back
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from
Take me back, won't you carry me home
Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from

[Aruntraveller]

Sally, Sally, don't ever wander
Away from the alley and me
Sally, Sally
Marry me Sally
And happy forever I'll be

When skies are blue you're beguiling
And when they're grey you're still smiling, smiling

Sally, Sally, pride of our alley
You're more than the whole world to me

[Nearly Sane]

Sally you opened out your arms
To all those young men
And girl you had room
For every one of them
You’re the only girl
On Bowery and Third
Sure as hell you’re the one
who cared

So put your hands together for Sally
She saved all those young men
Put your hands together for Sally
She’s the one who cared for them

She’s doing our dirty work
She’s the only one who cares
Doing our dirty work
Thirsty world one angry day, in New York

[Nearly Sane]

Times are hard
You're afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
When you need a bit of lovin'
Cause your man is out of town
That's the time you get me runnin'
And you know I'll be around


I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
I don't wanna do your dirty work
No more
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah

[Nearly Sane]

Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

[Nearly Sane]

What kind of man is this
An empty shell
A lonely cell in which
An empty heart must dwell

What kind of lips are these
That lied with every kiss
That whispered empty words of love
That left me alone like this

Why can't I fall in love
Like any other man
And maybe then I'll know
What kind of fool I am

[Nearly Sane]

All that is left is an empty shell
Of my heart that is crushed
I don't never wanna see
What my mind has seen
When you loved me

Every night, every night alone with you
Every night, alone now
When she sits on your lap
Try to pretend to laugh
When she does stupid things
Just like I used to do
Do not hate her
Don't you even try
For to leave her is to love her
The same as you and I
I love you
And I miss you too
I really do love you
And I really do miss you too

[Nearly Sane]

Every day, I lean on a lamp post
I'm wasting my time
Every night, I lay on a pillow
I'm resting my mind
Every morning brings a new day
And every night, that day is through
But tonight I just want to stay in and be with you, ooh
And be with you

[Nearly Sane]

I'm leaning on a lamp, maybe you think, I look a tramp
Or you may think I'm hanging 'round to steal a motor-car
But no I'm not a crook
And if you think, that's what I look
I'll tell you why I'm here
And what my motives are

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by
Oh me, oh my, I hope the little lady comes by

[Nearly Sane]

Well I read about your bargain basement
At the corner of the street
And about the strangers fawning
At the sidewalk and your feet
While running, try to meet me
At the edge of the dawn
Where you saw the sun come rollin
Across the meadow lawn
You saw the sun come rollin
Across the meadow lawn
You were runnin
Tried to meet me
At the edge of the dawn

[Aruntraveller]

Burnt with dream and taut with fear
Dawn's misty shawl upon them
Three hills apart great armies stir
Spit oath and curse as day breaks
Forming lines of horse and steel
By even yards march forward

[Nearly Sane]

I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back
And I'm talkin' to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette

And the message comin' from my eyes says, "Leave it alone"

Don't wanna hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell
And if I catch it comin' back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll do