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The Question Is No
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Dear Mr. Oswald/
Run No More/
My Letters/
What's It Like/
Really/
Impatience/
Everything I Don't Need/
Above the Sunrise/
Lose/
It Came To Me In a Dream/
3 Boxs/
I Never Knew/
Someone Else's Room/
Don't Eat That It's Poison/
Breakup Theme
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Dear Mr. Oswald (0:17)
Don't Know, or care.
Run No More (1:59)
I waved riding down the road
I drove away from there with everything I own there by me
It seems to me there is a way to walk away from yesterday I wonder
. . . And if I ever find the way to go you know I'm gone to stay
I'll run no more
Run no more again
I'm out hitch-hiking down the road
They stopped and took away everything I had to let me be
They told me life always goes on
They didn't tell me why the meaning of my life I'd never see
My Letters (3:03)
Just yesterday I saw my own death in a dream
Life's never quite as bad or good as it may seem
I don't want anyone pretending that they care
I don't remember seeing any of you there
Something I've tried writing down
First in pencil then in pen
Something I've cried hard about
But you don't understand me then
Somehow I can't write it out
With a pencil or a pen
Read my letters
Leave my answers alone
Sometimes I try to write out good things that I see
The way they sound there's no way you'd believe it's me
I'm always never very understood so well
But when I'm hiding something everyone can tell
I dread these days when nothing I can do is fun
I count my choices up and there's exactly none
What's It Like (1:51)
Do you ever wonder what it's like?
Do you ever want to try it out?
Can you live again if you change your mind?
What's it like?
Have you ever seen a young man dead?
Do you ever wonder how he feels?
Does it make you sad or unsure?
What's it like?
Do you ever think what it's like to be dead?
Do you wish you could see for yourself?
Look down at yourself again and see
Something that you like uncovering
Really (0:53)
You'll always say how well you're doing
And I don't really want to know
You'll let me in on where the action is
But I don't ever want to go
Really . . .
I already heard it all without you
Know enough about you, that I do!
Really
Really
Really
How many times can you say the same thing twice
So that I never understand
What it might have been the first time around
That I would want to hear again
Impatience (3:23)
Stop and look at where you've been
Do you want to go again?
Cause I know that you're nowhere
And I'll never go back there
You've got impatience what you need
To keep you from wherever we last saw
You scratching at the door
And you're still walking down the street
The same way you
Were walking down the same street yesterday
Now I'm no more use to you
All you ever want is more
I have no idea what I'm apologizing for
Everything I Don't Need (2:40)
(Alternate version included on CD of Very, Very Powerful Motor)
If you know that I'm not lying
You know how hard I'm trying
To live again as I lived back then never ending
But you won't know what I'm thinking as my happiness start sinking
I can't tell you and you'll never know I'm never ending
And you're everything that I don't need and you're everywhere I go
You don't know what you mean to me and I'll never let you know
And you won't know what I'm thinking as my happiness starts sinking
I can't tell you and you'll never know I'm never ending
I'll never say you'll never believe me
But you'll never leave me
Because you won't need me
I'll never say that I'll never tell you
The hell that I've been through
The words that I meant to say to you
Above the Sunrise (3:23)
If I never wake up tomorrow
Tell all my friends I'll still need them tomorrow
I'm sure of things that couldn't have happened
Patience can't help when you've got nothing to wait for
Above the sunrise
Looking back into
You on the shoreline thinking
Way back to
When I seem happy
I think I was sometimes
I knew more good than what I ever let on to
Above the sunrise
Looking back into
You on the shoreline
Thinking way back to the day they had their way
And brought me out to leave me there
Above the sunrise
I never had the chance to say good-bye
Above the sunrise
I almost ran away
I should have left that day
Above the sunrise
I can't go back again
I didn't know it then
Above the sunrise
I lie awake with life right beside me
I wonder when my dreams will invite me
If I don't ever wake up tomorrow
I didn't want to go they never asked me
Lose (3:08)
I came up with something new
I sat and wondered
I knew what you would say
I wanted to talk about it all yesterday
Somehow I knew you'd say
"You're afraid to lose
Lose then shut out the answer
You might find out what would happen to you
Too afraid to lose
Decision situation
What if something good might happen to you?
I got up and stumbled around here
Your money's all gone
Was here but gone today
I turned back the clocks in my room
I need time
I need something to say
It Came To Me In a Dream (1:54)
Dreams don't last when you want them to
Especially the ones you hope will come true
I saw the future wasn't what I had expected at all
It came to me in a dream
I wasn't ready for a second of what I saw
It came to me in a dream
Things can work so good in your dreams
I'd like to know what some of it means
Try to believe in what you're receiving
Work it into what you're doing today
Or stand at a distance
Fight with resistance
Say it’s not part of your life in any way
3 Boxs (5:08)
Three boxes on my shelf
I know what's in them all
They're right there on my wall
Three boxes packed with care
What I put inside is supposed to stay in there
And there's these boxes on my shelf, three
One of them you'll never get to see
One is white and one is grey
The black one's put away
The one you'll never see
Sometimes when I'm alone
I'll look inside to see what all I've put in there, there
And in these boxes that I have
I put inside all that I want to keep but not to share
I leave them home you'll never see me take them anywhere
They're not for everyone to see
You can look at all these things
But you can't take them out
Once they're there they'll stay
I try hard to keep things out
Out of the box that's black
Once something's put in there
You'll never get it back
I Never Knew (2:43)
I never knew
What you we're going through
If I only knew
What I know now
Seems to me lately
That I never found
Yesterday morning
Lying around
Watching TV
Turn up the sound turn it up louder, I'm not around
I'll be away all on my own
Radio blasting
There's no one home
I never knew
And I thought I really did
Guess now I heard if it's not true
You didn't tell me
I wasn't supposed to know
Two different places
No where to go
Someone Else's Room (2:31)
I'm sitting here in someone else's room
I feel peaceful here inside this room
I’m in the room of a friend of a very close friend
I'm planning my future without an end
Soon I'll get up and go for a ride
Drive for a while and go outside
Walk for a while, forget what I tried
Go all the way home to my very own room
Shut the door tight, I’ll turn off the light
Think about the things that I see
It's hard to forget the things that I see
What can I do in places that I've been
Try not to let it happen again
I'm sitting here in someone else's room
I feel comfortable here inside this room
Sometimes you think, but just cannot say
Logic and fear will get in the way
Sometimes you think that you're ready to spill
Sometimes you wonder if you ever will
Don't Eat That It's Poison (3:00)
I was looking on my shelf
To find a cure for myself
Ooh
Found a bottle big and brown
Had a label in the crown
Ooh
And it says, "don't eat that it's poison."
And you're sorry if you do
What's insides formaldehyde and you ain't gonna live
Found a bottle on the floor
Cleaning toilets what it's for
Drank it all just because
Then I asked my mom what it was
And she says, "don't eat that it's poison"
And you're sorry if you do
Thought I'd know how to save your life I just thank God I could
Found some rat poison in a shoe
There was slug death in there, too!
Had that with a can of paint
Doctor said it was too late
And he says, "don't eat that it's poison"
And it's too late cause you did
He’s had too much poison and its gone right to his head
Breakup Theme (4:08)
(instrumental)
