a pair of swans glide right along floating on through the blankets of fog nighttime brings them more blankets of snow and they know they should've been gone a long time ago the birds of the trees always know when to leave on beating wings flying south with the V I could believe that her mind was entwined with mine but I need the phoenix who won't flee from a fire oh, magnets of the planets are pulling me down the road living in the garden of eden all alone I've gotta' run on looking for my black swan and the madness she'll invent don't tell me that it's all in my head 'cuz I'm running, running, running for my life here take the wheel and drive for awhile you wanna' know how it feels to count your years by the mile? I've broken bones and I've bloodied my nose all around a smile I still feel like a child oh, magnets of the planets are pulling me down the road living in the garden of eden all alone I've gotta' run on looking for my black swan and the madness she'll invent don't tell me that it's all in my head 'cuz I'm running, running, running for my life 'cuz I'm running from 'em day and night running like I'm running out of time running as fast as I can running from something that isn't there 'cuz I'm running, running, running for my life

a polaroid of thunderclouds and some coals burnt out under sundown do you think this could be my reverie? 'cuz every story needs a time machine grandpa bought the boat ten years before my dad was born do you think you'd believe that decade a man still had a handshake? when they were alone blowing cigarette smoke through the intake manifold do you think they'd believe that cruiser would become just a rumor? sands of the past passing through the hour glass the one thing to fear in a hundred years what's behind the mirror but back to the chapter where she was manufactured did you think it would be in Manistee? by the Century company in the winter, they shut her down no she never came out that old boathouse do you think you'd believe she was orphaned? destroyed by storage but my old man yeah, he had a plan to sand and stain every grain invest himself into something else and find that he'd received a century time to be a devotee to quality not quantity to leave matter to those who have mattered to him to be a century, a legacy, a century the stars and bars on tattered cloth flapping in the wind like winged gypsy moth could it be, could it be this story brought me back to the glory? notes and scales that dovetail yeah, I've seen my century my legacy to leave matter to those who have mattered to me to be a century, a legacy, a century

does sleeping beauty know she's got a problem with the pills? those bottles of hypnotic inside her magic mirror the refilled thrills they're all the same but the faces always change she lies awake afraid of where she is safe and over and over they've told her: "you ain't no ordinary girl, forealz when you've got that little thing you can't conceal you're out of your mind, when the mood sinks in so give me love before the terror begins" poor snow white won't sleep alone saving her face, her disgrace a lover of her habits, got vials inside his coat he will exchange in handshakes it's all fake and everybody knows she'll buy a lot without wearing her clothes but over and over they've told her: "you ain't no ordinary girl, forealz when you've got that little thing you can't conceal you're out of your mind, when the mood sinks in so give me love before the terror begins" ordinary girls will belle, arielle, I fare thee well ordinary girls will carry myself through hell ordinary girls will belle, arielle, I fare thee well ordinary girls will belle, arielle, I fare thee well "you ain't no ordinary girl, forealz when you've got that little thing you can't conceal you're out of your mind, when the mood sinks in so give me love before the terror begins"

eenie, meanie, miney, moe bengal tiger white as snow a bloodshot prowler eating sunflowers down in the valley where the green grass grows I was paralyzed the eyes turned me to stone while asleep, I've dreamed strange things the unconscious mind trapped beneath the ice real or fake, no, it don't go away deep down inside I feel the night like an itch I'm feeling the itch eenie, meanie, miney, moe bengal tiger white as snow a bloodshot prowler eating sunflowers down in the valley where the green grass grows I was paralyzed the eyes turned me to stone now I can't scratch can't scratch the itch you know I can't stand can't stand the fix my poor friend, well, the night lived in his head in a crisis, he drowned himself instead with a pocketful of coins the thoughts we all avoid staring down a wishing well spinning round a carousel oxygen fleas from coins as the sink the fluttering beads of bubbles once breathed like moths in a daydream self-immolating feeling the itch eenie, meanie, miney, moe bengal tiger white as snow a bloodshot prowler eating sunflowers down in the valley where the green grass grows I was paralyzed the eyes turned me to stone now I can't scratch can't scratch the itch you know I can't stand can't stand the fix la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, eenie, meanie, miney, moe bengal tiger white as snow a bloodshot prowler eating sunflowers down in the valley where the green grass grows I was paralyzed the eyes turned me to stone now I can't scratch can't scratch the itch you know I can't stand can't stand the fix

a dream catcher a seagull feather swinging from my rearview mirror the reflection seems to measure a distance by the years she pirouettes on embers ground of west sunset cast silouhettes the slender outline of her legs and all I thought I know goes out the window I don't understand her dance a green search beam lonely circles crown the old lighthouse rehearsing a smoke screen twirl she's trying to call me out and all I thought I know goes out the window I don't understand a damned thing when alexandra dances I'm no magic man she's a mastery twirling on the beach is your myth to me the answer dancing alexandra? oh ballerina moments go fast in romance the devil's own sentiments hold hands slow dance in quicksand and pay your penitence and all I thought I know goes out the window I don't understand a damned thing when alexandra dances I'm no magic man she's a mastery twirling on the beach is your myth to me the answer dancing alexandra? oh ballerina are you gonna dance? are you gonna dance? on the quicksand on the quicksand are you gonna dance? alexandra I wanna see ya are you gonna dance? are you gonna dance? on the quicksand on the quicksand I love alexandra dancing I'm no magic man she's a mastery twirling on the beach is your myth to me the answer dancing alexandra? oh ballerina

I will be the one to think about it tomorrow you are it the big bang universal super soul are you do, do, do, do you do it as it does you eyes a light kaleidoscope amethyst abyss in your eyes my, my, oh, my tracing veins on your eyelids stay baby, be my queen of la serpentine dreaming in a dream la serpentine dreaming to believe I will be the one to think about it tomorrow sing the song of all begun love is just, and cosmic dust we sing de, de, de, de tracing veins on your eyelids stay baby, be my queen of la serpentine dreaming in a dream la serpentine dreaming to believe I will be the one to think about it tomorrow right now we're alive and there's joy to find rising higher and higher up the mountainside climbing higher and higher up the mountainside rising higher and higher know that when I die I won't be alone to face the unknown I will be the one to think about it tomorrow

scarlett, she's miss scarlett put your hands up this is a stick up all she wants is all you've got she's a gal a femme fatale lover like a loaded gun sorceress that sucks my blood her games frankly kind of scare me she may sleep but she don't rest woah lord, I buried my devils in charlotte she's miss scarlett woah lord, I married the dress of scarlet she's miss scarlett scarlett, she's miss scarlett sipping benedictine with my love make a move and somebody gets duked by lady iron of babylon a brushfire in the hayloft her games frankly kind of scare me she may sleep but she don't rest woah lord, I buried my devils in charlotte she's miss scarlett woah lord, I married the dress of scarlet she's miss scarlett scarlett, she's miss scarlett sipping benedictine with my love higher than an evergreen puff and toke lost in a daze lost in her ways now it's our ghost town 'til we all fall down and we're loving with nothing to lose she shot me in the side to see if I would die but I'm stubborn and I love her too her bullet weighs a ton that dress is stained with blood doctor, doctor can you give me the news? 'cuz it feels so fine fighting for our lives in the rhythm of hot pursuit woah lord, I buried my devils in charlotte she's miss scarlett woah lord, I married the dress of scarlet she's miss scarlett scarlett, she's miss scarlett

oh my god what are the odds? I haven't seen you in years how are you my dear? and what are you doing here? you don't look the same but your voice hasn't changed you still speak in that good old-fashioned way I swear, it's the greatest thing well me? I was just bored I was bored 'til you walked right in that door I never knew how much I'd been missing you I swear it's the truth I swear it's the truth so could it be you and me the ways we used to make believe before the night ends we could do it all again would you mind? would you mind? if I came with you tonight tonight, would you mind, tonight? would you mind? would you mind? if we paint our lies with white? tonight, would you mind, tonight? I swear it's the truth I'm afraid but not ashamed scared, but I don't care while we talk like we've never touched or have ever loved any other ones in our whole lives your eyes, so wise burning like a wildfire but the blaze has been contained whose been putting you down? and why you letting them come back around? I swear it's the truth so could it be you and me the ways we used to make believe before the night ends we could do it all again would you mind? would you mind? if I came with you tonight tonight, would you mind, tonight? would you mind? would you mind? if we paint our lies with white? tonight, would you mind, tonight? I swear it's the truth well my heart beats arhythmic since you went and stomped it in some wet cement like an empty pack of cigarettes but I've learned to forgive and forget yeah, my heart beats arhythmic since you went and stomped it in some wet cement like an empty pack of cigarettes I do suggest we're a daring pair of tens you do voodoo I'm just cuckoo guess we could or should so would you mind? would you mind? if I came with you tonight tonight, would you mind, tonight? would you mind? would you mind? if we paint our lies with white? tonight, would you mind, tonight? I swear it's the truth it was good to see you would you mind? you know not what you do so good to see you you know not what you do or do you? you know not what you do so good to see you you know not what you do was it good for you too?

you must feel wonderful stomping a puddle then peering in at your static reflection if the world were upside down would you live among thunderclouds? the games people play never change but that's okay 'cuz I'm wearing my sunglasses on a rainy day ain't gonna let a cloud in the sky decide how I ought to feel inside today some folks like to rain on my parade but I feel great wearing my sunglasses on their rainy daze we've been loving for awhile but we're running out of time are we near the end? or did we just begin? Mama's calling me back inside alright, I was getting awfully tired of being such a liar we'll meet again another time in another life 'cuz I'm wearing my sunglasses on a rainy day ain't gonna let a cloud in the sky decide how I ought to feel inside today some folks like to rain on my parade but I feel great wearing my sunglasses on their rainy daze rain, rain, came today I think it may be here to stay rain, rain, rain away we'd love to stay outside and play rain, rain, you're okay it's just your way you rainy day rain, rain, rain away I think we'll stay outside and play 'cuz I'm wearing my sunglasses on a rainy day ain't gonna let a cloud in the sky decide how I ought to feel inside today some folks like to rain on my parade but I feel great wearing my sunglasses on their rainy daze