Dr. Dog Album

20 years of schooling
I just never learned the math
That one and one don't equal two
They often equal half

I have tried to live the high life
The best that I know how
And bought my share of debonair
And parlayed it on the crowd

I do believe that there are no more tricks up my sleeve
The good old days have passed and the good times after that
And slowly I've become undone
A stranger with a stranger heart

Well I plan to hit the bottom
The bottle then the top
And I pray that something quits me
Before I gotta stop

Cause the masquerade is over
But I was barely there
The mask come off the gilded cloth
Yet I'm just barely here

I do believe that there are no more tricks up my sleeve
The good old days have passed and the good times after that
And slowly I've become undone
A stranger with a stranger heart

The rain is falling, it's after dark
The streets are swimming with the sharks
It's the right night for the wrong company
And there ain't nothing 'round here to look at
Move along, move along

The neon lights on Baltimore
Every shadow's getting famous
In some backyard, in some plastic chair
Hoping these cigarettes will save us
Here we go again, here we go again

You got rings in your ears
And you got kicked around and made up
Looking high, looking low
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where did all the shadow people go?
I wanna know, where the shadow people go

I stole a bike from the Second Mile
Saw a band play in the basement
I crossed the path of a friend of mine
And I know what that look upon her face meant
Something's gone from her eye
Something's gone wrong

You could be a woman or you could be a man
Wear the glove on the other hand
Or you could be twisted or you could be insane
Pushing the envelope against the grain
Just playing along, just playing along

And I got something on my mind
And I got voices on the other line.
Saying hi, saying hello
Where did all the shadow people go?
Where did all the shadow people go?
I wanna know where the shadow people go.
Where the shadow people go (Where did all the shadow people go?)
Where the shadow people go (Where did all the shadow people go?)

Was it in a dream? I wouldn't know
I was in the lowlands where all the old folks go
I wasn't here, I wasn't home
I was picking static up on a broken radio

Just leave me at the station and you can rest assured
That I'll be back sometime this time next year

I'll pack my bags, you get the door
Here's a stack of tokens for my friends on Baltimore
That look on your face, I've seen it before
I'll be gone, a long time, but I could be gone for good

Just leave me at the station and you can rest assured
That I'll be back sometime this time next year

I need someone
I need something
I need to go back home

I'm doing time, I'm guilty
Rise in the morning, oh sleepy

The clouds in sky, unknown and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware and still there's a thrill in the air
Unbearable Why

While I'm doing time I'm guilty, for now
Rise in the morning oh sleepy, dream on
The clouds in sky, alone and untied
A reason for reasons you die
The eye of the storm beware beware
And still there's a thrill in the air
Unbearable Why

While I'm doing time therefore now I'm not guilty
Sun rise up in the morning what a dream oh so sleepy
Lying in letters to someone I don't know
Like an old song in the waiting for something from the past
So long from now

Where'd all the time go?
It's starting to fly.
See how the hands go;
Waving goodbye.

And you know I get so forgetful
when I look in your eyes.

Now she's walking backwards
through a parade.
And I'm stuck in the shadow
blocking the shade.

And there ain't no way to sweep up the mess that we've made
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed

Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn to stone at hospitals and funeral homes
and when the fog rises somebody sighs who is not in disguise anymore

There's nothing to keep you
from falling in love.
It starts at the bottom
and comes from above.

Like pieces of a puzzle, like a hand in a glove
She gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed

Flowers for the sick and dead
She's on the go, way too fast and way too slow
She'll turn and stop at hospitals and funeral homes
and when the tide rises somebody sinks and is gone in the blink of an eye

I've got a job
I've got to move this paper
I guess it's all the same to you
But I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you.

It never works
You say you'll call me later
And then you never ever do.
I can't sit around and wait
Can't Sit around and wait for you.
Just another cup of coffee,
I'll sit around and wait for you.

I always knew
Yeah, I always knew
You were a liar.
I'm not a king, I'm not a cop.
I'm not here to punish you.
When I really can't see anymore of what the fuss is all about

It's not my career
To wait and do you favors
I guess it's really nothing do

When I'm running late
You call the undertaker
Because you've got so much shit to do
I can't sit around and wait
Can't sit around and wait for you.
Just one more cigarette,
I'll sit around and wait for you.

I always knew
Yeah, I always knew
You were a liar.
I'm not a king, I'm not a cop.
I'm not here to punish you.
When I really can't see anymore of what the fuss is all about

Just another cup of coffee,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
Just one more cigarette,
I'll sit around and wait for you.
I guess I really will
I'll sit around and wait for you.

I'm all bottled up
Floating in the deep blue
And you're an open book
Anyone could read you
I'm losing my voice
Barking up the wrong tree
When you can't be yourself
There's just too much to be

Let's get on with it
You have got too much time
And I don't want to stay here
Where the sun don't ever shine.

So say the word and open up the blinds

Well it came like a dream
But it went just as fast
Like a dream
Left out in the trash

She said "I know what you mean,
But I don't know who you are.
Ah, we're just two of many; fractions of a part.
Ah, we're just two of many; fractions of a part."

They said it couldn't be done,
But you went out and did it.
But it was more than you were looking for it
And there ain't no way to get it

I'm only guilty, I admit it
I'm only guilty, I...

Excuse me, Forgive me.
I only wear blue.
Excuse me. Forgive me.
I only wear blue.
Excuse me.

There's a tree
Outside my home
The sidewalks cracked
out where it's roots have grown

Someday came
and then left me alone.
I should've known back then
That I stayed too long

I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
But I don't believe I can.

If my feet
Could carve stone
They'd mark a monument
that is never wrong

I was a man
I turned to bone
I never moved and now my
My will is gone

I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
I should've known better
But I don't believe
No I don't believe
I don't believe I can

At the bottom there's a stir
And now surface is a blur
Tell the truth like it's a joke
And don't fix the part that isn't broke
I know I'm just a memory
And I know that's how it's got to be
So tell the mirror on the wall
"Mirror, mirror on the wall;
There's no reflection here at all"

Mirror, mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at all.

I'm so tired that I can't sleep
The secrets that my secrets keep
Down the stairway to the church
Blackbirds hanging in the lurch
I don't want to see my name in stone
I tied a ribbon round a bone
Took a ride in a yellow car
And bought myself an old guitar
Things ain't what they used to be
I gotta devil after me
Tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror mirror on the wall
There's no reflection here at all

Mirror mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at all
Mirror mirror on the wall there's no reflection here at all

You're looking high, you're looking low
You got something on your mind
Did someone give you bad directions?
Where you in the wrong place at the wrong time?
They found a body in the river
They found a note left in the sand
"Leave my worries to the water
And leave my body to the land"

Jackie wants a black eye
Some proof that she's been hit
And John wants the answers
But the questions just don't quit
And we're sitting in the rain
And we're feeling like the weather.
You could say that we're alone
But we're lonely together

We're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.

Jackie is jumping in the quicksand
But it isn't what you think.
She's safe because she knows
The more you fight, the more you sink
And John is following the black cloud
To keep him from the sun.
So he bends over now
Something has finally begun.

And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.

And we've been hurting so long
That our pleasure is our pain.
Are we madly in love
Or are we madly insane?
When yesterday's love defines you
And today that love is gone
Tomorrow keeps you guessing
The roller coaster is rolling on.

And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.
And we're all in it together now
As we all fall apart
And we're swapping little pieces
Of our broken little hearts.

(shame, shame)
i was a loner unloved
i really didn't need any help at all
(shame, shame)
i really thought i was fine
i was living it up just despite my self
(shame, shame)
i used to wander the streets at midnight
avoiding any signs of life

(shame, shame)
i used to suffer alone
i really did think it would make me strong
(shame, shame)
i used to write it all down
hoping someone would read it years from now
(shame, shame)
i used to act like i was in a movie
so mysterious and misunderstood

(shame, shame)
you started hanging around
i really didn't think i could live it down
(shame, shame)
i tried to play it cool
but every single part of me felt so good
(shame, shame)
you took me someplace i'd never been before
i was a foreigner in your hands

i just couldn't let it go 'til now

a letter unopened just like a knock on the door
do you think you're so special that no one knows what your for?
well you can mutter on sweet nothings like you're on the other side of town

do you fear the attachment to things that you want?
do you want to cut off things for fear of their love?
well you can roll on to the graveyard and let them take you whole
or, you can live it up and leave nothing but your bones

(shame, shame)
i don't know what to do
i was losing myself turning into you
(shame, shame)
i was really undone
the life that i lived seemed so useless now
(shame, shame)
you know you made me do it
and no i don't regret a thing

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