Spoon Album

Here come the man from the stars
we don't know why he go so far
and keep on marching along
beating his drum

Thugs and stick and bats and balls
for nuclear dicks with dialect drawls
they come from a parking lot town
where nothing lives in the sun

Don't make me a target (2x)

When you reach back in his mind
feels like he's breaking the law
There's something back there he got
that nobody knows

He never claimed to say what he says
He smells like the inside of closets and stairs-
The kind where nobody goes

Don't make me a target...

If you were here
Would you calm me down or settle the score
The feelings I fight burn so bright
I'm a stranger in town
But if you were here would you ease my mind?
The sleep fled from my eyes
And I know that I need some
Oh would you calm be down
When the breath gets shallow and fast
We put on the clinic
if you were here would you calm me down or settle the score
It felt good to me
Can’t you see I’m losing it
Must I set up the scene
Put on a clinic but I need you right
Would you ease my mind?
The ghost of you lingers
Put on a clinic till we hit the Wall
it lingers
Just like a sailor with his wounds being salted
I had a nightmare nothing could be put back together
Would you settle the score
If you were here would you calm me down
The ghost of you lingers
It lingers and I sleep a bit

Life can be so fair
Let it go on and on
I can push for good
You got that cherry bomb
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
We lost it long ago
You and me

Now you know your way back from the spirit far
Brush your teeth for bed
Blow out that cherry bomb
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
You got to know it's on your sleeve
Know it's on your sleeve
Know it's on your sleeve

It was the longest day that I had ever known
I watched you start that drive alone
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
It's gonna burn right up your sleeve
Burn right up your sleeve

So there you go again
Out in your dressing gown
Get yourself to bed
Blow out that cherry bomb

Oh, life could be so fair
Let it go on and on
I could pay to have all your cherry bomb
Oh, life could be so fair
Let it go on and on
I could pay to have all your cherry bomb

Bet you got it all planned right
Bet you never worry
never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned right
Never think to worry
never even feel a fright.

Single sleeps alone
and I know you don't really mind
Five years by your side
so I know you really don't mind

But don't you never be down
I said don't ever
'Cause it's gonna keep 'em hanging around

Never be down
I said don't ever
Because it's gonna keep 'em hanging around

Don't you never think it's right
Bet you think you had to but it doesn't feel right
Bet you never think it feels right
Famous-sounding words make your head feel light

Petals getting picked
with the love-yous
and the love-you-nots

Five years going by
Everyone is staying on their side

But don't you never be down
I said don't ever
Because you're gonna keep 'em hanging around

Never be down
I said don't ever
Because it's gonna keep 'em hanging around.

But don't you never be down
I said don't ever
Because it's gonna keep 'em hanging around

Five years going by
Everyone is staying on their side

Never be down
I said don't ever
cause it's gonna keep 'em hanging around

Five years going by
everyone is staying on their side

I said don't ever need to worry
cause it's gonna feel all right

Never

Come loosen up, so hung up
Come count them ways to forever
Remember the winter gets cold in ways you always forget

Oh, you know... The rhythm and soul
Get your hands out your back pockets, boy let it go

Here comes the man you saw in Kazzan,
He just picks in his coat... Oh no
The rhythm and soul.

Dollars and cents and no accident
Not in the name of democracy.
Come get there, come be there
Come let your socks fall down to your shoes

Oh, you know... The rhythm and soul
Get your ankles moving their sockets
Oh there you go

And here comes the man
He bought a gift from Kazzan
He can't leave it alone... Oh no
The rhythm and soul

When you take a picture and it falls in the lot... Oh no, no
Take another picture and you spring in the trap... Oh no, no
You miss home

You can't back this at your ride
Change of tide
And you're wise, you're wise
Rhythm and...

Tracked houses, square couches,
Short legs and square shoulders,
Pot holders, aching soldiers,
Your tank rollers, your all-overs

And you know, oh the rhythm and soul
Get your fingers moving their sockets
Tune in Tokyo.

You're just the man
The one I saw in Kazzan
Wonder what this book will throw... Oh no
The rhythm and...

Someone that I met but I hardly knew
He said that everyone loves a defective heart
He'd parted ways with diction, this was late last night
He see me getting your affection and it proved he was right
The way I stared off thinking that all was sound

Anyone that I knew they would've called me found

You can break my legs, you can kick me downstairs
But there ain't no getting over Joanie Hale-Maier
Just let me walk away
Ah, let me walk away

And then the place ignite
It's in my face and I'm
Behind the bassline

Someone that I knew but I hardly met
Told me, it's hopeless I'm a slut for the New York Times
She made my heart soft, worn an aiguillette on her arm
She never been to Texas, never heard of King Kong
And it'd been so long since I'd been suitably high

So we did an Airborne, settled in for the night

Tell me sweetness don't somehow reach your heart
Until you fall flat down and you can't wait to start
This is the one cold truth we've all of us known
As I think to myself this could be easy or I could face it alone

And then the place ignite
All out of grace and I'm
Behind the bassline

Picture yourself in the living room
your pipe and slippers set out for you
I know you think that it ain't too far

But I hear the call of a lifetime ring
felt the need to get up for it
oh you cut out the middleman
get free from the middleman

You got no time for the messenger,
got no regard for the thing that you don't understand,
you got no fear of the underdog,
that's why you will not survive!

I want to forget how conviction fits
but can I get out from under it?
Can I gut it out of me?
It can't all be wedding cake
It can't all be boiled away
I try but I can't let go of it
Can't let go of it,

Cause you don't talk to the water boy
and there's so much you could learn but you don't want to know,
You will not back up an inch ever,
that's why you will not survive,

The thing that I tell you now
It may not go over well
And it may not be photo-op
in the way that I spell it out

But you won't hear from the messenger,
don't wanna know bout something that you don't understand,
You got no fear of the underdog,
that's why you will not survive! (Hey!)

It's just my Japanese cigarette case,
bring a mirror to my face
let all my memories be gone

Bring me my Japanese cigarette case,
bring a mirror to my face,
oh, let all my memories be gone

Memphis comes creeping down my back
Somehow this place tastes just like an attack
A hundred-yard-stare of a kiss
Lord, I know I'll never miss it

They told me start scouting the field
They told me how to look in Commercial Appeal
And start getting that hair cut sharp

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

I was part-time at the Tasty Prawn
That and moving furniture and cutting lawns
Covered in newsprint, staying up real late
Just holding out for some fate

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

I was dreaming in the driver's seat
When the right words just came to me
And all my finer feelings came up
Always out on some witch's hunt
For the one who never lets me want
Before you know it it's all fuss

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

Sometimes I think that I'll find a love
One that's gonna change my heart
I'll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache'll get chased away

I believe there's someone takin' care of me tonight
As I walk into Dorian's, can you see it in my eyes?
My boots are on the mend, and they ain't walking home

Street tar in summer, do a job on your soul
Street tar in summer, do a job on your soul (Ooo)

Jenny's watching cover shy, my head's feeling light
I believe there's someone to takin' care of me tonight
Anyhow, anyway, so I split
Just getting out of love's gonna get me out of this?

I spent the night in the map room
I humanized the vacuum

I believe there's someone takin' care of me tonight
As I'm lookin' out at you, can you see that in...
In my eyes, on the mend, nothing could lead me home
Street tar in summer will play a trick on your soul

Junie's gone day and night
It made me feel so light
Just soft-lit candlelight

Junie's watching daylight
All there is to feel a light
Someone to take care of the light

All the weird kids up front, tell me what you know you want
Someone to take care tonight