Wallflowers

Wallflowers

Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache


Sirens ring, the shots ring out
A stranger cries, screams out loud
I had my world strapped against my back
I held my hands, never knew how to act
Chorus:
And the same black line that was drawn on you
Was drawn on me
And now it's drawn me in
6th Avenue heartache

Below me was a homeless man
Singin' songs I knew complete
On the steps alone, his guitar in hand
His fifty years, he stood where he stands

(Chorus)

Now walkin' home on those streets
The river winds move my feet
The subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams
They stood by me, just like moonbeams

(Chorus)

Looked out the window, down upon that street
And gone like a midnight was that man
But I seen his six strings laid against that wall
And all his things, they all look so small
I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star
Just like me- he just moved on

(chorus)

Wallflowers - After The Blackbird Sings



I'm finding it hard,
Just to hang onto someone
Who's hangin' onto nothin'
Only to lose what's never mine.

And I'm finding it hard
Just to keep up with something
That's hangin' on to nothin'
To keep all these chains tied and in line, in line.

Pretty Angel,
She bites the hands of the lion,
Ties it up with ribbon,
Watches as hound dogs
Bang on her drums, drums.

It's so easy for you to love nobody,
It's so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.

I seen this girl
She had her hands full of lightning,
Rolled it down to me,
Lolita smile,
With a thorn in her eyes.

Now she, she spun the world,
Up on the edge of a pearl,
A carnival's girl,
Up on a ferris wheel forever, forever.

So easy for you to love nobody,
So easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore,
Just don't try anymore.

Now she, she howled like an owl
Only to fall like a sparrow,
and lay beside the scarecrow.
But after the Blackbird sings
Is the song, the song.

It's just so,
It's just so easy for you to love nobody,
It's just so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.

Wallflowers - Angel On My Bike



She knows just what I like
The angel on my bike
She found me down on a two-ton anchor
Tangled up in a wire

She always gets it right
The angel on my bike
I could be killed if the train goes faster
Well, angel, watch my life.

I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's at prayer
It's 45 miles on that highway
Angel, double a prayer

Half asleep with my eyes on the white lines
Elvis in need of repair
I only wanted to believe
That angel it's me that you need
And there's only, only one heart on that highway
Angel, double a prayer

I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's at prayer
I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's at prayer

Now it's hard time on these wheels
These fairytales
Turn to rusted steel
And it's gettin' hard now to believe
She's seein' me

Angel, please, tell me can't you see
Angel it's only me
Angel it's only me

Well I can't take a care
Oh man I want but I can't be there
While angel's at prayer
I can't handle a care
I want, but I can't be there
While angel's at prayer

Wallflowers - Another One In The Dark



We took 'em high, we took 'em straight up the hill,
They wanted it all, we gave 'em such a fill.
In their parades, we stole every thrill
And in their games, we made every kill.

We took them hard, we took them up against the wall.
In their loss, we never let them fall
In their flames, we sailed up to the moon
In their rains, we stayed dry like a fire would.

So the bottom of my fears
Is that the girl might just disappear,
That'll be the death of me,
The day she's just a memory.

Well she turned out the lights
When she opened the whites of my eyes
Another one in the dark
Broken all apart
Just another one in the dark.

When we rolled, rolled on like a big drum,
We went to the top, just above everyone,
They wanted to win, tie us up with a string, and steal everything.
We took 'em skin on skin, we laid 'em down in the ring.

So I swear, we're a pair,
Like loneliness and a prayer,
You know I might believe,
You may still need me.

Well, she turned out the lights
When she opened the whites of my eyes
Another one in the dark
Broken from the start
Just another one in the dark.

In their nights, we made out with a loud scream,
but in their sleep, we howled inside every dream.
So if you're trying to break me,
come on why don't you shake me,
right out of my tree,
the one that you made me, me

Well, she sang out of tune,
When she shot down the moon,
As I saw my all freeze,
Down at my knees,

Where I was hit at the hip,
Between the cup and the lip,
As I was struck down under
With lightning and thunder,

As she cut all the strings
That I'd tied to her wings
Leaving me in the dark,
We stood just feet apart,
But she never seen me at all.

Wallflowers - Ashes To Ashes



Well, you could walk like a stranger head back into here,
Bringing gifts while you act so sincere,
Bringing gifts for a boy who's five years,
Looking for rocks and training wheels.

I don't remember you from any of those books,
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box.
Where'd ya ever learn to treat me like that?

You don't seem to have any of that family stuff,
You know the hardwood floors and all that penniless rough.

Your bad luck follows you like a heart attack,
Twist your fingers, soon as break your back.


I don't remember you from any of those books,
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box.
Where'd ya ever learn to treat me like that, that, that?

It's coming from another with a mother who's just like yours,
Bringin' you headaches and all those mental sores.
Take a little, have some, need some for yourself,
Like the needy and the greedy always seem by themselves,
Well, you must be, have to be one of these,
Hidin' under / on the shade of your family tree

Didn't I meet you once in a liquor store?
I think I saw you hangin' by the stage door
Handing out programs to the family theaters / feeders
Devised a role/Too proud to run
so you don't mistreat her.

Take it wild, take it fast,
You never gave yourself a chance.

Well I don't remember you from any of those books,
Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box.
Where'd you ever learn to treat me like that, that, that, that?

Wallflowers - Asleep At The Wheel


Do you ever stop, do you count all the invitations,
At the end of the day when it comes down to one decision,
Deadbeat girls and freaks out of people's convention,
All these sugars with a no vitamin sensation.

Do you ever stop, do you look over old relations,
Look to the belly of another one's emotions,
Someone young in the winds of a revolution,
Tryin' to save his face in the evolution.

Asleep at the wheel,
No windshield,
But you know that the streets here don't change.
He's kept alive in the chain of a mental starvation,
Bone rail skinny only feeding off frustration,
Unlike you who seem bred from corruption,
Feeding off the plates of an un-united nation.

Asleep at the wheel,
No windshield,
But you know that the streets here don't change.
With the lover in the streets who's waiting to make a connection
To be the mother to the soul of your next abortion
She'll steal your money with the eyes of a baby's complexion,
Then she'll laugh at you and your sexual invention.

Smelling like a rose in the flowers of devotion,
Devoted to the heat of a spotlight in motion.
With a face full of mud even though you were only jokin',
As if you really understood the value of isolation.

Asleep at the wheel,
No windshield,
But you know that the streets here don't change.

Your so fast like a freight train comin' a rollin'
Every smile you give's just to keep your mouth from closin'
Every engine burns as a silently / sign of the explosion,
Locked in neutral, your engines are broken.

Like candle wax that sun melts into the ocean,
Like the moon that lights the tracks of the old train station,
You can color in the lines of a mother earth's addictions,
And not hold a gun in the face of the earth's abduction.

Asleep at the wheel,
No windshield,
But you know that the streets here don't change.

Wallflowers - Babybird



Come back babybird
With your dirty wings in tatters
Come home where you belong
Nobody knows you better
Now bring back your velvet heart
And we'll make you brand new feathers
Sleep through the morning light
With your arms around your brother

Babybird
come back home
Babybird
you were never really on your own

Now outside faces cry
With the tears of lonesome orphans
And behind every mask
is the face of another
Wherever you have been
wherever you took cover
No arms that pulled you in
could hold you like your mother

Babybird
come back home
Babybird
you were never really on your own

When all my colors fade
And my wings, they've turned to leather
I'll know the reasons why
God let me get older
When all my days are through
And I fly these hills no longer
I'll lay beneath the stars
And I'll watch you flying over

Babybird
come back home
Babybird
you were never really on your own

Babybird
come back home
Babybird
you will never be all alone

Wallflowers - Be Your Own Girl


I know you're tired of wakin' up on the floor
Pushed to the edge with nothin' heavy to hold
Usin' your clothes as a blanket and a bed
Holdin' your hands just to lay your head.
I know you don't remember ever fallin' down
Who picked you up, who gathered around

But you don't have to be his girl,
and you don't have to be my girl,
you can always be your own girl.

With the sound of your feet you follow yourself to sleep
Restless and ageless and lookin' for something to keep
When you finally fall asleep you're awake in dreams
Hangin' by the ankles in the skeleton ravine.

I know you can't relax / your candle wax / you kicked the lights
fell on your shoes
Punched out the colors, leaving you the blues

But you don't have to be his girl,
you don't have to be my girl,
you can always be your own girl.

There's a soft melody that's ringin' in your ears
Simple and slow and always brings you here.
With broken crayons you've scribbled on the wall
Shapes of nothing and shadow boxed them all.

Your fingertips are broke, and your knees don't bend
Your imagination took the worst hit and cut its skin

But you don't have to be his girl,
and you don't have to be my girl,
you can always be your own girl.

There's a soft melody that's ringin' in my ears
It's the same one you could never avoid in yours
And if you lay down you can hear from to tails
About a tattooed rhythm and drummin' by color wheel.

Your rung is broken on the bottom of the rope
And you can't tie another, another knot of hope

And you don't have to be his girl,
And you don't have to be my girl,
You can always be your own girl.

Wallflowers - Birdcage


So sad that you took it so badly
And acted so madly
So scared
like a baby by the morning
with sunlight unfolding
Your eyes have turned red
And are holding me
inside your story
In the end
you'll have started on a new one
Of anguish and delusions

He smiles
just like a magician
Who's just cast his illusions
of castles and sandstones
on the backbeach
And bright lights
within your reach
The sounds
of a
by the morning
of hound dogs coming for me
With the ropes leading back to your knees
And you looking straight at me

On your knees in the rain
with a basket of flowers
just for me
As the bells in the trees up above
all swung and rang softly
You said you rang them for me
For me