The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart lyrics
- The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere
- One Headlight
- Letters From The Wasteland
- How Good Can It Get
- Here He Comes (Confessions Of A Drunken Marionette)
- 6th Avenue Heartache
- Closer To You
- God Says Nothing Back
The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere
Tomorrow is gonna make you cry
It's gonna make you kneel
Before it breaks you from inside
Still pressing on
Arm over arm
Still trying to get both feet back on to the ground
They are harvesting these fields in autumn
We're different now than when we started
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere, baby
There on the pavement, underneath the yellow moon
I think of you and just how easily we bruise
A folded address in my pocket, I have stopped
Trying to believe for you that the bottom didn't drop
I am on the platform, covered with dust
I pray they take the both of us, and
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere, baby
And I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
Somewhere, someday
I am lighting matches for the rescue
Some are candles, some are fuses
Acting on my best behavior
Switching over every breaker
As we're plowing through these laws of nature
Disregarding every acre
I'm lying in my Sunday best
Assuming this was not a test, and
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere, baby
And I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
Somewhere, someday
Beautiful side of somewhere.
One Headlight
So long ago, I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
Well, they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees
I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
With the long broken arm of human law
Now, it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
I wondered why she hung around this place
(CHORUS)
Hey...
Come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me and Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight
She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin' all is good and nothingness is dead
We'll run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothin' left
She hit the end, it's just her window ledge
(CHORUS)
Well, this place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
Well, it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
I think your death, it must be killin' me...
Hey, hey, hey
Come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
But me and Cinderella
We put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight
Letters From The Wasteland
Now coming down
Out of this swan dive,
To your arms.
I make no sounds
When I move through your reservoir.
But I wake up quick.
And I wake up sick.
As you...
Abandon me
Into these fields
Of rank and file.
Through this crowd I hear you breathing.
Through these bars I watch them bring more in.
Now I send back letters,
From the wasteland home.
Where I slow dance to this romance on my own.
It may be two to tango,
But boy,
It's one to let go.
Well, it's just one to let go.
Now boy keep still.
Now don't spread yourself around.
Get back in line,
Eat your bread and just work the plow.
'Cause you're not through.
They're not done with you.
Did you think you were
the only one that's been let down?
So sleep tight
little boys of the new damned:
Another drop in the tidal wave of quicksand.
Now I send back letters,
from the wasteland home.
Where I slowdance to this romance on my own.
It may take two to tango,
But boy,
It's one to let go.
Now another bad idea gets through,
Down the assembly line to you!
You're every bridge I should have burned!
Every lesson I've unlearned!
Now in this smokefilled waiting room
With incarcerated love sick fools
I will wait for you to cut me loose.
But 'till then I'll
Send back letters from wasteland home,
Where I slowdance to this romance on my own.
Now I send back letters
From the wasteland home,
From where I slowdance
To this romance on my own.
How Good Can It Get
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Here He Comes (Confessions Of A Drunken Marionette)
Here comes your drunken marionette
Dragging his mess of threads
There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs
He says who will ignore me when you're gone?
Now come on lift me up
I wanna dance by your tin cup
Tower of beauty with a split in your tongue
Who will ignore me when you're gone?
He says who will ignore me when you're gone?
Here he cooooooomes
Here he cooooooomes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
With the drunken marionette
Been mainlining bad thoughts
Been drinking things I wish I'd not
Intoxicated with sad songs
Who will forgive you when I'm gone?
They sing auld lang syne
I've got mutiny on my mind
A guilty conscience means at least you've got one
Who will forgive you when I'm gone?
He says who will forgive you when I'm gone?
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
Who wouldn't ever part
Waiting on a spark
That hasn't happened yet
For the drunken marionette
Carry on
Turn the lights on when you go
In the hours left
I hope you feel the things that i know I won't
What you give is what you get
I get so worried bout your debts
Who carries evil out evil will come
Who will defend you when I'm gone?
He says who will defend you when I'm gone?
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
Wouldn't ever part
Waiting on a spark
That hasn't happened yet
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
Waiting on a spark
That hasn't happened yet
6th Avenue Heartache
Sirens ring, 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
Singing songs I knew complete
On the steps alone, his guitar in hand
His fifty years, stood where he stands
Chorus (x2)
Walking home on those streets
The river winds move my feet
Subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams
They stood by me, just like moonbeams
Chorus (x2)
Bridge
Look out the window, down upon that street
And gone like midnight was that man
But I see his six strings laying 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 (x2)
Now it's drawn me in
Chorus
Closer To You
How soft a whisper can get
When you're walking through a crowded space
I hear every word being said
And I remember that everyday
I get a little bit closer to you
How long an hour can take
When you're staring into open space
When I feel I'm slipping further away
I remember that everyday
I get a little bit closer to you
These are the days
That I won't get back
I won't hear you cry
Or hear you laugh
And when it's quite
And I don't hear a thing
I can always hear you breathe
You know there's nowhere else
I've wanted to be
Than be there when you need me
I'm sorry too
But don't give up on me
And just remember that when you were asleep
I got a little bit closer to you
God Says Nothing Back
Seems like the world's gone underground
No gods or heroes dare to go down
Teardrops from a hole in heaven come
Overhead like ravens dropping down like bombs
Through the mornings silver frosted glow
God says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
God bless the void of my daydreams
Head back in the snow making angel wings
As slow motion dancing lights at dawn
Sail beneath a burning yellow sun
I'm calling out from the deep ends of my bones
Time says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Still waters rising in my mind
Black and deep, smoke behind my eyes
Last night I could not sleep at all
I hallucinated that you were in my arms
To be in your heart I failed my own
Love says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Still here reclimbing every rung
Someone saw something
Now Someone speak up
Back over the rotted bridge I cross
Open up these graves, let these bodies talk
Burried under leaves blood red and gold
Death says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so