MonaVox
Rock n' Roll Doggie
[color=royal blue]This is still a work in progress, but I haven't posted something new here in a while and thought it was about darn time
St. Mary?s
I do my best work when I should be doing something else
?Cause I can never help my hands or heart, I can?t help anything.
In St. Mary?s we passed the time as jagged blades on clean-cut lawns.
In St. Mary?s you are who you are because of what you have been.
Just when you get used to the background you wake up to a whole different scene.
I never wanted to be your impossibility.
And there?s no one on the line to meet
?cause I bought off all my enemies.
Rosa will be up in the city next week to bring the ring back to you.
I don?t trust the rate change, I forgot the time changed, I forgot our minds changed.
I don?t write to convince anymore when we both want more than what can be had on paper.
I hope everybody?s happy now, the nerves are rooted in a natural fire to be saved.
I don?t want to be just something that happened to you, just a footstep in the grand parade.
So I string my shadow along six times over
It?s over your head, it?s over my shoulder.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been.
This is the blood of me, this is all they?ll find: my fingerprints on your face
And the reasons thrown out like the excuses they?ve been
But don?t you go be good, don?t you go be clean; just borrow an exit wound
To leak the TV anthems and pretty heroes out your side, and I?ll listen.
I?ll listen to you this time, I?ll be different.
Yeah I always walked that line and knew it
But not before I redrew it.
I always got too involved, asking could I be touched, could I be loved
Like the atomic bomb loved Japan, like I think I can?
In St. Mary?s I don?t know why I come when
I only plan to stay in the Mess.
I only plan to stay and push up against your weight.
In St. Mary?s you could meet me halfway.
In St. Mary?s you gotta think of something to say before tomorrow becomes today.
I?m sure this care makes God awful sounds
But I don?t care, I?ve got the radio on now.
I?m waiting for a sign in a song to tell
Tell me where to put myself.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been for you.
Somewhere the daylight is a set of wheels all in line
In another place, in another time
It would have been fine, I would have been alright.
Love where the day goes past the blind eye
And our roads touching only once make the desire cloud time
I don?t want to be taken, but I don?t want to be left behind.
Come back and I won?t let you leave tonight
If you?ll set your shape and hands so close to mine.
In St. Mary?s if I?m reborn so, you?ll surely die.
I counted my blessings just like beats
They don?t add up but they sound good to me.
The best part?s finding the words that could make the difference
The worst part?s knowing that no one will listen.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been.
I look at all the days you?ve lived and wonder if the summer ones are still for me long after you cooled it
I look at all the years I?ve lived for you this time won?t be the first time and wonder if you knew it
I wonder if you knew it
I wonder if you knew this
It only mean the world to me
But I left my world in St. Mary?s.
I crossed every line I could that day
But you always met me half way.
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St. Mary?s
I do my best work when I should be doing something else
?Cause I can never help my hands or heart, I can?t help anything.
In St. Mary?s we passed the time as jagged blades on clean-cut lawns.
In St. Mary?s you are who you are because of what you have been.
Just when you get used to the background you wake up to a whole different scene.
I never wanted to be your impossibility.
And there?s no one on the line to meet
?cause I bought off all my enemies.
Rosa will be up in the city next week to bring the ring back to you.
I don?t trust the rate change, I forgot the time changed, I forgot our minds changed.
I don?t write to convince anymore when we both want more than what can be had on paper.
I hope everybody?s happy now, the nerves are rooted in a natural fire to be saved.
I don?t want to be just something that happened to you, just a footstep in the grand parade.
So I string my shadow along six times over
It?s over your head, it?s over my shoulder.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been.
This is the blood of me, this is all they?ll find: my fingerprints on your face
And the reasons thrown out like the excuses they?ve been
But don?t you go be good, don?t you go be clean; just borrow an exit wound
To leak the TV anthems and pretty heroes out your side, and I?ll listen.
I?ll listen to you this time, I?ll be different.
Yeah I always walked that line and knew it
But not before I redrew it.
I always got too involved, asking could I be touched, could I be loved
Like the atomic bomb loved Japan, like I think I can?
In St. Mary?s I don?t know why I come when
I only plan to stay in the Mess.
I only plan to stay and push up against your weight.
In St. Mary?s you could meet me halfway.
In St. Mary?s you gotta think of something to say before tomorrow becomes today.
I?m sure this care makes God awful sounds
But I don?t care, I?ve got the radio on now.
I?m waiting for a sign in a song to tell
Tell me where to put myself.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been for you.
Somewhere the daylight is a set of wheels all in line
In another place, in another time
It would have been fine, I would have been alright.
Love where the day goes past the blind eye
And our roads touching only once make the desire cloud time
I don?t want to be taken, but I don?t want to be left behind.
Come back and I won?t let you leave tonight
If you?ll set your shape and hands so close to mine.
In St. Mary?s if I?m reborn so, you?ll surely die.
I counted my blessings just like beats
They don?t add up but they sound good to me.
The best part?s finding the words that could make the difference
The worst part?s knowing that no one will listen.
I can?t tell you what I?ve done
Only what I wish I?d become.
I can?t tell you what I?ve seen
Only who I wish I could have been.
I look at all the days you?ve lived and wonder if the summer ones are still for me long after you cooled it
I look at all the years I?ve lived for you this time won?t be the first time and wonder if you knew it
I wonder if you knew it
I wonder if you knew this
It only mean the world to me
But I left my world in St. Mary?s.
I crossed every line I could that day
But you always met me half way.
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