What Makes A Good Man?

Tell me now (tell me now)

'n' show me how (show me how)

To understand (understand)

What makes a good man?

Tell me now (tell me now)

Hey walk the line (walk the line)

Hey understand (understand)

What makes a good man?

Ain't nothin' wrong with this chemistry

Ain't nothin' wrong with this blasphemy

And time tell that there's the pedigree

Experience is another one meant for me

To tell me now (tell me now)

'n' show me how (show me how)

To understand (understand)

What makes a good man?

To tell me now (tell me now)

Hey walk the line (walk the line)

Hey understand (understand)

What makes a good man

From me?

Now I entitle swim for blood and birth

I entitle swim for what it's worth

Cause lines get drawn 'n' lines get kicked 'n' blurred

Indelible is what I need to spread the word

'n' tell me now (tell me now)

'n' show me how (show me how)

To understand (understand)

What makes a good man?

To tell me now (tell me now)

Hey walk the line (walk the line)

Hey understand (understand)

What makes a good man

From me?

Tell me now (tell me now)

'n' show me how (show me how)

To understand (understand)

What makes a good man?

To tell me now (tell me now)

Hey walk the line (walk the line)

Hey understand (understand)

What makes a good man

From me?

From me

What makes a good man

From me?

What makes a good man

From me?

The Heavy

The Search and Little Else

grew up in a maze where I was afraid of the moon

and in the haze of youth I went along to look for you

and it was miles and miles

miles and miles of twist and curve





 

and it was days and days

days and days with no stone left unturned

and in my younger years I thought I had for myself

an answer for everything at ready given me to help

and in the wilderness I often ran like hell

never to let give in I'm for the search and little else

Rue Royale

Sonnet

My friend and me

Looking through her red box of memories

Faded I'm sure

But love seems to stick in her veins you know

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

My lord

Why can't you see

That nature has its way of warning me

Eyes open wide

Looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

My lord

Sinking fast within a boat without a hull

My lord

Dreaming about the day when I can see you there

My side

By my side

Here we go again and my head is gone, my lord

I stop to say hello

'Cause I think you should know by now

By now

By now

By now

By now

By now

Oh, by now

The Verve

Marathon

Coconut Grove 

Is a very small cove 

separated from the sea 

by a shifting shoal 

we didn't realize that 

we had arrived 

at high tide, high tide 

barely made it out alive 

red over white 

fishermen working at night 

not even once 

did we see a light 

we didn't realize 

the forecast had been revised 

by moonless skies and

shifty wind that gusts and dies

on the sand our keel is heaving 

but tonight we've got to be leaving

travel through the day and into the evening 

Marathon how long we've been gone 

and still not yet set foot upon you 

your low lying shore opens welcomingly

to one who's spent the night at sea

Adrift in the shallows, a modest repose

adorn with coral, your bright colors show

ushered in through a bridge that is never closed.

Tennis

Too Weak To Ramble

I was a child when I left home.
I wandered blindly until I roamed.
While others have secrets I have none.
Now I’m too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble






 Bitter the fruit
Withered the vine
Long gone the virgin who danced til she died
I’m here in the valley, hidden from light
Too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble






Too low to get up
Too weak to try
Too drunk to stagger
Too gone to lie
I always told myself I’d make it out of here alive
But, I’m too weak, too weak, too weak, to ramble

Dr. Dog

Please Respect Our Decadence

Everybody's dying, So we send them flowers.




 

After their funerals We go out to dinner And then we try To forget about it.






We're all committing suicide, And everybody points it out to us. Is that coffee you're drinking?



 

Is that a cigarette you're smoking? Is that meat you're eating? Is that air you're breathing?

 

Have you no self respect?

No, but we're having fun

Quick, before we drop dead

 

we don't mind your great concern 

but please send flowers instead

 

Algebra Suicide

Love and Light

What's that you say

Something by new day but how do you found this way 

And how do you get around with that sound

I'm always in the always 

Also on pressure days never quite go away 

Where do we find a place to stay 

All the empty magazines '

A lot to learn in 

From where you get and '

What feels goot to 'not necessary 

Way would you turn a blind to a one how tries let it and '

Ooh if I ask him way 

Sandro Perri

The Universe Expanded

I’ll give you each love letter back

We’ll laugh before every joke is told

We’ll pose after every photograph

Has been removed from the negative

With every smile we lose a line

Watch the stars fall back into the sky

Cork the wine

Unbake a cake

Take the dog back to the RSPCA

But I don’t mind losing you this time

I’ll meet you coming backwards

I’ll meet you coming back

When the universe has expanded

Time will contract



 

You’ll come back

I’ll meet you coming backwards

Next time

We make-up start an argument

Tears crawl back into your…

I turn from a friend

Of your friend

Unintroduced

Forget your name forevermore

But I don’t mind losing you this time

I’ll meet you coming backwards…

Yes I’ll meet you coming back

But we move forwards

Into emptiness

Into the void

Into the universe

We’ll part as happy strangers

From a long friendship

That grew from

Such a love

Franz Ferdinand

Fall On Me

There's a problem, feathers, iron

Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys

Feathers hit the ground

Before the weight can leave the air





 

Buy the sky and sell the sky

And tell the sky, and tell the sky

Fall on me (what is it up in the air for)

Fall on me (if it's there for long)

Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)

There's the progress

We have found a way to talk around the problem

Building towers

Foresight isn't anything at all

Buy the sky and sell the sky

And bleed the sky and tell the sky

Fall on me (what is it up in the air for)

Fall on me (if it's there for long)

Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)

Fall on me




 

(Well I would keep it above but then it wouldn't be sky any more)

(So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it home)

Buy the sky and sell the sky

And lift your arms up to the sky

And ask the sky, and ask the sky

Fall on me (what is it up in the air for)

Fall on me (if it's there for long)

Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)

REM