Tab / Paroles - Josh Klinghoffer

Come and open me up
I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where anything is

Come and open me up
The ripping open of me
Carapult me crying

Incision, inside her
Size her up
Where’s my choice in the matter
I want what’s mine
What the coat’s hanging on

Anyway ya slice it
Slice me open
I think we got it all wrong
Where do you
Where’d ya get off

Ya feel alone
I know ya feel alone
With me inside
Ya feel alone
With me inside of you
I only see what I want
What I want to see

Life is full of little surprises
Manageable
Catastrophe
Once you let go

Carried off
Carted away
Cursed
Curtailed
Catapult shit like wet autumn leaves
Ya catapult shit like wet autumn leaves.

The fear alone
Of being alone
Never subsides
The fear alone of not living what other call lives
We only see what we want
What we want to see
And you’ve taken from me
Lied to about safety
Stolen from safe keeping

…don’t feel alive.

I know you feel alone
How far along am I
I know the fear alone
Existed well before the twinkle in the eyes
The world moans with no one to say goodnight
Now you’re captured in time

Stolen from safety
Lied to about safe keeping
You think this is alive/a life

You know the outcome
Before it began
Can’t stop it now
The avalanche
Let it fall
Bottom of the sea
Careen over the edge
As far as I can see

This is your only life

If the sun was never to rise
And with the moon affecting the tides,
It’d be a long dark night, So aim your glow
Guide the ships in, Aim your glow
Hope someone’s watching, Aim your glow

When the words are too dark, And you’re in need of a spark
You’re tripping over the previous ones, Aim your glow
For all who can to see, Aim your glow
If only for me, Aim your glow

You wanna be the best you know
You wanna be the best you know
You know me I don’t give a damn about what’s seen, As long as it’s shown
You wanna be the best you know, But never better than anyone
Maybe the colour of the sky, Just ain’t blue in someone’s eyes
You never know until you’re behind, Another soul
And that water in your eyes, When the wheels come off,
Will take a lifetime to dry, So aim your glow
Until it’s blinding, Aim your glow
Pray someone’s finding your glow
You wanna be the best you know,
You wanna be the best you know,
You know me I can’t help myself,
Go at it alone,
You wanna be the best you know,
But never better than anyone

Your anger sees
Nothing clearly
Abandoned senses
Impaled on fences
Lacerations bleed
And we all can see
Eternal bloodletting
With the white we’re all wearing
What about dreams makes you so angry
Cause not everyone has them
Or cause you’re not in all of them
How’s your process
Are you sure it’s still works for you
Devoted to the way it’s always been
Halcyon implies that it was once good
These injuries
You’ll not walk away from
Have you calmed down
Are you quite done
You enter a plea
No one’s buying
The innocent is guilty
Entering a new territory
How’s your process?
Are you sure it’s still working for you?
Didn’t notice the (w)hole had grown before you climbed
Why don’t you protest
Without destroying everything in your path
The path before you lies
You narrowly beat the rap
THe wrath unleashed
So very very ugly
It must never seen or hear from again
Trying to be
Through the warring
There’s no safe place here
Trying to be through this crippling fear

You’re a light in the dark
Trying so hard
Pretending I’m not
Following you everywhere

Feeling my breath on your neck with every little step you’re sneaking

It’s messy now, it was messy then
Still cause so much unrest
I’m always getting caught
With red hands
I don’t want this anymore
I can’t find the door
How’d we get so lost
Not fair

Try to take charge
Of the picture at large
Discover reaches that are far
Are far off

You make me laugh you apt mess you are cleaning to cover
Underneath the armor vulnerable the mark of something stronger

Sit in one place
I dare you
Doesn’t matter why

We don’t want this anymore
But we can’t find the door
How’d we get so lost
Now we’re not there

Try to take charge but the world’s too large
If yout reach is too far then is it really there

Whirlwind, spinning, don’t miss the chance to discover
Why is my foot caught in this trap while you’re still running

Sit in one place
I dare you
Sit in one place
I dare you
To enjoy your place
Sit in one place
I dare you
To enjoy your space
Does it matter why

I'm gonna leave you out
Coz you're perishable
Out on the counter
Oh am I out for the count?

Don't let it spoil
Don't let it ruin
Don't let it rot

It's not you (?) I believe in you
You can't leave it out before the option needs you
Are you out of line?
Through the mind inside
How do you have a line?
Through the mind inside

Don't go getting your hopes up
they told me they'd rather stay down
Always feel left out
I will believe you out
Believe you out
Believe you out
Believe you out

Oh you'd better believe,
Oh you'd better believe,
Oh you'd better believe oh oh you better...

Oh protocols for me
Oh blow your glass idea

(?)
If you'd rather stay down
If you get trapped forever
Maybe you'd best be left out
Believe yourself where you are
Before I believe you out
Believe you out
Believe you out
Believe you out

Oh you'd better believe,
Oh you'd better believe,
Oh you'd better believe oh oh you better...

Do you really believe?
Do you really believe?
Do you really believe them?

I wanna be yours
Be yours more so I don’t have to be mine
I wanna see myself be enough
For the rest of my life
Lacking something major
We all know what was wasn’t
I beseech ya listen up
Even if it don’t apply

You’re the screaming
Screaming when my throat runs dry
I’m behind your turnaround
Not sure who’s the buzz
And who’s the ground
Who we supposed to hear it from
Who’s got it in ’em to tell us
Don’t fixate on the broken
Deceive myself every time I try

Hide and seek ya
You’re just waiting to be caught, to be found
Let me be your feet on the ground
Be your safe and sound
I wanna see you get angry
The war’s waiting for my word
Remember me
Remember me

I’m deceiving
Telling fire it’s water
I’m diseased
I’d stay as far away from me as I can
I just want to be enough
Nothing kills me like the sound of your name
I beseech ya
How can you still believe you’re not enough

Who you doing all this for
You soil futures
That fertilizer better work
If a plant the wrong seed

Cassandra warned me
Cassandra loves me
She’s constantly warning me

So timber’s yelled when a tree falls
What can I scream for my heart
Misled poison smoke signals
Err on the side of caution when you breathe

Will someone love me
Singularly
Sing along with me
Forget along with me
Cassandra’s warning
If all I want is flattery
No one to blame to but me
If I let it defect me
Who you doing all this for
Ice skating on a frozen pond in March

Where was the warning
Why weren’t you with me
Remember how
It was before me

Cassadra’s warning
Pretend ya don’t see
Cassandra’s warning

I, for some time, watched us fall under the rubble you climbed
That look in your apocalyptic eye; so beautiful, vague and sublime.

And how your feet just seem to glide.
I admire how you can just drop it all and dance round
I'd be ashamed of my bellyaching reprive
They have nothing still survived and will forever

How many times? Put on a smile Beat while we're dancing.
How many times? Put on a smile Beat while we're dancing.

You can entertain any time
(Disaster revealing question in mind)
I get too lost in the brown, tall dancer...

We will rise from the, from the dead, we rise
(and dance on our own grave)
We will rise from the, from the dead, we rise
(the answer in the party)

No elevator
Will take you to the top of whatever you think up and down is
You can’t perceive them the up and the down
You can’t perceive them the ups and the downs

Visualization is vertical the top lays to you
Am I right? Am I lying?
No celebration even with a leg up still fall short, no competition
You can’t compete with them, they’ve already won
You can’t compete with them, they’ve already won
But if your eyes are open, your heart is open, your life is open wide
Your life is open, your life is open, your life is open wide

You’re at the top of the bottom of the barrel and you’re lost upside down
This thing is stuck going up up, going down and I can’t til it’s done
You can’t concede that you have no control
You can’t concede that you have no control
But if your eyes are open, your heart is open, your life is open wide
The world opened around, you fall guys around you, your life is open wide

You're an eye opener
I'm an eye closer
Slip our lids round
See what's lying there behind our eyes

I'm tired of explaining
What I see
Does that secret handshake include me and you?
Are you a part of me?

You and I both know
Absolutely nothing
Test the water
Without ever getting wet
I can't talk to anyone
Who looks me right in the eye
Flip your lid around
See me lying there pretending to die

I'm tired of believing
What I see
Does that secret handshake include me and you?
Are you a part of me?

They can't help me up now
That we live
For so long
Get backward
All the pain is gone
I've been there
For so long

Is that what it's like? (x3)

You're an eye opener
I'm an eye closer
Flip my lid around
See what's lying there behind my eyes

And I'm tired of thinking
About how to see
Does that secret handshake include me and you?
Are you a part of me?

For once I’m not out to get
Not convinced all the ways are set
We all move a little bit
This can be the first in forever

No more fucking around
All it takes is the once
Before it becomes the rest

No rest for the wick of a candle
You refuse to blow out
Walk round in my hell now
Alas some fire
You should feel safe now
You can admit you feel

What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of now?

No child left behind, I’m laughing
Too much in the way of in action
We all move a little bit
No more smiles if you don’t mean it
Show me how I should love now
This is the only way I know how
I just need you to stand me
Showered with all this love now
Walk round in my hell now
Shoot me for trying…

Look at a life
And the one beside
Now look the other way
These futures forming
From the get go day one
Will be better than
Or is expected to be
Tell me who’s fortunate
Incendiary remark my words
They shouldn’t mean a thing
Even with how mean I like to be

Come rake me over
New form of torture
One more time
I’ll do it to mine
And look the other way

You’ll never measure up
Up up and away
Way beyond anywhere you think
You’ll be able to reach higher
Everything is about getting higher
Farther, faster, bigger, better
Way bigger than you’ll ever be
You tiny little swine
Offer nothing kind to anyone
Should’ve never been not good enough
Look at that It’s awful remarks
My words stockpile
Short fuse
Fusillade
Combustion
Bust open
Comparison
Tell me who’s fortune you want

This California
Kind of torture
Where the sun shines
All the time
Can I just look away?

Way beyond comparison
If that exists
I’ll meet you there
Way upon the stairs I’ve floated up…

When it began
Run comparison
Damage in other ways
Abilities, fortunes
Outcome pear shaped
Off course mistakes
Everything better than
They really did a number on you

One more time
I’ll walk on the mine
I looked the other way

Way beyond wildest imaginations
You can be, you can be
Way above the stars I’m wishing on
There’s always higher, there’s always higher

Way beyond comparison
This one, that one
Way above the stars we’re shooting for
You can see
You can see.

If I forgot to smile
If I forgot to smile
Kept my feelings down a while
But now I’m gonna throw them up

Stop acting like a child
How can I when I never grew up
And I really know how to rile
I swear make your move or put that thing away
Put that thing away

If we let the pieces fall
Who’s left to pick them up

This is the wild
Any way you tritely slice
With Calamine all over your bleeding sored

If I lived a thousand lives
I’d still never do what you done

We’ll liquify your light
We’ve always enjoyed your style
Really how important is living live
Caution is a kite

The alter sacrifice
You look so good when you’re dying

I miss calling you mine
And I know that I forgot to smile
I wish I knew what you wanted to hear

Maybe you can see
Something no one else can
Maybe you’ve spent
Two sides of the same coin

Dimension questions
Direct my way
Too many questions
About where I may be
I’ve been found lost
I’ve been found lost

The race may be one/won by staying as far away as we can

We’ve overcome so much just to find you there
You’re not lost you’re stading in our way

Come in first and lost
Compasses so off
Too many born lost
We can’t lose this way
Anyway I’m here lost
Gone to find a way
Once I’m gone I’ll never
Come this way again
I’ve been found lost
Found myself lost

All is not lost
Just tell me where you are
In your own voice
Come on in your own voice

Where’d you find this loss
You must love being lost
Darken reflections
You can’t guide anyway
How are you not lost
Everywhere I’m lost

I'm idle, I've never seen someone do so much
Nothing for so long I'm not going to stand still
Like algae growing a collection of dust
Nothing doing, fuck all...

The more I try I can't decide which,
Which 'I' I'm trying to hold in mind.

You're my idol, I worship the ground you walk upon
Neither of us know why we keep it that way
I idolise blindly, my eyes are burning
My life means nothing, it's you I'm interested in...

The more I try I can't decide which,
Which 'I' I'm trying to hold in mind

An idyl,
A picture I didn't believe in the mind
Envision I dreamed of
Take me there right now
This is all
All I ever wanted
Idyl an Idleidolidyl

The more I try I can't decide which,
Which 'I' I'm trying to hold in mind.

Memories are all I feel like now
Some days are better than others
One by one they’re all fading now
One of us must leave the other alone
Season after season I’ll be weathering
Until I come across you again
Do I know you?
Memories are all I’m left with now
Another way of saying alone
If I’d held on, they’re escaping no
Throw ‘em in the hold, they can’t get away
Do I know you?
Now?
Then?
Do I know you?
I hope I learned from you
Try to learn from you
Throw my arms around you
In the hopes I drown (in) you
Withholding on to some
Maybe holding onto some
Withholding onto something
Maybe someday in the middle of who knows where
It’ll all come flooding back
Do I know you?
Now?
Then?
Do I know you?

I would be careful with what you say
Someone could get hurt
You think there ain’t any repercussions
When you say all that dirt

It’s not even thinly veiled
We see how it all works
Constant hiccups where’s the trouble now
There’s a crack in every turn

Last time I checked no one check with me
Funny how you’re afraid of being
This is the sound of minds dying

Why you always gotta learn the hard way
You’re becoming easy to avoid
You could’ve prevented it in a lot of ways
Realize now what you’ve destroyed

Saying goodbye before I arrive
Soon I won’t have no tongue left to bite
This is the sound of minds dying

In front of the world’s biggest firing squad
At least one of the guns is empty
You be the grinding and I’m the halt
Wash our wounds with the salt of the sea

Maybe I’ve never tried
Soon there’ll be no time left to bide
Be thankful you’re not me
This is the sound of mind dying

I’ve been called the devil
I’ve been called god
I’ve been salvation
I’ve been the nod off
I’ve been the preacher
Every word in the sermon
Been the ground that you stood too long
Balancing beam you fallem off

When we couldn’t speak
You should have thought
The mind’s a scary place
To let yourself walk
Never mind

Been the life of the party
I’ve been apartheid
Been the shovel, the buried body
The P’s and Q’s we mind

When we couldn’t speak
You should have thought
The mind’s a scary place
To let yourself walk
Down in that hole with
Your plans and thoughts
When we opened our eyes
That’s all we got

It’s not a matter of seeing
Once it’s in, it’s not leaving
From this day on a new way of being
I asked you please refrain from telling me…
But you just couldn’t help yourself
More than we could ever see
No real plans to leave
More time, more beings
Til we find our way home
I hope you can see my masterpiece
Other people’s lives and beliefs
Have nothing to do with what and how I see
Nothing to do with anything
It’s gotta all end somewhere
Can anyone
Hear me
We scream from Underneath
Hope you can
See that we
Are better off
Without you, please
Will you go
This is how
It’s always been
You can resist comically
I hope you know
I’m sure you see
Better off
Without me
We all know
I hope you see
Cause you will not hear it from me
A new world’s coming
For better or worse
You motion to me
That we needn’t come in the first place
We’re not lost
We’re in everything you breathe…
We are
Refute me
Is that your mouth foaming?
Goes round & round
Round your head
Like an unwanted, uninvited guest
Food you don’t want, can’t digest
Paradigm, … dox, parasites set
Quote/unquote your well being
This is just the beginning
Not happy ’til we
Feel the sting.

Do you want disorder?
Well I don't believe you.
I heard you order yourself around "Do this, move that."
Why? Why?
To left and right.

Order disorder.
Well I'll leave you
To arrange your disarray anyway you see fit.
It's criminal how you abide.

That's not the order
In which we do things.
You want the credit and the award
Before the damn things done
Even though, do you even know what the child means?

You wanna turn this world round,
You might start spinning first.

I might have controlled myself now
but maybe I can't now, no
Control myself now
Will be your famous last words.

A fixed form of broken
Will wreck or mend you.
Calculate your short change
just the same, just the same
Keep it on low.

I wanna control it all now,
but lately I cannot
I want to control myself now
I need a famous last word.

It's useless to say
That you only scratched the surface.
Your superficial face
Bears the mark of everything.

Every undertaking overthrown
Your way is to wait for the next time
And you should have seen your face
As they banished you to the outskirts
Like an asteroid that fell
Or a dream that you couldn't tell anyone
Everything that you just couldn't sell
Your way is to wait till it falls on you...

Pointless, swan-dive,
Pointless, swan-dive into your river floor
Your river floor
And you're dama-dama-damaging
And they're all gonna scratch their back-peddling heads now.

A puncture in the sky,
I'm peering down on all your little toy lives
How important they all look now...

(?) an idea
Of the what the future brings and what I can bring to it
If only I have been invited, yeah.

And all we are we are,
We are trying
However hard,
You look at someone else's star
It won't get you very far.
You know I am unsure
But are we all?

Put me in quotes
Why am I always a joke

Can’t I be real this time?
Who am I supposed to be this time?
Can I be real this time?
Back to where I began

Pull me in close
Hour hands, moments frozen
I need more than I ever really know

Watch me as I roll, said the eyes
Back to the first square

Pull me in close
Closer than you’ve ever been before

The question is are you ever really sure?

Are you embarrassed?
Maybe you’re embarrassed.
Maybe you’re afraid
Of existing within
All I’ve ever wanted is to be recognized for what I may be
But that may or may not be up to you.

The more I care, the more I care to forget
Decide what I mean
Get a rise out of tumbling me down the side of your crumbling mountain

Rest assure there will me more
Onslaughts
Off days
More to endure
Outside ain’t getting easier
Live a long time
To look back on before

Take me back

To when I had both eyes on the floor
Looking up, before
Before the forlorn

So easy you’re led astray
So easy your minds change
Like a weather vane
All day
Live your whole life ashamed
No wonder your edges frayed
Afraid
Send the rest ashore
So we all can explore
As yet I’ve found nothing
But I know there’s more

Take me back

Go easy on
Go easier on
Easy on

Finally I found you
It’s not getting any easier
Far away from everything and everyone
It’s not getting any easier
The final straw came when in the end it’s didn’t get
Didn’t get easier
Finally I found you
It’s not getting any easier
I’ll cry over it not getting any easier
Finally you’re here
And it’s not getting any easier
The final straw came when I found that
It’s not getting any easier

It’s not getting any easier

I’m not calling you a liar
I know you have been trying
Trying to inspire
But now I don’t know who I’m to believe

You are fire
I’ve been freezing
It’s been a while
Since feeling I could believe

Oh, to be rewired
Oh, to be rewired

Head and heart conspire
Once in a while
Look the other way so it’s not called being deceived

I’m not calling you a liar
You can’t say I’m not trying
My eyes have been dryer
All I’ve ever wanted was to believe

Here on your doorstep
With history before you
Watch me fuck up again
I’m always punishing
Say a prayer for me now

With all the beauty in the world
At our vile little fingertips
I can’t help where the gavel slams

Elephants tied to a daisy
Babies left on doorsteps
Slow erosion of all hope and faith
I wish I could say it matters
You claim and you cry
Histrionics and all the lying
I was sworn to protect you from the crazy, the crazies, the crazy out there

I am the son
I am the sun
I am the son
When you are done with me
Let me go free
I swear I won’t bother anyone
I am the son
I am the son

All I ever wanted to be
Was your angel
Peace be you and also with

I’ve got my work cut out for me
Climbing the resistance mounting
You can run but you can’t come anywhere near hiding
We are likely to bleed for a bit
You can climb and crawl to the top of the cliff
That I’d fall you off of
You said I would fly

Head for the sun
Get lost in the sun/son
I swear I’d follow you anywhere
We are the sum
Of all we have done
Beware who’ll follow you
Beware of what comes
After all we have done
Can’t stay this dumb forever
Let this be done
So we can get on
You can laugh at me all you want

Let’s say you’re a slide
Over the constant attempts to be climbed
Living uninspired
Sliding, climbing, fighting to survive
Shoot me on sight
The blood still pours while I still say I’m alright
All these things alike collide
I am the left and the right at the same time

Stand side by side
Just you see who and what you don’t like
Disguise the already fine line
Between beating someone out and winning the prize

Why don’t you trust me
Is it cause I don’t trust you
One way or another you’re gonna do what I want
This time
Because we are all things at the same time

Constant attempts on my life
What are you like
You’re right I can’t be left to provide
Too much imbibe
Intertwine
We are the left and the right at the same time
We are all things at the same time
If I remove myself will I survive

Walking backwards on a ball
Why you praying
Fall down laughing
Somersault
Into a world I thought I knew

You sure build a lot of walls
Busy playing god
For an audience that’s all gone on

You never saw the light of day
Down looking for your chance in hell
You wear that blind fold day in and day out

I might kill someone tonight
With my ego

You sold me out for not very much at all
It shouldn’t hurt if you’re curled up in a ball
I’d probably do the same to you

Watch me gathering
Gathering
Watch me gather speed while I try not to collide

Gotta stop blurring the lines
Oh how do you find the time
Found your way into my day and night
It would hurt to slow down
Time is on nobody’s side
By side we’re all alone
Try to stop, drop and a roll
Hey passerby
There’s so much beauty in the unknown

Sold yourself out for nothing at all
Still hurts all curled up in a ball
Protection from the constant assault
Shoulders lowered and just fall

Somersault through life
Salt the ice
Assault is life
Sommersault through life

I was wrong, the earth beneath our feet won't last for ever I'll soon be gone,
Oh well done....

I want to apologise, by the power invested in you in a way I got wrong,
By the power invested in your way I have known.

Has been the future, calm man, be the bigger man - back down, save us all
Let me take your future for you, 'Look at me I'm a surgeon'
Where was my world gone?

Now you've gone, they've pulled the rug out from beneath my feet
That's the ground I'm standing on
Why is Mother Nature over there with her legs open wide?
Open wide...

You look so good
You look so good
You look so good on paper
You look like a (?)
Like a crumbling [b]puzzle
Your place of work...[/b]

Oh the here and the now as the ground we stand on
Over the (?)
The earth beneath our feet we place beneath our agenda
You'd better hope there's a hell below because everything else is unknown Unknown...

You'd better hope there's a hell below!

I said my 'goodbyes' didn't I?
Seemed so ideal to the outside
Burning and tying on
I should have said it before I....
Before I'd gone,
Before I'd gone,
That's the wit of the staircase.

Shouldn't have left me alone
Winchester type paranoid
Atlantic ocean that's your mind
I should have said it before I...
Before I'd gone,
Before I'd gone,
That's the wit of the staircase.

May it come, the time, we will fall in love
May it come, the time, we will fall in love
May it come, the time, we will fall in love
Forever forever forever....

They'll find me, they'll find me when I wash up...

They're out there
I've seen them out there
I'm not crazy, I'm not...
Not crying wolf, I'm....
I'm not crazy, I'm not...
I see them out there in the real world, out my window
They're already in my head now, behind my eyes.

Wounded fly
Where you think you’re going
Your whole life
Depends on what I
Decide for you

An who am I
That question resides in everything
I say and do

Bright lights
Feel no pain
Bringing it on
Everyday
I’m just like that fly
I swear I heard it
Heard it cry

You’re shitting on everything
Taking flight these disgusting creatures
Make your own heaven
Forget the sky then the ocean rather
Make your own deep end

The swat team
Read rights
Living dreams
Sore great heights
But ya feel more alone then ever imagined
When the noise takes over
Make your own quiet

Flying off
To show your handle on it
Why is here always off to somewhere else
Your one life wasted
Understatement
Spread thin like a Carpenter
Building blockades
Dying to remain
Blockading our view

Birds look forward by looking to the side
Make your own heaven
I can’t build you up any higher
Make your own non-sense
Why didn’t you tell me didn’t fly
Make your own heaven

The way it is is the way you want
We’re not leaving unless you take us out
We’re going where

Wounded by
Every word that I say
I may have thrown
Too much your way
Cach me when I fall
Cause I’m coming
Your way

Whatever you say is so
Careful how you proceed
What you wish for
They know

Words that break bones
Bones pick their moments
Like glass houses pick stones

Should I be hammered home
Do I relate to the choice to
Condem or condone

Give me a chance
A fighting one
To atone
Whatever you say is already known

Why are you so opposed
You’re so brazen
With you’re being alone

It’s all for the taking, no?
Whatever you start over
You always keep the dead close

You want dramatic pause
To rewrite laws
Your cover’s blown
Whatever you say is already known

I see you walking away
See the back of my hand
Already turned away
You can do whatever you want

You alone could save the day
If it wouldn’t kill you to say
One wrong move
It could set it off I see
You fortifying
You wanna battle me

Whatever you say knows
Exactly what it is
That’s why you can’t let it go

Give me a chance to go
Where my heart will
Without thinking you know

Whatever you break you own
It’s no accident I’m prone
To go agaisnt everything that I know
You can
Whatever you want