American Music Club Everclear

Why Won't You Stay?

Will this night fulfill all the promises
And bury us in peace
Will it leave us free and forgetful
Or at least bring some sleep

Your eyes don't catch the little things
As they narrow on your fall
I'm checking your pusle 'cause you're so quiet
I'm kissing you but you don't feel it

Why do you do this to me?
Showing me all that I'm good for
Is to watch you sleep as lifeless as an angel
She was the most beautiful cloud
That ever passed before the face of a girl
Seems like nothing's too good for this life
Some things are too good for this world

And our names and our faces
Well they're just spare change
In memory of a soul
Kept dropping spare change

Why won't you stay?

In memory of a little girl
Who was far too much in love with the world
And who didn't really wanna stick around for the end

Why won't you stay?



Rise

The things you love don't give us too much hope
When you've lost your apetite and you're sick and tired
Maybe what you need is some food for your eyes
To make them rise

Don't tell me how to tell the truth
You're like a store that only sells guns and knives
Tell me how to make something beautiful
Flash before your eyes
Let them make you rise

It only costs a buck for three tries
Though money never buys enough of anything
And I'm a moving target trying to shake some lead
From your eyes
Let them make you rise



Miracle on 3rd St.

C'mon let's waste another thousand years
Sitting around your kitchen table
We'll turn the brandy into beer
Later they'll say, "What a miracle."

You say all you need is a right position
'Cause nothing in this world helps you to see
You say that you never do it
Unless someone gives it to you for free

You say I never listen to you
Well you're right about that
But I thought that I love you
More than that

I know you're strong enough to live
In a world where are the magic's gone
I watch your hands tremble, you reach for another sip
Now all your luck is gone

Look at the moon ain't it pretty at night
Don't look away give it a chance for once
In it's own way it's just alive as any of us
In any way it's where you face

You say I never listen to you
Well you're right about that
But I thought that I love you
More than that



Ex-Girlfriend

Your ex-girlfriend told me you were having a bad time
Day-to-day shouldn't be what it's all about
Day-to-day life is something we all know too much about
I guess you got no one to take care of you

Your ex-girlfriend told me you spent all yesterday crying
Hey I didn't know things were going so bad for you
Maybe you're just trying to get her to come back to you
Or work your way out of the cynical attitudes that protect you
Bad habits make our decisions for us
You should try remember all you're holding Is a handful of dust

It's not even closing time
And already stars are falling out of the sky
You're all lit up, you gotta do something
I'll help you try

Your ex-girlfriend told me you spent all yesterday crying
Now do you believe the stories when you're life's not buying
I guess you got no one to take care of you



Crabwalk

He reels around the nightclub like the hubcaps off of a car
That just crashed into a sign that said
"This way to the nightclub."

He says you ain't worth a dime to his life support systems
They still keep him talking on the chance that he'll say something

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that we're on a stormy sea
I'm having trouble keeping down the light that I've stolen
He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me."

He's just trying to breathe some new life into the jukebox
But it doesn't take his crap it just keeps on staring back
And the quarters that he pours down its throat
Well they're just starting to get his goat
The song plays "I gave you everyting and I never got anytyhing back."

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that we're on a stormy sea
I'm having trouble keeping down the light that I've stolen
He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me."

He went fising in the ocean and he got was a couple of tires
And they came up dripping with emotion
And you know how fisherman are liars
The five hundred thousand dollar country guitar sits at home sad and lonely
No one hwas any pity for the life of the party

Don't you feel the decks rolling
I think that wer're on a stormy sea
He's having trouble keeping down the light that he's stolen
He said, "Come on and do the crabwalk with me."



The Confidential Agent

Take the velvet line for comfort
High above the water, feel disconnected and free
Tired of hopes that I just can't run from
I travel in secret, I know they're pursuing me

Morning that falls represents a weak link
After is after night's work is done
There's no sun, just a grey horizon
Hiding from heaven another frozen world

Watch the ship hold to its course
As an act of devotion
And me, I'm lost at sea
Going through the motions

Gave all my passion to the ocean
She holds it for me in reserve
My word is gone into remission
Your love's a tragedy that I don't deserve

She said, "You're only growing now."
She said, "Soon have we begun, then she can have you.
But until then, you're mine."

I watch her hold to her course
As an act of devotion
And me, I'm riding high
Going through

Seems like every flash in her eye's
An act of devotion
And me I'm lost in her hands
Going through the motions

Shore far away off the port side
Shore far away off the bow
Shore far away off the starboard side
Shore far away from now



Sick of Food

I'm sick of food
So why am I so hungry
I was sick of you
But I don't mind seeing your little face
I was sick of love
So I just stopped feeling
But I couldn't find anything to take its place

What'll I do with my time?

I'm sick of drink
So why am I so thirsty
I must have been born on the planet Mercury

I just called to ask you what I said last night
I just called to ask you what I did last night

So what'll I do with my time?

Now I wake up and I don't have any gravity
Now I wake up still walking in my sleep
Now I wake up feel the world drawing away from me
And now I wake up still walking in my sleep

I'm sick of food
So why am I so hungry
I'm sick of feeling the world draw away from me

And now I wake up
Yeah I remember
Feel the whole world draw away from me
Now I wake up what good is it
Another bright nothing
Another day



The Dead Part of You

The price of your soul is less than the cab fare
That gets you home before the living end
The dead part of you leaves me with a blessing
From a destruction of your beauty
Your self-hatred your self-pity

There's so little of you left

The dead part of you takes me out
And says the beast in me is fading fast
And leaves me with a great big goodbye hug
It's busy clinging to the dead part of the past

You only love one thing
And there's so little of it left
He has taken everything
And there's so little of you left

You're just a baby in the back seat
That a door slam sends crying into the world
And a cab driver's in a hurry that matters more than
More than anything we can hope for from the world

You only love one thing
And there's so little of it left
He has taken everything
And there's so little of you left



Royal Cafe

How do you live traveling like this
You laugh too much like things used to be funny
And now it's all a big state of bliss

We had a little party somewhere outside Memphis
We hid a six-pack under the seat
It's never too late to forget

I can see them all standing around the bar
With big crowns of gold on their heads
And they're all blind to who you are
At the Royal Cafe

If you keep laughing, I'll forgive you anything
Watch the towns pass by like tears
After all the scenery is just a blur
And the world is just ringing in our ears

Hey princess, this passage suspended between now and then
Make no problem don't worry about anything

Hurry hurry make sure there's no time
For them to get their claws in us
Raise a toast at the end of the line
At the Royal Cafe

At the heart of your pain
You got to find a way to survive
At the hear of your pain
You got to find something to keep alive

Don't worry about the Magic Kingdom
They wouldn't even let us near the gate
Yeah we're just a couple of anchors
Dragging an empty slate

Are you ready to go
You'll be happier I know
Are you ready to go to the Royal Cafe



What the Pillar of Salt Held Up

The take-off makes no sound
It's high and far away
Your blue sky by the moon
It takes my breath away

Why do you choose
What you choose to throw away into the undertow
A happiness like we'll never know

You can overcome Your bitterness and pain
And you don't remember how
To start your life again

You were born to please
Born to put on a show
But you always run away
From a happiness like we'll never know

No hiding place in all the sky
No camouflage to keep you warm at night
No clothes you got seem to keep out the wind or the rain
No way out from your shame

The take-off makes no sound
As you fly away with that look on your face
That gives it all away

Secrets that the sea would never tell the soul
But where the current flows
A happiness like we'll never know



Jesus' Hands

Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got places to go, people to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud

Hey brother, hey sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands

I'm walking in circles in a waiting room
For a welcome I don't feel in my soul
I watch the time pass, it pours in my glass
I drink it down, blood from a stone

Hey brother, hey sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands

Looking for love in all the wrong places
The sidewalks and the sky
Looking for something that no one can give me
And no one can help me buy

Oh brother, oh sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser, no one can touch him
He's out slipping through Jesus' hands

Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got nowhere to go, no one to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud