Hard Sweet and Sticky

BLUE AGAINST THE SKY

It’s the same way you’re talking
The same old ups and downs
But I know a few things
I know better now

Used to be you were so convincing
I believe in those days
But now the light is shining
Burning off the haze

CHORUS
It’s all over now
It’s all over now
I’m looking through you
You’re just blue against the sky

Tell me what’s for certain
Tell me what has changed
Don’t expect me to believe you
Not again

CHORUS

BRIDGE
When the world comes crawling to you
Like some Hollywood premiere
You may think you’re getting over
But you’ll still be sitting here

My life is empty
I was so scared
That is wasn’t possible
To live at all

One more day goes on by
I’m still facing ahead
The way I think it should be
Is getting closer now

COMING DOWN

Never mind what you’re saying
I only see what you do
You can’t hide from my love baby
I got my eye on you

I’m coming down x 4

I’m an eagle with a six string
You’re a man that’s on the run
I can give you satisfaction
But if you take it’s more fun

CHORUS
I’m coming down
I’m coming down to get you x 2

BRIDGE
Under rocks or in a cave
There’s nowhere you can run
I got you in my hair-pin sites
I want to loose control

Gonna get you, you can’t hide

SOLO

I’m a one-track destination
One stop on time
You’re the one that’s contemplating
I’ll make it worth your while
I’m gonna be your seat belt
Clutch tight on my arms
Hope you’re ready for my landing
And don’t ever look down

CHORUS
I’m coming down
I’m coming down to get you x 6

FOOTPRINTS ON WATER

Easy to say
nothing matters.
Easy to deny
what you’ve been given.

But in the darkness
of the darkness
the acting shatters
and you can’t buy freedom
from yourself.

Standing where the river used to flow
all the time,
Nowadays it’s only from my eye.

Some people swear
you can live forever.
All you got to do is
keep on walking backwards.

But in the darkness
of the darkness
it’s all free falling.
And there’s no-one to watch you
lie to yourself.

Standing where the river used to flow
all the time.
Nowadays it’s only from my eye.
No more bridges.
No more wishing wells.
No more footprints on the water.

BRIDGE
I wish I could believe
without asking why.
Don’t want to follow my fate.
I don’t want nobody to see me cry.

No more bridges to carry me over

INFECTION

I tried to tell you to let you know
Gave you for real love that’s all I know
You said your secrets were never lies
Love double crossed me and
…you know why

Infection x2

Love tells a story. Love tells a lie
Love is a fighter. Afraid to die
It’s just a sickness and it’s killing me
Lord let this cancer let go of me.

Infection x4
from your love

BRIDGE
You used to love me
You used to be
The sensitive one you believed
Told me that your heart was made of glass
Confidence you put in me
Was poison in the glass

Infection

Did you love me? Did you need?
Did I affect you the way you do me?
I’m just a junky that can’t be free
As long you keep infecting me

Infection x 8

ONE BIG PARTY

Heard the singer singing
Playing in a band
Talking ‘bout the lives he held
in his hand

Tried to shake my feelings
I tried to scream my doubts
He couldn’t know what he
was talkin’ ‘bout

BRIDGE
‘Cause it’s a feeling we all live for
It’s a thing that we all want
How come everything
I’m doing comes out wrong

CHORUS
It’s just one big party
One big party for you and me.

He’s taken all your feelings
And never paid a cent
He’s lived in your emotions
He don’t believe in rent.

CHORUS X2

PINBALL CITY

Burning up the rubber on my bmx
Got to hurry up got to do my best
Jonesin’ ‘bout the jerks trying to get my spot
I could feel the quarter falling through the slot

CHORUS
I’m going down to Pinball City
I’m going down to Pinball City

Pockets full of lead trying to weigh me down
Head is spinning fast from the lights going wild
Flipper Flapper Fun is coming my way
When I kick into warp I can hear them all say

CHORUS
I’m going down to Pinball City
I’m going down to Pinball City

Feel eyes looking from the other machines
I’m in the zone yeah I’m the chick on the scene
Lights are going pretty wild sounds
I can see that silver ball spinning round & round

CHORUS
I’m going down to Pinball City
I’m going down to Pinball City

PSYCHOTIC HATE MAN

R. Vennum

People say that I’m a stranger
Just for living on the outside
People act like I’m a danger
Just for living out my life

But if I tried just once to reach out and help someone, without them having to come to me begging and giving me everything I need first, maybe they wouldn’t call me a
Psychotic Hate Man

I see hate and I see anger
Everywhere but in my own mind
It’s a door that I won’t open
It’s a train that I won’t ride

And as the twenty foot walls of black concrete, steel and glass of my life comes tumbling down, I blame the world and give it truth and disdain cause I’m a
Psychotic Hate Man

Solo

Break the silence with a silence
The noise I never made at all shines
I’ve got pain and I’ve got anger
And that’s all I need to get by

Everyone, everywhere, nobody ever gave me nothing all the time, except the ones who saved my life, but they don’t count cause they’re everyone too and I’m a
Psychotic Hate Man
Psychotic Hate Man
Psychotic Hate Man
Psychotic Hate Man

THAT’S NOT THE WAY THAT IT SHOULD BE

Every now and then I get a little bit angry
with your children.
It makes me want to cry and then it make me want to be the one
who teaches them

But they just stand there looking
Like they’re at a zoo

CHORUS
Between you and me
That’s not the way that it should be

People feel guilty when they see the dead walking
through the city.
Pull a dollar from their pockets for a little tin cup
to make them go away

Well no one here’s applauding
his act of mercy.

CHORUS

Birds of prey are diving on the field mice are running
from the war machines
Stay long enough to get a laugh
and they’re on their way again

No one stops to wonder
Where it all ends

BRIDGE
The homeless and poor are glad to go to war
to fight for the right to be put down even more
the drugs that you buy cost to much to get us high
And the kids across the nation fight to get an education

THE FIRE NEXT TIME

When I was a lonely child
I’d sit beneath a tree
I’d watch the clouds
Float away from me
Dreams I held so close inside
Drifting to the sky
God bless the child
Who ever wondered why
The Fire Next Time

If I was meant to burn for you
And you to burn for me
Are we just smoke through all eternity?
Or is there something deeper still
To keep this love alive?
The Lord gave us
A hard rain tonight
The Fire Next Time

When we met a mourning dove
Returned from the sea
I held you close
You were a part of me
Now you’re gone the birds fly out
Across the powerlines
How can I love you
If you’re the hurting kind?

When I was a lonely child
I’d sit beneath the sky
I’d watch the clouds
See them pass me by
The Fire Next Time

Come on and give me a sign
It’s not the rain this time…

THE SAME WAY

Heard you singing yester day
All of my troubles where blown away
There was nothing I could say or do
I was crying too.

You and I weren’t the best of friends
In our hearts we knew it had to end
I don’t want to be lonely next to you
Try to see it through

CHORUS
It’s the same way
I feel about you
It’s the same way
Can’t live without you
Hearing my dreams come true
Telling myself that you
Still want me

WEDDING BELLS

Shadows
On my window
Growing darker with the cold
Why does it ring?
That song of my old love from yesterday

He knows
Where the sun goes
Cause he hides it from the snow
Those faint wedding bells.
Crying in the distance for my love to be

BRIDGE
I still can here him calling out to me
Wondering why it is he can hear but cannot see
With all that I keep inside of me
Why don’t I scream- just a whisper willows out

Love goes
Like these winds blow
Growing colder as they flow
Why do wedding bells cry out the song of my love.

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