In the corner of your planet
I am ready to hear your judgement
You stand with your hand in your pocket
Searching words to describe disappointment
And when you find them
You find them right
But you should know this time
I’m on my own side

All the years I spent in your orbit
Trying to draw you perfect circle
Staring at the center till hurting
I remember my eyes were burning

Not once I questioned if your will was right
But you should know this time
I’m on my own side

‘Cause try as I might I can’t see through your eyes
When the ways of your world are so different from mine

Well your view is always the right one
At least that’s what you got us thinking
But in the end the emperor’s naked
Maybe I’ll be the child who reveals it

And even if I’m not I don’t mind
I think you know by know
I’m on my own side

Try as I might I can’t see through your eyes
When the ways of your world are so different from mine
If I stop being blind

Full of hope, full of confidence
Isn’t that the way we all should be?
When you’re young, when you’re dreaming
Of all things that some day you’ll achieve
There’s nothing special ’bout me, they said
I just didn’t believe

But if I buy a flower I buy a rose
If I get a pet, I get a puppy
Everything in place conventionally
Exceptionally average
Playing it safe all the time
Hate my job but work to pay the mortgage
Everything’s so fucking ordinary
Exceptionally average

Some may fail, some may make it
Most of us reconcile the cruel truth
Life ain’t fair, and it sure ain’t fucking peachy
Grand illusions will never be true

There’s no exception in me, I know
But refuse to believe

But when I have some time I read a book
Wash the windows once a year in April
Everything in place conventionally
Exceptionally average
If I’m wild I drink some wine
Drown all the frustration in some shopping
Everything’s so fucking ordinary
Exceptionally average

When I look up
I travel back to 1969
Greeting friends by giving a peace sign
In the violent July sun
These streets
Like yellow grid between the buildings
The smell of bread outside the bakery
and the buzzing of the bees

A hole in the sole of my shoes
I am passing the newspaper stand from the past

My name was Jeff
I used to live two blocks from here
There was Tony’s corner shop
where that 7/11 is now
My name was Jeff
I used to lie under that tree
making love and smoking pot
I wonder where
those friends are right now?

Walking by
That place I used to washed my clothes in
Waiting nearly naked playing
Bass with Mike and Dan
Annie was pregnant
I don’t know who the father was but
There was a chance it could have been me
Me or Mike or San

There’s no more laundry but I swear I still hear the sound
Of the washing machines

My name was Jeff
I used to live two blocks from here
There was Tony’s corner shop
Where that 7/11 is now
My name was Jeff
And i died under that tree
Only to be born again
Too far from here
Where i still belong

I don’t know which one is harder
Changing you or myself
Both of us trying both of them
Changing sides once again
What is our goal?
How should I know?
I pack, you go
Help me out here
Darling you’re instructions aren’t clear
Help me out here
Or I’ll have to file a complaint
‘Cause none of this ain’t
Like you used to claim

I thought you gave me that money
To spend on poker and booze
This way around you don’t think it’s funny
Ultimatums to choose

I can’t, you won’t
Come back, let go
You pack, I go

Help me out here
Darling my instructions aren’t clear
Help me out here
Or you’ll have to file a complaint
‘Cause none of this ain’t
Like I always claimed

Then for one moment only
I could see it so clearly, our goal
One moment I could see it so clearly

Help me out here
Darling our instructions aren’t clear
Help me out here
Or we’ll have to file a complaint
‘Cause none of this ain’t
Like we both once claimed

Guess I swallowed too many rotten apples that you’ve thrown at me
Guess I swallowed too many rotten apples

I need something fresh
To heal this wounded flesh
And before you know
It will be my own apple tree that grows

I can tell you this freedom wasn’t easy
But I made it through
The horizon so clear without the picket fence
To spoil the view

First I’ll get some rest
Then wish you all the best
You can keep your field
Grass is green where ever I lay my feet

Guess I swallowed enough of rotten apples

You make me feel like I was your mother
And I wish you were a motherfucker
You’re such a sweet, the sweetest thing that I’ve ever seen
No one’s ever made me feel so out of his league
I’d like to put you in my pocket and feed you strawberries
Only maybe

I kind of wish that I was your mother
‘Cause if I were there’d never be another
I’d be as one of a kind as you are to me

And any girl you’d ever meet were compared to me
No one cooked better than Mummy or fed you strawberries
Only maybe

I guess there’s no way to impress you
And I would try too hard to
That’s why I settle for watching you

Sunbeams hit the dust on the bookshelf
I’m quite sure the clock just missed a tick
It’s been a while since the time felt this lazy
The air is sweet enough to lick
Everything’s part of this all
I am so safe and small
I feel the presence all around

Somewhere on the streets the dogs fight
A lost balloon floats in the sky
The beauty of this town seems so unreal
I must pinch myself to feel alive

Everything’s part of this all
I am so safe and small
I feel the presence all around

You make me forget
How precious I am
Love to give you all
Though I never get it back
Being thankful
For every little crumb
Won’t admit to myself
It’s far from being enough

Don’t deserve being this neglected
But it keeps me safe’

Cause we keep seeking
The teeth to match our wounds
Thought I’d be smarter than that
But I keep seeking
And I find them in you
With your teeth at my back
I forget what I lack

You repeat
The pattern I’m used to
Wish that it would change
But change it feels no good

So I don’t resist
When you hurt me
I know you’ll say you’re sorry
And I’ll still believe

Want to stop being this neglected
But I don’t know how

‘Cause we keep seeking
The teeth to match our wounds
Thought I’d be smarter than that
But I keep seeking
And I find them in you
With your teeth at my back
I forget what I lack

Why show up now?
Know we’ve been down this road before they say
Took the wrong turns
Long before we learned there was a better way
This path grows trees now
There’d be too much mess
This path grows trees nowI found my soulmate too late
When our moment had passed us by
I found my soulmate too late
And it wouldn’t have worked anyway

Stop finishing my sentences
I know we are alike
As fast as we both are but still
Didn’t make it in time

This path grows trees now
You’d be too good to me and all
This path grows trees now
Your kids would hate me I know
This path grows trees now, trees now

I found my soulmate too late
When our moment had passed us by
I found my soulmate too late
Just tell me it wouldn’t have worked

Tell me it would never work

I took your jacket from coat rack
When no one was watching and I wouldn’t be caught
Then I ran away

And now I am rolling in your scent
Just like a dog who’s preparing itself for a hunt of prey

Thought it would be fair to give you a warning
That’s why I called to say

Would you please get me a restraining order
Can’t help myself, save yourself before it’s too late
Or I’ll tease you in every way that you can imagine
And I won’t stop
Till you don’t know your name
And I won’t stop
Till you don’t know your name
And I won’t stop

I’m getting tired of talking
Let’s cut the bush that we keep beating around
And I’ll show you mine

So just get a cab and come over
‘Cause if you don’t it will haunt you, I know till the end of time

Say all you want but I know you want to
But in case you don’t

Would you please get me a restraining order
Can’t help myself so save yourself before it’s too late
Or I’ll please you in every way that you can imagine
And I won’t stop
Till you don’t know your name
And I won’t stop
Till you don’t know your name
And I won’t stop

So you’re afraid to swim
Afraid to trust the water
It will drown you, it will drown you
If you let go

What did you come here for?
Know the water’s rising
Will it draw you, will it draw you
With the undertow?

And when your fingers
Get inappropriate
Way they linger
On my lips
You think you’re drowning
But I won’t let you
Underwater I’m all yours

Come and collect what you’ve grown
Come on and claim it your own
Here comes the tide now, jump in
Come on and ride the waves you’ve built
Come and enjoy the waves you’ve built

There’s something underneath
Draws you and you can’t breath
Will it catch you, will it catch you
If you let go?

Take off your shirt and dive
Know that I will hold you
If it draws you, if I draw you
With the undertow

Just paddle deeper
And I will follow
Where my feet won’t reach the ground
I know we’re drowning
But I don’t mind it
Underwater I’m all yours

Come and collect what you’ve grown
Come on and claim it your own
Here comes the tide now, jump in
Come on and ride the waves you’ve built
Come and enjoy the waves you’ve built

Don’t mind the undertow