Racoon

Till monkeys fly (2000)
[Hilarious]
[By Your Side]
[Daily News]
[Smoothly]
[Impossible]
[Feel Like Flying]
[Ice Cream Time]
[Blue Days]
[World On a Plate]
[Rapid Eye Movement]
[Shooting Star]
[Particular]


Hilarious
Take a little minute love. 
Take a little time to listen to this record love. 
It's gonna be just fine. 
It's all about honesty, that won't do you any harm. 
We're going to work our asses off. 
It's gonna take a lot of our energy; 
it's gonna take some time. 

Chorus:

But this is not a crime, 
stepping out of line 
I won't have peace of mind, 
till it's over till it's perfect and fine. 
Now a little serious. 
We're gonne be just fine. 
A little bit hilarious. 
Our ass is on the line. 
A little bit of modesty won't do us any harm. 
We're gonna work our asses off. 
It's gonna take a lot of our energy; 
it's gonna take a some time. 

Chorus

Something in my head tells me to break. 
It's gonna be all just fine. 
A little bit hilarious it seems to be I know. 
But everything will work out fine. 
And now a little obvious. 
Another chorus line. 
It's coming in a minute 
and it's gonna be just fine. 
A little bit of modesty won't do us any harm. 
We're gonna work our asses off. 
It's gonna take a lot of our energy; 
it's gonna take some time. 

Chorus
By your side
I'ts Saturday all right. 
Bring some beers and come on over. 
The latest Ben Folds Five is right by your side. 
We're a team you know and I'll never let you go. 
You can pick a hundred fights; I'm right by your side

Chorus:

Half past wrong, just talking way too much tonight. 
Sip another one with your favourite 'likie dies'. 
Smell the air I swear it wasn't me this time. 
We're gonna be around till monkeys fly.
I know that I ain't easy and it's difficult to please me. 
But you proved more than all right, right by my side. 
You may mess up my hair. 
Torch it, shave it, I don't care. 
Because morale never dies when I'm right by your side.

Chorus
Because when I look around 
and I find out things ain't going right 
I just smile and figure what the hell. 
Just stick it in your pocket. 
Because all is fine. 
I'm all right, smile a while and see the light 
and I find out everything is fine. 
Right by your side.

Half past wrong, just talking way too much tonight. 
Sip another one with your favourite 'likie dies'. 
Smell the air I swear it wasn't me this time. 
We're gonna be around till monkeys 
sit right up and sing along with every part of this song. 
Smile upon a rainy day, because you know it ain't to stay 
and everything will be just fine 
because in time the sun will shine and I'll be by your side.
Daily news
I don't know how to get up early. 
A church bell for alarm is simply not enough. 
I'm scared to lose the dreamy moment, 
so when I get the chance I shutt if off.
The dream I dreamt is fading slowly. 
All I know is that I lost a fight. 
Well I'm still tired, like I've been working, 
Like I live another life at night.

Just getting up to drink my coffee. 
I walk towards the toilet do my thing. 
The mailman's late, repeats the story. 
Shit, he's earlier than yesterday.

Chorus:

Somehow it seems cut up now. 
Twisted views on daily news and all. 
The tube is watching you now. 
So turn it off and shake it off now.
Daily news does nothing new, 
so you read your horoscope just to verify they're lying. 
Turn the page in search for some white space. 
Deserts or snow valleys would be fine. 
There's no joy; no one is dancing, 
Daily news' power makes me cry. 
So what's the use of making chances. 
Why don't we all smile our daisy smiles?

Chorus
I'm looking for a smile. 
I'm looking for a reason why. 
Because it seems so long ago 
that people smiled their daisy smiles.

Chorus 
Smoothly
So much difference now, the feeling's letting down. 
I have a notion of where I am although I'm scared some how. 
Not just a dropping in, more a dropping out. 
It fell so loud that I found out I always did without.
I dreamt nothing was wrong, everything just smiled. 
In this worthwhile dream of mine a beauty place combined. 
I saw eagles fly, a grey sky open up, 
a star explode and others float between the mountaintops.

She said: 'That's another kind of magic, 
I swear, things go smoothly'.

Now it's up to me. 
Somewhere hid away there's a cure 
but I ain't sure whether it's mine to pay. 
Because all the time I tried 
to give my dreams a life. 
Every time that I woke up 
I simply closed my eyes.

She said: 'That's another kind of magic, 
I swear, things go smoothly'. 
Man I promise you it gets better we're there...'

Futile dreams and reasons floating in the air. 
While I stay silent. 
And I gave up to try and walk on water. 
For you, for you, so smooth...

I feel weary now, shaky in the gut. 
What if I woke up and saw that dreams is all I got. 
I guess I'd laugh at life, sneaky in the hand. 
Because it's a bitch to find out 
things ain't going as you planned.

But she said: 'That's another kind of magic, 
I swear, things go smoothly. 
Man I promise its gets better, we're there. 
Are you willing to look the other way. 
Are you willing to take chances'. 
I said: 'It's best if you just walk away'. 
She said: 'Life is short and meaningless, 
unless you make the best of it'.
Impossible
Call me crazy in the head. 
Call me numb and stupid. 
A piece of me has snapped because of all that. 
Some time ago I found clear sight. 
How can you win if you don't fight? 
So I lost ability to cry about it.

Chorus:

It's impossible. The more I slip, 
the more I say that it's impossible. 
Every time I wake…... I had a dream about a wall 
that fell and broke the circle. 
The sky above came crumbling. Shit I'm a poet now. 
I wasn't scared, because you were there. 
High up in our favourite tree. 
Waking up and wondering why it can't be.

Chorus:

It's impossible. The more I slip, 
the more I say that it's impossible. 
Every time I wake it's you that fades away.
And every time again we tried, 
it blew up in our faces. 
It's not OK for me to stay. 
Close the book and go away, just don't stay. 
Call me crazy in the head. 
Call me numb and stupid. 
Call my mother just to verify it.

Chorus
And every time again we tried, 
it blew up in our faces. 
It's not OK for me to stay. 
And every time again we saw the look in our own faces. 
Eternity is where we'll see.
Feel like flying
I'm walking home after drinking all my pennies. 
So now I've got this beatbox in my head. 
Probably seems funny to you honey, bunny.
Well it ain't and when I'm home I'm going straight to bed. 
Walking home and I haven't got a planny. 
Because of all the pennies in my head. 
Well I'm pretty flip; I'm losing grip rocksteady, Betty. 
Pretty fly but I'm all right. I don't need a cigarette, because I
Feel like flying. I feel like flying. 
And I feel like flying, I've got a rotor on my head. 
And I feel like flying. Vroarrr...

I told a girl her name was pretty silly. 
She spit me in the face and stole my chair. 
And I just grinned and said my name was silly looking Billy. 
After that my memory kind of stopped right there.

Soulful feeling feels like smiling. 
Soulful smiling feels like...

Chorus:

I feel like flying, yep, 
I've got a rotor on my head 
and I feel like flying. 
So I'll fly, I'll fly. Vroarrr...
Falling back into zero conversation. 
Because besides me there's no one else around. 
Me, myself and I are on holiday probation. 
A dazzle sound awakes me as I walk straight out of town. 
Walking home as the words role down my tongue straight to below. 
I just catch them right before they hit the ground. 
Well I was walking home as the words rolled down my tongue straight to below. 
I just catch them right before they hit the ground you know.

Soulful feeling feels like smiling. 
Soulful smiling feels like...

Chorus
Ice cream time
Your skin is getting sun-tanned; 
I don't want to peel it off today. 
So pass me the lotion 20, 
my nose has had enough today.
My body, glitter glamour. 
Upon my towel I slip away. 
I got to go, I got to go, 
the sea is calling and

The sun is in my head and 
it's OK It's an ice cream day (3x)

Pass me my sunglasses. 
You sat on yours I still got mine. 
Just stretch out your right hand. 
They're in the plastic bag behind. 
The stereo Motorpsychos, 
just chilling, it's a holiday. 
Don't turn 'em off don't turn 'em off 
just let it play because

Their song is in my head and 
it's OK It's an ice cream day (3x)

I sweep my sweaty eyes wide open 
when she's walking by again. 
Pamela Anderson look-alikes lay naked in the sand. 
I quickly turn around to dig a bigger hole for my best friend. 
Again. Summer lips away too fast again. 
Again. Well eight more days to make them last.

And the sun is in my head and 
it's OK it's an ice cream day. (3x) 
Blue days
Broken down and shut-eyed, dangerous down the road. 
People's tricky business turns to overload. 
Don't remember clearly blank behind the eye. 
I caught up with the memory. I never said goodbye. 
I remember faces behind that wall of yours. 
I remember fistfights until one of us dropped. 
Don't recall all the details. 
Some are better off. 
I wish that it was possible to review the best of.

Chorus:

Day by day it hits in. 
Thanks for all you did in the blue days. 
Bit by bit it hits in. 
Thanks for all you did in the blue days. 
I got to try al little more, 
because I'm an asshole but I'm learning.
This is a picture of us all standing in the hallway. 
Looking quite ridiculous a little overdressed. 
You never understood I had to take the call. 
Because without dreams there's nothing left at all.

You got to try al little more, 
because you're an asshole but you're learning.

Broken down and shut-eyed, dangerous down the road. 
You say I took a sideway. 
You say I broke the oath. 
I don't remember clearly. 
It's blank behind the eye. 
I caught up with the memory. 
I never said goodbye.
World on a plate
I don't mind that you're pulling my hair again. 
And I don't mind that you're wearing my shoes again. 
Pencilstripe joke still stuck upon my chin. 
But I don't ever try to argue about those silly moods you're in 
because I know I'll never win. But all this is mine.

Chorus:

I'd give you the world on a plate anytime. 
If you can carry the weight. But this stays mine. 
My world on a plate. All of this stays mine.
I don't blame you for calling me names a bit. 
Go ahead, take all my money, I don't really give a shit, 
because I never sit on it but all this is mine.

Chorus
Oh what a feeling what a joy 
I guess I've finally found my treasure. 
Nothing anyone can measure though. 
You know my heart leaves me no choice. 
And to piss against the wind girl, 
that's another kind of matter so, 
that's why I let you know, 
that's why I can't let this go.

I don't mind that you're pulling my hair again. 
And I don't mind that you're wearing my shoes again. 
Because all this is mine I'd give you the world on a plate anytime, 
if you can carry the weight. But this stays mine. 
My world on a plate. All of this is mine. 
Rapid eye movement
Rapid eye movement bores the shit right out of me. 
But that don't mean that they suck objectively. 
They're fine in some eyes. 
In mine, they're better without sound. 
Some like the moon half way, others like it round.

Chorus:

Because it's a free world we're living in. 
So what I say is my opinion, not necessarily yours.
Some say you're crazy, others tell you you're a fool. 
Some say you're lazy and you have to learn the rules. 
Grow up just like us and we swear you will be cool, well,

Shit I'm a crazy fool cool without your rules,

Chorus
Falling was against the rules everything is breaking. 
Don't you bend or break the rules everyone is mistaken once. 
We're mistaken once.

It's a free world we're living in. 
But what you say is your opinion, not necessarily mine. 
It's a free world we're living in. 
So what I say is my opinion, not necessarily yours. 
Shooting star
Shooting star, here you are, 
the first time you fly by. 
I made a wish; a simple kiss 
was enough to make me look at you, 
so this is you. 
So surprised how time flies. 
Big ass car, dressed you are. 
Smooth and silky, you look nice.
Shooting star, here you are, 
the second time you fly by. 
Back again star-eye ten. 
Without reasons why you wind me up 
before I drop. 
Something's in my eye now. 
In the nameof this song 
and by all that I have done wrong.

Chorus:

How are you what's going on? 
Can I get you anything to drink? 
Time flies when you're having fun. 
I guess I haven't got that much to say. 
So this is what we have come to.
Do you recall that week in fall? 
Your hands stuck in your tight jeans. 
Drunk as hell, you just fell facedown into dog smell. 
How do you just think I do, 
the rope you had around me. 
Now you're back, you say to stay 
but who's to blame you're not the same in many ways.

Chorus
Stay away, because we don't have a deal. 
Stay away. Because I know you will go 
and leave me numb to stay. So this is what we have come to.

Shooting star, here you are, 
the third time you fly by. 
I made a wish to forget your kiss and your smile...

How are you what's going on. 
I guess I haven't got this much to say. 
Particular
First we drink our coffee now, 
and talk about nothing in particular. 
Why don't we just sit back 
and enjoy the silence for a while.

Chorus:

Truth no lies, tears and smiles are locked in our eyes 
as we sit here and drink a beer 
and donothing in particular. 
Nothing in particular. 
But I enjoy myself; I got my friends around me.
Close your eyes and drift away. 
You don't have to stay awake to talk to me 
when you know nothing to say. 
Why can't we just sit back and feel the love between us now.

Chorus