There's a quiet place in my city mind
I drift out there from time to time
Like when I don't know when
I am ever gonna be myself again

There's a quiet room
But I can't sleep
There's a dark spooky fog coming in from the street
And when I gasp for air
I stray away to where
There's a soothing void for me to share

Wounded soldiers
Hurry around my yard
O but the only place in the world
Where my senses sleep
And my soul leaps
Into solid control

I heard a man went mad
When he checked under his hat
For the piece of mind that he never had
And when he found the space
They call the quiet place
He decided to stay
And since that very day

There are wounded soldiers
That hurry around his yard
O but the only place in the world
Where my senses sleep
And my soul leaps
Into solid control

And when this peace is all mine
And when I stand still in time
Oh baby baby I love it when
That happens to me
And when this peace is all mine
I stop I do not return
I try not to become frightened of the light

It's like an aspirin for blues
Like an umbrella for dark moods

And when I stop and look behind
Girl if I would loose you would I cry?

Man I drove down to Ghent in my underwear
I went looking for some new
Funny clothes to wear
I was feeling strange
I'd say a little deranged

So I walk on in this funky place
Just to see what kinda groove
That I could trace
I saw her face
And her elegant taste

Dancing to a disco was the bananqueen
Thoroughly surrounded by her royal 
Bananakin
I was amazed
She put a smile on my face

She said:
Hey man
You shouldn't be worried
About the good or the bad or all them stories
Just a slowly point your life
In the right direction
And live it up the the max of true satisfaction

I said:
Hey
My life is OK

Maybe she was French
Maybe African or German
But it didn't really matter to the people
That were turning
To the left to the right
The way they moved was out of sight
Man I had to get busy giving everything
Everything

She had an afroceltic fire and a philosophic trill
She had the muscles of a giant
With a delicate skill
She had the softness of a mama
And the kindness of a granny
She was yelling like Brown James Joyce
Donkey Daddy

Now you may think the queen
Was dome doctrinial fool
Or like a monkey
Doing tricks around a touristic crew
I'd say a
This here character was nothing like that
I think the forces of this planet
All were bound in this cat

I said:
Hey
My life is OK

When I woke I got up to collect my doubts
I chewed them with my lucky jaw
I chewed them with my lucky jaw
I need someone to care for me
A bigger heart to care for me
What will I be without this force to support me
To collect me
I used to thing I was strong enough to cope
With fears as deep and fierce as mine
Hahahaha

But then I broke
And then if fell
I screamed and curled and cracked and crawled

Selfishness, foolishness
Predicts defeat
The jester rules the stronghold

Love I saw, love I was
I had never seen a love that was big before

Carelessness, recklessness
Predicts defeat
The jester rules the stronghold

A woman burned the castle mine
She said I could no longer shine
In armor she thought of as foul and fake

But foul and fake was she to me
I pushed her away she had to leave
I was left alone in an empty black burned
Out field

Oh what I desire
Is my lovers great insulting fire
For me

Watching
Waiting
Trying to free

Scattered around on the floor
All the things of a boy
The armor and the plans for war
All meaningless but wonderful

Caught in the caves on my hearts trampoline
I can not be traced no I can not be seen
I lie in my tomb but still suffer the pain
The vision of you now is all that remains

Oh it burns in my eyes
But love is great
And love's divine
To me

Everybody's God to me
But I've been refused
The soul inside of me
Has been introduced
To the loud laugh of the mocker
And the slamming of the door
And the loud laugh of the mocker
Is bound to reach the core

I remember when I still believed
In peoples gentle truth
I hollered nights and nights
In blackened burned out moods
I shouted for the day to come
When all my fears would go away
I yearned for the day when
All my fears would go away

O hero
Somebody send me home with information please

Everybody's God to me
But I'm on the run
I live a life of love I live forgive and love
I live a life of love I live forgive and love

O hero

Everybody's God to me
But I've been denied
I wear a warm place in my heart in spite
Of the loud laugh of the mocker
Of the slamming of the door
Still the loud laugh of the mocker 
Is bound to reach the core

O hero

Ahead of the senses
How do you do it baby
Out of my mind when I'm with you

The deeper the expenses
Away from the blue
Nothing to say or do

Why worry
Why hurry
When in the morning it won't be gone

I'm taking these chances
And become brand new
Casting the light over the gloom

So now we're jumping these fences
Of the prison of blue
Loving the day and the nighttime too

She gets up
Out of her bed
Blinking her eyes and cracking her neck
She throws me a smile
And off to the ceiling

This is the morning and she ain't gone

Rumours say I can't get high without you
And here's the sun reflecting on your skin
And though my friend advice
Not to choose her
I chose her
My heart belongs to someone else
I wish it was mine
My heart belongs to someone else
I wish it was mine
Oh oh now I can get this chance
I'll take it in time
Oh oh now I can get this chance
I'll take it in time
Oh time

The bigger the task
The louder the crack
The deeper the black
With a heart attack
What I say?

This girl's been slamming like a hammer man
She's got the best of me
I do the best I can
But I will  never be fine
Yes I will always be late
I keep on working 'till
I work myself in hesitation

But I believe in angels

And an angel came down in a summer storm
Like it was ment to be since the day I was born
My heart belongs to someone else
I wish it was mine
This girl's been hissing like a rattlesnake
She's got the best of me
But now I need a break
Oh oh when I will get in this chance
I'll take it with time
Black clouds came over and  the lightning stroke
The opposition in the weather
Was a bitter joke
Oh oh when I will get this chance
I'll take it with time

The bigger the task
The louder the crack
The deeper the black
With a heart attack
It's ok
I don't know where I'm at 
Anyway

Somebody screamed
Somebody forced a lie
Somebody broke my faith today

And though it always seems the first time
It happens all the time baby
I find I'm dangling on a thin line
We are moving through life as pray

Somebody cried
Someone broke down inside
And I been listening to their stories

Down on the floor
I look up at the faces
Ragged by the races
Moving in time
Following the traces
Pretending a smile
Walking million miles with the forces of a wounded mule

And though it always seems the first time
It happens all the time baby
I find I'm dangling on a thin line
We are moving through live as pray

Somebody arrives in a foreign place and starts to cry
But not a soul who thinks of giving up his precious place
And so they die

And though it always seems the first time
It happens all the time baby
I find I'm dangling an a thin line
We are moving through live as prey

Josie in her car she drives and she talks
Josie in her bath she pleases and shocks
Josie on the roof an urge to be free
Josie girl don't fly away from me

Josie moves about to find her place
Josie flexes her muscles
And straightens her face
Josie in that dress looks slim and tall
Josie if we'd kiss I wouldn't mind at all

Josie in a pot is cooking herbs
And I'm in love with her
And if a witch she gets you with
That spooky charm of her
No chance you'll get away
But then you wanna stay in
That precious cage
Loving your whole life through
And everything seems quite a joke
Make it for ever you pray

Josie
I love everything you do
Listen pretty baby
I'm living my life for you

Josie puts faith into herself
And then I wonder
If she needs somebody else
I wonder if she's crying
I wonder about her heart and
Her head and her time

I'll see ya
Where all your dreams are born
But then I loose ya
To what you dream
Breathing
I'm breathing the air of you
But then I'm chocking
On the rest of the world

Josie puts faith into herself
And then I wonder
Is she needs somebody else
I wonder if she's crying
I wonder about her heart and 
Her head and her time

Maybe I misunderstood
A part of your story
But I believe you're no good
I'd say you're even quite boring

Although I pay you no mind
I can't stand you much longer
Still it's giving me time
And it's making me stronger

Man your life is a lazy mess
You don't relate to the things that I like best
I know you're idle and cheating you're fake and deceiving
Though everything always seems cool

Man I just want you to know
That when you're making me worry
About the bond that we have
You simply can not ignore it

And when the going gets tough
I know you're not gonna be here
So I won't ask you to go
Cause you are constantly leaving

All your life
Is full of lies
I'm sorry friend
This can't go on

Maybe I misunderstood 
A part of your story
I sometimes wish that I did
But then I know what I know man

Now if you wanna stay
You're gonna have to pay
Now try to make my day
Or leave me be
Yeah if you wanna stay
You better change your ways
I stop giving you
Your fun for free
So if you wanna stay
I wanna hear you say
You never really tried
To give me some back to me

Some people say you gotta hold on of what you've got 
Then you warn me just what it is you have 
Baby I was just waiting for my glory 
How about yours? 
How's it goin'? 
I pray to a little lord you got 
You ran into a Big Black TV Cat 

Why you were lookin' for a grey nice shoes 
And pay all cash to make them black 
You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack 

And then you're lookin' for a rose in bloom 
You got the strings all broken, but your shoes tied up 
You're makin' love in the afternoon 

Hey baby 
That girl 
She got me gumbling 
She's gonna come out on top 
She's gonna come out on top yeah 
You ran into a Big Black TV Cat 

Why you were lookin' for a grey nice shoes 
And pay all cash to make them black 
You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack
Hey baby 
You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack 
You ran into a Big Black TV Cat 

Why you were lookin' for a grey nice shoes 
And pay all cash to make them black 
You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack You're just lookin' trough the helice for a boy named Jack

30 days is long enough
50 baby I don't call you anymore
I wish you'd rush into my arms
But every wish I wish is bound to do me harm
The phone it rang around half past one
And then I pull the plug out of the wall
The conversations that I have
They don't amount to nothing
Except for the ugly thoughts I have

The doorbell rang around half past two
And when I walk back inside the day was through
I think I slept al afternoon
And when I woke at night the moon was full
The neon flashing in the streets
I walk through town to a lazy beat
I take the phones off of my ears
Cause the music don't sooth me
It just makes me bleed

I wonder if I'm done with thinking
This prison room will be my grave
But now I'm all alone and drinking
Although I surely lost the taste

In the morning when I woke
I heard a noisy television host
I switch the man out of my room
Cause the games they don't trill me
They just make me blue
The window's open
The curtain flies
I see the ghost of you before my eyes
I shiver as I turn away
I see the phone is waiting
I dial and I pray