The Unauthorized Biography
of Reinhold Messner
| 1.
Narcolepsy |
| 2.
Don't Change Your Plans |
| 3.
Mess |
| 4.
Magic |
| 5.
Hospital Song |
| 6.
Army |
| 7.
Your Redneck Past |
| 8.
Your Most Valuable Possession |
| 9.
Regrets |
| 10.
Jane |
| 11.
Lullaby |
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I should warn you
I go to sleep
I know you don't
know what I mean
yet
I get upset or happy
I go to sleep
nothing hurts when
I go to sleep
but I'm not tired
I'm not tired
I know it seems that I don't care
but something in me does I swear
I don't remember all last year
I left you awake to cry the tears
while I was dreaming in streams
flowing between the shores
of joy and sadness
I'm drowning
save me
wake me up
I should warn you
I go to sleep
you won't know when I go to sleep
because I'm not tired
I'm not tired
I just sleep |
Sometimes I get the feeling
That I won't be on this planet for very long
I really like it here
I'm quite attached to it; I hope I'm wrong
All I really want to say
You're the reason I want to stay
I loved you before I met you
And I met you just in time
Because there was nothing left
I sat here on my suitcase
In our empty new apartment
'til the sun went down
And I walked back down the stairs
With all my bags and drove away
You must be freaking out
All I know is I got to be
Where my heart says I ought to be
It often makes no sense, in fact
I never understand these things I feel
Don't change your plans for me
I won't move to LA
The leaves are falling back east
That's where I'm going to stay
You have made me smile again
In fact I might be sore from it
It's been awhile
I know we've been together
Many times before
I'll see you on the other side
Don't change your plans for me
I won't move to LA
The leaves are falling back east
That's where I'm going to stay
All I really want to say
You're the reason I want to stay
But destiny is calling
And I told them when my time is up
I'm out of here
All I know is I got to be
Where my heart says I ought to be
It often makes no sense, in fact
I never understand these things I feel
I love you, good bye
I love you, good bye |
There was a time that I had nothing to explain
All this mess I had made
But then things got complicated
My innocence has all but faded
All this mess I have made
And I don't believe in god
So I can't be saved
All alone as I learn to be
In this mess I have made
Oh, the untested virtue
The things I said I'd never do
Least of all, to you
And though he's kind and true
I know that he is good to you
He'll never care for you more than I do
But I don't believe in love
So I can't be tamed
All alone, as I've learned to be
In this mess I have made
The same mistake
Over and over again
There are rooms in this house
That I don't open any more
Dusty books and pictures on the floor
But she will never see
She'll never see that part of me
I want to be for her
What I could never be for you
And I don't believe in God
So I can't be saved
All alone as I've learned to be
In this mess I have made( |
From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well
You'd never be yourself again
Saw you last night
Dance by the light of the moon
Stars in your eyes
Free from the life that you knew
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la
La la da la la la
You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
You're the breath the blows these cool winds 'round
Trading places with an angel now
Saw you last night
Dance by the light of the moon
Stars in your eyes
Free from the life that you knew
Saw you last night
Stars in the sky
Smiled in my room
Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la da da
La da la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la da da
La da la la la lae |
Lying here awake in my hospital room
Silas Creek Parkway is my only view
And the doctor just came by
And told me the news
I need a second opinion
I don't believe that it's true |
Well I thought about the army
Dad said, 'Son you're fucking high'
And I thought, 'yeah there's a first for everything'
So I took my old man's advice
3 sad semesters
It was only 15 grand
Spent in bed
I thought about the army
I dropped out and joined a band instead
Grew a moustache and a mullet
Got a job at Chick-fil-A
Citing artistic differences the band broke up in May
And in June reformed without me
And they got a different name
And nuked another grandma's apple pie
And hung my head in shame
Been thinking a lot today
Been thinking a lot today
Think I'll write a screenplay
Think I'll take you to LA
Think I'll get it done yesterday
(ah shit!)
In this time of introspection
On the eve of my election
I say to my reflection
God please spare me more rejection
'Cause my peers they criticize me
And my ex-wives all despise me
Try to put it all behind me
But my redneck past is nipping at my heels (ha ha ha ha)
Thinking a lot today
Been thinking a lot today
Been thinking a lot today
I thought about the army |
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la
Choose from any number of magazines
Who do you want to be
Billy Idol or Kool Moe Dee
If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past
There are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past
They'll never send you home
Roots-the funny limbs that grow underground
That keep you from falling down
Don't you think that you'll need 'em now
Just find a place where no one knows of your redneck past
Yeah you can easily dispose of your redneck past
You'll show them all back home
Désolé, je suis Américain
Please cook my steak again
Je suis Américain
Désolé, je ne parle pas Français
Laws-they vary from state to state
Get you some books on tape
To learn about holes in space
If you're afraid they might uncover your redneck ass
There are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
It's good to be back home
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh |
6:49am, Friday, November 20th
"Good morning, Mr. Ben. It's about 6:30, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Just laying here in the bed, half awake, half asleep, thinking about you. I was,
uh, wondering if you were looking after your most valuable possession--your
mind. I was thinking about John Glenn, his space journey and all. They said that
when you're in space you lose muscle mass...and the body mass...and I wondered
if there was any...end to it. Or whether if you didn't exercise in space, how
long it would be before you were just...a head, or a mind, and have no body or
arms--you would have them but you couldn't use them. I was wondering if, uh, if
your body mass would drop to a certain level, and then it would stop right there
and keep whatever you needed to use your mind, because it would still be
working. 30 seconds remaining...anyway, I was just pondering that. What do you
think about that? I hope everything is going all right, I'm going to wake up
here in a little while--I forget what I was thinking about."
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I thought about sitting on the floor in second grade
I couldn't keep the pace
I thought I was the only one moving in slow motion
While the other kids knew something I did not
But if I acted like a clown
I thought it would get me through
It did, but that don't work no more
You're not a kid no more
I thought I'd do some traveling, I never did
Regrets
Regrets
I thought about the hours wasted watching TV, drinking beer
I thought about the things I thought about
Until immobilized with fear
And all the great ideas I had
And how we just made fun of those who had the guts to try and fail
And then I ended up in jail
Regrets
Regrets
Regrets
Regrets
Every day it seems the police
have made a computer mistake
Said 'there must be thousands like me
with the same name'
Anyway, I thought about the things I settled for
I never tried
I never visited my grandma even once
When she was sick before she died
So I don't blame if you never come
And see me here again
Regrets
Regrets
Regrets |
Jane, be Jane
You're better that way
Not when your trying
Imitating something
You think you saw
So Jane, be Jane
And sometimes that might drive them away
Let them stay there
You don't need them anyway
You worry there might not be anything at all inside
That you're worried should tell you that's not right
Don't try to see yourself the way that others do
It's no use
You're worried there might not be anything at all inside
That you're worried should tell you that's not right
You've had it harder than anyone could know
So hard to let it go
But its your life you can decorate it as you like
Beneath the pain and armor
In your eyes the truth still shines
Jane, be Jane
Jane, be Jane |
Good night, good night, sweet baby
The world has more for you
Than it seems, good night, good night
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams
We took a small flight
In the middle of the night
From one tiny place to another
And my parents remain at the shack with Lorraine
And my aunt and my Grandpa and brother
We walked past the tarmac and boarded the craft
The rain had me chilled to the bones
Just the three of us took flight that night
Uncle Richard, me, and James Earl Jones
And the pilot he gave me a blanket
And the tall dark man sang to me in deep rich tones
Good night, good night, sweet baby
The world has more for you
Than it seems, good night, good night
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams |
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