Hope And Wait Lyrics

What do you see when all that surrounds you is darkness?
Where do you stand when all of your idols have fallen?
I can watch for a little while longer though it pains me
I know this is what the schooling's for
I fall behind sometimes
We pray for an ounce of the architecture
To sink in - a waste of time, sweet time

Why does this hand that beats me down lay trembling?
Words so unkind they send me into slavery
This fear that keeps me down is raging

This new world face has an outline that's carved into cardboard
Without a trace of whispers spoken forsaken
Fresh heart, it's brilliance not withstanding

(Time and time again)
I know this is what the schooling's for
(These hands that push you down)
I fall behind sometimes
(Time and time again)
We pray for an ounce of the architecture
(These hands will pick you back up)
to sink in - a waste of time, sweet time
Sweet time

What do you see when all that surrounds you is dark?

My hair grows in a fashion, makes my mother think I'm taking drugs
I can only say she's mostly wrong
And I'm not quite sure how to cope with my current situation
In this place that I keep saying I belong
And I do not think I'll be
Discussed elegantly
Won't you please tell me

How does it feel to be charmed, worry free as can be
Throw the world down on their knees kissing your rings
Have it all handed to you, watch it all go kabloo
Yes I'd feel stupid too, Aesop's job is done

Brilliance comes and brilliance goes but you're the only one who knows
'Cause nothing draws them in like sympathy
And as for all the broken ones who make their ways with poison tongues
The pillow they sleep on is misery
But you will not see me
Being steered to a tree
In this land of the free

And I do not think I'll be
Discussed elegantly
Won't you please tell me

Yes, I can only say she's mostly wrong

Sundown and we're high for the tenth time today
We get by thanks to patience, just a little disappointed
Far from dumb more blessed than some - boil the water your turn to cook
Wide awake, piece of cake, we're sorry neighbors
Spread it around, get the word out how you got the best of me
It's no easy task I'll give you that but I know when the joke's on me
Thanks for the excuse for all the abuse, you're just what I always needed
A scapegoat for yours truly to call his very own

In comes the sun, day begun whether I want it to or not
I tried to run off bury the past leave it behind but I got caught
The little voice you got that won't stop egging me on

I've done things out of desperation, become gainfully employed
And I took this voice for granted, now it's nearly destroyed
But at least I've got a new bed to just lie on and fade
Maybe it's me who's stupid here for everything I've said

Hey Victoria, do you still hide my letters
Under the mattress you lay on with him?
Do you even remember putting them there?
I'd say probably not
But I'm here and I'm writing, by the light of the candle
That I once used when I'd write you

Oh Victoria, the girl in the flowered dress
It seems you've forgotten - is this some kind of test?
And if so, I hope I'm doing well
And on the Fourth of July while I sit and cry
You and Mr. Wonderful can have the time of your lives

Oh Victoria, did you have a good time in France?
Hey don't worry, 'cause nothing's going to change - you said
Words in the wind, well they certainly do come easy
Eight months now I've been waiting for you to come around
Beating my head against the wall - you never believed me
Why would you worry? Why would you worry?

All in all I'd still say thank you. You showed me a life I never knew
All in all, I'd still say I love you. All in all, I surrender
All in all

Arnie works the cyclone at the state fair
Says he's in it for the chicks
Smokes about two packs of cigarettes each day
And he drinks just like a fish

Arnie never talks of family
And he never found a wife
He sleeps with the bearded lady
So does the guy that swallows knives

Oh and I, I'm quite a lot like him
Oh and I, I'm quite a lot like him
Oh and I, I'm quite a lot like him-I swear

Arnie talks as if someday he'll leave
If the right thing comes along
A distant dream as a mercenary marine
Is a dream that's long gone

My eyes, my eyes they're not like his
Maybe a little
God, I wish my eyes were just like his

Arnie's on the road eight months each year
Winters down south where it's warm
He's in a trailer park in Sarasota
Getting drunk with the clowns

M.C. say she don't like bringing nobody down
She's the drama queen that sent us screaming back to town
Maybe she's better when I'm better
Maybe she ain't so strange
Baby you ain't as real as the fiction that you read

And we're all better off leaving Miriam behind
The nervous twitch that shook my eye is nearly gone
Though I never really thought that you were truly dangerous
It's just better for us if you stay behind

Baby you ain't the daughter of Mark Twain and Ayn Rand
Like you stated in your press release to your imaginary fans
Maybe you'll go as far as you say
Maybe we'll see you in L.A.
But for now I hope that you stay right where you are

Maybe she's better when I'm better
Maybe she ain't so strange
Baby you ain't as real
As the fiction that you read

You're playing with the newest superhero that I have found
He can hold his breath longer than Aquaman
He's more beautiful than Superman

Hey, I can change the world
Hey, I can change the world

How quickly we forget when we're on to better things
In a hangar there's a jet I'm gonna sleep upon its wings
When I wake up I'll be flying, someday so will you
How quickly we forget when there's better things to do

I wish that I were Roman, just to have a Roman feast
To be fed grapes by pretty women while lying at their feet
I would try to be smooth
I would try to be smooth

You're playing with the newest superhero that I have found
He's gonna drive your Superman straight into the ground

(I'm the newest superhero)
Hey, I can change the world
(I'm the newest superhero)
Hey, I can change the world

Your strange fascination with the obvious
Makes you as startling as a window
Your keen sense of being oblivious
Shows that you've nothing to hide
From what I became to what I'll become
To what I once was having seen some
I went over the salt that's combined between us
From up there all you see is clouds
That might be bad
Nothing like bliss
After the aging's done, wonder how much I'd miss

To live beyond the ever lessening mercies of others
The shoulders that look our way they scream out try solitude

The piss whores in the newsroom
Got a knack for starting fires
They'll cut out your heart with a chainsaw
And shit it out over the wires
That might be bad
Nothing like bliss
After the aging's done wonder how much I'd miss

To live beyond the ever lessening mercies of others
The shoulders that look our way they scream out try solitude
When the helping hands reach out and take hold of the pillow that smothers
Heaven help us all who understand

Shiny's making it good - every promise made
Shiny's making it good - with the lives he saved
I don't want to be here when it goes down
When it all goes down
When it all goes down

Man that joke was funny, maybe not but I depend on you
That I might eat this lousy meal all alone always
Wailing on a dinner date that smiles at me from miles away
Man she's looking pretty don't you say

That's always the way with her
That's always the way
That's always the way with her
The way with her, the way with her

Tapped out but well intended with his new one I befriended
I don't think she's gonna go my way
Still I'll drive for hours to fall victim to her powers
Eat my remains I don't care

You've got some pretty on your face

I came in contact with a common household bug
That quickly met his match with hundred dollar drugs
And in a week or two I know that I'll be fine
And all the bumps will fade from the skin of my behind

I've got my head screwed on backwards - sideways
Visions from fever I can't hear what you say

Oh wow, another movie, I hope this one's great
A period piece set in the nineteenth century late
Well I'll wager I'll be bored before halfway
It's with a deep regret that I even push play

I should have this when I was a child
I shouldn't have this now

Crystalline chandeliers hang from your sleeping eyes
Each stone seems more than a crystal to me
They're more like diamonds that you have wiped within your angel kissed skin

Far too many time these rigid stones, these diamond tears
With the numbers so great
They've formed the chandeliers from you

All these jagged years so mean
So lean of interludes of delight
Many an eve you've wept 'til blue
Many more you've held your feelings in tight

Deep down within you carry other's sins
And you cry to the man who sits up high
So many worries see joy pass in flurries
Can leave you wrinkled to die

Let it be said I sold you out
For the teeth that ache inside my mouth
All my affairs have just turned south for the way you're hassling me

My claim to fame
Made me ashamed of the artifact that bears my name
Anyhow we know that it's all the same

When the car flips over the people fall out
This is not something I can laugh about
Somewhere there's a home where they're being missed
Somewhere there's a wall beaten by a fist

In candid talks I beg of you
To cut all ties of you
Better life comes to better lives
Than the one you lead

She was pretty enough to have just once
Then you left quite quietly
As we all watched her belly swell
We prayed a curse on you

Going, "Why God? Why God? Why God now?"

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