Dust Poets

Out on the edge of town
Everything's on the edge of town
Box stores they are piling up
How I wish I could knock them down

Give them a coat
Give them a cap
In designer clothes
We salute their backs

Walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Churn 'em out from a factory
Straight from a drive-thru reality
Those cars need room to roam
Bulldozing the greenery

Make perfect lawns
Big hair salons
Kings queens and pawns
In a world gone wrong

Walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Tear it up, lay it down
Bringing life to this boring ground
In subdivisions of renown
Add water and fake a town
No need to send in the clowns

Garden gnomes by the fishing shack
Three car garage with a house attached
Neighbourhoods in psychic flames
From an outbreak of being the same

There's so much less to this
Than meets the eye
There's so much bliss to miss
But we'll get by

If we walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away
Walk away, walk away, walk away

Tail lights fade on a white line road
Someone's signalling to someone below
And you look to the east and there's wisdom in the glow
You look to the sky but the answer's below

Well he said he'd stick it out for one last ride
It was a starless highway on an asphalt night
He felt the wind push the backs of his eyes
When he left town they lined the streets with goodbyes

And once again we dance with ourselves
And once again we dance with ourselves
And on that floor doesn't feel like you're alone
To each his own it's all unknown

He made fun of the pope he made fun of the past
He made fun of his jokes they fell flat on their ass
Wherever he went life just burned up behind
The road was in flames when he made up his mind

It's another dirt line a dry crack in the land
A scene of a crime a stain on his hand
But he swore it was too real to believe
You got to be locked up to know that you're free

And once again we dance with ourselves
And once again we dance with ourselves
And on that floor doesn't feel like you're alone
To each his own it's all unknown

They'll be glad to know that you found your way back home
Glad to know that you'll never forget
And no one believed the things that you said
You're better forgetting the whole thing instead
Maybe all of those suburban places were just in your head

So it's two shots of sadness one shot of regret
Set 'em up Joe tonight was made to forget
They caught him in their sights and he didn't even know
Night turned to day and they watched as he floated

And once again
And once again
And once again we dance with ourselves
And once again we dance with ourselves
And on that floor doesn't feel like you're alone
To each his own it's all unknown

Well I gotta get outta this town
those demons keep following me around
Well it's doing me nothing good
staying here in this neighbourhood

I should've listened when I had the chance
but my ears were always closed
Back then there wasn't much stuff to pack
but then there wasn't no place to go

The less I know the better off I seem to be
Not knowing much good
Is good - good enough for me

Well I gotta get away from my boss
I keep forgetting I'm self employed
Year after year I'm declaring a loss
day after day I'm nearer the void

I was gonna join the circus
but I had other things on that day
I guess there's always gonna be next year
next year I'll plan a better get away

The more I change the more I stay the same
The less I act the less likely to take the blame
The less I know the better off I seem to be
Not knowing much good
Is good - good enough for me

What good is a neighbourhood
When you open your mouth and you're misunderstood
What good is a half a man
when one half leads where the other half stands
Running's gone through your mind a dozen time
But talk is cheap when you're gagging on a grape vine

Well I gotta get outta this face
in the mirror there's a different guy
If I look closely at those lines
I can trace a road map of time

The more I change the more I stay the same
The less I act the less likely to take the blame
The less I know the better off I seem to be
Not knowing much good
Is good - good enough for me

Lonesome.... It's a feeling I get
when I'm sick and tired of being here
No matter how many friends I have near
it's still lonesome in here

Heartaches it's a pain that I get
when I'm beating along in this race
Take me out of this place
back to the smile on your face
Crash and burning in outer space
vanished with no trace

Lonesome does what lonesome does
It doesn't matter how good you're feelin'
When heartaches are in heartaches win
Doesn't matter how much you are loved
The clouds may part to the sun above and still you're lonesome

Lonesome is as lonesome is
And lonesome is lonesome too
It's a hard enough emotion to live next to
But it's worse when it's mixed up with the colour blue

Blues it's more than three boring chords
it strikes the boring chord in you
From the top of your head to your shoes
It always rings true

Wanted for speaking your mind
the words keep dribbling out
You wanna stand on that soap box and shout
Wash the swear words right outta yer mouth
But you're afraid of what might come tumbling out
The fears and those doubts

Doesn't matter how much you are loved
Some days it's just never enough
The clouds may part to the sun above and still you're lonesome

Doesn't matter how much you are loved
Some days it's just never enough
The clouds may part to the sun above and still you're lonesome

I'm so sick of this town
but I really love this town
It's a nice place to live but I wouldn't wanna visit
If I was feeling down

Take my belt take my shoe laces
cause I know when I'm licked
How long do you have to live here before you get a shirt with your
name on it

I love you as far as I can spit
And I need you as much as I need me
I love you as far as I can spit
Every little drip

It's like living in a TV show
let your imagination go
Cause that's all there is in this mixed up place
We all call our home

I've been abducted by the locals
they let me into their club
It's a place where the facts are stranger than the fiction
That we all joke about

I love you as far as I can spit
And I need you as much as I need me
I love you as far as I can spit
Every little drip

I really shouldn't say too much cause they're starting to catch on
Lately I've been waking up to find my own quotes burned in my lawn
Trying to make sense of it when it all seems so absurd
The heads of the village idiots hang on the outskirts welcoming the world

I love you as far as I can spit
And I need you as much as I need me
I love you as far as I can spit
Every little drip

I married a magician and he sawed me right through
He said he had enough love to satisfy two
Now if you were me and you were two what would you do
Would you take twice the love or would you get out the glue

Remember the wagons when they pulled into town
You could see the big top for miles around
Among the carnival freaks he stood out like a clown
And from his top hat he pulled a wedding gown

Hey hey whatcha gonna do
You can't love me and another one too
Hey hey whatcha gonna say
When the cat's away the rats are gonna play

He had a house of cards hidden up his sleeve
Two hearts on the wall and a colour TV
He was pulling white rabbits from behind my ear
And in the blink of an eye a prenuptial appeared

Soon we gave birth to a tiny wolf boy
He was a hairy freak but a bundle of joy
Had a circus bark much worse than his bite
Howling through his crib by the full moon light

Hey hey whatcha gonna do
You can't love me and another one too
Hey hey whatcha gonna say
When the cat's away the rats are gonna play

Well the story goes that when he came to earth
They broke the mould right there at birth
He was so darn ugly just a bag of skin
The doctor slapped his mother instead of him

Well things got pretty strange towards the end my stay
He'd ride the bearded lady and be gone for days
And just when I thought it was safe to relax
He'd be hanging on the ceiling like a vampire bat

In all that I time I learned the tricks of the trade
I knew there'd be a time when I would have to escape
So instead of packing up and moving away

I found his magic wand
Soon all his stuff was gone
But there was one thing left…

Don't give him a name
Don't give him a face
Don't give him love
He's gotta blow up some place
Blow up some place
We occupy the same space
We're all looking for love
We're all borrowing faith

Don't give him your hand
He'll sweep it away
Don't give him a voice
He can't hear what you say
Hear what you say
It could be us any day
Could be a bus or a train
Hearts are falling like rain

What allows you
To play so fast and loose with the truth
Faith is just a word anyone can use

Borrowing faith
Borrowing faith

This handful of earth
Will grow up some day
Someday we'll start acting our age
Acting our age
Remove the dust from the clay
And give back what we take
And show the world how we're made

Don't give him a name
Don't give him a face
Don't give him love
He's gotta blow up some place
Blow up some place
We occupy the same space
We're all looking for love
We're all borrowing faith

Survivalist Hippies load up their weapons
They got hideaways near gonna break some silence
In green fatigues sucking back some cool ones
Hard earned money and brain cells vanish

Keeping in touch with the one above
Between the cracks where push to shove

hillbilly love, hillbilly love
staring out at the world from the back of a truck
hillbilly love, hillbilly love
sharing our dreams of common bad luck

It's the kind of love strangers don't talk back to
Good old boys passed out in the back pew
Living in the past and trying to find a future
Running out of gas on that highway to heaven

On the backside of those hills
Poaching game and popping pills

hillbilly love, hillbilly love
staring out at the world from the back of a truck
hillbilly love, hillbilly love
sharing our dreams of common bad luck

They knew they'd found their calling here
It's the place to go to disappear
Neighbours are living in fear of the curse
They're on the fightin side they say
Six gun justice rules the day
Oh lord can't you hear me pray
Protect me from your followers

He had a wild hunt farm 'til they shut him down
Now he's feeding the meat to the tourists in town
Keeping his guns buried in the ground
Until the call to rise up comes around

Help wanted sign's on the hanging tree
You can speak your mind but it ain't free

hillbilly love, hillbilly love
riding shotgun in the back of a truck
hillbilly love, hillbilly love
sharing our dreams of common bad luck

Now that you're in your special place
Where your money used to go
Now that you wear your second face
How were we supposed to know

Now that those thoughts have gone to bed
They are no longer in your way
There's not much room left in your head
Easy Street has come to stay

You see through clouds clear to outer space
You see through clouds and we don't see a trace

And you change it all (you were bound to fall)
And you change it all (your back's against the wall)
And you change it all (you paint just who you are)
And you change it all (who's in the corner now)

You get the joke you get the rhyme
You do the art you do the crime
For everyone there comes a day
When the large print giveth
And the by-line giveth
But the small print taketh away

Now that the pen has hit the floor
The words have fallen from your sword
That feather touch has done you well
We've fallen deep within your spell

You see through clouds clear to outer space
You see through clouds and we don't see a trace

And you change it all (you were bound to fall)
And you change it all (your back's against the wall)
And you change it all (you paint just who you are)
And you change it all (who's in the corner now)

Surrounded by steel and fake wood panelling
Mirrors on the ceiling digits on the door
We're going up slow taking our time
Room service selling ourselves by the floor

We're spinning the promo wheel and playing the slots
We covered more ground stuck here in this box
Give us a business card send us an email
Well I remember the name cause the face ain't so hot

Do you think that you'd like to go anywhere with us
You can leave anytime we'll always be here
Do you think that you'd like to be anyone different
Just pick a new floor and change on out of this time

Elevator music it's lyrical freight
There's a pound restriction and a four minute wait
Plan to come early and pay to stay late
You can take the stairs if you wanna complain

It's a closed party and the air is thin
The further we go the more we begin again
We press all the right buttons you stay for a song
But when we hit your number we turn and you're gone

If you stay long enough you'll end up on top
We're not looking for love just a song we can shop
In this hotel hall of shame the showcase shaft
It's a vertical river and we're on the raft

Do you think that you'd like to go anywhere with us
You can leave anytime we'll always be here
Do you think that you'd like to be anyone different
Just pick a new floor and change on out of this time

Elevator music it's lyrical freight
There's a pound restriction and a four minute wait
Plan to come early and pay to stay late
You can take the stairs if you wanna complain

There's the music
It fits in this box
There's melodic cushion for shock
It's a lyrical workout
Trying to give voice to your thoughts

But it's all here
All you need to know
Hand-holding you straight to the show
One day you might find it in places that you never go

As we explore this world together
Our emotions are our maps
There's a small tattoo of yesterday
That's stapled to our past
Keep those dreams forever coming back

It sounds complicated
It's no small feat
Words punctuated to fit in this beat
It's a present that sits at the edge of a memory

It's pre-meditated
Sedated with rhyme
A prisoner in three-quarter time
Releasing the words so that one day they may learn to fly

As we explore this world together
Our emotions are our maps
There's a small tattoo of yesterday
That's just beyond our grasp

And as wind blows sand beneath our feet
That's covering our tracks
Don't dream too hard when you're asleep
Dreams can get lost in the cracks
Of the choices played and walks you've made
Down every little path

Keep those dreams forever coming
Keep those dreams forever coming
Keep those dreams forever coming back