Lyrics
1. Towel Cape Song
2. I Know Too Much (For My Own
Good)
3. Into My View
4. Sometimes I'm Sam
5. Phony
6. Down
7. Colors In Black & White
8. Until The Road Ends
9. Taking Its Toll
10. I'll Be Fine
Towel Cape Song
Music: DeFreese / McKay
Lyrics: McKay
Why do you wear that around your neck?
You know, it can’t really make you fly.
It’s just a towel, not a cape.
If you jump, you’ll die.
You’re just feeling confused
But you’ve got to get right
Before you go too far.
I don’t want to see the impression of you
On the roof of a parked car.
So just come down and get real.
Don’t be crazy and try.
If you jump, you’re gonna fall like a brick,
Regret it…and die.
Oh yeah
Daydreaming grandeur through your life
Is no excuse.
When the night time comes and the door bell rings,
It’s not a villain gunning for you.
So just come down and get real.
Don’t be crazy and try.
If you jump, you’re going to fall like a brick,
Regret it…and die.
Don’t be stupid, can’t you even hear?
You’re just gonna die if you fall.
I won’t watch you leap to your death.
Sooner or later, delusions will kill us all.
Oh yeah.
Well, I heard people gasping.
So I looked to the sky.
Just imagine my surprise
To see you smiling and waving
From up high…oh yeah.
Goodbye.
I Know Too Much (For
My Own Good)
Music & Lyrics: McKay
When I mention that there’s something wrong,
You tell me I’m a pessimist
Even though you’re staring down the same monster as me
And while we’re talking about it,
The monster is sneaking around
And by the time the conversation’s over
It’ll be too late.
I’m not saying this trying to be difficult.
I’m not saying this just to raise fear
It’s just that if we’re prepared, we can fight it better
We won’t win but we won’t disappear…
Chorus:
I’ve been right about too many things I’d rather be wrong about
I’ve been wrong about too few things that turned out to be right
But if you think I think I know it all
You don’t know what I’m getting at.
It’s just I know too much for my own good.
I know too much for my own good.
I know too much for my own good but not enough…for you.
We always go round and round
And fall right into the trap
This isn’t my imagination
It’s something that I don’t want.
And that other thing we never talk about
‘Cause we don’t want to verbalize it into existence
Is on the other side of the door waiting for its time.
I’m not saying this trying to be difficult.
I’m not saying this just to raise fear
It’s just that if we’re prepared, we can fight it better
We won’t win but we won’t disappear
Repeat Chorus
Music & Lyrics: McKay
Wind roared down the sideways rail
As the spiders came to roost
And me decked out in my Sunday best
With my diamond-crusted noose
A light poured through the open door
So I shielded my eyes
I sensed that there was really nothing there
But then to my surprise
You walked into my view, I can’t escape your stare
I run and run and run but you are always there…
Days turn to rust like a hanging nail
And yellow flowers bloom
Yeah, I guess I might’ve liked it
When you lit up the room
Still I can’t stop walking backwards
I’m scared to see the sun
I’d smash the lightning of her memory
Just to taste your tongue.
You walked into my view, I can’t escape your stare
I run and run and run but you are always there…
And it’s noticeably colder as I’m diving in this sea
I don’t want to, but I will…this is not like me.
You walked into my view, I can’t escape your stare
I run and run and run but you are always there
You walked into my world and crushed it into dust
You made me into someone, you made love out of lust
When you walked into my view…
Sometimes I'm Sam
Music: McKay / Ainsworth (982801)
Lyrics: McKay (982901)
Sam sits in the room with the curtains drawn
Thinking how nice it would be to never be born
Flipping ‘round the TV with the stereo on
Laughing at the fools it shows when things go wrong
Chorus:
Sometimes I’m Sam
And sometimes I’m smarter than that
Sometimes I’m Sam
Sam regrets the tons of things never did
And forgets the way it felt back as a kid
Something crawled inside and got the wires all crossed
Now everything left is focused on what’s lost
Repeat Chorus
Sam knows everything and is full of advice
“This game is for losers and idiots throw the dice”
Sam is aware that the whole thing is rigged
That’s why Sam never plays and why the head is so big
Sam is appalled by the people who rule
But never does anything about it so Sam is a fool
Sam is the victim when it pays to be
And Sam is the same when you add an ‘e’
Repeat Chorus
Sometimes I’m Sam…
Music: McKay / O’Gorman
Lyrics: McKay
Everyday it’s the same.
I get up. I get out of myself.
Every night it’s the same old thing
That doesn’t matter at all
I’ve been stuck in the same progression
So long I don’t know…
A single night that’s lasted for a thousand years
And when the morning comes around
It’s another story to tell
And when the morning comes around
I know it’s gonna feel phony
I don’t walk with the same step
I used to have a long time ago
When people saw me
They knew they were seeing somebody
And now it seems that I’m just another
…another other
You know, I don’t even think
That I like what I’ve become
And when the morning comes around
It’s another story to tell
And when the morning comes around
I know it’s still gonna feel phony
Isn’t there someone who can shake me awake?
Isn’t there anything I can do?
Isn’t there a life for me somewhere out there?
‘Cause when the morning comes around, it’s always the same
It’s another lonely story, when the morning comes around
It never changes at all, it never changes at all
When the morning comes around,
You know I just can’t take anymore
I can’t take it
‘Cause when the morning comes around
I know it’s still gonna feel phony
Down
Music: McKay
Lyrics: O’Gorman / McKay
You say you're able, you say you're able to get by
Familiar labels, but you & I know it's a lie…down
Lie down when you're feeling low
You feel the craving
You feel the need burn up inside
You hear your family,
You've made your bed now you must lie down
Lie down when you're feeling low
& when you're feeling angry
You could make somebody die
& when you're feeling hungry
’Cause you've got nothing deep inside
But when you're feeling happy
Because you're up there on the high
I've got a need, I've got a need deep down inside
I've been deceived by my own greed
But I don't mind.
I've got to fight, I've got the right to save myself
No one can help, it's up to me, nobody else
Chorus:
& when she takes me by the arm
& leads me back to the bed
& I can feel all her mystic charms
As they're spinning around in my head
I've got a fear, I've got a fear that's wrapped around
It's taken years, it's taken years to figure out
My only chance, my only way is underlined
I've gotta change, I've gotta change now to survive
Repeat Chorus
Recycled hatred from the guilt of years gone by
A faith in living,
The birth of which now you have ground out
Ground out of feeling low
In Crouch Hill you keep your eyes down
Eyes down when you're feeling low
& when you reach the surface
Forgotten sun that burns your eyes
Where you can reap the surplus
The clichéd limit is the sky
But when you're feeling happy
Because you're up there on the high
Because you're up there on the high
Music & Lyrics : McKay
Seeing colors in black and white
And you know that that can never be right
Violating, violating
Thinking out loud “if I just had wings”
You’re so tired of fighting everything
Violating, violating
Stomping hard right through your day
The only flying you do is flying into a rage
You’re unhappy, you’re unhappy
You really feel that you just missed it
If you speak the truth, you’ll have to admit
You’re unhappy, you’re unhappy
So much wanting and so little get
and reality scares you half to death
Violating, violating
Always looking for magic pills
Or a magic bullet
Something to feel some
Elation, elation
As the clock ticks down your life
You’re staring at thing’s that’ll never be right
You’re unhappy, you’re unhappy
At the while someone’s staring at you,
Thinking if they could just do what you can do
They’d be happy, they’d be happy
Why don’t you stop that feeling running around?
Why don’t you stop that feeling running around?
Why can’t you stop that feeling running around?
Why won’t you stop that feeling running around?
Seeing colors in black and white
And you know that that can never be right
Violating, violating…
(Top)
Music & Lyrics : McKay
There was a long time; I was ahead of things
But I got left behind
I got so tangled up with all the stupid stuff
That fought to take my mind
Now I’m trying to find who I am now
Yes, I’m trying, but I don’t seem to know how
But I’ll keep trying anyway
There was a long time that I knew my course
But now I am lost
I’m looking for the truth, I can’t find it in me
I can’t find it at all.
It feels so strange now that I can see
That I can’t see anything clearly
And I’m not satisfied with that
So here I go into the breach again
The water’s cold and I don’t know if I can swim
I’ve never been much good at helping myself
But who else can?
I’ve been through swinging doors
I’ve been through lies and promises that I believed
I found myself again, I found myself renewed
I found myself a friend
Now I know that I just don’t know
And as dumb as it sounds, I’ve got nowhere to go
But I’ll head on until the road ends
Yeah, I’ll head on until the road ends
I’m heading on until the road ends.
Taking Its Toll
Music: McKay / Ainsworth
Lyrics: O'Gorman
Do you walk the line of the undefined?
Do you use your own advice or not use it at all?
So you wanted to see what being free could be
But you know it's taking its toll
Are you in limbo time? It keeps moving along
Or are you in the land of what's going wrong?
So you wanted to see what being free could be
But you know it's taking its toll
You put it back to try and make it.
The spirit's strong so don't you tear it.
You've waited long now don't you waste it.
'Cause you know it's taking its toll.
Are you in limbo time? It keeps moving along
Or are you in the land of what's going wrong?
So you wanted to see what being free could be
But you know it's taking its toll.
You put it back to try and make it.
The spirit's strong so don't you tear it.
You've waited long now don't you waste it.
'Cause you know it's taking its toll.
You lay down, you lay down
You lay down, you lay down…
I'll Be Fine
Music: McKay / DeFreese / Bavis
Lyrics: McKay
Summer’s over and the leaves are turning brown
I can’t say how much it hurts to watch them falling down
It’s become a backdrop for too many dreary days.
The end of something beautiful, the blocking of the way.
It’s a long time weighing on my mind
But I hold on ‘cause they say in time
I will be fine
It’s not like I brought this on myself at all
God, I wish I could still just appreciate the fall
Now it’s about more than just the losing of the green
The chill, the smell is tied to things I wish I’d never seen.
It’s a long time weighing on my mind
But I hold on ‘cause they say in time
I will be fine
Ain’t it funny how the clock changes.
What was once so slow is now so fast.
I am oh so tired of trying to keep up.
But I’m also too proud to ever give up.
I don’t doubt the well-wishers in the least
But I’m afraid that peace may come a bit too late for me
Yeah, I’d love to feel it but that seems so much to ask
So I guess I’ll just distract away days until the last
Yeah, I know one day it’ll be alright
That’s the hope on which we all get by
After fall comes for the very last time…
I will be fine.