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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.
 

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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
 

 

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Into My View


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…
 

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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…
 

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Phony

 

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
 

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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
 

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Colors in Black & White


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…

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Until The Road Ends
 

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.
 

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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…
 

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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.
 

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