@ALBUM: New Miserable Experience Gin Blossoms @SONG: LOST HORIZONS The last horizon I can see are filled with bars and factories And in them all we fight to stay awake... Drink enough of anything to make this world look new again Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves She had nothing left to say so she said she loved me I stood there grateful for the lie... Drink enough of anything to make this girl look new again Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves Turn summer trees to bones and ice Turn insect songs against the night With words we build and words we break I'm drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves... Maybe I could use you to reassure myself I wouldn't wish this indecision on anybody else Drink enough of anything to make this world look new again And when the sun smiles how could it be wrong The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories I never thought I'd still be here today Drink enough of anything to make myself look new again Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves @SONG: HEY JEALOUSY Tell me do you think it'd be alright If I could just crash here tonight You can see I'm in no shape for driving And anyway I've got no place to go And you know it might not be that bad You were the best I'd ever had If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago I might not be alone Tomorrow we can drive around this town And let the cops chase us around The past is gone but something might be found To take its place... Hey Jealousy And you can trust me not to think And not to sleep around If you don't expect too much from me You might not be let down Cause all I really want is to be with you Feeling like I matter too If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago I might be here with you Tomorrow we can drive around etc. @SONG: MRS. RITA I can see it in her letters on the paper with her pen Her response is getting stronger Think she's coming round again Tell me Mrs. Rita, what's it say in my tarot Read my palm and tell me why do lovers come and go Is she coming round for me once again, around Or was that the end I just hope she's coming round again I've been keeping myself busy With my books and with my tapes Everyday's much better since I slowed my drinking pace There's no swimming in the bottle It's just someplace we all drown I lost myself in sorrow Lost my confidence in doubt Is she coming round, etc. Get in the car and drive through town Down the block and back around Pretending she's there with me we drive Gone forever... My patience keeps me plaintive My high hopes keep me alone My lovers will is shaken I wish she would just come home So tell me Mrs. Rita, etc. UNTIL I FALL AWAY I want to tell if I am or am not myself It's hard to know how far or if at all could go Waiting far too long for something I forgot was wrong I don't know all the answers I think I'll find Or have it within the time but it's all that I'll have in mind Until I fall away That won't keep us waiting long Until I fall away I don't know what to do anymore Until I fall away My fear pretend that I'll never be alone again It's real to me but not like these fools and not like this scene I won't find or have it within the time If it's all rusted and fade in the spot where we fell Where I thought I'd left behind It's loose now but we could try Until I fall away... etc. Where there's no good answers To those new questions Another personal disaster There's nowhere to go but down... @SONG: HOLD ME DOWN So I guess I must have just been dreaming When I thought I heard myself say no Anyway it looks like no one heard me so here I go Cause when you're in the company of strangers Or the strangers you call friends You know before you start just how it's going to end When the doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around Anytime the pickins look too easy... hold me down. I can't remember why I like this feeling When it always seems to let me down Soon I find I'm searching for the exit from the ground If I think the room is turning faster Then I think the music is too loud By then I've lived another broken story to let me out When those doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around When half the party moves into the bathroom... hold me down Or if you're at the tail end of the evening And Dr. Feelgood comes around Anytime the pickins look too easy... hold me down Down if I want that part Down if I've gone too far Well I guess I must have just been reeling When I felt myself begin to fall I realize I'm bounding down the hallway off the walls If my bed was standing in the corner I could just fall into it right now And know that I'd be staring at the ceiling going round When those doors swing open... etc. @SONG: CAJUN SONG Well, she's leaving today I do know so far away I'm feeling so blue and it shows in every single way Once that girl she was mine for such a short time We used to spend every night now all I do is cry They say you can't miss something that you've never had So tell me why, why I could feel so bad... We used to walk down the path just like lovers do She'd hold my hand and we'd laugh I'd stare in her eyes they were blue Once that girl she was mine for such a short time We used to spend every night now all I do is cry They say you can't miss something that you've never had So tell me why, why I could feel so bad... @SONG: HANDS ARE TIED I've been waiting around all night Your warm kiss is on my mind A piece of you is all I got But the whole damn thing is what I want I've been waiting around here all night long Holding on to the memories until they come undone My hands are tied... Telephone's ringing by my bed I pick it up and the line goes dead I splash summer water on my face Clears my mind I'm out of this place I've been waiting around here etc. My nerves are frayed and I've had enough I'm alot afraid that it'll hurt too much I'm too tired to stop at all I'm plain wore through waiting for your call I've been waiting around here etc. @SONG: FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU All last summer in case you don't recall I was yours and you were mine forget it all Is there a line that I could write Sad enough to make you cry All the lines you wrote to me were lies The months roll past the love that struck you dead Did you love me only in my head Things you said and did to me Seemed to come to easily The love I thought I'd won you give for free Whispers at the bus stop I heard about nights out in the school yard I found out about you Rumours follow everywhere you go Like when you left and I was last to know You're famous now and there's no doubt In all the places you hang out They know your name and know what you're about Whispers at the ...etc. Street lights blink on through the car window I get the time too often on A.M. radio You know it's all I think about I write your name drive by your house You're boyfriend's over I watch your lights go out Whispers ...etc. @SONG: ALLISON ROAD I've lost my mind on what I'd find All of the pressure that I left behind On Allison Road Fools in the rain if the sun gets through Fire's in the heaven of the eyes I knew On Allison Road Dark clouds file the moon is near Birds fly by a.m. in her bedroom stare There's no telling what I might find I couldn't see I was lost at the time... Yeah I didn't know I was lost at the time On Allison Road So she fills up her sails with my wasted breath And each one's more wasted that the others you can bet On Allison Road Now I can't hide so why not drive I know I want to love her but I can't decide On Allison Road I didn't know I was lost at the time Eyes in the sun where the road wasn't wide So I went looking for an exit sign All I wanted to find tonight... Etc. 29 Time won't stand by forever if I know it's true And I've learned not to say never Or else I'll seem the fool Twenty-nine you'd think I'd know better Living like a kid When my lies seem less than clever Is when I fall for it Only time will tell if wishing wells Can bring us anything Or fade like scenes from childhood dreams Forgotten memories Some rides don't have much of a finish That's the ride I took Through good and bad and straight through indifference Without a second look There's no intention worthy of mention If we never try So hang your hopes on rusted out hinges Take 'em for a ride Only time will ...etc. @SONG: PIECES OF THE NIGHT Is it any wonder that the stars just don't rush by When you're only doing 60 through this oh so vacant night But its lacking something big this time What the hell did you expect to find Aphrodite on a barstool by your side 12th night we go After something overdone we should know Somewhere in the distance out of sight... Then I saw: Gin mill rainfall What do you remember if at all Only pieces of the night... And is it any wonder in the middle of the crowd If you let your feet get trampled on When the music is that loud But you wanted to be where you are But it looked much better from afar A hillside in shadow Between the people and the stars 12th night we go... etc. It seems so distant But still only half the night away Where notions between your questions come too Is there any wonder where The pieces of the night have been... etc. @SONG: CHEATIN' New York City where it's cold as hell And the streetlights shown in my blue room I was thinking about the nights we spent Back in Galveston beneath the Georgia moon I was early and I'd had my share I was countin' change for a cab ride back to bed She looked at me through the cold night air And thoughts of you kicked off inside my head Well she was tall hair dark as midnight She had a way just like you do To make me feel just like a woman should You can't call it cheatin' Cause she reminds me of you Though I loved you and the trust we shared Lord don't tell me that I've thrown it all away A moments weakness shouldn't change the fact That I need you and there's nothing more to say Lord she was tall... etc.