Michael Knott/LSU
The Definitive Collection
Miss Understanding
Tattoo
Deaf and Dumb
Bye Bye Colour
The Bomb
Shaded Pain
Cool
She's on Fire
See Me Fall
This is the Healing
Wakin' Up the Dead
Double
Rocket and a Bomb
Crash
Good-byes
Miss Understanding
You're too stubborn to ever calm down
Too restless to stick around
Too hippie chick to hear what your heart does
You're too jealous to stay in love
You're too tall for me to ever try to take
You're too fragile to ever want to break
Should I cry for you
Should I lie for you
Should I throw a pity party
And invite my sorry life too
You might as well end ourselves
You might as well end ourselves
Miss Understanding you're my
Favorite thing
Too hip at all to be alone
Too viscious for me to ever want to come home
Too forgiven to ever let go
Too smart to ever let me know
Too lovely to ever lay it on
You're too handsome to be so strong
Should I cry for you
Should I try for you
Should I bust this violin
Over your hard head
My friend
You know I know you know
I know you want to know
What it's like to be free
Tattoo
She hit him in the mouth
She knocked him to the ground
Some smart cop said, "I'd take you to jail
If it was the other way around"
She stole his wallet
Out of his jeans
She said, "Hey just don't bother me
It was mine from the beginning"
All she really ever wanted to do
Was show off her tattoo
She had two kids
Bouncing on his bed
One yelled, "Hey that's my mom"
The other one "fix the Nintendo wire, I said"
"You wanna (little) cab"
She said, "No way
You're not gonna go or else
I tell you with the fist you'll play"
All she really ever wanted to do
Was show off her tattoo
Yeah, you're goin' down boy
Yeah, you're goin' down boy
All she ever really wanted to do
Was show off her tattoo
All she really ever wanted to do
Was show off her tattoo
Can I can I can I can I catch a cab
Can I can I can I can I...
Deaf and Dumb
Hey mister decision
Make up my mind for me
You're like a religion
I could be caged or free
I might be lost at sea
Hey mister judgmental
Show me the way to be
Show me the way to go
You're high on a pedestal
You know what I should know
And I wish I could become
Deaf and dumb
Hey mister perfect choice
Point me the way to look
Sing in your flawless voice
Where's the road I should have took
What page is best in the book
Hey mister heaven bound
Help me to find the way
Get me up off the ground
What more than Christ can be found
And I wish I could become
Deaf and dumb
Hey mister get it right
You saw me fall tonight
Tell the world of my own flight
I'll tell you to take a ride
And I wish I could become
Deaf and dumb
Bye Bye Colour
There is an old man in my backyard
So cold is his flesh it is an ivory fire
He knocks all night to get inside
If you let him come in you'll surely die
Cause when he looks at you he is lying
And when he talks to you he lies
Bye Bye Colour, blue is my heart
Once a maiden so fair and so kind
But for herself she lived for herself she died
The old man kept knocking, knocking
When she let him come in she surely died
The Bomb
The judgement and the jury
Are waiting for the bomb to fall
The preacher and the teacher
Have all felt the call
The Bomb
It will hit you high
It will hit you low
From your body to your head
You'll want to stand and scream
It's a wonderful thing
But you'll be on your face instead
The Bomb
Oh, here comes the bomb
Pythagoras and the Mathmatist
Have got a theorem for a serum
But the baby that flies
In the Aegean sky
Has got nobody to steer him
Shaded Pain
First we find the answer then we take the blame
shaded pain
we put on all the masks and then we play the game
shaded pain
what about love the love we never find
cut by the body and forced to run and hide
what about the human, the human I am inside
how can we be forgiven if we don't live out lives
we throw off all the shackles then we wear the chains
shaded pain
we find out who we are and then we lose our name
shaded pain
Cool
Kiss me once before I die
This gaping hole has made a pool
I know I promised I'd never leave
It feels so cold when you break the rules
Cool
Dear God could you be my friend?
I know I never talk too much to you
Find a way to drip me in?
I promise that I'll stay calm
... and cool
She's on Fire
Burning up with a smile to match
She's in love so the story goes
But this time it's true - her love's no trap
The kindling inside her is reaching higher and higher
She's on fire
She's on fire
The kiss of death never touches her lips
The kiss of life only brightens her light
Sailing her past the sinking ships
Steering her unto her one true desire
She's on fire
She's on fire
She's on fire
She's on fire
Light, light, light...she found the light
Light, light, light...she's on fire
See Me Fall
Holding hands with my maker
Inside of my heart to make it better
And to heal me from the years of pain
Inside of my life to free me
Inside of my heart to make it better
And to heal me from all those years of pain
See me fall down
See me fall down and worship him
Christ the King of all
See me fall down
See me fall down and worship him
Christ the King of all
Times they come to take me
But I live for the one who makes it better
When the hurting leads my heart to bleed
Inside my life to free me
Inside of my heart to make it better
And to heal me from all those years of pain
Holding hands with my maker
Inside of my heart to make it better
And to heal me from all the years of pain
This is the Healing
You've been seen with a stiff lip
It's happening to the best when the pain grips
You've been beaten by the bell
In all that you do
You thought Hell was a place one goes to
But your Hell on Earth is true
This is the healing
Give me tears from all your bitter years
This is the healing
Salt the wounds, the healing will come soon
You've tried to philosophize your pain
But the hurts in your heart
And not in your brain
You could be hit by the Spirit
And be made new
You thought Heaven was a place one goes to
But this Heaven on Earth is true
Chorus
Open your heart
Wakin' Up the Dead
I love it
I heard the words that you said
And I want it
Bring on the gospel hour
With a holy shower
To the dead and Cold
To the spiritually soiled
Wakin' up the dead
I love it
It's like a sweet
It's like a sweet
Perfume
Double
you're sittin' there wondering why is it like this
and the whole world's crazy and the earth is sick
and someone's yelling from the bathroom door
the toilet's overflowing on the floor
and the one by the phone says i cannot hear
while the one by the jukebox spills his beer
and the man on the pinball hits sixteen mil
someone ducks behind the counter to pop a pill
and you reach in your pocket to see if there's more
and the biggest bill falls so you're left with four
and you're too gone to look but you still try
then you see it in the hand of a great big guy
who looks just like he'd kill you fast
and you think for a minute
you let it pass
and the stool falls over when you set back down
it bumps a mean pool shooter from across the town
he misses his shot - it's all on you
and with your last four bucks you know what you'll do
sorry man can i buy you a drink
and he shakes his head and says, make it a double
the next thing you know you wake up at home
and the little one there won't leave you alone
she's awake and hungry
she needs some potty help
and you remember what happened last time she tried it
by herself
and your wife says hurry, we're late for church
and you can barely see
and your head still hurts
and the preacher starts preaching
and you feel remorse
he's got five little kids and a big divorce
and your wife looks down and says she don't know how
he's been her guiding light for ten years now
and his marriage is over, it's barely alive
and how in the world will ours ever survive?
Rocket and a Bomb
Mr. In and Mrs. In
Can you please tell me what's in
And what is wrong with me
I'm never in your company
Mr. Out and Mrs. Out
What is this all about
Before you know it you've come in
And all I ever wanted
Was a good job and some bus fare
And a rocket and a bomb
A rocket and a bomb
Mr. Bill is there a Mrs. Bill
Does she tell you how you should feel
Does she let you get away
Will Sluggo come and make me pay
Mr. Bank is there a Mrs. Banks
Is she the one that turns the crank
Is there a Mary Poppins still
And all I ever wanted
Was a good job and some bus fare
And a rocket and a bomb
A rocket and a bomb
Mr. Life and Mrs. Life
Are you really in for life
Are you planning to make a break
Could it be a big mistake
Mr. God is there a Mrs. God
Could she help me find a job
One that pays enough to take
A rocket and a bomb
Crash
My good friend had a girlfriend
She was a crazy thing
She'd be so nice at first
and then she'd change
One night she started kicking
She started swinging too
Before she stole his car
he was black and blue
We stood there starting
as she raced away
his Fleetwood never looked the same
after that day
chorus
Crash Cadillac
It made her feel good
to get the boy back
crash Cadillac
We went out searching for
that slick sick thing
She must have been
high, stoned, drunk or something
'cause over the hill
near the railroad tracks
she was dancing all bloody
on a pile of trash
repeat chorus
She said I'm gonna die
won't you kiss me once more
but I'll never be sorry
about your '64
Good-byes
All your world is packed and lined up straight
Like a life undone, mine all rips out this way
I'd really rather have it not have to go
But there's those things that make you tear down
There's those things that make you tear down
When we take more
Than we ask for
When we give up less
Than we're fightin so hard to get
When we're dreamin for
What you know we just can't afford
We burn up everything, everything
With the good-byes
Sister dies ready 'fore you learn to run
A warm room real soon and rain in Guam
You'd really rather have it not have to know
I'd really rather have you not have to go
But there's those things that make you fall down
All those things that make you fall down
When we take more
Than we ask for
When we give up less
Than we're fightin so hard to get
When we're dreamin for
What you know we just can't afford
We burn up everything, everything
With the good-byes
And I'll give up on everything
If I hear you want that diamond ring
And the world won't spin round for sure
If you won't be here anymore
With the things that make it go down
Can we please work it out
When we're dreamin for
What you know we just can't afford
We burn up everything, everything
When we take more
Than we ask for
When we give up less
Than we're fightin so hard to get
When we're dreamin for
What you know we just can't afford
We burn up everything, everything
We burn up everything, everything
With the good-byes
All songs (C) 1999 Ttonk Publishing ASCAP, except "She's on Fire," and "See Me Fall" (C) 1986 Broken Songs/Ttonk Publishing and "Tattoo," "Miss Understanding," and "Goodbyes" (C) 1997 Stormie Lane Music/Almo Music Corporation, ASCAP.
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