C O M P A N Y music

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LANTERN Before I knew you there was darkness There were corners of my heart where I used to keep all of my blues You lit a fire and now I’m learning how to keep the lantern burning I will keep the light on for you I fought beside you in between the devil and the deep blue sea Together we learned how to use our power My strength’s in you, your strength’s in me and there are other mysteries that we will never figure out How can we describe our happiness when after crossing we stop to take rest and watch the bridge as it burns? Before I knew you I dragged my feet and you did kindly carry me I used to try to stop the world from turning but lately I’ve been satisfied to patiently await the light Your light’s in me, my light’s in you HORSE SONG Seasons change their meanings when a war is coming on the winter is an enemy again I’m thinking nothing half asleep beneath my bed waiting for the news to seek me out Now’s no time to miss you I’m as selfish as a horse For Yusef who I think of often I owe you a few dollars You know that I would look you up if you’d tell me where you are I know that you are running You told me they’re after you You know I wouldn’t rat you out but you’re afraid that I might slip Now’s no time to miss you I’m as selfish as a horse I dreamed I saw you looking bad Your face was dry and red And in between your swallowing I couldn’t hear a word you said If you knew that you were right you’d hate me even more But now’s no time for riddles on the attic floor At first I fell for your left hand upon the station counter They showed it on the TV when they asked about the war And when I think about the things that you and I deserve I don’t think it’s worth fighting anymore Now’s no time to miss you I’m as selfish as a horse MY GOOD INTENTIONS Trays full of blades clatter down on the floor I just told the nurse I won’t come here no more I’ve been a good patient through days of disease and finally now I can do as I please Shit on my good intentions and shout down my pleas for peace I burn with the love of millions but you’re shoveling my beliefs Rooms full of money may be open somewhere but you’ll swim like a dead fish gasping for air If you dive in tomorrow I’ll see you someday when your corpse goes parading and I beg you to stay Shit on my good intentions and shout down my pleas for peace I burn with the love of millions but you’re shoveling my beliefs. FEEL THE SAME I know you’re an artist or so they like to say you know how to read the lines on my face There’s a kindness in your eyes You know how to make me feel ok Make me feel fine I liken your voice to the wind in the trees it really makes my day you know how to please me You know just what to say Singing songs in minor keys when I’m feeling the same way oh ranger please don’t ever change We lived through the darkest days The world was cold and grey Oh don’t it sound romantic like a picture you could paint? It seems like half the time the sun refused to shine on those days when we could have used a little bit of light But look toward the eastern sky The sun is bound to rise So why don’t we go to sleep and wake up with a smile Then we could feel the same What do you say? Why don’t we love each other and chase the clouds away? Singing songs in minor keys when I’m feeling the same way oh ranger please don’t ever change HEART ATTACK With whistles blowing in the heat and another man’s arms around me as we sleep What conversation did I miss? What place of work and time is this? I don’t know what it takes to bring me back a conversation or a heart attack I want your friendship and I want your trust But we both are shaking with some kind of lust and where are you as I lie here with this man breathing in my ear I don’t know what it takes to bring me back a conversation or a heart attack The wheels are rolling I hear them grind But I won’t go chasing after nothing I’m too far behind But someday I’ll lie down by your side and look at you so satisfied I don’t know what it takes to bring me back a conversation or a heart attack BICYCLE Tired of your day job and tired of your dreams The city is awash with gray and it’s been like that for days Tired of your friendship and the things you think it means But you never thought that you could be so sick of your disease Immigrant landscape After all these years you thought that it would be home Five long winters and four long summers and you still don’t know the roads It takes too much trying to keep track of north to distinguish the east from the south When all you can afford to do is try not to sink down Lord don’t make me stop this bicycle I’ve been riding all day long I ruined a friendship that was meant to be for anger jealousy and greed There’s no room in heaven or happiness here for a human made up like me On the subway I keep track of wedding rings and try to guess people’s jobs When they catch me staring or reading their books they know Lord don’t make me stop this bicycle I’ve been riding all day long One red light and I would surely go sailing down into the ground I DON'T WANT TO BRING YOU DOWN Everybody’s got a mouth to feed Everybody’s got a reason to be Everybody’s got a precious hope but not too precious if you know what I mean 'cause I don’t want to bring you down Everybody’s got a side it’s on Here a mais oui there a mais non Some folks are bad but most are good To tell the truth I could be wrong and I don’t want to bring you down If I had to put in words the things I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve heard I’d be sure to choose them well I know they’d probably sound absurd and I don’t want to bring you down Wanna say something so right something so safe keep the tears inside But my thoughts they stray sometimes They start to creep when the tide gets high And I don’t want to bring you down Good for nothing I wanna stay in my room Want to see this winter world burst into full bloom and I don’t want to bring you down At the melancholy hour of the day we find something to while the time away And I don’t want to bring you down No I don’t want to bring you down WHAT YOU WERE DOING Today my past is over the last day of yesterday gone That’s what I tell myself over and over but I know that I’m wrong But out in the dirt you’ll take me kicking and screaming my way If I don’t complain you’ll make me tumble in ruin all day What if everything I’ve said was a guess though I talked like I knew? Would that make it more evil or less 'cause I’m talking to you? Sometimes just the thought weighs me down and I might not force out a word And you kick me so many times that I feel like you misunderstood The day we sat by the river and all of the trash floated by And you sat with a stick in your hand poking the magazine eyes And I tried to figure out what you were doing and why it was good I’ll tell you right now that I doubted what I wanted or could UNCOMFORTABLE LOVE In the middle of the country in the middle of the night I’ll be laying in a bed made of feathers I’ll be thinking of the trees in the north and in the east I’ll be thinking of writing you letters of uncomfortable love I know what you’re feeling Uncomfortable love dripping down from the ceiling Knit me a new forehead Knit me a new hand And knit me a way away from here Nothing’s ever come out the way we had planned and I’m learning to sleep with my fear of uncomfortable love If Mercury’s in retrograde then I’ll stay in my room on the third floor of an old wooden house If something should somehow find a way to pick a lock at least there’s only one way out of uncomfortable love Give me some time alone Give me some time to think about you I’ll be on my own and I’ll be fine without you and uncomfortable love THE RAINBOW I used to fly with my eyes closed over the ridges and rainbows There’s places I’ve seen you’ll never know There’s a giant just up the road He’s half man half buffalo Go and look into his eyes You’ve never seen such a light So bright So right Let it shine and shine Oh my my My eyes have never seen such light Every word on my gravestone meant something but now it don’t I want to live for love alone Choose a patch of the rainbow dig it up and bring it home Light it up real slow You’ve never been so stoned So high my eyes are rolling back inside Oh my my My mind is tripping back in time Mine eyes have seen the glory My mind has taken flight on that ribbon in the sky Flat on my back I start to slide Back into that sweet by and by You’ve never seen such light OVER AND OVER AGAIN I’ll get a job and I’ll work until I can’t take it And then I’ll be broke and I’ll last as long as I can make it Over and over and over again "Be who you are" they’re telling me like it’s easy And they let me be who I am for a while just to tease me Over and over and over again I can fight back but only when you can help me So I’m telling you "Don’t give up now" I keep saying Over and over and over again One thing I know nothing lasts forever And I can see now when we’re around together Someday oh someday oh someday we’ll win

all songs by company (BMI), 2005