Forty-Eight Portraits - Sloan

You say you’re going with me, I say we’re going together

You’re giving lessons to me, I’m quoting you to the letter

You’re revolutionary

It’s such a load to carry

You’re overplaying to calm me, the playing field’s on the level

And anyone can agree it’s not a vote for the devil

It doesn’t make any sense to reassemble your fence

Our revolution is now, the place we’re going is better

You say you’re going with me

You say you’re going with me

You say you’re going with me

Don’t ask for a second chance

It’s too late for that

We can make a small amendment to your sensitive side but

You’ll have to price for that

Decide whose side you’re playing upon

While you’re diffusing the bomb

I didn’t know how you could it with the grease in your palms

We’ll call it tit for tat

Do the things I do and you can read between the lines

And don’t be too surprised when no one’s listening

Limping from the field, you never laud your Valentines

And who’s to blame for that?

How does it feel

When you’re motionless and can’t perform?

What does it mean

When the world you’ve left can’t be reformed?

'Cause like it or not

You’re gonna find a tight spot at least a couple of times a day

Then you reveal

All the tools you so relied upon

Well, there’s something happening and it don’t seem right

Too many people liked it way too uptight

This isn’t a race, man, there won’t be any winners

Every time you wake up, you’re just another fucking beginner

So there’s something happening that just don’t seem right

Grow a spine instead of living absent in plain sight (ah)

There’s many methods to mad

Like take your hands from your pockets when you go down to the back

There’s something happening here for sure, I’ll bite

The big stars in your eyes won’t deliver any light

Do you think she loves you?

Do you show that you care?

Can you rise up above her?

Do you feel heavy?

What I thought after what I said (what you said)

Would never mean a thing to anyone (ah)

And then what you wrote and then what I read (what you read)

'Cause you won’t tag along with me

I can’t believe you never told me the truth

About all the reasons for you cutting me loose

If I’ve a legion to bear, you could wear it

And all the hope that springs

What it does is unexplainable

What it is is unsustainable

I couldn’t tell that you were always so lonesome

You never typed it on your cellular phone

An application for that’s in the backup

And all the luck it brings

What it is is unsustainable

What it does is unexplainable

You said you were going with me

It’s evolutionary

You said that you would come with me

Now I only pull when it’s free

So what will it mean?

I asked for a proper glass

Half full is fine

But if you really need it perfect, have it carved in some stone

We’re running out of time

And how did it feel?

How did it feel?

How did it feel when outside forces pushed toward home?

Can you conceal?

Can you conceal your status symbols all on loan?

Let’s make a deal

Let’s make a deal, we’re leaving well enough alone

Sometimes I feel like I’m slipping away

(Da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da)

Sometimes it feels like I’m so awake

(Da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da)

They don’t expect you, just give it away

I can’t express this any other way

So don’t pretend you got something to say

Cast out your net and wait for another day

They don’t expect you to slip 'em away

If you motion me this way, I’ll go thataway

Inside a cloud, a light less glowing

I get the sense

That you’ve preyed on personal mind blowings

Here in the present tense

So how much love is left to give?

Ten thousand tons or more would be my guess, oh

And we’re saying a prayer for you

If we can understand it, why can’t you?

You know I hear in terms of colours

Always sliding on scales and bumping into one another

So if happiness lies deep within us

How come most deny it for themselves, oh?

And we’re saying a prayer for you

If we can understand it, why can’t you?

We’ll be saying a prayer for you

If we can understand it, why can’t you?

There’s a tunnel that I can’t see through

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