CLASHING PLAID

i see you cryin’ baby you don’t know what is wrong

you push my love away you leave me all alone

you press the charges at me but you can’t make ‘em stick

you’re always comin’ down on me you’re an emotional wreck

you spin around one eighty your heart stops on a dime

it’s changin’ like the weather it’s rainin’ all the time

and then you pull the pin and we all hit the deck

your walls are always crashin’ in you’re an emotional wreck

so you said i couldn’t be in love you finished leaving and i started living alone, living without you

passed the bottle couldn’t get enough wasted my money when i started drinking alone, drinking to drown you

but I’m never feeling good enough to talk to you again – oh yeah

and i’m never feeling bad enough to find out how you are – oh yeah

and the ghost on main street smile and pass me by

yeah the ghost on main street finally pass me by

stop and start there’s nothin’ more to say

leave it behind and pretty soon it won’t even matter – if it ever did

it all burns bright ‘til it fades away then it’s starting to scatter

i won’t see you again

you told me that i was the one who made you cry
but now i'm gone and you're still filled with tears
your weekend at the shore was with another guy
who told you everything you want to hear

i hope you're doing fine but sometimes i just can't tell
living in your happy little hell
the smell of turpentine that you used to repel
living in your happy little hell

you left and said you hoped that i would understand
that life with me was never really love
maybe things are gonna turn out like you planned
but i don't think it's gonna be enough

you used up all the change left in your wishing well
living in your happy little hell
the scars they fade in time and sometimes i just can't tell
living in your happy little hell

threw away my pictures of you i don't know what else i could do
you told me love you told me lies then you said goodbye

i been waitin' all night but it's never enough i been talkin' to myself, I should just shut up
i don't wanna get excited all about my luck-oh yeah

feelin' too damn nervous 'bout the shape i'm in i'm gettin' way too excited bout where i fit in
pacin' holes in the carpet and they wear so thin but now

i’ll meet you somewhere down the line

too many faces in the street and man i just got lost i don't think the lights are changing and i can't get across
i'm gettin stuck in the middle and it's makin' me claustrophobic

another repeat offender with the same old case another same old story in a different face
got no time to lose so let's get out of this place-oh yeah

i’ll meet you somewhere down the line

i just wanna make you happy and be there whenever you want
my train of thought just checked out early last night just turned into today

don't even send me letters i'll be there before I get 'em
from the edge of a place that I don't know

just another blue world that I call home

i just wanna make you happy i only hope you understand
tuned you in last night on an L.A. station
i only hope that you can hear me when i tell you that

some people fall in love and the rest of us just try
spinning round in circles til we shine

i wake up from a dream that i can't believe is true
then i get a chance to say i love you

cloudless and floating out there on the sea of green
when you turn around and say you love me

some people fall in love and the rest of us just try
spinning round in circles til we shine

wake up in the mirror but you're nowhere near wonderland
blood in your veins is replaced by the line of quicksand
your face on the table your mind falling out of your head
won't pay for the room 'cause the money's already been spent

one more step on the ledge hanging on by a thread
but you'll do it again you've been caught in your web

don't think it's a lie if you half-turn away when i ask
who you've been seeing and all of the places you've been
push me aside open wide now that i've been replaced
you really don't care now as long as you get your own way

talk to yourself it's the one thing that you understand
you're playing a game but you're playing too close to pretend
rationalize all your lies one day closer to end
twisted and tangled 'cause now you're just caught in the web