Gen Exit

He was a model man
A Beatles fan
A catch in any blessed sea

But he spent every day
A world away
Wondering what he could have been

Watching out the window
City slips away
Generation exit
Help me through today

Hey hey

Hey hey

He had the dream again
The one that ends
Falling to the solid ground

But he could see it now
The where and how
Free and clear and all around

Maybe all the pressure
didn’t make a gem
Anyone can sparkle
We can live again
Take me I am ready
I can feel it kicking in

As he looked out
At the city
And the lights called out “come with me”

All he had to do was open up his arms

Wouldn’t you believe I’m flying for the first time
Know I’m not the first one breaking through the cloud line
It’s awful gray between holding your own
And just hanging around

Hey hey

Take a little piece to use
As a souvenir
Remember where you were before
And just know
You might never be there again

He made the great escape
But wide awake
Mind and body finally free

And it just goes to show
The more you know
Doesn’t always mean it’s easy to see

Maybe all the pressure
didn’t make a gem
Anyone can sparkle
We can live again
Take me I am ready
I can feel it kicking in

As he looked out
At the city
And the lights called out come with me

All he had to do was open up his arms

Wouldn’t you believe I’m flying for the first time
Know I’m not the only one breaking through the cloud line
Harder than it seems when your racing to the finish line

It’s awful gray between holding your own
And just hanging around
It’s awful gray between holding your own
And just hanging around

Hey hey

Come Back July

Sing like a bird in the backyard
Drink in the day’s lazy end
Tear up the calendar
I never want to come in

Shaking my shoes out the car door
There’s sand in the tobacco field
Let’s drive to the water again
Let the burning heal

Come back July
I never said goodbye

She falls in love every morning
Safe in the arms of The One
But every night
It gets harder to keep him at home

Sure as the gun in the sideboard
Sure as the chill from the window
Reminds me you’re gone

Come back July
I never said goodbye
You need to kiss me one more time
I want you to make me cry

Come back July
I never said goodbye
Light all those
Lonely Roman candles
Into that August sky

Come back July

Shoot out the lights at the state fair
You can keep all the colors of autumn
I’m over and gone

Come back July
I never said goodbye
You need to kiss me
One more time
I want you to make me cry

Come back July
I never said goodbye
I want to dance so fast
I fall down
Before that
August light

Come back July
Come back July
Come back July
Come back

I Don’t Want To Go Home

I will take full advantage of this life
Starting now
Start the car and just drive all night
All right
All out

I may get lost once again
But it’s all I know

There’s a reason we all give up
Give in
Give out

Someday I’ll be a broken toy
A life
Played out

I may
Be lost
Once again
But I don’t want to go home

I don’t want to go home
I don’t want to go home
This is a big world
I know where my heart is
And I don’t want to go home

I looked to the sequined sky
I have received
The peace I was missing in life
And I don’t want to leave

I could stay here and write my life
Again
Starting now

Come and stay for a while
Forever you’re
Allowed

We may
Be lost
Once again
But I don’t want to go home

(chorus)

Explain

How bout I start with a list of the reasons to run
Carefully prepared to ensure that my chances are none

So cautious because of the last time
I told myself never again
No no

Talking to strangers could lead to the danger inside
But I got a laugh from the story I was planning to hide

So cautious because of the last time
You told yourself never again

But here we are under porch light
I’m gonna pack up my belongings and run

It’s much to hard to explain
Explain
Away again

I can’t begin to explain
Explain
The pain again
I’m hiding in the rain

Six months later and it’s running around in my mind
Wondering what did I get myself into this time
I feel like a fool but I don’t care
She might as well hear it from me
I’m already starting to quiver

I don’t know a thing about
If we’re in love or just hanging out
But I don’t care and I’d have say to those who’ll surely ask

It’s much too hard to explain
Explain
Away again

I can’t begin to explain
Explain
The pain again

It’s much too hard to explain
Explain
Explain

Me And My Baby 

Me and my baby
My baby and me
Going to see what there is to see

We could be lazy
Lazy and free
Floating around
From tree to tree

Well we made our life in the city
But our heart lives down the road
There’s a light from the kitchen window
But there’s nobody
Nobody home

Cats in the doorway
Persian breed
Waiting to see what there is to see

Mail on the table
None for me
One more day
That I am free

Well we made our life in the city
But our heart lives down the road
There’s a light from the kitchen window
But there’s nobody
There’s nobody home

It’s okay I’ve had my turn at last
It’s okay I’ve had my turn at long last
It’s okay I’ve had my turn at long last

Maybe you’ll see me tomorrow
And we can try it again
Maybe you’ll see me tomorrow
And we can try to be friends

Well we made our life in the city
But our heart lives down the road
There’s a light from the kitchen window
But there’s nobody
There’s nobody home

(chorus)

The Cycle

High

Wide

Sky

I

Might

Try

To fly

To fly

Tonight

Tiny Town

I hear from the birds most every day
They can’t keep their full mouths shut

As much as I try to look away
Right there in the headlines, “She’s Back”.

All that we were
Will always remain
But it doesn’t matter now

You told me why
But I never wrote it down
Curse this tiny town

So much for the free
They’re always bored
No fight to wake up for
I swear

Keep meaning to move on
As you say
But you’re there in the rearview
Drive on

All that we were
Will always remain
But it doesn’t matter now

You told me why
But I never wrote it down
Curse this tiny town

And all the stupid dances
Count the checks
The debt
And all the overlooked advances

Here we go again

I take the same walk
Most everyday
It keeps me from losing ground

So if you should see me
On your way
Don’t think that the stars said so
‘Cause they lie

All that we were
Will always remain
But it doesn’t matter now

You told me why
But I never wrote it down
Curse this tiny town

Everybody Wants Me To Love You

People tell me we just make the cutest pair
You’d be wise to put a ring on that finger there

Is it something in the water
A spell you all fell prey

That no one wants to ever see you walk away

I remember life was simple
And mail came once a day

Well here’s the latest word ’cause

Everybody wants me to love you
Everybody wants me to love you
The roar of the crowd every time I’m around you
Telling me to make it so

I just don’t know

I had my heart broken one too many ways
Hard falls, brick walls, waiting on a call for days

If my bad luck weren’t my strong suit
I’d swear you placed your bets
On mister lonely heart having a full house yet

And all the people in our circle
Are spinning once again

I might as well give in cause

Everybody wants me to love you
Everybody wants me to love you
The roar of the crowd every time I’m around you
Telling me to make it so

I don’t know
I’m damaged and broken at the seams
But give it time
And maybe I’ll join the chorus

Singing, singing, singing.

Everybody wants me to love you
Everybody wants me to love you
The roar of the crowd every time I’m around you
Telling me to make it so and so and so and so

Everybody wants me to love you
Everybody wants me to love you
The man in the moon and the stars above you
Telling me to make it so

I Never Changed

The train doesn’t come here anymore
It used to stop outside my kitchen door
I’ve evolved
Found a way
To adapt my day-to-day
But I never changed for you

The weeds in the garden reach for me
To the sun the moon the tops of every tree
I have grown
With the vines
Sunk my roots in warmer climes
But I never changed for you

I’ve never changed
I’ve never changed
I never changed for you

Revised
Repossessed in a way
Repaired
And recalled
Yesterday

I always know when I’ve been acting strange
But I’ve never changed for you

I washed all my clothes in gasoline
And abandoned my unique identity
All my plaids
All my stripes
Burned a brilliant runway white
But I never changed for you

Revised
Repossessed in a way
I never changed
I never changed
For you

I never changed
You know I’m still the same
I’ve never changed

Telephone

I have a telephone
It’s like a little home
That I hide in
I go right in

I like my privacy
You could connect with me
If you tried to
Put you right through

On the line
I go right on
Right on
Right on
Right on line

I go right on
Right on
Right on
Right on line

You see them everywhere
Held up to every ear
Like a conch shell
Hear the sea swell

They say my future’s bright
I dim my screen at night
Can you find me
To remind me

Attention everyone
Attention almost gone
It’s a safe bet
If I just get

On the line
I go right on
Right on
Right on
Right on line

I go right on
Right on
Right on
Right on line

I go right on
Right on
Right on
Right on
Right on!

I used to look ahead
But this is the future
In the palm of my hand

No matter where you are
A plane a train a car
Just can’t beat my telephone there

I have a telephone
It’s like a little home
Can you see me
And my TV

I need to talk to you
I don’t know how to do
What I used to
I can’t get through

(chorus)

You could be everything I want
You could be everything I need
If I could hold you in my hands
I could fulfill my dreams

(solo)