2 CLAY FEET

The smell of burning and silence fills the air
And all that I can do is think of you alone in there
I call you on the telephone small miracle I get through
But when your voice comes on the line it's not you

You are no longer you and I am suddenly not me
The ground's been ripped from underneath our 2 clay feet

It's like a movie but it's true
And everything sad has turned a deeper shade of blue
Oh ashes ashes from steel and concrete
We all fall down we all break down on 2 clay feet

2 clay feet
2 clay feet
Life is a dream life is a dream life is a dream
Are we awake or do we sleep on 2 clay feet

Where are our other lives she cried to me
Something has changed everything has changed way down deep
The devil take them the devil is me
There are no devils there are no angels on 2 clay feet

2 clay feet
2 clay feet
Life is a dream life is a dream life is a dream
Are we awake or do we sleep on 2 clay feet
Are we awake now

ANYMORE

Everybody's got a secret
that they don't want to keep
Say something that you might regret
but come clean

We're sitting in a restaurant
You're telling me to keep it down
You're worried what the waitress thinks
Tell me I talk too much
I always take the long way around

But soon everybody is gonna know what I know
I couldn't give you everything
so you're letting me go

Because my love is not enough for you anymore
My love is not enough for you anymore
anymore

We're driving in your car at night
You've got both hands on the wheel
You watch the road your jaw's clenched shut tight
You won't tell me how you feel

Well you can keep it all inside yourself
You're no mystery to me
Run that red light hit those brakes
I can hear your anger whispering

I just want you to tell me
Something I already know
I couldn't give you everything
so you're letting me go

Because my love is not enough for you anymore
My love is not enough for you anymore
anymore

You don't have to tell the truth
but don't think I can't guess
You've used up your last excuse
so why don't you confess
anymore

BEFORE GOODBYE

You’re a shadow on my wall
A sound outside my window
You’re summer into fall
And every time the wind blows

I hear your voice
Whispering to me

Before I say goodbye
There are things I need to do
There are records I must set straight
Before I say goodbye to you
Before I say goodbye
Before I shut the light

Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah

You’re a number I still call
When I’m feeling laid low
You’re every dream I dream
When I hit the pillow

Those nights when I still sleep
You’re whispering to me

Before I say goodbye
There are things I need to do
There are records I must set straight
Before I say goodbye to you
Before I say goodbye
Before I shut the light

Before I say goodbye
There are things I need to do
There are records I must set straight
Before I say goodbye to you
Before I say goodbye
Before I shut the light

Before I say goodbye
No, I will not go quiet-like (ah, ah)
I will not leave; I will not go
Until I see your face once more
Until I know (ah, ah, ah, ah)
That you’re okay (ah, ah)

Before I say goodbye (ah, ah, ah)
No, I will not go quiet-like
I will not leave; I will not go
Until I see your face once more
Until I know (ah, ah, ahh)
That you’re okay (ah, ah)

Okay (Until I know, until I know, that you’re okay)
Okay (Until I know, until I know, that you’re okay)
Okay (Until I know, until I know)

BREATHE

When I'm lying in your arms again
I won't be able to remember when
I was without you
When I'm diving down in my deep end
You're the only one who gets through

What I want
Your hands on me
It's the only thing I can feel

You breathe me in
I breathe you in
You breathe me in
I breathe you in

When I'm with you I can feel the heat
1,000 summers beating on the street
Where I've been walking
I don't care if I burn both my feet
Put your lips up to my ear just keep talking

What I want
To be with you
It's the only thing that's true

You breathe me in
I breathe you in
You breathe me in
I breathe you in

Oh breathe me in...
What I want
All that you've got
Here it is ready or not

You breathe me in
I breathe you in
You breathe me in
I breathe you in

Oh breathe me in

CANYON

I want to take you
To the Canyon
Show you the red rocks and we'll walk
Down below the rim

I want to see you
Touch the dust and feel the dirt
Make you remember that under the stones
There is the earth

All of these things I want for you
And something else I'm gonna do

I'll take you home and I will lay you down
I'll take you home where you can touch the ground
And I'll fill your bath I'll brush your hair
Let me take you there

I want to show you how the mountains
Carry shadows on their backs
Climb down the canyon walls where rain falls
Then disappears just like that

All of these things I want for you
And something else I'm gonna do

I'll take you home and I will lay you down
I'll take you home where you can touch the ground
And I'll fill your bath I'll brush your hair
Let me take you there

CLEAN GETAWAY

Long brown hair
Straight ahead gray stare
And tattooed arms

Meet me in Los Angeles
Come for breakfast
And bring your guitar

There you can lie to me
Till I believe you
Stay for awhile
But when you leave

You'll make a clean getaway

Your songs about my life
Cut me like a sharp knife
It's so bizarre

Meet me in Atlanta
If you won't or can't
I'll come to where you are

There you can lie to me
Till I believe you
Stay for awhile
But when you leave

You'll make a clean getaway

Yeah you can lie to me
Till I believe you
Stay for awhile
But when you leave

You won't leave nothin, no souvenirs
Just a note that says I'm so sorry dear

Clean getaway

COOL RAIN

Cool rain
Cool rain
Cool rain
In the summertime, anytime, anytime

When I met you
Just to see was not enough
Or to touch
I wanted you, I wanted you; I love you

And when I kissed you
Just a kiss was not enough
Now you’re just
My fantasy, our fantasy, fading fast

What makes love last?
I search my past, and I find
Things stay the same
Somehow, I thought they’d change

Cool rain
Cool rain
Cool rain
In the summertime, anytime, anytime

Cool rain
Cool rain
Cool rain
Cool rain

DAMAGE CONTROL

Carry me across the threshold
Push me down the rabbit hole for tea
Smiling while our lips and teeth grow cold
We will walk a plank into the sea

And over the years you'll be bored with me
And over the years I'll threaten to leave

And so the story goes
I try to fix it
Damage Control
Then you give me your lips to kiss
Oh that's low
You say "I love you"
We both know it's true

You will where a suit of armor
I will keep a secret up my sleeve
Suspicion is a crawling spider
Oh what a lovely web we weave

And over the years we'll have separate beds
And over the years you'll say it's all in my head
And so the story goes
I try to fix it
Damage Control
Then you give me your lips to kiss
Oh that's low
You say "I love you"
We both know it's true

DON'T LOOK AWAY

Hear you’ve been traveling
Looking for that one thing
Everybody wants
Like a ghost, it haunts you

Hiding just out of sight
Summer mornings, winter nights
Your “Moonlight in Vermont”
Like a ghost, it haunts you; don’t look away

Don’t look away

Found it with the boy next door
Diamonds at the jewelry store
Starlit restaurants
Still, that ghost, it haunts you

Falling for pale reflections
Boot heels grinding out perfection
All that pretty taunts
But the ghost still haunts you; don’t look away

Don’t look away

It’s always been a part
Intersection of your heart
Birds they got a song
You had it, all along

Corner of your eye
You caught it just in time
Middle of a dream
Tugging at your sleeve, don’t look away

Don’t look away

Oh, hey, don’t look away; don’t look away
Oh, hey, don’t look away
I’m telling you don’t turn your head, don’t even blink your eyes
Or you’ll miss it

Oh, hey, don’t look away; don’t look away
Oh, hey, don’t look away
I’m telling you don’t even blink, don’t turn your head
Or you’ll miss it

Don't look away

EASILY

Guess you can't feel a thing
That's what you said to me
When I told you I had to go
When I said that I was leaving

'Cause I can't stay here
In this house with no faith
I can't live with your fear
Of looking into the devil's face

Don't tell me
I gave up easily
Don't tell me
I wasn't ever on my knees
Don't tell me
That I never begged you please
Don't tell me
I gave up
Easily

I am empty I am full
No no I can't decide
That last weekend I said that I loved you
I think I was lying

I have given you up
No I don't wear your ring
Now wrapped round my finger
There's nothing but string

To help me remember
My ties to the past
Except for this devil inside
Nothing lasts

Don't tell me
I gave up easily
Don't tell me
I wasn't ever on my knees
Don't tell me
What's inside's a disease
Don't tell me
I gave up
Easily

EMOTIONAL PHOBIC

Emotional phobic
Get in get out quick
You don't want to get stuck
In these arms

With your cowboy come ons
It seems like you're so strong
You'll undress but you just
Won't disarm

Carrying
Your loaded gun
Underneath your tongue
And I don't know when it will go off again

Emotional phobic
I just need a quick fix
I think that your game's sick
But I'll still play

Wound tight as a tourniquet
You won't bleed but you'll let
Me on your monkey set
Any day

Carrying
Your loaded gun
Underneath your tongue
And I don't know when it will go off again

Carrying
Your loaded gun
Underneath your tongue
And I don't know when it will go off again

And I don't know when it will go off again
I don't know when I will get off

GENTLY

To tell the truth
I'm not okay
Thank you for asking
And now will you stay
Or smile politely
And just walk away

To tell the truth
There's something you can do
Sit here with me while
I howl at the moon
I know that it scares you
It scares me too
but help me through

Gently
Pick me up carefully
Gently
Hold me rock me
Gently
Like she used to do

To tell the truth
I'm sure I look fine
You can't see what's hidden
With the naked eye
Like trying to find
Something blue in the sky

To tell the truth
Is better than to lie
But I couldn't tell you
Before now could I
I learned years ago
Not to play with fire
But not this time

Gently
Pick me up carefully
Gently
Hold me rock me
Gently
Like she used to do

GHOST INSIDE

If we could only see
Past our bodies
Look through the blood and bone
Down through the skin
Is there a place called home
What would we find beyond the face
Is there something there
Or just an empty space

The ghost inside
Sitting like a passenger
Along for the ride
God's little spy
In there with the shadows
Looking out through our eyes

If we could only know
What lies below
Like the surface of a summer lake
When the sky's reflected
Do a double-take
That's how easily we're fooled
Our own jester
Keeps us from the jewel

The ghost inside
Sitting like a passenger
Along for the ride
God's little spy
In there with the shadows
Looking out through our eyes

The ghost inside
Waiting like a messenger
Awaits a reply
God's little spy
In there with the shadows
Looking out through our eyes

GOODBYE IS JUST ANOTHER WAY

China teacup on your beside table
Cards from friends that you read and reread
Oh my darling, I’m not done crying
But in these pictures of you…

All the pictures in my head
We are laughing; we are together
And that is never, never gonna change

Goodbye is just another way to say I love you
Goodbye is just another way to pray
I’m saying goodbye, but you’re still here inside my heart
Like these songs I play

In the kitchen Sister lays more trays out
The kids are sleeping on the old sofa bed
We smile encouragement, and raise our glasses
To the pictures of you

In all the pictures in my head
We are laughing; we are together
And that is never, never gonna change

Goodbye is just another way to say I love you
Goodbye is just another way to pray
I’m saying goodbye, but you’re still here inside my heart
With these songs I play

You will always be a part of me
And I want all the world to see
I am your legacy

(Ooh, ooh, Hallelujah. Ooh, ooh, pray)

Goodbye is just another way to say I love you
Goodbye is just another way to celebrate you
I’m saying goodbye, but you’re still here inside my heart
Like these songs I play

(Ooh, ooh, Hallelujah. Ooh, ooh, Hallelujah)

I SLEPT

I wanted to know you
But you always had your secrets
Like airplanes, tall buildings
The mysteries that you kept

So I slept

I wanted to have you
But you always kept your lips shut
Like veils, dark nighttime
The split of the skin when it's cut

So I slept

When I walk through
This part of the city
I can feel my heart my sweat
And I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I don't want to know now

That I slept

I wanted to tell you
But that was something you would not permit
So like sirens, helicopter blades
blood, regret

I slept

MONKEY TRAP

He wakes up in the middle of the night
She wakes up in the middle of a dream
He sleepwalks through his afternoons
She girltalks about why nothing's what it seems

They don't know what they believe
They share life's little mysteries
They've got it all but all of it's black
They've got their hands inside

The monkey trap

He wakes up in the middle of his life
She wakes up in the middle of a scream
He wonders how did I get here anyway
She's like a ragdoll ripping at the seams

And they don't know what they believe
They share love's little mysteries
They sleep together back to back
They've got their hands inside

The monkey trap

It's too bad they've got their hands so full
They can't pull back and they won't let go
The monkey trap

THE MOON IS MY FRIEND

The moon is my friend
She disappears by day
But she comes at night again
And that's the kind of game I'd like to play

But when I'm with you my tongue's in knots
I can't look away from what you've got
I need the cover of the dark night sky to say
The things that I can't tell you in the day

I'm wanting you so bad
You're the one thing that I've got to have

The moon is my friend
A cool white swinging lantern
But I'm not like her I don't pretend
That my reflected fire doesn't burn

That's why when I'm with you my tongue's in knots
I can't look away boy from what you've got
I need the cover of the dark night sky to say
The things that I can't tell you in the day

And I'm wanting you so bad
You're the one thing that I've got to have
Yes I'm wanting you so bad
You're the one thing that I've got to have
I don't need nothing to eat I don't need to sleep
But if you come any closer I'm gonna go deep
Wanting you so bad

The moon is my friend
Swimming in the sky
But I've seen her descend
And that's the light that shines in your eyes

That's why when I'm with you my tongue's in knots
I can't look away from what you've got
I need the cover of the dark night sky to say
The things that I can't tell you in the day

And I'm wanting you so bad I'm wanting you

NARCISSUS

What are you looking at
I can’t see it’s very dark in here
You’re bending over you’re almost lying flat
Something shimmers and you stare

What are you looking at
I come closer but all I see is you
Back of your head front of your face
Your looking in looking out of a pool

Narcissus what is this
A pool of blood upon the floor
Close as a kiss you’ll never miss
Your Echo as she’s fading out the door

What are you listening for
it’s a sound that only you can hear
Eyes like a slamming door
Shut me out shut yourself in with your fear

What are you fighting for
I come closer but all I see is you
With your weapons of war then you dive to the floor
And you’re down and you’re in and you’re drowned in your pool

Narcissus what is this
A pool of blood upon the floor
You’re leaning in close to your sin
You know it hurts but you want more

Narcissus what is this
A pool of blood upon the floor
Close as a kiss you’ll never miss
Your Echo as she’s fading out the door

NITELITE

You don't move too much
But I can see your eyes
They follow me they touch
Me on the inside

You don't talk at all
You only coo and crow
You're so very small
And I just want to know

When you dream at night
What does it look like?
Lying in your bed
Next to the nitelite

You don't eat too much
Because it's hard to swallow
High tech silver crutches
To swim the undertow

You don't use your voice
So I use mine to soothe you
You don't have a choice
You listen 'cause you have to

When you dream at night
What does it look like?
Lying in your bed
Next to the nitelite

When you dream at night
What does it look like?

This moment's all there is for you
Sorry it's true
We can't undo

This thing we've done
We did in love
Sent from above, this sprawling fruit

The nitelite’s glow forms a halo
What does it show?
I'll never know

When you dream at night
When you dream at night
When you dream at night
When you dream at night

PRAY

Baby got a shotgun
Bought a black trench coat
Small town left stunned
A diary on video

He went into the classroom
Hero with a hit list
Bricks and books became a tomb
For boys and girls who'd never been kissed

ooh ooh ooh There is only one thing left to say
ooh ooh ooh Put your hands together
Kneel down close your eyes

Baby in an out group
Nazi skinhead
Can't blame the neighborhood front stoop
Quiet boy white bread

Baby was a time bomb
Tick tick ticking boy
No singular phenomenon
This suicide kill joy

ooh ooh ooh There's only one thing left to say
ooh ooh ooh Put your hands together
Kneel down close your eyes
Pray

SATISFIED LIFE

I'm taking all my wishes and all of my desires
I'm putting them down on paper and I'm throwing them in the fire
Then I'll just walk away I don't need anything
Swear I'll be satisfied now with whatever this life brings

Whatever this life brings
I used to want everything
Whatever this life brings
I used to want everything
Now I'm settling
For whatever this life brings

I'm taking all your letters and a the the things I tried
The things that I did better and the things that I let slide
I'm watching them all go up in smoke they don't mean anything
God's little cosmic jokes and whatever this life brings

Whatever this life brings
I used to want everything
Whatever this life brings
I used to want everything
Now I'm settling
For whatever this life brings

I promise I'll be satisfied now
I swear I'll be a good girl
I know now I'll do everything everything I know how
To make this place a better world

So I'm taking all my mistakes and dark nights that I cried
All my dreams on this stage and the ways that I was tied
And I'm letting them go forever I won't keep anything
Baby it's now or never for whatever this life brings

*WATERCOLOR WORDS

Doo doo doo doo--
Doo doo, do

I lied about the sky, didn’t want you to cry
But you were so afraid of the dark
I lied about leaving, didn’t want you grieving
So I left you with the song of the meadowlark

The night is never really black, my love
Sometimes the moon’s just tired

Watercolor words, watercolor words
All soft edges and the lines are blurred
Watercolor words, mm…

Doo doo doo doo--
Doo doo, do

I lied about dying, didn’t want you asking why
Life is a curvy little question mark
I lied about winning, and the things that you would lose
And how life would break your heart

The night is never really black, my love
Sometimes the moon’s just tired

Watercolor words, watercolor words
All soft edges and the lines are blurred
Watercolor words—I gave you a watercolor world

Watercolor words, watercolor words
All soft edges and the lines are blurred
Watercolor words--I gave you a watercolor world

Oh, did I mess with your mind
Mm—or buy you time till you got older
What will you say to her now
When she’s crying on your shoulder

Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah...
Watercolor words—I gave you a watercolor world

Watercolor words, watercolor words
All soft edges and the lines are blurred
Watercolor words—I gave you a watercolor world

Outro:

Watercolor wishes, painting pictures, all skinned knees and rows of stitches
Watercolor wishes, years gone missing, all sweet dreams and blowing kisses

Watercolor words they were yours and mine.
Wonder what kind of words you’re gonna find for her...

Watercolor wishes, painting pictures, all skinned knees and rows of stitches
Watercolor wishes, years gone missing, all sweet dreams and blowing kisses

Doo doo doo doo--
Doo doo, do (Blowing kisses)

Doo doo doo doo--
Doo doo, do

*Lyrics by Gloria Barone & Mimi Cross. Music by Mimi Cross.

*WHAT COLOR (WILL REMIND YOU OF ME)

You set the table with two paper plates
We always ate the ice cream first
Laughing, you put the roast in at eight
Until he moved in, like a thunderburst

Ah ha, ah ha, ah
Ah ha, ah ha, ah
Ah ha, ah ha, ah
Ah ha, ah ha, ah

For him you brought out the candlelight
While I cried alone in my room
Stared at the walls missed you every night
I was your distant moon

Shining silver outside of your windows; bright light
Disappearing, disappearing…

Like summer, I’ll be gone
What color will remind you of me?
What time of day, which places
What color? What color

You set the table with two paper plates
We used to eat the ice cream first

Shining silver outside of the windows; white light
Disappearing, disappearing…

Like summer, I’ll be gone
What color will remind you of me?
What time of day, which places
What color? What color

I think you should consider green
Red is dreadful on a bed—you said
But white is much too clean…fine

I think you should consider green
Red is a fire in your head—you said
But white is much too clean…fine
How about we paint it black?

Like summer, I’ll be gone
What color will remind you of me?
What time of day, which places
What color? What color

What color? What color

What color? (Like summer I'll be gone)
What color (Fire in your head)
What color? (Like summer I'll be gone)
What color (Fire in your head)

*Lyrics by Gloria Barone & Mimi Cross. Music by Mimi Cross.

YOU CAN NEVER LOVE ME ENOUGH

She's got a place inside
It's like the night sky
And he keeps on giving her the moon and the stars
But he can't fill her up, and she don't know why, yeah she don't know why she cries:

"You can never love me enough
You can never love me enough—no, no you'll never
You can never love me enough, enough, enough
You can never love me enough."

Then there's that house she lives in
He lives there with her
It looks like a storybook end to me
The dream delivered

Night comes he puts his arms around her
Whispers, "You're mine."
Night comes she lay down beside him
But she doesn't sleep, and it's not the first time, not the first time she cries:

"You can never love me enough
You can never love me enough—no, no you'll never
You can never love me enough, enough, enough
You can never love me enough."

Don't ask her why she needs so much love
She'll simply bow her head. She'll mumble, "Just because. Because..."
Don't ask her what she does with it, hiding it away
She'll only tell you softly, "A lot of it just doesn't stay. It doesn't stay."

Last time I saw her she looked happy
And it's about time
Last time I saw her she smiled with her mouth
But her eyes kept crying, her eyes kept crying. She cried:

"You can never love me enough
You can never love me enough—no, no you'll never
You can never love me enough, enough, enough
You can never love me enough.

You can never love me enough
You can never love me enough—no, no you'll never...
You can never love me enough, enough, enough, enough
It's never enough."

THE ALLIGATOR WAITER

Last night at the restaurant
He pulled out my chair
I wanted to speak
But I did not dare

He gave us fancy menus
And pulled out his pad
I turned to my Mom
I turned to my Dad

We have an alligator waiter!
I jumped from my seat
We have an alligator waiter!
With big green feet
We have an alligator waiter!
With breath like steam heat
Nobody noticed
All they did was eat

I spun in my chair
Then I stopped and I stared
Was it possible?
Not one diner cared

They looked at their plates
Their forks and their knives
Their spoons and their cups
Quick, run for your lives!

We have an alligator waiter!
I jumped from my seat
We have an alligator waiter!
With big green feet
We have an alligator waiter!
With breath like steam heat
Nobody noticed
All they did was eat

He was decked out and dashing
He wore a white tux
A black silk bow tie
Made him look quite luxe
But big shiny teeth
Appeared with his grin
And he couldn't hide
All that green gator skin

He made his wicked dark plan
While everyone munched
They had no idea!
They noshed, chewed and crunched

They are really quite noisy
When eating their lunch
He said as he winked
And poured my pink punch

Mom said, my goodness
Son, you're looking pale
She smiled. Take a sip
Of my cool ginger ale

Then we both left the room
To step out for some air
I looked at her
I had a secret to share:

We have an alligator waiter!
I jumped from my seat
We have an alligator waiter!
With big green feet
We have an alligator waiter!
With breath like steam heat
Nobody noticed
All they did was eat

He's charming, mom smiled
And very well dressed
Do you mean that you saw him?
Well of course I did, yes!

Then the waiter approached us
A towel on his arm
He smiled. There was never
A cause for alarm

I'm feeling lonely
Was drawn to your group
So cheerful and chipper
Over salad and soup
This job waiting tables
Was all I could get
I'd much rather go home
With you both, as your pet!

Now, we have an alligator waiter in our living room
We have an alligator waiter, he says, drop by soon!
We have an alligator waiter, and he loves this tune

Dool ya bop, dool ya bop, doo, doo, doo, doo do
His gaze shining yellow, his green skin aglow, the alligator is waiting...
So let's take him home.

*THE CRANKAMACALLIT

One rainy afternoon
When we had nothing else to do
We got ourselves a cardboard box
Some buttons and some glue

Then we hit up Daddy's workroom
And we found a ball of string
The next thing that we knew
We’d built this crazy new thing

It's called a Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
C-r-a-n-k-a-m-a-c-a-l-l-i-t

It's a car
(No, it's a plane!)
It's an alien spaceship
(Huh?)
Climb aboard and close your eyes
Take a magic trip

A crazy flying wooden boat
With windmill blades and wings
(That makes me very nervous...)
Our invention goes to show
That you can do anything
(Anything?)

Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
C-r-a-n-k-a-m-a-c-a-l-l-i-t

It’s got bells and it’s got whistles
It flies it flutters
It shines it glistens
It’s all home made and it’s ready for some action

It sputters it putters
It glides it soars
It twists and turns
And purrs and roars
There’s only one word to describe such a contraption.

It’s called a...

Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
Crankamacallit
C-r-a-n-k-a-m-a-c-a-l-l-i-t

Once more for extra credit...

C-r-a-n-k-a-m-a-c-a-l-l-i-t

Lyrics by Mimi Cross & Kevin Salem. Music by Mimi Cross.

* indicates cowrite. All other songs written by Mimi Cross.