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TALKING ABOUT
I don't know what I'm talking about
maybe I'm stupid and I talk too loud
but when something just don't make sense
I can't ignore it and I can't pretend
I don't know what I'm talking about
I don't know what I'm talking about
last night you got home at half past two
a pair of shoes is a hard thing to lose
I asked you if you left them at some other man's house
you looked me in the eye and said
I don't know what you're talking about
you don't know what I'm talking about
you don't know what I'm talking about
out in kansas they got fields of wheat
here in the city kids ain't got enough to eat
the experts say, "it's not that simple you see"
how complicated could it be?
I don't know what they're talking about
I don't know what they're talking about
OH YOU GIRLS
I love girls
I've loved them all my life
I'd say a girl's the one to get if you want a wife,
but much as I love them and try to understand
sometimes I think it must be easier to be a man,
because society teaches them to play hard to get
they have to supress their drives when they ain't
even got drives yet.
I guess that's why I find girls so amusing,
so mystifying and so confusing.
I just never know what's going on in their brains
if you don't know what I mean, then let me explain.
When I was a little boy my momma gave me a spoon,
took me outside and let me dig in the lawn.
She got talking to her girlfriends on the telephone,
when she looked up three hours later, I was gone.
She came running outside and found me three feet in a hole
with that spoon in my hand, like I was diggin' for gold
and they talk about how cute I was when the story's told
they don't talk about how momma left me three feet in a hole
Oh you girls you make me nuts!
Oh I can't get me enough
I'll tell you about the first girl that ever broke my heart for me
she took me to a party on New Year's Eve
I walked twenty miles home after she left with some guy
it was twenty below but I was burning inside
she came by the next morning to apologize
she pulled up in her Pinto and started rolling her eyes
she lit up a smoke and threw the lighter out the window
just like it was a match
I was so pissed off at her but I just had to laugh
Oh you girls you make me nuts!
Oh I can't get me enough
I was out the other night with some girls that I know
I seen a little cutie walking by really putting on a show
they said "I can't believe you're talking about that slut!"
next thing I know they was talking about some guy's butt
I said "come on girls, you know that ain't fair
how come you can talk about him but I can't talk about her"
they said "it's just different, you wouldn't understand
girls will be girls, but you're just a man."
Oh you girls you make me nuts!
Oh I can't get me enough
WALK WITH ME
when you run out of places to hide
and you run from what's growing inside
and the things you can't believe
are strong enough to bring you to your knees
walk with me I'll take you through the fire
walk with me I'll never let you down
walk with me when all the world's against you
I will always be around
when the right has turned to wrong
and the light that used to guide you ain't so strong
so you can't see where you're going
and you can't stand to look at where you've been
walk with me I'll take you through the fire
walk with me I'll never let you down
walk with me when all the world's against you
I will always be around
around around kicking round and round
since he's seventeen
people ask him where he's been
he don't know what they mean
they dont understand him
so they leave it up to me
I don't know what to tell them
cause it's between me and him
cause me and him
we go a long way back together
we never lied or hurt each other
we never told each other what to do
when you try to uncover
the love that's lying buried in your heart
it ain't nice, and it ain't pretty
but it's exactly where you've got to start
walk with me I'll take you through the fire
walk with me I'll never let you down
walk with me when all the world's against you
I will always be around
I will always be around
I will always be around
and I will never let you down
I'LL LOOK FOR YOU
I'm not gonna laugh not gonna cry not gonna be heartbroken
I'm not gonna ask not gonna try to hear the words you've spoken
(they were lies) I know you were lying
(all the time) and I'm tired of crying
always crying slowly dying over you
I'll look for you
I'll look for you
I'll look in every other girl's eyes
when I'm all alone I go to sleep I can hear my own heart beating
voices in my head things I never said voices voices keep repeating
(echo through) my empty life and my empty room
(where are you) it echoes through me it echoes like a tomb
a tune that always makes me makes me think of you
I'll look for you
I'll look for you
I'll look in every other girl's eyes
the statue in the park stands all alone alone and now forgotten
in the rain and snow nowhere to go no one that he can call his own
like me he's on his own
(all alone) he's free but his heart is made of stone
and in the lonely rain he cries
I'll look for you
I'll look for you
I'll look in every other girl's eyes
I DIDN"T KNOW
I didn't know what I was getting into
I didn't know how crazy you can be
I didn't know but I'm finding out
it's allright I'm not gonna leave
I didn't know how much you hurt inside
I didn't know that every night you cried
you lash out at me and then apologize
it's allright I'll never say goodbye
your love for me is the only thing that matters
your love for me is all that keeps me going
you took me in when my life ws in tatters
I'll do the same for you because you are my friend
I see the wind of the past come blowing through you
I reach to hold you and you're shaking like a leaf
I curse the names of those who tried to destroy you
but you say forgive them the truth will set them free
your love for me is the only thing that matters
your love for me is all that keeps me going
you took me in when my life ws in tatters
I'll do the same for you because you are my friend
I'll do the same thing for you because you are my friend
NEXT TIME AROUND
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
I'd probably still be a long haired hippie freak
just like back in school watching the girls go by
but this time round I wouldn't be so polite so tounge-tied I wouldn't be so shy
cause now I realize that just cause they're taught to play hard to get
little girls want the same thing as little guys
sugar and spice and everything nice they got the same thing going on inside
so now when I see a little sixteen year old nubile girl just like I didn't used to understand
I'd just walk right up to that pretty little girl and I'd offer hr my hand and I'd say
"hey baby! My name is Kevin, would you like to take a walk outside?
Hey baby you sure are looking good are you sure you don't want to take a ride?"
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
and when I got a little bit older I don't think I would have put so much poison in my veins
night after night after night after night I'm surprised I still have a brain
there's whole years I cant remember the just kind of drifted away
with girls and booze and guns and drugs I guess I'm lucky that I'm here today
cause lot's of my friends the didn't make it frankie's gone ricky's gone
tony's wandering round in a daze
I wish I knew then what I know now I'd tell em get out before it gets too late
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
I wouldn't be the same
I would have made a change
and if there's ont e thing that I would change out of all the stupid shit that I've done
I guess I would have paid more attention when my momma was getting sick instead
of going out and getting drunk and having fun
I remember how she used to look at me like she knew my train was running off the track
I picture her at night sometimes but then I wake and realize she's never coming back
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
if I had it all to do over again
I'd do it different next time around
DIRTY OLD CITY
I seen a guy downtown with crutches and just one leg
he had a cup in his hand and he said all that he could do was beg
it chilled me to the bone to hear him coughing that consumption cough
he asked me for a quarter and I told him to fuck off
now I don't know but it feels like something's wrong
I think I've been in this dirty old city for too long
I seen a guy beatin' up on a girl down in the street
and I was thinking 'bout what I'd do if it was me
cause he was beatin' on her pretty good from head to toe
and I was thinking I'd beat her in places that it wouldn't show
now I don't know but it feels like something's wrong
I think I've been in this dirty old city for too long
I got a place inside of me that's black as a lump of coal
and my skin's so thick you couldn't pierce it with a ten foot pole
I got a hole inside of me that I can't seem to fill
with another drink, or another girl or another one of my cheap thrills
the snow came swirling down again today
and by the time it hit the street
it was already turning grey
the walls we build around us they might as well be made of stone
you can't see them walls but they keep us all living alone
I got a place inside of me that's black as a lump of coal
and my skin's so thick you couldn't pierce it with a ten foot pole
I got a hole inside of me that I can't seem to fill
with another drink, or another girl or another one of my cheap thrills
and I look at the world around me and I say man what have we done
and I look at the man in the mirror and I say what have I become
I guess I been in this dirty old city for too long
I'LL NEVER KNOW
One morning I woke up and you were gone
somewhere between the darkness and the light of dawn
did you kiss me once before you had to go?
I guess I'll never know
if you had had the chance to change you're mind
if I could just turn back the hands of time
if there had been the slightest hope
would you have told me so
I guess I'll never know
I'll never know just what it was that you were looking for
the road called out you're name and you were gone
love is all it ever takes to make a house a home
we dreamed of it together but here I am alone
with a heart that's always living in the past
wondering why it is that nothing good ever seems to last
the love that was so strong.where did it go?
I guess I'll never know
MR. AD-MAN
Somewhere in this country there's an ocean of beer
I have never seen it but I know that it's here
it's surrounded by women each one as long as she is tan
everybody is happy cause they all got a can
Is that Miller really cold brewed or is that just a lie?
and can you tell me one good reason why they call it Bud Dry?
Hey Mr. Ad-Man, I'd sure like to know
when I open a cold one, how come it don't snow?
Now if you're all wondering why I sit here on my ass
with a six pack of beer, watching my life go past
it's really no secret, the answer's quite clear
I'm sitting and I'm waiting for them chicks to appear.
Is that Miller really cold brewed or is that just a lie?
and can you tell me one good reason why they call it Bud Dry?
Hey Mr. Ad-Man, I'd sure like to know
when I open a cold one, how come it don't snow?
LONG WAY BACK
The rising star has fallen
he left the night ablaze
he had his fifteen minutes
upon the world's stage
the crowds they came to see him
now gaze with tired eyes
upon their threadbare hero
with disappointed sighs
they could not bear to watch him
stay down for the count
how could he give up fighting
before the final round
he lost that certain something
the thing that he did best
no grave will be dug for him
before he's laid to rest
it's a long way back
put your dreams on your back
take them to the man
he'll understand
he'll be your friend again
it's a long way back
put your dreams on your back
the dreams that shone so bright
hold them tightly
they will shine again
we left him by the roadside
and not a tear was cried
we had to move
and he'd be fine
so he just stayed behind
there was no time for waiting
I did not know it then
he got so crazy sometimes
he had so many friends
but no one saw it coming
he was so cool outside
they shoot a horse to save him
but we left him to die
it's a long way back
put your dreams on your back
take them to the man
he'll understand
he'll be your friend again
it's a long way back
put your dreams on your back
the dreams that shone so bright
hold them tightly
they will shine again
shine again
shine again