The Big Room White Noise September 13 Fell From A Great Height As I Rise What The Eyes Have Made Welcome A River Lies Between Us 100 Different Ways I Wish The Show Was Over Days Chasing Days Sliding Across A Blue Highway What Was There To Worry About God Knows

At the mercy of the moods of the room
Resting on your shoulder - breathing in your perfume
Breathin in your perfume - in this big room

All the wrong things, all the stupid fun
That I was sorry for, right after it was done
Right after it was done - here in the big room

Got pretty flowers, such beautiful things
A loser is just a player that doesn't want to win
I got a bird it might sing, sing for you in the big room

A roulette wheel, spin it around watch it change
I need a guide map to tell me how I feel
It's like a roulette wheel spinning round the big room

I had a change of mind, had a change of heart
I had to change the scenery, that was the difficult part
I might leave the room but you know I'll always be back

She's got the gift, the gift of making me wish she was here
She's got the reddest lips, her eyes are cold and green and clear
She says she's coming she'll be here soon
Dancing in the big room

I'm breathing in your perfume
Breathing in the big room
Big room
Big room, big room
Big room, in the big room
There's many ????? in the big room

You know those warnings on the radio?
Well everything they said was true 
Waves of unverified information hanging in the air 
Spilling over me and you 
It feels like white noise 

You can't predict it's appearance 
It was like sensing someone creeping behind me 
But when I looked, there was nobody there 
And when you get there, you just don't care 
It's just white noise 

I know this feeling, I have had it before 
I see your lips moving, are you talking to me, are you sure? 
Park the car, we'll watch the setting sun over the sea 
I see your eyes moving, are you looking at me 
Or is it just white noise 

Let's take a break for a television commercial

You should never have used magic 
To summon me back here 
The consequences could be rather tragic 
Yeah, that's a real good trick my dear 
And all the while I was under the impression 
Falling on the border like an ace 
You almost smile, assured of my discretion 
Lost in the desert of your face 
Just the other side of disgrace 

Don't you always get what you ask for 
Don't you always ask for what you get 
I thought you read the label 
Before you laid the table 
You got no cause for regret 
And all the time I am under the delusion 
That it's me who's calling out the script 
But you jump, up to your conclusion 
Your anecdotes all come forth unripped 
But who gave you the sweat that you dripped 

I fell from a great height 
Something broke inside me 
In a dream, in a room 
With this delightful wicked melody 
I fell from a great height 
I fell from a great height 

From a tall glass steel building in the sky 
I am vulnerable to moments of regret 
So powerful I thought I must die 
I fell from a great height 

I fell from a great height 
And I was screaming that I still loved you 
Rushing towards earth 
All the troubles I have lived through 
I fell from a great height 
I fell from a great height 
Thinking that's the way it ought to be 
The faint glow from the city lights 
Was all I could see 
I fell from a great height 

I fell from a great height 
Scrambling with myth and light 
Surrendered to a dream 
That was absolutely right 
I fell from a great height 

I can't give you anything but love 
I can't give you anything 
Don't mention this to anyone 
Don't mention this to anyone 

As I rise - as I rise 

The shadow at the bottom of the pool 
That shadow it reminds me of you 
Don't mention this to anyone 
Don't mention this to anyone 

As I rise - as I rise 

All I ever wanted to do, to come home to you 
It's all I ever wanted to do 
Don't mention this to anyone 
Don't mention this to anyone 

As I rise - as I rise 

I couldn't ever make up my mind 
About what I was to receive - what I'd leave behind 
She said, I dreamed about you again last night 
We were walking in the bright daylight 

You can't invade you can only explore 
Have you had enough or are you ready for more 
Rushing in out of the blue 
Don't get sentimental on me now will you 

Your sleeping head rests against my chest 
Mid-morning light flickers as though to suggest 
I set you free, you murmur something to me 
You sound as fresh and unfathomable as the sea 

Where's that Indian summer we were promised 
Those still nights that disappear without a peep 
Autumn leaves swirl about, making unscheduled stops 
And all I want to do is sleep, all I want to do is sleep 

  A river lies between us 
  But that river is too wide 
  A river lies between us 
  Can't get across to the other side 

I do not want for anything, I could walk for hours 
She had all the natural graces, she was in such a hurry 
She always wanted to do everything 
And it was not lost on me, it all looked so very pretty 

  A river lies between us 
  But that river is too wide 
  A river lies between us 
  Can't get across to the other side 
  A river lies between us 
  But that river is too wide 

Wish you were here again
I wish you were here again
I wish you were here again
I wish you were here again
I wish you were here again
I wish you were here again
Wish you were here again
I wish you were here again

Yeah, greats been the pleasure, one can think of nothing else 
Left all to myself, left all to myself, left all to myself 

  A river lies between us 
  But that river is too wide 
  A river lies between us 
  Can't get across to the other side 
  A river lies between us 
  But that river is too wide 
  A river lies between us 
  Can't get across to the other side 

I should not wonder 
If there were a hundred different ways of being in love 
If one hundred flowers were in bloom 
They'd be all singing a different tune 
All singing of another 
Every sister and brother 
I was on the point of telling you this 
But I drew back from that sweet abyss 

Love is a most troublesome companion 
But it's ever so sweet to the eye 
It rises, in all shapes and sizes 
That's not always easy to identify 
I thought I was beyond change 
I was surprised that I was wrong 
I thought anything, to set my careless heart at ease 
Even the simplest caresses of a breeze 

So know your heart, that is all that matters 
When approaching love, we're entirely mad as hatters 

Her friends hadn't been good to her since she had been in the hospital 
Nobody to collect her groceries for her 
Nothing was of any interest at all 
She said your sister talks to me 
Like a social worker 
But her life has been harder than yours or mine 
Can't you two be friends 
Can't you visit her some time 
I wish that the show was all over 

My mother said, I know it's my fault 
I could kick myself for bringing you up so wrong 
Some days I simply ride trams around all day 
My only wish is that we could all get along 
When I woke up this morning the pain was too much to bear 
Those tests I have hurt so much I am beyond care 
Events from past years can easily bring me to tears 
Find myself getting regretful - wish I was more forgetful 
I wish that the show was all over

Well anxiety that's the devils impatience, I said 
Life tastes sweet, soon enough we all end up dead 
So I recited that famous poem about having promises to keep 
Mother dearest you have got miles to go yet before you sleep 
I wish that the show was all over 

All right, you win - you've come to me for something 
Open the window, where you turn - I will follow 
And all my prayers, tonight and tomorrow 
It takes so little to get me excited 
We want to dance this dance together 
She stepped into his embrace and kept a straight face 
Lent back in her chair - ran her fingers through her hair 
This is what fools me, time after time 
We lay flat on our stomachs - trying to sleep 
For our souls to keep 
Days chasing days 
Days chasing days 
We rose - fell together 
Dancing to the music of time 
Never a wrong turn - side stepping - whirling around 
I try to run away - fade into the light of day 
In the city of my heart - you're a central part 

Don't just sit there, looking at me 
We want to dance this dance together 
Days chasing days 
Days chasing days 
We rose - fell together 
Dancing to the music of time 

Driving through a pitch black night with the blur of oncoming headlights 
Lanterns swaying in the perfumed breeze 
Driving all night in a black Citroen 
Listening to Dark Side of the Moon on eight track cartridge 
Trucks broken down beside the road 
Old trucks held together with wire and string and good intentions 
Keep those trucks moving down highway one 
Chickens hanging from roofs 
Shoulder of the road covered with rice, drying in the golden light 
Everything's crumbling and growing out of control 
Desota trucks roll, trucks stacked high, with a headlight missing 
Painted yellow and red 
"Renovation is the way ahead"
Irrigate the fields 
Roadside cafes selling com pho 
Vietnamese girls in traditional ao dai riding bicycles to afternoon school 
Long gloves worn to the elbow 

I just knew how you would look 
Perched on a stool at a bar, reading a book 
She was fearless and bold 
The beauty of stars -  
I say that kind of stuff when I'm in bars 
I wanted company, hey stay until it's light 
Or until I can make it right 
Fly in - you fly out - of my life - be my wife 
I was so full of insecurities I wanted to scream or shout 
Hey, but what was there to worry about? 

Whims and caprice, so why are you so steamed up? 
Why so down in your cups? 
Well the women cried and the men sighed 
Something about a ring or a wedding 
Do I look like a liar? Please don't answer that 
What about if I wore a little hat 
I might look a little more like Alain Delon in L'Samurai 
I was so full of insecurities, I wanted to scream or shout 
Hey, but what was there to worry about? 

Whatever time of night 
Stray not far from my shore 
When night has stretched across the sky 
When you knock, it comes, at my door 
After lying on the bed awhile 
My thoughts always turn to you 
And I hear you fumble with your key 
And I know now what I must do 
God knows what made me do it 
To walk out that door and not look back 
God knows - I suppose 
God knows what made me do it 
The golden glow from the radio dial 
Hey and it's filling my room 
And your crumpled sleeping body 
Is illuminated by the fat, white moon 
God knows what made me do it 
To walk out that door and not look back 
God knows - I suppose 
God knows what made me do it 
God knows what made me do it