The Wonderground

I can't look back

it hurts my heart

it colors everything

my future looks

just like the past

variations on a scream

ahhh

I can't outsmart

I can't outrun

no matter how I try

the way I feel

like a spinning wheel

same old story makes me cry

ahhh

I wanna be beautiful and wise

doesn't everyone

and somewhere in my mind

I'm already done

bells are ringin'

I've already won (I've already won)

ahhh

my soul in slumber

for years I wondered

why nothing touches me

til you broke in

you got under my skin

I don't care if I am cut or bleeding

ahhh

I wanna be beautiful and wise

doesn't everyone

and somewhere in my mind

I'm already done

bells are ringin'

I've already won

will love restore

will more love make more

that's what you gave to me

and it runs right through

no matter what I do

no deeper currency

ahhh

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

he said my pain is chronic

it's killing me every day

and all I want is

to make everything OK

another cup of coffee

another mile to run

doesn't make it better

cause I'm still alone here

hungry for anything

and the time will pass

but love will remain

cause nothing is so sweet as

this chronic pain

one moment you're laughing

and then your eyes fill with rain

and nothing will ever be as sweet as

this chronic pain

he said my life had meaning

somewhere my heart could lay

you could be dreaming

and suddenly things can change

I still hear her whisper

it's for all time

with eyes wide shut

my love is blind

I can hear her calling

and the time will pass

but love will remain

cause nothing is so sweet as

this chronic pain

one moment you're laughing

then it rips your heart again

and nothing could ever be as sweet as

this chronic pain

and I would give anything

just for a place to stand

my own con-fusion

is all that I've ever known

you and I, well...

we're like the shifting sand

he said my pain is chronic

it's killing me every day

and all I want is

to make everything OK

and the time will pass

but love will remain

cause nothing is so sweet as

this chronic pain

and this too shall pass...(in rideout)

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

starting at the very bottom

the nasty pit of despair

you know how people always tell you

it's only up from there

I'm humbled to find myself

spitting blame and going nowhere

I'm doing everything to make it new

I'm on my way up

I'm climbing, I'm climbing

I'm climbing

yeah I'm on my way up

I'm on my way

I've seen the vultures circle slowly

over my head

I wave my arms and shout

get out of here

because I'm not dead

you will not devour my soul

or take my house

you hear what I said

I'm doing everythig to make it true

I'm on my way up

I'm climbing, I'm climbing

I'm climbing

yeah I'm on my way up

on my way

and it's true

hope springs eternal

in the dark heart of a man

so I take a breath

and I make my way up

and the world falls away from me

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

I'm tellin you this is my desire

cause I know we could start a fire

take this feeling and let it fly

no holdin back no askin why

gonna find my way

gonna break the rules

throw away the book

cause I've been a fool

wastin time like

it was money

walkin when I

could'a been runnin

now I feel like runnin

I'm tellin you this is my desire

cause I know we could start a fire

take this feeling and let it fly

no holdin back no askin why

you know how it is

wanna be someone else

wanna be something better

bigger than yourself

tear down these walls

and let it in

outside my mind

and outside my skin

wanna feel like I'm free again

I'm tellin you this is my desire

cause I know we could start a fire

take this feeling and let it fly

no holdin back no askin why

wanna shine like a star

do you know what I mean

wanna light up the dark

are you here with me?

only wanna radiate and spark

can you hear me speak to your heart

don't you wanna jump in your car

and drive like there's no tomorrow

you know how it is

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

I worship at no altars

follow no beaten trail

try it cause I want to

sometimes win sometimes fail

stepping off this moving train

estranged and isolated

I will not go back again

how long have we waited

mute with goodbye

wanting to cry

no provocation

no destination

terminal promises dying hard

so this is where I find I'm found

release me to the wonderground

take my costume suitcase from me

skin and bones are all I will be

heart and soul go flying free

here in the wonderground

devastation earthquake tremble

you and I so reassembled

miracles are every day now

here in the wonderground

questions with no answers

coming from everywhere

echos of the past I hear

but I take no shelter there

God knows I know your losses

how I feel them too

this ticket gets us all the way

to our Waterloo

mute with goodbye

wanting to cry

no provocation

no destination

terminal promises dying hard

so this is where I find I'm found

release me to the wonderground

life is short and days are long

body weak while heart is strong

moment to moment love beats on

here in the wonderground

devastation earthquake tremble

you and I so reassembled

miracles are every day now

here in the wonderground

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

I don't take pills

I'm holding on

I cry all night

when things go wrong

I don't need much

only a word

I crave your touch

and to be heard

my body knows

my heart belongs

my soul is full of you

you are my drug

you make me sane

you give me love

you keep the flame

you are my drug of choice

I don't know God

I dream alone

talk to myself

when things go wrong

life is so strange

it's here and gone

it means so much

when you love someone

my body knows

my heart belongs

my soul is full of you

you are my drug

it makes me cry

you give me love

I wonder why

you are my drug of choice

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

I am what I am

let the whole world know

so what if I love you

I wanna let it show

this dream that I'm living

these seeds that I sow

make it up as I go

I make it up as I go

I know how it looks

I can't apologize

I'd rather be lost in

the love in your eyes

cause this is how I feel

and I realize

I make it up as I go

make it up as I go

so I fly high

and fall far

love drunk

and unrepentant

my heart hungover

and I wake up chained

in a neverending mindbending sentence

it's a hard hard lesson

I learned it first hand

it rips at my soul

how well I understand

it's a perfect mistake

I would do it again

make it up as I go

I make it up as I go

for the look in your eyes

I would do it again

make it up as I go

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

days are just drifting

like lambs over the fence

it's time to be admitting

what we're up against

are you listening

the other shoe is dropping

all over the world

don't be caught napping

the little boys and girls

are listening

they are listening

for words

they've been craving

for time

we've been saving

so what are we waiting for

yes love, my love

I'm right here for you

let's make it together

the old and the new

birds of a feather

must do what they do

the sky is all clouded with

signal from a fire

I'm falling through

shrouded words of desire

is somebody listening

somebody listening

I lay myself down

and try to understand

my ear to the ground

of this primitive land

and I'm listening

I am listening

for words

you've been craving

for time

we've been saving

so what are we waiting for

yes love, my love

I'm right here for you

let's make it together

the old and the new

birds of a feather

must do what they do

yes love my love

I'm right here for you

let's make it together

the old and the new

my love my love

I'm right here for you

let's make it together

the old and the new

birds of a feather

must do what they do

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

Memories sift with safe selection

now I know why

surface when you least expect them

make you cry

guess that it's our best protection

when we're ready re-collect them

'til you can forgive and forget when

you catch that old reflection

in another's eye

Counsel waits for your indication

you could follow

love would rock in neutral salvation

never alone

fearful souls at every station

falter while life overtakes them

so many steps lead away from

the ghosts of a past that enslave one

why not let them go

Seems to be a second chance

to do it over

get it right

smile the smile of coincidence

sleep the sleep of quiet mind

Seems to be a second chance

to do it over

get it right

smile the smile of coincidence

sleep the sleep of quiet mind

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

at the heart of me

I will always be

sorry you slipped right through

the tear in my soul

where the rain comes in

even with your love

I couldn't try again

BV's/ even with your love I couldn't try

it's the little things

that mean everything

that's why I'm missin you

your soap in the shower

our friends on the phone

it feels like a funeral

quiet and alone

BV's/ that is why I'm missin you

don't remind me of the things I didn't do

it always comes around to losin you

can't think about it cause it only hurts again

if I had it to do over baby maybe I could bend

don't remind me

wanna put it behind me

don't remind me

extra chorus BV's/ why I'm missin you tonight

I didn't even try

I'm leavin you behind

I'm remembering

what you said to me

I know tonight it's true

these minutes and hours

are precious and few

hold on to whatever

love gives to you

BV's/ that's what you said but I didn't hear you

don't remind me of the things I didn't do

it always comes around to losin you

can't think about it cause it only hurts again

if I had it to do over baby maybe I could bend

don't remind me

wanna put it behind me

don't remind me

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

There's truth in the gutter

though it slips down the drain

and in the soaring steeple

standing solo in the rain

each is worth understanding

part of the human chain

each one is revealing to us

comfort or pain

oh it's easy to misvalue

the sacred and profane

And we all have a cover

to keep the truth from one another

we live behind our twisted minds

afraid to bare the straight line

to our sacred heart

Oh it's easy to misvalue

the sacred and profane

And we all have a cover

to keep the truth from one another

we live behind our twisted minds

afraid to bare the straight line

to our sacred heart

There's truth in the gutter

though it slips down the drain

and in the soaring steeple

standing solo in the rain…

(George Merrill / Shannon Rubicam)

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