Seems the time is near for finding a place outside
Seems the time is here for holding the window wide
So i’m going to try
To open up one eye
But if the world is too wide
I’ll be home to hide
Keep it warm inside, if it’s strange, outside.
Seems the time has flown, when we lived inside a cloud
Seems the time has gone, when nothing we said was out loud
Going to find a word
Make myself be heard
But if the world is too loud
I’ll be home from the crowd
Keep it soft inside, if it’s strange, outside.
Seems the time has come for banging our feet to the ground
Seems the time has come to see if the world is round
Sweep the smoke away
Reach the earth today
But if the world is all wrong
I won’t be staying long
Keep it cool inside, if it’s strange, outside.
(michelle lewis)
He’s breathes the air lightly
Since skipping parole
And he dials the phone quietly
But she put him on hold
There are good sons and bad seeds
She thinks he’s the latter
But it no longer matters what she’ll say
He’ll be driving all night anyway
Over backroads he’ll ride
Then he cuts the headlights
And he watches their lives
From the outside
And they can’t let him in
So he’s driving again
As he’s wishful thinking
On the outside
Mmmmmmm…
Oh say can you see by the dawns early light
Playing on the t.v.
I guess he’s in for the night
He fell asleep waiting for his sister to call
All the motels and roadside bars
He wants home but it only gets farther
Over backroads he’ll ride
Then he cuts the headlights
And he watches their lives
From the outside
And they can’t let him in
So he’s driving again
As he’s wishful thinking
On the outside
Oohhh…
Yes, it’s killing them knowing he’s out there, somewhere
Reminding that they could be too
Oohhh…
Over backroads he’ll ride
Then he cuts the headlights
And he watches their lives
On the outside
And they can’t let him in
Cause they know where he’s been
So he’s left there thinking
On the outside
On the outside
On the outside…
Outside the world’s a mindless child
Outside
Outside reflects the worst of styles
Outside
Inside when you’re in my arms
A mindless child is still to be borne
Inside, baby, when we come inside
Outside the politics of greed
Outside
Outside misbehavior seethes
Outside
Mindless repression dominates the street
While i kneel down and kiss your feet
Inside, baby, when we come inside
Outside
Outside they don’t think they breed
Outside
Outside emotion determines need
Outside
Outside the world’s a mindless child
That we could bring to life in your arms
Inside, baby, when we come inside
Outside the politics of hate an greed
Outside
Outside the world’s a mindless child
Outside
But when i hold you in my arms
It’s a mindless child that you want
Inside, no matter ‘bout the world outside
Inside, a baby’s what you want inside
I think I’m done with the sofa
I think I’m done with the hall
I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby
let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside
in the moonshine
take me to the places that I love best
So my angel she says, don’t you worry
‘bout the things they’re saying, yeah
got no friends in high places
and the game that you gave away
wasn’t worth playing
let’s go outside
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
let’s go outside
in the meantime
take me to the places that I love best
and yes I’ve been bad
doctor won’t you do with me what you can
you see I think about it all the time
twenty four seven
you say you want it, you got it
I never really said it before
there s nothing here but flesh and bone
there’s nothing more nothing more
there’s nothing more
back to nature, just human nature
getting on back to
I think I m done with the sofa
I think I m done with the hall
I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby
let’s go outside
in the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
let’s go outside
in the moonshine
take me to the places that I love best
and yes I’ve been bad
doctor won’t you do with me what you can
you see I think about it all the time
I’d service the community
(but I already have you see!)
I never really said it before
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone
there’s nothing more, nothing more
there’s nothing more
let’s go outside
dancing on the D-train baby
when the moon is high
and the grass is jumpin’
come on, just keep on funkin’
keep on funkin’, just keep on funkin’
I think i’m done with the sofa
I think i’m done with the hall
I think i’m done with the kitchen table, baby
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that i love best
So my angel she says, don’t you worry
‘bout the things they’re saying, yeah
Got no friends in high places
And the game that you gave away
Wasn’t worth playing
Let’s go outside
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside
In the meantime
Take me to the places that i love best
And yes i’ve been bad
Doctor won’t you do with me what you can
You see i think about it all the time
Twenty four seven
You say you want it, you got it
I never really said it before
There s nothing here but flesh and bone
There’s nothing more nothing more
There’s nothing more
Back to nature, just human nature
Getting on back to
I think i m done with the sofa
I think i m done with the hall
I think i’m done with the kitchen table, baby
Let’s go outside
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that i love best
And yes i’ve been bad
Doctor won’t you do with me what you can
You see i think about it all the time
I’d service the community
(but i already have you see!)
I never really said it before
There’s nothing here but flesh and bone
There’s nothing more, nothing more
There’s nothing more
Let’s go outside
Dancing on the d-train baby
When the moon is high
And the grass is jumpin’
Come on, just keep on funkin’
Keep on funkin’, just keep on funkin’
Now. Not tomorrow
Yesterday
Not tomorrow
It happens today
The damage today
They fall on today
They beat on the outside
And I’ll stand by you
Now. Not tomorrow
It’s happening now
Not tomorrow
It’s happening now
The crazed in the hot-zone
The mental and divas hands
The fisting of live
To the music outside
To the music outside
It happens outside
The music is outside
It’s happening outside
The music is outside
It’s happening, now
Not tomorrow
Yesterday
Not tomorrow
The music is outside
It’s happening outside
The music is outside
The music is outside
Outside
Outside
Outside
Sunshines
Are you outside
I am a simpleton by choice not speaking to hear my voice
Sunshines
Why are you sleeping
Gotta get outside
Cover the ground on foot
Not hithing around your spur
Over the river and trough the woods
I’ve come this far to bring in the goods
I get high, even when I don’t try
Let ‘em pass by with a wink to the eye
I reserve the right to be stoned
I reserve the right to take it to collect them sums I have the right
Don’t try to be, there’s really no point in you biting me
I’m glad to see that it’s easy for me to be an MC
Let me tell you a little story
Like my dog Bobby, he hated the pool man
So I tried to play Kotter and make things cool
And I said just let him smell you, hold out your hand
He reached it on out, and then bam
He bit him, he bit him so fuckin’ hard
Blood was steady gushin’ all over my back yard
I kept apologizin’, I felt so fuckin’ bad
The dude was so cool, he didn’t even get mad
He said man don’t sweat it, that’s the dog’s meaning
Took some Neosporin and went bak to his cleaning
Thought I had a dream or else it was a movie
Your mind can have a joint easy like jungle boogie
$600 freebie and I gots my job
Would you mind come but I gots my dog
Come you can foam the water with the bone
I wanna tell my mom, ring her on the phone
Cherry popsicle, icy, cold, freezing
Loves on his gums now that he is teething
Got a wee-wee pass, lay them by the door
Nasty Little shits he dropped them on the floor
Sunshines
Are you outside
I am a simpleton by choice
Not speaking to hear my voice
Sunshines
Why are you sleeping
Gotta get outside
And you
Bring me to my knees
Again
All the times
That I could beg you please
In vain
All the times
That I felt insecure
For you
But I leave
My burdens at the door
But I’m on the outside
And I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
‘Cause inside your ugly
Your ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you
All the times
That I felt like this won’t end
Was for you
And I taste
What I could never have
It’s from you
All the times
That I’ve tried
My intentions
Full of pride
But I waste
More time than anyone
But I’m on the outside
And I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
‘Cause inside your ugly
Your ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you
All the times
That I’ve cried
All this wasted
It’s all inside
And I feel
All this pain
Stuffed it down
It’s back again
And I lie
Here in bed
All alone
I can’t mend
But I feel
Tomorrow wil be OK
But I’m on the outside
And I’m looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
‘Cause inside your ugly
Your ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you
It’s hard to explain
Inherently it’s just always been strange
Neither here nor there —
always somewhat out of place everywhere
Ambiguous —
without a sense of belonging to touch
Somewhere halfway —
feeling there’s no one completely the same
Chorus:
Standing alone —
eager to just
believe it’s good enough to be what
you really are
But in your heart
uncertainty forever lies
and you’ll always be
somewhere on the
outside
Early on, you face
the realization you don’t
have a space
where you fit in
And recognize
you were born to exist
Chorus (1x)
And it’s hard
And it’s hard
And it’s hard
Irreversibility
Falling in between
And it’s hard
And it’s hard
to be understood
as you are
As you are
Oh, and God knows
that you’re standing on your own —
blind and unguided
Into a world divided
you’re thrown
Where you’re never quite the same
although you try — try and try
to tell yourself
you really are
But in your heart — uncertainty forever lies
and you’ll always be
somewhere on the outside
You’ll always be
somewhere on the outside
Painting my roses red
Remember all the
Bloody things they said
Wiping my hands
That bleed
Bleeding into the dirt
That groans under me
Constantly my dirty friend
Help me roll over again
There’s a fence by the road
I should climb
It was there
That my palette
And I would wait
For our paintings
To flower and stitch up
The canvas on our return
Elbow on a broken seed
Opening an angry mouth
That bleeds
Times when the grounds
Crawling like mice
Are birds and like birds
Are men and me eyes
On either side
Of my head so never
Either eye shall meet
Firey come, firey go
Burning you memory on me
There’s an artist
Whose strength I admire
Who’s warming his feet
By my fire
These riches he owns
Aren’t the same
As the tokens we win
Playing games
We play outside
There you are dancing at your altar
Beautiful earthling, dressed in kashmir
All of your sound echoes in the canyons
Down below they’re dreaming
Hear the sirens screaming
Another time, another world
Girls were boys and boys were girls
Find the glitter in the litter
Like a haunt, it’s got to move
Everybody needs some room
There’s something out there
There’s a long straight road, out of the cold
And we can leave it all behind
I wanna get outside, baby, let’s get outside
I wanna get outside, outside, of me
Oh, I found the space between the spaces
Standing in the nothing, and time will cling to
And as the wind will beat you down
And the wind the only sound
There’s something out there
There’s a long straight road, out of the cold
And we can leave it all behind
I wanna get outside, baby, let’s get outside
I wanna get outside, outside, of me
Look at what you’ve done
Stand still, fallin’ away from me
When it takes so long
Fire’s out, what do you want to be?
I’m holdin’ on
Myself was never enough for me
Gotta be so strong
There’s a power in what you do
Now, every other day I’ll be watching you
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
We did everything right, now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
We did everything right, now I’m on the outside
Though you give me no reason
For me to stay close to you
Tell me what lovers do
How are we still breathing?
It’s never for us to choose
I’ll be the strength in you
I’m holdin’ on (I’m holdin’ on)
Myself was never enough for me
Gotta be so strong
There’s a power in what you do
Now, every other day I’ll be watching you
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
We did everything right, now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
We did everything right, now I’m on the outside
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
I’ll show you what it feels like (hey)
I’ll show you what it feels like
Now I’m on the outside
Oh, oh
We did everything right, now I’m on the outside