HONEYWAND LYRICS
FRANKY + MARLEEN
Franky and Marleen
Franky's quiet, but I know that he means well
He's slow going, just as he should be
He wasn't made for a machine; he was a brown sugar fiend.
I wasn't made for a machine; not me and not Franky either.
Franky and Marleen
Franky's quiet, Marleen is mean.
She's from the city, and she's got the biggest dreams.
The rungs on her ladder were shaped like me.
The rungs on her ladder were shaped like Franky, Marleen, and me.
Franky and Marleen
Franky's walking, he's been walking down the street.
There are people talking so loud its hard to see.
People are always talking at me.
I'm sick of following directions just like Franky.
Franky and Marleen
She must have had a question, a little bit of curiosity.
She's a fighter and beauty is her shield,
It's so hard to see her behind it and I wonder how she really feels.
It's so hard to see behind it, Marleen
Why don't you tell me how you really feel?
Caroline O'Leary
Blow out the candles on this morning,
Time to wake up and take a walk outside.
The sun's up too and it goes melting night away
I'm slaloming icicles and blind giggles of boys on their bikes.
But there goes Caroline,
a little girl who doesn't know she's every thought in my head.
I picked a whole bunch of flowers and I'm wrapping them up for recess,
and if she said to hold my hand,
I could hold up the world from this box of sand.
Little Caroline O'Leary, won't you turn me into a man.
Momma said, 'boy don't you go and let that old Fear into your head,
It's only Love that will break your bend, little man.
And if you would only look up, you'd understand that
you do what nobody else can.'
There goes Caroline,
little girl who doesn't know she's every thought in my head.
All the pedals fell off of her flowers,
So I'm digging up a bed by the swing set.
And if she said to hold my hand,
I could hold up the world from this box of sand.
Little Caroline O'Leary, won't you turn me into a man.
She always looks so pretty.
Monday morning I'm up early,
I've packed my lunch,
I'm waiting at the bus stop, I haven't blinked.
Eyes frozen, haven't blinked, but
It's all worth it if I get to catch one of her curls outside the window
Of that big yellow thing rolling down my street.
There goes Caroline,
Little girl who doesn't know she's every thought in my head.
I'm gonna board that bus and take a seat right next to her
and tell her that if she said
'Hold my hand,' I could hold up this world from a box of sand.
I could hold up the world from the back of this
Broken down, dilapidated school bus memory of
Cute girls and chasing after
Caroline O'Leary,
Maybe you could turn me into a man.
Careless
I don't want to be careless
With the time that I spend
But for the Lovers, I've got time for them
I don't want to be careless
With the words that I say
I want to give life,
not take it away.
I don't want to be careless
With the life that I lead
Because it was made for me.
I'm at a point in my life,
It's time to take what I want.
I want to quit my job and take the hands of a woman.
I quit my job in December.
That's just the way it had to be.
I've been spending way too much time making money.
I don't want to be careless
With the time that I spend
Oh, but for the Lovers
I've got time for them.
Train Watching
She said something about the years
and how much they meant to her.
Honey, lay down.
Marry me instead of him.
I won't remember.. i will forget your name
But I've got a feeling if I stuck around
you'd come right back around again.
So keep on walking by me,
I'll just nod my head.
With a wink and a walk,
then we'll get to talking
'Till I'm all over it again.
I'll head back to the bar room
where words fall on freshly deaf ears.
They always seem pretty that way,
but not half as much as that red and white dress you're always wearing.
Too bad I'm so broken,
Too bad you're so clean.
The Devil is what you can't have, but you want.
So if you want to come on with me...
We'll head off train watching,
Skip town and hop a rail with me.
We can leave this old city, with all its old ways
Trade it all in for the country.
I feel like I let you down.
'Cause her name I do know.
She wears this tasteful white skirt.
It's just long enough to remind me of yours,
Beautiful, but not enough to make it hurt.
What was it that your name was again, I forget it.
See,
I'm just about through with this bottle of wine,
Just yesterday I quit drinking.
Too bad I'm so far away,
Good thing you never call me.
The Devil is a payphone on my block.
It's been ringing since the Fall.
And I won't pick it up, no.
Not till we head off train watching,
Skip town, hop a rail with me.
Leave this old city, and all its old ways.
Trade it all in for the country.
Sister
Couple of traveling folk, sister.
I'd buy you a taxi cab if you'd take me with you.
We've got a father from a broken home
With a head and a heart of gold
Mama went and dug it up, melted it into her mold,
Made golden little hearts and bones.
Now we've got
Love to give cause
Love's within us
It was the beginning and
Love will be the end of us.
On my way to grandma's house
I see mountains (X2)
Your voice came soft
Like they cut silk when they made your voice box.
Mine was probably getting in your way.
But someone's got to get up and yell and
make way for truth to undress itself
walk softly in and say what it's got to say (something simple like).
We've got
Love to give cause
Love's within us
It was the beginning and
Love will be the end of us.
On my way to grandma's house
I see mountains.
Take a picture when I'm gone
Send it right back to where we come from
I see her wrinkles in the ripples of this river
running toward the sea
I see your pictures in the ripples of this river
running toward eternity
Both of you've got
Honey dripping eyes that
Sweeten up my morning
Fire
I keep my bags
packed and ready
but you look so good
I keep my job,
I keep on working steady
cause it pays so good
I keep my smokes rolled up
cause they make me feel so good -
and it feels so good to feel so good.
I'm sick
and you're bad
I've got an itch that I've gotta run and scratch
So i come back,
Light fire to my match,
you're fire on my match.
I keep my bed made
I keep my sheets in order
but you make a mess
when you roll around in them.
I like the weather when it's summertime, and
I like you just the way you were.
I drink my water where I find it
You drink yours from a well
I'm sick
and you're bad
I've got an itch that I've gotta run and scratch
So i come back,
Light fire to my match,
you're fire on my match.
Houses
We're all just flying around in these beautiful houses
We've shaped them.
Some do more decorating than others.
Some lock their doors.
I want a house with candle lighting,
Beautiful women
and beautiful men.
Paint upon my walls,
I've long since given up on the coloras
I painted when I moved in.
Rearrange my drawers
I'm not one for organization.
I've worn a suite and I've buckled my boots before.
I walked inside of a home one time,
Welcome mat cut up my toes.
Bloody I entered
I bled all over the carpets.
He was a doctor.
She was a surgeon.
Bandage and wrap up my wounds,
Please let me sleep for the night
Or until I feel renewed.
Pour me a glass of the water from your well and take it
onto my lips.
If you're pouring, I'm taking it in.
What I Wanna Be
I'm so far from where I wanna be
But I'll get there
If i keep on moving my feet
I can say so long to the man I used to be
I can feel myself getting better
When I'm moving my feet
I can let go of all my history and
take a deep breath of relief
When I'm moving my feet
What I wanna be
Is moving.
What I wanna be
is growing.
You can find me sipping on a glass of wine
Enjoying my time
Because it's given to me
I don't have to worry at all about
What tomorrow brings
Until it's given to me
The love that I find
When I take the time to take off my blinds
is big as the sea,
and its been given to me
What I wanna be
Is taking it easy
What I wanna be
Is doing what I love when it's my time to leave
When I've got to go
I want to be sure
I took no more than I gave away
I chose to love all those people that I hated
I lived every day unafraid
And I jump into the next world face first
Like I'm hopping in an ocean
Never felt better, If this world's gonna end
I want to be happy.
Vincent's Song
Come North come August
Come jump in my car
We can roll just as far as you'd like.
If the sun set before you arrive
Ill leave on a light
I'll let it burn my porch up bright
'Till the dawn wakes the sun
My eyes won't sleep through the night.
You aren't a lady anymore
You're pumping the blood out of my heart.
Where was walking
I'm running
You're all of the strength I forgot
You're a fire
You're a sword
I'm off to war with the Gods, oh Lord
I'm off the war with the Gods
It's all so simple when you're here
I'm living for you,
Not myself anymore.
We'll go down to New Orleans,
Turn ourselves a house into a home.
Until the baby's born
I'll work for you,
I'll Work for that boy.
Hope came with grace as she does every morning these days.
Loving you is what I thought it'd be like to be
Laid down in the earth
dreaming.
I'd like to lay there beside you
Don't say a word
The silence sounds like all the angels singing
It's all so simple when you're here
I'm living for you,
Not myself anymore.
We'll go down to New Orleans,
Turn ourselves a house into a home.
Until the baby's born.
I'm gonna to be around for a long, long time.
