Selected Lyrics from "Candy Tears"

"Crying Time"

Now I lay me down to weep
Against the velvet of the long goodbye
And I know the joke's on me
So this is what he meant by crying time

Shut the windows and the blinds
Right now I know it's time

This is crying time
Start the whole world over and
Bloodlet in all the sunshine ‘til we're high
We're in short supply
Maybe I'll be with you till the end of someone's weekend
But tonight it's crying time

You can call them candy tears
And try to taste the sugar in the salt
Feel the rain fall on deaf ears
And try to tell me this is someone's fault.

Shut the windows and the blinds
Right now I know it's time

This is crying time
Start the whole world over and
Bloodlet in all the sunshine ‘til we're high
We're in short supply
Maybe I'll be with you at the end of someone's weekend
But tonight it's crying time

"Plead the 5th Dimension"

I Plead the 5th Dimension
Is there any other explanation?
Secede from civilized union
I founded my own state of confusion

Who doctored my eye prescriptions?
Who went and jimmied all of my satellite transmissions?
Abducted the city I live in
And donated us to science fiction

Asleep at full attention
We plead the 5th Dimension

Who put the memories in my head before they hatched
All their crazy schemes that made me so detached?
Who spilled the blood babe on the trading killing floor
And made me realize what I wasn't fighting for?

Cause I love you but they say we're just collateral
And I want you but they say we're just expendable
And I love you but they say we're just collateral
And I love you but they say we're just collateral
And I love you but they say we're just collateral
And I love you but they say...
I plead


"Waiting"

Waiting, still waiting
Like a dog, like a human
I was told there's a future in waiting
For a comet, or a prophet, or a train that never comes
I'm here, I am ready and I am waiting

In a town
In a square
In a time
That's neither here nor there

Breathe
Keep breathing
Like a fish, like a human
‘Till your lungs turn to gills
You gotta keep breathing

Hope
Keep hoping
Like a schmuck, like a human
All we're doing is hoping

In a town
In a square
In a time
That's neither here nor there

Like a dog
Like a dog
Like a dog


"Boat"

I got a boat
But I don't wanna go anywhere
I got a boat
But I don't wanna go anywhere
Fame and renown await for me on the other side of the shore

But I don't wanna dirty up my oar
Sweepin' the ocean floor
Takin' lovers from the friends who came before
I got a boat
But I don't want to go anywhere

I got a heart
But I don't wanna beat it no more
I got a heart
But I don't wanna beat it no more
I found my one true love and I don't wanna see her again
I float myself away, away to the riverbed

Cause I don't wanna dirty up my oar
Sweepin’ the ocean floor
Takin' lovers from the friends who came before
I got a boat
But I don't want to go anywhere

But I'm dressed for the occasion
I don't wanna go anywhere
Yeah I'm dressed for the occasion
But I don't wanna go anywhere

(c) Pete Galub 2012