Letters to Cleo ::: Lyrics

Aurora Gory Alice

Big Star

I See

Rim Shak

Big Star

There it goes again, got a little habit. Stay away from him. Clinging,
gnawing things tucked away like secrets. Stay away from him. It comes
and goes. He comes and goes. Look he's turning around. I can't help
it - I'm still waiting. Guess I wouldn't seek underneath a bed if I had
not. Hidden once or twice or maybe three times there myself. How
'bout you? It comes and goes. He comes and goes. Look, he's turning
around. I can't help it - I'm still waiting. Oh my, what have I done
now? Oh my, what have I done now? You're mine, what's come over
you? Am not, are too, oh my.

I See

I think I'll close my eyes and wait as the world goes by. Won't see the
same old thing it's out there everywhere. The thousand wishes I have
had in my life come true. After they are gone I say, "what did I do
that for?" I see this world going in circles around all around me. I'll
end up mad before life is through with me. Guilty old me.

I think I'll pay my dues and drive real fast to stand in line. Then I'll
wrack my brains to find some chaos. As the image forms I'll let it
swallow up my mind. Time will pass I'll ask myself "this is a joke
right?" Thinking, thinking, thoughtless, but it sometimes seems.
Think too much, too hard and it confuses me. Rectify myself to all the
things I thought were real or I'll lock the bedroom door and simply stay at
home. I see...

Rim Shak

Like a gaping hole in the universe, as obvious as anything
could be, trip and fall pants at ankles as it, as it only possible
could be. It's a cosmic thing and it's all around me dangling
like life above me, if you knew where it was headed to, I say
you'd be there already. Can't tear yourself away, can you?
If I'm different now in a brand new light, so? Darts in time
changed everything. I'm moving this, hurdle over that now as it,
only possibly could be. It's encompassing 'cause it's all around me
dangling like you above me. If I knew what I was coming to,
make it stop already. Can't tear yourself away, can you? It's
only right to think about. It's only right to keep it down.
It's only right to throw your arms around it. It's only right
to keep it to yourself. Just be sure to be sure that you're right.

Wasted

The saddest sound I've ever heard; the saddest sound I've ever heard. The quiet
that takes the place of silence that takes the place of your voice. You're right
reasons are dumb and I'm just talking too much. And I want to be alone with what I
am - wasted. The cruelest voice comes back to me. The cruelest thing, you think you
didn't know me. It's alright, I am on the outside now - smiling, but eyes don't lie. You're
right, reasons are dumb and I'm just talking too much. And I want to be alone with
what I am - wasted. I'll just come apart or something. No one could be more empty
than I am and I would take it all back if I could, but I can't.

Get On With It

The Sunday Paper is a mess and I'm not gonna pick it up you are if I could
just get on with it. It don't matter my hair's a mess cause you're not gonna
fix it up for me, I am if I could just get on with it, I would take a breath
outside myself a stranger place I couldn't find and no one knows who I am
and you can't say my name. Can't think of anything else worse 'cause if I
didn't fuck it up you would why can't you just do something right. Just
once change my mind cause if you can I'd be the one you know I am but
you're so blind, you always were I didn't catch your name. I would take a
breath outside myself a stranger place I couldn't find and no one knows
who I am and you can't say my name.

Here & Now

Just living on a Sunday morning, got my toast and tea and I'm warm and I
just thought I'd think about. All the things to get and keep getting, never
enough not enough and never ending. I just thought I'd think about. And it
might be...

The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky above could
never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here and now.

Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother. You've got much to
think about. Soaring higher with every treason. Never justify, never reason.
You've got much to think about. And it might be...
[The fast part again.]

From Under the Dust

It gets loud down here. Fourteen scurrying feet getting as far away as feet
can carry. From under the dust I hear every one of you, from under the dust
I can feel it all. I know what you're thinking. I know what you're saying. It
was another time. I guess you were a friend of mine. It was another time but
not much to recall. From under the dust I hear every one of you, from under the dust
I can feel it all. I know what you're thinking. It isn't hard to tell at all. I know what you're saying.
Your not whispering.

Mellie's Coming Over

And as I stood in the place where I once saw a friend standing, I didn't mean to
run away from you. I almost lost the chance to save myself. Mellie's coming
over; she's coming over; Mellie's coming over, yeah. Not really lucid but wide
awake, a kind word to snap me out of it is all that I know it would take
from you, if I knew you really wanted to. Mellie's coming over; she's coming
over; Mellie's coming over, yeah. Hey, where's everybody going? You can't leave me
all alone when it's been such a long time since I've had this much to
say. Hey, where are you going? You can't leave me alone and I guess I feel
a little silly but Mellie, can't you stay a little while? Mellie's coming
over; she's coming over; Mellie's coming over, yeah.

Come Around

Don't feel small when I'm looking down. Don't get too high if I'm looking
up at you. And if the answer looks at me I'll still say I don't know it, not
that I could come around anyway. Look your dreams walk away with mine.
Stumble and cry, but I'm clapping on the inside. I'm clapping on the inside. So what
your answer comes to me. I'm not saying I don't know it but it's not likely
that I'll come around anyway. If I should say something like "no, please
don't go" I am in a bind as much as I am saying good-bye. Don't feel small
when I'm looking down. Don't get too high if you're looking up at me. And if
the answer looks at me I'll still say I don't know it, not that I could come around
anyway. If I should say something like "no, please don't go" I am in a bind
as much as I am telling you, I am telling you a lie.

Step Back

Appear and fade away, so far so good and I'll tell you the story this time.
Plan too far ahead, it's the same old thing. Finally kicking it out this time.
Tell me where were you? Now just where were you? When it really
mattered, like this time? Staring down a haze it's supposed to be a better
day but it doesn't really matter, not this time. Step back, step back just
suppose you're where you're supposed to be now. Step back, step down off that
pedestal and maybe you'll see. Like that time we went back in time surface
wounds could not scar that tough exterior far superior were you. Appear
and fade away so far so good and i'll tell you the story this time. Planned too
far ahead, it's the same old thing. Finally kicking it out this time.