Better Than Ezra Lyrics

Mystified lyrics - Better Than Ezra

She must have been a hell of a princess

Brush fire burning out of a Midwest town

A cosmopolitan place, Topeka, Topeka, Topeka

Daddy got a new job in Lodi

SF became a mighty fine place to drown

But such a waste of grace, when I think about it now

She's 16 again in a summer dress

Driving with a new permit

Then life came along and ruined it

I'm mystified

She ain't Miss America

Won't be a blushing bride

In my dirty mind

I'm the game-winning quarterback

She's cheering from the sidelines, yeah

She lookin' wonderful

And knowing it

Take me to heaven

For the hell of it

She lookin' wonderful

And knowing it

Joyriding in the mother ship

We used to be the hometown heroes

I bet they're wondering, where are their heroes now?

A million miles from a place like Topeka, Topeka, Topeka

Another sad story in the Tenderloin

Or heavy hitters riding high

I'll leave it all to you to make up your minds

I'm mystified

She ain't Miss America

Won't be a blushing bride

In my dirty mind

I'm the game-winning quarterback

She's cheering from the sidelines, yeah

She lookin' wonderful

And knowing it

Take me to heaven

For the hell of it

She lookin' wonderful

And knowing it

Joyriding in the mother ship

Now you're 16 again in a summer dress

Choking on a cigarette

Then life came along and ruined it, yeah

I'm mystified she ain't Miss America

Won't be a blushing bride

In my dirty mind

I'm the game-show heart attack

I'm taking home the grand prize, yeah

You're lookin' wonderful and knowing it

Take me to heaven in your burned out crypt, yeah

You're lookin' wonderful and knowing it

Joyriding in the mother ship

I'm mystified, yeah

Live A Little lyrics - Better Than Ezra

I got a million things to do

I got so much I wanna prove

But life is like a Rubik's cube and

I'm stuck and I don't know which way to move

There's a moral to the story

We all need a taste of glory

So don't bore us, hit the chorus

Go big, get loud or go home

You gotta wake up every morning

See the day as a gift

You gotta check that bucket list

Before you go to the crypt

'Cause if you wanna light a fire

Then you gotta get lit

You gotta live a little bit

Live a little bit

Live a little

You wanna go home with the prize

You wanna see your name in lights

You better learn to sacrifice

Take your love and your blood and

Put 'em on the line

There's a moral to the story

We all need a taste of glory

So don't bore us hit the chorus

Go big get loud or go home

You gotta wake up every morning

See the day as a gift

You gotta check that bucket list

Before you go to the crypt

'Cause if you wanna light a fire

Then you gotta get lit

You gotta live a little bit

Live a little bit

Live a little

I don't know where the future goes

8 billion people who feel alone

Ain't no time to feel broken love

Life is waiting, why be patient

Life is waiting!

You gotta wake up every morning

See the day as a gift

You gotta check that bucket list

Before you go to the crypt

'Cause if you wanna light a fire

Then you gotta get lit

You gotta live a little bit

Live a little bit

Live a little

Wake up you gotta live a little

Live a little

Wake up you gotta live a little

Live a little

Wake up you gotta live a little

Live a little

Show Em Up lyrics - Better Than Ezra

My Daddy

He told me

I hear you hurtin'

Hate to see you lickin' wounds

That burnin'

You feelin'

Just keep it humble

When you stumble son

'Cause I can't tell you why

We all gotta crash to fly

So shout a little louder

Power up the power

Child ya feelin' stronger than you were before

Don't ride nobody's glory

Write a better story

Boy you been the baddest since the day you were born

Gotta show 'em up

Show 'em up

Before you knock 'em down

You're weary

Kid hear me

No don't you ever doubt you're

Better than you know, oh

Don't you dare let go, oh, oh, oh

Shout a little louder

Power up the power

Child you're feelin' stronger than you were before

Don't ride nobody's glory

Write a better story

Boy you been the baddest since the day you were born

Gotta show 'em up

Show 'em up

Before you knock 'em down

Hey, you gotta pick yourself up off the ground

Hey, you gotta live to fight another day

So shout a little louder

Power up the power

Child you're feelin' stronger than you were before

Don't ride nobody's glory

Write a better story

Boy you been the baddest since the day you were born

Gotta show 'em up

Show 'em up

Before you knock 'em down

Show 'em up

Before you knock 'em down

Super Magick lyrics - Better Than Ezra

I break apart your elements

The soul, your spirit, bone and skin

There's something undefined

I'll never recognize

It's running through my mind

I wanna give it a name

It's rewiring my head

The current in this bed

Electromagnetic pulling me

Back in again

It's super magick

Distill you down see what I find

My god I can't believe my eyes

It's in between the light

A whisper in the night

Somehow I know it's right

I gotta give it a name

I'm feeling it again

The words we leave unsaid

Electromagnetic pulling me

Back in again

It's super magick

Out of the thin air

You're everywhere

Out of the thin air

You're everywhere

It's super magick

It's where I don't need to understand

Your soul holds the sweetest sleight of hand

It's where I don't need to understand

Your soul holds the sweetest, the sweetest

Sleight of hand

This Time lyrics - Better Than Ezra

After all the empty starts and beautiful illusions

How can I be sure you're even here

Maybe I'm too cynical to fall until it's proven

Or maybe you're my year after year

Tell me you're in

Tell me I'm home

Promise you'll stay, don't let me go

I'm waiting for a sign

So tell me that it's real this time

Open up the curtains, yeah

Clear off all the tables

I'm hoping we can change my history

'Cause who am I to recognize the truth from a fable

When you're the one I'm wanting to believe

Tell me you're in

Tell me I'm home

Promise you'll stay, don't let me go

I'm waiting for a sign

So tell me that it's real this time

Make it true

Kill this doubt

'Cause from such heights it's a long way down

Break my fall

Catch me now

Tell me you're in

Tell me I'm home

Promise you'll stay don't let me go

I'm waiting on a sign

Tell me it's real this time

I'm waiting for a sign

I need to know it's real this time

Contact High lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Layin' up somewhere in the desert

Rock bottom of the golden state

Pappy and Harriet's is little

But what you working really ain't

You blow a little smoke in my face

My inhibitions evaporate

Don't you look special

Don't you look sweet

Cooking up something I wanna eat

Whatever shit that you're on

I gotta contact high

And now you're crawling up on the bar

You make a dead man grab his heart

I gotta contact high

You blew a fortune on a startup

That desert dust went to your head

You say wanna go to Marfa

You're tired of following the Dead

So raise a bottle up make up a toast

And shake the hand of the holy ghost

Don't you look special

Don't you look sweet

Cooking up something I wanna eat

Whatever shit that you're on

I gotta contact high

And now you're dancing up on the bar

You make the young dogs grab their heart

Well yeah

I was in the desert for awhile

But it's spiritual, you know

Like Sedona and the vortexes

Don't you look special

Don't you look sweet

Cooking up something I wanna eat

Whatever shit that you're on

I gotta contact high

And now your reaching out for my guitar

As you're falling right off the bar

You shoulda seen the look on your face

When I floated off to outer space

I gotta contact high

Contact high

I've got a contact high

I'm making contact

Grateful lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Where's the silver linin'

I wake up to the sound, of the sound

Of the whole world cryin'

You hear it long enough, long enough

And your hope starts dyin'

Got a million things to do

What's the point in tryin', tryin'

I'm tryin' anyway

I'm gonna be grateful every day

Make a little wave and we'll ride it

I'm gonna keep shakin' off the shade

Make a little ray and we'll shine it, shine it, shine it on

We may never get a halo

It don't look like heaven, but you're always gonna be my angel

Everybody keep runnin' till they get to the end of that rainbow

There may be no pot of gold

But that's okay though, 'kay though

That's okay though

I'm gonna be grateful every day

Make a little wave and we'll ride it

I'm gonna keep shakin' off the shade

Make a little ray and we'll shine it, shine it, shine it on

Yeah we keep on rising, never gonna stop

Yeah we keep on shining, shining on

Yeah we keep on rising, we're never gonna stop

Yeah we keep on shining, shining, shining, shining on

I'm gonna be grateful every day

Make a little wave and we'll ride it

I'm gonna keep shakin' off the shade

Make a little ray and we'll shine it, shine it, shine it on

Sensation lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Trouble is all the plans you made

And the walls you paint are crumbling to the ground

And medicine she's a bitter pill, wanna another taste

That all the kids pass around, yeah

Are we having fun yet?

Are you in the street?

Ain't gotta pay no money

You get it all for free

Need a new distraction

Liking what ya see?

I'm talking satisfaction

Guaranteed

Sweet sensation inside me

I got an invitation to fly

I feel a sweet sensation inside me

A new light to guide me tonight, yeah

Sensation

Emotional such a pretty thing burning on the floor

Make yourself comfortable, yeah

Are we having fun yet?

Are we outta breath?

At the cocktail parties

They were so impressed

The latest attraction

Too strange to be believed

Gotta midnight benediction

And I'll make it brief

Sweet sensation inside me

I got an invitation to fly

I feel a sweet sensation inside me

A new light to guide me tonight, yeah

Sensation

Are we having fun yet?

Fighting in the street

Ain't gotta pay no money

You get it all for free

I'll be your new distraction

You like what ya see?

I'm talking satisfaction

Guaranteed

Sweet sensation inside me

I got an invitation to fly

I feel a sweet sensation inside me

A new light to guide me

To guide me

Sweet sensation inside me

I got an invitation to fly

I feel a sweet sensation inside me

A new light to guide me tonight, yeah

Sensation

Bad Communication lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Glad that I picked up your call

Cause your voice is like a chemical

Sinking 'til it numbs my brain

Now your words are sounding heavenly

Talk to me in French

Talk to me in Spanish

I love it when you speak

And I don't understand it

What?

Bad communication

Tongue tied in your mouth

But if you move in my direction

Betcha words spill right out, don't it feel right

T-t-t-t-t-t-t-talk to me

Cause I'm oh so needy

I'm oh so needy

Take me somewhere I don't know

From the Beach to the Hills from the North to the South

Anywhere you wanna go

From your lips through your teeth

Spinning round and around

Huh?

Bad communication

Tongue tied in your mouth

But if you move in my direction

Betcha words spill right out, don't it feel right

T-t-t-t-t-t-t-talk to me

Cause I'm oh so needy

I'm oh so needy

Talk to me in French

Talk to me in Spanish

I love it when you speak

And I don't understand it

Talk to me in French

Talk to me in Spanish

I love it when you speak

And I don't understand it

What?

Bad communication

Tongue tied in your mouth

But if you move in my direction

Betcha words spill right out, don't it feel right

T-t-t-t-t-t-t-talk to me

Cause I'm oh so needy

I'm oh so needy

Talk to me in French

Talk to me in Spanish

Cause I'm oh so needy

I'm oh so needy

Talk to me in French

Talk to me in Spanish

Cause I'm oh so needy

I'm oh so needy

Fuzzy lyrics - Better Than Ezra

I been thinking counting reasons

Even wrote 'em down in a ball point letter

I'm not drinking but I'm seeing double

Every time you wear that hot pink sweater

I like your yoga arms

In your sun dress

You read to me in bed

Quoting the Alchemist

You make me tongue-tied

I keep you laughing

Every single time you come around me

Baby I get

Fuzzy, honey, funny how you got me feeling

Fuzzy, honey, got me dancing on the ceiling

And you know exactly what to do

You got me fuzzy

Hey, you got me feeling kinda righteous

Like I took a hit of nitrous in a dentist's office

Wait, I'm not implying you're a dentist I'm just

Dizzy with a feeling and I think you know what I meant

Fuzzy, honey, funny how you got me feeling

Fuzzy, honey, got me dancing on the ceiling

And you know exactly what to do

You got me fuzzy

I'm not drinking but I'm seeing double

Every time you wear that hot pink sweater

Fuzzy, honey, funny how you got me feeling

Fuzzy, honey, got me dancing on the ceiling

And you know exactly what to do

You know exactly what to do

Yeah you got me fuzzy

Omens lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Everything has a double meaning

Nothing's ever what it seems

Spend eternity still believing

What becomes of you and me

Are you a friend of mine

Or just a warning sign?

If we could go back in the past, love

Crazy what we could find

DVR decisions good and bad, love

Make those wrong things right

Were you a friend of mine

Or just a warning sign?

Omens, omens, telling me to run

Louder than life but I don't listen

Darling I'm a sucker for disaster

Spinning on a razor's edge

Nobody can see into the future

Why should we live with regret?

Are you still a friend of mine

Or just a warning sign?

Omens, omens, telling me to run

Louder than life but I don't listen

Nothing that I want is ever what I need

Somewhere in the middle of two extremes

Happiness and horror in a lucid dream

What are you holding for me now?

Tell me the future

What are you holding for me now?

Omens, omens, telling me to run

Louder than life but I don't listen

Omens

Louder than life but I don't listen

Killing It lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Staring at this setlist

I been here before

I'm sleepless and I might forget

The words to this encore

We've been from Baton Rouge to Boston

Chi-town down to Austin

Made friends with saints and convicts

They both'll keep you honest

They say it's three chords and the truth

And I'm the living proof

Don't ever trust the writing on the wall

We've had bad nights, dying under stage lights

No one left to blame fights

We could have called it quits

We've had girlfriends breaking up the band times

Spending all our last dimes

On the misses and the hits

But we're still killing it

Oh, yeah, we're still killing it

Staring at this guest list

Some names I've seen before

I guess I'm getting jaded

I ain't impressed no more

We've been from London down to Rome

From Sydney back to home

But anytime I'm there too long

I'm jonesing for the road

They say it's only rock 'n roll

But man it shakes my soul

So you can keep your writing on the wall

We've had bad nights, dying under stage lights

No one left to blame fights

We could have called it quits

We've had girlfriends breaking up the band times

Spending all our last dimes

On the misses and the hits

But we're still killing it

Oh, yeah, we're still killing it

30 years from now I hope I'll be

On a stage with my guitar when my heart

Finally drops the beat, yeah

We've had bad nights, dying under stage lights

No one left to blame fights

We could have called it quits

We would've been fine

We've had girlfriends breaking up the band times

Spending all our last dimes

On the misses and the hits

But we're still killing it

Oh, yeah, we're still killing it

Crazy Lucky lyrics - Better Than Ezra

There are six and three quarter billion people in this world

And 51 percent of them are girls

You roll your eyes like I'm full of it,

But I Googled that shit

And if the world is four times bigger than the moon

Then tell me, how on Earth did I find you

With just two grains of sand blowing on the beach

Damn that's deep.

It's like faith, God, or The Big Bang

It's just one of them things that you can't explain

And I don't need to know why

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky,

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky.

And I'm just one in a billion guys

But the way, the way you love

Has got me feeling crazy crazy lucky

Feeling like oh oh oh

Like we're crazy lucky

There are so many reasons that we shouldn't have met

I could've turned right when you turned left

But the world's got a funny way of stacking the deck

Don't forget

Too much heartache, too many nights

So many coulda, woulda, shoulda but you never tried

I can't figure out if we were meant to be

Or just crazy lucky

It's like faith, God, or The Big Bang

It's just one of them things that you can't explain

And I don't need to know why

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky,

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky.

And I'm just one in a billion guys

But the way, the way you love

Has got me feeling crazy crazy lucky

Oh, whoo whoo, hey, whoo ooo hey, crazy crazy

It's like faith, God, or The Big Bang

It's just one of them things that you can't explain

And I don't need to know why

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky,

Maybe we're crazy crazy lucky.

And I'm just one in a billion guys

But the way, the way you love me

Has got me feeling crazy crazy lucky

But the way, the way you love me

Has got me feeling crazy crazy lucky

Feeling like oh oh oh

Like we're crazy lucky

Crazy lucky

Gonna Get Better lyrics - Better Than Ezra

It's 4 am you drunk again

Blowin' up my phone

You say I know it's late

But this can't wait

I don't trust myself alone

You getting loaded ever night

It's getting harder to watch you die

It's 4 am and as your best friend

I refuse to let you go

You know it's gonna get better

You know there's gotta be stars behind those clouds

Yea it's gonna get better

Even though it's hard to see it now

I'm on your side

Promise me you'll try

To make it through the night

It's gonna get...it's gonna get better

It's gonna get...it's gonna get... better

We've had each others back

For the last 20 something years

But right now I don't recognize

The stranger standing here

Where is the light in your eyes

Where did the person go that I idolized

It's 4 am, it's your best friend

Come on, let me in

You know it's gonna get better

You know there's gotta be stars behind those clouds

Yea it's gonna get better

Even though it's hard to see it now

I'm on your side

Promise me you'll try

To make it through the night

It's gonna get...it's gonna get better

It's gonna get...it's gonna get... better

Look at the sky

It's getting light

You never have to apologize

If you wanna stay

That's okay

As long as it takes to be alright

Better...

You know it's gonna get better

You know it's gotta get better, better

Even though it's hard to see it now

You know it's gonna get better

You know there's gotta be stars behind those clouds

Yea it's gonna get better

Even though it's hard to see it now

I'm on your side

Promise me you'll try

To make it through the night

It's gonna get...it's gonna get better

It's gonna get...it's gonna get... better

Undeniable lyrics - Better Than Ezra

I'll put my head inside an oven

If I need some air

But you can save me that frustration

By just comin' over here

Cause you're more than just a little

Hypnotic and morose

I'm in a compromise position

And the doctor at my throat

What I want, what I need

Are two different things

And I want, what I see

So give it to me

It's undeniable

Straight up unstoppable

The way you do it it it it

The way you move it it it it

It's undeniable

Better than natural

The way you move it it it it

The way you do it

When you're doin' it to me

There's a thrill in isolation

In the center of my chest

You're a blue bird of obsession

You're a cardiac arrest

Pick a number and a number

Put your back against the wall

It's a power sensation

When you're feeling vulnerable

Simmer down

Take a breath

And wait for the rest

It's undeniable

Straight up unstoppable

The way you do it it it it

The way you move it it it it

It's undeniable

Better than natural

The way you move it it it it

The way you do it

When you're doin' it to me

Low down, what I see

Got more body than a money got green

Low down, what I see

Got more body than a money got green

Low down, what I see

It's undeniable

Straight up unstoppable

The way you do it it it it

The way you move it it it it

It's undeniable

Better than natural

The way you move it it it it

The way you do it

When you're doin' it to me

Insane lyrics - Better Than Ezra

(Oh...)

Hey...

Back and forth, around and around in your head

Your big day coming but you're hiding in bed

No, daddy's girl's crying in an elegant wedding dress

Cause she's starting to show but the baby ain't his

If that don't sound insane

Here's another lie to fill up your heart

If that don't wreck your brain

Wait a minute, there's another love coming

(Oh...)

Hey...

Now, she loves him but he never loved her

Can't nobody say why they stay together (always something)

The vows they swore were easily crossed

And time goes by but the meaning gets lost

If that don't sound insane

Here's another lie to fill up your heart

If that don't wreck your brain

Wait a minute, there's another love coming

(Oh...)

Hey...

Red rover, red rover, let your lover come over

(Ain't honesty in short supply?)

Red rover, red rover, let the right one come over

(Don't it make you wanna cry?)

[Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again

and hoping for a different outcome.]

If that don't sound insane

Here's another lie to fill up your heart

If that don't wreck your brain

Wait a minute, there's another love

If that don't sound insane

Here's another lie to fill up your heart

If that don't wreck your brain

Wait a minute, there's another love coming

(Oh...)

Hey...

Sunflowers lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Alligator bitch slap so correct

Mississippi love bites on my neck

I woke up in L.A., bouncing rubber checks

I need you to correct my navigation

Brushing your teeth with a cigarette

Devil horns growing from your silhouette

I know I should run but I can't quit

I need you to squeeze me

Is it something, honey, that I said?

You put the sunflowers in my bed at night

You put the lemonade in my head

You make me ooo, baby, ooo when you squeeze me tight

There ain't nobody else I want to be with

Oh oh, oh oh, oh

Bouncing baby dynamite on your knee

She got me in a corner but I don't bleed

You always got another trick up your sleeve

Darling, you got a sick imagination

Fixing me breakfast in your underwear

Shaking that mon petite derrière

No, no, no, don't give a damn if the neighbors stare

I know you gonna thrill me

Is it something, honey, that I said?

You put the sunflowers in my bed at night

You put the lemonade in my head

You make me ooo, baby, ooo when you squeeze me tight

There ain't nobody else I want to be with

Oh oh, oh oh, oh

(Ooo, you put the sunflowers

Ooo, lemonade in my head

Ooo, you put the sunflowers

Ooo, lemonade in my head

You put the sunflowers in my bed at night

You put the lemonade in my head

You make me ooo, baby, ooo when you squeeze me tight

There ain't nobody else I want to be with

Oh oh, oh oh, oh)

You put the sunflowers in my bed at night

You put the lemonade in my head

You make me ooo, baby, ooo when you squeeze me tight

There ain't nobody else I want to be with

Oh oh, oh oh, oh

The Great Unknown lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Hannah left for Burning Man

With a bag full of contraband

She said, "The stars look better in the desert

When you're rolling with a friend

Ain't got shit to do in Baton Rouge

So, what have I got to lose?"

Hannah left for Burning Man

With a bag full of contraband

Singing ay oh, whoa...

(I'm gonna get a little out there when I get there)

Find myself in that desert air

Sink like a feather, float like a stone

Into the great unknown

Hand hanging out the window

And Petty playing on the radio

Singing, "Oh, my, my, oh, hell yes."

Only a thousand miles to go

I bet back at home they're waking up

Wondering where the hell I've run

Hand hanging out the window

And Petty playing on the radio

Singing ay oh, whoa...

I'm gonna get a little out there when I get there

Find myself in that desert air

Sink like a feather, float like a stone

I'm gonna get a little out there when I get there

Find myself in that desert air

Sink like a feather, float like a stone

Into the great unknown

(Oh...)

Hannah left for Burning Man

With a bag full of contraband

She took a long trip on a moonless night

And she never came home again

I'm gonna get a little out there when I get there

Find myself in that desert air

Sink like a feather, float like a stone

I'm gonna get a little out there when I get there

Find myself in that desert air

Sink like a feather, float like a stone

Into the great unknown

(Ay oh, whoa...)

Into the great unknown

Before You lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Red lights and caffeine

Shaping up like any day

Same familiar routines

Everybody's on their way

Shuttered and cut off

I thought I was shatter-proof

Lost and marooned

Before you

Standing in that open door

Before you

Never had been here

Before you

The world was framed in black and white

So, is it any wonder

That now it's in a different light?

A burst of technicolor

Sea change emotion

Suddenly is overdue

Nothing to lose

Before you

Standing in that open door

Before you

Never would believe

Before you

Ooo...

Ghostland transmission

In the ether coming through

But I never knew

Before you

Standing in that open door

Before you

Never had been here

Before you

Smiling in that open door

Before you

Who would have believed?

Before you

Dollar Sign lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Baby baby baby tell me why you buyin' them shoes

All the money honey in the world won't make him love you

Maxing out another credit card don't change how you feel

Don't conceal, what is real when you got whatcha you do

You sellin' out your soul soul soul soul soul

Chasin' after gold gold gold gold gold

Ain't telling you nothin' that you don't already know

Dollar sign, dollar sign

In your eyes

Shiny things, diamond rings

Gonna make you blind

You got... all the pie in the sky

That you can't eat

Dollar sign, dollar sign

Right where your heart should be

Hey (Hey)

What's the matter with your mind

Dollar sign

You got a Maybach trunk full of expensive junk

Rubbing shoulders with the Jones

Its a bitch keeping up

Here a couple thousand for that dress

And with your black American Express

But the lovin' that you got from me was priceless

Dollar sign, dollar sign

In your eyes

Shiny things, diamond rings

Gonna make you blind

You got... all the pie in the sky

That you can't eat

Dollar sign, dollar sign

Right where your heart should be

Hey (Hey)

What's the matter with your mind

Dollar sign

You got all them people do it for you

But you still can't cope

You got a trillion dollar portfolio

But your heart is broke

And all the gold in the Earth

Can't compare to whatcha you're worth

Dollar sign dollar sign

Where your heart should be

Little mama hard to find in the Florida Keys

I remember just fine, it was you and me

Just layin' on the beach where you need no cheese

But ya ya I'm Texas, drivin' in a Lexus

Doing anything just to get ahead

But you should see my next chick

She's gonna be the best chick

You should have stuck with me instead

Dollar sign, dollar sign

In your eyes

Shiny things, diamond rings

Gonna make you blind

You got... all the pie in the sky

That you can't eat

Dollar sign, dollar sign

Right where your heart should be

Hey (Hey)

What's the matter with your mind

Dollar sign

Hey (Hey)

What's the matter with your mind

Dollar sign

One Heart Beating lyrics - Better Than Ezra

There's a treasure in the wreckage of your soul, oh

A drum machine buried deep beneath the snow, oh

There's a blinding light shining through these bloodshot eyes

There's a silent sound keeping you awake at night

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

Rock steady, I don't ever wanna sleep , oh

My blood is burning and they're fighting in the streets, oh

There's a light ahead and it's coming straight for you

Like a tidal wave, now there's nothing you can do

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

Shine a light on love

(Shine a light on love)

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

(Shine a light on love

Shine a light on love)

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

(Shine a light on love

Shine a light on love)

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

(Shine a light on love

Shine a light on love)

And it's one heart beating, oh, oh

(Shine a light on love)

Diamond In My Pocket lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

My little cutie in a leopard print coat

She's shining brighter than a Mardi Gras float

That girl is such a dime

Dancing the second line

She's got my number and no other

Come for me tonight

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

I don't need money when I got a lot of you

The hooker's dealers they got nothing I can use, use

Down in the marinade

We got our own parade

We live’n loud and loose, breaking through the barricade

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

It's the sway of your hips, it's the color of your lips

Saying aya, aya

It's the shiver of your skin

Tell me where should I begin

Saying aya, aya

Oh tell your ma and then we'll go into the route

We hit a dinner here and then we’re going out

You tell your girls, I tell my guys

Ain't going in until we see the sunrise

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

Oh I know you love me

I got a diamond diamond in my pocket

I Fly Away lyrics - Better Than Ezra

And on the day that I was born

My mom and dad were overjoyed

They wrapped me in their arms

Took me home to meet my world

A painted room to call my own

A place where nothing could go wrong

Where they could build their borders

That I never would escape

But I don't need no one to break me out of here

I fly away, (I fly away)

When the world is burning down

I am up above the clouds

I fly away, (I fly away)

Letting go and breathing in

I float into the golden heart of love again

(I fly away, I fly away, I fly away)

As adolescence waved goobye

I searched the world behind my eyes

A permanent oasis

In the middle of a war

Now mom is taking happy pills

And dad is drowning in his bills

My sister went to rehab

For the third time in a year

But I don't need to pill to help me disappear

I fly away, (I fly away)

When the world is burning down

I am up above the clouds

I fly away, (I fly away)

Letting go and breathing in

I float into the golden heart of love again

And if you believe I'm less than I was meant to be

Don't be deceived, I'm hoping I was meant to be

Tell me you're wrong

And when you see the silent one

Know I am more than skin and bone

I am spirit, I am sound

I am floating off the ground

The ground, the ground

To fly along...

I fly away, (I fly away)

When the world is burning down

I am up above the clouds

I fly away, (I fly away)

Letting go and breathing in

I float into the golden heart of love again

I fly away

(Hey ma mama, away, oh...)

Letting go and breathing in

I float into the golden heart of love again

(Hey ma mama, away, oh

Hey ma mama, away, oh)

Shut Up And Dance lyrics - Better Than Ezra

You're kinda cute but your mouth won't stop

You got the moves when the needle drops

Oh oh oh

I'm livin proof when you're giving me rock and roll

Kick drum beats you up inside

Lights flashing across your eyes

Oh oh oh

And I ain't ever gonna 'pologize

If your homies don't play nice

She's like a world premiere

Blockbuster of the year

Can't talk above the noise

I'm losing my voice

I don't have a choice

She said

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Don't stop the radio rockin'

I love the beat that you're droppin'

No time to waste

No talkin'

Shut up and dance

So neurotic but I love your band

I'm neck deep in your quicksand

Oh oh oh

And I don't ever think I'm gonna land

Till the sun comes up again

She's like a world premiere

Blockbuster of the year

Can't talk above the noise

I'm losing my voice

I don't have a choice

She said

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Don't stop the radio rockin'

I love the beat that you're droppin'

No time to waste

No talkin'

Shut up and dance

And when you play The Cure

It's like 1984

1984

Someone head bangin' on the door

Robert Smith couldn't ask for more

Hey!

She's like a world premiere

Blockbuster of the year

Can't talk above the noise

I'm losing my voice

I don't have a choice

She said

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Shut up and dance

Oh oh oh

Don't stop the radio rockin'

I love the beat that you're droppin'

No time to waste

No talkin'

Shut up and dance

You're kinda cute but your mouth won't stop

...shut up and dance

You've got the moves when the needle drops

Don't stop the radio rockin'

I love the beat that you're droppin'

No time to waste

No talkin'

Shut up and dance

In Your Eyes lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Love

I get so lost sometimes

Days pass

And this emptiness fills my heart

When I want to run away

I drive off in my car

But whichever way I go

I come back to the place where you are

And all my instincts

They return

And the grand facade

So soon will work

Without a noise

Without my cry

I reach out from the inside

In your eyes

Like the heat (in your eyes)

I am complete (in your eyes)

I see the doorway (in your eyes)

To a thousand churches

Your eyes

The resolution (in your eyes)

Of all the fruitless searches (in your eyes)

Oh, I see the light and the heat (in your eyes)

Oh, I wanna be that complete (in your eyes)

I wanna touch them like the heat I see

In your eyes

Love

I don't like to see so much pain

So much wasted

And this moment keeps slipping away

And all my instincts

They return

And the grand facade

So soon will work

Without a noise

Without my cry

I reach out from the inside

In your eyes

Like the heat (in your eyes)

I am complete (in your eyes)

I see the doorway (in your eyes)

To a thousand churches

Your eyes

The resolution (in your eyes)

Of all the fruitless searches (in your eyes)

Oh, I see the light and the heat (in your eyes)

Oh, I wanna be that complete (in your eyes)

I wanna touch them like the heat I see

In your eyes

(In your eyes)

When I want to run away (in your eyes)

Merry Christmas Eve lyrics - Better Than Ezra

Northern wind

Chimney smoke

Love and pain

Joy and hope

These are the days

Of Christmas

Colored lights and mistletoe

Cinnamon and Nat King Cole

There's a miracle now

On 34th street

At the airport families wait on queue

And they shout as the loved one comes in view

Well, the kids are just happy 'cause they're out of school

How wonderful life is on Christmas

Sleigh bells and sing-a-longs

The snow falls on the lawn

There's a midnight mass

For a birthday

Hearin' tunes an laughter fill the room

You forget all the thoughts that have troubled you

Yeah, I know times I hard, somehow you'll make it through

How wonderful life is on Christmas

All is quiet

Holy night

To awaken

Morning light

Let is shine

Let it fill our lives with light

Then as someone says 'Santa Claus was here'

One by one by the tree we all appear

Grandmother saved paper to use next year

How wonderful life is

On Christmas

Merry Christmas eve

(At the airport families wait on queue)

Merry Christmas eve

(As they smile and they cry as you fade from view)

Merry Christmas eve

(Well, the folks are just happy 'cause they saw you)

Merry Christmas eve

(How wonderful life is...)

Merry Christmas eve...

Werewolves Of London lyrics - Better Than Ezra

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain

He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's

Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door

You better not let him in

Little old lady got mutilated late last night

Werewolves of London again

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo, hey

He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent

Lately, he's been overheard in Mayfair

You better stay away from him

He'll rip your lungs out, Jim

Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Ah-hoo

Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen

Doin' the werewolves of London

I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen, uh

Doin' the werewolves of London

I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's

And his hair was perfect

Na!

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Huh, draw blood

Ah-hoo, werewolves of London

Absolutely Still Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

This Grey room,
This bunker,
The air is humming
Us to sleep

While outside,
The city hurries;
The endless worries
Are out of reach

Promise me we'll never leave this room,
A million years from now would be too soon.

The world is spinning turning day to night
And my thoughts are running at the speed of light
Got an empty feeling that I never want to fill
Absolutely still
I waited longer 'cause I needed proof
That every door I shut is leading me to you
And there's a nervous feeling that i never want to kill
Absolutely still

We were running
From the same noise,
We were stuck in
The same pursuit

Now the door's locked
And I find that
The dizzy madness
Is bleeding through

Promise me you'll never leave this room,
A million years from now would be too soon.

The world is spinning turning day to night
And my thoughts are running at the speed of light
Got an empty feeling that I never want to fill
Absolutely still
I waited longer 'cause I needed proof
That every door I shut is leading me to you
And there's a nervous feeling that I never want to kill
Absolutely still

Promise me you'll never leave this room,
A million years from now would be too soon.

The world is spinning turning day to night
And my thoughts are running at the speed of light
Got an empty feeling that I never want to fill
Absolutely still
I waited longer 'cause I needed proof
That every door I shut is leading me to you
And there's a nervous feeling that I never want to kill
Absolutely still

I'll go anywhere you want tonight
'cause my head is spinning like a satellite
I got a restless feeling that I never want to fill
I'm absolutely still

Turn Up The Bright Lights Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

It's a lot like fire.
Taking that the first step on to the street.
The whole night before you, spreading out like a techno colored dream.
So take this city into your arms and hold it like a kiss.
Don't it feel like flying, darling, what could be better than this.
Turn up the bright lights, light up the world tonight.
Shine like the stars shine above and sail away.
Turn up the bright lights....
On a Paris morning, long before the sun was debt to rise.
Walking on the river, reflecting diamonds in your eyes.
So take this city and catch your breath, and listen to yourself.
Cause you move like music, darlin' in a moment you'll be gone.
Turn up the bright lights, light up the world tonight shine like the stars shine.
Turn on the mystery

Just One Day Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

If you could change the choices that you made,
Would you do it- today?
If you could spin the world the other way,
Could you do it on faith?
If time would stand still,

What would you do? What would you say?
If everyone you love came back for just one day?
How would it feel if every dream came real?
And all the scars you have fade away
For just one day

Imagine all the times you that could take back
What would you have done differently?
Thoughts in your head you never said
Or a heart that you broke and left for dead
If all the pain you had could be released
How life flies by.

What would you do? What would you say?
If everyone you love came back for just one day
How would if feel if every dream came real
And all the scars you have fade away?

For just one day

And the night
All the good times and the fights
All the take and the give
All the moments that we never got to live
Ohhh.....

What would you do? What would you say?
If everyone you love came back for just one day
How would it feel if every dream came real
And all the scars you have fade a way

[Repeat]

For just one day [x2]

If you could change the choices that you made,
Would you do it- today?

The Loveless Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Tell me I'm wrong, you sense a little bit of change.
You knew all along there'd come a day you'd have to face.
I hear a loud voice in my head, for all the things I never said.
So tell me who's gonna love me loveless, who's gonna love me loveless,
Who gonna love me loveless?
When your gone.
What can I say, you pick this wreck up off the ground.

All In Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

[Chorus]
All in, All in
You got me all in
Crank the music up
Let it never end
All in, All in
You got me all in
Til the sun come up
And we start again.

? likes Peter
Peter likes Paul
She caught em making out
In the cubicle
She ran and told her girlfriend
To cause a bit of fuss
Then she took another hit
On the pixie dust.

[Chorus]

We're banging on the ceiling
We jumping on the floor
A very angry neighbor
Breaking down the door
Everyone is quiet
As he begins to shout
But we say "easy man
We can work it out".

[Chorus]

Are you having a good time
I said are you having a good time
Tell it to your mother

The moral to the story
There isn't really one
The bottom of the line
Is to have a bit of fun

[Chorus]

Are you having a good time
I said are you having a good time
Tell it to your lover
Right mate, is that your mother?

[Chorus]

Til the sun come up
And we start again
Til the sun come up
And we start again
Til the sun come up
And we start again

Fit Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I want to stop
I want to find
I need to know
Where you go to hide
Cause I’m out of breath
My air is gone
Running with you
Being alone

Cause you really want to settle the truth
Let me be the one to offer you proof

Oh how you fit me
Oh how you do
You know that you only
I’m head over you
Oh how it hit me
I’m caught up and bruised
Despite all the cynical lies
I finally found a piece that fit in my life

I was adrift
out on my own
You came a long and carried me home
Cause you are a spark
A distant headlight
I can’t stop my eyes
From keeping you in sight

Cause I’m not looking for a broken excuse
But I need you now to heal all my wounds

Oh how you fit me
Oh how you do
You know that you only
I’m head over you
Oh how it hit me
I’m caught up and bruised
Despite all the cynical lies
I finally found a piece that fit…

Cause I made them
Faded some
Look at what I’ve become
And my eyes are drawn till you came along
The world is quite confused
You’re my only absolute

Oh how you fit me
Oh how you do
You know that you only
I’m head over you
Oh how it hit me
I’m caught up and bruised
Despite all the cynical lies

And Oh how you fit me
Oh how you do
You know that you only
I’m head over you
Oh how it hit me
I’m bound up in you
Despite all the cynical lies
I finally found a piece that fit in my life
I finally found a piece that fit in my life
Oooooh oooh ooooh

Hell No! Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Put your ear up to the speaker
Let your jaw drop
Witness this power of suggestion
Blow the roof off
Gods of war march into battle
Make the ground shake
Crowd appears, countdown has begun
Drop the bomb, 4, 3, 2, 1

Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna sit down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna shake this mother to the ground
Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna back down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna put you suckers in the ground

Fourth and long,
Casualties abound
In the hot sun
Final play, pile up in the endzone
Deed is done,
Damn, glad we won.

Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna sit down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna shake this mother to the ground
Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna back down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna put you suckers in the ground

Man, you will never let anybody disrespect you
Hell no!
You will keep your head held high
Whether you win or you lose
Because no one will come into our house
And tell us what to do!

Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna sit down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna shake this mother to the ground
Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna back down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna put you suckers in the ground
Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna sit down
Hell No! Y'all, Gonna shake this mother to the ground
Hell No! Y'all, We ain't gonna back down
Hell No! We ain't gonna back down.

Hey Love Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I haven't felt you for a while
I haven't had much opportunity to smile
I see you in the eyes of couples passing by
As soulmates kiss, the innocence,
Too long I've been denied.

[Chorus]
Hey love, where you going
Hey love, how you been
I wish you'd stay a little longer
No, that's ok, I understand
Maybe another day
Hey love, old friend,
There you go again.

I found a photo and you were there
Captured in our faces
Just before you disappeared
It was nice to know you, if only for a while
To come and go with a sweet hello
And a bittersweet goodbye.

[Chorus]

I don't know where I am
I don't know
I don't know where I am

And if every new beginning
Is just another's end
Tell me love, why should i begin
Again.

[Chorus]

There you go again
Can you come back?
Can you come back love?
Can you come back?
Can you come back love?

Nightclubbing Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I can be who you want me to be uh huh-ow
Take a chance on a new enemy uh huh-ow uh huh-ow
Something different than you felt before
But you'll know it when you taste it
In the absence of light it's a flash in the night
Something that you can feel but it's always burnin'

Put on your best dress and make up your face
We're going nightclubbing we're going night clubbing
Get off your high horse and powder your nose
We're going nightclubbing nightclubbing

There's a place out on Avenue A uh huh-ow
Where the kids got a new remedy uh huh-ow uh huh-ow
Just a little bit to leave yourself for a temporary exile
It's a shortness of breath it's a glow in your chest
Something better than real that's always turnin'

Put on your best dress and make up your face
We're going nightclubbing we're going night clubbing
Get off your high horse and powder your nose
We're going nightclubbing nightclubbing
Check all your hang ups and lead at the door
We're going nightclubbing we're going night clubbing
Quit all your bitchin' and get on the floor
We're going nightclubbing nightclubbing

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
East side (?)
(??)

I got to know baby
When you see me don't (?)
I got to know baby
Sing along

Put on your best dress and make up your face
We're going nightclubbing we're going night clubbing
Get off your high horse and powder your nose
We're going nightclubbing nightclubbing
Check all your hang ups and lead at the door
We're going nightclubbing we're going night clubbing
Quit all your bitchin' and get on the floor
We're going nightclubbing nightclubbing
...

Black Light Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I'm on, 2, 3, 4
Wanna do your best tonight
Check, check

Cold day, stuck in my head
Wargames, interstates
Restless adolescence
Presidential motorcades
You know daddy's blowing words
Made of cigarette smoke
Mommy's always down on her knees
Late night, cocktail parties
Let the children do as they please
Yeah, Earthquakes and revelries

Me and my sister burning up in the room
We turn the black light on, turn the black light on
Nobody knows, nobody shows
Or really gives a damn
Me and my sister turn the black light on

Warm day, sun is shining
Ice trays, fake IDs
Stumbling towards the end of the
20th century
And it's hot enough to melt the ice caps
But you wanna make the summer stay
Sister, boyfriend calling,
Won't give me the time of day
Sometimes the guard goes down

Me and my sister burning up in the room
We turn the black light on, turn the black light on
Nobody knows, nobody shows
Or really gives a damn
Black light on, turn it on
Me and my sister turn it up in the room
We got a flashlight on, got the black light on
Nobody knows, nobody shows enough to give a damn
Me and my sister turn the black light on

Nothing is certain, time slips away
The world may be ending
But it ain't happening today, today, today,
oh-oh-oh

Latchkeys and memories
That never fade away

Me and my sister burn it up in the room
We turn the black light on, turn the black light on
Nobody knows, nobody shows
Or really gives a damn
Me and my sister turn it on, turn it on

Me and my sister getting stoned in the room
We turn the black light on, turn the black light on
Nobody knows, nobody shows
that we can give a damn
Me and my sister turn it on and on and on

Black light on
Come on
Black light on

Wounded Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I can't tell you why
The struggle to survive
Falling so hard
And all my senses lie
I can't believe my eyes
Keep on moving
With all the blood that i can give
I choose to live

[Chorus]
Tell me why we bother
Hurting one another
With nothing left to gain
How do you explain
Striking down my brother
Lying to a lover
Left with what remains
We are wounded
We are wounded

I can not disguise
The weight i feel inside
Some great ocean
But if love could be blind
With no more compromise
What might happen
Could you make the choice to live
Or to forgive

[Chorus]

We are wounded

With all the blood that I can give
With all the blood that I can give
I chose to live

[Chorus]

We are wounded
We are wounded

I Just Knew Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

When you walk in the noise dissapears
Where you begin is perfectly clear
All this time I felt so confused
Then came you and I just knew

Well I fell out when you picked up the phone
When we'd go out, yeah, it'd feel just like home
Do you think that I'm alright
Shining through and I just knew
And I just knew

There's something I've been meaning to ask you
How about making it for real
Something changed but I just knew
And I just knew

There's something I've been meaning to ask you
How about doing it for life
Something changed and I just knew
And I just knew
And I just know
Oh yeah and I knew

Come around and see me tonight, Darlin'
Come around and make it all right
Come around and see me tonight
Come around and make it all right, Darlin'

album: "Before The Robots" (2005)

Burned Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

On a Tuesday in December,
When you walked out I remember.
You were smiling as you turned around,
In the hallway, you lingered in the doorway.
And still the words you said to me, make me think of how we used to be.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She said, You're just like the sun.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

In the back room of a mansion,
You are planning your deception.
Always calling, never phoning.
I'm a victim of another's war.
And still the words you said to me,
Come ringing in your silent symphony.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She says, You're just like the sun.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

And still it hurt so bad, (I thought I'd get one over on you),
You know, I hope you're sad, (you deserve it more than anyone).

I could give you one good reason.
You could be my winning season.
All the things we could have been, just fell away.

Hand to my heart, I want to be the one who always learned.
She says, You're just like the sun. I get so burned when you are close to me.
I get so burned when you are close to me.

Daylight Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

You're a long walk in a rain storm
You're a cut that refuses to heal
You're a dull ache that I can't shake
You're a cold that's clogging up my head
Or a broke watch keeping time still
Till you pull me in pull me in
And I can't fight

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight

You're a stalled car in the desert
You're a song I can't get off my mind
And in a dire strait
With no hope at all in sight
You come rushing in rushing in
With a lifeline

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight

Pull me closer to your breast
I need you finally I confess
I'm drifting I'm drifting
I love you but I hate you too
God only knows what I could do
I'm drifting I'm drifting

Come on give me one reason
Come on find me in daylight
Come on give me one reason
Come on find me in daylight

If the night is cold
And you're feeling old
And the morning cuts you
Like a knife
And you're wearing thin
Feel you're giving in
In the darkest hour of the night
You find daylight
You'll find daylight

A Lifetime Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Allie woke up 8AM
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And I fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
"No one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they're giving up."

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When I got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And I went to my room.
Played that disc that you'd given me,
And I shut my eyes
Swear I could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime.

It's Only Natural Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Girl, your daddy's knocking on your door
I hear your footsteps on the floor to me
Stumbling back to your room

Pain it is a thing I can't explain
I only feel it when you go away
I'm waiting for you to return

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

Hey, I know your mother's off at work
You say your daddy's such a jerk to you
Why can't they just all fade away

Girl, is that the way it's going to be?
I'm only happy when you're down on me
You can be my honeybee

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide it)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

Don't fight it if it feels good
(Don't fight it girl)
You hide it but you never should
(Don't hide)
Don't listen to voices in your head
What are you and me but monkeys in a tree?
It's only natural
It's only natural
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural
(don't fight it girl)
It's only natural
(don't hide it)
Is it the colour of your hair?
Is it the silly way you stare?
(don't fight it girl)
It's only natural
Na-na-na-na natural

Overcome Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

North light comes uninvited
Through the window to where you lie
Disjointed, dust and silence
Quite at a loss

I feel strange
I feel changed
I feel strange
Overcome
Overcome by you

I fell in too deep
But I learned to swim
In an undertow
I sense I'm giving in

I feel strange
I feel changed
I feel strange
Overcome
Overcome

I'm a little bit wiser
I'm a little bit sadder
I'm a little bit less you might have guessed
But if you could be staying
Tell me now darling I think I'm fading
I swear I'll never trade your life for a lie

I feel strange
I feel changed
I feel strange
Overcome
Overcome by you

Overcome by you

Special Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Are you real?
Are you real or just a dream?
It's been so long, I don't know.
I can feel. I can feel you with me now.
Even though you're far away.

Some are special.
They come back, racing through your mind.
You were special.
Your light, your heat
Will never die.

I was lost.
I was lost and I found you.
I will know no further love.
People move.
People move and fall away,
Love, you refuse to fade.

Some are special.
They come back, racing through your mind.
You were special.
Your light, your heat
Will never die.
So regretful, how could I ever be so blind.
You were special.
I thought I'd never lose my mind.

I was pulling far away.
You were begging me to stay.
And I thought I was losing you.
Funny, how the opposite was true.

Some are special.
They come back, racing through your mind.
You were special.
Your light, your heat
Will never die.
So regretful, how could I ever be so blind.
You were special.
I thought I'd never lose my mind.

Some are special.

Hollow Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Well they say your life was marked
And you were wondering if it would ever start
Stop

Sunlight on a razor blade
Three different souls
And the lives they made
I grew up in the 80's
In the pallisades
I was listening to Devo

And everybody catered to their needs
All voted most likely to succeed
Holly came out
And Billy got paid
But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

Cut to an interior view
Holly married well but so did you
One was black one was blue
I was watching the days go by
Could you be seen in a silly dream
Where Billy lives on Prozac and nicotine
Holly got her GED living in maternity
Nursing her broken heart for the love she lost

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

And the sky is blue
And so are you
Mary takes a drag off a cigarette
And the stereo is coming up behind her
Like she needs someone to remind her
That life is richer in a minor key
Bill and Holly disagree
But I don't think so

All my rage
Sits inside
When even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow
And all my days
Left behind
And even the finest things
Are leaving you hollow

Sunlight on a razor blade
Three different souls and the lives they made
Well Holly came out and Billy got paid
But Jenny got pregnant the first time she got laid

American Dream Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

She was a midwestern prom queen
Got her boyfriend headed out West
They ended up in the valley
In a one room apartment
A disconnected phone
Yeah

Now five years later she's single
She's got two kids and a note
And if she gets a moment to herself
She can remember how everything used
To go her way
She says

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could
Have my American Dream

For twenty years he worked corporate
He planned to early retire
His CEO he stole a billion dollars
Now he's working at Denny's
Hoping for a raise
He thinks

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could
Have my American Dream

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm a little bit rebel
I'm a bit patriot
I can see they're both sides of the coin
But still it gets a bit rough
Everything is screwed up
I guess its just the American way

Sometimes I wonder how you are
You're up in New York City with a family
I think I could have been your guy
It's just a moment in time that is slipping on away

Where did the time go
When everything was simple and free?
I want to know what happened
Somebody woke me before I could have
My American Dream
My American Dream

Yeah, yeah, yeah

She was a midwestern prom queen
Got her boyfriend headed out West

Our Last Night Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

We were standing in an empty room.
The moonlight was falling.
You were holding my hand when the car
Pulled up for you.
And I could have spent a life with you,
But those days were over.
You were calling my name when
Your face faded from view.

And wasn't it you who told me
The sun would always chase the day?
Wasn't it you who told me?

Angels fly in the air tonight.
Saying, Wasn't it just like swimming
Out on the lake?
Stars collide, and the air's alive.
Or was it just like those promises that you made
On our last night?

I remember waking up with you.
The days doing nothing,
You meant more to me then
Than I think you ever knew.
But you were going to be a doctor,
A movie star, a poet at a Nobel seminar,
I hope the world never tore that out of you.

And wasn't it you who told me
The sun would always chase the day?
Wasn't it you who told me?

Angels fly in the air tonight.
Saying, Wasn't it just like swimming
Out on the lake?
Stars collide, and the air's alive.
Or was it just like those promises that you made?

And what ever happened to the things you loved, the songs we played,
On the Indian days?
What ever happened to the things you gave away,
Like 'Harold and Maude' and singing?

I was waving as you drove away.
The sunlight was falling.
You were writing backwards
In a dusty windowpane.

Angels fly in the air tonight.
Saying, Wasn't it just like swimming
Out on the lake?
Stars collide, and the air's alive.
Or was it just like those promises that you made
On our last night?

A Southern Thing Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Kelly was a blackjack dealer
Living on the Gulf of Mexico
Kelly had a taste for guns and pills
He was looking for a mark to roll

Sara was a Kappa from Tulane
She was looking for a little change of pace
When a cop pulled them over on the interstate
Kelly blew that car away
(I heard them singing)

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River running over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you don't understand
It's a Southern Thing

Now when they held up a bank in Mobile
They finally made it on the evening news
She's a Georgia Peach never within reach
He's a felon from Baton Rouge
I heard Robert Johnson playing on a steel guitar
In the heat of the Delta sun
When Kelly drove them back up to Memphis
To finish what the King had once begun
(Come on and sing it now)

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River rolling over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you dont understand
It's a Southern Thing

If we ever get out of here
I want you to promise me
You'll go down to the Gulf
And swim
Deep in the sea
And you'll think of me
The way you used to sing
That silly song to me
Singing
M-I crooked letter crooked letter
Hump back hump back
Get a little closer
M-I crooked letter crooked letter
Hump back hump back
Get a little closer

Gulf breeze on the porch
Me and my honey rocking back and forth
Light it up again with my kin and friends
Underneath a yellow moon
(It's a Gas)
Sweet dream New Orleans
Mississippi River running over me
Pretty Momma come and take me by the hand
Don't mock what you don't understand
It's a Southern Thing

Juicy Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Here we go

I got with somebody's date
You're like a Soap Opera cover
My lover self-automates
Juicy

You say a-somebody say
You're like a salve for a leper
You're sweet for somebody's pain
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
Juicy
Aw, Juicy

I Gotta Delay

Mothers, children on the street
Can't get enough to eat
Off the record
Dishes fly
Don't know the reason why
Meet me in the check out stand
See who can be the lover man
Conscience bleeding in a song
Guilty as the day is long
Goodbye

Yeah, you got to live for your own
You say you got all the sordid details
Check-out retail
Watch it sell
I got to see that lie
You say what you're going to say
You got to know it's a bitter poison
Sapping all of your soul away

Yeah, Juicy
Juicy

Our Finest Year Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

I am bending
Made of steel
I am stumbling
Towards something real
How can you forget this feeling
Of standing straight while the world is reeling?

Don't leave me here alone
You're as close as it gets to home

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

I am hopeful
Full of doubt
And I am trying to work this whole thing out
So how can you just sit there sleeping
When your worlds on fire
And your chest is beating?

And I want to think you feel the same

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

In this moment
While you're breathing
If the future leaves you needing
Will you be the one who stayed?
As your life just slipped away?

Don't leave me here alone
You're as close as it gets to home

I'll be there if you fall
Love made suckers of us all

Don't look down
You might fall
Life made rookies of us all
In our finest year
Don't wait up
We'll be fine
Somehow we might get it right
In our finest year

Breathless Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Here you are now
Fresh from your war
Back from the edge of time
And all that you were,
Stripped to the bone
I thought youd want to know

That when you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

Lay down your guns
Too weak to run
Nothing can harm you here
Your precious heart
Broken and scarred
Somehow you made it through
I only ask that you won't go again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

So glad to see you smiling
So good to hear your laugh
I think that you've found you even
Missed yourself
I'm only asking this because I think that
Truth be told
Oh, you'll never go again
Again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless
Breathless

album: "Closer" (2001)

Misunderstood Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

Talking in her sleep again
Reciting lines start to end
But she's not crazy
(Knock on wood)
Just a little misunderstood

She takes a walk at 4AM
Wakes the neighborhood again
And I find myself recalling everything she used to tell me

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

She's waiting tables the next day
She pulls a double then on her way
To an audition in Hollywood, yeah,
A little misunderstood

We sit around the house
Waiting for the phone to ring
And I know she alone holds the key
To everything I want to be

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

Two years later you're a star
Who'd have thought we'd get this far?
But I'd give it all away if I
Could see you on that day again
When you quit work
And threw that coffee
At the manager jerk

You said, "Close your eyes
I've got a surprise
A house in the hills
And a car that drives by."

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts, don't it? Inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

Extra Ordinary Lyrics – Better Than Ezra (feat. DJ Swamp)

I got a little bit of hope
Like a soap on a rope
Sweeter than sour
But getting thinner by the hour
Falling fast, and I'm running out of gas

Muggin on your sister!
Smart as Bobby Fischer!

Still I couldn't get arrested
Though I got more hooks
Than Madonna got looks
And just like that AC/DC song
Come on baby, shake me all night long

All I want to do
Is stay till early in the morning
(You know I love you baby)
And all I've got to say
Is your love's extra ordinary
You're extra ordinary, baby

Somebody push me through the door
I been sleeping on the floor
Thirty-one flavors, listen to the neighbors
Through the wall
At a debutante ball

Cumba lada vista!
Got a Mona Lisa!

So much for the late rent
Cause your money's spent
And it's cold inside
But just like that Barenaked Ladies' song
I'm hot like wasabi when I'm next to your body

All I want to do
Is stay till early in the morning
(You know I love you baby)
And all I've got to say, yeah
Is your love's extra ordinary
You're extra ordinary, baby

Ain't love such a sweet thing!
Ain't love such a sweet thing!

(Con fuego, baby ...)

All I want to do
Is stay till early in the morning
(You know I love you baby)
And all I've got to say, yeah
Is your love's extra ordinary
You're extra ordinary, baby

Closer Lyrics – Better Than Ezra

And the morning light was breaking
Slowly moving across the bed
He gets up without her waking
To the voices in his head

Through the shadows in the hallway
To the room they painted blue
And on the inside he is frightened
At a loss for what to do

Until he opens up his eyes
And the angels all look down

Even closer than this life
Closer than your faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

And he knows his life is changing
It's never easy letting go
For the first time you are mortal
As the child before you grows
And he wonders at the sight
Of the joy that he has found

Even closer than this life
Closer than your faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

And what would you intend to find?
Solitude? Your peace of mind?
Holding out for something less
Than touching the hand of God?

Even closer than this life
Closer than this faith
Closer than the things that you hold dearly
And in vain
Closer than this life
Falling through again
Giving more than anything
That you could hope to win

Closer than this life
Closer finally
Living for the only thing
You ever made complete
Oh, for the one thing
That you both did perfectly

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