Oh Holy Fools

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Going for the Gold

There's a voice on the phone telling what had happened
Some kind of confusion
more like a disaster
And it wondered how you were left unaffected
But you had no knowledge
No, the chemicals covered you
And so a jury was formed as more liquor was poured
No need for conviction
They're not thirsting for justice
But I slept with the lies I keep inside my head
I found out I was guilty
I found out I was guilty
But I won't be around for the sentencing
Cause I'm leaving
Oh, on the next airplane
And though I know that my actions are impossible to justify
They seem adequate to fill up my time
Well, if I could talk to myself
like I was someone else
Well, then maybe I could take your advice
And I wouldn't act like such an asshole all the time
There's a film on the wall, makes the people look small
Who are sitting beside it
All consumed in the drama
They must return to their lives once the hero has died
They will drive to the office
Stopping somewhere for coffee
Where the folk singers, poets, and playwrites convene
Dispensing their wisdom
Oh dear amateur orator
They will detail their pain in some standard refrain
They will recite their sadness
Like it's some kind of contest
Well if it is
I think I am winning it
All beaming with confidence
As I make my final lap
The gold medal gleams
So hang it around my neck
Because I am deserving it
The champion of idiots
But a kid carries his Walkman on that long bus ride to Omaha
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin
Cause each note sounds so pure
It just cuts into her
And then the melody comes pouring out her eyes
Now to me everything else, it just sounds like a lie

Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet and hold the earth in place

I met you through a common friend
In the attic of my parents' house
And though I didn't know it then
I soon was finding out
Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet
And hold the earth in place
Each time a faucet opens
Words are spoken
The water runs away
And I hear your name
No, nothing has changed
There was this book I read and loved
The story of a ship
Who sailed around the world and found
That nothing else exists
Beyond his own two sails and wooden shell
And what is held within
All else is sure to pass
We clutch and grasp
And debate what's truly permanent
But when the wind starts to shift
Well, there's no argument
Now, I sing and drink and sleep on floors
And try hard not to be annoyed
By all these people worrying about me
So when I'm suffering through some awful drive
You occasionally cross my mind
It's my hidden hope that you are still among them
Well are you?
Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet
And hold the earth in place
Each time a curtain opens
Sunlight pours in
A lifetime melts away
And we share a name
On some picturesque grave

No lies, just love

It was in the March of the winter
I turned seventeen
That I bought those pills
I thought I would need
And I wrote a letter
To my family
Said "it's not your fault
You've been good to me"
It's just lately I've been feeling
like I don't belong
Like the ground's not mine
To walk upon
And I've heard that music
Echo through the house
Where my grandmother drank
By herself
And I sat watching a flower
As it was withering
I was embarassed by
Its honesty
So I'd prefer to be remembered
As a smiling face
Not this fucking wreck
That's taken its place
So please forgive what I have done
No, you can't stay mad at the setting sun
Because we all get tired, I mean eventually
There is nothing left to do but sleep
But Spring came bearing sunlight
Those persuasive rays
So I gave myself
A few more days
My salvation it came
Quite suddenly
When Justin spoke
Very plainly
He said "Now, Of course it's your decision
But just so you know
If you decide to leave
Soon I will follow"
Well, I wrote this for a baby
Who has yet to be born
My brother's first child
I hope that womb's not too warm
Cause it's cold out here
And it'll be quite a shock
To breathe this air
To discover loss
So I'd like to make some changes
Before you arrive
So when your new eyes meet mine
They won't see no lies
Just love, just love
I will be pure
No, no, I know i will be pure
Like snow, like gold
Like snow, like gold
(So please forgive what I have done)
Like snow
(No, you can't stay mad at the setting sun)
Like snow, like gold
(Because we all get tired, I mean eventually)
Like gold, like gold
(There is nothing left to do but sleep)

Kathy with a K's song

Love is real
It is not just in novels or the movies
It is fact
And it is standing here right in front of you
So if you open your eyes
Oh what a sweet discovery
There is hope, and there is joy, and there is acceptance
So now let all of the light that collects on your plants
Keep you warm, make you smile
And I will be there with this pen in my hand
To record all the while
You'll be laughing so loud
That the house would shake with sound
And everything will be as new as the day it was found
Love is real
It is not just in long distance commercials
Or something that you thought you felt back in high school
So I will turn black and white
Become that horoscope you're reading
It predicts something good is on its way
Oh, and then I will send you the world green and blue
In a box through the mail
You can open it up, hold it right in your hand
And be glad that it's there
And be glad that you're there
Now, you can feel all the knots in your stomach start to untie
And suddenly it's not so hard to say you're all right
Love is real
It is not just in poetry and stories
It is truth, and it will follow you
Everywhere you go from now on
So if you'd just cast off your doubt
Then your lips would answer for you
Oh my darling, when you smile, it is like a song
And I can hear it now
And I can hear it now
And I can hear it now
Yes, I can, I can, I can
I can hear it now
I can hear it now
Yeah, I can, I can, I can
I can hear it now
I can hear it now
I can hear it now
Yeah, I can, I can, I can
I can hear it now
I can hear it now