Blind Eye - Ashbury

When success is on your mind But true direction is missing You know the Gods have lied but you're still smitten By the stars in your eyes I can tell you know where you are Smile sweetly and you'll be forgiven You're almost free, almost free to come and go Bed setting room for ambitious prisoner Walk away, don't take no for an answer Turn a blind eye to it all Let sleeping dogs lie Down in Queensway Like a bulldozer chasing butterflies Down sad English streets you wander Over sleeping bodies you step lightly All the snow on the ground Lets you pass by without a sound One last look before you disappear Walk away, don't take no for an answer Turn a blind eye to it all Let sleeping dogs lie Down in Queensway Walk away, don't take no for an answer Turn a blind eye to it all Let sleeping dogs lie Down in Queensway

I'm on a train, but there's no one at the helm And there's a demon in my brain Who starts to overwhelm whelm whelm whelm whelm And there it goes, my last chance for peace You lay me down, but I get no release And I say I, I try to keep awake I try to swim beneath I try to keep awake But I, I can feel this narcolepsy slide Into another nightmare And there's a demon in my head who starts to play A nightmare tape loop of what went wrong yesterday And I hold my breath till it's more than I can take And I close my eyes and dream that I'm awake I try to keep awake I try to keep awake I try to keep awake But I, I can feel this narcolepsy slide Into another nightmare I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time I write everything down except what's on my mind Cause my greatest fear is that sucking sound And then I know that I'll never get back out And there's a bone in my hand that connects to a drink In a crowded room where the glasses clink And I'll buy you a beer and we'll drink it deep Because that keeps me from falling asleep I said How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning How'd you like to be alone and drowning Still I find this narcolepsy slide slide Into another nightmare Keep awake, keep awake, keep awake And I can feel this narcolepsy slide

Everything is quiet since you're not around And I live in the numbness now In the background I do the things we did before I walk Haight Street to the store And they say where's that crazy girl You don't get drunk on red wine and fight no more I don't see you anymore since the hospital The plans I make still have you in them Cause you come swimming into view And I'm hanging on your words Like I always used to do The words they use so lightly I only feel for you I only know because I carry you around In the background I'm in the background Words they come and memories all repeat I lift your head while they change the hospital sheets And I would never lie to you no I would never lie to you no I felt you long after we were through, we were through The plans I make still have you in them Cause you come swimming into view And I'm hanging on your words Like I always used to do The words they use so lightly I only feel for you I only know because I carry you around In the background Cause I felt you long after we were through Well you come swimming into view And I'm hanging on your words Like I always used to do The words they use so lightly I only feel to you I only know because I'm way I'm way in the background I'm in the background

Horny and burned out now is how it always ends for me, yeah Chemicals wear me down in your summertime bacchanalian I saw you go faster than the morning comes She walks away like a lady It's always the fallen ones I think are always going to save me I saw you go faster Whoa, I wanna get off one time and not apologize Whoa, you've gotta steal the time of a life that's passing by In bed she flexes her knees to try and abate the feeling She mouths the words please to the poster on the ceiling I saw you go faster right in front of me She stares at him so madly She's got the nerve to say She wants to fuck that boy so badly I saw you go faster Whoa, I want to get off one time and not apologize Whoa, You got to steal the time of a life that's passing by Whoa, I want to get off one time and look you in the eyes Whoa, I want to get off one time, get off one time I was hoping you would be waiting there for me lately I was hoping you'd be waiting for me I was hoping you'd be waiting there for me lately I was hoping you would be waiting there for me I was hoping you would be waiting there for me lately But you're not the kind who would be waiting, not for anybody You're not the kind who would be waiting there for anybody Not even me Oooh, Just one time Oooh, I could go off right now (Whoa, I wanna get off) Whoa, I want to get off one time and not apologize Whoa, You've gotta steal the time of a life that's passing by Not for sale Not for sale Not for sale Buh bye buh bye Buh bye buh bye

I close my eyes and I see a freak I think it's me and I'm afraid to speak I keep on going from week to weakness Way out in a line I dream of lives we could have had before The heat is broke down open doorways Friends of yours tell me more What happens in your mind Can we try and take the high road Though we don't know where it ends I want to be your Crystal Baller I want to show you how it ends Macramé queens in the afternoon And I'm in tune or did I speak too soon Punch drunk up on somebody's joke What happened to the time A footnote in your dance of days In my mind that record still plays Still wonder what the fuck it says Hoping there is time Can we try and take the high road Though we don't know where it ends I want to be your Crystal Baller I can show you how it ends Can we talk about tomorrow (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) And the promise that it brings (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I want to be your Crystal Baller (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I want to show you everything (Some must wait a while, some get it) I wonder what the whole things for I wonder what the whole things for In the moment you were screaming at me I must have been somebody else And the patrons of the pub keep singing Macramé queens in the afternoon And I'm in tune or did I speak too soon Punch drunk up on somebody's joke What happened to the time I dream of lives we could have had before Where the heat is broke down open doorways Like waiting for a trick to score It seems that way some times I wonder where we're all going I'm homesick for your primal knowing I wonder why the wind keeps blowing you through my mind Try and take the high road (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) Remember we were friends (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I want to be your Crystal Baller (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I want to be your diamond ring (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) The one I never gave you (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) And the promise that it brings (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) Let me be your Crystal Baller (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I will show you everything (Some get it, some must wait a while, some get it) I'll be your Crystal Baller Crystal Baller Be your Crystal Baller Crystal Baller Uh