When you're the last one to know What everybody knows Shame falls down When you're the last one to see What everybody sees Shame falls down like rain falls down Life is messy It's starting to repress me Time and time again I think I'm gonna win And it blows up in my face When your last hope is gone And you're feelin' so unable Shame falls down When your heart won't open up And there's love left on the table Fame falls down Like rain falls down Life is messy It's starting to distress me They sell it in the press They smell it on your breath But you keep on comin' clean Life is messy I don't wanna go back home The streets are lined in rubble A heart that's made of stone Can lead you into trouble Life is messy It's trying to depress me They can kick you in the nuts They can hit you where it hurts Don't get down on your knees Life is messy I feel like Elvis Presley At a very early age They put you in a cage And they push you out on stage Life is messy

I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly, fly, fly Tie my dreams up in a sack and Lay my head down on the track and die die die My life's been so sweet I just can't stand it I must admit I've made out like a bandit Last night's conversation with a real good friend of mine, drinkin wine Wine wine Said fifty years of livin and your worst mistakes forgiven just takes time time time One man's lust for life brings world reknown And the next guy can't get two feet off the ground... he's earthbound Earthbound... hear the wind through the tops of the trees Earthbound... summer sun nearly ninety degrees Earthbound... big ol' moon sinking down... think I might stick Around EARTHBOUND I knew love once way back when she had almond eyes and olive skin And long black hair She was Irish Spanish mixbreed, I was southeast Texas hayseed We were almost there Earth Daddy did not like my kind around True love took the next train out of town... earthbound Earthbound... where there's fathers and daughters in pain Earthbound... mama's boy walking home in the rain Earthbound... like a ship run aground, think I might stick around EARTHBOUND With each new day that passes I'm in need of thicker glasses but it's All O K Someday I'll be leaving but I just can't help believing that it's not Today Every golden moment I have found I've done my best to run right in the ground... earthbound Earthbound... see the sky big and beautiful blue Earthbound... fallen angels come callin' for you Earthbound... keepin' close to the ground think I might stick around Earthbound... Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr Earthbound... Walter Cronkite, Seamus Heaney, Ringo Starr Dalai Lama, Charlie Brown make me wanna stick around EARTHBOUND

Fancy meeting you here, tonight It's such a small world, New York ain't my town I don't come around, but once in a while This is such a surprise to see you Girl, your looking so good; it's been a long time Since you've crossed my mind It's such a small world Just one night on the town, I came looking around for something to do Just a change of my plans on leaving, And I stay around and I run into you Which just goes to prove it's such a small world It's such a small world I've lived alone for awhile It's such a small world It feels like I've gone out of style You and me will always be Just looking for something that's already happened Years go by but you and I don't have to look beyond today Maybe just for tonight We can turn out the light Lay your heart on the line Let go of your mind You know just what to say You know just what to do You still look like the day when I first met you I'll be gone once again come morning Like I've always done But to see you tonight Makes everything right, it's such a small world Hey, right here you stand as if it was planned It's such a small world

From one world to another, There's so much to discover Feel so small inside, But courage has no size My heart knows where to go, And I will follow MoreIt's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time Sometimes I lose my way, Unsure, I grow afraid There's no wrong I can't make right With you standing by It takes a friend like you To remind me of what I knew It's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time I'll be strong, I'll be brave, From your world and back again We will go until the end, oh It's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time

Cutting through the darkest night With my two head lights Trying to keep it clear But I'm losing it here, to the twilight There's a dead end to my left There's a burning bush to my right You aren't in sight You aren't in sight Do you want me Like I want you? Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing me by? Mother's on the stoop, boys in souped up coupes On this hot summer night Between fight and flight is the blind man's sight And a choice that's right I roll the window down, feel like I'm I'm gonna drown, in this strange town Feel broken down I feel broken down Do you need me Like I need you? Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing me by Sweet sorrow, he said call tomorrow Sweet sorrow, he said call tomorrow Do you love me Like I love you Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing me by Are you passing me by Passing me by Do you want me? Passing me by Do you need me Like I need you too? (passing me by) And do you want me Like I want you (passing me by) Are you passing me by Or am I standing still? (Do you want me?)