running in place (alternate take) - MisterWives

Well, your railroad gate You know I just can't jump it Sometimes it gets so hard, you see I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet With all these promises you left for me But where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, I waited for you when I was half sick Yes, I waited for you when you hated me Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic When you knew I had some other place to be Now, where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately Well, six white horses that you did promise Were fin'lly delivered down to the penitentiary But to live outside the law, you must be honest I know you always say that you agree Alright so where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well, I don't know how it happened, but the Riverboat captain, he knows my fate But ev'rybody else, even yourself They're just gonna have to wait Well, I got the fever down in my pockets The Persian drunkard, he follows me Yes, I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it You see, you forgot to leave me with the key Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie? Well now, I been in jail when all my mail showed That a man can't give his address out to bad company And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad In the ruins of your balcony Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he's got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when But you're doing it again You better duck down the alleyway Lookin' for a new friend The man in the coonskin cap In the big pen Wants eleven dollar bills But you only got ten Maggie comes fleet foot Face full of black soot Talkin' that the heat put Plants in the bed but The phone's tapped anyway Maggie says that many say They must bust in early may Orders from the d.a. Look out kid Don't matter what you did Walk on your tip toes Don't try "no doz" Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows Get sick, get well Hang around a ink well Ring bell, hard to tell If anything is goin' to sell Try hard, get barred Get back, write braille Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail Look out kid You're gonna get hit But users, cheaters Six-time losers Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool Lookin' for a new fool Don't follow leaders Watch the parkin' meters Ah get born, keep warm Short pants, romance, learn to dance Get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don't steal, don't lift Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don't wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don't wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles

The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns Blow in my face with scorn But it's not that easy I wasn't born to lose you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinkin' from my broken cup And ask me if I would Open up the gate for you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you Well all my fathers, they've gone down True love they've been without it But all their daughters put me down 'Cause I don't think about it Well, as I return to the Queen of Spades And talk with my chambermaid She knows I'm not afraid to look at her And oh she is good to me And there's nothing that she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be But it doesn't matter I want you, I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you Your dancing child with his Chinese suit He spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn't very cute to him, was I? But I did it to him because he lied Because he took you for a ride Because time was on his side And because I... I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you

You didn't close the door Left a crack open I couldn't ignore the faint possibility Of having hope in this insanity That we still could be But we're stuck floating in between Put me on the shelf, discipline myself To let the sparks die out Shattering anything That has reflections of you You You You Our eyes were closed with hearts open wide Dismissed every rule to abide by Our bodies undressed the layers of shy Revealing the truth that was buried inside Filled up feelings That now are bursting at the seams Put me on the shelf, discipline myself To let the sparks die out Shattering anything That has reflections of you You You You Unsure of what are my dreams, it seems You have stolen my slumber and awakened another Life within me that is better than any other Reaching endless heights in never ending nights That can't be seen, put to bed this dream Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Put me on the shelf, discipline myself To let the sparks die out Shattering anything That has reflections of you You You You

Hallucinatin' and waitin' To feel myself again Can't remember the last time I talked to me as a friend Spiralin' out of control To see how far I could go Underneath the lowest low To feel anything at all Runnin', runnin', runnin' from my life I'm playin' hide and seek with the light Sorry you had to see me like that I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back (Woo) I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back (Woo) I keep on tryin', denyin' That I might need some help I smashed my mirrors up 'Cause I look like somebody else My feet are cut up from dancin' Up on these broken pieces You know heartbreaks can't break even Runnin', runnin', runnin' from my life I'm playin' hide and seek with the light Sorry you had to see me like that I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back (Woo) I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back I fall (I fall just to get back up) I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up (I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back (Woo) Got below rock bottom Fallin' angels, I've taught 'em Boy, bringin' it back, bringin' it back 'Cause I'm never losin' myself, alright Got below rock bottom Fallin' angels, I've taught 'em Boy, bringin' it back, bringin' it back 'Cause I'm never losin' myself, right now I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up (Woo ooh) I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up (Woo ooh) I fall just to get back up I fall just to get back up I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I fall (I fall just to get back up) (I fall just to get back up) I'm glad I saw this place Now I know I'm never comin' back

Oh oh oh Oh oh oh Pick apart every piece of me And miss the point entirely I only did this to be sane Not for you to know my name Go 'head and spit the music out Please tell me more about your doubt Don't fear I've heard it all before Each time makes it easier to ignore Oh I am tired of abiding by your rules Causing me to second guess my every single move You don't know who I am Or what I have been through, no So don't dare tell me what I should and shouldn't do 'cause... Not here to lose Not here for you to choose how we, should be Cause we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine, no Don't feel like having a computer sing this phrase Not looking for a hired name to write a song for me that sounds the same As everything fed to our brain's rammed down our throats with no complaints Maybe I'm a dying breed, but I believe in individuality Oh I am tired of abiding by these rules Causing me to second guess my every single move You don't know who I am Or what I have been through, no So don't dare tell me what I should and shouldn't do 'cause... Not here to lose Not here for you to choose how we, should be Cause we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine, no (Hey, hey) Told to look an act a way, as if I'm just a ball of clay That you can just mold into whatever, I assure you that's not clever See now fads don't last forever they are fleeting like the weather And we will stand our ground while you will sink and drown Hahaha! 'Cause I'm a tough girl, I run my own world And if you don't like it there's the door If you haven't heard I ain't got no interest in your business Just here for the music and there's nothing else to this bullshit! Woah-oh-oh oh cause... Not here to lose Not here for you to choose how we, should be Cause we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine We're not, we're not part, we're not part of your machine, no

Never, was afraid of death Now you got me stressing about every single breath When life is too good to be true Makes you skeptical of what you're about to lose See now heaven, has got nothing on us Oh, I love you even when my body turns to dust My heart, slowly beats for you Drummer boy, you made me feel every single hue You saved, my soul Turned a broken girl, into whole And I thank, the day That led you, my way Taking me higher than the clouds go Looking down at the world far down below No matter how far our feet may roam Next to you, is where I call home What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? What did I do? To deserve you Watched men throughout all my years Cause nothing but abuse and flooding tears So I stay far, on my own island Never dare to let anybody in Then you came and turned my world around For the first time, I was writing happy sounds You are brighter than you'll ever know Make the sun appear to have a much duller glow You saved, my soul Turned a broken girl, into whole And I thank, the day That led you, my way Taking me higher than the clouds go Looking down at the world far down below No matter how far our feet may roam Next to you, is where I call home What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? What did I do? To deserve you Never want to wake up next to anybody else Never in my life did I want to hear the wedding bells You make me believe in something I claimed untrue Set my fears on fire, like a phoenix I am new With you, I am new every scar fades away, less existent with each day they fade away Taking me higher than the clouds go Looking down at the world far down below No matter how far our feet may roam Next to you, is where I call home What did I do? Hey! To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? To deserve you What did I do? What did I do? To deserve you

The wind-soft melody Sings to me so happily When you're near me, everything is just so right When all seems so wrong Your love reminds me where we belong You make my cloudy dark skies so bright So can we Stay forever-ever like this and Laugh and love in this happy bliss and as Time runs through our fingers this Love, this love will stay and linger so Hold me close and never, never let go and Promise to love it every high and low, these Words you are singing to Me, you are my everything My everything You're my everything My everything The planets and stars And Venus and Mars No, they don't measure up to you No, no And nothing can compare To you, this I swear This life we've strung, let's Never, never undo So can we Stay forever-ever like this and Laugh and love in this happy bliss and as Time runs through our fingers this Love, this love will stay and linger so Hold me close and never, never let go and Promise to love it every high and low, these Words you are singing to Me, you are my everything My everything You're my everything My everything So let's run with reckless emotion Let's find out if love is the size of the ocean and a Hundred ought to be too few word To carry all my love for you So let's run with reckless emotion Let's find out if love is the size of the Oceans, oceans Oceans Oceans, oceans Oceans So can we stay forever like this And just laugh and love in this happy bliss As time runs through our fingers This love will stay and linger So would you hold me close and never let go Promise to love it every high and low These words you are singing, oh To me you are my, my Everything My everything My everything My everything

It's kinda funny, I stepped on a bee The morning I heard you were leaving The worst sting was you didn't call Had to hear from what others were saying Had no warning, but deep down, I knew It was heading straight towards me No point running away from what would Eventually catch up with us Growing up and growing out Of lovers and places and friends But staying stuck when you've had enough Is something I won't do again So go on your way, I won't try to stop you I wish you would stay, but there's nothing I can do We're all the clichés I swore would never come true But they all do They all do They all do It was sunny the day it all stopped Kinda funny, the forget-me-nots Staring at me while you forgot About all the promises we made When you're living out all of the dreams We were planning, I hope you're happy I imagine you flying high in fancy jets And I can't help but wonder if you have regrets Growing up and growing out Of lovers and places and friends But staying stuck when you've had enough Is something I won't do again So go on your way, I won't try to stop you Wish you would stay, there's nothing I can do We're all the clichés I swore would never come true So go on your way after all that we've been through You just walk away like there's nothing left to lose We're all the clichés I swore would never come true But they all do They all do They all do I should've known, I should've seen This would always be bittersweet (They all do) I should've known, I should've seen This would always be bittersweet So go on your way, I won't try to stop you Wish you would stay, there's nothing I can do We're all the clichés I swore would never come true But they all do Go on your way after all that we've been through You just walk away like there's nothing left to lose We're all the clichés I swore would never come true But they all do Go on your way after all that we've been through You just walk away like there's nothing left to lose We're all the clichés I swore would never come true But they all do