Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother She's sleeping here, right by my side And in her right hand a silver dagger She says that I can't be your bride "All men are false", says my mother "They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies The very next evening they'll court another Leave you alone to pine and sigh" My daddy is a handsome devil He's got a chain five miles long And on every link a heart does dangle Of another maid he's loved and wronged Go, court another tender maiden And hope that she will be your wife For I've been warned and I've decided To sleep alone all of my life

Last time, she come down She spread her lovin' all over this town They say she carry, carry silver dagger Lady never stagger to cut me down Oh no, help me darlin' please You see me 'round here, in the night, on my knees You take me down, now my smile a frown Doubt I'll ever get out Last time, she come down She spread her lovin' all over this town They say she carry, carry silver dagger Lady never stagger to cut me down Oh no, how I'm a-gonna make it through All these things I fall victim all because of you She take me under, uh, my heart got plundered Girl got me bleeding through the sink Last time, she come down She spread her lovin' all over this town They say she carry, carry silver dagger Lady never stagger to cut me down Last time, she come down She spread her lovin' all over this town Lady with the silver dagger got me now She so evil She so evil She so evil, evil Evil

Don't sing love songs You'll wake my mother She's sleeping here right by my side In her right hand is a silver dagger She says that I can't be your bride All men are fools So says my mother They'll tell you again Love and lies And then they'll go And court someother Leave you alone to pine inside My daddy is a handsome devil He's got a chain five miles long On every link, a heart does dangle Of another maid he's loved and wronged, ohhh Go court another tender maiden In hopes that she might be your wife For I've been warned so I decided I'll sleep alone all of my life, ohhh Beware, beware, a silver dagger

(Beat within the heartbeat) Sometimes Sometimes, you need to break down Sometimes, you need to lose spirit Need to breathe in to breathe out, out 'Cause I know that you're trying to make heaven In a world that is cold and lost all feeling But I know if you picture somewhere better Maybe we'll get there, baby, we'll get there When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat (Beat within a beat, beat within a heartbeat) When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat Just leave it Listen to the ghost, but don't feed it Every time you do, you lose spirit It's getting kind of hard, but stick with it, hey 'Cause I know that you're trying to make heaven In a world that is cold and lost all feeling But I know if you picture somewhere better Maybe we'll get there, baby, we'll get there When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat (Beat within a beat, beat within a heartbeat) When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat Just leave it Listen to the ghost, but don't feed it Every time you do, you lose spirit It's getting kind of hard, but stick with it, hey When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing the kick When you know you're missing a beat within the beat, within a heartbeat When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat within the beat, within a heartbeat (Beat within a beat, beat within a heartbeat) When you know you're missing the love When you know you're missing the beat Within the beat, within the heartbeat (When you know you're missing the kick)

Tell a lie, tell a lie that makes me want to stay Give me something out of nothing, if it's not too late If it's real, if it's real, I guess I'll feel the pain Come in closer, out of focus Oh, and it's hard to It's hard to love someone who can't be loved But it's what you do, it's what you do Baby, you're so cruel, you're so cruel Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you This love I can't undo, can't undo Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you Losing me, carelessly, you sacrifice Give me something out of nothing, if it's not too late Did you steal or borrow me and all my life? Come in closer, out of focus Oh, and it's hard to It's hard to love someone who can't be loved But it's what you do, it's what you do Baby, you're so cruel, you're so cruel Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you This love I can't undo, can't undo Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you All I do is pray and it's keeping me awake When I try to leave, I think that you need me Do you? Baby, you're so cruel, you're so cruel But I'm still bound to you, bound to you There's a line that pulls me back to you There's only so much I can do A bind that holds the spark Wrapped around my heart There's only so much I can do When you got me bound to you Baby, you're so cruel, you're so cruel Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you This love I can't undo, can't undo Cause you got me bound to you, bound to you All I do is pray and it's keeping me awake When I try to leave, I think that you need me Do you? Baby, you're so cruel, you're so cruel But I'm still bound to you, bound to you I'm still bound to you, bound to you I'm still bound to you I'm still bound to you I'm still bound to you

Run and hide It's gonna be bad tonight 'Cause here comes your devil side It's gonna ruin me It's almost like Slow motion suicide Watching your devil side Get between you and me So tell me what I need to do To keep myself away from you To keep myself from going down All the way Down with you Still, I want you But not for your devil side Not for your haunted life Just for you So tell me why I deal with your devil side I deal with your dangerous mind But never with you Who's gonna save you now Who's gonna save you I can't lie But I do miss those times We were on the high I thought it would never end But you and I Have come from the same long line Good kids with a devil side Just going around again So tell me what I need to do To get myself away from you To keep myself from going down All the way Down with you All the way Down with you I want you But not for your devil side Not for your haunted life Just for you, (just for you) So tell me why It's always your devil side It's always your dangerous mind It's never you So who's gonna save you now Who's gonna save you So tell me what I need to know To make you want to change it all To keep myself from going down All the way Down with you All the way Down with you I want you But not for your devil side Not for your haunted life Just for you So tell me why I deal with your devil side I deal with your dangerous mind But never with you Who's gonna save you now Who's gonna save you Who's gonna save you now Who's gonna save you (Ooh, oh) (Who's gonna save you now) (Who's gonna save you now)

Show me love (better love) Show me love (better love) I cried myself to sleep again You lie right there, but I've learned nothing I do my best to ease your pain And here we are, but we've learned nothing And it's killing me When I'm in your arms I forget the darker days And it's haunting me These feet of mine Won't let me march away Don't ask me how But I always thought that we could have a better love When you lay me down I forget that all I want is a better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love I hurt myself again today You lie right there and you say nothing I do my best to leave this pain But here we are and we've learned nothing And it's killing me When I'm in your arms I forget the darker days And it's haunting me These feet of mine Won't let me march away Don't ask me how But I always thought that we could have a better love When you lay me down I forget that all I want is a better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love Show me love (better love) Show me love (better love) And it's killing me When I'm in your arms I forget the darker days And it's haunting me These feet of mine Won't let me march away Show me a better love A better love Better, better love Show me a better love A better Better, a better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love Show me a better love Show me a better, better love Show me love (better love)

Hear the noise, tonight You've burned down your light Breathe you in, hold you down You don't have to tread the line Stop the noise Words getting louder Try to hide like a child Hard to see and too hard to find You don't have to tread the line You don't have to tread the line And does it hurt you? Do you feel when I try to touch? And are you scared now? If I open up maybe you will When soldiers are calling Just run through the night glo Drown out the voices And you know you don't have to go And you know you don't have to go Kill the noise tonight You've burned down your light All the kings and all their men Can't put you together again Can't put you together again And does it hurt you? Do you feel when I try to touch? And are you scared now? If I open up maybe you will When soldiers are calling Just run through the night glo Drown out the voices And you know you don't have to go And does it hurt you? Do you feel when I try to touch? And are you scared now? If I open up maybe you will Soldiers are calling Just run through the night glo Drown out the voices And you know you don't have to go When soldiers are calling Just run through the night glo Drown out the voices And you know you don't have to go

I could swear, for a minute You could see right through me And you were reading to me like you always did And your name was Kathleen Why do I let people be bad to me? Ignore reality She said, "Don't take things too personally" And her name was Kathleen Tread, tread gently 'Cause you'll be bound to cry So stay in your corner And I'll stay here in mine Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with lovers, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with lovers, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again As you reign from your tower And your throne's a single bed But you'll never know what you mean to me So I'm gonna do you proud instead Tread, tread gently 'Cause you'll be bound to cry So stay in your corner And I'll stay here in mine Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with others, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with others, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with others, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again Just go, be slow and you'll figure it out Head low, you'll know how to turn it around You'll sleep with others, sleep on sofas Sleep with others again All of you is under all my skin And I wear you on my sleeve And you'll be reading to me like you always did And your name is Kathleen (And I just saw this relaxation tape in this college library) (And I think they made me a copy of it, but I lovingly handed it back) ('Cause I thought it would help somebody else, but the copy's in development)