Summer stretching on the grass Summer dresses pass In the shade of a willow tree Creeps are crawling over me Over me and over you Stuck together with God's glue It's going to get stickier too It's been a long hot summer Let's get undercover Don't try too hard to think Don't think at all I'm not the only one Starin' at the sun Afraid of what you'd find If you took a look inside Not just deaf and dumb Staring at the sun Not the only one Who's happy to go blind There's an insect in your ear If you scratch it won't disappear It's gonna itch and burn and sting Do you want to see what the scratching brings? Waves that leave me out of reach Breaking on your back like a beach Will we ever live in peace? 'Cause those that can't do Often have to And those that can't do Often have to preach To the ones staring at the sun Afraid of what you'd find If you took a look inside Not just deaf and dumb Staring at the sun I'm not the only one Who'd rather go blind Intransigence is all around Military still in town Armour plated suits and ties Daddy just won't say goodbye Referee won't blow the whistle God is good but will he listen? I'm nearly great but there's something missing I left it in the duty free, ah But you never really belonged to me You're not the only one Starin' at the sun Afraid of what you'd find If you stepped back inside I'm not sucking on my thumb I'm staring at the sun I'm not the only one Who's happy to go blind

Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way Everyone's around, but no one does a damn thing It brings me down, but I won't let them If I seem bleak Well you'd be correct And if I don't speak It's 'cause I can't disconnect But I won't be Burned up by the reflection Of the fire in your eyes As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun As you're staring at the sun (Hey) When I ran I didn't feel like a runaway (Hey) When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away (Hey) There's more to living than only surviving Maybe I'm not there But I'm still trying Though you hear me I don't think that you relate My will is something That you can't confiscate So forgive me But I won't be frustrated By destruction in your eyes As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh (Hey) When I ran I didn't feel like a runaway (Hey) When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away (Hey) There's more to living than only surviving Maybe I'm not there But I'm still trying Though you hear me I don't think that you relate My will is something That you can't confiscate So forgive me But I won't be frustrated By destruction in your eyes As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh (Hey) Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway (Hey) Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way (Hey) Everyone's around, but no one does a damn thing It brings me down But I won't let them If I seem bleak Well you'd be correct And if I don't speak It's 'cause I can't disconnect But I won't be Burned up by the reflection Of the fire in your eyes As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun, oh As you're staring at the sun As you're staring at the sun

Cross the street from your storefront cemetery Hear me hailing from inside and realize, I I am the conscience clear In pain or ecstasy And we were all weaned my dear Upon the same fatigue You're staring at the sun Oh, my own voice cannot save me now It's just standing in the sea One more breath And then I go down Your mouth is open wide The lover is inside And all the tumults done Collided with the sign You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea Your body's over me Note the trees because The dirt is temporary More to mine than fact face Name and monetary Beat the skins and let the Loose lips kiss you clean Quietly pour out like light Like light, like answering the sun You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea Your mouth is open wide You're trying hard to breathe The water's at your neck There's lightning in your teeth Your body's over me You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea Your mouth is open wide You're trying hard to breathe The water's at your neck There's lightning in your teeth Your body's over me, play all night You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea Your mouth is open wide You're trying hard to breathe The water's at your neck There's lightning in your teeth Your body's over me You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea You're staring at the sun You're standing in the sea

She's like starin' at the sun She could easily blind someone Other women, I see none She's like starin' at the sun She gets on you Under your skin like a tattoo She'll always be there She holds on, stuck in your head like an old song She ain't goin' nowhere She's like standin' in the rain Washes all my cares away At the end of a long, hot day She's like standin' in the rain She gets on you Under your skin like a tattoo She'll always be there She holds on, stuck in your head like an old song She ain't goin' nowhere She gets on you Under your skin like a tattoo She'll always be there She holds on, stuck in your head like an old song She ain't goin' nowhere She's like finally coming home And seeing that light in the window on After being gone too long She's like finally coming home Standin' in the rain Starin' at the sun

Wait I know you got a lot of you'd like to say (to say, to say) Slow it down, think you gettin' a little carried away You're too close to the flame But you don't wanna turn around Like you got me figured out But girl, what I can promise is I'll let you down So don't put up a fight You'll get lost in the light If you keep staring at the sun, you won't see What you have become, this can't be Everything you thought it was Blinded by the thought of us, so Give me a chance, I will Up again, I warned You in advance But you just keep on starin' at the sun Wait (yeah, yeah, wait) I know I got a lot of going on with me (oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah) Now we're free to loving anyone other than me I try to rewind, I get reminded that time don't wait for nobody Can't get too close and don't let it go 'Cause I can count on you to let me down I won't put up a fight I got lost in the light (oh) If you keep staring at the sun, you won't see What you have become, this can't be Everything you thought it was Blinded by the thought of us, so Give me a chance, I will Up again, I warned You in advance But you just keep on starin' at the sun Wait Got a couple little things I would like to say (oh yeah) Today is not your day You should walk away (oh yeah) But you won't listen, you just keep on (oh yeah) Staring at the sun, you won't see What you have become, this can't be Everything you thought it was Blinded by the thought of us, so Give me a chance, I will Up again, I warned You in advance But you just keep on starin' at the sun

You talk about life and talk about death and everything in between Like it's nothing and the words are easy You talk about me and talk about you and everything I do Like it's something that needs repeating I don't need an alibi or for you to realize The things we left unsaid are only taking space up in our heads Make it my fault, win the game, point the finger, place the blame And curse me up and down, it doesn't matter now 'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again This is not about emotion, I don't need a reason not to care What you say or what happened in the end This is my interpretation and it don't, don't make sense The first two weeks turn into ten, I hold my breath and wonder When it'll happen, does it really matter? If half of what you said is true and half of what I didn't do Could be different, would it make it better? If we forget the things we know would we have somewhere to go? The only way is down, I can see that now 'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again This is not about emotion, I don't need a reason not to care What you say or what happened in the end This is my interpretation and it don't, don't make sense It's really not such a sacrifice If I never talk to you again This is not about emotion, I don't need a reason not to care What you say or what happened in the end This is my interpretation and it don't, don't make sense And it don't have to make no sense to you at all 'Cause this is my interpretation, yeah, yeah, yeah

You were the popular one, the popular chick It is what it is, now I'm popular, bitch Standing on the field with your pretty pom-pom Now you're working at the movies selling popular corn I could have been a mess, but I never went wrong Putting down my stories in a popular song (Ah, ah) I said I'm putting down my story in a popular song So my problem, I never was a model I never was a scholar, but you were always popular You were singing all the songs I don't know Now you're in the front row, 'cause my song is popular Oh, I said "Popular," I know about popular It's not about who you are or your fancy car You're only ever who you were I said "Popular," I know about popular And all that you have to do is be true to you That's all you ever need to know Catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go I said catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go Always on the lookout for someone to hate Picking on me like a dinner plate I hid during classes and in between them You dunk me in the toilets, now it's you that cleans them You tried to make me feel bad with the shit you do It ain't so funny when the joke's on you Oh, the joke's on you? Got everyone laughing Got everyone clapping, asking "How come you look so cool?" Well, that's the only thing that I learned at school, yeah Oh, that's the only thing that I learned at school So my problem, I never was a model I never was a scholar, but you were always popular You were singing all the songs I don't know Now you're in the front row, 'cause my song is popular Said "Popular," I know about popular It's not about who you are or your fancy car You're only ever who you were I said "Popular," I know about popular And all that you have to do is be true to you That's all you ever need to know Catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go (I said...) Catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go Before the next time that you call him crazy Lazy, a faggot or that fugayzee Here's the one thing that's so amazing It ain't a bad thing to be a loser, baby Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I said, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh" I said "Popular," I know about popular It's not about who you are or your fancy car You're only ever who you were I said "Popular," I know about popular And all that you have to do is be true to you That's all you ever need to know Catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go (I said...) Catch up, 'cause you've got an awful long way to go

I'd like to find out what places she's been What's behind her locked door Or better yet know if I'm out or I'm in If her elevator still runs the top floor Perhaps she would say she was a student of hope And I'm dangling from the end of a disintegrating rope But I don't wish to spark off her outraged imagination I don't wish to get into any double edged conversation It's a touchy situation Woah, yes It's a touchy situation Oh-oh-oh, yeah Someday I'll find out what I'm now afraid to ask And I'll discover what lies there beneath the door mats Perhaps she would say that I'm just deathly afraid To see her make the same mistake that I made And it might lead to some sweet revelation She knows I hate even this conversation It's a touchy situation Woah, yes It's a touchy situation Oh-oh-oh, yes I said, "Are you doing well baby?" She says, "Go ask your father" I said, "Give me yes, no, or maybe" She says, "Why should I bother?" I said She says I said, ohhh I'll ask you tomorrow I'll ask you tomorrow If I could only break the coat of her fears I could expose the secrets to the river of her tears Rattle her senses 'til she's pouring forth her tears Before she could exercise those powers of manipulation It's a touchy situation It's a touchy situation It's a touchy situation Woah It's a touchy situation Woah It's a touchy situation It's a touchy situation It's a touchy situation