Song Lyrics

My Enemy and I

How alike are him and me, my enemy and I

Two in a million are we, my enemy and I

For in the mirror we both see

A lesser thing than we should be,

The outer him, the inner me,

My enemy and I

Your Personal Ghost

Here I am, back again, just as usual, my friend

Did you really think that I was gone forever?

I’ve been waiting for years, though you thought I disappeared

Lying dormant ‘til you cracked under the pressure

It’s a very simple thing to your life that I will bring

A caustic contrast to the colors of your rainbow

Black and grey, through and through,

Did you really think that you were something special?

You’re nothing special.

I’ll tear you down when you need a friend the most

I’ll make you feel like a clown to be sure you never boast

I will poison all your triumph, and I’ll burn all your toast

Forever yours,

Your Personal Ghost

Remember the trust break? The worst mistake you’ll ever make

I’ll take you back there every day, a nightmare you can never wake

A feeling you can never shake------your whole life is fake

I’ll tear you down, man your teeth are lookin’ gross

Did I mention that you’ve obviously let yourself go?

I’ll depreciate your body from your feet to your nose,

Forever yours,

Your Personal Ghost

(kazoo break)

And nothing can stop me--You won’t find a solution in body pollution

I get stronger every time you hear the voice I whisper in your ear,

So go on, sit back, have a beer------’cause I’m staying here.

(instrumental)

Are you giving up? Man, this guy’s a joke

I was only getting started, and he’s started to choke

Well, it’s always interesting to inhabit your soul.

Thank you very much, you’re an… adequate host.

Forever yours,

Your Personal Ghost

Character Flaws

I got debris in my disposition

I got character flaws at my core

I’m volatile like a nuclear fission

Unethical like a chemical war

And I tend to get a little upset

When what I want isn’t what I get

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

I do a real bad job of expressing my emotions

Then I blame it all on somebody else

And then I take full stock of all my little problems

And I blame it all on somebody else

I always do the right thing, at least when it’s convenient

Otherwise I leave the compromise to somebody else

I spend my whole long life always wishing I was somebody else

Don’t talk to me ‘til after I get my coffee

Don’t waste my time– I ain’t got all day

You blather on, what have you got to offer me?

You best get out unless I’m gettin’ my way

Oh yeah you better not get in my way

Oh yeah you better not get in my way

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

I do a real bad job of expressing my emotions

Then I blame it all on somebody else

And then I take full stock of all my little problems

And I blame it all on somebody else

I always do the right thing, at least when it’s convenient

Otherwise I leave the compromise to somebody else

I spend my whole long life always wishing I was somebody else…

Woah!

So is that the truth?

Is that all that I am?

A silly old broken man?

And if that’s the case,

Can all my mistakes be erased?

No, I do not think they can.

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

You can fuck right off

I do not need your sympathy

You are entitled to get out of my face

Ain't gonna bother with a word that you say to me

Oh yeah you better remember your place

Oh yeah you better not get in my way

Oh yeah you better not get in my way

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

I do a real bad job of expressing my emotions

Then I blame it all on somebody else

And then I take full stock of all my little problems

And I blame it all on somebody else

I always do the right thing, at least when it’s convenient

Otherwise I leave the compromise to somebody else

I spend my whole long life always wishing I was somebody else…

Woah!

Can You Fake a Smile?

All of my life I tried to do what was right

But never did I know I could be so wrong

Everything I did, it has come back to bite me

And I do not think that I can go on

My heart is breaking, boots are quaking

Can you fake a smile?

The earth is straining, sky is flaming,

Same old same old, life is pain :) Oh,

Can you fake a smile?

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

All of my life I have been living a lie,

The one that I was given when I was born

Too introverted to cry out, to frustrated to try,

But now I cannot keep inside anymore

I have stood so still, so unfulfilled,

I have wasted precious time

I have had my fill of bitter pills, oh

This is killing me inside :) Oh,

Can you fake a smile?

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

Can you fake a smile?

All of my life I was ashamedly shy,

So terrified of what was lying within,

But I am tired of hiding, I will not be complying, tell me,

Why is having pride such a sin?

You cannot compel me, bend or quell me,

I Am Who I Am!

If to be true to myself will send me straight to hell,

Then I’ll be damned :)

Can you fake a smile?

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

DADADA DAAAH DADADA DADAT-DAH

Mental Cinema

I often stop and think about your memory

And every little thing that you did

It’s funny come to think of it,

I’m laughing like a lunatic

Listen: Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha.

I don’t really bother with theodicy;

It doesn’t really matter who’s to blame.

Who can make me laugh again?

The list is only meeeeee

Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha.

I don’t understand it!

I feel within my gut - a deep suspicion,

Crucial clue that I must be missin’

Maybe it’s time that I rebranded

Could I just make my way to something different?

I can’t make sense of these hieroglyphics.

Won’t somebody help me? I

only got

One foot in the right direction

stumble through the self-reflection

Make mistakes with no discretion

Breakin’ the promise that I learned my lesson

One step behind always chasin’,

Raised my wall with no foundation,

Waste my days, I’m too complacent

to find my place in civilization!

Oh!

I wish I could shut down this mental cinema

‘Cause every night they play the same old film

I’ve never liked the ending

and I’m really getting tired of it:

“Count the ways I love you, I still love you,” Blah - Blah - Blah.

Perhaps I could invent a whole new storyline

One where I was honest from the start

Yeah, I might just cut the part where I broke my own damn heart!

Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha - Ha!

I don’t understand it!

I feel within my gut - a deep suspicion,

Crucial clue that I must be missin’

Maybe it’s time that I rebranded

Could I just make my way to something different?

I can’t make sense of these hieroglyphics.

Won’t somebody help me? I

only got

One foot in the right direction

stumble through the self-reflection

Make mistakes with no discretion

Breakin’ the promise that I learned my lesson

One step behind always chasin’,

Raised my wall with no foundation,

Waste my days, I’m too complacent

to find my place in civilization!

Oh!

(violin solo)

I don’t understand it!

I feel within my gut - a deep suspicion,

Crucial clue that I must be missin’

Maybe it’s time that I rebranded

Could I just make my way to something different?

I can’t make sense of these hieroglyphics.

Won’t somebody help me? I

only got

One foot in the right direction

stumble through the self-reflection

Make mistakes with no discretion

Breakin’ the promise that I learned my lesson

One step behind always chasin’,

Raised my wall with no foundation,

Waste my days, I’m too complacent

to find my place in civilization!

One foot in the right direction

stumble through the self-reflection

Make mistakes with no discretion

Breakin’ the promise that I learned my lesson

One step behind always chasin’,

Raised my wall with no foundation,

Waste my days, I’m too complacent

to find my place in civilization!

One foot in the right direction

stumble through the self-reflection

Make mistakes with no discretion

Breakin’ the promise that I learned my lesson

One step behind always chasin’,

Raised my wall with no foundation,

Waste my days, I’m too complacent

to find my place in civilization!

I Have Some Grace

What I see

Is more than just a memory

I see it right in front of me

When all of my nightmares come to me

Early on, I had the choice but took the wrong

I wore it down till it was gone

Didn’t know what they were worth to me,

what they were worth to me

And when I think of all the silly things i’ve done

All the webs that I have spun

From the past I cannot run

Oh, I

Wipe all of the tears off of my face, then I

Pretend I have some grace,

I promise I can change

Every day, I live my life the same old way

All the challenges I fought yesterday,

They keep telling me it’s too late for me

And If I could, I’d make it right, I know I would

And even if you’re gone for good,

I hope you hear me singing my…

apologies

When I think of all the silly things i’ve done

All the tangles I have spun

For the present I shall run

Oh, I

Wipe all of the tears off of my face, then I

Pretend I have some grace

I promise I can change,

I promise I can change

I say I can change

And then I watch the very stars rearrange

No longer afraid i’m in control of my fate

I find the place where happiness stays

I can change, I can change,

I choose to change!

I’m in control of my fate,

I’m in control of my fate!

(violin solo)

when I think of all the silly things I’ve done

All the webs that I have spun

toward the future i shall run

Oh, I

Wipe all of the tears off of my face, then I

Pretend I have some grace,

I promise I can change,

I promise I can change!

Shoelaces

You’re longing to follow it through

But there is always something stopping you

You try but whatever you do

There is always something stopping you

Oh it’s a nice life if you can make it so,

It’s a real freedom flying over the rainbow

A good feeling to step into the sun, three two one…

Hesitation,

a deadly procrastination

Shoelaces tied to the ground

Can’t get through, not a drop, not a thought, not a sound,

And it

kills you, the pretty face is never the real you

And you know that you shouldn’t look down (Don’t look down)

Never look

down

But you can’t help it

A thousand ideas go by, but you won’t catch a single butterfly

You sigh, you been wonderin’ why you always seem so dang preoccupied

Oh it’s a nice life if you can make it so,

It’s a real freedom flying over the rainbow

A good feeling to step into the sun, three two one…

Hesitation,

a deadly procrastination

Shoelaces tied to the ground

Can’t get through, not a drop, not a thought, not a sound,

And it

kills you, the pretty face is never the real you

And you know that you shouldn’t look down (Don’t look down)

Never look down (Don’t look down)

Never look down (Don’t don’t don’t look look look look down down down down down)

You’re sinking, sinking slow!

Slowly, I begin to wonder

Why I even bother with you

I don’t even know!

And I can’t think of nothing to say

No I can’t think of one thing to say to you

So I guess I’ll just stay away

If you ask me, I’ll have to decline

Because I know I won’t leave satisfied

The Last Song

I’m gonna sing,

gonna sing you a song

and I’ll sing it from my heart,

where you always will belong

Because you sent vibrations

Deep into my soul

And I put them into words

In an effort to feel whole, and

You

Miles away

Years estranged

I still think of you,

I love you to this day

And if these are my final days, I want you to remember

In January and in May, October, and December,

My love will always follow you, wherever fate may guide

I know you will find a way to walk along the sunny side of life

I’m gonna live,

gonna live for my time

And if you won’t be there, well,

I think I’ll be just fine

And on the occasion

that I might see your face,

We both could just forgive,

and all that pain would be erased, and

You

Miles away

Years estranged

I still think of you,

I love you to this day

And if these are my final days, I want you to remember

In January and in May, October, and December,

My love will always follow you, wherever fate may guide

I know you will find a way to walk along the sunny side of life.

I’m gonna fly,

gonna fly to the stars

And then, our little gap,

well it might not seem so far

And as I am facing

the edge of all known,

I’ll sing down from the sky

that I’ve finally found my home, and

You

Miles away

Years estranged

I still think of you,

I love you to this day

And if these are my final days, I want you to remember

In January and in May, October, and December,

My love will always follow you, wherever fate may guide

I know you will find a way to walk along the sunny side…

Pure Clarity

Is it possible this isn’t how it had to be?

I can promise you that truly once I did believe

But in a moment of pure clarity it came to me

The source of all my misery and doubt

(What a way that we have let you down)

If you tell yourself

there’ll never be another one,

There’ll never be another one.

If you tell your friends

you walk a lonely road,

My friend you’ll walk alone.

You say, “this can’t be true,

I can’t get over you!

Oh, tell me what can I do???”

(What can I do???)

It may take some time

to get over it…

… But you’re gonna get over it,

Yeah, get over it.

Yeah, you’re gonna get over it, get over it….

I’m sorry, I know that you believed in me.

What a way that I have let you down.

It’s possible this isn’t how it had to be, but there was

Something that I couldn’t figure out.

Till in a moment of pure clarity, it came to me

Yes, in the end, it all depends on me.

(Now is time for me to set you free)...

If you tell yourself

there’ll never be another one,

There’ll never be another one.

If you tell your friends

you walk a lonely road,

My friend you’ll walk alone.

You say, “this can’t be true,

I can’t get over you!

Oh, tell me what can I do???”

(What can I do???)

It may take some time

to get over it…

… But you’re gonna get over it,

Yeah, get over it.

Yeah, you’re gonna get over it, get over it….

Yeah you’re gonna get over it!!

I can promise you that truly once I did believe…