from inadequate love songs

you make it easy to stay awake

you can stay overnight
it's quite all right with me
and we can sleep the days away
morning afternoon evening
all gone
sleep away your headache
dream away your heartbreak
we can wake in the warmth of the sun
you can tell me your dreams
what you'll be when you're old
and we can go inside when it gets cold

you make it easy to stay awake
and so hard to get out of bed
falling in love was my own mistake
and i can't get you out of my head
if i could hold you until the day breaks
and keep you at night time instead
always remember the love we make
and never forget the things we said
you make it easy to stay awake
and so hard to get out of bed

frighten the kids

i always seem to fall
for people who are born without a womb
wombless boy i love you more
than wedding bells in june

you and i meet the world
and frighten the kids at disneyland
gliding by without a word
love and politics go hand in hand

i guess i will never drive
a cable-ready six-seat s u v
i'll buy you toys and flowers
but no xmas tree

i love you more than life

crossover star

i watched you turn so hot that you burned out your old friends
you moved into an unfurnished house on the west end
and you forgot the faces those you left behind

and you're always leaving fast and you go so far away
and you're always dreaming past all the reasons you could stay
you say you'll come back sometime but you live so far away

and now that you're gone
can i wish you well

i wished you well when you said you were starting a new life
i guess i fell in love before you hit your prime
and now you're almost famous and i'm just colorblind

i still fall in love
when you entertain
i miss being young
you miss getting paid
i'll never be beautiful
you'll never get old
you're always sensational
and you can always be sold

ten frames per second

(words by corey dargel and jessie marshall)

tv angel
wide screen beauty queen
when you come clean
can you come back again

she's running away
at ten frames per second
she's leaving me here
with blood on my hands

play back that scene again
(i'll never stop loving you)
the lights are in my eyes
(i'll never give up on you)
maybe a second take
(you've made up your mind)
it's already over

this is a test of the emergency broadcast system
and it's only a test
and if you were a real emergency victim
you would be in distress

tell yourself this isn't really happening
tell yourself this isn't really happening

tune in tune out
who's on primetime
who's live from downtown
it's not me this time
tune in tune out
who's on
it's not me this time

tv angel
i know what you believe
let down deceived
no one nowhere to call home

tv angel
it's done me in
this is the last time
i'll hold your head in my hand

angel says close your eyes
and dream your life away
before the movie ends
before your life begins

rag mag beauty queen
how did you get where you are
gorgeous teen dream
you could've been a star

glasses

i can see with my glasses on
i can now go outside
'cause my gray forecast is gone
there will always be blue skies
and bright lights
no more dots and straight lines

i can see with my glasses on
no more stay at home nights
i thought hopelessness was fun
but now i can see the other side

i can see with my glasses on
i can see your brown eyes

with a touch of green i've never seen

you always felt so beautiful
i knew that you were beautiful

it's nice to see what beautiful means

more lonely

you'll forget me once you fall asleep
we'll forget this ever happened
close your eyes and promise not to peek
say good night sweet dreams perhaps then

i won't find out if you like me
turn the lights out and hide me

we can find out who's more lonely
i won't phone you you won't phone me
you'll cry for hours but you'll thank me
we both know but if only
you could sleep now and i won't cry
i'll leave before you say good bye
you'll wake up and i'll be gone

you can tell me how i make you feel
you can tell me what i look like
just a word to make the moment real
just before i hit the turnpike

i'll be driving through your hometown
wondering if you like what you've found

superficial boy

all the things you think you know
about the man you think i am...
try to boo me off this show
and you'll see i don't give a damn

baby won't you give your love to me
you say i'm not the man that i should be
girl you know you love my melodies
baby i must say that i agree

baby i'm no superficial boy
i need your love today
so when you see me take the risk you'll
fall in love and you'll have to stay

baby you should give your love to me
i'll always be the man that i should be
every single anniversary
baby girl my love will set you free

scouts forever

if you would show me how
i think i could play all night
you could be jupiter
i'll be your satellite

we can keep a lookout
if you see another boyscout
we could go underground

thank you for playing with me
sometimes i get really scared
i like the things we can be
i like the things that we share

i don't have many friends
'cause i live so far away
i hope you come again
then maybe you can stay

and you can spend the night
and we could sleep side by side
and talk about suicide

boy detective

you spend the night on the town
and i've been assigned to follow you around
you don't realize that you're defenseless
but gathering up the evidence is

your sweet boy, boy detective
i'm wherever you go
to keep you safe and protected
from the people you don't know you know

i've been falling for you
i've been following through with every rendez-vous
i forget what they taught me in training
when i think of you holding kissing and entertaining

your sweet boy, boy detective
i'm wherever you go
to keep you safe and protected
from the people you don't know you know

i can keep you secure
you can sleep in my arms while i keep a watch on the door
i've fallen in love with you and your crimes
and i want you to be my secret valentine

dungarees

alone and cold overseas
at home in old dungarees
the old man loves me

you never say goodbye
i never asked you to leave me
(and you already did)
take me back i won't cry believe me

the pace is fast and i'm slow
so take me back or i'll never show
if you never ask, then you'll never know
...before you go

ambivalent

i haven't forgotten the things that you said
i love you a lot but i'll leave you instead
this is the day i hate you back
i'll walk away while you collapse

i'll be ambivalent for one more day
still insignificant but more than halfway
through with you and your love me love me nots
through with you and the feelings you forgot

so hold me and i promise not to be mad
or happy or angry or sad or unsad
i'll miss you and i will feel old and withdrawn
i'll kiss you goodbye but you won't know i'm gone

sorry

you'll be sorry when you see me go
you'll be sorry to see me go
you'll be sorry when you see me
you'll be sorry too

hard to say

(words by k. terumi shorb)

let me hold your small hand
let me stroke your thin hair
let me carry you in my arms
let me see you

when i tell you
i hope you know
have you known it
these kinds of things are hard to say

(please don't go)

hand small your hold
let me thin your
hair stroke let me
you carry me
let you see me
let my arms in