Shot Down

[Guest]

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here no there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything seems cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

CHORUS

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Uh-uh, don't give me that new fangled Soul Asylum shit. Here.

Never Really Been

Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in
And there goes my hero with his head between his legs
And all this time I believed in him

Now, what is the sound of snow falling down
On the tombstone in the dead of the night?
And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound
Who speaks english when the watchman’s not in sight?

And where will you be in 1993?
Still sitting in the same chair
Sinning is for sinners and I’m just a beginner
But I’ve never really been touched there

Hey ain’t it strange how some things never change
Ain’t it strange how nothing stays the same?
You were thinkin’ I was distressed about some universe oppressed
But I was just depressed about my last pinball game

I’ve learned to accept and not to expect
The respect and neglect that I get
I’ve tried not to forget about what hasn’t happened yet
And on this I place my last bet

Hey did you give what you get
Did you get what you give?
Of your...
Winning is for winners
And I know spring follows winter
But I’ve never really been touched there

You know it’s hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice
And you can’t find peace anywhere
Love’s just not for lovers
Get off your high horse brother
Drop your fist and get out of here


Just hum the parts you can't decipher.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Jesus H Christ, Scarlett, I just learned about half the words to all the parts I was humming all these years.

The .... part, to the best of my knowledge, is:

"My best years' wear and tear"

but I could be wrong


to you,
carson

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Jesus H Christ, Scarlett, I just learned about half the words to all the parts I was humming all these years.

The .... part, to the best of my knowledge, is:

"My best years' wear and tear"

but I could be wrong


to you,
carson

back at ya.

Actually, someone sent it to me, but it seems pretty close.

I think "My best years' wear and tear" is right. Wah, I weep for the summer of 1991.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Here's another one.

As I walk along and stumble
trains rumble in my head
I breeze along and grumble,
think about you instead
and a piece of pecan pie
and you that's all I want
A piece of pecan pie
and all I want is you.

Sometimes I get so hungry
I think about pie all day.
just a little whipped cream
and honey I'm on my way
with a piece of pecan pie
and you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
and all I want is you

just a piece of pecan pie
and you that's all I want
a piece of pecan pie
and all I want is you

Now don't you call me key lime,
you're the apple of my eye
don't you know I'll be fine
whenever you're by my side.

with a piece of pecan pie
and you that's all I want
a piece of pecan pie
and all I want is you
all I want is you.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Oh and by the way sweet Scarlett -
Runaway Train isn't newfangled. A certain two kids I remember saw Soul Asylum perform it during a show in the mythical summer of 1991. The memory is the first thing to go, they tell me.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Oh and by the way sweet Scarlett -
Runaway Train isn't newfangled. A certain two kids I remember saw Soul Asylum perform it during a show in the mythical summer of 1991. The memory is the first thing to go, they tell me.

I thought that was 1992.

Oh, CV, sorry about hijacking your thread. We don't really have any demands. A helicopter and a case of beer would be nice though.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I thought that was 1992.

Oh, CV, sorry about hijacking your thread. We don't really have any demands. A helicopter and a case of beer would be nice though.

Nope, it was 1991. I swear it. Like I said, once you hit 30, the memory goes to shit.

 

[Guest]

A Book Of Secrets - page 1999

If you want me to stay
I'll be around today
To be available for you to see
I'm about to go there
Then you'll know
For me to stay here
I've got to be me
You'll never be in doubt
That's what it's all about
You can't take me for granted and smile
Count the days I'm gone
Forget reachin' me by phone
Cause I promise
I'll be gone for a while
And when you see me again
I hope that you have been
The kind of person
That you really are now
You got to get it straight
How could I ever be late
When you're my woman
Taking up my time
Oh how could I ever allow
I guess I wonder how
I could get out a pocket for fun
When you know that
You're never number two
Number one's gonna be number one

I'll be good
I wish I could
Get this message over to you now

When you see me again
I hope that you have been
The kind of person
That you really are now
I'll be so good
I wish I could
Get this message over to you now

Get this message over to you now
I'll be so good
I wish I could