Cocoon Lyrics

44 Linden

Roll out of bed and into 44 Linden

Eight people sleeping on the floor

Sifting my way through what looks like a disaster

I can’t recall the night before

It’s safe to say that I need to make some changes

Some kind of morals to restore

Sometimes absurdity is the best reality

When the real world is knocking at your door 

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Make the best of each situation

Often when we’re falling is when we learn to fly

Try and try to give you consolation

Come on in. Your mind will be gone 

We’re living for the keg stand got to give that man a hand

He’s choking it backwards

We’re charging you five dollars at the door

It seems the hard way is a sure-fire way to learn

So let’s light it up, light it up and watch it burn, burn, burn

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I say goodbye to you 44 Linden

Goodbye to you, 44 Linden

I try to call this place home

I’m crazy; I’m crazy I know

Living in debauchery, it always gets the best of me

Living in 44 Linden

Monogamy

Monogamy is something that just baffles me

No matter how much I try to see,

It’s out of sight

I always go through this circle fast and slow

Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m low and need some more

To get me through the night

I cannot keep my cool with you

Cut with the teasing baby, I’m trying to make it through

You know just what I want to do

I’ve been down this avenue 

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Every time it rains, it rains straight down from heaven

Coming 24-7. It makes me flip I’ve got to let it rip a little

Every time it rains, it rains straight down from heaven

Coming 24-7. I lose my grip and then I slip.

The preacher said, the thoughts are sins my mind has bred,

So I ask, why did God embed biology that makes me want to freak?

I always dread the temptation inside my head

When the girls are breathing on my cheek, looking chic, it makes me weak

I cannot keep my cool with you

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Real Love

I know a girl who wants to break my heart

I think she’s got a shot

She thinks that I’m a loser like the other guys who use her, but I’m not

I know a girl who wants to play a game

I think that she might win

Trust is overrated when it’s broken you’re left jaded from within

She’s not looking for real love

Not looking for real love

Not looking for real love a-hey, hey, hey 

I know a girl who’s got a little secret

She’s trying hard to hide

I find it sad and funny that one day this girl will be somebody’s bride

‘Cause she’s out in the club, looking fine, clinging to her glass of wine

At the bar, on the phone, needs to feel she’s not alone

Comes up and says she needs me tonight I convince myself that it’s all right. 

Cuz I’m not looking for real love

Not looking for real love

Not looking for real love a-hey, hey, hey

Driving Her Away

I am overcome with sadness

I’m overcome with grief

Suffering from something from which I cannot get relief

When I fear I’m going crazy the only comfort I can find

Is in knowing that a crazy man don’t know he’s lost his mind,

And I speak, but don’t have much to say

How I’m longing for the days back inside my youth

When I didn’t take unfounded lies and turn them into truth

Because I find it oh so frightening and I find it oh so sad

That I might just be throwing away the best I’ve ever had

And I smile, but deep inside there’s disarray

Oh ‘cause I’m tired of driving her away

No matter how many times one can hurt me

I never want to let it show

Afraid someone might desert me

I’m the first to let them go

No matter how many times one can hurt me

I never want to let it show

Afraid someone might desert me

I’m the first to let them go

It’s time to take my hands off the wheel ’cause I’m driving her away.

Train

I am sitting riding on this here runaway train

Each stop another person can get on and off and leave your heart in pain

I will not live through this

 I will not give up on us my friend

I won’t live my life in an express lane rushing for the end

You see, there’s something inside and it knows that I lied, but it tells me I tried

It keeps me from breaking and crying

And I find it hard to believe that there’s not something to retrieve in us that’s dying

If you could find a way to find your way back home

Then our two lost souls would not be left alone

Come back home

Lately I’ve been thinking, lately I’ve realized that it’s my fault

Sometimes things moving perfectly grind right to a halt

See I know I was wrong and I guess all along that through this song,

I wanted to tell you, “I’m sorry

That our love became a sad, sad story.” 

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So if you could find a way to find your way back home

Then our two lost souls would not be left alone

If you could find a way to trust yourself in my arms

I would find a way to erase this harm

So strip that pain away that we’ve been holding onto ’cause

The future might hold something better

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Sit Tight

I’ve decided that the real world sucks

I’m missing those never-ending days and Tonka Trucks

Pissing-off the neighbors, playing with my friends

Wasn’t really worried ’bout the closing dividends

 

Thought those memories were blurry, now they’re getting stronger everyday.

I wasn’t in such a hurry…

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I’ve got to just Sit Tight

I am here trying to get my head right

Sit Tight 

Back in the day I used to sport the Buster Brown,

Osh Kosh B’Gosh and a Burger King crown

So, tell me when you were little, what did you want to be?

A doctor, a lawyer, an astronaut or an All-Star MVP? 

Sometimes making a living takes the living right out of life

Don’t just take what you’re given ’cause that ain’t livin’

Stand up and say…

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I Am A Fool

It’s been a while, but I’ve felt this way before

Familiar fear of knowing what’s in-store

You need me when your spirit is low,

But when things are fine you just up-and-go

I am a fool to fall in love with you

I am a fool 

Why on earth do I sit and hope and pray

When I know the games you’re gonna play

I know the words you’re gonna say,

“It wouldn’t work out anyway”

Every time I get up to leave

You tell me pretty, little lies that I believe

 

I am a fool to fall in love with you

I am a fool to fall in love with you

Oh, but no matter how hard I try and no matter what I do

It’s no use

I could spend my days with someone new,

But all I would think of is you

I want to just turn it off

Crucify

Everybody has a cross to carry

Seems like everyone with beliefs that vary

We crucify

We crucify

Everybody’s got their little problems

When they’re not the same as ours we try to solve them and

Crucify

We crucify

We crucify

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You can’t build a future, while living in the past

You can’t make one moment last and last and last

White picket fences ain’t what everybody wants, and that’s not a crime

So, at the end of your life will you be happy with the way you spent your time? 

Living as a child, you always think to surrender

Because you think that adults would never tell a lie

But when you’re not a kid and you’re living in their world

You see how traditions arrive

Nobody wants to take the blame they want us all to think the same

If not, they crucify

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Time, though an illusion, it is slowly ticking by

All these dated thoughts make us crucify.

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Palm Trees, Latin Radio

He hit the Hutch moving to Miami Beach out of Molotov Bay

Looking for a different kind of shoreline

Up down and back again hasn’t eaten much today 

Living life off cheap cocaine and fine wine

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He says, “Up all day, up all night one more time ’til the morning light.”

Up all day, up all night, take it down to fill your appetite 

Palm trees, Latin radio, off a continental sea

Looking for a different kind of beauty

‘Cause these ladies want their Gucci bags and this penthouse isn’t free

They won’t even talk to you unless you’re V.I.P. 

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His appetite for his: gold chain, champagne, and his Rogaine

Disco ego

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Light My Heart

I know at times I can be so demanding

And living with me can often be quite hard. Still

When everything is on the ground you pick me up and I am found

And that’s just something great

When I feel my time is up you come around and fill my cup, so I just want to say, 

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Still you light my heart

Still you light my heart

When everything falls apart, still you light my heart

 

We’re moving through day-to-day and week-to-week there’s no need to speak

There is nothing left to show because I know I get the best of your love

When I feel I’ve lost my sense you come around in my defense

Yeah that’s just something great

You are my faith you are my guide in you I know I can confide,

So I just want to say, 

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I know it’s unnerving when you see me walking out the door,

But you’re undeserving of all that I make you worry for

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Slow Down, Isabella

You’re crying every morning

The wedding’s not ’til the end of June

You’re starting to worry you might’ve made that decision too soon

What they’ll say, you’re so afraid

The invitations are out, your dress is made

 

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Isabella, slow down Isabella

Isabella, slow down Isabella

You’re feeling like you’re spinning and you’re plummeting right out of control

It’s up to you who you let in your soul

One day you’re right, one day you’re wrong

One day you’re weak, the next day you’re strong

This darkness can be your prison or can be your cocoon

You’re living every day in fear,

Want to pack up your bags and disappear 

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What would they say if they only knew?

Would they want you to carry on?

Would they expect you to carry on?

‘Cause when the day is done and you’ve said I do,

That life continues after the party is through

Bourbon Street

I’ve been living in sin for about a month

Something turns me ‘round it’s something that I just

Can’t understand, the way I behave

Some people you can never save

On my right hand, I’ve got a girl on my ear

And in my left hand, I’m throwing back a beer

What can I say? Of me, you steer clear

When I driving down on Bourbon Street, yeah 

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Every night we through this little soiree

Gonna turn her head until she’s mine, all mine

Every night I breed a new disaster

I might be right, I might be wrong

Try to get away and I will bring you right along, so 

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Sit back, have a seat

Sometimes salty, sometimes sweet

Hard to swallow, but fun to eat

You ain’t never leaving Bourbon Street

Come on!

When I walk the street people step aside

Twirling my cane and smiling wide

Some would say I’m a carnal slave

I put my hands on what I crave

I’m the mayor of this crazy town

Where the queens will party with the clown

Try to swim with me and you’re bound to drown

Throw you a line while you’re going down 

Yeah, I know this street and I own this crowd

And my only companion is a lightning cloud

I seem real nice and easy to trust

Ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust

I’m gonna lead you a path to self-destruct

On this crazy train that I conduct

And it’s a One! Two! Three! Four

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