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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