Driving home I feel you on my skin tonight
Pressing on my heart around these curves
Closer than the insides of my fingernails
Like a satin sheet over my nerves

I’m wearing you I’m wearing you
You’re a secret I can’t cover anymore
You’re the most revealing lie I ever wore

I’m wondering if you’re looking at that moon tonight
Tasting the remnants of my kiss
A taste that keeps the bitter truth away
We neither one can carry this

I’m wearing you I’m wearing you
You’re a secret I can’t cover anymore
You’re the most revealing truth I ever wore

My life was orderly
I valued honesty but oh
I must have felt the cold
This cloak around my soul feels so
Dangerously tight
Into the night
I go

I guess I never knew my nakedness
Until you covered it with yours
And I don’t know where this is taking us
But I can’t deny it anymore

I’m wearing you I’m wearing you
And I can see tomorrow clouding up with pain
But tonight I feel you running in my veins
And I’ll be wearing you against the morning rain

You’ll make a journey over water
The Chinese fortunes used to say
Not many trust those sunny proverbs anymore
But sometimes love still finds a way.

Out there this wounded world is struggling
We turn our backs and let it die

But you will sleep tonight protected and secure
Cause someone cared enough to try

These tiny whispers promise peace
As daylight moves in from the East

Your little bed is made and waiting
Your golden future’s waiting too
Some gracious hand reached through
A billion hopeful dreams
And chose that this one would come true

Tonight the dangers are behind you
Your guiding star is bright above
You came a long way over water to be here
Someday you’ll know how much you’re loved

It oughta be easy to be happy I’ve got everything
That others call the perfect life The comfy home, the loving wife
The minivan the Foreman grill an honest job that pays the bills
The leather couch the plasma screen
To watch the news of suffering and misery
None of it falls on me
I’m such a lucky dog.
It oughta be falling off a goddamn log
And easy to be happy

There’s something tapping at my window
There’s something scratching at my door
Some voice that whispers from a distance
You can take it
You can grab it
You can live it
You can have it
Something more

It oughta be easy to be happy
And I guess it would
If I could only be content
With weekends and vacations spent
At football games and Disneyland
The drive to work, the traffic jams
The monthly bills, the weekly pay
The years that drag and slide away
Like railroad cars
Leaving these tiny scars
Pretty small price to pay
It should be easy every single day
Easy to be happy.

You’re prime for the reptile Mister
You’ll turn around and see her pretty soon
She’s as fresh as the first weeds of April
And as beautiful and icy as the moon

You’re prime for the reptile Mister
She’ll pick you like a pocket and then
Send you back to your wife in little pieces
That will never fit together right again

You’ll tell her you just can’t keep up
The broken trust the self-disgust
The poison lie
You’ll say goodbye
She’ll find your eyes with hers
And say she understands
But she’ll be talking while her hand
Is on your thigh

Maybe the first thing you’ll notice
Is the flash of those perfect teeth
You’ll feel as strong and as cool as a Maserati
And as dirty as the wheel well underneath

Adia I do believe I failed you

Adia I know I’ve let you down
Don’t you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way
It’s easy let it go

Adia you’ll break me if you leave me
To try to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
To see where we went wrong
There’s no one left to finger
No one here to blame
No one left to talk to honey
And there’s no one who can buy our innocence

‘Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia we are still innocent
It’s easy we all falter
Does it matter

Adia I still think we can make it
But I can’t change the way you feel
I’ll leave you with your misery
But let me find a way
To pull you from your tower
Take your pain away
Show you all the beauty you possess
If you’d only let yourself believe

We are born innocent
Believe me Adia we are still innocent
It’s easy we all falter
Does it matter

‘Cause we are born innocent

Believe me Adia we are still innocent
It’s easy we all falter
Does it matter
Believe me Adia we are still innocent
We are born innocent
Believe me Adia we are still innocent
It’s easy we all falter
But does it matter

We did it in this room Baby We did it in that room Baby
Out on the kitchen counter The sink in the bathroom Baby
We did on crutches Baby The hood of your uncle’s car
We did it in handcuffs Baby And out on the monkey bars
Oh God Oh God It’s great when love is new (x2)

We did it like athletes Baby We did it like boozers Baby
We did it to Steely Dan And John Philip Sousa Baby
We did it in cheap hotels And out in a canvas tent
We did it with dry martinis We did it in wet cement
Oh God Oh God It’s great when love is new (x2)

We did it in Macy’s Baby And under the theater seats
We did it for breakfast Baby All over the Cream of Wheat
We did it with silverware We did it with power tools
We did it on sofa cushions And out in that heated pool
Oh God Oh God It’s great when love is new (x2)

We did it like slave and master We did it like nurse and doctor
We did it in soapy lather and up in a helicopter
We did it in make-up Baby We did it in cowboy boots
In front of the mirror baby We did it in Girl Scout suits
Oh God Oh God It’s great when love is new (x2)

Just coming out of a bad one baby
Finally shaking free
You’re the first one I’ve seen ‘don’t look like
A ball and chain to me

Does it have to be going somewhere
Must we sign that line
I’m getting to like you
We’ve got time

Couldn’t’ve been more than a month ago
We hit it off right away
Drunk on the smell of your hair
And you were crazy with words to say
Didn’t we laugh that night
Didn’t we talk till dawn
Didn’t you like that feeling
Where’s it gone
Birds take flight and break from the hands that hold too tight
And make for the sea
Or die in captivity
You and I don’t we deserve to fly
Can’t we fly free Can’t we fly free
Maybe we’ll end up closer baby
Maybe we’ll break apart
All I really know is there’s no controlling
Powers that move the heart
Does it have to be serious
Can’t we just have fun
It’s wild and mysterious
And it’s only begun

Out in that other world hard as a loaded gun
Beauty is breaking down under a fragile sun
But that’s a distant place Here there’s a bright
Expanding light

Feel my heart This is where you live
This is home Feel how safe it is
That other world is far from you and me
Tonight

Turn away from the madness Take my hand
We can fly over dying things
Don’t tell me that my head is in the sand
Love can carry us on its wings

That other world won’t last
Can there be any doubt
Anger may burn it down
Indifference may freeze it out

That other world is just a dark and fading lie

Feel my heart Let me live in yours
This is home Precious and secure
We are protected here
Under a blue eternal sky

Her breasts that rise against her sweater when you kiss
The way she listens like your words are gold
Nothing you ever knew compares to this
Two grateful bodies touching soul-to-soul

You feel the seeds of your forever start to grow
No one can tell you there won’t always be this tingling glow
This fire will never die
That’s Nature’s sweetest lie

You’re like a zombie when she’s somewhere else
You’re only living when she’s touching you
Everyone’s telling you to watch your step
That ice is thin and you will soon fall through

But you’ve found a holy place where both your spirits fit
Like a cathedral with every candle brightly lit
Changes will pass you by That’s Nature’s sweetest lie

The right kind of love (they tell you) settles in the heart to stay
It keeps you mellow when that raging flame has burned away
But who wants to hear that boring wisdom while you’re
flying wild and high on Nature’s sweetest lie

Nature’s sweetest lie

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