..Higher Learning, 1995


../Losing My Religion

life is bigger
it's bigger than you
and you are not me
the lengths that i will go to
the distance in your eyes
oh no i've said too much
i set it up

that's me in the corner
that's me in the spotlight
losing my religion
trying to keep up with you
and i don't know if i can do it
oh no i've said too much
i haven't said enough
i thought that i heard you laughing
i thought that i heard you sing
i think i thought i saw you try

every whisper
of every waking hour i'm
choosing my confessions
trying to keep an eye on you
like a hurt lost and blinded fool
oh no i've said too much
i set it up

consider this
the hint of the century
consider this
the slip that brought me
to my knees failed
what if all these fantasies
come flailing around
now i've said too much
i thought that i heard you laughing
i thought that i heard you sing
i think i thought i saw you try

but that was just a dream
that was just a dream


../Butterfly

stinky soul get a little lost in my own
hey general, need a little love in that hole of yours
one ways, now, and saturdays and our kittens
all wrapped in cement
from cradle to gumdrops
got me running girl as fast as i can
and is it right, butterfly,
they like you better framed and dried

daddy dear, if i can kill one man why not two
well, nurses smile when you've got iron veins
you can't stain their pretty shoes
and pom poms and cherry blondes
and their kittens still wrapped in cement
from God's saviours to gumdrops
got me running girl as fast as i can
and is it right, butterfly,
they like you better framed and dried

got a pretty pretty garden pretty garden, yes
got me a pretty pretty garden a pretty garden,
yes got me a pretty pretty garden a pretty garden

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