ROB FALGIANO
RED

All songs by Rob Falgiano (C)(P) 2005 (ASCAP).

1. MOVE AS ONE / When I kissed you it was different / What I felt was something new / Not my ego, or to conquer / More like me melting into you / You close your eyes, open your mouth / The world around us starts to stop / The streets around us disappear / The only life is us in here / We move, move, move / Move as one / You close your eyes, open your mouth / The world around us starts to stop / The streets around us disappear / The only life is us in here / I'll kiss you like a dying man 'cause that's just what I am / We move, move, move / Move as one / Hold me underneath the stars / My mind wanders out there just as far / It reaches out and comes back home / And all I am is for you alone / The thing that makes the world spin round / It drills my heart into the ground / And babe your little purring sound / It kills me like the voice of god / When we move, move, move / Move as one

2. SMILING THROUGH / I do what I like / And can get away with / Sure, later I might hit the pavement / You can live for the prisons / Others build for you / Or you can do what you like to / I like life here near the bottom rung / And anyone who likes to have some fun / Smiling through / Though we're doomed for sure / Smiling through / I wouldn't change it for the world / Well, maybe for the world / But son, haven't you heard? / We're smiling through / Champions of falling down / Somebody go fetch my crown / And while you're there pour me a drink / I like the way it makes me think / And also life here near the bottom rung / And anyone who wants to have some fun / Smiling through / Though we're screwed for sure / Smiling through / I wouldn't change it for the world / Well, maybe for the world / So fork it over girl / We're smiling through

3. SOMETIMES IT'S NICE / Sometimes it's nice not to be drunk / You might wake to see the sunrise / You might sit to hear the birds sing from your picture window seat / Cars hum by to start the morning / Apparently there's destinations / For all these people every day / I scrape my change jar for some pancakes / At the diner on my corner / Sip my coffee slowly while the waitress runs around / Sometimes it's nice to see the sunrise / Sometimes it's nice / There's some time between the sunrise and the early afternoon / Where you might take a moment to contemplate your spoon / Some days I think it would be good to share this with a girl with messy morning hair / And other times I'd glad my life just isn't there / Education is a blessing / Education is a burden / I learned a lot when she would gaze back at me / Sometimes it's nice to see the sunrise / Sometimes it's nice

4. RESTLESS / Restless, my hands are shaking / My voice is quaking / Do you hear what I'm saying? / Is it going in one ear / and out the other, I fear / That you won't shut your mouth / Long enough to hear me / I'm shutting you out / Closing the door / I don't want to hear your voice anymore / Don't talk to me and don't call / I don't want to know / Don't want to know that you exist at all / It's you and your problems / Always asking me to solve them / I have done all I can to help / It's you and your problems / Always asking me to solve them / Now you have to help yourself / La la la la la la, etc

5. DO I COME IN LIKE THE DREAM I'M MEANT TO BE? / If I had been you / I would've written out your life / And if you had been me / Then you'd have scribbled mine / Either way, if I had been what I'm not / That's what I'd be on about / Do I come in like the dream I'm meant to be? / Given half a chance / I'd burn the whole world up / Push as far as I can / For as long as I'm standing up / Either way, if I had met you today / Here's most likely what I'd say / Do I come in like the dream I'm meant to be? / My eyes they are as bright as they have ever been / My back it is as strong as my cleft chin / I've got some time here in the sun / I'll let you know when I am done / Do I come in like the dream I'm meant to be?

6. A LITTLE BIT OF SHAKE IT / You're so smart / You give 'em what they crave / It's clever art without giving yourself away / You keep your self-respect and still get paid / A little bit of shake it / A little bit of sweet / A sneer and then a smile / And you have got them at your feet / I want to believe / You're just like me / Though you are so far above it seems / There's a lot of money to be made / Making people feel okay / A little bit of shake it / A little bit of sweet / A sneer and then a smile / And you have got them at your feet / You know just what they need / They wish that they were free / Tell me how it feels / To be complete / You're so smart / You give 'em what they crave / The clever art of not giving yourself away / You keep your self-respect and still get paid / A little bit of shake it / A little bit of sweet / A sneer and then a smile / And you have got them at your feet / A little bit of shake it / And a little bit of sweet

7. THE WAY IT FEELS / The way it feels is when the death of love / Dawns / And wondering if there ever was / The way it feels is the evening rain / That beats the streets like sheets of pain / And that's the way it feels / And if that is the way it feels / Then it is real / Like a thief who steals / Your joy away / The way it feels / You find he isn't true / His smile a disguise for fooling you / The way it feels / Trust now just a word / You laugh at every time it's heard / The way it feels / Well I can hardly name / A friend who didn't add more pain / How can this be the way it feels? / Like blood bubbles bursting in my brain / And that's the way it feels / And if that is the way it feels / Then it is real / Like a thief who steals / Your joy away

8. GO MADELINE / It will be hard for her to leave / With all this need / And then not knowing where she'll be / Life's out there / It's in here / She had her finger on it / Then it disappeared / I guess you have to let it go / Before you can know peace / Accept that it's not solvable / She's under his power / He feels like an answer / A vision / Maybe religion / Walking and searching / Hurting and yearning / Waiting to be surprised / To be inspired / Looking for truth among the lies / And every day commonplace binds / Do they keep the world from coming apart / Or creep right in to crush her heart / She's under his power / He feels like an answer / A vision / Maybe religion / She lets go of her sense of self / Underneath where there is play / Fluidity and some dismay / At what she finds but it's okay / Our crazy complicated brains / "I'll see what's in there," she says / And she's free from his power / He's got no answers or vision / He's no religion / She's got her eye on a new boy, she spies / He could be in her arms / She's got a brilliant bag of charms / And more dreams than you'd believe / She doesn't want anything from him / That he'd have to lose / That she'd keep on a shelf / She wants him and what he wants for himself / "You could be mine and be free at the same time" / And he's under her power / She feels like an answer / A vision / Maybe religion / Go Madeline

9. THE FRONTLINE / Of course we're drunk / You own the world / We couldn't buy a single word / The front page never has our names / Of course we're sad / You chopped it up / You formed the club to keep it tucked / Out of sight / Another thing that will never be right / And history's not on your side / There's no reason why / We should trust you to do right / You won't be there on the front line / When we die / And empathy's not on their minds / There's no reason why / We should trust you to do right / You won't be there on the front line / When we die / Sorry you got crushed while they were jonesing for the score / Nothing's ever quite enough / Even degradation leaves them bored / And sorry that you lost your arms / While W. was on his farm / And history is half the prize / There's no reason why / We should trust you to do right / You won't be there on the front line / When they die

10. SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE / They tried to tell you something but they failed / And in fact they never could have won / The old can't change the young / They still remember the mistakes are fun / There's some truth / In the beauty of youth / It's true you may never get your due / But I always thought you were cool / Some of my dreams are ridiculous / But I love all my dreams nonetheless / Throw them at the wall / Some might hit and some will fall / What's the point / Counting the lines / That are tugging at my eyes / Or the way I have to die each time / For the words to come out right / Something is happening here / But it's not quite clear

11. WRECK AND A HALF / Keep me in motion / 'cause I can't look behind / With enough speed you even lose the sides / Yeah, that's what I'd like / I shouldn't be at all surprised to find myself all teary eyed / Fell back into the crowd without a sound / Slipped into the dark not to be found / You seem so far away / Like a gap in time and space / And I'm not so good with the idea of that / Wreck and a half / All the billions of dreams floating out there / Are there angels sorting through the prayers? / Yeah, that's what I'd like / I shouldn't be at all surprised to find myself all bleary eyed / Fell back into the crowd without a sound / Slipped into the dark not to be found / You seem so far away / Like a gap in time and space / And I'm not too cool with the idea of that / Wreck and a half / The soap in my tub / Pinwheels at my feet / A temporary galaxy

12. LOVE IS ALL THERE IS / I'm glad we could be together now / Life turns you around and then it's gone / I'm glad that our laughter filled the room / I didn't want to give it up too soon / You get a little time / To make the most of it / Before you quit / And love is all there is / I'm sorry for all who do not have / A family that holds them when they're sad / Friends can try, sometimes they're good / But blood means you are understood / You get a little time / To make the most of it / Before you quit / And love is all there is / I said love is all there is / Yeah, love is all there is