ROB FALGIANO
THINGS I USED TO KNOW - DISC TWO

All songs by Rob Falgiano (C)(P) 2003 (ASCAP).

01. GIRLFRIEND

i don't know why i don't care about my job
my heart's somewhere else
i think it's been in my throat
get up, go in, get by, go home
and spend the rest of the evening alone

i took the snowy roads into the center of town
i thought i'd feel better with all those people around
but a club's rarely the place to feel included
i just stood around and sipped my drink and i felt stupid

and when i went home i got into bed
and wondered whether anything is meant
just to happen, or only by accident
if i asked politely do you think god would send me a girlfriend?
a girlfriend

even adam had help in the garden of eden
paradise on earth, but no other people
to share his feelings
adam got lonely
if all it took was just one rib i'd give it gladly

i took the snowy roads into the center of town
i thought i'd feel better with all those people around
but a club's rarely the place to feel included
i just stood around and sipped my drink and i felt stupid

and when i woke up i got out of bed
and wondered whether anything is meant
just to happen, or only by accident
if i asked politely do you think god would send me a girlfriend?
a girlfriend

02. LOUNGE IN B FLAT

be afraid, and do it anyway
a leap of faith into my arms
those boys they are not interesting
their limits only do you harm

i've been working on me long and hard
to push the specs right off the chart
why live for less than what you want?
i want you, when are we gonna start?

darling
you're beautiful
you're brilliant
it's like the sun for me to see you
you're right as rain
i want to help you stay that way

it isn't bragging when it's true
look what the boy cooked up for you
a loving cup all full of stuff
you take it down, it fills you up

the watch hands wind us off the map
wasters let the flesh go bad
when i kiss you you'll know 'bout the spark
the lights firing off in the dark

darling
you're beautiful
you're brilliant
it's like the sun for me to see you
you're right as rain
i want to help you stay that way

03. WORLD A LITTLE COLD

i forget sometimes there's a heart in there
beneath the bones and flesh and hair
distracted by all the things that weren't to be
things i wanted selfishly

when it's cold and there's mountains of snow
i pause to recognize my own breath
i only wish that i could see myself
from the outside looking in

if empathy's escaping me
it's the world a little cold in my heart
this is not what i had in mind
intended as a child
am i all grown up?

there were people who gave without knowing they'd saved
me in a precious small little way
in my everyday
oh some i loved and cherished and i am not the same

i forget sometimes there's a heart in there
beneath the bones and flesh and hair
distracted by all the things that weren't to be
things that i don't really need

if empathy's escaping me
it's the world a little cold in my heart
this is not what i had in mind
intended as a child
am i all grown up?

04. ANOTHER MAN'S SONG

i drink too much but it's lots of fun
some people sleep with the TV on
it gives them the feeling that they're not alone
one man's silence is another man's song

the winter must be killed, it must be conquered, must be won
when the sun comes up then our evening's done
i rarely feel sad in the presence of life
fingers on the pulse of night

the city's got a heart
the streets are its veins
pumping life around on electric trains
on sidewalks where people pass and greet
in slower rhythms when it sleeps

maybe the years won't crash down like i fear them
i'd like to think we could be here
in brotherhood, in friendship, in the closest way
before the grass grows up through all of our graves

sunday's my day to sober up
i sleep til 2 and then i get up
apple juice on the rocks is an excellent way
to start another day

the city's got a heart
the streets are its veins
pumping life around on electric trains
on sidewalks where people pass and greet
in slower rhythms when it sleeps

05. SUNSHINE OF MY LOVE

your feelings open up like a flower
you were ready to sprout
now it's your season
our fears are petals too
streams of deeper colors when you bloom

get beneath the sunshine of my love
i'll get beneath your hopes to help you grow
you'll know how good it is to love someone
who loves to love you

you were wounded
you forgot your charm
i looked in your eyes and imagined you in my arms
we carry the story of our lives inside
just waiting for our season
the right time

get beneath the sunshine of my love
i'll get beneath your hopes to help you grow
you'll know how good it is to love someone
who loves to love you

06. FULL HANDS, FEW HEARTS

life as it should be, more like my daydreams
in my world you would be enamored of me
some people never get what they want
strange fate, a tough hand of cards
for a lifetime of games against

full hands, few hearts

if i wrote my life into creation from fiction
for certain there would have been
more naked girls in it
by the by, i've been biding time
i guess that it's okay that i will not be great
because there are many other things to life
than getting what you longed for
right?

full hands, few hearts

07. BRILLIANT!

simplify
try not to try
but i try too hard, i try so hard
all the time

not too cool
my foolish drool
inches away from getting beat up
at school

foot in my mouth
words in my head
i would have been brilliant!
if what i was thinking was what i had said

i wish you could see me
as i'd like to be
struggling here at the lonely old age
of 17

not too cool
my famous drool
inches away from getting pummeled
at school

foot in my mouth
words in my head
i would have been brilliant!
if what i was thinking was what i had said

08. APRIL NODS

april nods her approval, we're leaning in t-shirts
i've been trippy since june of last year
the sun makes me dizzy, it's like someone's kissing me
with cinnamon hallucinogen lips

it's good to be back
i breathe in and feel life chugging upon the tracks

you spent winter in london, i never been nowhere
dunmore, PA, but just to see relatives
that city's all slanted, there's no stable ground
life on an incline is something we know all about

it's good to be back
i breathe in and feel life chugging upon the tracks

we cracked the sandals and scattered the plaster
nobody's swimming in lead boots today
i'm taking my time, everything's fine
for right now and that's all i am living for

it's good to be back
i breathe in and feel life chugging upon the tracks

09. WISH I COULD CLIMB

i say we stick to sheets
for god sakes it's only noon
it seems a shame to move
what's better to do than to lie next to you?

last night i watched you sleeping
serene and breathing so softly
wish i could climb inside your mind
and see if you were dreaming

we'll leave the A/C on all day
and angle all of the fans this way
pretend there is no night or day
or watch hands wheeling the time away

i'll blister you with kisses
like a genie with three wishes
i'll give you everything you're yearning for
that is what i'm here for

as close as we can be
i hope you'll always let me
as close as we have been
i hope we always will be

i say we stick to sheets
for god sakes it's only noon
it seems a shame to move
what's better to do than to lie next to you?

last night i watched you sleeping
serene and breathing so softly
wish i could climb inside your mind
and see if you were dreaming
wish i could climb inside your mind
and see if you're dreaming of me

10. COMES DOWN

i can't read music but i know how it makes me feel
the closest i ever am to real
cracks in between words that mean nothing
well, who needs that when i could keep quiet?

and sit silent in the still of the evening
when the wind gets crisp and cool
i could cry when i make love
it comes down on me from above

i never planned my moves around you
enjoyed your presence, did you feel mine too?
darling, everything matters
on a course to dust
but in between this is the thing i trust

silence in the still of the evening
when the wind gets crisp and cool
do you cry when you make love?
it comes down on you from above

silence in the still of the evening
when the wind gets crisp and cool
will we cry when we make love?
it comes down on us from above

it comes down

11. SEE AND READ

i feel the reporter's bias beneath the headline
there is no news, just someone's version of the truth
bordering lying

can't stand those sunday morning shows with all the pundits
they have the fervor and the venom of the pulpit
plus loads of false wit

i stopped buying the newspaper in 1989
i watch the news once in a blue moon
with a skeptical eye
good lord please don't believe
most of what you see and read

the insincerity's what bothers me the most
i really couldn't give a crap about paula jones'
hair and clothes

can't stand those call-in radio shows, run by loudmouths
following like sheep's what lead to auschwitz
that's not funny is it?

i stopped buying the newspaper in 1989
i watch the news once in a blue moon
with a skeptical eye
good lord please don't believe
most of what you see and read

12. HIPS

there's no winning with you
but the fighting is fun
as long as we kiss when we are done
and roll around the rug

i found a way beneath your skin
is my list of former sins
you know the way to mine's your pretty little hips

we share
no one could say there's nothing there
tugging tightly on your hair
back inside my secret lair

i found a way beneath your skin
is my list of former sins
you know the way to mine's your pretty little hips

there's quite a lot that we can stand
who's in the palm of whose hand?
the ridicule you pour on all my plans
is still for me, no other man

i found a way beneath your skin
is my list of former sins
you know the way to mine's your pretty little hips

13. NIGHTFALL

i got a letter from a trusted friend
she said 'i'm never ever coming home again'
i must admit i felt a tug
my feet upended from the rug

if i think about it all too much
my little pea brain is gonna pop
i'd like to rip it up cause i don't wanna stop

and if i'm still alive by nightfall
then i'll have another drink
and if i'm still alone by morning
then i'll lie in bed and think
and if i'm still unbathed by dinner
then i might go back to sleep
and if the sun falls down on top of me
then the night's the thing you keep

i feel the heart of every living thing
if the heart in there is still feeling
put your fingers right upon this dream
you'll know the real thing

(if i hit escape velocity
will i be scattered out there upon saturn's rings?
i feel sorry for the sad souls
in this world of jealous desperate hearts)

and if i'm still alive by nightfall
then i'll have another drink
and if i'm still alone by morning
then i'll lie in bed and think
and if i'm still unbathed by dinner
then i might go back to sleep
and if the sun falls down on top of me
then the night's the thing you keep

14. LOVE'S THE SOUND

another curve ball but i am still swinging
giving it up for this human thing
i've got a lot of love someday it's gonna
mean something to someone

it's a hard thing getting by
she gets played she don't wanna try no more
but that won't work we've still got hope inside the hurt
we've still got hope inside the hurt

the games have got us down
we don't play so well
feel a frown coming on
but i still believe, though blue
i tell myself it's gonna get me through

i have to believe all these things that are
happening to me will lead to some great reward
i have to believe these things that are
happening to me happen for reasons

it's a hard thing getting by
she gets played she don't wanna try no more
but that won't work we've still got hope inside the hurt
we've still got hope inside the hurt

the games have got us down
we don't play so well
feel a frown coming on
but i still believe, though blue
i tell myself it's gonna get me through

love's the sound
love's the sound
love's the sound

(it's a fade out...)