Live Monsters
Release Date: November 10th, 1998
Live Monsters delivers the experience of a Big Head Todd and The Monsters concert into your stereo. Fortified with 16 booming tracks, it includes favorites like "Bittersweet," "Boom Boom" and "Broken Hearted Savior" as well as the previously unreleased cover of the Led Zeppelin song "Tangerine."A little light looks through her bedroom window. She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems, Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets, Her hair blowing in the breeze. And she can't see me watching. And I'm thinking love... Chorus: It's bittersweet more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet. It's a bittersweet surrender I'm older now. I work inn the city. We live together. But it's different than my dream. Morning light fills the room. I rise. She pretends she's sleeping. Are we everything we wanted? And I'm thinking love... Chorus I know we don't talk about it. We don't tell each other All the little things that we need. We work our way around each other As we tremble and we bleed. Chorus
I closed the door.
She stole the key.
I gave her pearls.
I washed her feet.
I said "My love," she was asleep.
Dreaming of other things.
Chorus:
She's going to turn the light out.
Close your eyes, let it be.
She's going to turn the light out.
Time is out on me.
Carry on, in restless speech.
That we'd belong. We long to be,
Inside someone. Inside of me.
And all my wrong be left at sea.
Chorus
Fields are white in snowy spring and I can't
remember the last time I've seen her.
The highway is still cold and wet and I can't
forget the way I had to leave her.
And every passing day, she flickers and she fades.
Is someone to help her when she falls from the heavens?
Chorus:
And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong.
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone.
And I'll be her
broken hearted savior.
And every heavy night takes out the little life that's left within her.
Every man she gives her love, he takes it, and leaves her with a dinner.
Our love was once a flame, now I'm just a forgotten name,
Am I the only one to blame for having, loving her?
Chorus
He'll come flying out of this town
A resignation superman
And today the bad guys win
'Cause he turned his cape in
Now, he says
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Oh well ...
Yes, he's tired of fighting in this town
All the suffering and vice
He wants to fall in love
Maybe settle in and live a life
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes form this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
And he keeps an eye upon this town
The resignation superman
He'll keep himself amused
With the evening news
Oh my ...
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Now I broke my back on this world
Now I'll wash my hands of this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
Ain't no getting up again, she gonna bring you down.
Love gone up and jump again, turn it all around.
I'm goin' to the liquor store, to get some peace of mind.
Something I ain't done before, I can't seem to find.
Chorus:
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
And never never leave me.
Sister I am suffering, a single desire.
Hell is the shadow cast from a soul on fire.
Chorus
I always leave her waiting
I always leave her down
if she should come my way
I always turn around
Please don't tell her I love her
I always keep her out
I never let her in
If she should come my way weeping
I greet her with a grin
Please don't tell her I love her
if she should discover the colors of my love
she will fly, fly away
Now you can try tenderness
You can try to hang around
Oh, but I'm sure she'll love you less
I'm sure she'll bring you down
Please don't tell her I love her
It seems to me, you and me,
Are chasing something.
What it is does anybody here want to know?
It seems to you, you and me,
Are forgetting something,
When love is so easily forgotten.
And if I pick you up will you drag me down?
If I run to you will you turn around?
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just a circle.
It seems to me, you and me
Are being chased by something.
What it is has anybody here apprehended?
It seems to me, you and me
Are terrified of nothing,
When nothing is the reason we are here.
Oh, nothing at all.
And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just circle.
I work on a wreckin' wall
Just off the liquor tracks
Onto the shaky ground
Oh, I'm fallin' down
hey, I'm ridin'
A fool to confide. Hey, Eddie watch your name
Let that lady be your guide
hey, she's comin' round
Hey, I'm flyin'
When the sleep gets in your eyes
I'll be on Kensington Line
And I'll run my hundred miles
Hey, don't you follow me tonight
Didn't like the look I see
Runnin' in the autumn leaves
Hasn't got a brain or peeve
Oh, the walls are closin' in
Hey, I'm headed out of here
Oh, I never meant to leave you cryin'
You can turn back the tide of the cold tears from your eyes,
The pangs of wounded pride if you hold me.
Did someone do you wrong yeah,
Good lovin's good as gone.
Maybe you ain't as strong as you wanna be.
Chorus:
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone.
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
I understand.
Nothin' stays if it's gotta go now.
You can't get water from a stone now.
Sometimes you've got to think about
The things you're gonna love.
You can point the finger at him.
You can say you've suffered for your sins.
Somehow it never was, never was good enough.
Chorus.
Bridge:
When the morning comes and you put yourself together
To face another day.
And when the day is done and you ain't feelin' better
You come walkin' my way.
Now that you're doing alright,
You're pretty much outta sight.
I don't see you knockin' 'round my door anymore.
I'm glad to hear you're doing well,
But I know that time will tell.
Only when you're broken down, is that what friends are for?
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
It's alright if you just wanna be alone.
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
I understand.
Lone and alone she lies, poor miss
Five flights from earth and one from heaven
Dark hair and eyes, she tries hard not to cry
But still alone she lies
And I never knew the reasons
There ain't no lover in your bed
but lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me
There ain't no gardens for my poor miss
There ain't no sunshine in April's spring
Just four dark walls, and light comes shadowly
Ah, poor miss, ah me!
And I still remember the sunlight on your face
Lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me
He's wearing a red and white t-shirt.
He's loving the ladies upon his floor.
A bottle of brandy, a hard box of Camels.
Waiting for love to come knocking on his door.
And he says something like ...
Someday somebody's gonna love me
Someday it's me they're looking for
Someday somebody's gonna want me 'cause I'm ...
Vincent of Jersey.
Think ahead before you open your mouth
I might be thinking it through.
Gonna pack my things and catch a train headed South.
Or step right out of my car, into the
Rain drippin' down my fingers,
Into my eyes, you won't see me cryin' but,
What will you do when I am gone.
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but,
what will you do when I am gone.
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but
I'm on a train bound for glory,
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you but
What will you do, when I am gone?
How the hell you ever get to be so damn cool?
Suck down my money and throw my love away.
How the hell did you ever get to be so damn slick?
You'll come slidin' slidin' down some day but,
I'm on a train bound for glory.
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you but,
What will you do when I am gone?
I want to be your Saturday, your sunrise,
in an empty space
Keep you to your lazy ways, dream late
A love affair, an end too soon, swept away,
and left unused
I want to see, if you're amused
Or alive
Walkin' 'round the tower of love
Stuck on the ground
I can't climb up
Seems like every time I look up
Rain's comin' down
Storm clouds above
I want to sleep beside you now,
and leave behind the world without
Deep inside and there's none to count
or untie
I want to be the one you break, and take you
to the higher place
Just believe and I can make you fly
Walkin' 'round the tower of love
stuck on the ground
I can't climb up
Seems like every time I look up
Rain's comin' down
Storm clouds above
What is done can keep you down, and only love
can turn around
And yesterday won't make a sound as you climb
You got your whole life for loving
She ain't the only girl around
You can't achieve by shovin'
What can't be shaken down
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down
You take your heart full of trouble
For what might happen someday
you can't by weeping double
what you can't keep or can't make
I know you're tired of waiting for your true love
but don't let yourself just settle for a someone
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down
If you stop to look you'll discover
What was there all the time
You'll find your sisters and brothers
together gonna get it right
I want you to open up your eyes 'cause what you
don't have is gonna make you a little wiser
I know you're tired of waiting for your true love
But don't let yourself just settle for a someone
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down.
