ordinary day just a day, just an ordinary day just tryin' to get by just a boy, just an ordinary boy but he was looking to the sky and as he asked if I would come along I started to realize that everyday he finds just what he's lookin' for and like a shooting star he shines, and he said take my hand, live while you can, don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand and as he spoke, he spoke, ordinary words thought they did not feel for I felt what I had not felt before and you'd swear those words could heal and as I looked up into those eyes, his vision borrows mine and I know he's no stranger for I feel I've held him for all of time, and he said chorus please come with me, see what I see touch the stars for time will not flee time will not flee, can't you see... just a dream, just an ordinary dream as I wake in bed and that boy, that ordinary boy was it all in my head? don't he ask if I would come along it all seemed so real, but as I looked to the door I saw that boy standing there with a deal, and he said chorus just a day, just an ordinary day just tryin' to get by just a boy, just an ordinary boy, but he was looking to the sky unsung if only I could get into that corner of your head where things finally match and meet the standards that you set oh how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for bet I would feel better if only I could find the door I am cryin' you aren't tryin' I am melting away I wait for the words on the tip of your tongue I'm only as good as the last one well you decide and I abide as my song goes unsung (yeah, yeah, yeah) things are goin' crazy and I'm not sure who to blame everything is changing and I do not feel the same I'm slippin' through the cracks of floors I thought that were strong I'm tryin' to find a place where I can feel like I belong well, I am cryin' you aren't tryin' I am melting away chorus if I could be the lesson that you learn, you learn if only I could be the last one that love burns, it burns...yeah if only I could get into that corner of your head where things finally match and meet the standards that you set of how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for bet I would feel better if only I could find the door well, I am cryin' you aren't tryin' and I am melting away chorus a thousand miles makin' my way downtown walking fast faces pass and I'm homebound staring blankly ahead just makin' my way I'm makin' a way through the crowd and I need you and I miss you and now I wonder if I could fall into the sky do you think time would pass me by cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could see you ... tonight it's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me cause everything's so wrong and I don't belong livin' in your precious memory cause I need you and I miss you and now I wonder chorus and I, I don't want to let you know I, I drown in your memory I, I don't want to let this go I, I don't ... makin' my way downtown walking fast faces pass and I'm homebound staring blankly ahead just makin' my way I'm makin' my way through the crowd and I still need you and I still miss you and now I wonder chorus pretty baby you light me up and then I fall for you you lay me down and then I call for you stumbling on reasons that are far and few I'd let it all come down and then some for you pretty baby don't you leave me I have been saving smiles for you pretty baby why can't you see you're the one that I belong to I'm be the embrace that keeps you warm for you're the sun that breaks the storm I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound as long as you keep comin' round, oh pretty baby and I know things can't last forever but there are lessons that you'll never learn oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt so how's it you that makes me better chorus why can't you hold me and never let go when you touch me it is me that you own pretty baby of the place that you hold in my heart would you break it apart again ... oh pretty baby chorus rinse she'd do anything to sparkle in his eye she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright for answers to questions that will haunt her tonight she must rinse this all away she can't hold him this way she must rinse this all away she can't love him this way how she'd be soothed, how she'd be saved if he could see she needs to be held in his arms to be free but everything happens for reasons that she will never understand 'til she knows that the heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man chorus and if she runs away she fears she won't be followed what could be worse that leaving something behind and as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow it's loneliness she finds ... if only he was mine she'd do anything to sparkle in his eye she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright for answers to questions that will haunt her tonight she must rinse him she must rinse him she can't rinse him she can't rinse him she can't, she won't, she must rinse him she can't, she won't, she must rinse him she must rinse him she can't rinse him she must rinse him she can't rinse him sway my heart, your hands, gentle my friend break me neatly numb me sweetly say you would, say you could say you'd come and stop the rain say you'd try and hold me tight and you just give me away make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway say you would, say you could and you don't do anything come down heavy, try and steady precious ladies, love you, love me ... chorus hold my head up to the lies that you feed me I'll fall under the spell you cast as you let me down say you would, say you could say you'd come and stop the rain say you'd try and hold me tight and you just give me away make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway chorus say you'd come and stop the rain ... paradise once upon a year gone by she saw herself give in every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds when covers tucked in tight funny when the bottom drops how she forgets to fight ... to fight and it's one more day in paradise one more day in paradise as darkness quickly steals the light that shined within her eyes she slowly swallows all her fear and soothes her mind with lies well all she wants and all she needs are reasons to survive a day in which the sun will take her artificial light ... he light and it's one more day in paradise one more day in paradise it's one more day in paradise one last chance to fee alight ... alright don't pretend to hold it in just let it out don't pretend to hold it in just push it out don't you try to hold it in just let it out and don't you try to hold it in you hold it in chorus once upon a year gone by she saw herself give in every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been prince willing and able to run I am willing and able I'm able to come and if I wait for you now would you come would you run would you bring it back around oh, baby how if it all went away nothin' left to say would you fight it or would you lay down at the hand of your God could you see the light oh my prince can't you see what's been found willing and able to run willing and able to come I am willing, I'm willing willing and able to run I am willing and able I'm able to come paint it black I see a red door and I want it painted black no colors anymore, I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they are painted black with flowers and my love both never to come back I see people turn their heads and quickly look away like a new born baby it just happens every day I look inside myself and see my heart is black I see my red door and it's heading into black maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts it's not easy facing up when your whole world is black I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby no more will my green see go turn a deeper blue I could not foresee this thing happening to you if I look hard enough into the setting sun my love will laugh with me before the morning comes I wanna see it painted, painted, painted black, oh black as night, black as coal I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky painted, painted, painted black oh baby painted painted, painted black wanted I have wandered far and wide for something real something to die for but I have found you and you do not see all that is me all that is true I am more than you will see I am more than you will need I am more than you will see more than wanted as you float the flimsy surface you should know life lies beneath it don't pretend you feel what I feel for you live illusions and I am real chorus I know, I know you like the way you feel when I play I know, I know you don't really hear what I say I know, I know you are waiting for something to raid I know, I know you wish you could be more than you say I have wandered far and wide for something real something to die for but I have found you and you do not see all that is me all that is true chorus more than you'll love, more than you'll hate more than you'll hold, more than wanted more than you'll crave, more than you'll cherish more than you'll have, more than wanted twilight I was stained, with a role, in a day not my own but as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown I always knew, what was right I just didn't know that I might peel away and choose to see with such a different sight and I will never see the sky the same way, and I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and I will never cease to fly if held down, and I will always reach too high cause I've seen, cause I've seen twilight never cared never wanted never sought to see what flaunted so on purpose so in my face couldn't see beyond my own place it was so easy not to behold what I could hold but you taught me I could change whatever came within these shallow days chorus as the sun shines through it pushes away and pushes ahead it fills the warmth of blue and leaves a chill instead and I didn't know that I could be but as illusion dies I see there is so much to be revealed chorus I was stained, with a role, in a day not my own but as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown I always knew, what was right I just didn't know that I might peel away and choose to see with such a different sight chorus (taken from the Be Not Nobody CD booklet - typed out by Judy) red ditty if in the middle of a vital conversation I chose not to listen would that be okay? and if in the middle of a heated confrontation I chose not to would that be okay? and if I love you without reference to occasion would you run away? or would that be okay? and if in the middle of this final declaration I walked away what would you say? would that be okay? swindler I've been mistaken you swindled once again now there's no question I, I was wrong and now I stand alone just ? your throne your true colors shown you don't belong and now I'm lost and now I run from you and now I see just how I bleed from you and all the lies, all the lies how could I let you in? but now it's clear I went along for the ride hey, Mr. Merry Man I know you'll come again till you find just what you're looking for and if I'm your little lamb oh, would you leave again? oh no, I bet you'd stay for more and now I'm lost and now I run from you and now I see just how I bleed from you and all the lies, all the lies how could I let you in? but now it's clear I went along for the ride and now I'm finding out you were nothing about what I thought you were and now I understand just how you work your plan first you're warm and then you just burn and now I'm lost and now I run from you and now I see just how I bleed from you and all the lies, all the lies how could I let you in? but now it's clear I went along for the ride and now I'll make my way through another day 'cause I know better now you'll drop another line on someone else's time but in me you still resound and now I'm lost and now I run from you and now I see just how I bleed from you and all the lies, all the lies how could I let you in? but now it's clear I went along for the ride
