(If We Are Not) Spies
Start Over
St. Paul
Now the Lights
Hallowe'en
Take My Hand
(If We Are Not) Spies
Ducking into alleys in my overcoat
Track you from a random phone booth
Take the stairs, avoid the elevator
I’d do anything to get back to you
To be free!
I can’t seem to get away from this job
Look at me
I still reach for your hand when I’m running from the mob
Reflection in my blackened sunglasses
Another vodka and I’m scribbling down notes
I have taken to avoiding mirrors
Too often panic rises in my throat
To be free!
I can’t seem to get away from this job
Look at me
I still reach for your hand when I’m running from the mob
Can’t you see
I’m tired of the secrets and the lies in the night
Sweet baby
Everything’s better if we are not spies
Oh, I picked you easily from the photographs
From the blurry broken pieces, and even from the back
I don’t care any longer of the price I have to pay
Run to me
I won’t give you away
Ducking into alleys in my overcoat
Track you from a random phone booth
Take the stairs, avoid the elevator
I’d do anything to get back to you!
To be free!
I can’t seem to get away from this job
Look at me
I still reach for your hand when I’m running from the mob
Can’t you see
I’m tired of the secrets and the lies in the night
Sweet baby
Everything’s better if we are not spies
Everything’s better if we are not spies
Everything’s better if we are not spies!
Start Over
There you are, behind the one-way glass
I can see you
trying to look past your reflection
I have named you guilty
Never to run free
One too many arrows
Left both of us bleeding
I’ll take off my armor
You drop your crown of thorns
I’ll empty out the cartridge
You put down your sword
Baby, are you willing
To suspend your disbelief
Will you start over with me?
I remember when you had the truest eyes
In my mess of mazes
You were my best surprise
Long before I started wearing a disguise
No lonely spaces where we lay
No need for taking sides
I’ll take off my armor
You drop your crown of thorns
I’ll empty out the cartridge
You put down your sword
Baby, are you willing
To suspend your disbelief
Will you start over with me?
I’ll take off my armor
You drop your crown of thorns
I’ll empty out the cartridge
You put down your sword
Baby, are you willing
To suspend your disbelief
Will you start over with me?
St. Paul
There is a mission in St. Paul
I forget what it’s called now
There’s a mission in us all, they say
It seems to get called away
They were singing in the jailhouse
After being blind he said he saw again
More free than the soldiers on the outside
Who hung their heads in shame
What if I dared to risk it all
Be free wherever I found myself
What if I could sing through the walls
--If just for the rush and that’s all…
They say there’s a mission in St. Paul
Everybody’s trying to get in the club
Everybody’s trying to get out
So where is this place of rest
They say they were singing about?
What if I dared to risk it all
Be free wherever I found myself
What if I could sing through the walls
--If just for the rush and that’s all…
They say there’s a mission in St. Paul
It’s not bread I’m hungry for
I guess that means I’m the privileged sort
But I’m suffering from the affliction
Of always wanting more
There’s a mission in St. Paul
I forget what it’s called now
There’s a mission in us all they say
That seems to get called away
There’s a mission in us all they say
It seems to call and call…
What if I dared to risk it all
Be free wherever I found myself
What if I could sing through the walls
--If just for the rush and that’s all…
They say there’s a mission in St. Paul
What if I dared to risk it all
Be free wherever I found myself
What if I could sing through the walls
--If just for the rush and that’s all…
They say there’s a mission in St. Paul
Will you start over
With me
Now The Lights
It’s so hard to say goodbye;
Everybody says so
So I tend to hang on
In case there’s something left
There’s so much that you could say
And that you’ve said about me
But one is that I always stay
Right until the very end
And now the lights are up
And the credits rolling
It says we were both antagonists
The hero they rescued
For another story
Where there were more lines
Of happiness
They said there were even some moments of brilliance
But (they went on to say)
The rest was mostly grey
So, I guess that’s our love
I guess that’s our love, babe
Not a masterpiece
Not a mistress
Just a failure in the first degree
And now the lights are up
And the credits rolling
It says we were both antagonists
The hero they rescued
For another story
Where there were more lines
Of happiness
Hallowe’en
(Trick or treat)
Only days before Hallowe’en
And I need you with no costume
And needing is tricky
When you’re not used to treats
I drove past all the accidents
Drove past all the road kill
Drove past the army camps
The aisles of petfood, with my mega shopping cart
Baby, we don’t even wait til it gets dark
What’s wild, and wilder still
Got Jacko lanterns grinning on the windowsill
What’s wild, and wilder still
Fairies have been killed
What’s wild is the cowboys live in cities
Indians are dead
The House is haunted
Baby, we don’t have to pretend
Got a ghost in the cupboard, a priest in the closet
Cinderella’s still stuck with her broom
Superheroes get all the press these days
Saints just get the blues
I’m dressed up as a nice Somebody
I crave the warmth of your body
I want you here beside me more
Than I want peace and equality
Oh, the witch of the West hasn’t saved me
What’s wild, and wilder still
Got Jacko lanterns grinning on the windowsill
What’s wild and wilder still
Fairies have been killed
What’s wild is the cowboys live in cities
Indians are dead
The House is haunted
Baby, we don’t have to pretend
Hallowe’en, I wish Hallowe’en would end
Hallowe’en, I wish the saints would come back from the dead
Hallowe’en, I wish the saints would come back
For good
Take My Hand
Don’t hide from me anymore
Now that the starlight has faded
Don’t bother with going to war
It’s far too late for bravery
Take my hand, it’s your last chance
Take my hand, for just one dance
There’s no one here anymore
But the bartender
Take my hand
Don’t deny me
Take my hand
Don’t think about newspapers
I paid off the press, and the radio
Don’t worry about the tab
I settled our scores long ago
Take my hand, it’s your last chance
Take my hand, for just one dance
There’s no one here anymore
But the bartender
And I’m sure he’s seen stranger things
Don’t be a stranger to me
For a coin for the jukebox right now
I’d lie, and rob, and cheat
Don’t deny me
Take my hand
Don’t deny me
I give up!
And I give in!
I’ll be the first to admit the state I’m in
Don’t hide from me anymore
Now that the starlight has faded
Don’t bother with going to war
It’s far too late for bravery
Take my hand, it’s your last chance
Take my hand, for just one dance
There’s no one here anymore
But the bartender
And I’m sure he’s seen stranger things
Don’t be a stranger to me
For a coin for the jukebox right now
I’d lie, and rob, and cheat
Don’t deny me, take my hand
Don’t deny me, take my hand
Don’t deny me, take my hand
Take my hand
