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Release Date: April 23, 2002
Produced by Sloan and Brenndan McGuire
Recorded by Brenndan McGuire at Power Line Park in Toronto
Mixed by Dave Ogilvie at The Warehouse in Vancouver
Assistant engineering by Dean Maher, and Kirk McNally
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound in Manhattan
I can't invest my time
I've tried it all and I'm tired of trying
You think you've got it all figured out
And everything you think it's about
When you found yourself finally released
You hit the ground and kept running east
And now it's all catching up to you
As these things usually do
Saw it all and I can't deny
It's a hard life living a lie
If it feels good do it even if you shouldn't
Dont let people mess you around
Feels good do it even if you shouldnt
Nobody can mess you around
You're running away
Things would have been different
If you decided to stay
You can't wear your heart on your sleeve
If you're just going to leave
I can't invest my time
I've tried it all and I'm tired of trying
Saw it all and I can't deny
It's a hard life living a lie
In the time it takes us to walk another city mile
We could do it in the movies
Do it in the movies like what you're on about
By the time I show you
A reason why you're out of style
You could see it in the movies
See it in the movies
Clearly I don't even know what I'm doing
Or what I'm on about
It feels like somebody else's lights came on
I'll take another look around
And the feeling I get when I watch you
Day in and day out
Can make me feel I can turn it off or on
Every day you wonder
If I can read between the lines
I could do it in the movies
Do it in a movie - that's what it's all about
It feels like somebody else's lights came on
I'll take another look around
And I don't even know where I'm going
Or where I'm coming from
And now I'm traveling down the Autobahn
And I'm too afraid to turn around
And I can't even see where I'm going
But I'll take another look around
Like they did it in the movies
Just like they did it in the movies
We could do it in a movie
You know he's not the one for you
But that's no fault of mine
He knows that I'm a friend of yours
But doesn't know I've crossed the line
I know you've got a man in the picture
But it hasn't stopped me yet
We've all been in one situation or another
We regret
Now I'm the other man
No one's rooting for me
If I'm the other man
Nature will abhor me
You know I wanna keep my distance
'Cause it's happenin' anyway
He knows you're gonna drift apart
And there's nothing he can say
I know that he's a stand up guy
But that's none of my concern
We've all been in one situation or another
And it's my turn
To be the other man
No one sympathises
When you're the other man
Everyone despises
He's gonna find out that the rumours are true
Though they are still unbeknownst to you
He'll find out so I'll tell you because
You gotta find out before he does
You, I wish I knew you better
Then again I can wait 'till next September
Slowly buying time
These conditions make me restless
Then again I admit that this will test us
'Cuz everywhere now
I can see the number one followed by the nine
I wonder if a year or two will matter because I'm...
Dreaming of you, all day
Hardly seems appropriate
Just drifting through, all day
No one seems to notice it
You, I dreamt the seven towers
Were slowly falling down
And in the last remaining hours
Still everywhere now
I could see the number one followed by the nine
Just this once I think that I might cast the rules aside
Dreaming of you, all day
Hardly seems appropriate
Just drifting through, all day
No one seems to notice it
Everyone's behind us
We don't dare lead the blindest
Still the promise of the victory
Eliminates stakes against me
Dreaming of you, all day
Hardly seems appropriate
Just drifting through, all day
No one seems to notice it
You, I wish I knew you better
People people
This is a poll
Are you one of the ones who went and
Gave up on rock and roll
People people
Do you know what I mean?
If you think you do then
Call the number on the screen now
Pick it up - Pick it up and dial it
People people
Pick up the phone
Theres a lot of work to do and
I cant do it alone
People people
I'm losing steam
So if no one answers when you call
Leave it on the machine but
Pick it up - Pick it up and dial it
People people
Where did you go?
You've been gone so long and
There's no one here that I know
People people
It's up to you
They say rock and roll is dead again
You tell me if it's true
Pick it up - Pick it up and dial it
Time may flow over realizing goals that no one knows
And my friends - They'd never admit it though
Because they can block it out and continue to roll on
But me - I know
That everything's about to blow away
For real this time and no one's watching
All of my life I've dreamed about it
And now that it's gone I can't do without it
All of my life I've stood behind it
Like trying to hide The Great Wall of China
Flying above Heathrow
Never dreaming of the time or my dwindling cash flow
And I know - I never said
That a European climb isn't starving my ego
One thing - I know
Is that everything's about to blow away
For real this time and no one's watching
All of this time I'm wasting on it
Preparing to see what the others think of it
Keeping in mind I'm still above it
But not very high because I'm only hovering
All of my life I've stood behind it
Like trying to hide The Great Wall
All the resumes were splendid
But she's the one they recommended
For the job but starting late in life
Means she can't celebrate
She hasn't time or energy
To spend on friends and family
She's got some catching up to do
And precious hours are few
Oh the life of a working girl
I used to see her all the time
She's young at heart but no teenager
Early thirties I would wager
I came along a little later
So I could merely carbon date her
Age, she's not keen to
It's a trap, I a door
In the stage she can go through
Until the encore
Now she's the one who gives belated
Birthday wishes devastated
She forgot it on the day
But this is not a job that pays her
By the hour or she'd be set
Before the sun so she forgets
These things like light upon her face
Who'll spring her from this place
Oh the life of a working girl
I used to see her all the time
Oh the life of a working girl
I used to see her all the time
Now someone's had a few successes
Who, I'll give you twenty guesses
Take some credit just admit it
Everybody knows you did it
It's not that I'm not happy for her
But it's not easy to adore her
From afar does she get lonely
Like I do if I could only see her all the time
See her all the time
Oh the life of a working girl
I used to see her all the time
Oh the life of a working girl
I used to see her all the time
I can see the light
Shining down above from Tokyo
I turn from wrong to right
On a less than supersonic flight
And all I really want to know
I really really need to know
Is how many times
Can a person try to hold it together
Flying too high
Never seeing the ground - For the sky
Just revolving
Look in my eyes
And try to tell me that you're seeing another
And how many ways
Do you feel it when you're flying above her
Believing the lows
Not the highs - Problem solving
Never seeing the ground - For the sky
And revolving
Now the time is right
Under brand new ultraviolet light
I turn from wrong to right
On a subway underneath Tokyo
And just before I have to go
There's something that I need to know
How many ways
Can a woman sympathise with her mother
Something isn't right
And the family life is touch and go
Nobody knows anymore
Whether love can go from one to the other
Believing the lows
Not the highs - Never knowing
Well I'm taking a piece of the blue sky
And revolving
Never seeing the ground - For the sky
Never feeling the lows - Only I can see the light
You're so crazy, crazy for me
And I know just why, yeah I know just why
Because I've got something so elusive
To the naked eye, to the naked eye
Get your elevator off of my ground floor
Your elevator
And I guess my odd behaviour
Comes down to human nature
You're too good for this, you don't deserve it
And I can get behind anything you tell me to
And I believe about anything you say is true
You're so crazy, crazy for me
And I don't know why, yeah I don't know why
It's in your eyes all the time, all the time
It's not hard to find
Who you talkin' to
To say it won't work out right
Who you talkin' to
To say it won't work out right this time, baby
I've got a little story to tell
Some of it might ring a bell
It goes
Don't give up like you're supposed to do
Cruise, tonight let's cruise
Past the harbour lights
Cruise, tonight, let's cruise
Until we're out of sight
The one's you've known for so long,
Make you feel like you don't belong
But don't give up, like you're supposed to do
Like you're supposed to do
Listen very carefully
Don't think you're the rarest breed
Of ones who lead the lonely sheltered lives
The brothers may abandon you
Your sisters leave you standin'
Waiting in the wings until your time arrives
Don't give up like you're supposed to do
Who you talkin' to
To make it all work out right
Who you talkin' to
To make it all work out right tonight, until then
Everybody's playing along, nobody writes the song
Everybody's playing along, nobody writes the song
Everybody's playing along
And though no one knows for certain
Where or when I'll draw the curtain
It's because it's been said that
I love a long goodbye
We broke it off I've not forgotten
But I thought that this could be
An opportunity for us to try
To examine my reluctant leaving
Since I'm sad and if you're lonesome call
I love a long goodbye
Ooooh
That's unworthy of me
Mind you
I need to know you love me
Look at things from my perspective please
Just what about me makes my motives seem
So hard to justify
Talk to me tomorrow
I might have another story
I'll make sure I do
I love a long goodbye
Ooooh
That's unworthy of me
Mind you
I need to know you love me
Goodbye, you
Can know this for certain
I love you
And I hate to draw the curtain
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
'Till the words flow like the pros
And the meaning shows
I'll be quick and state my case
Underlined and single spaced
'Cause I need to know
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
When the pencil's on the page
And thoughts just slowly engage
Hope you're hearing this last line
Waiting for the signs
And then you'll know
I'm singing my heart out
But you were so out of range
I'm singing my heart out
But you were so out of range
I'm singing my heart out
And it was out of my range
I'm singing my heart out
And you were so out of range
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
Oooo - Are you giving me back my love?
Johnny and Noelle are drifting
Your dreams have come true
Everything's up to you
You can't change what you lose
But you can turn into someone new
You can't see
But believe that
The mess you make
The toll it takes
It's worth it your dreams come true
It's time to let heal
The damage that you can feel
That sense of hope you steal
Can turn into something real
You can't see
But believe that
The mess you make
The toll it takes
It's worth it your dreams come true
Your dreams have come true
Your dreams have come true
Turned into something new
I don't know if you'll think about me much today
Ever since you started to doubt me
When I said that I love you
So when push came to shove you went away
I don't think that you were mistaken
Any more than I think I was God forsaken
I was under the weather
When you got it together
But I knew you would
You always did
But if you ever auction off your love
I'd make the highest bid
But you were not for sale
You've often said
You'd rather be alone than settle for me
'Cause you've
Had enough
Enough of this
You'd rather steel yourself with solitude
Than have me steal a kiss
You don't even look back with fondness any more
I think you even took back your letters
First you stop reminiscing
Now my memories are missing
But I need them back
If I can't have you
I need at least a photo album's
Worth of pictures all of you
Oooo and each is worth
A thousand words
That showed the life that I preferred
Before you finally
Had enough
Enough of me
You'd rather be alone apparently
Because you
Had enough
Of this song and dance
You'd rather give me two weeks notice
Than to give me one more chance
I don't know if you think about me
But I sure think about you
'Cause I'm lonesome without you
But I know you know
Well we meet again
This time it's like a drive by in the rain
And right beside us our will is done
It simplifies us and keeps us as one
And tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
There's no need to complain
'Cause there are so many others we could blame
There's something 'bout the way that I spend my time
I complicate things to keep you in mind
And tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
Yeah tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
Tonight what will you do
Tonight what will you do
With one more down the drain
Every added penny sends another shooting pain
I never dreamt that it would end like this
A twenty thousand dollar cease and desist
And tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
Yeah tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
Tonight (is the night) all that might is coming true
