• keeping up appearances keeping up with the Joneses fooling my selfish heart going through the motions but I'm fooling myself i'm fooling myself cause you say you love me and then you do it again you do it again you say your sorry's and then you do it again you do it again everybody thinks you're well everybody thinks I'm ill watching me fall apart falling under your spell but you're fooling yourself you're fooling yourself cause you say you love me and then you do it again you do it again you say your sorry's and then you do it again you do it again and again and again and again and again but you're fooling yourself you're fooling yourself cause you say you love me and then you do it again you do it again you say your sorry's then you do it again you do it again you say you love me and then you do it again you do it again you say your sorry's then you do it again you do it again •
• hey, you're a riddle I say as I move aside (Like I really need your advice) but you won't leave it alone little men try but don't get a lot done living in sin doesn't move me either way I get a feeling you're so vague like I said before little men come when anything goes when the rain comes I sit home and pray make it all numb I wish it all away all i really need is just somewhere to hide away kick him when he's down here alone I'll put up and fight kick him when he's down beat me all the way I'll take it all night kick him when he's down hey, don't worry, I'll get along home alright hey, everybody's supposed to be the same so how come they're so lame? it's like taking a fall keep on running back into that wall awake in a dream, get up and go to work but I'm feeling like such a jerk like I said before little men come when everything goes •
• I heard a word from on high clear like a light in the sky it said, "quit blowing each other up" the voice seemed so crystally clear some things are clean in your ear when only blood fills your cup hello i'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me focus i'm witnessing history repeating it fell like a tear from my eye flying machines so up high well, there goes the neighborhood a scene set to singe innocence upheave, unhinge, and pit against like every made for TV movie should hello i'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me focus i'm witnessing history repeating we are, we know, we see, we think for you the who, the what, the when, the where, the why we build your hill, we build you too, we see you hello i'm trying to focus, but my eyes decieve me focus i'm witnessing history repeating •
• talk to me now I'm older your friends'll do cuz I told her friday night's a bit lonely change your plans and then phone me we could go and get forties fuck going to that party oh really, your folks are away now? alright, let's go you convinced me 12:51 is the time my voice found the words I sought is it this stage I want? the world is shutting up for us oh we were tense for sure but we was confident kiss me now that I'm older i won't try to control you friday night's a bit lonely take it slow but don't warn me we'd go out and get forties then we'd go to some party oh really, your folks are away now? alright I'm coming, i'll be right there •
• she's writing she's writing she's writing a novel she's writing she's weaving conceiving a plot it quickens it thickens you can't put it down now it takes you it shakes you it makes you lose your thought but you're caught in your own glory you are believing your own stories writing your own headlines ignoring your own deadlines but now you've gotta' write them all again. you think she's an open book but you don't know which page to turn to do you you think she's an open book but you don't know which page to turn to do you you want her, confront her, just open your window unbolt it, unlock it, unfasten your latch you want it, confront it, just open your window all you really have to do is ask but you're caught in your own glory you are believing your own stories timing your contractions inventing small contraptions that'll roll across your parlor's hardwood floors you think she's an open book but you don't know which page to turn to do you you think she's an open book but you don't know which page to turn to do you you think she's an open book but you don't know which page to turn to do you •
• well I don't care about history. rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school cause that's not where I wanna be. rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school i just wanna have some kicks. i just wanna get some chicks. rock, rock, rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school well the girls out there knock me out, you know. rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school cruisin' around in my GTO. rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school i hate the teachers and the principal. don't wanna be taught to be no fool. rock, rock, rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school fun fun rock'n'roll highschool. fun fun, oh baby. •