Use Somebody

I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces, fill the places I can't reach
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you, and all you know and how you speak
Countless lovers under cover of the street
You know that I could use somebody, you know that I could use somebody, someone like you
Off in the night while you live it up I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat
I hope it's gonna make you notice, someone like me, go and let it out
Someone like you (somebody)
I've been roaming around always looking down at all I see.

Manhattan

I like to dance all night
Summons the da,y but that’s how I play yeah, that’s how I play
I said who are you? Don’t matter who you are
Just saw you dance all night and dance all day, I say
We’re gonna build a fire, gonna stoke it up
We’re gonna sip this wine and pass the cup
Who needs avenues? Who needs reservoirs?
We’re gonna show this town, how to kiss these stars, I say
We’re gonna hunt to kill, gonna skin the hide
A yelp and scream and away I ride
And every drop that spills on every plot of ground
It’s all for you, for what you found, I say
It’s gonna take your head, and gonna drive you home
It’s gonna keep on, keep on, keep on
And then forever roam

Revelry

What a night for a dance
You know that I’m a dancing machine
With a fire in my bones and the sweet taste of kerosene
I got lost in the light, so high I don’t want to come down
To face the loss of the good thing that I had found
Woo hoo hoo
In the dark of the night I can hear you calling my name
With the harvest of hearts I still feel full of pain
So I drink and I smoke and I ask if you’re ever around
Even though it was me that drove us right in the ground
See the time we shared it was precious to me
But all the while I was dreaming of revelry
Born to run, baby run like a stream down a mountainside
With the wind at my back I don’t ever even bat an eye
Just know it was you all along who had a hold of my heart
But the demon and me where the best of friends from the start
So the time we shared it was precious to me
All the while I was dreaming of revelry
And I told myself boy away you go
It rained so hard it felt like snow
Everything came tumbling down on me
In the back of the woods, in the dark of the night
The paleness of the hold moonlight
Everything just felt so incomplete dreaming of revelry

Seventeen

Oh, she’s only 17
Wine and wine and wound up over everything
Bloody Mary breakfast busting up the scene
Brothers frightened when’s a baby gonna sleep
Hidden ship two sails away
It’s a culmination of a story and a goodbye session
It’s the tick of our time and the tick in her head that makes me feel so strange
I could call you baby, I could call you dammit, It’s one in a million
Oh, it’s the rolling of her Spanish tongue that makes me want to stay

Notion

I’ve got a notion to say what doesn’t feel right
I got an answer in your story today
It gave me a sign that didn’t feel right
Say, don’t knock it, don’t knock it, you’ve been here before
So don’t knock it, don’t knock it, you’ve been here before
I just wanted to know if I could go home
I’ve been rambling day after day
Everyone says I don’t know
So don’t knock, don’t knock, you’ve been here before
I’ve got a notion to say what doesn’t feel right
I just wanted to know if I could go home
Say, don’t knock it, don’t knock it, you’ve been here before

I Want You

Get back on track, pick me ups and bottles of booze
The fickle freshman, probably thinks he’s cooler than you
A hay ride, a fire, everybody’s coming around
So go press your shirt, ‘cause word is there’s a new girl in town
I call shotgun, you can play your R&B tunes
The fellowship time, it always comes a little too soon
Land of the creeps, freshened up and baby faced shaved
But your eyes on me, and I know a place that we can get away
Just say “I want you” just exactly like I used to
‘Cause baby this is only bringing me down
Homeboy’s so proud, he’s finally got the video proof
The night vision showed, she was only ducking the truth
It’s heavy, I know
The black cat with the gift down below
A choke and a gag, she spit up and came back for more
Just say “I want you” just exactly like I used to
And baby this is only bringing me down
She said “I want you”
I say “I want you”

Be Somebody

Taking to the floor with a reach to the sky
I loosen my tie, I loosen my tie
Locking down the door with the rhythm and rhyme
I loosen my tie, I loosen my tie
Trying to recall what you want me to say
I shake it your way, I shake it your way
Counting on the night for a beautiful day
I shake it your way, I shake it your way
And I say you can’t get enough, now you can’t get enough
Given the chance, I’m gonna be somebody
If for one dance, I’m gonna be somebody
Open the door, it’s gonna make you love me
I’m facing the floor, I’m gonna be somebody
Now is your time and you know where you stand
With a gun in your hand, with a gun in your hand
Now, no longer an ordinary man
Was this your big plan? Your gun in your hand
I say you can’t get enough, now you can’t get enough
Given the chance, I’m gonna be somebody
Just for one dance, I’m gonna be somebody
Open the door, it’s gonna make you love me
Facing the floor, I’m gonna be somebody, be somebody

Cold Desert

I’m on the corner, waiting for a light to come on
That’s when I know that you’re alone
It’s cold in the desert, water never sees the ground
Special unspoken without a sound
You told me you loved me
That I’d never die alone
Hand over your heart, let’s go home
Everyone noticed, everyone has seen the signs
I’ve always been known to cross lines
I never ever cried when I was feeling down
I’ve always been scared of the sound
Jesus don’t love me and no one ever carried my load
I’m too young to feel this old
Here’s to you, here’s to me
On to us, nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody but me