From: Jeffrey Michael Hellman (st950267@PIP.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU)

The Grays Ro Sham Bo

"Very Best Years"

Okay it started a long time ago,
when I was a little boy
sometimes little one don't do what he's told
and mother mother puts back its toy

is there something you can do my love
won't you help me through these troubled times
and serve to remind that everything is gonna be alright
despite my fighting bitter tears
these are the very best years

these days father's not the man that we knew
and you know he gets over you
that's when you find me alone with my will, my wine and scars to show

The boy just fights his own
The dream that took me
Far away and brought me here today
where my hopes and fears
are gathering around
can't you feel them making ground?


Everybody's World

Everybody's world is upside down
and they can't see their way around it
Everybody's world is inside out     down
and they can't seem to find a way out
they found out
that it's everybody's world

Everybody's world is spinning around
and they can't seem to slow it down
Everybody's life is much too short and
you don't get any younger
still i wonder if it's everybody's world

they said that love would set us free
they said that love was all we need

and yes i know it's ugly shit
don't you know that it is any way

you feel alone there in the sun
you are a nation made of one
but with no love your flags are furled
all you'll see is every body's world



"Same Thing"

I'll be out on the town
in the jacket you bought me
after dragging me down
in the trouble you brought me

and i'll be doing the same things
running around wouldn't that be something
doing all of the same things
so here goes nothing

got away with   so much
got  by on so little
now i'm way out of touch
with a faith that's too brittle

now i'm doing the same things
it's hippocritical don't remind me
cuz when i'm doing the same things
same old things will blind me.

well there's always someone you can not replace
but you're hiding something deeper you can't face
as you wander around just feeling out of place

oh it's always something,
so here goes nothing

now i'm doing the same things
though it's never the noble mission
it's an indication about me
and my self condition

i'm doing all of the same things
the same things
so here goes nothing
nothing
nothing


"No Matter How Much"

a friend of mine once asked me the key to tranquility
without my obvious  ?
i replied i don't know,
it's individual we're all different
and nothing's universal

I took my time
 combed my mind for something of value
after much deliberation ive found

 no matter how much time
your luck's as good as mine
you've got to find your self
in your heart there's so much wealth

I sleep with angels
but devils wake me up
and remind me of all the wicked evil things
that torture us all with curiousity

I throw them out
apologies for misunderstanding
but we'll meet again


and have another sip of vanity
in spite of all these deviations
i've found


Is It Now Yet?

(Silent night, holy night
 all is calm, all is bright)
is it now yet?
I think it's late
should I slow it down to get it right
or hurry ip and wait until it's now yet
hello
you're always worried about the past
you wonder if the now is going to last
or go to fast for you
live for the moment
yeah sure, okay
every time the moments finally here
it already's gone away again
so where's the check?
i save up for my rainy day
but all I ever seem to get is wet
you're always looking at the time
you wonder if your son is mine to shy
or wait for night to come.


Oh Well Maybe

I lay may hands on you
my heart is oh so true
but when the forest fires burn
isn't it really cause they yearn
hoping someday we'll take a turn
possibly learn
oh well maybe
my dreams keep me awake
I know they do this cause they tell me
I know she's smiling cause I'm funny

But when the forest fires burn
isn't it really cause they yearn
hoping someday we'll take a turn
possibly learn
oh well maybe

take my hands from you
you haven't got a clue
loves a strange way
don't you think?
my heart is black and blue

Chorus


Nothing Between Us

Maybe there's hope for what we shared
though I'm not sure
and if there was
we never dared to take the cure
so come on say bye bye now
so long say buy by now
we're better off somehow
so long say bye bye now

maybe with time this all could change
or be replaced
but I'm tired of the climate
you are strangely all the way
I fail to see
why I should be
a part of two
continuing the same old sigh
fill of affairs and things

so come on say say bye bye now
so long say bye bye now
I'm better off and how
so long say bye bye now

there's nothing between us, ah

so long say bye bye now


"Both Belong"

This man climbs another step
and wonders if his life is worth the living
he hasn't done much of
denying any notion
that emotion may be token for nostalgia
a gesture all the same

he's got his private wars
just like the million other wars
that keep you and I from getting where we both belong

[Chorus]:
Cause I see you making eyes at yourself again
shaking your hands with invisible friends
looking around for encouragement
no not me i'm just hanging
hanging around for a new thrill
cause I'm tired of the old ones
and I can't be the only one who's life isn't sunshine

baby your a           but your
love has long forgotton how to
scratch its way inside your guarded heart
one day you'll realize that nothing starts from nothing
go write a book--no one ever reads

you've got your private wars just like the million other wars
keep you and I from getting where we both belong.

don't try to understand
or offer your gentle hand
yeah...
do you need?

you are not alone in wondering
how you got so far from home
when every memory you own
is begging for your time
but you're running out of sand
as you clutch thye feeble hands
and embrace thing referred to
as the past.


"Nothing"

She thinks that nothing is the matter
she thinks that nothing could be wrong
oh yeah she might have something there
but I don't think she's a prayer
what she's got is nothing
we've got nothing
and nothing can tear us apart

one time our cup was running over
to find it all spilled on the ground
cause she thinks that it's half over
I know it's completely empty
the cups been smashed
and we've got nothing
we've got nothing
and nothing can tear us apart
and nothing can break my heart

nature abhors a vacuum
so do I
nothing can last forever
hng can make me cry
and nothing has torn us apart
and nothing is in my heart
and nothing is here and it won't go away
what are you thinking?
what did you learn today?
nothing is just what I thought you would say



"Not Long For This World"

Well I"m tired of facing all of this
well I'm tired of waking and tired of faking this
so I resign
I don't need any more time
yeah I could like that would change me
but I am not long for this world
I'm not long for this world

life is falling-- seems endless fantasi
I don't need any more time
I never think of it as benign
so what I'm free
does it change it enough for me?

cause in so many strange ways
oh I am, not long for this world

oh the sin lies for the thinking
oh I am not lon for this world

for this world...


"Spooky"

Something's wronging you
someones following me
there's one thinf left to do
I know what to do

take you down
to the wrong side of town
my darling
replace your fears with some truth
you'll endear
by morning

the trouble you bring could haunt you very soon
the song you sing could use a change of tune
cause it all comes down at the wrong time
shudder in my eyes
all you say at the right time
feeds your disguise
it all comes down at the wrong time
shudder in my eyes
and all you say at the right time
feeds your disguise...

my senses take me back again
to long before you were my friend
my god I see, I see myself in you
yeah....

you ain't the truth
but more part of a lie
you ain't the truth
but more part of the lie
I'm not the one who's groaning
as I die


"All You Wanted"

She said that she'd take it back
instead she takes down to the tracks
that's it all
now you'll wait for the call
but will she fall?

keep saying it's up to me
you never thought it was going to be
a rainy day
at least she can't say
that it's all okay

you say that she's all that
you've ever wanted
what will you do now for your encore?
and if it's a face by which you've been haunted
still asking for more

and all those words
that you've memorized
don't mean a thing now you've realized
you don't talk
I don't act so shocked
just go take your walk

and after all's been said
you're still not done
fight to the bitter end
make sure you say it's all fine

all you ever wanted is gone

all you wanted


"No One Can Hurt Me"

I hope you can take these words in stride
without trashing up your wall of pride
for I know that you are true
your intentions golden too

no one can hurt me like you do

people can put our trust aside
by spinning the words that I confide
but I can't compare their meanness to
unconscious things
you put me through

no one can hurt me like you do

and it's not like you want to
it's not like you try
but I'm keeping some secrets
that just how much I