Northern Star

It's always easier to figure out the things you don't want to admit when you're alone in the dark, looking up into the night sky — just one moment, just one time, one god to listen to the crazy things that you've been thinking about the words that you ought to say.
Oh just look at me now. It's taken so long for me to see what's evident in front of me.
Oh just look at me now. It's taken so long for me to be the one that I want to be.

Look At Me Now

Don't tell what to do.
It's not like you do better. It's not like you do more, so...
Don't tell me what to say.
It's not like you talk better. It's not like you know more, so...
Don't go playing no games with me boy, ain't go the patience for the type that's fake and coy.
Don't go playing no games with me boy, I'm not the kind of guy to just wrap around your fingers.

Don't

Playground

Susie is a white girl who lives on Cherry Lane
with her mother and her brother who are driving her insane.
And, on Tuesdays, when she gets up she's got murder on her brain.
Oh, Maria, when will you be done?

Bobby is a nice boy who lives on Champlain Street,
who never seems to pass the day without getting beat.
And, whenever he tries to pray he's got blood at his feet.
Oh, Maria, when will you be done?

Maria is a mother who could figure out
her children and her husband who are always in doubt
of her love and of her kindness, and she cannot help but shout.
Oh, when will I be done?
Maria, when will you be done?

Everybody knows there's no such thing as the truth.
Lincoln really was the one to shoot Wilkes Booth.
And no fairy's hand's under your pillow reaching for your tooth.
When will I be done?

Maria

Broken life, jaded heart, tattered soul falling apart.
Nothing's right, nothing's wrong, just moving right on along into the static.
Normal night, average day, nothing's changed. 
It's always been this way.
Neither here nor there, just about to reach nowhere in all this static.

Static

I'm gonna wish again that I was in somebody else's skin - a new one. 
I'm gonna try to find something that's different about you cause I need some type of new thing in my life that takes me up into the night, soar above the demons in my mind. 
Nothing's gonna hold me back this time. 
I'm gonna whisk you away.

I'm gonna wager all my flesh and blood on this new game - just me now. 
I'm gonna change and set the rules and tell you who to be cause I need some type of new thing in my life that takes me up into the night, soar above the demons in my mind. 
Nothing's gonna hold me back this time. 
I'm gonna whisk you away.

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