you can't know how the story will go 'less you write it yourself
can't predict who's gonna get their ass kicked 'less you fight 'em yourself
can't understand how the whole thing was planned 'less you do it yourself
needless to say, you cannot know the way 'til you go through it yourself
and even then

life is just a best guess, baby
life is just a best guess, baby

i knew a man, had the world in his hand, mister everything
big daddy boss, never suffered no loss until the government sting
they took it all, put him behind the wall, that's where he gonna stay
still talks about how he's gonna get out every visiting day
do you feel me

life is just a best guess, baby
life is just a best guess, baby

there ain't no telling what's coming, there ain't no crystal ball
there's just a groping in the darkness, and you're trying not to fall
stumbling down the hall
coz someone painted over the writing on the wall

life is just your best guess, baby
life is just your best guess, baby

best guess

seems i got myself in a bit of a jam
the day i started asking just who i am
i liked it better when i pulled the wool down over my eyes
and still believed in all the lies
but you don't know where you're going 'til you've moved on
and baby, i'm gone

went knocking upon my attic door
stepped in and fell through to the cellar floor
and now i'm going up the way down, how can it be
escher ain't got nothing on me
coz you don't know where you're going 'til you've moved on

and baby, i'm gone, gone around the bend
gone right out of my mind
gone are the days of trying to pretend
there's nothing left for me to find
gone, gone again, goddamn
coz every time i come back, there i am

how deep is a man supposed to dive
into himself and still make it out alive
it don't seem right, it don't seem fair
already got my cross to bear
but you don't know what you can wear until you put it on 

and baby, i'm gone, gone around the bend
gone right out of my mind
gone are the days of trying to pretend
there's nothing left for me to find
gone, gone again, goddamn
coz every time i come back, there i am

again, one less face to show me
every now and then, i get the chance to know me
even better than i ever really wanted
like a house of cards, and all the rooms are haunted
by my yesterdays and yesteryears
thought i gave 'em the shake, so what they doing 'round here
nothing ever disappears
except myself inside my fears

gone, gone, hasta luego
loco, loco en la cabeza

gone

Full moon tribute. Trying something new. who or what has been like ur bodyguard?

BODYGUARD (for kendra)

last thing i remember, baby, before the fade to black
a universal sigh, wondering if i'd be coming back
always and forever, mama, an echo with no end
and when i came around, the only thing i found was myself again

i'm caught up in the cyclone of a cycle, baby
and died a single death a thousand times
now what i want's the reason for my suffering
so give me some relief from my desires
i don't want nothing, baby

i've seen the ravages of time, lover, counted rings within the trees
the shedding of my skin, the cough from deep within some new disease
i saw the body in repose, i knew it knew what no one knows, we got ignorance instead
a tear i can't uncry, a knot i can't untie in the center of my thread

i'm caught up in the cyclone of a cycle, baby
and died a single death a thousand times
now what i want's the reason for my suffering
so give me some relief from my desires

i want for nothing, baby
i want for nothing, baby

i'm caught up in the cyclone of the cycle, baby
and died a single death one thousand time
now what i want's the reason for my suffering
so give me some relief from my desires

i'm caught up in the cycle of samsara, baby
and died a single death a thousand times
now what i want's the reason for my suffering
so give me some relief, give me some relief, yeah

i want for nothing, baby
want for nothing, baby

want for nothing

midnight passed right by us, we didn't even care
for once in our lives, we was getting somewhere
horns were blowing, bells were ringing
the whole damn place was singing
as we raised a toast to burying the past

i felt like a jailbird who'd just been released
you looked the way a soldier does when she hears the war has ceased
jubilation, liberation
we'd reached our destination
took awhile, but we made it at last

bum another cigarette, have another glass of wine
hum along if you don't know the words to auld lang syne
a long way we've come, and a long way we'll go
we made a resolution at the cafe figaro

all the crazy things i said, it ain't that i regret 'em
still, there were times i just as soon wish i'd never said 'em
then you told me you were flattered
and all my fears were shattered
girl, you really took the fever from my brow

and you were thinking i might try to get your fire started
but i knew that would only leave us bent up and broken-hearted
an entire situation
based on miscommunication
but i think we understand each other now

bum another cigarette, have another glass of wine
hum along if you don't know the words to auld lang syne
a long way we've come, and a long way we'll go
we made a resolution at the cafe figaro

ushering out the old, ringing in the new
no one i'd rather be ringing with than you
no place i'd rather be than sitting right here
say you'll meet me, baby -- same time, next year

bum another cigarette, have another glass of wine
hum along if you don't know the words to auld lang syne
a long way we've come, and a long way we'll go
we made a resolution at the cafe figaro

best guess

jason wise

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