7	YOU KEEP LOOKING AT ME

I know you meant just what you said, then you realized you didn’t. I’m not holding a grudge. It’s your life and your voice. But you keep looking at me. I know just what you want, but it’s all just like you got. You’re too good for yourself. I’m not much help. But you keep looking at me.

You Keep Looking At Me

Intermission

9	I CAN’T FIND WHAT I NEED

I can’t find what I need, but I got you. I remember screaming the day I was born. I remember my mother crying when I left her home. I remember realizing I’d spend my days alone, looking for something I’ve always needed, something I’ve never even known. I can’t find what I need but I got you. I got some sunny days. Other times it rains. Some times I think I’m doing the right thing, but I’m doing it the wrong way.
I can’t find what I need, but I got you.

I Can't Find What I Need

10	LOST FOREVER

Built a rocket to rip, apart on the atmosphere. Never thought much of outer space, with all the nothing out there. Got carsick as a kid. My pa gave me shotgun. Getting sick gets you preferential treatment, but that’s no way to have fun. Lost forever, I’m the only one that knows where I am.
Got stuck thinking in circles, eating chewing gum. Spent my whole day making obligations, building races to run. Go and put a new coat of paint on your underneath. While nobody knows where to score, we’re all playing for keeps. Lost forever, I’m the only one that knows where I am.

Lost Forever

11	DIRTY HANDS

I can’t touch the girl I love. The girl I love, I won’t touch. I can’t touch the girl I love. She deserves it all and I ain’t got that much. I can’t talk to the girl I love. To the girl I love, I can’t talk. I won’t talk to the girl I love. All my words taste so ugly in my mouth. But if I ever make it better, I’ll try to hold her in my dirty hands. I can’t come around the girl I love. Around the girl I love, I can’t come. I can’t come around the girl I love, she only, she only gives me some. But if I ever make it better, I’ll get to hold her in my dirty hands.

Dirty Hands

12	IT’S A SHAME

It’s a shame getting used to a good thing, baby. It’s a shame getting used to a real good thing. The ones that you love and the warmth that they bring. It’s a shame getting used to a good thing, baby. I miss you so bad when you’re not around, and I can’t put you down. I should, but I can’t put you down. Your ways been leaving stains on my heart, baby. Your ways been leaving stains on my soul, girl. The night that we met, I felt it start. Your ways been leaving stains on my heart. I miss you so bad when you’re not around, but I can’t put you down. It’s a shame, it’s a shame, baby. I love you, but I don’t need you. I don’t get lonely, but I miss you all the time. Come back, baby. Come back, baby. It’s a shame getting used to a good thing, baby.

It's a Shame

13	BULLETPROOF

All the ghosts that I know, Still walk around in hell, The ones that left for heaven, Were quick to say farewell. And you know better than to think, I’d let you see me in a hole I didn’t dig. Best left well enough alone, No such thing as far away til you’ve found your home. I could fit my whole life on the head of a crowded pin. Leave all my cardboard boxes in the wood box I lived in. Take it up to New York City. Try to call it bulletproof. Get drunk on poison pity. Starve my heart and then cut it loose.
But you know better than to think, I’d let you see me in a hole I didn’t dig. Best left well enough alone. No such thing as far away, til you found a home. In the days that we got numbered, Indifferent to our wills. I hope I get to see you, and we both got time to kill. Take it up to New York City. We’ll call it bulletproof. Change my worst ways cold turkey. Fill up my heart and keep it with you. You know better than to think, I’d let you see me in a life I didn’t pick. Best left well enough alone. Nothing’s far away, when I’m home.

Bulletproof

14	SWEET LORRAINE

I know that I left you, but not a single thing has changed I hate that I love you, but I love you, sweet Lorraine I met some nice girls, not one deserves to speak your name
I hate that I love you, but I love you, sweet Lorraine.

Sweet Lorraine

15	WE GOT THE SPIRIT

We got the spirit. We got the spirit. Going to bring it home. Come on brothers and sisters. Come on brothers and sisters. We hear you out there.

We Got The Spirit

16	TAKE ME HOME

Just lay your baggage on the tarmac, my dear. Those crooked suitcases bring you to tears. When you going to realize you can just leave it all here and take me home. Girl, take me home. There’s no point in saying sorry. There’s no point in casting blame. Even stupid junkies know time don’t work on shame. I know how we got here, but not why we came. Take me home. Girl, take me home. I might be shallow, but all I want is Jesus thinking I’m a real cool dude. I hope he likes the desperate ways I’m living and my secret tattoo. I just went around the corner and said I’d be right back, but now I’m fastened to these low-down tracks with steel cuffs and steel chains and I keep taking smacks. Take me home. Girl, take me home. I need so bad what I know you’re keeping deep inside your anxious heart. I know full well that everything ends. You know, not everything gets a chance to start. Take me, baby. Take me home.

Thanks.

Red Rattles

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