Hootie & the Blowfish

Why am I always the last one to say how I feel?
It’s like driving down the middle of the road
with no hands on the wheel
And I keep hearing stories about the guy who was killed while he prayed
Well you should go ahead and say it ’cause we’re all gonna die anyway
State your peace,
go ahead and say it I swear it can’t get much worse
Make a piece of history,
a blessing from a curse before it gets worse
You can try and be a hero but people keep dying everyday
You can keep earning money but your money keeps burning away
And it feels like the future’s always waiting on the tip of my tongue
Like a cat holding back ’till it’s too late the damage is done
State your peace,
go ahead and say it,
I swear it can’t get much worse
Make a piece of history,
a blessing from a curse before it gets worse
You can try and change the world by showing everyone a better way
But the world’s gonna do what the world’s gonna do at the end of the day
State your peace,
go ahead and say it,
I swear it can’t get much worse
Make your peace with history,
a blessing from a curse
State your peace
blow it wide open, did you find you an oyster pearl
Make your piece with history
you just might be the one who can change the world
Can you save the world
You can change the world

Time why you punish me?
Like a wave bashing into the shore
You wash away my dreams

Time why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying

Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow?
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time

Time, I don’t understand
Children killing in the street
Dying for the color of a rag

Time hey, there red and blue
Wash them in the ocean, make them clean
Maybe their mother won’t cry tonight

Can you teach me about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
But tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in

Time is wasting time is walking
You ain’t no friend of mine, I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind, thinking about time
And if I die tomorrow, just lay me down in sleep

Time is wasting time is walking
You ain’t no friend of mine
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind, thinking about time

Time you left me standing there
Like a tree growing all alone
The wind just stripped me bare, stripped me bare

Time the past has come and gone
The future’s far away
And now only lasts for one second, one second

Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow, running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time

You ain’t no friend of mine
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind

Walking, wasting
You ain’t no friend of mine
And I don’t know where I’m goin’
No, no, no, no

Time without courage
And time without fear
is just wasted, wasted
Wasted time

Time why you punish me?

I see it inside your eyes,
feel it in your soul
A part of you is moving on,
the other half is gone
I don’t know what you want from me,
no, you lock it all inside
I try to give you everything,
but there’s nothing else that I can hide
We’ve been trying so long
You’ve been pushing too hard
You should say what’s wrong and echo what’s right
You need a little space and I need mine
When you and I all alone, it feels so damn crowded
The house we share is not a home when you’re inside it
So, now, I go and pack my things, girl,
I must be moving on
I couldn’t stand to face you,
so I, I guess that’s why I wrote this song
You’ve been trying so long
We’ve been pushing too hard
You should say what’s wrong and echo what’s right
You need a little space and I need mine
Oh, oh, oh, we’ve been trying so long
You’ve been pushing too hard
You should say what’s wrong and echo what’s right
You need a little space and I need mine
You need a little space and I need mine

You’ve got your big girls
Now you have your young one too
Wonder if someday I can have them
The way I once had you

I remember your crazy remarks
We’d get drunk and go out after dark
Searching for someone we could take home

CHORUS
You don’t wanna be alone
You don’t wanna see the sun go down
You don’t wanna open the door
And see her go
One step and tomorrow comes
Two steps and she’s off with someone
Three steps and it’s all you know
You’ll be gone, she’ll be gone

So, what are you gonna do about me?
I’ll be there when you have no one else
* Spot in the ocean in the south’s holy land
I’ll be there, be your friend

Hold on strong, don’t let go
There’ll never be no one to take your place
So, don’t you wanna reach out and take my hand

CHORUS X 2

One step and tomorrow comes
Two steps and she’s off with someone
Three steps and it’s all you know
You’ll be gone, she’ll be gone

Something so innocent,
began then came and went
keeps coming back to around to haunt you in the end
You think we’re fighting now,
it’s all the same somehow,
loves tortured all artist wrecks the masterpiece again
Used to be clear what the looking glass said,
now everything’s hazy baby nothing’s making sense

Hey sister pretty, your lips are on the city,
everybody’s waiting for the honeymoon to end
I’m still trying to stop this thing from dying,
don’t forget to kiss me before you beat me up again

Nothing so powerful yet so frustrating,
Nothing so personal as a gift that’s from your heart
Nothing so damaging so devastating,
Nothing so close yet so far apart

It used to be clear what the looking glass said,
now everything’s hazy baby nothing’s making sense
Hey sister pretty, your lips are on the city,
everybody’s waiting for the honeymoon to end
I’m still trying to stop this thing from dying,
don’t forget to kiss me before you beat me up again
Hey sister pretty, your lips are on the city,
everybody’s waiting for the honeymoon to end
I’m still trying to stop this thing from dying,
Don’t forget to kiss me before you beat me up again
Don’t forget to kiss me before you beat me up you beat me up again

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Come on try and tell me what you’re talkin’ about
Those things you’re dealing with, you’re living a lie
Every time I see you it makes me wanna cry

Sometimes we laughed and talked, seems like yesterday
Then you let the white horse come and take you away
They came to get you, it was cold and black
The wheels were in motion, there was no turning back

Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil, devil, yeah
Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil

I gave up on you a long time ago
But there’s something I want you to know
Your lyin’ and cheatin’ really tore us apart
Please don’t come home if you’re gonna break my momma’s heart

Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil, devil, yeah
Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil
Runnin’, runnin’, runnin’, yeah
Don’t make me cry again, no, no, oh

Love that stayin’ by
Love that you make me cry
You’re runnin’, you’re runnin’
You’re runnin’, runnin, runnin’, runnin’
Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no

Runnin’ from an angel
Runnin’ to the devil, devil, devil, devil
Runnin’ from an angel

Time is singing by, time you made me cry, oh, oh
You’ll do what you gotta do, I still love you
Runnin’, runnin’

Sunshine, on the horizon
Over two young lovers, while it’s going down
Somewhere, the same sun rising
On another two lovers, as the world goes `round

Same scene played over and over
Same sweet passion, same warm blood
Softly speaking the universal language
So many lovers, one love

CHORUS
One love might make the difference (One Love)
Might take the walls and tear them down
One light might keep on shining (One Love)
If we take one love and we spread it around

Old religions, new generations
Caught in a struggle about a righteous way
Can’t see the forest for all the frustrations
So many lyin’, so many dyin’
But only one love

Chorus

Too many stories, weave a common thread
Too many roads traveled, all reach the same end

Same scene play’s over and over now
Same young passion, same red blood
Universal language goes unspoken
Too much hatred, to much hatred now
But only one love

CHORUS X 2

Sunshine, on the horizon
Over two young lovers, while it’s going down

I saw her standing there
Tears upon her cheek told me something was wrong
I asked her what it was
She looked away and said “My daddy’s home”

I knew what that meant
It meant that I could never see her again
I had seen this once before
I didn’t wanna deal with it anymore

“Look away” she said, as she turned to me
And when I tried to hold her, I couldn’t let her be
Let her be, let her be

I said “Why, why do you make me cry?”
She said, “I love you so, look away I don’t wanna know”
I saw her standing there
Tears upon her cheek told me something’s wrong
I said, “What baby”
She looked away and said “My daddy’s home”

“Look away” she said, and she turned to me
But darling, oh I loved her, couldn’t let her be
Let her be, let her be

“Look away, look away”
She said, “I love you so, look away”

I was a little lost
Rode home on my bicycle
The night was warm and it was June
Charleston gets so hot so soon
It reminded me of leaving

Walked into a crowded room
Looked around for a place to stand
Everyone I did not know, and knew
Reminded me of you
Reminded me of leaving, this evening
Reminded me of leaving,
Reminded me of you

Stood so near the ocean
Wearing only your birthday suits
We were tripping eight miles high
Shooting stars, your blue disguise
Reminded me of leaving, this evening
Reminded me of leaving, just breathing
Reminded me of leaving

I was a little lost

Well I hope that I don’t fall in love with you
‘Cause falling in love just makes me blue
Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
And I hope that I don’t fall in love with you
Well the room is crowded, people everywhere
And I wonder should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown,
Take that frown and break it, before the evening’s gone away,
I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don’t fall in love with you
Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tomcat feelings you don’t understand,
Well I turn around to look at you; you light a cigarette,
I wish I had the guts to bum one, but we’ve never met
And I hope that I don’t fall in love with you
I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
And it being late, you’d like some some company
Well I turn around to look at you, and you look back at me,
The guy you’re with has up and split the chair next to you’s free
And I hope that you don’t fall in love with me
Now it’s closing time, the music’s fading out
Last call for drinks, I’ll have another stout
Well I turn around to look at you; you’re nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face,
Guess I’ll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you

Robin’ Robin in the tree
Won’t you come down here and rescue me
Cause there’s someplace else I gotta see
And you can stand in for me for awhile

Come on now hurry down
No time to play around
I need someone to walk this mile
She jumped and said like a child

Love is gone but now I see
You’ve got to capture me to set me free

Miss Mina came to me in a dream
She said, “boy come and walk with me
There’s someplace I’ve got to see”
So we strolled along the mountain high

She called me boy my friend
And I wondered if or even when
I’d see Greta and my Rose again
The time has come for dealing

Lessons learned but now I see
You’ve got to capture me to set me free

I flew on the wings of a bird
And I whispered names of girls I once knew
Then she disappeared into a fallen stream

She sits alone by a lamppost
Trying to find a thought that’s escaped her mind
She says dad’s the one I love the most
But Stipe’s not far behind

She never lets me in
Only tells me where she’s been
When she’s had too much to drink
I say that I don’t care
I just run my hands through her dark hair
Then I pray to God you gotta help me fly away
And just

CHORUS
Let her cry
If the tears fall down like rain
Let her sing
If it eases all her pain
Let her go
Let her walk right out on me
And if the sun comes up tomorrow
Let her be, let her be

This morning I woke up alone
Found a note standin’ by the phone
Saying, “Baby, maybe I’ll be back someday”
I wanted to look for you
You walked in I didn’t know just what I should do
So, I sat back down and had a beer and felt sorry for myself
Saying

CHORUS X 2

Last night I tried to leave
Cried so much I could not believe
She was the same girl I fell in love with long ago
She went in the back to get high
And I sat down on my couch and cried
Yelling “Oh mama, please help me
Won’t you hold my hand”
And

CHORUS X 2

Every time I look at you, I go blind
Every time I look at you, I go blind
In the mornin’ I get up, and I try to
Feel alive, but I can’t
Every time I look at you, I go blind
I don’t know what it is
Something in me just won’t give me a chance
I think it’s that I feel more confused
By the deal love has shown me
Little child, did you know that there’s a light,
And it’s gonna shine right through your eyes
What do you think that life is like?
Every time I look at you, I go blind
I go blind
Well somewhere over there there’s a purpose,
There’s a care for free
In me there’s no body, no one plan,
No one stand to be free
I think it’s that because I have seen all the fuss
And it’s no big deal, No big deal
Hold me, hold me ’cause I want to get higher and higher,
Higher than life

Well, an old man said to me
In a voice filled with pain
“Where you going, young man?”
Said, “I’m going to fight a war
Gonna fight for my country in some foreign land”

He said, “The sun will never hurt you
Never harmed anyone, but you must realize
If you try to stare her down
She will win in the end
She will burn your eyes, she will burn them”

Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Well, I wonder, who will walk with me
When I get to Heaven

He said, “Boy I was young once
Yeah, I was tough, sailing on Uncle Sam’s boat
Hey, I could kill the enemy
I could die on foreign streets
But I could not vote”

“But now you walk by me
You won’t talk to me, say this is my fate
But every time you walk, the streets, boy
Most of them you meet, you see
It’s you they hate, it’s you, yeah”

Seen a million faces
Seen a million places die, places die
Well, I wonder who will walk with me
When I get to Heaven, I hope I get there

Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Well, I wonder, who will walk with me
When I get there

See this woman sitting next to me?
She’s been there for a long, long, time
And when I fell, she picked me up
And when I cried, she wiped my tears
I thank God she’s mine

And when I leave this world
She won’t have anything, but her love for me
Well, the man took everything else
He made me hate myself, so just let her be, boy
Won’t you let her be? Yeah

Seen a million places
Seen a million faces die
Seen a million mothers cry
Seen a million brothers dying

But I wonder who will walk with me
When I get there, when I get to Heaven
I hope I get there
When I get to Heaven, yeah

Trouble with the world is we’re too busy to think about it, alright
Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?
Tired of hearin’ this shit about heritage not hate
Time to make the world a better place

Why must we hate one another?
Well, no matter what we gotta live together
Just that you don’t look like me, tell me what do you see
When we pa*s on the street what do you wanna see

P E ‘s coming is all I gotta say
Wanna turn and run away
They’re just telling you how they see it
Right or wrong they don’t care, you wish that they would quit

Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Nancy singing it’s a hard life wherever you go
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Well, tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?

Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you’re my brother
You don’t walk like me, I said that, you don’t talk like me, saying
Go back to Africa, I just don’t understand

Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you, don’t look like you

Drowning, yeah I’m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
I’m a man, well, I’m a man, I’m a man
No, I’m not like you
Why do you hate me so
I don’t know, well, I don’t know, I don’t know

Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Oh drowning
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Drowning

Last night had a crazy dream
You were everywhere it seemed
You were filling up my soul
Doin’ everything to make me whole
Read about you in the Sunday paper
Saw your face on the evening news
When I woke everything was gone
And I remembered we were through
Don’t come ’round here no more

CHORUS
Hey get out of my mind
Then you tell me we got things to say
You come around here looking so fine
Makes it so hard to walk away
Oh, get out of my head
Because that look there could leave me dead
Then you tell me that you love me

Remember you were the one to leave
I came back home and I couldn’t believe
I know I would have given anything
You took it all and you made me think
Why would she leave me for another man
What does he have, Lord, that I don’t have
I see you stayin’ in his fancy home
I put on Lauren and I drink alone and say
Don’t come ’round here no more

CHORUS

I’ll be there for you
I remember when I said that I would
Always love you, too
I lied
Don’t come around no more

CHORUS X 2

With a little love, and some tenderness
We’ll walk upon the water
We’ll rise above the mess
With a little peace, and some harmony
We’ll take the world together
We’ll take ’em by the hand

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you

Yesterday
I saw you standing there
Your head was down, your eyes were red
No comb had touched your hair

I said get up, and let me see you smile
We’ll take a walk together
Walk the road awhile

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you
Won’t you let me run with you? yeah
Hold my Hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my Hand
I’ll take you to a place where you can be
Hold my Hand
Anything you wanna be because
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can

See I was wasted, and I was wasting time
‘Till I thought about your problems, I thought about your crimes
Then I stood up, and then I screamed aloud
I don’t wanna be part of your problems
Don’t wanna be part of your crowd, no

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you
Ah, won’t you let me run with you?

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can’t change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can, yeah

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to a place where you can be
Hold my hand
Anything you wanna be because
I… oh… no, no, no, no,no

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can’t change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, best that I can
Oh, the best that I can

I don’t care about your man’s reputation
I don’t care what you say about him
All I know is you’re some kind of woman,
and, it won’t be tonight,
but, girl, you’re gonna give in

Go and give him his walking papers
Tell him things that he never knew
Don’t you hear what your new man’s saying, girl?
Now you know what you’ve got to do now.

Go and tell him you can’t see him again
Go and tell him you can’t see him again
You can’t say that you don’t think about me late at night, lying in your bed
Stirring the soup
and you start to dreamin’ about the times that we had
and the times that I said now

Go and tell him you can’t see him again
Go and tell him you can’t see him again
I don’t care about your man’s reputation
I don’t care what your man’s gonna do
You can tell that you’re gonna come running, baby
I can tell that you’re gonna come soon
Go and tell him you can’t see him again
Go and tell him, nah, you can’t see him again (You can’t see him right now)
Go and tell him you can’t see him again
Go and tell him that you are gone
Go and tell him that you are gone
Go and tell him that you are gone
I said, go and tell him that you are gone
Go, you can tell
Go and tell him girl
Let him know you’re coming home with me tonight
Oh, oh, oh

I heard a preacher man speaking on the radio
Remember thinking that I’d like to tell him where to go
Go back to that book that you’ve been waving around
Open it up, and go to that part about
You without sin, pick up that stone
You without sin, pick up that stone
He’s turning it over, to the other side
He’s turning it over now, ’cause now you can’t hide
All that lies beneath, all the lies beneath
The killing stone, oh
Saw another fella talking on the TV show
Trying to tell me how to live and just how I should vote
He says he believes in the sanctity of life
100,000 died
Tell me are you sanctified
Now you without sin, pick up that stone
You without sin, pick up that stone
He’s turning it over, to the other side
He’s turning it over now, ’cause you can’t hide
All that lies beneath, all the lies beneath
The killing stone, oooohhhh
We’re all looking for redemption
But is it for our souls
You without sin, pick up that stone
You without sin, pick up that stone
You without sin, pick up that stone
You without sin, pick up that stone
He’s turning it over, to the other side
He’s turning it over, turning it over now ’cause you can’t hide
All that lies beneath, all the lies beneath
You can’t hide beneath
The killing stone, oh, oh, oh
Killing stone
Oh no, you’re down on
(The killing stone)
Stone, stone, oh
(The killing stone)
Stone

You and me, we come from different worlds
You like to laugh at me
When I look at other girls

Sometimes you’re crazy and you wonder why
I’m such a baby
‘Cause the Dolphins make me cry
Well, there’s nothing I can do
I been looking for a girl like you

You look at me, you got nothing left to say
I’m gonna balance you until I get my way
I won’t dance, you won’t sing
I just want to love you
But you want to wear my ring

Well, there’s nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Put on a little Dylan, sitting on a fence
I say that line is great, you ask me what it meant by:
“Said I shot a man named Gray, took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks, and when she died
It came to me, I can’t help it if I’m lucky”

I only wanna be with you
Ain’t Bobby so cool?
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I’m tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna by with you

Sometimes I wonder if it will ever end
You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends
Sometimes you’re crazy, and you wonder why
I’m such a baby, yeah, the Dolphins make me cry
Well, there’s nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you

You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I’m tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you