Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by
My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision and followed with the wind
Till next I came to anchor at the cross near Spancill Hill

T'was on the 23rd June the day before the fair
When lreland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there
The young ,the old, the brave, the bold came their duty to fill
At the parish church at Cluney just a mile from Spancill Hill

I went to see my neighbors to hear what they might say
The old ones were all dead and gone the young one's turning grey
I met the tailor Quigley, he's bold as ever still
Sure he used to mend my britches when I lived at Spancill Hill

I paid a flying visit to my first and only love
She's fair as any lily and gentle as a dove
She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still
She was Meg the farmers daughter and the pride of Spancill Hill

I've been the girl with her skirt pulled high
Been the outcast never running with mascara eyes
Now I see the world as a candy store
With a cigarette smile, saying things you can't ignore
Like mommy I love you
Daddy I hate you
Brother I need you
Lover, hey, "fuck you"
I can see everything here with my third eye
Like the blue in the sky

If God is a DJ
Life is a dance floor
Love is the rhythm
You are the music
You get what you're given
And somehow you use it

I've been the girl - middle finger in the air
Unaffected by rumors, the truth
I don't care
So open your mouth and stick out your tongue
You might as well let go you can't take back what you've done
So find a new lifestyle
A reason to smile

Look for Nirvana
Under the strobe lights
Sequins and sex dreams
You whisper to methere's no reason to cry
You take what you get and you get what you give
I say don't run from yourself, man, that's no way to live
I've got a record in my bag you should give it a spin
Lift your hands in the air so that life can begin

Get your ass on the dance floor now...

Watch her as she flew deep within the blue
A day out from the county I.C.U.
There's nothing you can do
Someone gently says to you
The doctor says that now it won't be long
I try and live up til the moment and I hope that I don't blow it
And what is it in me that she hears?
It's just a song she likes
Her little arms around my neck
And a dying girl whispers in my ear

Tell me now can you feel it?
I've been keeping company with a ghost
She comes to me like a piece of summer
She comes to me on the days when I need it most

Well summer dies and nothing lasts forever
And you're so fine, the way you stand up to your fears
The summer dies and its just moments we have together
I'd give my bones for you to get a few more years
For you and I
More than life than trying to survive

My girlfriend took pictures of me as I held you
I travel alone and the loneliness brings me to tears

Stronger than the hands that hold you
You sing along to the song on the radio
If I drank too much when I am with this
Just this once would you forgive this

And hold on, the days gone by
Tell me now can you feel it?
I can't keep this all to myself
She's elegant and she means it, no
Years for you and I

Watch her as she flew deep within the blue
Watch her as she slips away from you
I'll keep fingers crossed always for you

Stand up straight
Do your trick
Turn on the stars
Jupiter shines so bright
When you're around
They tell us slow down
We're too young you need to grow
The speed's the key
And they don't know who we are

And who's to say that we're not good enough?
And who's to say that this is not our love?

Mother don't tell me friends are the ones that I lose
Cause they'd bleed before you
And sometimes family are the ones you'd choose
It's too late now
I hold on to this life I found

And who's to say we won't burn it out?
And who's to say we wont sink in doubt?
Who's to say that we wont fade today?
Who are they anyway?
Anyway, anyway they don't know

And you say we're too young
But maybe you're too old to remember
And I try to pretend but I just feel it when we're together
And if you don't believe me, you never really knew us
You never really knew

You and I, packing up my room, we feel alright
We're not welcome
Soon we'll be driving
Cause they don't know who we are
Who's to say we won't stay together?
Who's to say we aren't getting stronger?
Who's to say I can't live without you?
Who are they anyway?
Anyway, anyway they don't know

Who's to say?
And who's to say?
Who are they anyway?
Stand up boy, I shine so bright when you're around

All the world has gone to bed
And I am drowning in it's silence
But a solitude is in my head
From you, baby

And if the silence was a song
Well, its rhythm grooves and it's a private radio
And on this night I did belong
In harmony

And you can't deny me
And you will oblige me
It's my melody
When the night comes
When no one knows
I can feel it
I've got my private radio

Find me out of my pillow
Cause I'm lyin' here
But I am ready good to go
And on a whim I leave this town
Or not, I'll stay and chase the sun now
Catch me, not care
Call me later

Morning's risin
All the world has gone to bed
And there's a sound inside my head
And in the dark inside my bed
And the melody inside my head
There's a part of me no one will never know
And midnight comes and I know I'm on my own
There's a part of me no one will ever see
There's a part of me no one will ever leave be
My private radio

Life is a mystery
Everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name and it feels like Home

When you call my name , it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour, I can feel your power
Just like a prayer
You know I'll take you there

I hear your voice, it's like an angel sighing
I have no choice
I hear your voice, feels like flying
I closed my eyes
Oh God, I think I'm falling out of the sky
I close my eyes
Heaven
Help me

Like a child, you whisper softly to me
You're in control just like a child, now I'm dancing
It's like a dream, no end and no beginning
You're here with me, it's like a dream
LetThe choir sing

Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery
Just like a dream, you are not what you seem
Just like a prayer, no choice
Your voice can take me there.
It's like a dream to me

I've got a bad disease
But from my brain is where I bleed
Insanity it seems
Has got me by my soul to squeeze

Well all the love from thee
With all the dying trees I scream.
The angels in my dreams
Have turned to demons of greed that's mean

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time

Today love smiled on me
It took away my face say please
All that you had to free
You gotta let it be

Oh, so polite indeed
Well I got everything I need
Oh make my days a breeze
And take away my self destruction

It's bitter baby
And it's very sweet
I'm on a rollercoaster
but I'm on my feet
Take me to the river
Let me on your shore
I'll be coming back baby
I'll be coming back for more

Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone
Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad

I could not forget
But I will not endeavor
Simple pleasures aren't as special
But I wont regret it never

Where I go I just don't know
I might end up somewhere in Mexico
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna keep you for the end of time

They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you made it
Oh I, do you?

A funny thing
The king who gets himself assassinated

Hey now, every time I lose
Altitude

You took a town by storm the mess you made was nominated
Oh I, do you?

Now put away your welcome
Soon you'll find you've overstayed it

Altitude
So divine

Hell of an Elevator
All the while my fortune faded

Never mind
The consequences of the crime this time my fortune faded

The medicated state of mind
You'll find is overrated
You saw it all come down and now its time to imitate it

Come on God , do I seem bulletproof?

Wait how long would you wait
Just for me to call
I know you make mistakes
Yeah, butI hope some day you have it all

Cause I feel like a prisoner
Trapped inside this broken world
While I'm playing the victim again
Running in circles
To me it's all the same
And though nothing's gonna change

I hope someday you have it all
Take this aggravation that I've thrown myself into
Change this situation
Cause I need something new
If we could all dependon what we know
If you could understand
I'm losing control

Peace is what they tell me
Love am I unholy
Lies are what they tell me
Despise you that control me
The peace is dead in my soul

I have blamed the reasons for
My intentions poor
Yes I'm the one who
The only one who
Would carry on this far
Torn, I'm filthy

Born in my own misery
Stole all that you gave me
Control you claim you save me
The peace is dead in my soul
I have blamed the reasons for
My intentions poor

Yes I'm the one who
The only one who
Would carry on this far
Peace in my head
Love in my head
Lies lies in my head.

How can we fake this
And take anymore?
Looking up blindly
And try to ignore
It's better to miss it
There's no point of view
It's only a problem when it happens to you

Well thanks for making this so easy
What's the point if it's so easy?
Why the fuck is it so easy?
Why's it don't you say?

Coz we're doing fine
And we don't need to be told
And we're doing fine
Coz we won't give you control
And we don't need anything from you
And we'll be just fine
Coz we won't be bought and sold
Just like you

Lies in the sender
When nothing is true
Don't be surprised
When it all comes back to you
Are you on a mission
To lose our control?
Or waiting for tradgedy to unfold?

What makes you think that it's so easy?
I don't believe it'll be so easy
Why the fuck would it be so easy?
Why's it don't you say?

So how long has this gone
I don't see this ending
It's too late we can't change
What has now begun
We act like it's not right
What are we protecting?
We've been wrong for so long
We've known this all along

You created these problems
And you don't know what to do
You know you can solve them
But you can't be bothered to
You created these problems
And you don't know what to do
You know you can solve them
But you can't be bothered to

It's been a long time coming
I don't know where to begin
I don't know how to get out there...To see you
I don't know where to dig in
I don't know how to get in there...To feel you

It's been to long and I'm about to be in time for me
It's been to long and I'm in time
Baby there's something about you thatI can hold on to
I'm going to hold on to that
I never thought I would win
I never thought much about that
I never stopped to begin
Thinking about the process

And I'm going to be there...Be there... alright...

Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication

It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
Sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging

First born unicorn
Dream of Californication


Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away

Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population everybody's been there
AndI don't mean on vacation

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving

Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I drive on her streets
Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie
I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day

Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way
It's hard to believe
That there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe
That I'm all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all that way
Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
I could not get enough
Forgot about my love
I gave my life away

I'm slipping away
In every way
I can't stay awake and I don't know why
I'm slipping away and I don't know why
I'm trying to make it through each day
I'm falling apart now in every way
I'm finding it harder to get byT
here's a hole in my heart
And I don't know why
Now I've come to realize
I'm slipping away

Take everything left from me. All to blame
How can we still succeed, taking what we don't need?
Telling lies, alibis, selling all the hate that we breed
Supersize our tragedy(You cannot defy me, or justify greed!)
Bought in the land of the free

And we're all to blame
We've gone too far
From pride to shame
We're trying so hard
We're dying in vain
We're hopelessly blissful and blind
To all we are
We want it all with no sacrifice
Realize we spend our lives living in a culture of fear.
Stand to salute, saying thanks to the man of the year.

It's greed that we just can't resist
We want it all
Everyone wants it all with no sacrifice
Tell me now, what have we done?
We don't know
I can't allow what is being done to tear it down
Believe me now, we don't know just what
With our backs against the wall
When all we need
Is something true
I do believe
Don't we all?
Everyone, We will fall
Cause we're all to blame

Regrets are all you left on your lipstick stains
Take a picture of our past there in that ashtray
We had our fun, I used to light your flame
Like the dancing smoke that rose we tried to find our way
No one told me, she told me

Your love's like one last cigarette
Last cigarette, I will savor it
The last cigarette
Take it in and hold your breath, hope it never ends
But when it's gone

Just to breathe reminds me of what used to be
The smoke's the ghost that keeps you close when I can't sleep
Don't ask the past to last
It's about to change
The memories don't answer when I call your name
No one told me, she told me

One I can't forget, the last cigarette
Right there at my fingertips
I got your taste still on my lips
Right or wrong
You're still gone
You always lose the girl in a Brian Wilson world

Your love's like one last cigarette ...

Maybe we're all different
But we're still the same
We all got the blood of Eden running through our veins
I know sometimes it's hard for you to see
You're caught between just who you are and who you want to be

If you feel alone and lost and need a friend
Remember every new beginning is some beginning's end
Welcome to wherever you are

This is your life
You made it this far
Welcome, you got to believe
That right here, right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be

When everybody's in and you're left out
And you feel you're drowning in the shadow of a doubt
Everyone's a miracle in their own way
Just listen to yourself, not what other people say
When it seems you're lost, alone and feelin' down
Remember, everybody's different; just take a look around

Be who you want to be, be who you are
Everyone's a hero, everyone's a star
When you want to give up and your heart's about to break
Remember that you're perfect
God's makes no mistakes

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat
It’s all I ever

I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on

Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray’s full and I’m spillin’ my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Scarlet starlet and she’s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread

Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It’s not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it’s born again

With all of this I know now
Everything inside of my head
It all just goes to show how
Nothing I know changes me at all

Again I wait for this to change instead
To tear the world in two
Another night with her
But I'm always wanting you

Use me
Holy come on and use me
We know where we go
We go where we know
With all of this I feel now

Everything inside of my heart
It all just seems to be how
Nothing I feel pulls at me at all
Again I wait for this to pull apart
To break my time in two
Another night with her
But I'm always wanting you
We know where we go
We go where we know

She's all I need
She's all I dream
She's all I'm always wanting
Yeah I'm always wanting you

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Push me up against the wall
Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra
Fallin’ all over myself
To lick your heart and taste your health ’cause

Blood loss in a bathroom stall
Southern girl with a scarlet drawl
Wave good-bye to ma and pa ’cause
Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl
Autumn’s sweet we call it fall
I’ll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view ...

Maybe nothing else will ever be so clear
Or maybe that's only my fear
If just for one day I wish I could disappear
Just take me far from here
Maybe I'd find out nothing new
Maybe I'd end up just like you

There's no solution
Give me truth to my conviction
Is my own confusion
Reality or fiction
Am I out of my mind

This constant pressure that keeps hanging over me
It makes me feel so empty
It's more than anything that I could ever be
What else could you take from me
It's getting harder to relate
Don't want to make the same mistakes

It took me so long to find out it's right
There in front of me
Too close to see
What I thought was true
I see right through what's killing
So maybe nothing else will ever be so clear
Or maybe that's only my fear
If just for one day I wish I could disappear
Just take me far from here

Some say we're never meant to grow up
I'm sure they never knew enough
I know the pressures won't go away
It's too late

Find out the difference somehow
It's too late to even have faith
Don't think things will ever change
You must be dreaming

Think before you make up your mind
You don't seem to realize
I can do this on my own
And if I fall I'll take it all
It's so easy after all

Believe me 'cause now's the time to try
Don't wait, the chance will pass you by
Time's up to figure it out
You can't say it's too late
Seems like everything we knew
Turned out were never even true
Don't trust, things will never change
You must be dreaming

Think before you make up your mind
You don't seem to realize
I can do this on my own
And if I fall I'll take it all
It's so easy after all

Some say we're better off without
Knowing what life is all about
I'm sure they'll never realize the way
It's too late
Somehow it's different everyday
In some ways it never fades away
Seems like it's never gonna change
I must be dreaming

Think before you make up your mind
You don't seem to realize
I can do this on my own
Think before you make up your mind
You don't seem to realize
I can do this on my own
And if I fall I'll take it all
It's so easy after all
Believe me, it's alright
It's so easy after all
Believe me, it's alright
It's so easy after all


-Full Lyrics-

I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

I'm 33 for a moment
Still the man
But you see I'm a they
A kid on the way
A family on my mind

I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life

Time to buy, Time to lose yourself
Within a morning star
15 I'm all right with you

Half time goes by
Suddenly you’re wise
Another blink of an eye
67 is gone

The sun is getting high
We're moving on...
I'm 99 for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
22 I feel her too
33 you’re on your way
Every day's a new day...
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

I never said I'd lie and wait forever
If I died, we'd be together
I can't always just forget her
But she could try
At the end of the world
Or the last thing I see

Could I? Should I?
And all the things that you never ever told me
And all the smiles that are ever
Get the feeling that you're never
All alone and I remember now
At the top of my lungs in my arms she dies

At the end of the world
Or the last thing I see
And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me
For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me
If I fall...

I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss.

Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, letting me go
And I just can't look
Its killing me
And taking control

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes

Cause I'm Mr Brightside

Put away your tears and your sleepy eyes
Put away that bullshit
Big boys they don’t cry to their mama’s
Sshe’ll be back soon

Put away your raincoat and make your bed
Take another bullet right to your head
We’re going on a picnic and we’ll get there soon
She said ­maybe it’s over
He said­ there’s plenty more fish in the sea
I said­ don’t go away from me

­Put away your dinner and have a snack
Tie your little brother up in a sack now
We’re moving to the country and we’ll get there soon

Pack up all the things that you don’t deserve
Take another swing
Here comes a curve ball
I bet you can’t hit it cause you’ll swing too soon

Take those damn pictures off that shelf
Put away your mommy you don’t need her
I found you a new one
She’ll be here soon
She said ­my God it’s over
He said­ I found another fish in the sea
I said­ why me? Why me? Why me? Why is it me?

Can i get your hand to write on
Just a piece of leg to bite on
What a night to fly my kite on
Do you want to flash your light on
Take a alook its on display...for you

Coming down, no not today
Did you meet your fortune teller
Get it off with no propeller
Do it up its on with stella
What a way to finally smell her

Picking up but not too strong...for you
Take a piece and pass it on
Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together to fly on..

My windrebel and a liberator find a way to be a skater
Rev it up to levitate her
Super friendly aviator
Take a look its on display

In the water where i centre my emotion
All the world can pass me by
We're going to live together

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face
With arms wide open

Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, I'll take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life

Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything

If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he's not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world with arms wide open

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt

And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all You're my wonderwall