Toad The Wet Sprocket songs
Something's Always Wrong:
Another day
I call and never speak
And you would say
nothing's changed at all
And I can't feel
much hope for anything
if I won't be there to catch you if you fall
Again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
Another game
of putting things aside
As if we'll come back to them sometime
A brace of hope
A pride of innocence
And you would say something has gone wrong
Again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
And again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
Something's always wrong
Something's always wrong
Crowing:
Been waiting to find
You could've been happier
given the time
If he'd make up his mind
You'd give yourself to anybody
who would cross that line
And it was never a question
He was crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Get over regrets
While you sleeping with the angels
he was under the bed
And the more skin that you shed
the more that the air in your throat will linger
when you call him your friend
And it was never a question
He was crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Staring at a cold little hand
Reading fault lines
of a shell of a man
You were waiting
for a word from above
Wouldn't you know it
no answer ever did come
And it was never a question
You were crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
And it was never a question
You were crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Good Intentions:
It's hard to rely on my good intentions
When my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
But I can't understand what I did last night
It's hard to rely on my own good senses
When I miss so much that requires attention
Have to laugh at myself sometimes
And I can see that I'm not blind
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
For all the things I've left behind
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I'm not afraid things won't get better
But it feels like this has gone on forever
You have to cry with your own blue tears
Have to laugh with your own good cheer
It's hard to rely on my good intentions
when my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
but I can't understand what I did last night
And it's hard to rely on my own good senses
when I miss so much that requires attention
I have to laugh at myself sometimes
And I can see that I'm not blind
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
For all the things I've left behind
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I'm not afraid things won't get better
but it feels like this has gone on forever
You have to cry with your own blue tears
have to laugh with your own good cheer
And it's hard to rely on my good intentions
when my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
but I can't understand what I did last night
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
Imagining the world outside
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I can't be hard on you
'Cause you know I've been there, too
Learned a lot of things from you
And life gives little release
Give us reprieve
When everyone is cold as ice
I clench my fists and close my eyes
Imagining the world outside
and I can see that I'm not blind
Are We Afraid:
Wasn't it hard
and did we want penance?
Summer's so long
Colder men when their ice prayer never came
Didn't we fight it
and weren't we hard?
Holding back a friend of mine
all the way coming home
Aren't we the ones who never got tired?
Wasn't it magic?
The flames rolled and I said okay
Weren't we just asking
for something to come our way?
Are we another, were we afraid?
Is there a hope that we'll wait
to walk a time
He's a long road
And I feel like a newborn again
But the night holds on
Hello, I'm coming home
Don't we mind wating
and are we ashamed?
Coming here in the black dark night
and I don't feel so strange
Are we the lady, were we afraid?
Are we the summer...
All She Said:
Will my bride sleep tonight softly?
Believe the words, as always lying
And she sleeps and dreams Lord knows what
But it's not for me to be there
And she knows she isn't there for me
It's just a way of protecting
And will my bride believe the lie?
Say, "It's alright,
still together till we die"
But she knows that words aren't always...
always what we mean to say
but still she says she loves me anyway
That's all she said
All she said
That's all she said
All she said...
One more word you speak and say good night
She would believe enchanted lies
I wait for her, but still inside
she's dreaming of Valentino's eyes
Far away...
in someone else's night
It isn't wrong but still it isn't right
That's all she said
All she said
That's all she said
All she said
All she said...
All Things in Time:
Call me up when you need
Strangers often deceive
And there's something so freeing
to call out a name
And someone's believing
I've been changing my mind
Through with looking behind
It's a crash course in life
The best you can do is get by
No getting out alive
I'll hold a light for you to see
All things in time
All you'll ever need
Something I can't explain
keeps me running, afraid
Every day it looks me in the face and says,
"Who'd you think you were anyway?"
If you'll hold a light for me to see
All things in time
All we'll ever need
Well, you told me so
We'd done this all before
So what is it that keeps us
coming back for more?
I'll hold a light for you to see
All things in time
All you'll ever need
All things in time, all you'll ever need
ever need...
Stories I Tell:
Don't give me answers for I would refuse
Yes is a word for which I have no use
And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell
Just someone to listen to stories I tell...
What is a blessing and what is a dream?
Caught between portraits and none's what it seems
And why is it some would expect there's a change
when I feel I'm a part of something I can't see?
And I feel the same
Don't offer questions or I will retreat
Fame is a cancer and ego its seed
And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell
Just someone to listen to stories I tell
Do we ever wonder?
Do you ever care?
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Subtle salvation in poems and prose
Hiding our heads in some shadow of home
And I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells
Someone to listen to stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
All I Want:
Nothing's so loud as hearing when we lie
Truth is not kind
and you've said neither am I
And the air outside, so soft, is saying everything
Everything
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
Nothing's so cold as closing the heart when all we need
is to free the soul
But we wouldn't be that brave, I know
And the air outside, so soft, confessing everything
Everything
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
And it won't matter now
Whatever happens to me
Though the air speaks of all we'll never be
it won't trouble me
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
And it feels so close
Let it take me in
Let it hold me so
I can feel it say...
Before You Were Born:
How can it happen that every time...
you ask us this question, the answer seems like a lie?
You know what we're saying
and you know what we mean
And it's always sincere, God knows, but it never gets through to where you need
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here anymore
And goddamn the people who left you in pain
And goddamn the father without face, without name
And goddamn the lovers who never showed up
And goddamn the wounds that show how deep a word can cut
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong
And how can it happen, now that you know the cause,
that nothing is changing and everything's wrong?
But pain is the healing
And the tears sting like alcohol
Oh, just keep on there breathing
We'll help you down the long, long road back home
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here anymore
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
We'll help you down the long road
I Will Not Take These Things For Granted:
One part of me just wants to tell you everything
One part just needs the quiet
And if I'm lonely here, I'm lonely here
And on the telephone
you offer reassurance
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
How can I hold the part of me
that only you can carry?
It needs a strength I haven't found
But if it's frightening, I'll bear the cold
And on the telephone
you offer warm asylum
I'm listening
flowers in the garden
laughter in the hall
children in the park
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
anymore
To crawl inside the wire and feel something near me
To feel this accepting
that it is lonely here, but not alone
And on the telephone
you offer visions dancing
I'm listening
music in the bedroom
laughter in the hall
dive into the ocean
singing by the fire
running through the forest
standing in the wind
and rolling canyons
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
anymore
Another day
I call and never speak
And you would say
nothing's changed at all
And I can't feel
much hope for anything
if I won't be there to catch you if you fall
Again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
Another game
of putting things aside
As if we'll come back to them sometime
A brace of hope
A pride of innocence
And you would say something has gone wrong
Again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
And again it seems we meet
in the spaces inbetween
We always say it won't be long
But something's always wrong
Something's always wrong
Something's always wrong
Crowing:
Been waiting to find
You could've been happier
given the time
If he'd make up his mind
You'd give yourself to anybody
who would cross that line
And it was never a question
He was crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Get over regrets
While you sleeping with the angels
he was under the bed
And the more skin that you shed
the more that the air in your throat will linger
when you call him your friend
And it was never a question
He was crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Staring at a cold little hand
Reading fault lines
of a shell of a man
You were waiting
for a word from above
Wouldn't you know it
no answer ever did come
And it was never a question
You were crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
And it was never a question
You were crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
You couldn't keep him there
Good Intentions:
It's hard to rely on my good intentions
When my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
But I can't understand what I did last night
It's hard to rely on my own good senses
When I miss so much that requires attention
Have to laugh at myself sometimes
And I can see that I'm not blind
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
For all the things I've left behind
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I'm not afraid things won't get better
But it feels like this has gone on forever
You have to cry with your own blue tears
Have to laugh with your own good cheer
It's hard to rely on my good intentions
when my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
but I can't understand what I did last night
And it's hard to rely on my own good senses
when I miss so much that requires attention
I have to laugh at myself sometimes
And I can see that I'm not blind
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
For all the things I've left behind
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I'm not afraid things won't get better
but it feels like this has gone on forever
You have to cry with your own blue tears
have to laugh with your own good cheer
And it's hard to rely on my good intentions
when my head's full of things that I can't mention
Seems I usually get things right
but I can't understand what I did last night
There's little relief
Give us reprieve
Imagining the world outside
I'm positive that I'm not blind
I can't be hard on you
'Cause you know I've been there, too
Learned a lot of things from you
And life gives little release
Give us reprieve
When everyone is cold as ice
I clench my fists and close my eyes
Imagining the world outside
and I can see that I'm not blind
Are We Afraid:
Wasn't it hard
and did we want penance?
Summer's so long
Colder men when their ice prayer never came
Didn't we fight it
and weren't we hard?
Holding back a friend of mine
all the way coming home
Aren't we the ones who never got tired?
Wasn't it magic?
The flames rolled and I said okay
Weren't we just asking
for something to come our way?
Are we another, were we afraid?
Is there a hope that we'll wait
to walk a time
He's a long road
And I feel like a newborn again
But the night holds on
Hello, I'm coming home
Don't we mind wating
and are we ashamed?
Coming here in the black dark night
and I don't feel so strange
Are we the lady, were we afraid?
Are we the summer...
All She Said:
Will my bride sleep tonight softly?
Believe the words, as always lying
And she sleeps and dreams Lord knows what
But it's not for me to be there
And she knows she isn't there for me
It's just a way of protecting
And will my bride believe the lie?
Say, "It's alright,
still together till we die"
But she knows that words aren't always...
always what we mean to say
but still she says she loves me anyway
That's all she said
All she said
That's all she said
All she said...
One more word you speak and say good night
She would believe enchanted lies
I wait for her, but still inside
she's dreaming of Valentino's eyes
Far away...
in someone else's night
It isn't wrong but still it isn't right
That's all she said
All she said
That's all she said
All she said
All she said...
All Things in Time:
Call me up when you need
Strangers often deceive
And there's something so freeing
to call out a name
And someone's believing
I've been changing my mind
Through with looking behind
It's a crash course in life
The best you can do is get by
No getting out alive
I'll hold a light for you to see
All things in time
All you'll ever need
Something I can't explain
keeps me running, afraid
Every day it looks me in the face and says,
"Who'd you think you were anyway?"
If you'll hold a light for me to see
All things in time
All we'll ever need
Well, you told me so
We'd done this all before
So what is it that keeps us
coming back for more?
I'll hold a light for you to see
All things in time
All you'll ever need
All things in time, all you'll ever need
ever need...
Stories I Tell:
Don't give me answers for I would refuse
Yes is a word for which I have no use
And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell
Just someone to listen to stories I tell...
What is a blessing and what is a dream?
Caught between portraits and none's what it seems
And why is it some would expect there's a change
when I feel I'm a part of something I can't see?
And I feel the same
Don't offer questions or I will retreat
Fame is a cancer and ego its seed
And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell
Just someone to listen to stories I tell
Do we ever wonder?
Do you ever care?
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Subtle salvation in poems and prose
Hiding our heads in some shadow of home
And I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells
Someone to listen to stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
Stories I tell
All I Want:
Nothing's so loud as hearing when we lie
Truth is not kind
and you've said neither am I
And the air outside, so soft, is saying everything
Everything
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
Nothing's so cold as closing the heart when all we need
is to free the soul
But we wouldn't be that brave, I know
And the air outside, so soft, confessing everything
Everything
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
And it won't matter now
Whatever happens to me
Though the air speaks of all we'll never be
it won't trouble me
All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say...
And it feels so close
Let it take me in
Let it hold me so
I can feel it say...
Before You Were Born:
How can it happen that every time...
you ask us this question, the answer seems like a lie?
You know what we're saying
and you know what we mean
And it's always sincere, God knows, but it never gets through to where you need
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here anymore
And goddamn the people who left you in pain
And goddamn the father without face, without name
And goddamn the lovers who never showed up
And goddamn the wounds that show how deep a word can cut
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong
And how can it happen, now that you know the cause,
that nothing is changing and everything's wrong?
But pain is the healing
And the tears sting like alcohol
Oh, just keep on there breathing
We'll help you down the long, long road back home
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here anymore
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
We'll help you down the long road
I Will Not Take These Things For Granted:
One part of me just wants to tell you everything
One part just needs the quiet
And if I'm lonely here, I'm lonely here
And on the telephone
you offer reassurance
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
How can I hold the part of me
that only you can carry?
It needs a strength I haven't found
But if it's frightening, I'll bear the cold
And on the telephone
you offer warm asylum
I'm listening
flowers in the garden
laughter in the hall
children in the park
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
anymore
To crawl inside the wire and feel something near me
To feel this accepting
that it is lonely here, but not alone
And on the telephone
you offer visions dancing
I'm listening
music in the bedroom
laughter in the hall
dive into the ocean
singing by the fire
running through the forest
standing in the wind
and rolling canyons
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things...
anymore