Overhead lyrics

OVERHEAD

1. let's use all the hangers

2. cover

3. how was your day

4. banner year

5. peddel (sic)

6. nine

7. sunday in december

8. ocean

9. keith moon

10. intermission - let's go to the kitchen

11. sunrise

12. overhead

13. bender

14. untitled

15. we're not done yet

16. the weather

17. old 61

18. 17

1. let's use all the hangers 

let's use all the hangers...let's use...

...all the hangers...what? i said what, too.

2. cover

when you're happy then i'm happy

and my eyes will surely tear

it's not easy being happy 

and we'll both be made fun of

i'm not sickly but i could be

if i followed trends more closely

they'll keep taunting

i'll stay happy

i can still feel your coat sleeve

shallow! stay out! you know better!

like a clear glass when i'm full up i look empty

and wishing i could know just for certain

what you know for sure

like the snap of a mind made up this could hurt me

this wishing i could know just for certain

what you know for sure

it's never one thing...

it's all at once

and it makes my breathing

harder than you know

when i know for certain that you know for sure

out on a line all alone so cover me

i'll move along but it's nothing that i know

so cover me

out of my mind and you know so cover me

i'll take the hard road and learn it as i move

straight and slow...

...think of the scenery...

3. how was your day

4. banner year

when the cold days

stretch forever on

excuses grow old

the snow provides us with prescious little time

(barely enough to breathe)

in the hardwood room the sanctuary's gone

but the room has never changed

then you hear you cry out

you'd be better off alone

in the harshest way...

if giving in is second nature

being alive is in vain

if keeping you at bay is the way i've wandered

i've lost again

then i wonder what it takes to get me home

nothing concrete

nothing like you

and one discrete ado does not an answer make

i'm safe i'm grounded i'm knee deep in this mud

(and i've grown to like the feel)

surrounded by tall tales

and the thickest cold skin walls...

...it's all laughable

if giving in is second nature

being alive is in vain

if keeping you at bay is the best i've offered

i've lost again

oh, it's been a banner year

i'm giving in it's now or never

i want to see with your faithful eyes everything

and keeping you at bay is so much overrated

it's clear again

5. peddel (sic)

been planning for a year now

yeah, i know

your cousins all will be there

think you should go

it's just two weeks on monday, it's just too hard

tell her how much i'm working

i'll send a card

no, she won't miss you at all

yes i'll let her know

she put this all together

she'll pull it apart

she knows you're working hard now

(she thinks you're smart)

it's just two weeks i started i'll have you know

and no i'm not heartbroken...

...but i wanted to go...

no, she won't miss you at all

this all ends today

two eyes

ninety years today

i don't mind

(i kinda feel like ninety years myself)

you're right to paint us all away i'll watch your smile

and wait and hold my breath until

you turn around

and scream from ninety years

how i've let you down

it's hard to not feel ninety here myself

don't mind me, i've nothing mean to say

i'll bite my toungue

and try to laugh this off on my ride home

you're right

today is not our day

and we don't mind

cuz fast comes the time

when you won't know our names

i'll turn around or cry for ninety years

how i've let you down

6. nine

7. sunday in december

other day i was hiding

the other day i was on my knees

you tried to keep me from fighting

but i pushed it

and you laugh at everything

you know secrets about me

secrets that make me run and hide

always keep me from falling

it's time to thank you

and push everything else aside

it's been a long december

so long that i'm remembering...

today you kept me from crying

maybe tomorrow you'll break me down

every time you enlightened

it's just one more time

i'll doubt everything around

you know secrets about me

secrets that make me want to die

you always keep me from falling

it's time to thank you

and push everything else aside

it's been a long december

so long that i'm remembering how it felt

when i was alone

it's been a long december

so long that i'm remembering how it felt

when i was alone

all my days were empty

i begged for change

all my so called friends

were too fucking high

you alone were listening

and every day was a cold sunday

8. ocean

9. keith moon

it's monday

and you're staring at trees again

(better find a reason somewhere)

it's funny when they don't even know it's you

by thursday pull the shades

turn the lights down dim

(better find a reason somewhere)

it's better when they don't even know it's you

hungry pages

ripe for the taking

shaking hands that can not feed you...

so far nothing gets me outside at all

unkept corners need to be tended to

i'm making a scene, i know

i'm making a scene (you know,too)

these inbetweens...

all in reverse...

...aren't so easy.

...sky was never so tall.

as i blended in i catch a glimpse

of what they were...

what were they?

so far nothing gets me outside at all

unkept corners need to be tended to

i'm making a scene i know

i'm making a scene i know

i'm making a scene i know

10. intermission - let's go to the kitchen

uh...go!

11. sunrise

getting retried

keep my teeth in

leave the porch door

or put the wreath inside

a glass of water is what my mouth is

bad touch?

that's what heading south is...

...for me.

i cleaned my head out

i let my hair down

i changed mysef so

you'd change me back again

i want the subtle

the peace and quiet

the straight and narrow...

...but you don't buy it.

i hate the winter

i want the sunrise

i want a sunrise twelve days long

when a fad becomes you

then a fan is what i am

i'm you're biggest fan.

12. overhead

13. bender

hi! i'm thirsty! can you help me?

i'll do exactly as you tell me!

my name's jimmy average guy!

a demographic!

i'm drive time!"

scott baio #1 has been

replaced by the #1 manson

wanna be rich wanna be a big star

cuz they save all the best drugs for them

thirsty? image is everything.

you'll drink when i say start drinking.

throw it at the wall, let me see what sticks, boy

here's the pitch, boy

swing batter! whoo!

"oh, i don't know...oh, i don't know"

oh, come on!

this is good!

this is what you wanted to hear!

this is good!

this is what you've lived through life for!

you're thirsty?

i can help you!

(just do exactly what i tell you...)

you're name's jimmy?

no it's not, son.

you've no name...

...i don't give names.

charles in charge #1 has been

replaced by mister or miss manson

wanna be rich wanna be a big cig star

(cuz they save all the good drugs for them!)

thirsty?

image is everything.

you will drink when i say start drinking.

throw it at the wall let's see what sticks, boy

here's the pitch, boy

swing batter!

whooo!

"oh, i don't know...oh, i don't know"

oh, come on!

this is good!

this is what you wanted to hear!

this is good!

this is what you've lived through life for!

"...through?"

born on a river

it was a highway for broken trees

and whatever else we could hide inside

move away to where they're from!

to where the stores are open later!

born in a small place

the world was as large as i

could get my legs to take me,

so it stayed small.

move away to where they're from!

to where there are stores on every corner!

bored by the river

a highway of soilent needs

whatever else we could hide inside

move away to where they're from!

and where the stores are open later!

14. untitled

15. we're not done yet

to you

shaking their hands

while inside your stomach turns

circles you find yourself in are all too fast

and you're still here

you know people just disappear sometimes

sometimes

i'd love to take this out on you...

...enough said.

you know all of the things you're hiding from?

they're still here.

circles you run in your head

get small too fast

it's all too clear.

borrowed heart on your sleeve

has worn too thin once again

i'd love to have some words with you...

...enough said.

believe me

i see you through eyes that used to be you

embarrassed

disgusting

so scared of being unwanted

believe me

i see you through all your layers of fighting

don't leave me

i need you

you're everything worth wanting...

first it starts in the corner there

try to steal what you've given back

work the nerve to share common air...

i can't bear to watch you throw you away.

to you

shaking their hands

(while inside your stomach turns)

to you

so open you're inside out with them

you'd do best to just put it all away.

you know people just disappear sometimes

...sometimes...

i'd love to shake this out of you...

...enough said.

16. the weather

17. old 61

hey boy

here you are again

my arms are open for you

i know you from one end to the other

each time

from one end to the other

you've spilled every secret here

they've fallen on my pin-striped ear

to you, boy

i'm your quiet admirer

listening with the patience of angels...

but you're all the same to me.

grow up, go south, go home,grow old.

you're one of a different breed

my north end never met your needs

i'm hush on your secret arrival

i'm touched by your grade school survival

these lies? they won't cut it, son.

you've been south, and you've forgotten

i know you from one end to the other

each time

from one home

to the other...

...you're all the same to me.

grow up, go south, go home, grow old.

the sky rains hate on those poor lonely towns

and one by one they'll fold

if you stayed you're the hero

and the ones who got away?

they are your clowns.

i don't play favorites.

i'm old and honest.

if you will listen, i'll keep you modest.

i'll never like you more than the others

but i'm asylum when they try to smother you.

i don't play favorites.

i'm old and honest.

my heavy shoulders will keep you modest.

i'll never like you more than the others

but i'm asylum when they try to smother you.

18. seventeen

the first two i got from my great grandfather

he'd give them to me on one of those days when

we'd get together and he'd tell tales of winter

storms and drift off into his native sweedish

tongue..."nothing's too good for the working man"

he'd say...man, if he only knew what he'd gotten 

me into.

the third one i didn't get 'til some time later.

i found it in chesney's junkyard while looking

for an alternator for some old buick i had

it's a bit dirty, but i like it, and use it a lot.

the fourth and fifth ones? well, i stole those

from a church two towns over - and yeah, i

know what you're thinking, but save your

breath cuz i got hit by that instant karma

lennon used to sing about three towns over

just on the way home that night.

but man, it was worth it.

i won the next three in a bet. it was a bet i never

should have took but i'd drank just enough

whiskey that night to set the wager in motion

shit, i could have lost everything...but what the

hell, i came out on top. the ninth one? well let's

just say i took a lot of heat getting that one -

and yeah, i pissed a few people off in the process

but i'm sure they've all forgotten by now. i let a

buddy borrow it once but he just didn't

appreciate like i do...so i don't talk to him

any more. as for the next few, i'd rather not say

where i got those. not a lot of people know about

it, and i just figure it's best to keep it that way.

besides, i plan on going back there some day,

and i'd hate for them to be all gone...

hard to be indifferent

too vague and incoherent

someone's telling me what some old man told him

can you keep this secret?

i have to keep this secret?

why are you telling me? what are you telling me?

i thought i'd die from boredom...

...but now i want to score some

you've got 17

i hope one day i'll have my own

i'll keep it warm

i'll keep it close

you say the word...

as for those last few, never mind where i got those.

those are just for looks.