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Schoolbus Window Paper Heart

by Phil Ayoub

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1.
It was a late Indian summer morning almost fall Sue St. Therese had it all Two kids and one on the way Paul said it’s a beautiful day Don’t let it get away 9am they run through the street Watch it all from my TV Lay in bed and bury my head Don’t roll me over oh no Through it all an eagle flies Some people walk on some look paralyzed I pray through the glass for heaven tonight Some ask when do we dance Hope needs repair faith’s in a trance Schoolbus window paper heart’s our only chance 10am they run through the street Watch it all from my TV Lay in bed and bury my head Don’t roll me over oh no I don’t feel like rockin’ tonight I don’t know if it’ll ever be right Take this white feather off my arm Don’t roll me over oh no And I don’t feel I don’t feel I don’t feel I don’t feel I don’t feel I don’t feel And I don’t feel 10am they run through the street All I can feel and all I can see is Same scene that plays in my head Over and over and over and over and I don’t feel like rocking tonight I don’t know if it’ll ever be right Take this white feather off my arm And don’t roll me over oh no It was a late Indian summer morning almost fall
2.
All of a sudden I break from my mind I’m out in the open Alone tonight Baby I’m sorry I couldn’t stay The bittersweet end of Our carnival days I keep in touch with all my yesterdays Though they shine or fade away Some solid ground beneath my feet I feel you in a breeze I feel you when I breathe But all of a sudden I break from my mind I’m out in the open Alone tonight Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay The bittersweet end of Our carnival days Looking out on the road in front of me I can see it rise to where I’m free Two lovers in a race One will be replaced I chase you like a wave Holding on to what was love But all of a sudden I break from my mind I’m out in the open Alone tonight Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay The bittersweet end of Our carnival days All of a sudden I’m free from my mind I’m out in an open Field tonight The lights and the colors Are stripped from the midway The bittersweet end of Our carnival days All of a sudden I break from my mind I’m out in the open Alone tonight Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay The bittersweet end of Our carnival days
3.
Loving you was a full-time job But I’m not a working man You told me every night I didn’t understand Now and then the rain will fall The house gets cold and the car will stall I’m a stranger in a dark hallway I find the light but its too late I’m lying and stealing I’m lying and stealing Did you want to find a lover And just have a little fun To be the cream in your coffee The shiny ring on your finger The sugar on your tongue I’ll tell you baby That’ll never be me Take those shades off and take one look in my eyes And you will see Now and then the rain will fall A stranger calling too late to call Well I hope you take some of what I gave I hope I made nights less lonely baby You’re lying and stealing You were lying and stealing You can’t have Christmas without a birth Can’t have a chorus without a verse You don’t get to makeup without a fight You gotta walk through the shadow to feel the light I’m lying my way to your heart I’m lying to get what I want I’m lying my way to your heart And you’re stealing the soul from this house and this heart We’re lying and stealing We’re lying and stealing
4.
If you’ve got some wheels And you’ve got some time to kill Take a look like a child Who hasn’t seen the world Take an American car To an American highway rest stop Take it out too far Take it out too far There’s the easy listening There’s the trucker with shampoo There’s the Smith College rugby team Walking awkward in their shoes An American car An American highway rest stop Take it out too far Take it out too far Everyone’s watch tells a different time Everyone’s face rings a different bell It’s my idea of heaven It’s her idea of hell It’s the “Fine Gourmet Dining” at 4 in the morning It’s a roadside wishing well It’s the dripping vanilla It’s the burning smell It’s the seeing-eye dog in the truck If God takes you away before you die This is where you end up An American car At an American highway rest stop Take it out too far Take it out too far Just an American car At an American highway rest stop Take it out too far Take it out too far
5.
It’s the alibi you need When you must go straight When you leave before the thrill Throw the dice Turn your head away Turn your head and Light a candle say a prayer There’s something in this time of year But summer’s coming its in your ear We’ll take a taste Then we’ll disappear and Release An emotion Burning through this rain The freeway’s open Like a river To ocean And it all lets out The fever’s broken Go down and save the city It’s in need of a rescue It suffers from a chill Just a weekend in Vegas I can hear your heartbeat I can hear it Like a secret you meant to keep When all these things come creeping in The other side of Sunday morning A midnight kiss without a warning A release An emotion Burning through this rain The freeway’s open Like a river To ocean And it all lets out The fever’s broken Its quarter four bustin’ down the door Making love on the beds of the furniture store What’s wrong is right what’s right is wrong Pretty pink flamingos out on the lawn Step outside have a beer or cigarette and relax Do what you do to relax Do what you do to relax and Release An emotion Burning through this rain The freeway’s open Like a river Goes to ocean And it all lets out The fever’s broken Release An emotion Burning through this rain Like the rivers Go to ocean And it all lets out Release me Oh reveal me Heal me Feel me Release me Oh reveal me Heal me Feel me
6.
Girl on a train Drops her slippers at the stairs Has to slip by the stares She’s the New York kind Man on a bus Equipped with restless eyes Rests his eyes on a prize But it don’t add up to love but Could it be the best day Could it be the best time Could it be the best day Of their lives Fall out of bed and see He’s on bended knee Don’t believe in destiny Well Broadway It’s a long way down You’re looking for lights But you’re already downtown Designer girls With their designs on a love But Cinderella’s on the subway And Prince Charming’s on the bus, but Could it be the best day Could it be the best time Could it be the best day Of their lives Fall out of bed and see He’s on bended knee Don’t believe in destiny And I know there’s heartache waiting And I know there’s so much left to do And I know there’s something about you That‘ll you’ll never ever ever let through but Could it be the best day Could it be the best time Could it be the best day Of their lives Fall out of bed and see He’s on bended knee Don’t believe in destiny Could it be the best way Could it be the best time Could it be the best day Of their lives
7.
Lying underground I watched the lights go down I wanna be your friend I’ll love you oh depends I wanna lead the way I wanna separate I wanna light the light Low You say it’s been a long time Low You see it in a dull shine Low You say it’s been a long time Lying in my head I’m flying in my bed Nowhere to land in sight I’m alone at 29 I wanna save the day But I lost the bloody cape Trying still to fly Low You say it’s been a long time Low You see it in a dull shine Low You say it’s been a long time I lost it At the church yeah Disgusted I wanna save the day But I lost the bloody cape Alone at 29 Well what’s the whole damn crime I wanna walk away I never let love wait I wanna feel it Low You say it’s been a long time Low You see it in a dull shine Low You say it’s been a long time
8.
Honey its gotten late And the sun’s been down for hours I’m lying in this bed awake Trying to summon all my powers Not to run to you on a rail Not to cover you like rain Not to give in to the thing I miss A thousand miles for a goodnight kiss Well I’d drive all night Just to kiss your cheek in the morning The dawn it don’t deserve your light With the sunrise I’m falling Oh I’m at your feet Coming up through the sheets Lord have mercy on a boy like this A thousand miles for a goodnight kiss If I had you now I’d never leave Just kiss me now And you can go right back to sleep I’m not gonna lie just to argue Yeah I know sometimes I was guilty of Spending too much time making music And not enough time making love And driving you to another man With a money-back guarantee Oh well that ain’t lovin’ honey no But at least you’ll get more sleep Every girl thinks it’s about her But oh I’m only thinking of you I’ll be warm in your bed like a snow day We’ll sleep until quarter of two If you let me be your friendly neighbor I will be your ice cream man And you will be my favorite flavor I’ll have you melt in my mouth and in my hand and My goodnight kiss Goodnight kiss Goodnight girl
9.
She’ll bring you home to dinner But leave you hungry at the table You can never walk out Even though you’re good and able But it won’t last forever she’s the flame and you’re the candle She’ll tell you that it’s cold outside And take your only jacket Her majesty’s a mystery Perry Mason couldn’t crack it She’s got all the answers hell she even wrote the questions She’s just the ache with no heart She’ll make you wait all night Then she’ll pay you no mind You know she’s poison But you take a shot She’s just the ache with no heart She’s literary turpentine She’s power to the people She’s personable hopelessness She’s registered deceitful She’s the cliffhanger ending when you’re waiting on the sequel She’ll let you rub her lamp But she won’t let out the genie You know exactly what I’m talking about She don’t believe in L-O-V-E It ain’t the way it’s supposed to be you’re the lock she’s got the key She’s just the ache with no heart She’ll make you wait all night Then she’ll pay you no mind You know she’s poison But you take a shot She’s just the ache with no heart She’s the drunk guy sitting next to you On a never ending train ride She’s the last line of the poem When you just can’t get the rhyme right You don’t stand a chance she’s got a gun and it’s a fistfight Shoulda gotten out before the start She’ll make you wait all night Then she’ll pay you no mind You know she’s poison But you take a shot She’s just the ache with no heart You know she’s poison But you take a shot She’s just the ache with no heart
10.
It was a romance book story On the cutting room floor So good with a knife You showed me the door Well you can’t blame a man With a thousand scars For the things he does For his broken heart So if I walk down her path If I went down her path She’s in the mind Of every man She’s got a diamond on Both her hands She’s a mystery My lover or friend Tell me would it be The beginning or the end If I walk down her path If I went down her path Well I get a little cold in the nighttime And I don’t know what’s mine There are no rules in the end There are no rules tonight She makes me right When I’ve gone all wrong She lifts me up When I can’t hang on No you can’t blame a man With so many scars For the things he does For himself and his broken heart If I went down her path
11.
Believe 04:14
I see my brother on the side of the road but I can’t stop I see my lover with a smile at another that I can’t stop I see a mother with a white line in the sight line of her little one I see the sign of our time of blurred lines between the toys and the guns Peace love and the rain falls Sleep sheltered tonight Peace love and the rain falls But I believe in a holy gold And I believe in a desert rose And I can feel sun in the cold I believe in going home I see a holy man incensed with a devil’s heart A saint’s not a saint if his heart is torn apart I see a teacher in the street with her feet in ragged shoes I see a sidewalker flat on his back with his blanket news Peace love and the rain falls Sleep sheltered tonight Peace love and the rain falls But I believe in a holy gold And I believe in a desert rose And I can feel sun in the cold I believe in going home I believe in a purest faith A dog at the bedside at break of day Over the rainbow a day in May Brooklyn 42, MLK And I believe what we leave behind Is how a man and woman are defined And I believe in the bowed and straight All you need is love in 68 And I believe in a holy gold And I believe in a desert rose And I can feel sun in the cold I believe in going home I believe in a holy gold I believe in a desert rose I can feel sun in the cold I believe in going home I believe in a destined day When black and white make a lovely gray And I believe I believe an angel’s born And I believe in her Saad song And I believe Believe And I believe
12.
You wanna run How long how far how fast You wanna run But you can’t out run the past You wanna go To a place where nobody knows Where the white sand touches your toes And the garden blooms a red red red red red Under the cover It’s yours you discover The feeling that you might find The moment it slips your mind You only go Under the covers alone You never know You shut out the light and the phone You wanna go Dance in the cape summer sand Holding your mothers hand And let the world keep spinning around and around and around Under the cover It’s yours you discover The feeling that you might find The moment it slips your mind Soon you’ll be flying so high Soon you’ll be flying so high Soon you’ll be flying so high Soon you’ll be flying so high You will You will You will
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released June 1, 2006

Produced by Tim Bradshaw (former guitar and keyboard player with John Mayer and David Gray).

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