Lyrics for - Background Static of
Perpetual Discontent
© 2014 What the Zuck Publishing
1. Face The Music
Is it you, or is it me?
That lives in simple truths or lies you see
I’m still getting to know myself.
Do you know you?
Well, maybe it's time
That we face the music; start taking control
Responsibility for words we say and thoughts of who we are
When we face the music; start taking control
Life begins to show us all the beautiful things that we’ve been looking for
Take this victory song. Learn to love yourself all along the way
This is the time more than just the top enjoy the climb.
Join this revolution, to love yourself each and every day
When we face the music; start taking control
Opens up the heart space more and more
When we face the music; one day at a time
Open up your heart and let the love come in and the light shine out
If you’re going to love me; I want you to know
Listen to my music, not the radio
If you get to know me; come on take it in, all that spoon fed music stop listening
If you’re going to love me; I want you to know
Listen to my music, not the radio.
If you get to know me come on let me in, listen to my music let the show begin.
2. The Turn Around
I know better than to say forever after what happened to me that cold December
You broke off, a piece of, my beautiful heart I’m weighing in at ok, I’m ok, and we’re ok, for that I’m saying
You tore me to pieces and tore me to shreds
I’m thanking you now because I turned around
I solemnly swear not to do it again
I’m taking a bow because I turned around.
And if you take notice to my brand new style
I’ll be thanking you much
I made the turned around
I guess I’m still trying to make some amends for giving an inch and how you took a mile
Put together pieces of my broken heart
Forgetting deeply that it came to start and if it comes repeating
I can now easily say no, no, no, no!
My clouds have cleared
My sun has fully risen.
Feels like sunshine upon my historical prison
In no way, I’ve given anything less than good
So give me what I deserve for that I’ll be willing and ready
Win some - loose some ;it’s all part of the plan.
Me falling down and getting back on my feet again
Win some - lose some; it’s all part of the plan
Take a good look at me
Now, I’m a better man
A better man - I am
3. Cause I'm Gone
Are you missing me baby? 'Cause I’m gone
And you know it’s hard to carry on
Are you missing me baby? 'Cause I’m gone
And you know it’s hard to carry on
Are you missing me baby ?
'Cause u know it’s me that keeps you company
Now that u r free
Will you still download my mp3’s?
And still think of me when I’m gone?
Bridge: Ah ah ah yeah..ah ah ah yeah; are you missing me?
Chorus
So you want me up? But you bring me down
So you want me up? But you bring me down
So you want me up? But you bring me down
So you want me up? Then don’t bring me down
Are you missing me baby? 'Cause I’m done
Well, I thought I was your number 1
Exchanging you for something fun
'Cause I don’t want a rerun
4. I Just Wanna Be Me
They call me Mr. Sensitive, an all original child
Always getting picked on from a group gone wild
I never knew the obvious
I never understood what this was doing inside of me; just that it didn’t feel good.
Why can’t I be indifferent like the other boys?
Detaching from emotional sure would make it easier
I never knew the difference; I never understood
Tried so hard fitting in, but didn’t think I could.
You don’t even know that your killing me softly
I don’t wanna cry, I don’t wanna break down
Why do I have to feel so deeply?
I don’t wanna be like everybody else and put my feelings aside
I just want to be me!
Sometimes I want to be indestructible and not really care What you do or say to me, I just want it to roll off my back
I want to be popular
I want to be adored
Put me right back up on stage
I want that big reward.
I don’t wanna be the type of fighter that just fights with gloves on
Even though I feel strong, inside I’m not so strong
I wish sometimes to be like you, but I do know I won’t be true to myself - to myself
I think it’s time to be myself
I don’t wanna be the type of writer that just writes the loves songs even though I love songs and now I feel the love
I sometimes need it to release what happens on the inside
No longer can it be denied more or less it’s bonafide.
I’m feeling lucky to be me and I don’t even care what you are thinking about me 'cause I am who I am
5. Guilty Pleasure
I know - I know this reoccurring scene is oh too, oh too, oh so too familiar
It’s so - it’s so hard to be the good one, when I am sometimes not feeling so good.
If you’ve got what I need and it’s not so bad for me, it’s just my once in a while; my guilty pleasure
I am, I am, tempted don’t assume that I,
I can, I can, yes, I can say no
Put away, put away, the feeling good until
The weekend is the time to let go
If you’ve got what I need and it’s not so bad for me
It’s just my once in a while; my guilty pleasure
I often cannot resist
There is some beauty in this
It’s just my once in a while my guilty pleasure.
Ah ah ah oh my guilty pleasure
Ah ah ah oh come pleasure me
You know you get a little like this
Just a once in a while where you indulge a little sacrifice and break the old style
A certain kinda' something makes it sometimes so good to feel
Our guilty pleasure helps it when it’s so hard to deal
Chorus
6. GO
Go away from here today
You make me feel so cold
So cold on the inside
Red is flashing in my head; coming from what you said you want to take it slow
Hey, you think you know me well, but I can surely tell that you really don’t
Red is flashing in my eyes; I’m feeling paralyzed
I think you’re kind of pro- at this
So you think that you can dance around a second chance you really ought to know
You and me we used to live together once upon a time
You and me we used to think forever we were so sublime turned to a crime show
I really want to see you GO!
Green is now my color red
It’s time for you to head straight out my front door
You’ve got nothing more to say, it’s just another day in Fidel Castro land
I can see right through your clothes that final kiss I know was obviously planned
You can’t make me stay, you threw me away
I don’t want to play; I’m so naked
I don’t want to stay; you just go away
I’m so going to take you to the bank
Hey, you think you know me well, well I’ve got news for you, you’re going straight to
You make me feel so cold on the inside
You wish I took it all in stride you make me run and hide
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at all… just GO!
7. Human Connection
Remember the times when we used to write letters to that special guy
Checking the mailbox for it every single day just to get a reply
What ever happened to that human connection
What ever happened to that one on one time
What ever happened to that human connection
We could all use just a little more kindness
Remember the times when we used to talk face to face?
If not
We were inclined to call up a friend and talk hours on the phone just so we could unwind.
What ever happened to that human connection
What ever happened to that one on one time
What would we do without Facebook and texting would we be ok for just a short time
If we could rewind to a different place and a different time
Remember the times when we’d smile at a neighbor help each other and do favors just to be a good friend?
What ever happened to those swear on pinky promises when, when did it end?
8. Evaporate
Your love is like a circus and I’m not the animal to tame
I brought the best out of you; I’m left with anger; who’s to blame?
My head’s in spinning cycles you keep it up go ahead and try
And I come from different fabric and it’s time to hang it up to dry
And I can still see you climbing in through windows pretending you’re the one
If only I would give you another chance, but it just feels so wrong
I cannot wait for you to escape evaporate - Evaporate
All of this toxicity inside of me that you inject you see
You’re no good for me; I know I must leave you
Why is it so hard?
You play the role of victim I play the demon... oh, so strong
By now you ought to know me this is my Alanis Morissette song
Keep jumping hoops to find me
I’m not telling you what you should do
I’m taking back my freedom
Getting rid of what I had tattooed
And every time you try to play superhero I begin to yawn
And you cannot pretend to play Romeo because Juliet is gone
This thing that you call love is bringing me down
It’s such a shame that it’s not over baby
This picture perfect world dressed up like a clown
I’m asking more and more for real love maybe
This love is a three-ring circus and I know which ring comes off my finger
9. Bandage
Bandage, won’t you come around before I hit the ground?
Wrap me up 'cause I am damaged Won’t you appease?
I’m’ hurt so cover me so I cannot see
Myself, I close my eyes
All dressed up disguise
Because of all the baggage, please up pack me
I don’t want to see I’m naked underneath
When you dress me - expose enough to see
Not so tight so I can breathe
Wounded from last night; why is it so hard to see the light?
Don’t knock me when I’m down
And if it comes around next time no one means no crime
The hurt won’t be as bad cause I’m stronger so don’t knock me when I’m...
Heal me so I can go to sleep the pain is underneath
The cut ever so deep
10. I Fall Down
One male said to another it’s ok to feel this way but
Attraction none I get from that discretion is discovered (2nd time recovered)
Lead me to my adolescents how it still confuses me - the fur, the coat, the invitation
Mind into nervous state oral fixation not on purpose, sometimes we’re led to believe everybody else has purpose
We all get to go to Cony Island just to have a ball
A little drunk and then I start to
Fall down on my knees begging you please to forgive me this time I fall down
Don’t say the words, I cannot blame you for being this hurt I fall down
Love is one, two another, three can get a little crowded, especially if that one is the one I won’t allow
And when I was five I would crawl onto the sharpened razor’s edge
Soon, we must decide which way to fall
11. Apart
I’ve been without while you’ve been with and I don’t want to be without anymore
I felt cheated by you; so mistreated so why is it you that I still adore?
Well, it’s you and me every night you see that keeps playing with my heart
So give us a try no more those goodbyes and those endings with a depart
Every time I try you deny
It’s tearing me apart - don’t wanna be apart
I’ve been longing for the you that I dreamed of
Now, I’m lost in my words and sounds
It’s been weeks since you walked me out your door
Now, I'm lost in my world I found
Well, it’s you again every night you spend with me takes me back to the start
Then you walk away every time I stay ripping up my work of art
Every time I try you deny
And it’s tearing me apart
Don’t wanna be apart
12. What About Me?
I can tell what you want, I can tell what you need
Your love’s a hunger to feed
I can’t seem to erase; the wink of your eye; the smile on your face
Come on and love me
All I need’s that one night with you!
The face of person and the body to carry me through
Don’t give up what we can be
I’ll say my prayers so we can be free
You say the hell with me!
When you’re all alone and it feels so wrong so you call me up on the telephone and say! HEY!
What about me?
It’s your notion, your devotion, my sexuality
It’s the right time, to invite time, it’s what makes my society
Love me …love me
What about me?
13. Who's That Cat?
It’s a Saturday night; the moon is full …you see this cat and she’s smoking on this looooong cigarette
Story goes something like
Ooooh What’s that noise? It’s coming from the alley grooving with those ghetto boys
Ooooh Who’s that cat? She’s got her head up high and she’s smoking on that cigarette
Ooohh Can she move? Each step she takes, takes to that alley groove
Oooh it’s starting to make sense why the cat’s doing the strut on my baby’s white picked fence
Who’s that cat? Where did she come from?
You know she’s making all the noise with all the right boys tonight
Oooh who’s that cat? She’s my pet peeve lover and she might be the cathouse delight
Oohh there she goes, she’s a walking stalking woman and she knows that nobody knows
Who’s that kitty? Man, she’s so pretty you know she’s making all the right noise with all the right boys tonight
Oooh who’s that cat? She’s my pet peeve lover and she might be the cathouse delight