Sleep

i tell you how i feel, but you don't care
i say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
you say love is a hell you cannot bare
and i say, give mine back
and then go there for all i care

i got my feet on the ground
and i dont go to sleep to dream
you got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body, and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around
i got my own hell to raise

i have never been so insulted
in all my life
i could swallow the seas
to wash down all this pride
first you run like a fool
just to be at my side
and now you run like a fool
but you just run to hide
and i can't abide

To Dream

don't make it a big deal
don't be so sensitive
we're not playing a game anymore
you don't have to be so defensive

don't you plead me your case
don't bother to explain
don't even show me your face
cuz it's a crying shame
just go back to the rock
from under which you came
take the sorrow you gave
and all the stakes you claimed
and don't forget the blame

i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body, and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around
i got my own hell to raise

Fiona Apple

Never Is

you'll never see the courage i know
its colors' richness won't appear within your view
i'll never glow the way that you glow
your presence dominates the judgements made on you

but as the scenery grows i see in different lights
the shades and shadows undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch i see from greater heights
i understand what i am still to proud to mention, to you

you'll say you understand
but you don't understand
you'll say you'll never give up seeing eye to eye
but never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

you'll never touch these things that i hold
the skin of my emotions lies beneath my own
you'll never feel the heat of this soul
my fever burns me deeper than i've ever shown to you

A Promise

you'll say "don't fear your dreams"
it's easier than it seems
you'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high
but never is a promise and you can't afford to lie

you'll never live this life that i live
i'll never live the life that wakes me in the night
you'll never hear the message i give
you'll say it looks as though i might give up this fight

but as the scenery grows i see in different lights
the shades and shadows undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch i see from greater heights
i realize what i am now too smart to mention, to you

you'll say you understand
you'll never understand
i'll say i'll never wake up knowing how or why
i don't know what to believe in
you don't know who i am
you'll say i need appeasing when i start to cry
but never is a promise and i'll never need a lie

Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple

Sally's Song

i sense there's something in the wind

that seems like tragedy's at hand

and though i'd like to stand by him

can't shake this feeling that i have

the worst is just around the bend

and does he notice

my feelings for him?

and will he see

how much he means to me?

i think it's not to be

what will become of my dear friend?

where will his actions lead us than?

although i'd like to join the crowd

in their in enthusiastic cloud

try as i may it doesn't last

and will we ever

end up together?

no i think not

it's never to become

for i am not the one

Picture / "Autumn In The Village" by Marc Chagall

Fiona Apple

River, Stay Away From My Door

you keep going your way

i'll keep going my way

river, stay away from my door

i just got a cabin

you don't need my cabin

river, stay away from my door

don't come up any higher

i'm so all alone

leave my bed and my fire

that's all i own

i ain't breaking your heart

don't go breaking my heart

river, stay away from my door

oh lord, ain't been faithful

and worked damn hard in the sweat and sun

oh lord, didn't i pray for you

and thanked you for all you've done

oh lord, you made the river

but won't you try to remember

that you made me too

oh lord, hear me pray to you and

make the river hear my plea

i'll keep breaking your heart

don't go breaking my heart

oh river, stay away from my door

river, stay away from my door

Picture / "The Kiss" by Francesco Hayez

Fiona Apple

Shadow Boxer

once my lover, now my friend

what a cruel thing to pretend

what a cunning way to condescend

once my lover, and now my friend

oh, you creep up like the clouds

and you set my soul at ease

then you let your love abound

and you bring me to my knees

oh, its evil, babe, the way you let your

grace enrapture me

when well you know, i'd be insance

to ever let that dirty game recapture me

you made me a shadowboxer, baby

i wanna be ready for what you do

i been swinging all around me

'cause i don't know when you're

gonna make your move

oh, your gaze is dangereous

and you fill your space so sweet

if i let you get too close

you'll set your spell on me

so darlin' i just wanna say

just in case i don't come through

i was on to every play

i just wanted you

but, oh, it's so evil, my love, the way you've

no reverence to my concern

so i'll be sure to stay weary of you, love

to save the pain of

once my flame and twice my burn

Fiona Apple

Across The Universe

words are flying out like

endless rain into a paper cup

they slither while they pass

they slip away across the universe

pools of sorrow waves of joy

are drifting thorough my open mind

possessing and caressing me

jai guru deva om

nothing's gonna change my world

images of broken light which

dance before me like a million eyes

that call me on and on across the universe

thoughts meander like a

restless wind inside a letter box

they tumble blindly as

they make their way across the universe

jai guru deva om

nothing's gonna change my world

sounds of laughter shades of life

are ringing through my open ears

exciting and inviting me

limitless undying love which

shines around me like a million suns

it calls me on and on across the universe

jai guru deva om

nothing's gonna change my world

jai guru deva

"Across The Universe" The Beatles