Deluxe Atomic Gazebo
She takes the highway eastbound
And the silent snow drifts down – singin those highway blues
She gets the strangest feeling – feeling something’s wrong
and this old world is reeling, trying to understand
how the hourglass is running out of sand
It’s the year zero
And the crowd cries ‘oh no, where did all our time go?’
But I’ll be safe and sound, inside my deluxe atomic gazebo
I’ll be safe and sound, inside my deluxe atomic gazebo
Well tonight I’m flying solo – tired of that mumbo jumbo
I see the runway lights climbing out – last call for Saskatchewan
And she is all alone in the back row – more of that same old show
watching the same old movie over again still too afraid to find out how it ends
It’s the year zero
And the crowd cries ‘oh no, where did all our time go?’
But I’ll be safe and sound, inside my deluxe atomic gazebo
I’ll be safe and sound, inside my deluxe atomic gazebo
Obscurity
Now I’m out here in obscurity
If you’re feeling low you know you can visit me
I’ve been learning from the best
how to languish and look good doing it
there are many here like me
lost souls at the edge of the galaxy
grasping fine threads of sanity
Now I’m living in obscurity
If you’re feeling lonely you can visit me
Soon you’ll join us in obscurity
Things will happen in the spring,
says the optimist inside of me
Waiting for the phone to ring,
drift off to the sound of the pouring rain,
wake up finding you’re on the train
The air is much the same, only no one there knows your name
You say you won’t be coming down, you’re on a rocket sled straight to the ground
Dreaming of your great escape
Wake up – to find you’re already on the train…
obscurity calling, can you hear it calling you
next stop wake up
The Big Black
Send me up into the big black
I don’t know if I’ll be coming back
Now it’s lost you can’t restore it so I’m better off in orbit
We say we’re free but we can’t get out
I’m all strapped in and I’m counting down
It’s hard to take I can’t fake it anymore
This might sound strange but I’d rather be in space
I’m already lost and alone and this place is not my home
Send me up into the big black
I don’t know if I’ll be coming back
Now it’s changed I can’t ignore it so I’d rather be in orbit
All our lives making future plans
Then overnight they are washed away like sand
Taken by the tide out of our hands
They say isolation liberates the mind
Climb aboard my space station leave the manic pace behind
Send me up into the big black
I don’t know if I’ll be coming back – ahh probably not
send me up into the big (the big black)
send me up into the big (the big black)
send me up into the big black
Frankenstein Lab
In my Frankenstein lab I will make a monster just to prove I can
In my Frankenstein lab I will split the world in two and give you half
Ooh ooh in my frankenstein lab
Aah aah in my frankenstein lab
They call me a mad scientist
I call it a misunderstanding
ya don’t need a pilot until
you have to come in for a landing
In my Frankenstein lab gonna write a joke and everyone will laugh
In my Frankenstein lab I will build a creature that can kick your ass
They call me a mad scientist
I call it a misunderstanding
‘don’t need a pilot until
you have to come in for a landing
We can all be forgiven for feeling just a little bit crazy
It’s a mad mad world out there baby
And when you need a pilot
I’ll be right beside you
Rocket Summer
You can’t be in two places at one time
so I’m hanging on the phone line waiting for the sound of distant thunder
I can’t find a thread of hope to hold on to
So I send this message back to you
The moon light came crashing through my window pane
And I dream of rocket summer, wondering what the weather’s like on Io
I can’t find a thread of hope to hold on to
So I point my telescope into the blue
Flight plan loaded, fueled and ready to go
Caught by circumstances beyond our control
I can’t find a thread of hope to hold on to
So I hope this message reaches you
Don’t Take No for an Answer
when all your dreams are turning into nightmares
and every door is closed when you get there
History will tell you the same story
If it’s any consolation
once you’ve been around the block forever
and all your words have fallen on deaf ears
still you keep holding out for heaven
in these strange years
Don’t take no for an answer
Don’t tempt fate’s evil side
The road they say, is paved with good intentions
And demons live only in the mind
So we keep holding out for heaven
in these strange times
don’t take no for an answer
don’t tempt fate’s evil side
don’t let anything stop you
and don’t take no this time
don’t take no for an anwser
don’t take fate for a ride
knowing that time ins’t on your side
when all your dreams are turning into nightmares
and every door is closed when you get there
history will tell you the same story
don’t take no for an answer
don’t tempt fate’s evil side
don’t let anything stop you
and don’t take no for an answer
you needed just to learn in time that all the world is waiting for the chance to find you all along
Leave a Message After the Tone
Please leave a message after the tone
I’m so sorry I’m not at home
I just stepped out to watch a movie
your call is so important to me
How could I have known? (we’ll be right back)
As I watched the show (cut us some slack)
please can you find in your heart to forgive me? (it’s nothing personal)
please leave a message after the tone
if you have faith in me, I’ll right this travesty
so rest assured my friends, this will not happen again!
A Way to a Place
I took the road less travelled on by ordinary men
lost on the path of resistance into hell and back again.
I’m, holding out a hand for survivers in the mist
And I’m trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.
Not quite at home in the present? have to change the road you’re on
All this may be an illusion, time to cross the rubicon
Time, is counting down the days as you work through your bucket list
And I’m trying to find a way to a place that may never exist
Are we all on own these days?
can we ever go home?
I’m holding out in hope that the future starts making sense
And I’m trying to find a road to a place where the dream still exists.
you can never go home they say, are we all on our own these days?
you can never go home they say, are we all on our own these days?
Can we ever go home?
At War With You
Well it’s all a little crazy now can’t understand what it’s all about
So many ways to be connected yet communication’s braking down
We made mountains move and walked on the moon
I don’t want to be at war with you
When we know we should be trying to make our dreams come true
I don’t want to be at war with you
Don’t want to be at war
If we only had a time machine to just clear the slate and start again
But we never learn from history and now you see the mess we’re in
If we could talk it out I’d be over the moon
I don’t want to be at war with you
When we know we should be trying to make our dreams come true
I don’t want to be at war with you
I don’t want to be at war with you
When we know we know we only want to see our dreams come true
I don’t want to be at war with you
I don’t want to be at war with you
I don’t want to be at war
Can’t Fight Gravity
We live in a world that is upside down, and they say don’t fight gravity
They’re tilting the game keeping you in doubt and so you don’t fight gravity, they say you can’t fight gravity
No one remembers the simple life and why you can’t fight gravity
Logic was lost and the truth capsized and now you don’t fight gravity, they say you can’t fight gravity
But they’re wrong, they just don’t want you to fly
and they hope, that you won’t even try, that you won’t even try
Well they’re wrong, they just don’t want you to fly
and they hope, that you won’t even try, that you won’t even try
No they don’t want you to fly, and they hope that you won’t even try
Saturday to the Rescue
Out of my hands my life has been
Drifting at sea, blown by the wind
Look in my eyes you’d understand
It’s been out of control for so long
A working day ocean I navigate through
Can’t wait to get out of this monkey suit
And just when I’m falling it’s Saturday to the rescue
One of these days we’ll save the world
We said when we had so much time
but now we’re grounded before the maiden flight
But one of these days, I still might
A working day ocean I navigate through
Can’t wait to get out of this monkey suit
And just when I’m falling it’s Saturday to the rescue
Saturday to the rescue
A working day ocean I navigate through
Can’t wait to get out of this monkey suit
And just when I’m falling it’s Saturday to the rescue
Saturday to the rescue
Saturday to the rescue…
Superman is Dead
Ahh ooh where are you Superman?
I was there at the first attack watching the brave and mighty fall
I broke away I’m not going back no one’s answering the call
Superman is dead and the dark is closing in
superman is dead, and the war will soon begin
and all the criminals are free (loving misery) and they laughing at me (laughing laughing)
calling superman,
calling superman
Calling Superman
Tall buildings in a single bound but now he’s nowhere to be found
At night they’re calling out his name, won’t you save the day again
Superman is dead and the dark is closing in (wonder where’s he’s gone)
superman is dead, and the war will soon begin (where did we go wrong?)
super man is dead wonder where he’s gone? Where did we go wrong?
Why did you leave us? we look skyward in hopeful despair, but no one’s there
Now all the criminals are free (loving misery) and they laughing at me (laughing laughing)
calling superman,
calling superman
Calling Superman
Where are you Superman?
Superman is dead, we’re on our own again
Superman is dead, and the night is falling
We’re on our own again, can ya hear us calling? And we are all alone!