1) MARIANNE Marianne, why you whisperin'? Why you even talkin'? There's nobody listenin' Marianne keeps a diary Locked up by her bedside But the pages are empty Her daddy's a lawyer With ads on the tv Turnin' pain into money We only watch movies From the 1920s When no one was lonely Some nights she calls me Says "Gatsby, it's Daisy Just take me away please" We turn the radio up loud Floor the gas and the wheels spin around As Marianne and I go flying She's got names on her mirror Of the boys who have loved her 'Cause she can't stand their pictures She dances like summer Out of fear that it's over In the middle of December When we're out driving We only play love songs With unhappy endings Some nights she calls me Says "hey, this is Mary I don't wanna be lonely" We turn the radio up loud Floor the gas and the wheels spin around As Marianne and I go flying Marianne's got a mirror Full of boys who have loved her But my name isn't up there 2) GOODBYE DECEMBER Unplug the telephone When the ringing of the dialtone Becomes the only thing I hear In this graveyard Of razorblades and movie stars I taste the angels of the atmosphere Dive into the bloodshot eyes Where silence breathes and alibis revolve At 15 Ashley Boulevard In the shadows of empty cans Fall letters from my mother's hand You lead along the lies you love Believe in things you've never been Goodbye December, laced with evergreens I've shed my needles 'cause it's time for a change Goodbye to the heavens and the hell between Here's to California and to coming clean Count the scars of best laid plans Best intents and best of friends But still the dreaming keeps me up all night And as the angels disappear "Just this once" is all I hear Emptiness and afterglow Hey Ma, look how much I've grown Goodbye December, laced with evergreens I've shed my needles 'cause it's time for a change Goodbye to the heavens and the hell between Here's to California and to coming clean 3) BOTTLE ROCKET Even in my sweetest dreams Love is only fleeting How could I have thought that you could be more? Ticket stubs and broken glass The wreckage of the evening Nothing that you haven't done before You hold the box of matches I'll hold the bottlerocket Then when I'm burned to ashes You will have just what you wanted And if I never see you again It'll be too soon 4) ALAN'S POINT Drove you down to Alan's Point Where we used to look for shells Skipping stones into the waves Wishing you weren't with somebody else We built a castle by the water's edge A sacrifice to the rising tide Watched Apollo drown himself And I turned out from the inside I told you that I was in love You asked who I was thinking of Well, here's a clue It was you It's always been you Spinning circles on a neighbor's lawn Adrenaline holds back the tears One more night and you'll be gone To another wasted year So just go But set your clocks by my broken heart So if things don't turn out like you want Then you can meet me back by the water's edge And we can spend that summer like I wanted As your plane was passing overhead I was on the shore again True confessions of a wasted love Scrawled across the sand It said you It's always been you 5) FIREFLY Wake up the world with your screaming Were you dreaming that you were a butterfly? With beautiful wings of fire Look out! The sky is falling 'Cause we've all been grasping at the stars Now they won't be so far Underneath the covers you've been Searching for your comfort in the dark We spent the day in the shade of the trees Nursing scraped up knees and picking at the scars We never got all the shards Out on the lake as the sun went under We watched with wonder as the trees collected stars Right in my back yard Underneath the covers with the Christmas lights of summer in a jar The night will last a little longer than it did The day before (One by one they're burning out) The cold will come a little sooner than it did The year before Awake in your room No sign of the moon So the stars on the ceiling Are all that's revealing the jar As all the lights go dark Underneath the covers holding Ashes of the summer in a jar Like wildfire consumes Like water fills a room January always comes Shall we burn out or go numb? The night will last a little longer than it did The day before (One by one they've all burnt out) The cold will come a little sooner than it did The year before Let's go down to the rocks on the beach Where the cars can't reach And smash open all the jars Let's give back all the stars 6) ANYWHERE The porch light's always on Just sits collecting moths They fly in circles Then in smaller circles Radio is always on Just plays the same old songs It feels like it's been Years since I sang along I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet The sun blinks off and on And all the days grow long We talk in circles Ever smaller circles We're all just restless pawns Now that the kings have gone We dance in circles Never ending circles I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet Everything in this place feels like it's always been Waiting for something that just isn't coming We fight with ourselves out of fear of the silence We fill up the emptiness growing inside us With headlines and video games, we sleep through the day And our lives are just wasting away And it's not that I'm scared to leave all this behind I've just nowhere to go So I never go anywhere 7) DARK STAR Tonight I feel like a dark star Burned out into dust and flames From your porch looks just the same We will never change She was born before the war In the '40s married young In the '50s had her sons I was born beneath her wings To summer evenings playing hearts And givin' names to all the stars We will never change Burst of flame, thin as dust The doctors said it was her heart Tonight I named another star We will never change I was born a dark star You were the one with the strong heart