All Songs © 2001 by Mike Jacobs except as noted

Use Me

Surely now, you cannot miss
what I would do for just one kiss
to live in artificial bliss.
For now, I’ll see it through.

Once I thought it may be so
that all I fear is hearing no
but yes can kill you just as slow
when you just want to…

Use Me ‘till I can’t feel anything at all.
I don’t mind waiting here if there’s nothing else.
Love me, leave me, tell me that you’ll always need me.
Use Me ‘till I just can’t feel a thing at all.

Pass the days by keeping still
and holding words, a test of will
for every ray of hope you kill.

I may be dumb, I may not know
the price I pay for saying so
but here I am, to take it slow and wait for you to…

Use Me.

Can you, will you leave me here.
Take my heart and disappear.
Leave but a message behind, now will you.

Take ahold, pull your strings.
Leave your mark on everything.
Complicate me and berate me.

Say it now like you did then
remind me how I’m feeling Zen
but don’t reply when I ask when the dreams will all come true.

So do the things you want me to,
because it seems I’m using you.
Even though I said you could,
even though you never would,
you just can’t abuse and confuse me and forget about me.

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She's So Lonely

Never want to face another firing line of things you'll say to me
Toy soldiers picking fights for right to be
And when I went, the text you sent bled fingers to the bone
I won't be back, you've seen the last of me

Noone left to save the world
Or set you free
Noone left to pass the time... but me...

Friday night I came around to see you starting fires
Barely out to make it under wire
The more you talk, the more I drink, I'm drowning needlessly
And shooting blanks to save some misery

She's so lonely
Waiting all night for the call
She's so lonely
Left with no clue of it all

Calling out to providence for one last bit of rhyme
Waiting for the verse still left to write
When holding out is holding in another urge to stray
Killing time while waiting for the fight

She's so lonely...

Falling Man

The fire in your eyes
A face for mere disguise
To hide the fact that you don’t like the world you’re in

The chance you failed to take
The moves you didn’t make
Come back again to haunt the little things you do

Even now you stop and stare
To wait for me to say “I’m sorry”
For falling from your grace
All the dreams you’ll never have
All because you’ve got no reason
I’m Your Falling Man

(I didn’t say that you were)
Right the things you did to me
To wrong the ones who hurt
I’m your original sin
Now take me back

The things you do and say
May not come back today
But one day when you least expect
You'll rue the day

Even now you stop and stare
To wait for me to say “I’m sorry”
For falling from your grace
All the dreams you’ll never have
All because you’ve got no reason
I’m Your Falling Man

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Everything She Wants

I’m not here to make you happy
I gave up for sure
One more chance at conversation
Fading like allure

So we hold out
For something real
But stumble when the sky begins to fall

I don’t want to hear you cry
And stop to ask the reasons why
You’ll wait for someone to say ‘I’m sorry’
For Everything You Want

As for time and time again
Still playing games, but not to win
Just for the right to hear ‘I’m sorry’
For Everything She Wants

I’m not here to make you love me
I gave up for sure
One more chance at conversation
Fading like allure

Tossing photos, must be spring
Your bitter melt on everything
Say it’s over for a day
Say you want me, say you need me, say its over

Ever breath you take for granted
Ever time you say forever
Every night I wake from dreaming
Every night I wake up screaming

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Saving Grace

Hurt Me, Blame Me
Tell me all the things I'm doing wrong

Too much, Envy
Still wonder how the love is going strong?

I can’t help but fall into a deep despair
But saving grace, I’m saving grace for
You may try to make things right, the trouble is,
You’re saving grace, you’re saving grace for me

Pity, can you
Can’t you see my world has fallen down
(I never said that the wrong things would always be right..)

Will you, save me
When the last amusement’s come and gone
(I never said that I’d ever come back to you)

I can’t help...

You are the one
I used to call
While Falling To
Now you’re not there
Some deep despair
Has got you, too

I can’t help...

Every time I walk around you
All I I do to satisfy you
Stand aground and deify you
I might be as crazy as you

You may try to walk around me...

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Say You Love Me

Every time you trade your heart for mine
it leaves a scar that doesn't heal with time.

Don't break my heart, it’s still in two
and save the line for someone who
won't find it hard to trust the words in ‘I Love You’.

Say you want me… I’ll pull you closer.
Say you need me… I’ll take you slower.
But Say You Love Me and I won’t understand.

Now and then I think of what you said.
I’m past the past but scared of what's ahead.

Don't break my heart, its still in two.
Here I am, to wait for you, again.
Save the guilt for someone new,
another love, just someone who
won't find it hard to trust the words in ‘I Love You’.

My heart beats with you, my head is slower.
My flesh will take you, but, edging closer,
you say you love me, still I don’t understand…

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Be My Ex-Girlfriend

You should be my, be my ex-girlfriend
No hope for the love of all time
You should be my, be my ex girlfriend
A temporary someone to say that they’re mine.

Can’t say that I’ve never had someone like you
Can’t say that there’ll never be more
I may not be able to tell you the fable
But that’s not what I’m lookin’ for

Never before has a girl just like you
Been enough for a weekend or two
I may not endeavor to tell you forever
But whatcha exp.ect for a screw?

You should be my ex-girlfriend...

I may have been damaged and often disparaged
But who hasn’t been ‘round the block
I’ll lower my standards and you’ll be the answer
For love ‘aint it all just a crock

Tonite I fall under your spell
Another a chance to kiss and tell
Tonite I fall into
The myth of me and you

And wait for you to come and fall away…

You should be my ex-girlfriend...

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Everything You’d Never Wanna Be

A little something that you'll soon forget.
Run away, not a chance you'll feel regret.
Save me? What about you?

Walk away with the plans you're sure to kill.
Funny how you can justify at will.
Will you ever get it?

Feel the shaking, never waking,
say all your prayers cause you're everything you'd never wanna be.

Blows your mind when silver lining’s
all that you’ve got but you’re everything you’d never wanna be.

Anything just to make you feel alright.
Run away, but you can’t avoid the fight.
Save me? What about you?
I can see all the things you'll never be.
I can sell all the things you'll never see.
I can feel you shaking.

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Delaware Park (The Art Gallery Song)
by Paul Campanella

you dumped me in Delaware Park
right behind the Albright Knox

you said you wouldn't
always said you couldn't
be with anybody else
i'm getting angry
you're getting nasty
fear was such a stranger

well so long, goodbye for now
i'm lonely and there's no one else around
well so long, goodbye for now
who's gonna pick me up now that i'm down

we used to dance in the dark
eat chocolates in your car
now there's another
and it makes me wonder
what's he got that i don't

now that i'm angry
you're getting nasty
fear is motivation

you dumped me in Delaware Park
right behind the Albright Knox Art Gallery

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Serious

I don’t mind, you’ve wasted all my time
I hope you’re serious you wanted it that way
Some affair, you never seemed to care
But are you serious you wanted it that way

Are you serious you wanted it,
so serious you wanted it,
still serious you wanted it (you wanted it, you wanted it) so…

Washed aground, it all comes crashing down
Sure that time will take your fears away
Still you want to keep me here to stay

Are you serious you wanted it...?

Sometimes, looking around for the great sign
You’re leaving me here at the front line
Still running fast from the bad time

I don’t mind, you’ve wasted all my time
I hope you’re right…
Some affair, you never seemed to care
I hope you’re right…

Are you serious you wanted it...?

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I Don't Think I Like You

I need you now
Every time you say…. I need you now
Remember all the plans you made
The times I try but can not soon forget

I want you now
Every time I hear… I want you now
I stumble on the words again
Somehow I make it through your lonesome

One more night to satisfy you
Maybe I still care about you
But I don't think I like you any...
Once more chance to finally end it
This is it, always contended
I don't think I like you anymore

I love you now
Nothing left to say… I love you now
Every spell you cast from furrowed brow
tonight you know I won't forget

I'll live somehow
Not completely sure, but I'll live somehow
You’ll come and smash my heart again
And I’ll keep moving on, right back to...

Oceans and oceans and oceans apart aren't enough for me, for sanity
Waking and waking and standing up tall for your last embrace...

Saved Your Love for My Best Friend
Was this how its supposed to end..

So Maybe now I want you...
And Maybe now I need you...
But I don't think I like you...

Anymore.

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Kiss or Kill

I'm not anything you want
Not Anything You Need
Just Casual Admirer...
A little brush with fate I hope
Just something to observe
Hiding strange desires

I've Been Waiting for You
On My Knees Beside You
I've Been Watching Patiently

And now its... Two...
Tonight I'm gonna make it so
For the rest of your life
And I'll just wait for the time

For the chance to make things right
For the hope that something's wrong
I sit around to see you
I can see you're holding out
I can see you're holding in
Let the old wounds shine through

I've Been Waiting for You
On My Knees Beside You
I've Been Watching Needlessly

And now its... Two...
Tonight I'm gonna make it so
For the rest of your life
And I'll just wait for the time

I've Been Waiting for You
Just to Kiss or Kill You
I've Been Watching Needlessly

And now its... Two...
Tonight I'm gonna make it so
For the rest of your life
And I'll just wait for the time

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Smile

Say again what do you mean?
Did you say that you love me?
There's so much work to do it seems.
As long as you and I believe.

I see you and all I wanna do is make you Smile.

So here we are making it real, concentrating on how we feel.
So I will open up and you won't cover up your heart.
Let me prove that all I’m gonna do is make you Smile.

Winter will slowly turn to spring.
Windows will open and birds will sing.
Mountains will move and skies will fall.
Till there's nothing left to do at all but make you Smile.

So I will open up and you won't cover up your heart.

All I wanna do is make you Smile