Paul Westerberg - Stereo Lyrics

Baby learns to crawl
Watching daddy's skin
Learns to fall
Get up again
Baby learns to cry
Watching mama's smile
in the mirror
Can you hear her

Baby learns to swear
With your hair
Learns to love
Watching TV
Baby learns to cope with
What she sees
in the mirror
Don't go near her

Baby learns to hide
Down on your knees
Learns to pray when
Somebody sneezes
Baby don't you say you love me
in the mirror

One last crushing blow
The final crashing bore
And it's always time to go
As you're inching to the door
(let's go)

Baby learns to live
Watching daddy's life
Baby learns to give
Everything away
Baby learns to cry
It's alright
in the mirror
Baby learn to crawl
Watching daddy's skin
Baby learns to crawl
Watching daddy's skin

As long as my veins are
Flowing with blood
Sure as the rain turns
the dirt into mud
Dirt into mud

As long as there's blood
In my veins I will search
Sure as the sun turns
the mud into dirt
I'm gonna hurt

And they say a man in pain
be well prepared to die
They say a man who hurts
won't even try

How long does it take
For pain to change from hurt
As long as the sun turns
the mud back to dirt

How long will it take
For the dirt to change with rain
How long will this hurt
Choose to stay
As long as my veins are
Flowing with blood
Sure as the rain turns
the mud back to dirt

Call me when your arms are empty
That's the only way it can be
Call me when you're full of pretty lies
Call me when your eyes are empty
and open all night
You lied enough
Open wide enough
To drive a truck straight through

Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you
Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you

Call me when you think you're leaving
Hope you know you're not deceiving me
Again just like you think you should
Call me when your arms are empty
and open all night
You lied enough
Open wide enough
To drive a truck straight through

Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you
Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you
Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you

If you need someone
To tell anything you've done
Can lie to me
I'm the one content to be your friend
If you need someone
Tell anything you've done
Then lie to me
I'm the one, I still am pretend

Call me when your eyes are empty
And open all night
You lied enough
Open wide enough
To drive a truck straight like a knife

Only lie worth telling
is I'm in love with you
I'm the only lie worth telling
I'm in love with you
Only lie worth telling
I'm the only lie worth telling
Only lie worth telling
I'm the only lie worth telling

He's got your number
Knows where you're found
But he don't know everything
Still, he's got you down

Lke Christopher Columbus
in a world that's flat
He don't know everything
Try telling you that

Or Harry Houdini
He's escaped your grasp
That one is hard to hold
Try telling you that

And he's got your number
Knows where you'll be found
But he don't know everything
Still, he's got you down

He's got you down, baby
He knows you like the back of his hand

Like Rudolph Valentino
The great lover of your life
Been awhile since you seen him, though
I'm sure he's not with his wife

And he's got your number
Knows where you'll be found
But he don't know nothing
Still, he's got you down
And he's got your number
And he's got you down
He don't know nothing girl
He's got you down

Nobody claims to
See it coming
Nobody blames you
Can't help thinking
A marriage license
A job was waiting
By your mid-30's
You feel unholy

No place for you
To be a girl
No place for you
They closed your world
No place for you
To live and grow
No place for you
That I know

Approaching mirrors
Waiting tables
Fix your lipstick
Don't disappoint those
Who have nothing to do this evening
No day is safe from thoughts of you leaving

No place for you
To be a girl
No place for you
They closed your world
No place for you
To live and grow
No place for you of
That I know

Just add water
Someone's done for
I'm getting nervous, there goes one more
Just add water
Someone's done for
I'm getting nervous, there goes one more

No day is safe from thoughts of you leaving
Marriage license
Can't help thinking
It's all for nothing
You're so unholy
Up in the stars now
She's getting lonely

No place for you
To be a girl
No place for you
They closed your world
No place for you
To be a girl
No place for you
They closed your world
to live and grow
no place for you of
that I know

Our coffee laughs at us every morning
We always laugh at the choices we've made
And ask ourselves
How did it ge so early
We're boring enormous
Will they inform us
That up close we still look afraid
Boring enormous, it isn't for us to say

No longer in a hurry to get anywhere
Still don't care for your destination
No longer lead, you just let things happen
Boring enormous
Will you inform us
Just when and where you might run
Boring enormous, it ain't for every one

Here with my headache and cigars
My love for you is finally scarred
Moving vans and swollen hands
Leave their mark
I pledge allegiance to the sky
Above the only place I lie anymore

Faucet's been dripping for a year and half
Both of us tripping outside to play
One thing I love I can no longer stand
Boring enormous
Please just ignore us
Cause up close we're still far away
Boring enormous
Please just ignore us
Casue up close we look far away
Boring enormous
It isn't for us to say

There's a world in between
Being everything
To everyone
And being nothing
To no one

There's a world in between
Giving life to a dream
Giving hope
Giving love
Giving some
And giving nothing
To no one

A world of extreme reflection
Hear his scream for affection

There's a world in between
Being everything to everyone
And being nothing
To no one
I am a button to sew on

I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know

Was the garage your playground
Your pool a hose
Did you piss in the alley
and get your toes caught
In the spokes of a bike with a banana seat
Did you carry a knife that was rusted shut tight
You got drunk after church at 13

We may well be the ones
To set this world on its ear
We may well be the ones
If not, then why are we here

I wanna know, I wanna know
The sweet smell of candles burnt low by young women
Alone on their own for the very first time
Under posters of rock stars that you vaguely resemble
In front of a cat a responding "Perhaps"
Means that you'll be the next one in line

We may well be the ones
To set this world on its ear
We may well be the ones
If not then why are we here
Why the hell then are we here

I wanna know, I wanna know
You may well be the next one
Someone sell me a handgun
Goodbye Ma, I'm done for
It's the law, tell me what for

I wanna know, I wanna know
Smoke cigerette butts
from your brother's green helmet
He wore in that war once
where everyone lost
And they taught him to pour coffee and napalm
And traded his storm for an intense calm
That just won't let him be

We may well be the ones
To set this world on its ear
We may well get it done
Why the hell else are we here
We may well be the ones
To set this world on its ear
We may well be the ones
If not then why are we here
If not then why are we here
We may well be the ones