Pieces Falling

Pack it up, put your money down
Grab your stuff, let's roll on out
You know the trains run on time
ain't gonna wait for anyone

This time we're gonna make it right

Take a look while you're passing by
Spend some time by the riverside
Skippin' stones, feel the flow
You never know, just let 'em fly

It's all here right before your eyes

(solo)

Make a way, you gotta clear your head
Turn the page, like Seeger said
On on, on on,
Just keep on keeping on

You might think it's way out there
Sometimes it might not be clear
But it's all here right before you now

First class tickets
Unobstructed views
Checking all the angles
Gettin' in to the groove

House lights down
Stand up, pick it up, take a toke
You know it's show time now

Brass bells dangle from her
Black leather boots
Silver chains jangle as she
Slides into view

Strangely captivating
Heartbeat tension mounts
Everything's fascinating
When you got the best seat in the house

(solo)

Now she's got the spotlight
Magnifies her moves
Givin' up Gimme Shelter
Shakin' everybody loose

Soul spirit rising
Held up by the sound
Smile's electrifying
When you got the best seat in the house

Looking for the lessons in time
History don't repeat but it rhymes
Clever deception or maybe truth in disguise

All depends on the color of your information

Just a minute out of your day
See what all the friends have to say
Lose your intention, get sucked into the fray

All depends on the color of your information

(solo)

See only what you want to see
Newscreen always feeds your belief
Don't bother reading, just shout 'em down and make a scene

Your rage is the color of your information
We all share the color of our information
All depends on the color of your information

Wheels spinning got no traction
Worries going round and round
Just one knee jerk reaction
Steal away your sacred ground

Don't like the way you're feeling
Don't wanna know who's at the door
So much over-compensation
Just pick yourself right up off the floor

Oh haven't we been here before
And maybe we both know just what's in store
With all the promises you make
Chances you take
Pieces fall in place along the way

Don't believe in superstition
Only takes you for a ride
Still I got a premonition
Can't go wrong when you're right inside

Oh haven't we been here before
And maybe we both know just what's in store
With all the promises we make
Chances we take
Pieces fall in place along the way

With all the people that we meet
And everything we read
Pieces fall in place along the way

We must've had some idea what we were in for
When we chose to come back through
But there's so much freedom in between the things you think you have to do

Holding tight, your routine is an addiction
Realize all your wounds are self-inflicted
See the signs just in time to find a safer place to fall

Ah while the rumors fly
Up down and all around
Some will run but some will try
To keep their feet on shaky ground

Anna lies and she's sittin' in indecision
Forty-nine and still looking for the vision
So satisfied with everything except her social life

Wrong people talking and they occupy your mind
Just so much squawking and a total waste of time
Post some more bullshit just hoping that somebody gives a like

Ah while the rumors sway
Side to side and up and down
Some will go but some will stay
And shape their fate on shaky ground

(solo)

Ah while the rumors fly
Up down and all around
Some will run but some will try
To make their way on shaky ground

Ah while the rumors fly
Up down and all around
Some will run but you and I
Will make our way on shaky ground

(Instrumental)

Now I got in my mind an imaginary line that separates fiction from fact
Arbitrary borders and the natural disorder of another systematic attack
Turning up the heat another fifty degrees on the pressure cooker cooking inside
Put the petty problem on the broken back burner where the petty problems ought to reside

Were you just sayin' when you said you were just saying that you never would've crossed the line?
Talking hypothetical, waxing theoretical, takes me back to junior high
Punitive penitence, cognitive dissonance, what's it gonna mean in the end?
Disregard the danger in Pascal's wager and your wrapped around a riddle again

Ah, divide
Day into night
Lie on your side of the
Fine crooked line

Embrace the ambiguity along the continuity of everything you thought that you knew
Bluster like General Custer, fever in the filibuster, taking people down with you
Catch the technicality, create your own reality, spin it any way that you wish
Just a step outside the favor of your private echo chamber, gonna take a hell of a hit

Always read in between all the lines you think you see, feelings tend to turn on a dime
Optimism, pessimism, realism, cataclysm, cycle through the states of your mind
Attitude, gratitude, put it in a platitude, bat your lashes, give me a smile
Sittin' on the edge of fences thinking 'bout the consequences, let's just sit and talk for a while

Ah divide
Day into night
Lie on your side of the
Fine Crooked line

(solo)

Now I got in my mind an imaginary line that separates fiction from fact
Arbitrary borders and the natural disorder of another systematic attack
Attitude, gratitude, put it in a platitude, bat your lashes, give me a smile
Sittin' on the edge of fences thinking 'bout the consequences, let's just sit and talk for a while

Ah divide
Day into night
Lie on your side of the
Fine Crooked line

She sails above the other clouds
Summer twilight lingers while she makes her rounds
Wrapped in electric blue and a sparkling silver gown
Color the sky with her fire as the sun goes down

He sends a wave of flame
Figures fifty miles, it's all the same
All clear now, nothing's in the way
Takes another one down and calls it a perfect day

Sometimes it all lines up
Something to see
Somewhere we can climb up
High, so high

(You and I) nightshining
(Twilight) nightshining
(Summer sky) nightshining
(You and I) nightshining

Who'll be the one to speak up
Sign their name on the line
Who's gonna ask them hard questions
Hold their feet to the fire

A lonely funny feeling
Might not all be quite right
Shut the door before the leak gets outside
Bring the darkness to light

You sure you wanna do this thing?
Ain't gonna happen for free
Too many got some skin in the game
More pieces than you can see

It's time to let it go now
Ain't that big of a deal
It's never wise to bite the hand that supplies
You don't know what it conceals

(solo)

You're gonna need a good lawyer now
'Cause they got money and guns
Ain't gonna change nothing anyhow
Accept your life on the run

And it's a long tradition
You're up against the machine
The whistleblower's always the one
The one who takes the heat

They found the bones from the oldest man
I read it in the paper today
Found them buried deep in the sand
Like our bodies go one day

What was his name? What was the same
Four million years ago?
If I could ask him, a clue to give
His answer I already know

He'd say
One can never say
One can never say
One can never say
Today

A million bones in a city of steel
Buried the very next day
The weaker hearts, the ones that feel
Leave us with nothing to say

Can we ever explain how to restrain
Something that nobody knows
And if I was asked for a clue to give
My answer you already know

I'd say
One can never say
Once can never say
Once can never say
Today

Fall away
Letting go of what to say
Saving grace
Finding faith in what remains

And when it all comes crashing down
The world still spins the same

Tear stain
Wash away another change
Always
See me through my darkest days

And when all is said and done
We're still gonna see the sun

(solo)

Fall away
Letting go of what to say
Saving grace
Finding faith in what remains

And when it all comes crashing down
The world still spins the same

And when all is said and done
We're still gonna see the sun