Given to Fly

He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out
A bad time, nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out
He got up out of there, ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up, set him down on his knee

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw,
Delivered him wings, "Hey look at me now..."
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh, oh, oh... 

He's flying, Whole!
High! Wide! Oh...

He floated back down cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed
By faceless men, well fuckers... He still stands

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away;
the love he recieves is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
a human being that was given to fly...

Flying! Whole...
High! Flying! Whole...
He's flying! Woah...
High... Woah... Oh...   



Pilate

Talk of circles, and punching out
Looking in, drawing circles down
Falling off the south marking ground
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down

Like Pilate, I have a dog (x2)

Walks me out of town
Still, one's a crowd
Making angels in the dirt
Looking up, looking all around

Like Pilate, I have a dog         } (x2)
(Obeys, listens, kisses, loves)   }

Stunned by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clearly
And I swore, I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend that
Politely drags you down, down, down, down

Like Pilate, I have a dog         } (x3)
(Obeys, listens, kisses, loves)   }
Like Pilate, I have a dog 



Leatherman

I know about a man to whom I may be related
He's leatherman
Not a long time ago in the 1880's leatherman, leatherman
Covered with leather but it was tight
Underneath the moon in the woods that night

Makin the rouds ten miles a day,
Once a month they spot him and here's what they say

Here he comes he comes, 
He's a man on the land,
He's leatherman,
Smile on his face, axe in his back 
He's leatherman, leatherman, leatherman

Comes out of the caves once a day to be fed
Wasn't known to stay but
Thanks for the bread

so modern day I walk my way 
my jacket faded
just like a man of leather
to whom I may be related

rolled a cigarette for her when she asked for a light 
I figured be an animal with someone polite

Makin the rouds ten miles a day.
Once a month they spot him and here's what they say

Here he comes he comes he's a man on the land
he's leatherman
smile on his face, axe in his hand
He's leatherman, leatherman, leatherman
leatherman, leatherman

shake his hand he's leatherman
bake some bread he's leatherman
shame he's dead
I saw his bed

It's all that's left of leatherman
leatherman

give me some skin
leatherman