Collective Soul Lyrics

Skin
I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me

Jesus don't speak english
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason
Of a goody good gentleman
If I were one I swear
I'd still be tasting your skin

The sky tonight is gracious
To rain on me your sweetness

I scream an explanation
Your world is so contagious



Vent
Shut your mouth
My mother said
Don't saddle me
With selfishness

Do you feel your tongue quivering
It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'cause no truth in you exists
Yeah you bite before you lick
I love ya 'cause you're such a prick

One more time
Don't fashion me
With stylish word
Of ramblings

Do you feel my pulse lingering
It's moments like these I revel in



Why, Pt. 2
In the air I'm tasting your perfection
Forgive me dear for my misdirection
As I crawl beneath this torture you adore
I fall face to face with my scars you've ignored

So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same

All my props I swear they were in order
Even with the warnings of your thunder
Now I pause to let my silence scream tonight
Awhile you roam like a serpent satellite



10 Years Later
Lack of knowledge has a source (oh boy)
Still my thoughts must run their course (oh yeah)
And they do

Does my memory comfort you
While your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh I'm crying

Caution breathes a lonely breath (oh boy)
Love withstands but time must rest (oh yeah)
And it does

Does my memory comfort you
Your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh it's 10 years later



Boast
Yeah you want to
'cause you say so
'cause you need to
Yeah you need to need to
I don't want to
I don't have to
But you've got to
Yeah you got to got to

Could you stay in line
Do you follow what I say
Can you read my mind
Then off where you lay

Feel the water rise
Can you swim now on your own
Do you act surprised
When you hear lies you have told

Oh now
Now you're motoring
Oh now
Now you're fluttering
Oh now now



You Speak My Language
All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows what I'm trying to say.
All around the world
No one understands me
They look at me when I talk to them
And they scratch their heads
They go "What's he trying to say?"

Chorus
But you....
You speak my language
Yeah you....
You speak my language

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows what I'm trying to say.
Even in my home town
My friends make me write it down
They look at me when I talk to them
And they shrug their shoulders
They go "What's he talking about?"

Chorus



Perfect Day
(featuring elton john)

There she stumbles
Falling to her knees
I think she tripped on reality

I have witnessed
Tragic comedies
That's the world in which she leads

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
But she would walk a million more
To do what she believes

She'll have a perfect day

Troubles blooming
Innocence now fades
But still she's dry through
All the rain

There's no purpose
She has yet to crave
She's like the big dog on parade

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
She would walk a million more
To do well as she pleased

She had a perfect day

I can't figure this one out
I've no words here to explain
She'll just sugar kiss me off
She'll just have another perfect day



After All
We steal to lose every colour
From the sky
Then crawl as a child
While the shadows burn our eyes

We know there's no longer shine
On this burned out rainbow

Lately it seems we've been chasing
What times resolved
Maybe something means nothing here
After all

Whispers are now screams
This conclusion never ends
My pride with your kiss
Even angels can't defend

We know we're running head on
Into our confusion

Still we hide safe behind these crumbled walls
Cause we know there's nothing here after all



Over Tokyo
Got a photograph of a smile
Taken way back when we could smile
Now this plane will take me
Where I don't know
Maybe tokyo

'cause there's no memories over tokyo
And there's no hurting over tokyo

Got a photograph of some tears
Taken presently with more tears
Now I'll search for happiness
Where should I go
Maybe tokyo

Attention will this pain go away
My condition oh it's just not the same



Happiness
Congratulations, oh baby I'm back again
I'm loaded down with my God and my medicine

I know wisdom is change
So why can't you function that way

Here I am flaunting my self control
'cause happiness is more than a kiss you know

I'm activating all your promises once again
And pushing forth dear with the rage of my reverence

We could close our eyes
And recklessly run on through
Any space and time
That we choose