what makes you weird?

what makes you weird?

you can tell me

I won't tell anybody else

all those secrets

that you're holding

they just make you yourself

all those people

around the world

make strangeness a career

I'm asking you

to tell me true

what makes you weird?

I thought you 

were normal

shows how much I know

I can see through

your disguise

I'm seeing where you go

all those costumes

you've been wearing

now they've disappeared

it's living proof

to tell the truth

what makes you weird?

          tell me what you want

          a debutante

          that's what I see in you

          I'm seeing who you are

          a rising star

          who doesn't have a clue

what makes you weird?

tell me everything

you won't tell other folks

all those secrets

you've been hiding

ain't nothing but a joke

I am looking

but I'm not seeing

the cards you're holding near

I want to see

if you're like me

what makes you weird?

 

help me, someone

I didn't mean to get addicted

but something happened and I did

I tried to shake it off my back

but every time I slid back in

now I've surrendered to it

this is my life from now on

I was testing trouble and I knew it

now I don't have the strength to go beyond

          help me, someone

          I'm right here

          my problems do not

          disappear

          the ending has come very near

          and I don't know what I'm doing

I started many years ago

it looked like fun, and that's what I wanted

I didn't think it would come to this

but now my feeble brain is haunted

I can't move east and I can't go south

I can only stand in one place

unheard prayers come from my mouth

emotions somehow unerased

          help me, someone

          here I am

          I'd help myself

          but I don't think I can

          there's so much I don't understand

          and I don't know what I'm doing

so please don't follow in my steps

don't go the way I'm moving

I could work the whole damn day

but nothing seems to be improving

I'll go back to what I do

my God-forsaken crime

this is all I have tio choose

I've left myself behind

          help me, someone

          I'm on bended knee

          I can't believe what's happening

          is happening to me

          I try to do the best I can'

          now it's too dark to see

          and I don't know what I'm doing

flyover states

I was driving through the flyover states

when I made my biggest mistake

in feeling I maybe could trust you

walking down a lonely avenue

you know me, I'm shy and scared

and always somewhat unprepared

all through it, I was so aware

of you

I was driving through the flyover states

I took the time to appreciate

all that life had laid before me

usually life tries to ignore me

you know me, I've been waiting so long

trying to weigh the right from wrong

I always end up where I belong

with you

          now there's no denying

          whatever I do

          I'm going to keep on trying

          though something inside me is dying

          and I don't know what it is

I was driving through the crossover states

thinking I have what it takes

to make it through this world of woe

you have told me where to go

you know me, I'm hurting inside

regretting all the times I've tried

to find the love that I can't hide

from you

hometown

I don't think about my hometown

it stays in the past

where my dreams didn't last

it's a good hometown but

it tears me apart

keeps breaking my heart

it reminds me of what I once had

it makes me sad

to leave it alone

younger days are now long gone

I carry on

not thinking about home

but chances are I might

I'm thinking about my hometown tonight

I don't blame my hometown

it treated me right

when I captured its sight

but I can't go back to my hometown

although I left it behind

before I knew about time

flat land, salt and sea

they reached out to me

but I refused to listen

every now and then

I don't have to pretend

I know what I'm missing

but still I stay quiet

I'm thinking about my hometown tonight

start the healing

I don't know what I'm doing here

looking for comfort 

where I can't find it

the signs of doubt are very clear

no way to never-mind it

I look around for a helping hand

but no one can understand

the loneliness I am feeling

all the excuses

all the pain

all the hope that doesn't remain

is there a way to start the healing?

some dreams

they tell me dreams come true

I haven't made up my mind yet

reading about celebrities

who perform on my TV

nobody will ever forget

me, I've had a million dreams

some of them still live on

but none of them have answered me

there is nothing here to see

most of them are past and gone

          all I need is a little hope

          to get me through the night

          I don't see anything happening

          but that doesn't mean

          it's not in sight

some dreams are still alive

and I don't know if that's good

they're still active in my brain

I try not to complain

but all have been misunderstood

          all I need is a little hope

          to get me through the day

          I don't see anything happening

          but that doesn't mean

          it's gone away

If I was someone else

if I was someone else

could you love me

the way that I love you

I've searched the whole world over

and no one else will do

I've tried to be myself

and we both know how that's turned out

if I was someone else

would I be the one you live without