Wandermind

"Hot Mess"

Such a hot mess
Hot mess...

It's a hot mess
I'm a hot mess
You're a hot mess

Hot Mess, Hot Mess
Hot Mess, Hot Mess
Livin' in a hot mess
Livin' in a hot mess

Hot Mess, Hot Mess
Hot Mess, Hot Mess
Hot Mess, Hot Mess
Hot Mess, it's a Hot Mess.

--

"Modern Midlife Crisis (So Alone)"

You don't want to be alone
you're trying every remedy
Now you're chasing the unknown
And feeling like a runaway

One more generation searching for an open door
How can you be young and so alone
alone..., alone..., so alone...

You don't want to feel this way
get off of social media
Life perverted by AI
Can't trust what people share

Living in a hostile world
where nice guys finish last
Politeness called a weakness
Was it like this in the past? (No!)

Alone..., so alone..., alone..., so alone...

Modern midlife crisis at the age of 24
Goodbye happy childhood
now you want something more

alone..., so alone
You don't want to be alone
you don't want to be alone
alone...  so alone.

--

"Wanderlust"

Wanderlust, shake the dust
See the world before we rust
Staying here is getting me frustrated
Feels like I'm out of luck, and it's just

The world cannot be mine
when I'm hiding out inside
and there's no way that I can get to you

yeah I can't make you mine
until we spend some time
You're the reason for my Wanderlust
my Wanderlust.

Wanderlust turned to dust
all our plans just went bust
What remains that I can trust?
I can cope, if I must, I'll adjust

And love cannot be mine
when I'm hiding out inside
and there's no way that I can get to you

yeah I can't change your mind
until we spend some time
You're the reason for my Wanderlust
my Wanderlust.

Love and trust depend on time with you
Wanderlust, don't make my heart so blue
ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Wanderlust, don't turn to dust
Let's see the world before we rust

yeah We should take a ride
and stop hiding out inside
'cause there's a way that we can break on through
and I will make you mine
and we will spend some time
We will satisfy our Wanderlust
We will satisfy our Wanderlust

our Wanderlust, Wanderlust
Wanderlust, Wanderlust.

--

"The Elephant (Done Too Soon)"

We drank Mexican chocolate
spiced with cinnamon
Watching the telly
hoping she’d win

You sat in your own world
immersed in a phone
I dreamed of the day
we'd go it alone

You don't listen to me
you don't know what I'm for
So I tell the universe
as I stare at the floor

saying What are we doing here
now that our work is done?
And we're all alone in this placed call home
with nothing left but "fun"

The elephant in the room
is we got done too soon
And now what's the use of living loose
if we've already won
I wish we were on the run

(On ne sait plus quoi faire
Il faut recommencer, n'est-ce pas?)

Well the neighbors have been exchanged
our lives have been rearranged
With nothing to do but wait to die
or create without asking why

What is there left to do
now that our work is through?
And we're all alone in this place called home
with nothing left to prove

The elephant in the room
is we got done too soon
And now what's the use of living loose
when we've already won
I wish we were on the run.

Ba ba ba ba ...

There's two of us in the room
four cats, three ghosts, one elephant
Some pictures on the wall
remind us what mattered most of all
The elephant we ignore
as we watch the judges keep the score
The Spirit takes a seat
waiting 'til the day we meet again.
 
(Où est l'esprit dans cette maison?
Où est l'esprit dans cette vie?)

Smiles paint the ballroom tonight
if we dress up and dance
will it make it all right?
We left the elephant home
back with the ghosts
we'll clean up the mess
but first make a toast
to the future, the present
but mostly the past
wondering why it happened so fast

What else can we do
now our work is through?
And we're all alone in this place called home
with nothing left to lose

The elephant in the room
is we got done too soon
And now what's the use of hanging loose
when our old life is done?
I wish we were on the run

And we're all alone in this place called home
with nothing left to do
I guess we got done too soon.

Ba ba ba ba....

--

"Quitting"

I'm quitting
though I can't quit, I can't quit
I'm quitting
though I can't quit, no I can't quit

And I could never quit before
I had to wait 'til sixty-four

I'm quitting
though I don't quit, I never quit, uh-uh
I'm quitting
though I can't quit, I'm gonna quit this time
this time

I quit my job, this life, this town
I quit my goals and all I own
the media, this century
I quit this whole damn social scene

I'm quitting
though I don't quit, I never quit, oh no
I'm quitting
though I can't quit, I'm going to quit

And this might be the last song that I'm ever gonna write
but for now I bid you all a good day and good night

'cause I am quitting
I'm really quitting
I'm finally quitting

Yes I am quitting
I'm really quitting
already gone.

--

"Sticking Out the Summer"

Sticking out the summer
waiting here for you     
Temperatures are rising
what will see me through?

I don't go out by day
at night I play my songs
I cannot get to sleep
I've got to carry on

You left and went far away
Technology is OK
But it can't make you stay

Sticking out the summer
here in my routine    
Sticking out the summer
'til you're here with me

Sticking out the summer
sticking out the fall    
This year's a bummer
but I've got to carry on

Sticking out the winter
waiting here for you    
All this stormy weather
who can see me through?

I don't go out at night
by day I get along
I still can't get to sleep
I'm trying to carry on
'cause:

You still live so far away
technology's not OK
And it won't save the day

Sticking out the summer
here in my routine    
Sticking out the summer
'til you're here with me

Sticking out the summer
sticking out the fall    
This year's a bummer
but I’ve got to carry on

Bring on the night
dream 'til the dawn
Music's my light
to help me carry on...

You still live so far away
Reality's not OK
but I'll try every day

Sticking out the summer
here in my routine    
Sticking out the summer
'til you're here with me

Sticking out the summer
sticking out the fall    
This year's a bummer
but I've got to carry on

I'm gonna carry on  
I'm gonna carry on...
I'm gonna carry on.  

--

"Across The Universe" (words by John Lennon)

Words are flowing out like endless rain
into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
they slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy
are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light
which dance before me
like a million eyes
They call me on and on
across the universe

Thoughts meander like a restless wind
inside a letter box
They tumble blindly
as they make their way
across the universe

Jai guru deva om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter, shades of earth
are ringing through my open ears
inciting and inviting me

Limitless undying love
which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on
across the universe

Jai guru deva om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

--

"Wandermind"

You got a wandermind
got too much on your mind
So many separate goals
so many rabbit holes
and there's an open road
and there's an open globe
but the future just won't shine like it used to

You got a wandermind
Such a distracted mind
Doubting your heavy load
'cause it’s not what you chose
And now it's time you've got to get away
You and your wandermind

So it goes, we keep getting old
but nostalgia just won't feel like it used to

Are you happy?
What a tough question
happiness can only be found
in moments when we don't pay attention
to all the sad things going around

We must carve out our own worlds
and our worlds will sometimes collide
while we're busy checking our pulses
checking our focus
losing our minds

Na na na na...
Na na na na...

Checking your wandermind
Checking your wandermind

There's so much in your head
than you can never express
You and your wander ponder mind

You got a wandermind
and now you're jumping down
another rabbit hole

You got a wandermind...

--

"Everyone's Strange"

Everyone's strange
in certain ways
on certain days

We all get fazed
life is a maze
brain in a haze

Cut me some slack
and I will do the same for you
whenever we're the weirdest versions
of ourselves

Everyone's strange
in certain ways
on certain days

We all get fazed
life is a maze
brain in a haze

When you get back
from where your strange side takes you to
I'll be right Here
I will be waiting here for you

ah ah, ah ah
ah, ah ah, ah ah

Sometimes we get lost
signals getting crossed
sometimes we get lost
we get lost

Cut me some slack
and I will do the same for you
whenever we're the weirdest versions
of ourselves

ah ah, ah ah
ah, ah ah, ah ah

Sometimes we get lost
our signals getting crossed
sometimes we get lost

Everyone's strange
Temporarily dazed
Everyone's strange
Trapped in the maze
in a haze.

Everyone's strange
in certain ways
on certain days

We all get fazed
life is a maze
brain in a haze

(spoken:)
Time for my mind to start wandering again.
Are you coming with?
Kommst Du mit?
Ven conmigo.