1. |
||||
Every waking hour
Got to keep an eye on
Every aching hour
Got to keep a hand on
Every bleeding minute
Got to keep him in it
Got to keep an eye on
Got to keep a hand on
Got to keep a hold on
Every aching hour
Someone keep a hand on
Every minute every hour
Someone keep an eye on
When a good thing happens
It means no bad thing happens
Let it never be said
Let it never be said
Let it never be said
That one went missing
We’ve given him the power
No longer need to hold on
Every minute every hour
Don’t have to keep an eye on
Every waking hour, every aching hour
Never let it be said that we didn’t
Keep an eye on
Got to keep a hand on
Got to keep a hold on
|
||||
2. |
||||
He
Can see
He can't look
But he can see
He can hear
But he can't listen
He
Can't join
The world
He can't talk
Or play
He could once
Some say
Falling down a well
He’s falling down a well
And there go I
Where
Is he
In there?
How far
Will he fall?
Someone find me a ladder
To his soul
Alone
In a corner,
Rocking in a chair
Staring in the mirror
Alone while we're right there
Falling down a well
He’s falling down a well
And there go I
Who
Will help me?
Who
Has got a clue?
Who’s got the knack
To help me bring him back
Someone find a rope
Someone send a ladder
Has he given up hope
Or does hope just make you madder
Someday
Someday
We’ll share the light of day
Someday
|
||||
3. |
||||
I live in a shiny house
So many shiny things to see
My shiny house is a shiny world
Everywhere I turn things are shining at me
Big shiny things little shiny things
All the shiny things in a row
These are the only things, the only things
That I need to know
I look at your hand
And see your ring
I look at your face
And see a shiny thing
That’s oh so strange
And such a familiar sting
My day is a shiny day
Can’t say hello I’m busy right now
Checking out the breakfast tray
Where the light jumps over that moon and that cow
Shiny house by the shiny lake
Shiny gives and shiny takes
Shiny days and shiny nights
Everything can be so bright
I look at my mom
One earring is missing
You look at my face
My eyes are missing
Drops run down your cheeks
They’re oh so glistening to me
I think I might by shiny, too.
Do you?
You can’t imagine
The things I imagine
Cause you can’t imagine
How real they are to me
You can’t visit
The world as I see
To you one answer
Fragments for me
Every hour shiny
Every day shiny
Every face shiny
Every eye shiny
I live in a shiny house
Every window is something shiny to see
My shiny house is a shiny world
I hear you calling but the light’s calling me
Shiny house
Shiny shoes
Shiny car
Shiny stars
Shiny light
Shiny day
Can you see it my way
Hey, I’m busy
I’m very very very very busy
It’s simple
I’m busy
|
||||
4. |
||||
Mommy’s here and then she’s gone
Playing with her golden son
Hide and seek with baby boy
Laughing loud with baby joy
Hide and seek
When will I find you
Hide and seek
Oh the look in your eyes
When you look my way
Hide and seek
The boy was here and then he’s gone
No more games for him and mom
Hide and seek, it’s not a game
We’re searching through a steady rain
What I wouldn’t do for you
What planets I would chase you to
To find your smile again
Come shining star, make darkness end
Hide and seek
When will I find you
Hide and seek
Oh the look in your eyes
Won’t you look my way
Hide and seek
When will I see the look in your eyes
|
||||
5. |
||||
Don’t need to know to understand
Don’t need to understand to know what’s wrong
To have an open heart
To see what
Not everyone can see
Not everyone can see
There’s a boy inside
Who’s having fun
Maybe maybe of a different kind
Like anyone
Maybe maybe he’s lost inside
No more than you
Loving hearts can see what loving hearts can see
There’s a boy inside
Understanding
There’s a boy inside
Understand that
There’s a boy inside
Locked away, mocked away,
Talked away, not tossed away
There’s a time, there’s a time, there’s a time to let go all
All of things that used to meet you when you crashed the walls
There’s a door just now appearing though it’s not very high
And a window you can see it in the corner of his eye
|
||||
6. |
Teddy Geiger - Afraid
04:55
|
|||
It’s so quiet
I can hear them crying
They say he’s better
Might be lying
Always holding his hand
Let go and he is gone
I’ve got a feeling
That something’s wrong
I’m afraid there won’t be anyone to catch him he when he falls
I’m afraid that he’ll live his life alone behind walls
I‘m afraid that he’s slipping away right before my eyes
I’m afraid that no one will hear my brother’s cries
Boy is playing
Not like him at all
Laughing and jumping
And he cries when he falls
Try to talk to him, I try
He never responds
Sometimes I wonder why
He never looks back
I’ve got my own lies
I’ve got my own eyes
I’ve got my own life
I’m telling you
I’ve got to get away
I can’t stay
I can’t say
Nothing I can do
What do they say
When he’s not there
Yesterday he got angry
I wish I was there
Everyone was talking
He doesn’t know
He knows so much
How can he show
|
||||
7. |
If It Were His Legs
03:07
|
|||
If it were his legs
If it were only his legs
How kind the world can be
To a boy who can’t stand
Whatever it takes
Whatever it costs
If it were his legs
If it were only his legs
If there were a pill
If there were only a pill
How simple the world seems
When hope comes in a jar
Whatever it takes
Whatever it costs
If there were a pill
If there were only a pill
But there’s no pill
No operation
Nothing easy to understand
Just a child with endless demands
If there were something to see
Only something to see
Like a crutch or a wheelchair
Then we’d answer the need
But there’s nothing to see
Except what isn’t there
It’s like grabbing the air
When there’s nothing to see
Brain, brain, invisible brain
All too visible pain
What the brain needs
Like pumpkin seeds
Is stuff to make it grow
If it wasn’t his brain
If it wasn’t his brain
Maybe I’d have been sane
If it wasn’t his brain
|
||||
8. |
||||
You always wanted to be a daddy
Talked for years and years
About what you’d do with a son
Baseball in the backyard
Working in the woodshed
Those dreams, well they’ve turned and run
Chorus:
Living in a house on fire
No getting around the short in the wire
I know you’re way past tired
But will you be sticking around
Or will the flames go higher and higher
Are you walking?
Are you out the door?
Can’t say I’d blame you for bailing out
He can’t tell even you that he loves you
But you know he does, and he does with all his heart
Living in a house on fire
I won’t cheer you up be being a liar
I know you’re way past tired
Are you sticking around
Or will the flames go higher and higher
You’ve got to look at who is now
Not at your disappointed dreams now
It’s more than your dreams now
He’s more than he seems now
If you listen he might tell you what it means to be
Living in a house on fire
Nothing left but your Radio Flyer
I know you’re way past tired
Are you sticking around
Or will the flames go higher and higher
Baseball glove is gathering dust
Tools in the woodshed rust
Maybe it’s time to let go what is not
And start playing the part you got
|
||||
9. |
Ari Hest - Treatment
03:42
|
|||
At a little table
A little boy is building
Building something
Cause he is able
He's building up
He’s making up
He’s making up his mind
He is making his mind
Sometimes it’s just a simple simple thing
Making a miracle
You know the angels
You know they’re working
Down in the basement
Down at the table
Six hours a day
Seven hours a day
Eight hours a day
No more today
Nice job! Good work!
Keep it up! You’re the best!
All right! Go baby!!
Maybe someday
There will be
An easy way
To the table
What every body knows
What every child knows
What every creature knows
Except those who forget
You got to get a little sweaty sometime
To make a miracle
You got to sweat to make miracle
Everything we know and everything we do to make a miracle
This is who we are and we do what we can do to make a miracle
Slow motion miracle
|
||||
10. |
|
|||
Day after day
Day after day
Day after day
Just like a flower opening
Nothing has ever brought me so much happiness
Nothing ever caused me so much pain
It’s beyond my comprehension
Such a beautiful creation
When I came back from the sea,
She was silent,
Adrift in another world,
Enclosed in a shell.
Nothing has ever caused me so much pain.
Then I heard Padeen whispering,
Holding her and whispering
the steady whisper of the sea in the shell
In his village in County Kerry, he said,
such children are said to be
touched by the lainhai shee
and you hold them and whisper
whisper and hold them
to bring them out of their shell
Into this world rather than another
Sure, he has the gift.
When I came back again
she was with us entirely
a darling, a blessing
a bud that had opened
Into this world.
|
||||
11. |
||||
When you grow up
Will you be strong
Will you be happy
Will you get along
When you grow up
When you grow up
Will you make your way
The life that’s chosen
Will you have a say
When you grow up
‘Cause I’ve seen
Where you come from
And I’ve seen
The beginning till today
But what I can’t see
Is where you’ll be
When I’m gone, when I’m gone
Where will you be
When you grow up
When you grow up
Who will you trust
Will you get tricked
Will you have good luck
When you grow up
When you grow up
Will you be alone
The love in your heart
Will it find a home
When you grow up
Who’s gonna be there to give you the love that you need
Who’s gonna be there to take you all the places that I can’t be
When you grow up
|
||||
12. |
||||
A little bit late
A little bit slow
A little bit long
A hard way to go
But he's coming
He’s coming back to you
A little bit sweet
A little bit strange
Gonna take a little bit of courage
To get past the pain
But he's coming
He’s coming back to you
When the sun rises up
O’er the mountain top
And light breaks into the valley
That’s when you know the night has gone
And he’ll be coming with the sweet golden dawn
It’s been a long troubled night
Gotta keep on going
Keep on hoping
That he’ll be coming
And he’s coming, yes, he’s coming
He’s coming back to you
Might be a little bit late
A little bit slow
A little bit long
Still got a ways to go
But he's coming
He's coming back to you
|
||||
13. |
||||
It’s time to call
The NIH
Tell the American Academy of Pediatrics
It’s way past late
Hey, all you administrators
All you school board members
And you special ed directors
There’s a simple message
You ought to hear
We got to get these kids some help!
Get these kids some help!
Stop messing around
Just buckle down
And get them what they need
I may be just a dad
But there’s a reason I’m getting mad
We’ve got to get these kids some help
Now here’s the deal
Here’s what we parents will do
Spend every waking hour
And half of our dream time, too
Promoting social interaction
Data book satisfaction
We’ll do the flash card lamination
Drilling simple computation
We’re not complaining
We’re just doing our job
We’ve got to get these kids some help!
Been quite a while
More than 20 years
Since a randomized, single-blind clinical trial
Gave a man a chance to cheer
Structured behavioral therapy
30 hour a week intensity
It’s been repeatedly validated
So why oh why is it still hated?
Why do so few kids get it
When all the science is clear!
|
||||
14. |
||||
You always have me hearing your side.
But I don’t think you can hear mine.
My side has to be heard.
Nothing is true with a capital T
What I mean is that nothing is completely true
It’s more than one idea.
Your mirror has been touched many times.
My canvas has been undrawn
The rainbow needs to be spread
You’re imagination is like a city
My thoughts have just been a forest
Someone needs to switch.
Your mirror has been touched many times.
My canvas has been undrawn
The rainbow needs to be spread
|
Deena/Jon/The Cucumbers & More New Jersey
Jon Fried & Deena Shoshkes started The Cucumbers and found a home in the 80's indie pop scene in Hoboken, NJ. They have created many varied musical projects, which are presented together, here. We hope you enjoy our new music, and newly re-mastered old recordings. ... more
Contact Deena/Jon/The Cucumbers & More
Streaming and Download help
If you like Songs of the Spectrum, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp