Collective Soul Lyrics
Collective Soul

Ok, here are the lyrics for their self-titled CD. I personally love this CD, it is one of the more relaxing ones in my collection.


Simple

Tangle up your twisted tongue, it's simple
Mesmerize your everyday, it's simple
Hey, hey, can't you see?
Love is all that you should need
Can't you see?

Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek and let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead and let love flow, it's simple

Pry into combative times, it's simple
Forfeit all lush concerns, it's simple
Hey, hey, don't you care?
Love is all that you should share
Don't you care?

Cleansing out your tarnished heart, it's simple
Learning from each other can be simple
Hey, hey, don't we know?
Love is all that we should show
Don't we know?


Untitled

Who have I left to please?
Take what you've yet to seize
No more questioning
Cause love is what love should be
Unveil to me all that you want me to do
But why should I stop bearing allegiance to you?

I don't believe in the sorcerers or the preachers
I just believe in you
And I don't believe in the scholars or the wise men
I just believe in you

What have I left to prove?
I speak all the words you choose
Confine me in walls of truth
Cause love does what love should do
No more sentence, all of my pain has been freed
Why should this end when your mercy's all I need?

See, I don't believe in the sorcerers or the preachers
I just believe in you.
And I dont believe in the scholars or the wise men
I just believe in you
Yeah, you, you, you


The World I Know

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why

Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one, into one

So I walk up on high, and I step to the edge
To see the world below
And I laugh at myself, as the tears roll down,
Cause it's the world I know,
It's the world I know


Smashing Young Man

Beggar's description
Of what I've been missing
Exploit your position
Don't think I didn't listen
Hey, I hope you're feeling a little better now

Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Your tongue's just lashing,
Just bitching by habit
Hey, I hope you're feeling a little purer now
Hey, I hope you're feeling securer now

Help me I plea, I don't understand
Your ways and your means, you smashing young man
Help me to see the good you have planned
You're wearing thin, you smashing young man

You preach synthetic-like
Peace is an oversight
It's nothing to ignite
Your self-lit spotlight
Hey, I hope you're feeling a little special now
Hey, I want to tell you, I think you're special now

I don't recall asking for guidance
I don't recall wanting to
I don't recall bowing before you
But I'm so impressed with the kindness in your attitude


December

Why drink the water from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Your cup runneth over again

Don't scream about, don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby just spit me out
Don'y worry about, don't speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am
Don't throw away your basic needs
Ambiance and vanity

December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing


Where the River Flows

Give me a moment
Got to get this weight up off my chest
Don't feed me sorrow
Pain is a poison I digest

Find yourself another soul to hold
You think, you thought, I know
Off upon my journey I must go
To where the river flows

I'll give you answers
To the questions you have yet to ask
Silence is beauty
Words they only complicate the task

Make no more wishes
All of my patience has been spent
Gods of the season
Lead me to my next incident



Gel

Color me any color
Speak to me in tongues and share
Tell me how you'd love to hate me
Tell me how you'd love to care
I just want to shake us up

Let's mingle
And make it well
Come together now
Yeah let's gel

Clothe me in any fashion
Glitter to so mundane
Tell me how you'd love to change me
Tell me I can stay the same
I just want to shake us up

Let's mingle
And make it well
Come together now
Yeah let's gel
Well let's bungle
And live to tell
How we came together
Yeah how we gelled.


She Gathers Rain

Today she dresses
For the change she faces now
And the storm thats raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn't care what the prophets say anymore
For the love she had, she has no more
So she gathers rain, she gathers rain
To rinse away all the guilt and pain
She gathers rain, she gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide
And her new convictions
No longer will she hide
She's not branded when the prophets speak words of fire
The same love she gives, she requires
So she gathers rain, she gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain, she gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again


When the Water Falls

She's a picture perfect child of innocence
Searching out in childlike ways for knowledge
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questionging her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her

Do you know where the sun goes when the water falls?
Do you know where the rain goes when the water falls?

Though I think her subjects could run far and wide
She has centered on the topic of the skies
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her


Collection of Goods

Resonate tones of saving grace
Separate from the gods of hate
Alleviate all our doubting ways
Congregate to more loving days

A collection of peace where we could live
A collection of hope for us to give
A collection of words that mean we care
A collection of love for us to share

Recognize all equality
Vocalize solidarity
Exercise your tranquility
Glamourize all of love's needs


Bleed

I think her gun's unloaded now
I guess tomorrow will be after all?
Who made me judge and jury here?
It seems I'm bearing witness to her fall

I don't know why she cries to me
(She keeps her pain as company)
Cause its only time before we all must bleed

Mirrors of her memory
Reflect nothing with each word she says
Her views have got me spinning round
I think she's burning altars in her head

Reunion

Change will come
Change is here
Love fades out
Then love appears

Now my water's turned to wine
And these thoughts I have
I now can claim as mine
I'm going home

Change has been
Change will be
Time will tell
Then time will ease

Now my curtain has been drawn
And my heart will go
Where my heart does belong
I'm going home