1.Exploration B
Intro：call to mother
I thought you should know
Daddy died today
He closed his eyes and he left here
At 12：03
He sends his love
He wanted you to know
He isn't holding a grudge
And if you are you should let go
Pick up, pick up please, mom？ hello？
2.Haunted
Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa...
Come here
Pretty please
Can you tell me where I am
You won't you say something
I need to get my bearings
I'm lost
And the shadows keep on changing
And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I'm haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa...
Don't cry,
There's always a way
Here in November in this house of leaves
We'll pray
Please, I know it's hard to believe
To see a perfect forest
Through so many splintered trees
You and me
And these shadows keep on changing
And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I'm haunted
By the promises I've made
And others I have broken
I'm haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
Hallways... always
I'll always want you
I'll always need you
I'll always love you
And I will always miss you
Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa...
Come here
No I won't say please
One more look at the ghost
Before I'm gonna make it leave
Come here
I've got the pieces here
Time to gather up the splinters
Build a casket for my tears
I'm haunted
(By the lives that I have loved)
I'm haunted
(By the promises I've made)
I'm haunted
By the hallways in this tiny room
The echos there of me and you
The voices that are carrying this tune
Ba da pa pa...
Father ：
What is it Annie？
Daughter ：
You think I'll cry？ I won't cry!
My heart will break before I cry!
I will go mad.
3.Control
Don't you mess with a little girl's dream
'Cause she's liable to grow up mean
Surprised you to find that I'm laughing？
You thought that you'd find me in tears
You thought I'd be crawling the walls
Like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear
Well you may be king for the moment
But I am a queen understand
And I've got your pawns and your bishops
And castles
All inside the palm of my hand
While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me
I was taking control
Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...
This is beginning to feel good
Watching you squirm in your shoes
A small bead of sweat on your brow
And a growl in your belly your scared to let through
You thought you could keep me from loving
You thought you could feed on my soul
But while you were busy destroying my life
What was half in me has become whole
While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me
I was taking control
Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...
So this is how it feels
To breath in the summer air
The feel the sand between my toes
And love inside my ear
All those things that you taught me to fear
I've got them in my garden now
And your not welcome here
Come a little bit closer
Let me look at you
I gave you the benefit
Of the doubt it's true
But keep in mind my darling
Not every saint is a fool
While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me
I was taking control
Now I have taken control
Now I have taken control...
Don't you mess with me
Father： there has to be more to life than this, because in our
confrontation with a cold cold universe, there is something
comical
to the idea that we can really impose our will on humanity--
power corrupts!
Daughter ：
This is scaring me
Father and daughter 2：
Daughter ： ...I live at the end of a 5 and 1／2 minute hallway
Father：
And at the end of it all lies of course the final
phenomenon of deterioration entropy, which is a predictable
disintegrations which the creative life ceases： everything has
to fall apart.
Daughter：
Why are you always so serious？!
4.Terrible Thought
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
Like an unwanted room-mate drunk on wine
It feeds on my happiness won't pay the rent
I must take proper measures to evict it
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
A giant rat that's nibbling on my pride
It's tearing away my patience and my wit
I must take proper measures set a trap for it
What a terrible thought
I don't care what you've done
I don't care who you've won
I know in the end you'll have your fun
But you can't have it hear
And I won't let you steer
You know I don't want you in my mind
I must stay calm you know and I must be clear
It's gonna take a hundred thoughts to make this one disappear
A train like that could travel a soul for years
A terrible thought could have a terribly long career
What minds have you shredded
I bet they regretted
Having ever thought you up
Just look at you shine
Commiting your crimes
You know I don't want you in my mind
'Cause you're breaking my stride
You poisonous vine
You're strangling me inside
You're breaking my stride
You poisonous vine
You're strangling me inside
You're breaking my stride
What a terrible thought...
Father ：
What is your greatest worry because you seem to be worried all
the time
Daughter：
Sometimes I can't hear myself think
Father：
YYou have to speak a little louder,
I can't understand a word you're saying
Daughter ：
Sometimes I can't hear myself think
5.Walk The Walk
My mother spent 10 years sitting by a window
Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack
She listened as her dreams silently screamed
They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet
Dear world i'm pleased to meet you
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You gotta back it all up you gotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody when my daddy died
He had a sad sad story written in his eyes
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
Hey everybody
Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up
But can you talk the talk
Hey everybody
can you walk the walk？
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what？)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what？)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
Give to the beat of my own drum
I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum
I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five
Pleased to meet you
My daddy spent 10 years living on the outside looking in
He thought that he would never get back
Watched his dream walk across a silver screen
And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black
Dear world I'm pleased to meet you
Hey everybody when I walk the walk
I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody--can you walk the walk？
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what？)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what？)
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum
I wanna play to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum
Scream shout
Wipe out
Make love to my baby
Father： It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work.
My own drum my own beat
Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke
You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you
don't
So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space
You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place
Then suddenly you hear it it's the beat of your heart
And for the first time in your life you know your life is about
to start
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
Daughter：
There's someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo？ ba da pa
pa
6.Terrified Heart
Second phone call to mother
Daughter：
Mom？ are you there？ Are you sleeping？ I'm so bummed.
Maybe if I sing a little song you'll pick up：
Sometimes I'm so afraid of my heart
of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants
he way it stops.... and starts
7.Wild
I go wild cause you break me open
Wild cause you left me here
I go wild
Wild because the chips are down
Wild because there isn't anybody else around
Wild when the waves start to break
And God knows they're breaking in me now
Wild 'cause it doesn't make sense
For me to cry out in my own defense
Wild 'cause I would do anything
To tear you off your precious fence
So this is what it's like living in limbo
First I'm high then I'm solo
I go wild
'Cause you break me open
Wild
'Cause you left me here
I go wild
'Cause your promises are broken
Wild
When I know you're near
I go wild
I go wild
Tell me what you've come for
Moving like a hunter through my back door
Leaving the perfume of all you adore
To die nameless on my floor
Yeah well we both know you don't play fair
I guess you really think that you get me there
Let's be honest perhaps this little ride
Is too much for even you to bear
You've got a lot of nerve to come back here
You're not the only one who can smell fear
I go wild
'Cause you break me open
Wild
'Cause you left me here
I go wild
'Cause your promises are broken
Wild
Don't you get it dear
You're not the only one who lives on instincts
No I've got instincts of my own
You've got a lot of nerve to come back
Plan your attack yeah I am still waiting
You wrote the rules to try to contain me
You broke 'em
Now you have untamed me
I go wild
I go wild
Tell me what you've come for
What is it you adore
Won't you tell me？
What would you
Go wild for？
You've got a lot of nerve to come back here
Speak up my darling I have been waiting
I go wild
'Cause you break me open
Wild
'Cause you left me here
I go wild
'Cause your promises are broken
Wild
Don't you get it dear
You're not the only one who lives on instincts
No I've got instincts of my own
You've got alot of nerve to come back
Plan your attack yeah I am still waiting
You wrote the rules to try and contain me
You broke 'em
Now you have untamed me
I go wild
I go wild
Father ：
Communication is more than just words, communication is
architecture,
because of course it is quite obvious that a house which would
be built without that
will that desire to communicate, would not look the way your
house looks today
8.5 And 1／2 Minute Hallway
I live at the end of a 5 and 1／2 minute hallway
But as far as I can see you are still miles from me
In your doorway
And oh by the way
When the landlord came today
He measured everything
I knew he'd get it wrong
But I just played along
'Cause I was hoping that would solve it all
But there's only so far I can go
When you're living in a hallway that keeps growing
I think to myself
5 more minutes and I'll be there
Inside your door
But there's more to this story
Than I have exposed
There are words made of letters
Unwritten
And yes I forgive you
For leading me on
You can think of it like this
When you can't resist
I'm in your hallway standing on a cliff
And just when I think I've found the trick
I'm tumbling
Like an echo
'Cause there's only so far I can go
When you're living in a hallway that keeps growing
I think to myself
30 seconds and I'll be there
Daughter：
You never listen to me
Father：
We cannot really experiment with love as freely as we wish
It is really a much more complicated topic
9.Not A Virgin
I'm not a virgin anymore
I just thought you should know
Darlin' I've been around
I took a walk up your block
In fact I have been all over town
Down by the lake
And underneath the table in my living room
But side with the blue blue moon
You can call me what you will
Call me a slut call me a jaded pill
But darlin I've got your number now
I'm not a virgin anymore
I've been taken
I've been hung up
I get down and start it over again
I've been open
And I've been closed like a book
And burned down like a written sin
I just thought you should know my darling
Before we begin
I'm not a virgin anymore
Just thought you should know
Before you let another lie
Slip through those crooked little teeth
I don't think you wanna start that shit with me
Much better yet
Tell me something dangerous and true
Oh yeah that looks much sexier on you
Careful what it is you say
'Cause I can see right through you
On a cloudy day and darlin' I think you wanna play
I'm not a virgin anymore
I've been taken
I've been hung up
I get down and start it over again
I've been open
And I've been closed like a book
And burned down like a written sin
I just thought you should know my darling
So if you wanna play dirty darling I'm gonna win
I'm not a virgin anymore
Been there done that
(Say what？)
Get the hang of it
Get screwed
I screw you I had a whole lot of fun with it
I've had enough now so you better take a bow
It's gonna be a new experience if you wanna play with me
Daisy chains and maryjanes
Happy ending fairy tales
Cannot fool me now
I've been taken
I've been hung up
I get down and start it over again
I've been open
And I've been closed like a book
And burned down like a written sin
Hell I've been divided
Out of my mind and reinvented again
I've been ignited and then uninvited
So honey
You break it up
I'm gonna put it back together again
I just thought you should know my darling
Before we begin
I'm not a virgin anymore
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Do you get the gist of the song now？
10.Hey Pretty
Well it's 3a.m. I'm out here driving again
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I take a wrong turn break it but I'm too far gone
I've got a siren on my tale and that's not the fine
I'm looking for
I see a stairway so I follow it down
Into the belly of a whale
Where my secrets echo all around
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm trying to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me？
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide with me
Through my world
Well I've got a mind full of wicked desings
I've got a non-stop-whole in my head-imagination
I can't forget I am a sole architect
I built the shadows here
I built the growl in the voice I fear
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm triing to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wana take a ride with me？
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide with me
Through my world
Hey pretty
My pretty baby
Rock it through my world
Hey now
Can't you feel me longing
Hey now
Me
(You get the gist of the song now？)
Hey pretty don't you wanna take a ride with me？
11.Dear Johnny
Johnny dear don't be afraid
I will keep your secrets safe
Bring me to the blind man who
Lost you in his house of blue
12.Could've Gone Mad
I'm so glad that you decided to come
Go ahead make yourself comfortable darlin'
I've got a proposition for you
There's a room available inside of my heart
And I hope it will be taken by you
You can bring whatever you wanna bring baby
Each and everyone of your friends
And if you want a dog or a big bullfrog
Hell I've even got room for them
I'm so glad you decided to come
Another day and I could've gone mad
Another day and it might've gotten bad
Another day and I might have betrayed
Every scruple I have
You cause in me an impossible craving
That cannot be denied
If I decided to make you my religion
I think God would be kind
So I made a wish on a million of her stars
And registered your name on a few
That way if you forget who you are
You can look up and see a picture of you
I'm so glad you decided to come
Another day and I could've gone mad
Another day and it might've gotten bad
Another day and I might have betrayed
Every scruple I have I'm so glad you decided to come
Another day and I could've gone mad
Another day and it might've gotten bad
Another day and I might have betrayed
Every scruple
I have to keep a hold of myself
Is that really you or is it someone else
I swear it looks just like him
I wonder can he see what a state I'm in
Like a broken bridge
I gotta swing on him like a jungle gym
Father： I've been inside her house
I've experienced her madness
And I rejected the entire experience
Another day and I could've gone mad
Another day and it might've gotten bad
Another day and I might have betrayed
Every scruple I have I'm so glad you decided to come
Another day and I could've gone mad
Another day and it might've gotten bad
Another day and I might have betrayed
Every scruple
13.Lemon Meringue
Hold on you've gotta wait just a minute
See the cookie jar
I've got my hand caught in it
Just let me try and explain
You know I've been a good girl
But I hit a limit
I know there's not a lot of logic in it
But my life's been feeling to me
(Like lemon)
Sometimes it tastes so bitter
(Like lemon)
I've gotta make it sweeter
Stop right there before I get bitter
(Bitter)
There's got to be a way to make it sweeter
(Sweeter)
A little more like lemon meringue
So the other day well I found me a lover
Had a little hustle under the covers
It was delicious to me
Can't you see me there
Day dreaming of our future
I painted such a pretty picture
But my prince he never got back to me
(Like lemon)
Sometimes it tastes so bitter
(Like lemon)
I've got to make it sweeter
Stop right there before I get bitter
(Bitter)
There's got to be a way to make it sweeter
(Sweeter)
A little more like lemon meringue
Father：
It is November 6th and we are in Madrid, Spain. It is a very
special day
And to celebrate it Anne will sing a song
14.Spanish Doll
This place feels so unfamiliar
And yet I know it well
I think I used to belong here
But the only way I can tell
Is that I miss you still
And I cannot find you here
You left me tattered and torn
Just like that Spanish doll
(Sweet spanish sweet spanish... doll)
I went down to the alley way
(Sierra la Bonita)
And found that you were gone
Spanish doll： si nunca tes fueres (if you had never left)
You left no word no message
I still don't know what went wrong
Spanish doll： la grima (tears)
But now no matter where I go
I always seem to return
Spanish doll： busca me (find me)
To where you left me tattered and torn
Spanish doll： you so rompido mi muneca (I am torn my sweet doll)
Just like that sweet spanish doll
(Sweet spanish sweet spanish...doll)
A memory guilded in red and gold
Spanish doll： del oro (of gold also pain)
Beauty guarded and never sold
Spanish doll： cuida me (protect me)
I keep it with me wherever I go
And I love you still
No matter how a story will unfold
Spanish doll： requerda me (remember me)
You know I always will
Have part of you here
In this souvenir
This sweet spanish doll
A stranger in this world without you
Is all that I can ever be
All I know that's pure and clear
You left it with me here
In this souvenir
This sweet spanish doll
Father：
We hear of a lovely daughter, shot down in her mistaken＜ flight,
unaware yet
how her life will be affected by this experience.
Daughter ：
Why is it a house of leaves？
15.House Of Leaves
Into the house：
Daughter：
I can hear myself I'm somewhere in there, what's happening？
Mother：
Nobody's home
Daughter：
Daddy
Father：
I thought he was dead
Daughter：
Where are you
Father：
Dead
Father's ghost：
Try now to take the next step
(Mother answers the phone)
French song ：
Dominique, nique, nique
S'en allait tout simplement
Routier pauvre et chantant
En tous chemins, en tous lieux
Il ne parle que du bon Dieu
Il ne parle que du bon Dieu
Try now to take the next step
Mother：
Hello
Daughter：
Mum ？
16.Amazed
It's amazing to me but I can't
Seem to say what I'm doing here
My tongue is all twisted around the air
I'm looking for words that were so well rehearsed
But I can't find them anywhere
With you there's no easy answer
It's true
You change the equation that I add up to
And all of the things I thought I knew
You turn it around
I'm amazed
When push comes to shove what I'd give to you
Everything
I'm amazed
The hallways I wouldn't mind crawling through
And I'd do it for days and days
I'm amazed, I'm amazed
That places your taking me to
Wait, I thought I had this down
I built all my cages and my hide out
I covered all my bases
But you
You creep in like a whisper
I try not to listen but I hear you
I don't know just what it is you do
But do it again
I'm amazed
When push comes to shove what I'd give to you
Everything
I'm amazed
The walls that I wouldn't mind crashing through
And I'd do it for days and days
I'm amazed, I'm amazed
At all of the things I know you have done
'Cause this time I think we've really won
That tables have turned
Now I'm taking my hat off to you
You said 'we'll see'
But darling it's all clear to me
I'm amazed
And here in the foyer the hallway is small
I don't really think it's a hallway at all
It's a maze
Johnny your suitcase was finally received
She's packed up her things and she's ready to leave
It's amazing
All of the ink that was bled from your hands
Has painted a picture that she understands
It's amazed
And here by the ocean the sky's full of leaves
And what they can tell you depends on what you believe
It's a maze
The ass is a tree and the voices were three
And all that is gone is here sweeping through me
It's amazing
The voice of my father still loud as before
It used to scare me but not anymore
Father ：
What is it Annie
Daughter：
I miss you
17.If You Were Here
If you were here
I know that you would
Truly be amazed
At what's become of what you made
If you were here
You would know how I treasured every day
How every single word you spoke
Echo's in me like a memory of hope
When you were here
You could not feel the value that I placed
One every look that crossed your face
When you were here
I did not know just how I had embraced
All that you hid behind your face
Could not hide from me
'Cause it hid in me too
Father：
Hello tiger, it's fun, talking with you. like this--in fact I'm
going to do it more often
Now that I'm here I hear you and wonder if maybe you can hear
yourself
Ringing in me now that your somewhere else.
Father：
I miss you a lot
'Cause I hear your strange music gentle and true
Father：
But I'm so proud of everything you do there
Singing inside me with the best parts of you
Father：
Next time I see you you'll proudly sing it back to me
Now that I'm here
I love you...
Daughter：
It's okay you can go now
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