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Throwing Muses

Ca l l M e

Read the stop signsI can't love nothing

I mate, killYou wake up and it's not morning

I can't sleep, I loved you onceI loved you so much

There's a shape on the horizonAs we're picked off one by one

Something's goneSomething's over

Move your hand againI can't watch you wash

The floor

You live for the greenI hold your flame

So why?

There's a shape over the oceanAs we're picked off one by one

Summer's goneSummer's over

Somebody here's too smartThere's nothing that doesn't dieWhy don't you do to my insight

What you do to my insides?Oh, babe

I'm in a deep holeI've dug myself five feet deep

So many people want to talkThey look in the mirror, see themselves



They look in the mirror, they look at me,They look at me

They look at me, oh-oh-oh

Something's goneSomething's over

Peter said"Thanks for letting me hold you

Calling me moonshineI can take you there and call you that"

This is your name

I'm lonely at nightTime on my hands

I feel sad in the dayCall meCall meCall me

Nobody knowsHome or away

What I'm waiting forCall meCall meCall me

Here I amWhat a loser

Waiting for years to go by

Call meCall meCall me

G r e e n

You built a city in my headThen there were candles

And a phoenix burned my bed

These are subwordsThese are air



There's one boy

In one houseIn one place

At all timesAnd green eyes

I got no moreWho are you for?

I got no moreWhat is this?

I shouldn't be smoking

This last cigaretteI feel sick

Now there are words in my head

You took my houseBurned it inside outKneel in my ashesKneading them

There's one boyIn one houseIn one placeAt all times

And green eyes


I got no moreWhat is this?And now you're leaving again, no

Temper and tempestTo knock at the moon

And the stars come out at nightWhat's that beyond the floor?

You were left screaming

My hands are in your hairYou're on the deep with the stars(?)



You built a city in my headWhere are your candles?

(...can see my...)

And a phoenix that was you in my bedThese are subwords

These are air(Turning my body around)

There's one boyIn one houseIn one placeAt all times

(There's one boy)And green eyes


I got no moreWhat is this?

Smoke falls to the ceilingIt begins

There's a man dancing at meHe's making circles

So I will tell you now(I wear your clothes)

I wear your clothes like armour(I love your face)

I love your face like God

So you're in love and I'm indebted alwaysGreen eyesAnd now you're leaving again

No...

H a t e M y W a y

I could be a smack freakAnd hate society

I could hate GodAnd blame Dad



I might be in a HolocaustHate Hitler

Might not have a childAnd hate school

I could be a sad loverAnd hate death

I could be a neuroAnd hate sweat

NoI hate my way

I make you in to a songI can't rise above the church

I'm caught in a jungleVines tangle my hands

I'm always so hot and it's hot in hereI say it's all right

My pillow screams tooBut so does my kitchen

And waterAnd my shoesAnd the road

I have a gun in my headI'm invisible

I can't find the ice

A slugI'm TV

I hate

A boy, he was tangled in his bike foreverA girl was missing two fingers

Gerry Ann was confusedMr. Huberty

Had a gun in his head

So I sit up late in the morning

And ask myself againHow do they kill children?



And why do I want to die?They can no longer moveI can no longer be still

I hateMy way

V i ck y ' s B o x

HeWon't ride inCars anymore

It reminds him of

BlowjobsThat he's a queer

And his hairStuck to the roof, over the wheel

Like a pigeon on a tireGoes around

And circles over circlesAnd he's a queer

And his hairOn the roof

Like a pigeonGoes around

Says he's a manAnd his eyesAnd his hairAnd his eyes

Say he's a man

He won't ride anymoreHe won't ride anymoreHe won't ride anymore

Home is a rageFeels like a cage

Home is what you readHow you breathe

Home is how you live

I feel boxed inI feel boxed in



I feel boxed inThink I'll be all right

Home is where the heart liesThe heart lies

The heart liesWelcome homeWelcome homeWelcome home

It's under the strangle of winter (?)I only love pieces of things that I hate

Like this box, this piece of roofI can't grasp, can't see true

A piece of pastDays like today

Like a decade agoPainful to remember like today

I've been here another year, another dayOcean waving flies and a child

Girl you complainTo kiss the rotten broken knee

You may be dreamingYou may be bleeding

You may be in this box

A kitchen is a place where you prepareAnd clean up

Clean up

Clean upClean up

Ra b b i t ' s D y i n g

He's running home againHe's running in the rain

Covering the brainI'll stay in, stay in

It rainsIt's walking on the trail



Crawling on the trailIts legs are giving out, giving up

It knows time, it sees itKnow it knows time

Know it knows timeThe rabbit's dying

Don't run blindDon't swallow the painDon't save the brain

Look up, look upCan't see the rabbit lying

The rabbit's dying

Follow me homeTo a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-to

I don't have legs no moreI know it

He's watching timeHe's watching, marching to his end

He knows time, he sees itKnow it, know it, know it

Ooh, follow me homeTo a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-to

I don't have legs no moreI know it, I know it, I know it, I know it, oh

He's watching timeHe's running blind

He's marching slower, slower, slower, slowerCan't feel the rain

He feels time

Don't run blindThe rabbit's dyingLook up, look upFollow me home

To a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-toI don't have legs no more

I know it

He's crawling on the trail

Lying on the trailGiving out, giving up



It knows time, it sees itKnow it knows time

Stay in, stay inIt rains

Can't feel the rainHe feels time

Don't run blindDon't swallow the painDon't spare the brain

Look up, look up

Am e r i ca ( Sh e Ca n ' t Sa y N o )

Follow the roadSwallow the snake

Find shoes in the cornerRun away

OhHe had a nightmare

GoI'm losing my person

I'm only talkingBut look at me

I'm in bed, I'm asleepI'm a mess, at my hair

Oh, oh, oh


Find shoes in the cornerRun away

No more backsShe can't say

America can't say noStand up

She can't stand upBang

She's afraidI can't say



I can't sayN-N-N-No

Oh

It was a funeralMine

He was doing itUnder the stars

And I was crying againRun through with a sword

SimultaneouslyAt the same time




She's afraidI can't sayI can't sayN-N-N-No




She's afraid

I can't sayI can't sayN-N-N-No

No more backsSay no

Stand upStand up

I'm afraid, I'm a mess

SoPut these right



What's it look like?I can't stand

I won't tell you she's dead


Find shoes in the cornerRun awayN-N-N-No

Fear

I hold you in my shins

I won't breakYour pain

This is much better than meOkay?

Fear, oh (fear, oh)Oh, oh (fear, oh) X4

Looks like me

Nothing ever worksEven if

It's all you gotThis is a state of shock

Fear, oh (fear, oh)Oh, oh (fear, oh) X4

Looks like me

Oh, oh

I don't think anythingYou coverMy spine

Hold my face, shoot me and die

Fear, oh (fear, oh)

Oh, oh (fear, oh) X5Looks like me



Up to your face

Up to your cheeksUp through your eyes

Give me what I want (up to your forehead)And all I can think about

Is losing itI'm losing it

I hurtLook at me run away

Stop talkingYou hurt me

And I'm not crying

Dry-y (through your eyes)

St a n d U p

And a nightFrightening dark and

It was lightA big tree branches and

I was dancingI'm straining

My broken neck andWalking fast

Look at my glasses thenLook at her shoes

Break your arm, it ain't no faceWear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up

(...)

I wish youWere a house to meFrightening light so

Keep it darkKeep your lights low so

I can't see insideShe runs

To the big peopleBut listen to me



I know

Break your arm, it ain't no faceWear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up

(I don't know)

I loveWhat does she put on now?

Every dayDo you love her more than me?

All night long

Break your arm, it ain't no face

Wear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up(... a scream)

So u l So l d i e r

The cutThat kills the knife

'Til it breaksSpitting shells

Their eyes were lockedAnd their hearts were open

And in love, we couldn't breatheIn love, we couldn't say the word

(Call)In love, we couldn't breathe

In love, we couldn't breathe the word

He crawls along the battlefieldsThe sky spitting shellsThat heart is on the ground

It spits in his faceThe cut

That kills the knifeForcing it

'Til it breaksForces our heart

Can't replaceForces a heartbreak



She loves himShe loves him

She needs her soul

Soul soldierSoul soldier

She loves him (he's all she needs)She loves him (he's all she needs)

She needs her soulSoul soldier

(Soul soldier)Soul soldier

An apple run to heaven, Dan-UDan-U, God damn you

An apple run to heaven, Dan-UDan-U, God damn you

She loves him (he's all she needs)She loves him (he's all she needs)

She needs her soulSoul soldier

(Soul soldier)

An apple run to heaven, Dan-U(She loves him)

Dan-U, God damn you

De l i ca t e C u t t e r s

It's just the lackOf time I keep

Reaching out, lashing out

It's just the linesRun down the walls

I can't believe they never fall

The walls never leaveAnd the walls begin to scream



Ahhh

And my toes against the wallI stare ahead

The door inside the wallYour face inside the door

You crawl across the room

The picture never movesMy books are very stillYou slide to my feet

You slide across the floor

IThrow your head across the ice

IThrow my head through a window

CrashLike poetry

It's four o'clock, I'm waitingYour face appears

I keep forgetting your nameWhile I'm writing this, youYou crash through the wall

You fall off the floor

ISlide your head across the ice

I

Throw my hands through the windowCrashLike gods

A roomFull of delicate cutters

All sitting down, the room has many doorsAll but one of them are closed

She goes around

(Remember)Opening the doors



This has another endingFull of innocent childrenOne of them are closed

She goes aroundThis has another ending(Remember the room)Full of delicate cutters

Opening the doors

House Tornado

Co l d e r

They took a pictureAnd from this cold lightning living me through

So I feel like an alarm clockFire came from my mouth Is pushing me around

And I'm not loving and I'm not hatingI'm not creating

I'm losing my friends and my young dreamsThat was vicious air spilled in my face out of love

And out of loveKeep walking

If I did the same thing 500 timesCould you see it in the dark?

I trust the weather

I try to make the bodies give me strengthDo we see them in the yard?

Who cares in they're rolling in bed?There's only darkness upstairs

Does love sit cold 'til you put in somewhereDo objects split it at your heart?

I don't see that anymoreI'm colder and colder and colder



M e x ica n w o m e n

Leave home Blood becomes a foreign substance

And see it as you let it dryI forgive my nature or I'll be my saint

I can always feel you in heavenLiving in the past I think if I remember that I'll forget this

I know you wellKill the sky The sun'll fry us; burn the rain We'll die

Stares from the back stairsI tie your tie, set tables

I won't run your party, you can't run my life

But the waters run deepOnce there was two Mexican woman

Ran over the hills ripped off their skin and ate it upLeave the town for the children [lay their skin across the

fire]Leave their rings to their daughters

And fly upIt's raining again Come home

It's raining in his handsOh catch it be brave grow

You make me cry Understand?Be safe, no worry So

Look what you do You freeze my songs And please Comeon

Catch me back I can go faster than fastCatch me go get back a date Land a seal too fast

Catch me go get back a date Spin the wheel too fast

Help me go get back a date Live a day the past

T h e r i v e r

Lose your way and we can stay out all nightLose your keys and we can't go home

In a little time In a little ginWe can touch hands again

Lose your head Lose your warhead

Wrote a song for a room I left long agoIt was my home It was my Hell



Now the girl the lives thereShe's an exotic She's a drunk

Leaves her clothes offWhen it rains Run to the river

She carry me She run me All the way downTo the floor Where it's warm

And dirty like a riverMy whole Hell

Carry me No Run meAll the way down to the river

All I want is to be worthy of myHands, but she's got plans

Dirty like a river

(You can't) run me downLose it Lose your war

J u n o

I can't playWhen he wakes up She said

He can't playWhen he thinks I'm growing up

That song Juno they did in the streetSo many places to go and not one for me

Said the sheIf they were pretty It'd be okay to say

But that day onlyWhen she wore dresses She felt born

That song Juno say the words if you have streetsNo one for me Said the she

That song Juno they sung in the streetHer husband of nineteen yearsDanced madly at her feetNow I can be balancing

Ma r r i a g e t r e e

Like an old man in a dress Treat me like a 12 year old manNo more hearts

Don't know what 20 is Don't know where the tree standsOnly follow these hands



At midnight I reach for the blindToward your head, but don't touch it

I'll wish I had but when I'm deadAt midnight I hit your song It sings again

Don't know what age is Don't know where the tree standsI only follow these hands

I couldn't make you crazy if I triedWe've been swinging 'round the tree

For how long now?Maybe she wants to be cared for

Stay home a month here A month thereMaybe take to the open roadsMaybe take to the open roads

Maybe take to the open roadsAt the marriage tree

R u n l e t t e r

So many tears I'm shaking out squeezing them out andbend it

The way things work together if I write this letter you canbend it

Please hope can I give hope the sky won't fall Just lookIf I mail this letter you can send it back to me

If you can dance If you can live I love youKnocked me on the head and sent me spinningIt was a blast I can't remember the last time

Stand between two poles and hold your arms upI'll kick me over your head and stock downCarry him Carry him Carry him And pray

If I mail this letter you can send it back to meJust look I love youIt isn't fair Hope you can hold your head up

I can pray if you meet my gazeI can laugh if you bring me home and dry me off

Count your cans andHold them up

And count them allA piece of ground where I can lay my head

Where I can lay a piece of my heartI don't remember I don't remember If I saw God there or



notGive me home Give me all Give me what I want

I want a place at the doorI surrender I surrender

My place My goods My day

Sa v i n g g r a c e

So we drive and we've driven 10,000 milesIn our hometown

Sink back into the drivewayWhich is Zen The head in the stairs

Or the body in the chair?

A Saving Grace at odds with technology A Saving Grace18 with a bottle of water Cold jeans and the face of

GibraltarHow many trunks of your goods?

How many goods do you give away?I'm spellbound when I can't move I stand in front of youI'm flipping back through the pages of your calandar and

your booksAnd your childhood and your looks

I try to move in your direction against the grain of timeI'm hoping to recollect my thoughts and motions

I pray to science and history Like cancer doesn't growI worship and forget you Bye

Worship and forget youA Saving Grace

And holding on to what we've madeAs it drags us by the legs across the living room

Put the children to bedFor a good night For tomorrow

D r i v e

Drive your carThrough the kitchen cupboard door

Through the winter Down to the floorDrive your head

To the bathroom tileSmile 'round the corner and your friends



They wanna play Do you wanna play games?It's alright...square your head Your head is square

Go out with me Come out1 2 3...1 2 3 I didn't care...

I wanted you to know I didn't careI always loved your hair

I wanna fight the clouds with your head on a stickFight the bush with your water and your leaves

And you leave so...Fight with me Run the grass Run the roadThe road house Home with me In my headIn your heart Under your ribs In my mind

Sleep your box I sleep in your mind

I don't care...

D o w n t o w n

She's downtown Lies in the streetBeen lying in the sheets

She's gone home Lies in the streetsBeen lying in the bed Through her teethStares at his sky Going bling Going blind

Step on corners Pick up puzzlesEating all the grain

It was just a date in '80 now I can't remember the faceBut I can still see the Still I see his of the and...I'm a little bored and a little scared I come home

I look up to see all the noise I...Can't remember now I can't remember how

She's seeing everyone Stares at her spreads that love

aroundAnd leavesCan't even catch the face Don't think you can grab the face

So I leftShe's downtown Lies in the sheetsBeen lying in her sleep to his faceShe's gone home Lies in the street

Been lying in the bed Through her teethDon't have to be so brave

Here he comes Here he comes



G i a n t

Hold the man up to your hands Old handsMake the man work again

Giant can Giant can get high againHold again or hurt

You will walk to the front and be blessedMake my bones shiver again Trust it again

Make my bones workGiant can I I Giant can get high again

I can't hold your head with both hands burnedYou will walk to the front and be blessed again

One bed to sweat too scared to

So unsettlingOne bed to sweat too scared too tired

One bed to sweat too scared toSo I'm settling in

One bed to sweat too scared toGrieve

Giant can Giant can look down look downToo small to look down to

Too small to look down look downJust one time not to trip

Just once not to trip

W a lk i n g i n t h e d a r k

I can't forgive a dream You own a question It's a bodyYou can make me cry You have a rightI can see you live I can't forget you die

You own a question It's a gardenYou can You can Can where'd you go Where'd youBoxing writhing twist and burrow

Walking in the darkA hunter Runner Walking Picking up the sticks

I had a dream I had a dreamRub the peers away they dont invade me

I just turned 35A round bottomed beaker

I could glow I could glow and swellI could glow Turn black Turn back



Ride and forgetMy ghost of seasons past asked this bedroom what to say

I said stay I have to sleep tangled in my families hairBuild a house of sticks and grow the grass and build a mask

Pull the grapes Turn black Turn backI can't say it till you grow a face

Walking in the dark...

Hunkpapa

De v i l ' s r o o f

I have two headsWhere's the man, he's late

One burns, one's skyWhere's the man, he's late

I'm two headed one free one sticky

But is it freedom can burn?

Is sticky ever blue?For instance where's my husband?

This is what I need why I can't stayGod, this is the devil too bad he's late

I love the smell of beerThe smell of dar, the feel of dark, to feel the rug

To press the rug beneath meA small party

But is it sinners can burn?I hear we let them speak

For instance where's my husband

If you're my husband I tell you somethingDance on the devil's roof

Under a devil's moonI don't care and you don't move



Be a

Banging in fevered portsBanging in the night

Ankle deep in mudI can sleep in mud

I was a kind of hookerMy lover was free

I don't speak I ramble he was a gambleI just want to own something (young dirty street)

I can sleep with anything and more

Stripped women stripped menI fall instead of him

I'm useless in the light fo the distanceI could break you for all the right reasons

I could hate you but what have I got

Nobody feels your tongueNobody sees you run

Nobody sees you makeNobody knows your face

Love lives your whimI'm stripped instead of him

I'm harmless in the light of the distanceI could break you for all the right reasons

I could hate you but what have I got

Nobody sees me oldNobody feels me coldNobody lives my whim

Nobody knows you're him

I roam this head I carm what's leftI hide myself from her love

Nothing make me older but the birthmark on your backBut making babis in the fields

And the birthmark on your shoulderMaking babies in the fields



Makes me older

Banging in fencepostsBanging in the night

Ankle deep in mud I can sleep in mudI was a kind of hooker but his lover was me

I don't sleep I ramble my kids was a gambleI just want to own something (old dirty earth)

I can sleep with anything and more

'Cause the birthmark on your shoulderMaking babies in the field

Nothing makes me older; nothing makes me live my life butyou

And that mark on your back making babiesIn the field

D i z z y

Along the Palo Duro canyonRed River shows so may eyes

One eye squinting, shaded from the sun, shoot meBlack a oil, his hair shone

Lily white, his skin glistenedRestless as the reed between his lips blew

It's just that mean old Texas sunIt makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head

What day is this? I, quiet, asked the skyWhat time is it? he asked me, sitting up

Love that villan on the runHe's got me spinning 'round and falling on my headWhat are you running from? I asked the white boy

From the guys who chase me there; come runI need your dark skin

To sit beside me in my car, light up my cigar

I'll light you




Love that villan on the runHe's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head

And dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head

He said you're ony Indian in OklahomaYou could be melting in AmericaWhite on red, melt with my skin

These two hearts will beat along the walls of our hotelI need your dark skin...

It's just that mean old Texas sun

It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head

The last I saw of OklahomaA gas station fading in the dusk

Goodbye my father, I thought, I'm carrying the lightThe light of my Comanche

Make sure the dog remembers me,I dream the sand beneath your feet

I hold the light


Love that villan on the runHe's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head

And dizzy...in my head

N o p a r a c h u t e s

Pushing a ribcageMakes it hard to breathe

And yet we hold our sweaty handsYear after yearSome new year

Without music in our headNewspaper tenement coming up dead

So my paracute is hanging aroundI guess I bust it on the ground



Nothing helps me fallNothing helps me float

Today I want to walk away

Pushing a ribcageMakes it hard to breathe

And yet we whisper in the darkYear after yearSome new year

Without newness in our headNewspaper tenement coming up dead

So my paracute is hanging around

I guess I bust it on the groundNothing helps me fall

Nothing helps me floatToday I want to walk away

D r a g o n h e a d

He lies he lies he lies he lies he liesHe lies he lies he lies he lies he lies

In your big red dragonheadIn your big red dragonhead

Don't go back to sleepStay up and watch the door with me

Watch me too much mascaraRuns when you sleep

He lies awakeRaising the creeps

Opens the doorI swallow creepy thingsHe lies in your big read dragonhead

Don't go back to sleepWatch the door watch me

Too much mascara runs when you sleepHe lies awake

Raising the creepsOpens the door

He lies awakeRaising the creeps



Opens the doorI swallow creepy things he lies

In your big red dragonheadyour big red dragonhead

your big black dragonheadGo to bed

Don't go back to sleep

Sa y Go o d b y e

Say goodbyeKick her legs, kick her down

Say goodbye

Kick her legs, kick her down

Fa l l d o w n

I picked up this lady in a store, she dropped her stuffAnd tripped on it, so I picked her up

I said, everybody falls downOnce you meet the man you want

You'll know 'cause you see redLike making honey 'til he stings you in the head

Fall down fall downKate collected postcards when she felt too alone

In case no friends of hers could get her on the phoneFall down fall down

Her husband was in line behind herNot everybody falls down

You're so old, I said, what happened?

If you eat your lipstick you consume here jealous rageThey get you in the mouth, those girlsFall down fall down

Juan collected things in cans, he felt he wasn't safeSee, his girlfriend took some when she went away

Fall down fall downNothing ever happens here, I said,

I just wait.I showed this guy my pictures

He said they didn't breatheI said I painted them that way



Kind of hanging on his sleeveFall down fall down

I showed this girl my stitchesShe said she had some too

She said she thinks she'll start a rock band tooFall down fall down

I hope you fall so fast and hard that you get me

I ' m a l iv e

I'm watchingI'm only watching trash

I want to eat it wear it be it

Don't make meDon't make me sleep

The ache inside this time it cuts too deepCatch the blood and cut the water

I'm aliveIf you won't get your hands that dirty, what's inside?

Don't take meDon't take my heat

The ache inside this time it makes me bleed

Catch the blood and cut the waterI'm alive

Fan your flame and can your heat I make it mine

A n g e l

I'm looking to you I hope moreAnd junk in my heart will be

I wanna stretch my skin around youLet you stretch yourself

But I stop your hands each timeI stop your hands each time each times three

And save you each time and save youAngel falls to save your skin

She falls underAnd she carries him with her



And save youIt was a good night if she got up

When she fell downAnd she found herself in bed alone

Spastically romantic and we look for something weirderDon't hate our bodies so bad

I'm looking to you I hope moreAnd junk in my pelvic bones will be

Each time each times threeAnd save you each time and save you

Angel falls to save your skinShe falls under

And she carries him with her

And save you

Ma n i a

What means hallucinate? what are we supposed to see?What are they supposed to want? get a job! you scare me

I sing here I'm alone here I'm with you over hereMarshmallow brain I need an umbrella

If I'm gonna stand in the rainMy hands are cupped and full of blood

My eyes are spirals I am on my knees and prayingThat is how I pray cause thatis how you pray

Rat rat rat rat rat ratTongue thickens I am with those who eat drugs

Who peek over the wall and get shockedShocking is therapyElectrify your head!

Pianos in my hearing Vincent, me ear is falling offWho left me alone? What do you mean you're alone?Goddamn wolves

No one has that dreamHallucinate I need an umbrella

If I'm gonna go insaneI think she wanna be crazy pick a brain!

I think I'm running awayOh boy, God? I'm gonna scare that boy again?

Not againCenterdale to Providence Middletown to Armageddon



A road is in my dream Centerdale is in my dreamDrums! carry me over the wall

You! left me alone what do you mean you're alone?I peek over the wall and get sick

Sickness is therapy electrify your head!Catalyst I need an umbrellaIf I'm gonna slit my wrist

Pick your hands upPut them on your headMove it around and say

This is too much it doesn't fitYour feet say nothing but move your hips

Move your hips, move your hips

Rat rat rat rat rat ratMania

Th e b u r r o w

Your big faceIs such a shrine

It tastes like waterBut I'm drunk

Your big faceIs such a crime

It tastes like waterBut I'm drunk

T a k e

I think I could like youIf you let me drive your carI think I might want you

If you let me drive real farI won't steal your keysI won't try to be meanPlus it might break you

Break you that might save you

I pray to the god who made you



I wouldn't break itCouldn't take what isn't mine, 'Cause I like you

And I know it isn't rightJust go about your business

And pretend that I'm your wifePlus I could feed you

Feed you 'cause I need youI pray to the gods I can please you

I hold a fistful of moneyDrag me down I reel you inIf you don't think I'm pretty

I understandJust don't think you won't die

By a woman's handPlus I might hurt you

Hurt you, desert youI pray to the gods I can burn you

Take to the roadTake me with youTake to the roadTake me with you

Bring me, this thing meI pray to the gods you can change me

Take to the road

Take me with youTake to the roadTake me with you

Sa n t a Cl a u s

Harvest your tears, in a sieveI can spill things down your shoulders - hold them.

And I'm afraid you remind me of Santa Claus,

In a good way.



And you are like Santa ClausI'll sit in a square

Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus

(Run around, around, around, around in my boxes)I see you at night, I shine

My arm in your chestNow I'll sit in a square

Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus(Run around, around, around, around in my boxes)

Run around, around, around, aroundIn my boxes - I...

I know it's not your faceI love your neck

Now I sit in a square

Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus(Run around, around, around, around in my boxes)

Only eighteen-and-a-half, no two timesNuh ho ho ho ho ho

Oh you. I love you, don't knowHo ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!

I see you at night, I shineMy arm in your chestNow I'll sit in a square


(Run around, around, around, around in my boxes)Run around, around, around, aroundIn my boxes - I...

I know it's not your faceI love your neckI sit in a square


(Run around, around, around, around in my boxes)Only eighteen-and-a-half, no two times



Nuh ho ho ho ho hoOh you. I love you, don't knowHo ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!

The real ramona

Co u n t i n g b ac k w a r d s

Counting backwards I count you inI don't remember him

I don't rememberIn time I rope you in againI try and turn you back through him

I built a tower in my bonesI spill the mortar through my home

Don't let your heartbeat beat keep you safeNo telling what keeps me awakeOne hundred fingerprints I hear

A hundred linger in my ear

Measure fortune killing time

H i m d a n c in g

Him dancingHim rolling on the ground

Him moaning "I can't help myself"You be the cooker

I can't see no difference in me

You be the driverI can't see no difference in me

I'll be the runnerYou can love me anyway

Re d sh o e s

This dateThis war criminal is

This date is brutal, it



It wants red, so I got red shoes'Cause red becomes youThis red becomes you

Eyes closed

You close them in the dark, huh ?What do you think you can't see ?You want red, so I got red shoes

'Cause red becomes youThis red becomes you

This danceThis war criminal is

This dance is brutal, itIt wants red

So I got red shoes'Cause red becomes you

I become you

G r a f f i t i

I see the sun rise over this wall,I watch it break and slide, See my name

See my name on the wallI tried to walk on this wall

It fell right under my feet, Now I only leanOnly lean on the wall

I throw an egg at this wallI watch it break and slide, See my name

See my name on the wall

Go l d e n t h i n g

Well you gotta see this, Golden thingYou golden thing,

And when you get there better kiss meGarbage piled up to the ceiling

Ashtrays shaped like assesAll this money and a golden thing, Hell, I got

You golden thingHorseheads that I dance around in

In coked up anorexicsGot a tree and this golden thing, Hell, I got



You golden thing

El l en w e s t

That last one messed me upThings look bad

Things look tragicI keep looking in the mirrorAfraid that I won't be there

Courting Ellen West, dancing on her graveSaving Ellen West

My house is full of demonsI swear to God, I need to go to bed

I need to go to sleepI'm awake with a vengeance

Saving Ellen West 'cause she wanted itThis way

My mouth is full of demosI swear to God I need to go to bed

I need to go to sleepI need that hope chest

I need to breathe, I need you hereI need to disappear

H o o k i n h e r h e a d

Certain things I love, Spend my timeI guess I'll have to unhook those hooks

This woman literallyFelt she had a hook in her head

Rip it up Live it downMake it big Keep it cleanShake it off

Take him off Take it offDo him good Keep it up

Shake it offHe's a fucking drag, But if you don't then you watch him go

If you can you see it home, You be strongAnd when you die it's a shame

But you old life stays the sameShe has a hook in her head



I saw this lady close her eyesThe bottle slipped between her fingers

And slid along the aisleIf I were a man I'd have a gun, But I'm so bone tired

I'm so bone tired, I'm old...I watch the snow make slow time

I watch the snow cover up the bottleSo I can slip between

I will read the label from underneathI wear the circle in my sleep

N o t t o so o n

She colourblind tired eyesHer hallway aching

She'll never move him - likes it that wayHe's just a walker and he'll never stop walking away

It's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at allYou might as well be dead he said

If you're afraid to fall, I said -, I know herShe said - Why do you stare so hard

Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken armsMake these old bones shiver

It's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at allYou might as well be dead he said

If you're afraid to fall, I said - I know herThe last time I saw you, You were standing in the dark

And with a freezing face, I watched you fall apartIt's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at all

You might as well be dead he said

If you're afraid to fall, I said,done your time, been in your placeI couldn't look you in the face

and tell you that it turns me onit makes my stomach turn

I know her

H o n e y c h a i n

My best friend knows this old guy whoWho keeps a picture in his shoe



He takes it out after a spellSays - s e e

Shouldn't stare that way so long baby...Stare holes into the walls

My dress hangs here for you to wear outI walked in beauty too, till I met you

Here hangs this chainThis thing this old girl keeps

We got it easySo why do you stare that way so long

Stare holes into the wallsWe're all honey

Dripping through the honey chain

And lay our lives downDown and pretty

In the honey chainPlease don't stare that way so hard baby...

Stare holes

Sa y g o o d b y e

I brought this bottle here for you, Can't you drink it ?I brought this body here for you, Don't you want it ?

Say goodbye, Kick her legs, kick her downI bought this pocketknife for you, Don't you use it ?

I bought this ball and chain for you, Don't you wear it ?

Tw o s t e p

Two step, Behind the rest, One fingertip too long

A hole, A hole in the box they carry, Pours sugar in theroadPours dimes in diamond jim,

Two months to fill him in A hole...

Red heaven

F u r i o u s



You're furious, I never taught you to sing

You carry rocks in your head and pitch themWithout warning, Happy drunk

You're furious, I beg you for sinI beg your skin, You buy a whore

Don't give her waterYou're furious

F i r e p i l e

This is him, when I beginCall him tied, call him taken

Call him anything but shakenCall him wasted, call him shaved

Call him anything by madeCall that firepile a homeDon't give away the end

I come backI rush to wait

Where the pavement starts to crackI put my foot down

The sidewalk's so hotThink of all the junk

I could lay my hands onPurify my heart

That firepile's your homeYour baby's running faster

Count the times I left my clothes outCount the tires one more time

Count the times I let the air outThat firepile's your homeAnd you're mine

D i o

Don't look back and, He's your soldierThat sheet metal sound next door, Is keeping me awake

Janie's eyes are open, And my feet are killing me

If this isn't the truth, Don't look downAnd He's your shoulder, That cheap little loud mouth whore



Is keeping me awake, The baby's eyes are openAnd this heat is killing me, If this isn't the truth

Clap my hands, Slap my legsI can't find it, But that sweet little bastard boy

Is breaking me a leg, Maybe mine is broken, I don't mind it

D i r t y w a t e r

I'm the lady who locks the doorI'm the lady who turns out the light

Hey, youLook at the dirty water

Look at him

Look at the dirty waterAnd swim

I'm not looking for anythingAnd you don't know

I'm not digging for anythingBut this hole

Hey, youLook at the dirty water

Look at himLook at the dirty water

And swimSit at your hole

You can't afford to goCatch what you can

You can't afford to knowThis manHey, you

Aren't you the lady?Some manYou look fine

Don't touch meThere's history on your hands

Hey, youAren't I the lady?

S t r o l l

I used to listen



I used to hearInside the wall

Now I don't hear at all

P e a r l

Hot handsMove things

I write in his wallI have no mind at all

Hot thingsMove him

I write on his wall

I have no heart at allI think she's a pretty little foolShe holds me down, she flows

She has a back like MarieI think he's a crazy bastardDrives me home, he goesYou have a back like Marie

You have pearls in your eyesAnd you use your burning to wrap yourself inAnd you use your fever to hide yourself away

And you use sweating to keep me downAnd you use your heat to have me

And you use your fire to be stronger than meAnd you use your flame agains me

I won't come back like MarieThe pearls on my eyes

These pearls on my eyes

They make me blindI write on your wallI have no eyes at allI write on your wallI have no eyes at all

Su m m e r St

I saw him first on Summer Street

He held my breathA famous face



And instant deathHe saw me next

One lonesome bodyOne lonesome song

No lonesome bodyNo lonesome songDrink to my friendDrink to the sunTo your health

'Til daylight comesAnd burning wealthI hold my breath

B a c k r o a d

One, two, three, fourHow many, many people outside your door?

Two, three, four, fiveHow many, many people outside?

Four, three, two, oneI don't think you can hold your own

Five, six, seven, eightI don't think you can save your face

You don't say noHe dunk the backboard

And he sleep on the couchHe jump the backseat

And he sleep on the couchHe drive the backroad, He drive the backroad

And he sleep

You're a pusherSpy in a bathWe make us move

Like some kind of bathCome when you need someCome when you need some

You're a pusher

T h e v i s i t

I'm proud to see you here



I can't relieve, believe the pressure in my headIt's a game of chance, I whisper in your ear

Fall apart along the wayDon't you ever see it through

Jesus said in heavenThere's not that much to doI'm proud to see you here

I'm proud to be here with you allI have a message from your sonWhen the ground starts shakingWatch the gifts inside your home

I have a feeling many aren't for youLeave your dollars where they fall

They have a message of their ownWhen the ground starts shaking, runKeep on running, or so says your son

She's a pillar of your homeKeep on shaking, or so says your son

She's a viceKeep on running

'Til you can't go on

D o v e y

Dovey, I'll take you downRemember I see behind me

Ro s e t t a s t o n e

Slept for a long time

Gone for a long timeIf you ain't hidingYou can't see

Stand me where i can see youFill my pockets, fill me in

If I ain't collectingI can't win

Everybody goes to the windowI can't remember what's outside

Hit the ground runningSleep with the Rosetta Stone



Stay here where I can see youIt's not a good time that I like

It's a soft, a coldAnd a high

Ca r n i v a l w i g

I keep meeting you and meetingI have promises to keep

I keep making them and leavingThat looks like a carnival wig

And two shinersLet's just say it crawled across the snow

It looks like your left handDon't love me

I won't be afraidWhen my ears ring and my head spins

I'll be on your good side



University

B r ig h t y e l lo w g u n

With your bright yellow gun, You own the sunAnd I think I need a little poison

To keep me tame Keep me awakeI have nothing to offer but confusion

And the circus in my head, And the middle of the bedIn the middle of the night

With your bright silver frown, You own the town

And I think I need a little poison



I have no secrets I have no liesI have nothing to offer but the middle of the night

And I think you need a little poisonYou leak one apple a week to survive

And you still have to ask if you're aliveYou have nothing to offer but police my dreams

Keep me clean Keep me awakeWith your bright yellow gun, You own the sun

And I think I need a little poisonWith your bright silver grin, You own sin

And I think I need a little poisonBright yellow gun

S t a r t

You're so right he can swimHe can breath underwaterI'm so light I'm so goodI'm all fathers' daughter

I know he won't roam, I know he won't roamI'm so blonde, you're so hot

This could not be betterI'm sorry I can't talk

I can't think under pressureI've got nothing to say, I've got nothing to say

I climb you as I grow olderBy fifty I'll ride on your shoulder

I'll start at his kneesAnd I'll end in his dreams

I'm so glad you could come

Now breath underwaterI'm so glad he's so charmedThat I'll walk him back home

And I'll keep him in bedI'll walk out the door

And I'll live there insteadI'll start at his knees

And I'll end in his dreams



Ha z i n g

Strange time to be hazing me

Breaking me shaking me awake nowI'm up mow, You're crazy

You're hazing meStrange time to be needing me

Cheating me freezing me out nowI'm up now, You're crazy

You don't faze meThat's my cue, That's my cue

I'll spend another day dancing with you

S h i m m e r

You in the water, Underneath the tarpIt don't rain under the waterIt don't rain inside my heart

Don't follow me home, Don't follow me homeYou walking in the gulf stream

Tail between your legsIt's not funny if you ask meIt's just funny in your head

Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang onMy tongue is filled with sugarAnd my back is filled with painYour tongue is on my shoulder

And there's nothing on my brainDon't follow me home

Don't follow me homeShake barrels of whiskey down my throatI'll still see straightRide out on a pony

Even loose I won't be lateHang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on

I'll ride on a ponyTill I'm dusty and I'm old

My head is filled with flowers

And I'm dressed in shiny goldI'm dressed in shiny gold



Keep an eye on me I shimmer on horizonsI shimmer on horizonsA shimmer on horizons

A shimmer in your eyes, son

A shimmer in your eye

Ca lm d o w n , c o m e d o w n

I think you know the whole thing's a damn shameI don't wanna calm downI don't wanna come down

Cr a b t o w n

Crabtown, baby brown, It's not work at allIt just slips around your finger, It just sits around

Lingers like a spellOh, we can't hardly stand

Oh, we can't hardly wait aroundKiss me over Crabtown baby brown

Underwater I swim sound, Cast a shadow on your cloudScattered days like spray, Champagne

Lost my head on Reject Beach, Lost my heartCome away with me

N o w a y i n h e l l

Love's got this drag on itNo way in Hell would I turn to you

You know too damn much

No way in HellI'm gonna run your friend downI'm gonna run your friend down

To the train In time for your hourYou sold my clothes to those girlsDrink till I'm numb then I'm gone

Say good nightI sleep with one hand on my clothesI sleep with one hand on my heart

There's almost nothing leftLeft to guard



For each time I say good-bye,I swallow you once every night, Say good night

No way in Hell would I give, No way in Hell would I foldNo way in Hell would I burn, No way in Hell would I go

No way in hell would I quake, No way in Hell would I danceNo way in Hell would I go...

Su r f co w b o y

I slip under the waterI fall into the seaCome everyoneCome everyone

Th a t ' s a l l y o u w a n t e d

That's all you wantedThat's all you wanted

We share this skinWe share this kiss

The best in usThe beast in us

This lustI saw the angelsSleeping with you

In his faceLight

That's all you wantedThat's all you give

Te l l e r

"I leave in the morningI don't wanna go"I said to the teller

"If this is the futureI don't wanna knowI don't wanna know"

"Fives and tens" said the guy behind the bar

"Twenty-five says he don'tYou cut a nice figure of a family



I don't knowI don't know

I have a fear of flyingI think I have a fear of him

I'm afrais of meaningNothing again

After all this is overThis is over after all

We cut a nice figure of a familyI don't knowI don't know

Can I be stupid for a minute?I was looking at that half-empty glass

Waiting for the waiterYou don't have to listen to this

Tell me what to say"

F l o o d

Fly, you get high, right?Fly, and you get high, right?

Try, you get by all rightTry and you get by all rightRyde, you're my bright light

You're my bright lightOh God, I'm highWaterfalls of light

Flood my eyes with lightFlood my eyes with my aching eyesight

My aching eyesight

My aching eyes

S n a k e f a c e

Not another drive-in movieYou know you can't sit still

Move meSnake Snake

Face out an open window

Water in my eyesBeat me to it



Meet me here next timeOne more button undone

You talk too loud I'm talking to youTalk it into the ground

Move meSnake Snake

Face out an open windowFire in my eyesBeat me to it

Meet me here next timeOne more button undone

Next week I'll be a lousy liarNext time I'll say when

You move me

Fe v e r f ew

I break the iceI melt the snowI knew you twiceOnce long ago

Maybe it's the feverOr the radio

I hear someone singingWay down low

Right nowRight now

You bring me waterYou bring me dope

I don't like you

But you're my only hopeI'm not talkingThat's the radio

Look at meI melt snow!Right nowRight now

Ride four red horsesThrough my room

Four red horsesThrough my room



Maybe it's the feverI'd kill to see you fly

And for a glass of waterBefore I die

How many of you are there?I see, like, three

Maybe you should take thisStuff away from me

Right nowRight now

I break the iceI melt the snowI knew you twice

Once long agoAnd right now

Right now

Limbo

B u z z

Fell out of the skyI fell out of the skyI check the time

While you wait for your clothes to dryI cut lemons and lemons and limes

One sour finger

Pretty as a pictureI always have a smile

Yeah, I always have a smile for you

I need a boatCan cut through the swamp

And take you for a rideYou need a suit for

Jaunts through the swampYour clothes never dried



The boys change my name

I'm flying againMy, my lies

Make a babyHealthy and wise

I cut lemons and lemons and limes

I need a boatCan cut through the swamp

And take you for a rideYou need a suit for

Jaunts through the swamp

Your clothes never driedDon't worry the beesDon't worry the beesThey buzz around meDon't worry the bees

The buzz sounds sweet to me

Ru t h i e ' s k n o c k i n g

Ruthie's knockingOh my God

Who's she talking to?Not a clue

Now she's shoutingI'll be on the floor

You go get the door

Just had to make sure you knewThat's a jack-o-lantern moon

Don't look in the mirrorOr he'll look back at you

Ruthie take a showerI smell like a flower

Your cats smell better than you do

Her cats are pretty cool



Where's he now?He's on the floor

She flips off the windowAnd spits at the door

My advice is twice what he's worthThe moon'll get him first

Mark my wordsThe medicine chests are backwards

Don't be surprisedIf you have flaming eyes

Tonight, tonightYeah tonight

Ruthie's eyes are bright

Ruthie's spine is taped with feathersThey're all mine

They grewSo you see them too.

Ruthie, yeahYour brain she's fried

You should see my mind

Dance aroundPlay aroundFool aroundWalk aroundRun around

Jump aroundFool aroundBe around

F r e e l o a d e r

I don't mind, I don't mindI don't mind, I don't mind

I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloaderI don't mind, I don't mindI don't mind, I don't mind

I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloader

I'm hungry enoughTo follow you around



I don't hear, I don't hearI don't hear, I don't hear

I'm a free thinker, I'm a free thinker

I'm empty enoughTo see you as I want to

I'm headed for the trees over thereIf that's not a destination

I don't care

I don't care, I don't careI don't care. I don't care

I'm a broken kid, I'm a broken kidI'm lonely enough

To make the air around you sweet

I'm an open book, I'm an open bookI'm lady enough

To meet you secretly

I'm headed for the trees over thereIf that's not a destination

I don't care&127;

T h e f i e l d

Well you just waitwe're lost again

Great, oh just great

We're lost again

Get your mouth out of the gutterGet your butt back to the sand

If it gets any hotterRock your baby in the sunAnd beg your big break

We're us again

Shake your big weightYou'll crave again



The field has melted snow in summerBack with lousy rain

One more star above the cloudsIs not such a bad thing

I have to sayI have to say

One more star above the buoysIs not such a bad thing

Say it just sayWe're safe again

Get your mouth out of the gutterGet your butt back to the sand

If it gets any hotterTake your baby by the hand

L im b o

Nice limbo you have hereNice limbo you have here

Nice field you have onBaby go back to your wombBaby go back to your womb

You grow the apples around meI'll spit the seeds in your grave

Bead me a necklaceA decade I'll wait

Picture this gun

I'm tired of cryingI'm gonna runI swear youMove you

To my poresI'm not gonna cry anymore

Dead is next doorDead is next door

Baby go back to your womb



Baby go back to your womb

You pulled my limbs one by one in your limboYou pulled my limbs one by one in your limbo

T a r k i ss e r s

Look at thisIt don't fit

You've put wildinto itI'm amazed

You've put wild into itWhat can I give you

What can I give

Cool placeI'm amazed

You rock me into spaceYou put cake

Down my throatAnd in my face

What can I give youWhat can I take

Kissing you is like kissing gravelBut feel's like getting offKissing you is like sinking

Down into the mossYou look better upside downYou look better lying down

On the moveI can lose

All my sympathy for youSitting straight

On the back of mother hateWhat can I tell you

What can I say

On my kneesI can see



All your better qualitiesSo you freeze

I make frozen into heatWhat can I tell you

That you'll believe

Kissing you is like kissing gravelBut feels like getting drunkKissing you is like sinking

Down into the mudYou look better upside downYou look better lying down

For todayI've arranged

To be just enough derangedTo relax

In the arms of someone strangeI promise you todayI promise you todayI promise you today

T a n g o

Thank you for singing my chainsWhen I couldn't sleep

Thank you for chaining me to the bedThat was sweetSing me to sleep

Sing to me

My sad brotherMy sunny lover

How much are you worthOr do you work

Sometimes you're so heavySometimes I don't feel you at all

Feeling for a lightswitch

I'm feeling this SeconalI don't like this party



They won't let me make the drinksSo I'm not getting drunkI don't wanna even think

What's going onIn your corner

If I'm not making friendsYou're not making enemies

You lock the cuffs in your pocketAround my wrist

I'll even let you pretendThat I didn't resist

Sing me a kissSing to me


How hard do you workOr do you

I'm so happyHe's talking crap

He just puts me to sleepSing me to sleep

Sing to me


How hard do you come

Or do you

I'm so hazyYou talking crazy

Just puts me to sleepSing to me

Put me to sleepSing to me

Sing me to sleep



S e r e n e

Sun bakes

The window makesThe sheets hot and wet

At night they're cold and blueWhy do I like you?

'Cause I doWhy do I like you?

'Cause I'd kill to be you

Sweet nothing

Sweet dreamsSerene

Sweet nothingSweet Dreams

Serene

Dancing with scissorsOur bones full of wishes

We wait for our plans to come trueWhy do I like you?

'Cause I doWhy do I like you?

'Cause I'd kill to be you

Sweet nothingSweet dreams

Serene

Sweet nothingSweet dreamsSerene

We fill each other's armsYou wanna wish higherYou wanna live higher

Lose control

If you're in the ballparkThen you can play the game



You know you know the rulesWhy do I like you?

'Cause I doI like you

'Cause I'm thrilled to be here

Sweet nothingSweet dreams

SereneSweet nothingSweet dreams

Serene

M r . Bo n e s

Wake up nowI wanna wake up now

I wanna wake with yourWeight on meArms around

My favorite soundYou make

I could sleepIf I could only think

I'm not aloneWith these stars on me

Diamond heatCuts me deep

You know

Wake up nowWhy don't you wake up now?

Look my heart'salmost breakingI know that now

Oh but I don't know howI can give up all this sinking

So wake up now

Why don't you wake with yourWeight on me



Arms aroundMy favorite sound

You make

N i g h t d r i v in g

I feel fineWant me to drive

It was mistThat you kiss

You can talk a blue streakYou can talk till you're blue

And we won't feel any finerThan we do

It was mistThat you kiss

Spread the mistWith your fist

You can talk a blue streakYou can talk till you're blueAnd we won't feel any finer

Than we do

I like to know you're realAny scarecrow wears clothes

I like to see your faceCould you turn this way?

Could you turn this way?Could you turn this way?There's always something

to pray forHam-fisted good will

There's always someoneTo pray for

And believe me I willAnd believe me I will



Co w b i r d s

Pack the truck under the moon

Jesus Christ, my lips are redYou ask a lot of the moon

When you ask me to forgetI never asked you to pay my rent

Jesus Christ, my lips are redGod, you turn me on my head

You're gonna haul me back again

I heard cowbirds call us home


Fry your ground, take itLie around naked

I think God dripped you out of a sunbeamOnly God dragged you out a tree with me

I pulled you out of a snow bankI think you grew me out of the dirt

I heard you pulled me out of a churchTo worship youWorship you

I wanna ride insideI wanna ride inside

I hold both of your fingers tighterYou hold all of my hand, manI can see right through you

I can see right through youI double-back and lose for thisI miss youI miss you


He don't seem so keenHe don't seem so keen to me

He don't seem so keenHe don't seem that keen on me



I never asked him to pay my rentJesus Christ, that rose is red

I'm turning it on it's headJust like he does to me

You suck me dryI'll never die



Me and your roseAre gonna haul you back again

S h a r k

This afternoonYour back's not so straightYour eyes aren't too clear

I could kiss youFor remembering my birthday

Find you on the dockOut of money out of luck

You should thank meFor remembering your name

You could be very easy

Spin the shotglassKiss the bottle

Shark in your brain

Spin the shotglassKill the bottleShark in your brain'Cause she's warm

This afternoonYour bite's not so bad

Your bark's not too scaryI could kiss you

For remembering my addressFind you in the dumps



Out of money out of drugsYou should thank me

For offering my mattressYou could be very easy

Spin the shotglassKiss the bottle

Shark in your brainSpin the shotglass

Kill the bottleShark in your brain'Cause she's warm

Spin the shotglassShoot the bottle

I find angels over drinksAnd you're one

W h i t e b i k i n i sa n d

Come clean on theWhite bikini sandHold me on the

White bikini sand

I wish you would

It's high noon all aroundIt's hard to spot

The villain and the clown

When you only see throughHeavy, heavy lids

The white bikini sand

A sunburn laterI'm a coward and a foolYak about the open roadYak and yak until today

When a firestormBlew them away



John Saul on a

White bikini sandHis shadow on a

White bikini sandOn fireOn fire.

Th r o w i n g M u se s

M e r c u r y

I am the opposite of youYou battle your mean spirit

I'm suffering through my ownYou answer to no one

I don’t know what that’s likeI honestly don’t know what that’s like

We quit making out to attend this meeting

With old ladies on tremendous amounts of cokeAnd reeling, I hear my bad voice callMy wayward brain reels

My easily distracted brain reels

Head full ofClimbing mercuryClimbing mercuryClimbing mercury

Climbing mercury

I am a complement to youWe park in the shade

And somehow equate that with dealingI hope I don't stomp on your heart

I know what that's likeBelieve me, I know what that's like

Head full of



Climbing mercuryClimbing mercuryClimbing mercuryClimbing mercury

Pr e t t y o r n o t

You weren't faking it I guessCause her girlfriend drives faster than you

Even on this fucked up roadWhere everything is so far away

You make a nice nice noise i guess

And a good night seems likely hereEven on this fucked up road

Where everybody’s so far away

Pretty or notOn top or underneath

You're never, never out of reach

I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage

I'm so sorry you feel so badI'd do anything to fix you again

I'm so sorry you feel so bad

Is everything feeling ok?Is everything feeling ok?

You're wound up too tight I guessThe same troubles shaking me apart

Hard lessons the easy wayAs everybody falls into place

Pretty or notOn top or underneath

You're never, never out of reach

I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage

I'm so sorry you feel so badI'd do anything to fix you again



I'm so sorry you feel so bad

Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?

Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?Is everything fading away?

Ci v i l D i s o b e d i e n c e

Lie down, don't moveQuiet, you

Sick with amazementI'm soaking and brokeHere's a big fat aspirin

Maybe you'll chokeThat's not funny

Get me into your clubGet me off your hookI want to get excited

I want to be your slaveIgnorance is happiness unless you get paid

And the times never changeI'm running out of days

And we can always run awayAnd you can always run away with me

And we can always run awayAnd you can always run away with meRun away with me

Run away

I don't like you anymore than you knowBut I still like you too much

This city's insaneThese people are crazy

You can buy me breakfastAnd then find me a coat



Back in that apartment I saw too many ghosts to go homeThis bread is oldMy coffee's cold

We live on toast and coffee

We live on bread and waterWe live on Coke and pretzelsWe live on bread and water

Times never changeI'm running out of days

And we can always run awayAnd you can always run away with me

And we can always run away

And you can always run away with meRun away with me

Run away

I don't like you anymore than you knowBut I still like you too much

P an d o r a ' s B o x

Perfect, perfect bodyAnd a broken nose

Perfect body and two black eyesOh don't remind me

I'm right, i'm right behind you

Inside that pandora's boxWas a can of worms

You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insectI'm right behind youI'm right behind you

Unholy hotelWhat a place to sleep

And that chemical smellBut i'm geting mine

Right there behind you





You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insectI'm right behind you

I'm right behind you

That ocean's not so deepThat water's not so darkFlood of water, bitter sea

That did you like you needed me

Perfect, perfect angelWith a dirty mouth

A perfect angelBut i'm gonna fryRight there behind



You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insectI'm right behind youI'm right behind you

That ocean's not so deepThat water's not so darkFlood of water, bitter sea

That did you like you needed me

St a t u s Q u o

I dreamed you saw the eyes of a paranoid manAnd quit your vision of the millenium

Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychics

Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freewayI'm hanging on the frequency of your voice

I'm drunk on the sound of your voice

I dreamed i climbed a hill in the midnight mudYou turned a blind eye to the baby



Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychos

Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freewayI'm hanging on the frequency of your voice

I'm drunk on the sound of your voice

There are sapphires in the treesAnd the moths as big as bats

Lucky me, to have all that

What do you have on your mind?What do you have on your mind?

There are sapphires in the treesAnd the moths as big as bats

Lucky me, to have all that

What do you have on your mind?What do you have on your mind?What do you have on your mind?What do you have on your mind?

Sp e e d a n d Sl e e p

Was a man took a hand, cleared the groundDug a hole we called home

Sprawled hereEleven years, forty-four seasonsWe came unstuck and it stung

Unstuck-ness flew meThough the air whispered in my earThis is chaos and it stings

Tiny strings across the United StatesRun from you to me and to everyone we ever breathed with

I don't care if you're sadI don't care if you're heart is breakingYou soothe me and you turn me on

Speed and sleep



I lock the dogs in the carAnd cut across the parking

L'm far away todayBut I might as well not be

You quit making mistakesI might not leave

You quit making mistakesI might just stay

P o r t i a

I like this place, it's a zoo

It seems to agree with youI still want this to be a fraternityNot a spastic appeal for another

Like frat boys who sleep together we party betterAll the world loves a lover

A portia spider clueYour enemy's still you

I still want this to be a fraternityNot a halfway house girl and her doctor

Like frat boys who sleep together we party betterWe know what it means to be a brother

I am unshakenI am unshakenI am unshakenI am unshaken

When you're dizzy and time-trippingHack away at your memory

Even when it makes you sad I'll be waitingAll you see are possibilities

And your own killer expectations

Like spiders without a victimWe're ready for action



All the way home

I am unshakenI am unshaken

I am unshakenI am unshaken

So l a r d i p

Everybody's soaking wet, ready for the solar dipIt was so easy to fly, it was so easy to fly

Thunder in the blue sunshineWhen did this city die?

I'm sick of turning you offI'm sick of turning you off

After an afternoon of insatiable beggingEvery frenzy is real

Skin is singing, hands are burningEverybody is healed

I am good enough for someone, good enough for you

Flown way out in spaceWho's on your tapes?Who's in your wall?Who's in your way?Who keeps you soft?Who makes you late?

Who do you call when you're ok?And when you're not?I'm so mad i could spitI'm so mad i could spit

I don't invite chaosIt's just that they hate us

I'm sick of pissing them offI'm sick of pissing them off

After an afternoon of mysterious fighting

Every frenzy is realSkin is singing



Hands are burningEverybody is healed

I am good enough for someoneGood enough for you

Flown way out in spaceWho's in your face?Who's in yoru heart?

Who do you pay?What have you got?

Who complicates your easy plot?Who hesitates and then you're lost?

E p i p h a n y

Now I know whyYou are the way you are

You’ll see the airThe tactful past

Which is more forgivingThan these last moments

We are the last of your faithful, well, friendsWe love the crash that accompanies epiphany

You don’t have low self esteemYou don’t have any self esteem at all

You float around, don’t touch the groundWhat little confidence you had

Is melting away

We are the last of your faithful, well, friendsWe love the crash that accompanies epiphany

I refuse to lose controlYou do look handsome under wal-mart lights though...



L o s Fl am i n g o s

Kissing through the weekendWe can prove we're perfect

On a mattress made of wasted timeA safe hotel room is a catacombNobody cheats after dark

Lost flamingos lost their bark

I can see myself andI'm eating out of your hand

On a carpet made of everything

A safe hotel room is a catacombNobody sees you in the darkLost flamingos lost their bark

I'm still waiting, I'm still hereIs that how come you're so mad?

I want all you never had

Your nose is brokenBut your mouth is working

There's a rainbow on the bathroom wall

A safe hotel room is a catacombNobody loses in the dark

Lost flamingos lost their bark

I'm still waiting, I'm still here

Is that how come you're so mad?I want all you never had

Ha l f b l a s t

Sleep, the great dream killerAnd leave them great

Ass-kisser on TVTo wake up all of me

An underwater makeupThe service, of what you don’t see



Oh-ohh

Empathetic listeningIn the dark room, and at the TV

You won’t have to watch them growThey don’t hurry, they all wanna be

You in a ballroomYou don’t spit on your dancing feet

Oh-oh-oh

Come outside, everyone’s outsideCome outside, everyone’s outsideCome outside, everything’s alright

Look at these crazy stars

Oh you pushed me so hardI’m waiting to fall downDo you holler Hollywood

Half full and thin

Lovers have blast and have babyOur bodies have weight and have motion

Together we settle into the home

What a beautiful faceCracking through the ice andFollowing two rattlesnakes

And your basic appetite

Shuddering and the smoking roses

Shivering in the bright sun

I’m following to wild placesTo see what God has done

And settle into the blue

Come outside, everyone’s outsideCome outside, everyone’s outsideCome outside, everything’s alright

Look at these crazy stars



Boy you pushed me so hardI’m waiting to fall downDo you holler Hollywood

Half full and thin

Love is half blast and half vacantOur bodies have weight and have motion

Together we settle into the home

F l y i n g

Wig out on meOne more time, i swear

We'll take this outsideI take you to pretty places

You'd think you'd just take the rest in strideWrong

But if i'd known fucking with a payphone would've got methis

I would've tried sooner

Why can't i sleep, in here?

Bury me, bury me inside himFamiliar faces never lie

You think they know what's comingWrong

But if i'd thought keeping us apart did any goodI would've died sooner

I make you so sadWhat can i do, what can i do?

I worry so badWhat can i do, what can i do?

I make you so madWhat can i do, what can i do?

I want you so badWhat can i do, what can i do?

Wig out on meI don't mind, i swear



By now i almost like itThis place is fascinating when you're here

But when you're not, it's notBut if i'd known leaving every home would get me here

I would've gone sooner

Chains Changed EP

F i n i s h e d

With a loud noiseEverything breaks,

Everything fallsRips open, leaves a hole

Follow the black moon inFollow the flashing gates

Alone at last....

Bury it inside, bury itBury it inside, bury it...Come home...

His wife died, saw her faceRevealed, refused,

Coming homeKept it outside,

Laughed it goodbye

He wants tears, he criesTurning it out blind

Leaving home

GoodbyeHe says there

I cannot say goodbyeFinished



Hope this dog dont spin me around againYour face in paragraphs,Caught in a game of hopeA year, found another year

A year, found another yearwhen we sit at a table

There's fire between the guestsWhen your hands dont touchThere's sand in your place

And fire under your nailNobody knew, so nobody cared

Nobody knows...

Ree l

I don't want thisI wanted you to reelInside this dream

There's something left of our worldI hold it

Know what danger is?Come in dangerous

Make these people go awayTheir coats are on my bedAnd they're hanging hardTalking about Jesus babies

I lose itKnow what danger is?

'Cause I'm in danger

You live on one word, one wordWhat's the matter with you?

You get excited to go

I wanted thisI wanted you to reel around the roomThe room is what is left of our world

I love you



Know what danger isCan be danger's eyes

I'm so human

My wordsReel around it

You can't love anythingAs much as when it's dying in your head

You're always dead in mineI [?] round the roomYou keep your word

You tear it

Tell it

Sn a i l H e a d

Is it enough to grow old?Is there enough to go around?To have a box in my snailhead?

I don't know

Is there enough to grow old?Is it enough to have a box?

In my snailheadI don't know

What are you do?

[repeat]

And a diamond growing oldUnder the ocean that's as blackAs where you came from, black as rocks

As the box inside your headWhat did they do, where is the ocean so black?

Don't say the circle's brokenAnd the diamond smoke

What did they do, where can they run

What did they break the fucking spiral was a circleWe are gone what did they do?



What will we do?What can I do?

What have you done?

Spot on the sunWhere have you gone?

What have I done?

Diamonds, rocks as black as box and smokeThe spiral was a circle

And I was broken box inside the oceanWhat did they do?What will we do?

What can I do?What I have done ?

Cr y b a b y c r y

I wanna cryOn a roof

I - the third timeYou will lose

He moved meAnd the chains changedI take a nervous face

Month after month after moreMouth after mouth after her

I said a nightmare

Complete with barking dogs and coke machinesKeep feeling like a baby chickenKeep touching life's basement

"I'm obvioulsy confused," I said,"I'm more more worried for you than for me"

I yell

Cry baby cry

Cry fight itI'm not ever getting out



I'm always getting sicker

You're the person that took meI found last September in a notebook

It was too much for the book to holdThat's how come I wore raincoats

I said first a suicide without a noteAnd now a note without a suicide

First a look without a noteAnd now a note without a suicide

She said "maybe death is my answer,

But love is the answer of life"

He moved me and the chains changedI take a nervous face

Month after month after moreMouth after mouth after her

I said a nightmareComplete with barking dogs and coke machines

Keep feeling like a baby chickenKeep touching life's basement

Cry baby cry cryI fight it

Im not ever getting outI'm always getting sicker, sicker

I found last September in a notebookIt was too much for the book to holdI lean on some

She said "first a suicide without a noteAnd now a note without a suicide."I said "maybe death is my answer,

But love is the answer of life."



The Fat Skier EP

Ga r o u x d e s l a r m e s

This is my house, roll out the red carpetDoghead in the windowNever was a little girl

Have wine, I can't drink yetDay pianos I can't afford

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Garoux des larmesDes fillesFilles de larmes

Délire des larmesDes joues

Larmes de joues

Run, run, mama, mamaDrink until you drop

Die until it stops

Volée des clochesVouez, vomir, volez (?)

Vive violemment (?)Vous, voie, vieillard voûté (?)

I look down onAnd all of a sudden realise

That I had on a shirtThat said take me for granted

And they did and didI put him on

I get it, I take itSo I were guilty

Might be for a long timeIf I wore

And I didAnd somebody didn't see



I did I did

(Garoux des larmes, des filles, filles des larmesDélire des larmes, des joues, larmes des joues)

I found these shoestringsAnd they say 'Watch'

This is my house, roll out the red carpetHoghead on a ragdollNever was a little girl

Run, run, mama, mama

Drink until you dropDie until it stops

Volez, voyonsVide, vive et germe (?)

Voilé, viergeVil, vire, vitré (?)

P o o l s in e y e s

I called youI told you

I guess I always wanted youIs that stupid?

I'm so untrue and that's too badI can't stand

I found a little squirrel

A little deadA little headA little fist

Why did I think of youI''ve always wondered what he said

And what he meantAnd that's too bad

You can't see pools in eyes

You can't see pools in eyesYou can't see pools in eyes



You can't see squirrelsYou can't see pools in eyesYou can't see pools in eyes

You can't see squirrels/swirls? in your poison

I'm here againI'm alone again, I'm talking again

And wantingI saw the gimp girl today, she's walking in between you

She walks circlesSpins around youShe lives on looks

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, no-oh-oh...

Where are your legs?Where are your legs?

I'll always wonder what she meant andThat's too bad

He's a statue and she is brokenShe's so broken again

He's a statue, they say she broke himShe's so broken all out again

You can't see pools in eyesYou can't see pools in eyes

You can't see me in your poison

I thought this hardness was a shellIt's a hard, hard

Hard core

A f e e l i n g

A feeli-i-i-i-ingA feeli-i-i-i-ing

I never could see anyone besides youBelieve it or not (probably not)

A feeli-i-i-i-ing



A feeli-i-i-i-ing

Something ? when it's something little(?)And you just wanted something to do

A feeli-i-i-i-ingA feeli-i-i-i-ing

A-oh-oh-whaa...

Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)

(One time sight mind touch you)

A feeli-i-i-i-ingSight scent sense sound touch (taste you)

A feeli-i-i-i-ing

I never could see anyone besidesBesides you (probably not)

A feeli-i-i-i-ingSight scent sense sound touch (taste you)

A feeli-i-i-i-ingA-oh-oh-whaa...

So a p a n d w a t e r

It's like atomic theoryDon't leave me when the train comes

Or when we die, don't leave me in another life

It's like atomic day

If you bring me to the light, I can't twist the dayIf you overrate me, I won't talk

If you chain me, chain me, I can't walkIf you walk me I'll move

Oh-oh-oh...

Can't we go away?

You may bring me to another timeThe school closed its doors



Side by side they go down the road

It's my road, once more alone

As a warm gun thanking herShe makes me dangerous

Blood on our teeth

Ready?

Y o u c a g e

You cage, you cage

You cage, you cageYou can sleep me down

Once called from aboveI spurn your loveI spurn your hotelI wear your hotel

Ahh...

So you own ugly hatsYou wear them wellYou wear them well

I wish the moon wouldn't hang so lowHang over home

Hang so

Counting Backwards EP

Sam e Su n

I broke the payphone when you calledI stole the wire

That owned a goddamn piece of youMa Bell

Is not my mother

I can't lie



Some bitch get out and tells the truth

And that's the same sunThat burned my mother

That's the same sunOn your dashboardIt's the same oneOn your postcardI need another

I broke the mirror on your carI stole the light it had

It tried to take the life from you

It had no colour

And that's the same sunThat burned my mother

That's the same sunOn your dashboardIt's the same oneOn your postcardI need another

I can't lieI can't lieI can't lie

Am a z in g Gr a c e

Amazing Grace

How sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me

I was once lostBut now am found

Was blind but now I see

'Tis Grace that taughtMy heart to fear

And Grace my fears relieved



Now precious dearThat Grace appear

The hour I first believed

Through many dangersToils and snares

I have already come

'Tis Grace has broughtMe safe this far

And Grace will lead me home

When we've been there

Ten thousand yearsBright shining as a sun

We've no less daysTo sing God's praise

Than when we first begun

Amazing GraceHow sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I was once lostBut now am found

Was blind but now I see

C o t t o n m o u t h

Take my sister out of hereScrew this barPut my sister in your carWho called me jailbait?Who called me jailbait?

Who called me jailbait, here?

Put my sister in your careTake her out of here

Don't call me jailbaitDon't call me jailbait



Don't call me jailbait, hear

You snakeYou cottonmouth

You snakeCottonmouth

I hope you remember me this wayI hope you remember me this way

The more he likes meThe more I drink

I think the more I drinkThe more he likes me

I got the shakesI got the shakesI got the shakes

You snakeYou cottonmouth

You snakeCottonmouth

I still want to drive you to the wallI still want to drive you to the wall

Firepile EPs

Ci t y O f T h e De a d

(... in the city of the dead)

I won't stay awake if I can't kiss your fingersThe creole porter misses you but I don't

It's like Saint Peter said in the city of the deadThe creole porter misses you but I don't

It's like Saint Louis said in the city of the deadSo stop your talking in my dreams

I won't stay married 'cause you won't stay buriedStop your talking in my dreams



I think of all the dead girlsI think of all the dead girls

Ja k

Pull your lover 'round by the nose...You'll never get to see how the garden grows

But if you go forth so...You can't stop the smell of roses

Eighteen things at onceYou spread yourself so thinYou could not find a basket

To put all your eggs in

Mikey row the boat ashore...

If you walk next to the ...You got a lose a little of something

Jak of all trades and a master of noneHow can a person get anything done?

You can fool yourself, you can fool anyone

Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak JakJak of all trades and a master of noneHow can a person get anything done?

You can fool yourself, you can fool anyoneJak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak

Jak of all tradesJak of all tradesJak of all trades

H an d so m e W o m a n

That handsome womanCried barrels for you

Stick her in, you don't

"Catch all this," he said"Hold on to the floor

I don't love you any moreI don't love you any more"



Draft another Bible

That handsome woman

Cried barrels for youSneak her in, you dopeSneak her in, you dope

Draft another Bible

Bright yellow gun EP

Cr a y o n s u n

Scrunched up face in a picture bookFeet don't reach the bathroom floor

Photos flying through the airNeighbors tree needs me to climbThis what I am, this is what I am

Crayon sun hung on the fenceSomeone laughts at my shoes on wrong

This is what I am, this is what I amFinger pointed at the moon

Little scare and the thunder boomCounting cars from my screen door

Reaching out for a hand to holdThis is what I am, this is what I am

Crayon sun on all the pantsSomeone lacing my shoes up wrongThis is what I am, this is what I am

Red E y e s

Two fists of rosesRed eyes

In spring time you come homeIn spring time you come home

Joyride to seaside

Looking for the rainYou sweat like a bullet



I swear like a train

I can't begin to let you down

We hide in showersLooking for the rainI'm okay, I'm okayI'm okay, I'm okay

You sing so quietI can't hear what you say

I'm okay, I'm okayI'm okay, I'm okay

I can't begin to let you down

Meet me in the darkWhere it's good

And I don't have to moveStop the car

When I tell you to

I think I have to goLet you down low

Let you down

Going home in a honey treeLooking for the rain

In spring time you come homeIn spring time you come home

I can't begin to let you downI can't begin to let you downI can't begin to let you downI can't begin to let you downI can't begin to let you down



L ik e A D o g

Search the world for something for you(For something for you)

Nothing's sweet enoughTo kiss me like you do

Built the walls in your front doorSo you know how to leave

Give your loveYou know how to breatheFeel your lips and tongueSo you know how to fly

I give you lifeSo I can never die

Something so much like heavenNothing's so much like rain

You have everythingGive your hands

So they know how to maimSo it knows how to pray

You are rightYou were rightThe sweetest

N o n A l b u m T r a ck s

F ish

IHave a fish nailed

To a crossOn my apartment wall

It sings to me with glassy eyesAnd quotes from Kafka

I sings to me



An eel is squirming on my couchHe's talking up a stormI'm laughing at his face

He slithers down across the floor

I'm laughing

IHave a man

It follows my hips with his handsDon't worry (I'm laughing)

Dance in the road (I have a man)And it explodes

(It follows my lips with his melting eyes)

Don't worryDance in the road

Fellow turns a fishy eye from the counterI feel at his hand

Stalking in the greyThe girl behind the counter

Sees a fin (school)

An eel slithers to the chalkboardIt writes 1 plus 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5

plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6Don't worry

Dance in the roadAnd it explodes


The house is reelingI'm kneeling by the tubLonely is as lonely does

Lonely is an eyesoreThe feeling describes itself

IHave a man

It follows my hips with his handsI'm laughing



At a manIt follows my lips with his melting eyes

Don't worry

Dance in the roadAnd it explodes


Eye...

I'm painting his eye in the middle of the floorFish is frozen in my living room

Stares out of a block of ice

With one melting eye... eye... eye...(Whoo!) Aced it

Sick

H i l l b i l l y

Kick their heads and they roll offDon't help and they foam and cryKick their heads and they roll off

Don't get help, and they stroll home and cry18 holes to kill

18 stomachs rawHard ransacked butchered my own life, oh my

And when the wounds go homeAnd all the breakfast's gone

I lay where I don't care, anyone, anyoneKick their heads and they roll off

Don't get help and they foam and cry

'Cause you're no baby'Cause you're no honey'Cause you're no party'Cause your no baby

'Cause you're no midnight brawl'Cause you're no naked sprawl

'Cause you won't take her there

Take me anywhereI don't care



You could hitch a ride

You could watch me driveLet's be opposed to style

When you do (I'm better off dead)When you do (I'm better off dead)

Winter's a lifeline to followI have better places to go

Kick their heads and they roll offDon't get help and then

'Cause you're no baby

'Cause you're no honey'Cause you're no party'Cause you're no baby

'Cause you're no midnight brawl'Cause you're no naked sprawlBut you won't take her there

Take me anywhereI don't care

Ca t c h

Catch catch catch catch catch catch catchCatch a bullet in your teeth.

I put my head in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boyHi

Bad, big bridges. Big, big buildings Blue boyIt's raining out here

It's freezing out hereCatch a bullet in your head.I'll put my teeth in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

Uh, rainBad, big bridges Big, big buildings Blue boyThe tears from one eye fall into the other

It's taxing out here.



L e t ' s g o o u t s id e

( T. Donelly )

I had a dreamI dreamed that I dreamed the answers to all your questions

And then I woke upNo answers

No chance of sleepLet's go outside - its getting darkerLet's go outside - it's getting late

Let's go outside

I work a lotI go overtime, I work for you

But when that whistle blows I roll my sleeves upPunch out in my right mind

Let's go outside.

M a ch i sm o

"I've got the little girls! I've got all the little girls!"I lights the cigarettesI can do cool thing

I like exist and that's allSave me! Come on, baby Baby, come on

Don't go for partiesMake my face hurt!

I only take people I wantSave me! Come on, baby Baby, come on

Talk in quotation marksNow watch me do me!Chick, chick, chick . . .

Save me Come on, baby Baby, come onI'm on fire Baby, come on.

B i r d o f p a r a d o x

Here's a crippled princess . . .

The people would have died for her had she shown anygoodness



But behind her wheelchair she kept all that she needed andshe liked girls

The townspeople shunned herQuiet and aloof the princess made them all wonder

But behind her glazed eyes she knew only she needed onefeeling supplied

Realize You (is the story)Realize Me (I'm slipping down . . . 1, 2, 3, 4)

CHORUS:

Dance around play around fool around dream aroundWall around jump around run around tool around feel

around

AaaaaaaaAAAAAA AAAAAAA ooo She fitsAqua ballerina lights a match

She knows their (sic) all watching but dances for just oneone one one child

Save the guitar ! Save the bass ! Drums ! yeah yeah yeahyeah

She's burning my building downDivine Disgusting (is the dream)

It could be (I'm flipping out . . . 1, 2, 3, 4)

[CHORUS]

Cap i t a l A

( T.Donelly )

do they appreciate?slap an art over everything they see

luxuryit's a luxury

sell out, sell outno conditions

sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrificeit's a luxury

stare, stareunleash, unleash



that's the other sideit is luxury

and run till it hurtsuntil you bleed and don't

lose your mind until youcall me and words, all

words molest, molest; it'sstrife, strife, strife, for

your life, all beating, andbreathing and running.

Cl e a r a n d g r e a t

Your eyes so clearThat your face goes on and on

Its lasts a long, long timeYou could be very easy . . .

The beast withinCan I come to your house?

I love to danceI got this fear f-f-f

Of rejection; I can't call youLook at me!

You could be very happy . . .Tongue

You make my face, tooThunder and lightning

You could be very easy . . .Your eyes so clear

And your face goes on and on

It lasts a long, long time!Clear and greatClear and great

Great.

De s e r t

( Elaine Adamedes )

Dying in the desert he is dreaming of the water down thebathroom drain,



Thinking of the oceans and the rain.What are you doing with your time?

He's using it to elongate his mind (elongate his mind)It moves (and stretches with the curves and lines) and it

givesTongue is made of paper sickly whitish and his eyes no

longer see the light.Language has been stripped of him for good.

Slowly he seems to sidestep timeand using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)

It moves and givesMiles and miles of body then he's tiny just a grain then he

exists no more

Funeral tears that might have saved his lifeSqueezing he slips to ride with time

And using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)It moves and gives.

A n t s o n g

Multi-colored plastic spheresEverything we want to know is in them

And we know it, and we know it;We're an ant.

You have six left to build your ant houseU-Boy? No, Birthday. Oh!

All your balls of knowledgeBut there's only one that's wisdom

It's the apple, pick the apple -Not the bomb.

Stockpiled inside youYou're too tallOh gain your balance

Or you fall.High HOPES.

H y s t e r i ca l b e n d i n g

Hysterical bending

Can't speakHysterical woman



Screams I thinkA head holds the bendingA woman can't be helped

This river runs

Like water through hellWhat am I doing on a mountain

Green water to flameThis trance says

I can't be containedTributaries flyHold this solidMelt this solid

Rain rain

A girl's body is solidHow do I meltHow do I meltWithout dying

Hysterical womanCan't speak

Hysterical womanScreams I thinkThis river runs

Like water through hellWhat am I doing on a mountain

I hate the rainThis trance says

I can't be containedFly babies flyHold this solidMelt this solid

Rain rain

Hee l T o e

Fireflies, in his eyesYou could wonder too

Heel toe, heel toe

Catwalk in his future memories

You could wonder tooHeel toe, heel toe



Rain sings to kingsMothers disappearHeel toe, heel toe

Fireflies, in your eyesI'll carry you

Heel toe, heel toeI'll carry you

Heel toe, heel toeI'll carry you

Heel toe, heel toe

T h e Pa r t y

A leather black living in my buildingHe was on my welcome

He used to say positively, he was negative, wellBut then he'd read his book with his back to me

I love that backAnd the city was his cakeAnd the boys, little girls

And ice creamHis hair was bleeding

He was bleeding on my dressMy dress was red

Positive and negativeAnd then we'd read a book

With our backs to backAnd the city was our cakeAnd the girls, little boys

And ice cream

Ra i se t h e Ro s e s

The kids were flying todayDon't call her girlfriend, we were saying

And I was locked into a frameBut listening again

Don't wait up for me I know what God wants



Raise the roof, don't pay rentRaise the roof, yeah

I was purified today

And feeling now I can be prettyAnd he is feeling very rude

But listening againI hear my pillow screaming find him

Raise the roof, don't pay rentRaise the roof, yeah

He wants if she decks out with the(?)

Quiet down all you noisy girlsHe loves those noisy girls

He wants to beat them up, he loves them so muchDon't call me girlfriend, don't call me girl

This is no light thunderMy ears are humming with him

And he's dancing 'cause it's rainingThis is no light fever

And my face is burning with himAnd I'm building, but I'm losing

(Raise the roof)If I leave you (Don't pay rent)Please don't call me back again

You know where I stay (Raise the roof)In my launing room (Get high, get lost, get low)

With that clause is

(Raise the roof and space out the proof and pick up theroof)I keep everything of yours (and raise the fences)You keep me (Raise the rent and pick up the roof)

Because I called you love(Raise the roof and raise the roses)

That's the music, you knowFrom the box you gave to me long ago

When my room was cold

Now the sun falls on through the window



When she warms the woodI can sit here all day with you

Cr y b a b y c r y ( b e a t l e s Ve r s io n )

Cry baby cryMake your mother sigh

She's old enough to know betterCry baby cry

The king of Marigold was in the kitchenCooking breakfast for the queen

The queen was in the parlour

Playing piano for the children of the king



At twelve o'clock a meeting round the tableFor a seance in the dark

Voices out of nowherePut on specially by the children for a lark



A n I n t i m a t e Co n v e r s a t io n

Kristin: There was a girl named Pike.Pike was different from the other kids in some ways.

She had huge yellow teeth which jutted out from her face,particularly when she was angry and curled her lips back.

Her favorite food was oatmeal, gummy and sticky and glue-like.

Actually, it was her only food.Pike's mother would try to feed her Pop-Tarts and fish

sticks,



but Pike would calmly remove the offensive food and fixherself a bowl of oatmeal which she would strap onto herhead with Scotch tape, and then walk around the house

while she ate, masticating wildly.

Pike's manner of dress was odd.She refused to wear any shoes,

but some ratty old platformsshe'd found in the garbage.

You couldn't tell they were ratty and old, thoughas she had covered them with tinfoil

David: For these reasons alone,Pike was ostracized at school.

The other children picked on her,

called her "Mary" and other names,pulled her hair and stuff.

It was difficult for them to accept her into thepeer group, given her idiosyncrasies.

Pike was different.Often, her mother would have little fits,

when she could take Pike's strangeness no more,ranting about "what had she done wrong,"

and "how she could have raised her weird daughterdifferently,"

and "why did her weird daughter do this to her."These fits had no effect on the girl however,

Pike would merely place one hand aside each eye and staredirectly ahead,

sometimes lending a swift kick in her mother's shin.Kristin: Even the family dog, Mike,seemed determinedly against her.

He was always nipping her feetand chasing her into rooms where she didn't want to be.But the last straw was the morning she woke to a pair of

aerobic shoes sitting by her bed.Accustomed to these minor intrusions,

she stepped over them and reached for her ratty platforms.They were gone.

At least they weren't where she left them.She called for her mother and inquired as to their location,

but there was no answer, and there were no ratty platformsanywhere in the apartment, only a pile of broken glass



in front of the shattered living room window.And there on the sidewalk, four stories down,

lay here special tinfoil shoes in a tattered heap.David: As she swept up the glass fragments,

Pike decided to leave.This was not a difficult decision,

given that Mike was biting at her heels and barking veryloudly.

She leapt over the mongrel and had just enough time tograb some

provisions and some tape, before Mike lunged.Pike ran barefoot into the elevator, panting.

It felt good to leave.

She hated the apartment and that stupid dog.In fact, she hated the whole city.

But she loved her shoes,and even her yellow jutting teeth,

no matter how unpopular they were at school.Pike walked barefoot out onto the street,

barefoot along the sidewalk,scooped up her shiny, rumpled platformsand continued barefoot along the road.Kristin: As the noises of the city faded,

she discovered a whole new world,a lot of green, and room for bird sounds.

Cars didn't drive so fast,and children played happily.

They didn't seem to be full of Pop-Tarts and fish sticks.On and on she walked, and soon came to a stream.

On and on she walked through the stream,

against the current, her platforms dangling from hershoulder.As dusk gathered and night began to fall,the sounds of greenness enveloped her.

She caught sight of that for which she had been searching:a big square entirely filled with grass.

She then knew what she had been born to do.Calmly she stepped out of the stream and

into her shoes and walked towards it.

She poured some oats right out of the packet, into thebowl and taped herself to it.



Slowly, she walked to the middle of the field,looked up to the stars and masticated wildly.

What blood type do you have?

David: I don't know. I've never been-- I don't think I'veever--

Kristin: There are only a few. You could just say one.David: O

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