Grass has been greater
Skies have been bluer
I know my soul is down in the sewer
You say that I am selfish
Well you know that that is true
I don't care what you say pretty mama
And I don't care what you do
I don't care about anyone except myself
I don't care about anyone except myself
In the land of the brave
And the home of the free
I don't care about anyone except for me
If you are unhappy and
You have not won your race
Well, there ain't no mercy in this world
And there ain't none out in space
So welcome to the nineties
I hope that you make it through
But if you get in trouble honey
This is what I say to you
I don't care about anyone except myself
I don't care about anyone except myself
In the land of the brave
And the home of the free
I don't care about anyone except for me
This is not the era of roses, peace and love
I must admit I'm the only one
That I'm thinking of
Well, I just make my honey
And I put it in the bank
I buy myself some presents
Forgettful girls, with no thoughts put into action
The world's your distraction while your asleep
At the wheel
Forgetful girl, you've become a mother
Surroundings tend to suffer when the fiction
Is real
I can't lie I'm unable to pretend
I'm unable to defend your actions
-repeat-
Psychic girl, where's my happy ending
Your methods patent pending
So what can't I smile
Psychic girl, caught between the rails
Your hearts still not in it
At three dollars a minute
-chorus-
Lovetalk girl, I'll pin up your photo
And direct my video like I was Aerosmith
Lovetalk girl, to further waste my tissue and time
I'll remain on the line 'till you get off with me
So if you keep me in (today)
I'm gonna hit it so strong
But if you go and kick me out (today)
I'll tell my friends you do me wrong
And if you give me surprises
I'm gonna turn it all around
And if you go and tell me lieses
I'm gonna prove you wrong
I'm gonna prove you wrong
I'm gonna prove you wrong
So won't you shake it all around (again)
Just like you did on tanqueray
You make me feel like I'm twelve (again)
But then you never act your age
So zip it up and take it down
I've got a stereo to sell
So pump it up and pump it down
I wanna be a sensation
[repeat x7]
So if you got the time
Just call me back
If you've got the time
Just call me back
I met you woman in a red raincoat and a beat-up car
You looked a mermaid in your water wings and a push-up bra
Maybe I was nervous, maybe it was fate but I called your phone
You said "Come over" I said "Every day" Now I can't go home
To the store
Up to the moon
You're so busy, you're so busy sending me
To the floor
Up to my room
You're so busy, you're so busy sending me
You introduced me to your neighbor Frank, said "He's a friend of mine"
He was a member of the truly insane and had done hard time
He said "She don't want no money, she doesn't want a date" but my mind's all gone
I know I should run, I know I shouldn't wait, but I can't go home
To the store
Up to the moon
You're so busy, you're so busy sending me
To the floor
Up to my room
Rang her phone and then picked her up
Watch T.V. cause she's the late queen
Post traumatic shock set in
Telling her to cancel the evening
Like an American car
We're proud to be driving
We put all the miles in
Ending up where we are
In the middle of silence
Beckoning violence
I believed that I could never use you up
Do you agree?
Of all the things that I find so unusual
What are you thinking?
And so I slapped the face of love
Clenched fists always seemed to say the right things
First let me up then take me home
So much for talking and compromising
And when you humor me that everything's roses
I know where the truth is
And while your flaunting your planetary halo
I'm watching your nose grow
-chorus-
Where are you going with that head?
Full of anguish and suspense?
Lately I've come to find the silence stifling
Won't you stop this crazy tale
Of one man struggling to prevail
Over the evils of the world
Wait, I'm not down just yet
I've got mountains of regret
And my sorrow fills an ocean
Instrumental
i've got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
like freddy mercury, mother-fucker
i've got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
i've got a trunkfulla amps, motherfucker
like elo, mamma-fucker
i've got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
i've got amps from sellin' stamps, motherfucker
like glen danzig, mother-fucker
i've got amps from sellin' stamps, motherfucker
i've got amps from sellin' stamps, motherfucker
i've got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
like lenny kravitz, mother-fucker
i've got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
got a trunk fulla amps, motherfucker
fucker
fucker
And this I know Leonardo DiCaprio
What a gas it was to see him
Upon the silver screen
In another starring role
With her lips she said, Rose ah..
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Of the titanic
Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
Titanic, Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
What a lovely lady rose
What a big black sea
What a hunk of boat
We'll walk everyday around this big ass boat
We should dock it, but where would we
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Hey Jack Hey Jack
I'm gonna jump off the back
Of the Titanic
Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
Titanic, Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
An iceberg left, you floating here
Just where you were, before it appeared
And its in place, an sea of space
You found you're finally resting place
Titanic, Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
Titanic, Titanic, Titanic
A Big Big Boat
I'm holding a grudge on her mind
While kids with lazer pointers try to fry mine
The sky is falling as we patch it with twine
I said the sky is falling run for your lives
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Suzie Q Sailaway, just not right now
She climbed the trees behind the house
Had to call the Fire Dept. to get her down
Feet to the branches from the branch to the wind
She shot skyward before they could begin
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Suzie Q Sailaway, just not right now
She's so high - repeat 4x
I can't be Superman today
She's taken my Up, Up, and Away
The sky is falling and I've just begun
To salvage pieces cause they'll be worth a ton
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Suzie Q Sailaway, just not right now
north eastern southwest mississippi
i'm going to reach my destination alone
north eastern southwest mississippi
i'm going to reach my home
i'll wave to the river as i'm flying over
north eastern southwest mississippian
never mind the times
and as a matter of fact, you're just the kind - alone and temperamental
so rewind the clock, the machine, and your one-wheeled unicycle
and as a matter of fact, you're underpaid for all that you can offer
Wake up
Your life's run amok
No soul left to ante up
We're going broke, there's only this alternative
I'm taking a train to Brooklyn
I'm gonna learn how to rhyme
I'll change my name to M.C. Something
(When I learn how to rhyme)
I...
Way down
Your fears I see through
No luck
Your reputation precedes you
If I sit any longer I'm gonna choke and
If you sent any money I'll still be broke and
You can wait forever for this shite to fly
You're losing your minds, well it's finally time
I'm not so glad I've got my whole life left to live
I'm taking a train to Brooklyn
(To learn how to rhyme)
I'm taking a train to Brooklyn
(To Brooklyn)
I'll change my name to M.C. Something
(When I learn how to rhyme)
I...
You know I can't afford to hate you pretty baby, now
say it now baby, say it now baby
*repeat 4x*
I'm taking a train to Brooklyn
(To learn how to rhyme)
I'm taking a train to Brooklyn
(To Brooklyn)
I'll change my name to M.C. Something
(When I learn how to rhyme)
Instrumental
Instrumental
The summer breeze sings a melody
Passing through her ears
But where could she be
I want to know her, where could she be
Evening skies
Night time lullabies
They mean so much more when
She's by my side
I want to know her, where could she be
Throw me out in the cold ocean waves
'Til I finally reach her shore
They tell me life is for loving
What's loving for
She's an island
in the ocean
Close to no one
Yeah she's an island
And I gotta reach her
Before someone else does
The morning tide leaves me sleepy-eyed
And a man can't swim when his hands are tied
I want to know her, where could she be
She calls my name, hangs around my door
And her scattered maps decorate my floor
I want to know her, where could she be
Throw me out in the cold ocean waves
'Til I finally reach her shore
They tell me life is for loving
What's loving for
She's an island
in the ocean
Close to no one
Yeah she's an island
And I gotta reach her
Before someone else does
Just like the sand upon her beach
I'll take her hand but she won't reach
Just like the sand upon her beach
I'll take her hand but she won't reach
For me
And she says
i see a man
and he's waiting
by the pay phone
to make his call to a girl
only know this cause I asked him
is she alone
is she happy
is she overseas doing business
he didn't care
he doesn't know her
he was randomly calling over
asking if she's alive
i mean really alive
i have a friend who's a poet and an artist
he spends his time writing songs, reading books
no need for the rat race
he doesn't care about his hair
just his woman no need for a headache
we'll have a laugh, have a smoke
discuss his marketability as the last great hope
i say man he's alive
he's alive
you don't know how much time you have left here, so spend it
you don't know how much time you have left here, so spend it
(come alive)
you don't know how much time you have left here
come alive
come alive
wherever, whoever you are
I'm a pumpkinhead
It sounds kinda like them they said
I'm a pumpkinhead, I said
I can't really help it
I'll be your defense stead
I'm a pumpkinhead, I said
I'll be your defense stead
I hope it'll find me
If you have to choose
Just what you say and do
You're used
If you have to say and do
Just what they choose
You're useless
I'm a pumpkinhead
And it's stuck inside my skull
I'm a pumpkinhead
And now i can confirm it
In a sea of dread
Drowning is the pumpkinhead
In a sea of dread
What if it killed me
If you have to die
Just when you've lived a thousand lifetimes
If you have to live
Just when you've died a thousand more
Pumpkinhead
If you let them choose
Just what you say and do
You're used
If you have to say and do
Just what you choose
You're useless
Yesterday I met the postman
Bringing packages from England
I smiled as to not provoke him
Then asked "What's up with the gun, man?"
Its been so hot in here for days
The ice creams melting
Given the means and the ways
The sex is helping
I lost directions to the microwaving meals
And my Captain & Tenelle
"Now I try to keep my head above my shoes
Especially in front of new wave Hair-Do's"
A dying man said to me
With his dead lips
Selling crack in Eubonics
As not to offend or annoy
Or strike a bad note
As not to damage or destroy
Or say a bad word
I gave directions to the nearest Coffee Shop
So maybe he'd stop, so maybe he'd stop
Wake up World it's time to go
'Cause this life can bring you down, so down
Wake up World it's time to go
And turn around the opposite way
Are you man enough to take the blame for this
In my dusty house
In my dirty clothes
Seated in a town on the verge of extinction
Struggling with a tune
Alone I compose a bittersweet ditty
About an ex-girlfriend
But why bother with painful memories?
Why tear out my heart for all the world to see?
Why not paint by number
Catchy melody
Burn it up the charts with sweet simplicity
Then do it again
Gotta get away
Maybe we should stay
Seated in a town on the verge of explosion
New York and LA
Noone listening anyway
Busy predicting the next big thing
So why bother with changing scenery?
Why pack up the car and move to California?
Why not paint by number
Catchy melody
Playing all the parts in deadly harmony
Then do it again
Put the keys into the car
Put the car into drive
You can take us to the moon
Just take us for a ride
In his dusty house
In his dirty clothes
Seated in a town overrun by tourists
Struggling with a tune so alone he composes
A bittersweet ditty in the 3rd person
So why star in your fictional stories?
Why try to deny your criminal and thieves?
Go ahead Paint By Number
Phony fake I.D.'s
Burn it up the charts with sweet
simplicity, then do it again
-repeat chorus-
9 Lives
you can be my headcase
you can be held accountable
you can act so surprised
use your 9 lives
over and over until they've gone away
if you have no money
i will be your currency
you can spend your 9 lives
cat eyes
over an over until they're all gone
over and over until they're all gone
the master of deception woke the devil and then set him free
she turned from an ocean to an ogre and selected me
i can't help but stay away when you're so damn evil
i don't care at all assuming that it's mother nature's fault
it's funny how a part of me ceases to be
i waited all summer just to see her leave
mother nature
she hated all my lyrics, so i lied and said i threw them out
the only one who knows this is me, but now the record's out
i can't help but paint a perfect picture with a double "a"
rhyme scheme
i don't care at all, assuming that it's mother nature's fault
a sentimental part of me that ceases to be
i waited all winter just to see her breathe
show me your best kept secrets and i'll never ever tell all
your friends that you know well
you let me down, down
i'll never listen to another heartfelt love song cuase this
time of month, it's a drag
you know they're dead wrong
i can only comprehend the half of what i hear cause you know
She's a leprachaun with mouth full of bile
She's a movie lover, suckin cock in the isle
It's like ten thousand dicks, when you're not really gay
She's a Death Row contract, when you hate Dr. Dre
And I think she's moronic
Its a real pain
When she hits the airwaves
With a pack of lies
That she wrote in the third grade
She's a head of lies
Thats you just cant shake
And each single makes me sicker
To imagine her naked
I'm afraid to see (afraid to see)
I took my suitcase
And broke her left titty
When I was at burny-grunmans
Mastering my album
I had the chance to burn her masters
And I wish that i had
Cause I think that she's moronic (blah blah blah)
It's a pure pain
When she hits the airwaves
And I hope she dies
And pour salt in her veins
She's a head of lice
That you just cant shake
And each single makes me sicker
She has a funny way
Of processing her lower vocals through a stereo chorus end
delay
She has a funny funny way
Of singing all of her bridges like the kibbde-kibbde-kibbde-kiddby
count bass
Isn't she moronic
Dont you think
Never once melodic
And I really do think
And I think she's moronic
It's a real pain
When she hits the airwaves
With a pack of lies
That she wrote in the third grade
She's a head of lies
That you just cant shake
unwrapped and bitten
an invitation to your side
i missed the friction
if it's in my head, it's in your size
you are, you're making me mad
afraid you've been had again
you are, you're singing so bad
you're singing so sad again
scratch the hideous melody
scrap all the harmonies in 'e'
can't help but spell it out
if it's in my head, it's in your mouth
hang up the phone jaded hand
take a piece of everyone
the day is done
the bread is stale and silence suits me that well
i'm a bitter scale with a broken trust
found the liar in all of us
cause you're better off
you're better off when no one's starving for your company
i think a sour note is a luxury
crass information
spread it
infect somebody else
inspire a nation
and in the simplest of words, she knew about forgiveness
and in passing, something true cried out
as the wheel began to turn, there it loomed and burned
in the awkwardness at hand, i don't understand
lucid anne, lucid anne
lucid anne, lucid anne
and when she woke up from the day before
no recollection of events which took place somewhere
laughing only at the lines that now traced her eyes
looking backwards through the glass, i think i missed the
point
and in the simplest of words, she spoke the only answer
and in passing, something new cried out
as the wheels began to turn, there it loomed and burned
all of my senses are turning away and all that i touch
is turning to waste
i mark indifference in various ways, but all of my senses
have gone out to play
my tongue tied and twisted
my eyes wouldn't blink
decisions were made for me
i couldn't think
tattered old heros where saving my grace but i lost my senses
but i don't wanna touch, taste, feel
i don't wanna touch, taste, feel
i don't wanna touch, taste, feel
i don't wanna touch, taste, feel
all gone to waste
a stanger in my hat or under my skin
my hair is a welcome mat
now it begins
it splits and divides and feeds on itself and i lost my senses
i don't want your help
all my pretenses collectively face
the left hand of decency patiently waits through an unbarable
show of restraint
my ears won't play
my eyes couldn't paint
my tongue tied and twisted
my eye couldn't blink
decisions were made for me
i couldn't think
thought my friends were just saving my place
Amidst a sea of white houses
A train wreck maze of dirty pictures
Lies on the floor
Underneath the thick make-up
Laughs a face of a girl who just got paid for
All the pretty things that she can do with
What she's got and what she's given
It's just another scary story to me
And you just can't help but question
If she ever listened to Mother
Because all the most vital lessons
Went in one ear and out the other
Artificial - pre-conceived
Hey, deceiver - I'm relieved I am
Now raise your head from the floorboard
Poster children of the nineties your time has come
Set your sights to the scoreboard
Trailer park-channel-surfing monkey
Who's side you on?
She could be a Queen but now
She's selling her crown to Montel Williams
Now what kind of life is that to lead
Artificial - pre-conceived
Maxine, drama queen
Prettiest thing in life that I've seen
Gonna go down in history
When I take her our of her misery
Liesel from Laos
Likes to vacation in her house
Moved from Barbatos to the country
Won't pay tax until she's 83
The Girls - They're the one's making us Breakfast
Pam C's a quick stitch
Sharp as a tack yet slick as witch
I know where her mind's at
She'll take all I own and then smile right back
Kristen's a Christian
Telling all her friends she's a lesbian
Gonna make a speech to the President
Ask him why he's so negligent
-chorus-
Dee wants to sing R&B;
Make a million dollar video for B.E.T.
Do a remixed version for MTV
Get shot and come back to lie in 5 movies
Ms. Cry teaches English
To high school delinquents
Feels like somethings still missing
Wants to get it on with Kristen
Valentines
Jock Strap
Calling Cards
Mermaids
Vaseline
Drunk Tank
Fireballs
Hurricanes
Mistle Toe
Freak Show
Bathwater
Nappy Ho
Cold Spam
Yes Ma'am
Looking for my Handicam
Instant Gratification when my film comes out
my Polaroid right
and it's a flash in your eye
I got my Girls on film
and it's a kodak moment
Boone's farm
monkey's jumpin on a bed
Saturn
Butterfly
Bread
Soul Print
Colored Hair
Beer Bottle
I swear I can't focus this damn thing right
Corn Cob
Rain Rod
Overhauls
Closed Malls
Camaroon
Neptune
Born with a silver spoon
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold 'em all for ransom
everyone today suffers from the short attention
blah blah blah, blah blah
everyone todays suffers from a lack of interest
blah blah blah, blah blah
- chorus -
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold 'em all for ransom
everyone today is a drug-crazed maniac
blah blah blah, blah blah
poppin sudafed to calm the effects of the prozac
blah blah, blah blah
everyone in the world is a squeamish psychoactive
blah blah blah, blah blah
everyone in the world is not instantly attractive
blah blah, blah blah
- chorus -
let's go trick or treating dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treating dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treating dressed up like marilyn manson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold them all for ransom
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold them all for ransom
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold them all for ransom
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold them all for ransom
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold them all for ransom
everyone today suffers from the short attention
blah blah blah, blah blah
everyone today suffers from a lack of interest
blah blah blah
- chorus -
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold 'em all for ransom
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
let's go trick or treatin' dressed up like marilyn manson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold 'em all for ransom
Let me make my prediction of why you have no love
You're hollowing out and alone inside
Your will had died
In water which you're barely treading
Swallowing all remains of hope, you just can't cope, I throw the rope
But the change in tide tossed you aside
A move that we're regretting
What's minimum wage for a damsel in distress?
Baby, I could offer you some better benefits
It gets lonely in castles and beds made out of glass
I feel you hopelessly, telepathically
All the boys down at the schoolyard
They're dumb, they're playing keepaway, keepaway with your heart
All the boys that try so hard to get some
But you just walk away, play keepaway with your heart
Let me make my assessment to
The way that you move in the full of the moon
And the black inside your vampire eyes
Your child-like charm is never unwelcome
Why you destined to beat yourself up over an empty cup of rotten luck
And misery, when no one else can see, elusive to everyone
What's minimum wage for a damsel in distress?
Baby, I could offer you some better benefits
It gets lonely in castles and beds made out of glass
I feel you hopelessly, telepathically
All the boys down at the schoolyard
They're dumb, they're playing keepaway, keepaway with your heart
All the boys that try so hard to get some
But you just walk away, play keepaway with your heart
Having Dinner With The Funk
1234
I'm kickin your ass with the funk
I'm biting my nails with the funk
I'm changing my name with the funk
I'm moving out with the funk
I'm harvesting wheat with the funk
I'm surfing the internet with the funk
I'm going to have dinner with the funk
You say you can't recall my name or my face
I am so sure I knew you well before this
I can't sing and I can't dance so good
There is no song, there is no beat left to dance
If I knew what I know now
I'm sure I could show how
The story all ends
If I knew what I know now
I'd probably just punk out
Before it begins
I can blame it on the rest of the world
To understand it takes a mind with patience
You say you can't recall my number, girl
A penny for your thoughts on beatings I have taken
Jotting stardates in your Captain's Log
I am for sure alone in this life
Building karma with your cats and your dogs
I am for sure the victor this time
If I knew what I know now
I'm sure I could show how
The story all ends
If I knew what I know now
I'd probably just punk out
hello
let's play some music
follow me
let's make some noise with some pots and pans - repeat 8x
where did you go
where could you be
i better find a way to write back home
i feel the flow of electricity
better call before the fuse is blown
- chorus -
i am a little an, explosion
i am that's all i am explosion
you once were told you once were free
i drew a map my destinations unknown
morticians faint whenever you breathe
i'll see the light before i'm buried and bones
* repeat chorus *
starlight blinding
i will go away
same old rigmarole
i will explode
she's in my shadow
i avoid the street lights
she loves her sweater
clothing is her birthright
she's heavy metal
moshing in the moonlight
she writes me letters
poetry keeps her up nights
mystery date and you can't be late
thought it wouldn't go any deeper
stalling and stalling to the voice of debate
laugh at her jokes and then leave her
you can't get out
well maybe she's pretty and maybe she's rich
you got to keep an open mind
hi, my name is cindy and i'm a transistorosexual
now it's all run amuck
for the next five hours you're fucked
fallen in a well and you can't get out
thought you couldn't fall any deeper
you learned about love and the opposite sex
that there's fucked up people
you try again
maybe she's pretty and maybe she's rich
you got to keep an open mind
hi, um, my name is cindy
i'm your blind date and i'm really blind
now it's all run amuck
for the rest of your life you're fucked
Hey, Lou
Hey, Lou
Redundancy repeats itself exponentially
Nobody wants to hear you say
Over and over and over and over...
Massachusetts
You think it's simple as that
Well, some things are
But not this little golden rover
Take it on the chin, pow!
Hey, Lou... pow!
Hey, Lou
The pain was euphoric
I couldn't help it
The adrenaline made it near impossible
To think, to speak, wish, die, help me stop this
Hey, Lou
Planets aligned, here comes the sign
A guilded word, the holy kind
There's rows and rows of Saturdays
To come
They cried a laugh, you cried alone
They fleshed it out, your gone and grown
Equipped with all you'd ever want
To feel
Nigh bricks nor mortar
Can hold you in place
Place your hands upon a hammer
And nail away, see if she stays
You're glued to the girl
Glued to the girl
Six or seven minutes
Repeat then you're finished
You're Glued to the girl
Glued to the girl girl girl girl
Embrace the day with your good deeds
She tunes you out, you speak your peace
With vacant stares and coffee stains
On your shoes
Placid and pain, soaking the stain
We try so hard to cast away
Pilgrimidge is set
To sail
All thrown together but to no avail
No tax, tongue, or tape or fine-tuned detail
See if you sail
You're glued to the girl
Glued to the girl
Cried when you left
All of us alone
Glued to the girl
Glued to the girl girl girl girl
If you want to, I can show you
All the things I learned and misused
It's true that I don't love you no more
I'm sure to lack and not be friends
Planets align with baited breath
The guilded kind within my chest
There's rows and rows of mundane
Wait now, baby, put the gun down
I was just kidding, I was jokin' around
Talk is cheap and so am I
It's inconceivable to try
to believe there's a sane one between us now
I am rubber, you are glue
We're just two people in a sticky situation
Whatever I say bounces off and sticks to you
I wasn't so quick to break your fall
And so you launched your arsenal
I send my requiem in the mail
It's so impossible to tell
If you would break, if you could ever give in to me
I am rubber, you are glue
We're just two people in a sticky situation
Whatever I say bounces off and sticks to you
It's so impossible to tell
If you could break, if you would ever give in to me
It's inconceivable to try
to believe there's a sane one between us yet
We're just two people in a sticky situation
Whatever I say bounces off
I am rubber, you are glue
We're just two people in a sticky situation
Instrumental
Flip-Top Box, nail and lock me under
All I ask is for 3 minutes of time
And I know you don't mind
Flip-Top Box, show a feeling
I'm defenseless, I'm so nervous kissing you
I tell myself that I'm bold and bigger, I'm such a liar
From the darkness comes the light
Stopping slowly short of nothing
Crying wait, wait - now you're alone
An obsession overblown
An addiction all too familiar
Crying wait, wait - now you're alone
Flip-Top Box, some claim you Jesus
But we'll all meet him soon enough
Introduce your homosexual friends
I know better now
I don't need you hangin' out
Cause you smell like shit
And 10 dead cowboys would agree
I tell myself I'm not cold or bitter
I'm such a liar
From your past here comes your prime
Your behaviours unsatisfactory
Crying wait, wait - now you're alone
Beyond excuses in your head
An addiction all too familiar
Crying wait, wait - Now you're alone
I'm a fool I suppose
It's what inside that matters most
I'll be better off alone
Flip-Top Box, I'm James Dean if you say so
Punch drunk in my halo
Spinning upwards towards the roof
Flip-Top Box, show a feeling
I'm defenseless, I'm so nervous kissing you
I appoint myself so cool and clever
I'm such a liar
From the darkness comes the light
Stopping slowly short of nothing
Crying wait, wait
Crying wait, wait
out of control
losing your soul to devils in holes with game all know
forgotten friends died for you sins
you can't make amends in role
- chorus -
brother you're so, so defective
so wrong
he don't know he's infected
you're just so, so wrong
a happy child drinks five alive
freaks bee-bop-a-loo-la yet he's born to be wild
his claim to fame, he met big daddy kane on an amtrak train to ronkonkoma
* repeat chorus *
flashing cash flow at every show
got blow in his nose and stains on his t-shirt
the same old scene like hot wire dreams replace the part where ends justify the means
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinnin'
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, makin' it spin
You're makin' me dizzy
First time that I saw you, girl, I knew that I just had to
make you mine
But it's so hard to talk to you with fellas hangin' round
you all the time
I want you for my sweet pet
But you keep playin' hard to get
Goin' around in circles all the time
Dizzy
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinnin'
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, makin' it spin
You're makin' me dizzy
I finally got to talk to you and I told you just exactly how
I felt
Then I held you close to me and kissed you and my heart began
to melt
Girl, you've got control of me
'Cause I'm so dizzy I can't see
I need to call a doctor for some help
Dizzy
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinnin'
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, makin' it spin
You're makin' me dizzy
My head is spinnin'
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, makin' it spin
You're makin' me dizzy
Oh, I'm so dizzy
You're makin' me dizzy
Instrumental
bad news is that there's nothing good to say
the minty flavors been chewed to nothing
that i can taste
harsh reality just set in today
that my limbs were drying quickly in concrete and clay
i made my peace with jesus
we wrote a letter to heaven
saying "will you be there to greet us?
or just show us the back door?"
- chorus x 2-
jumping from a bridge
with one hand tied to the railing
i am thinking of you
with cinderblocks for shoes
and with a touchtone phone i listen
to the problems of a city
life is like a hello kitty
voice inside of me thats all gone wrong
when before the door was open
like the window i've broken
i can't help if i'm spacin'
my messiah's freebasing
my blood is boiling and racing
as i crumble at the core
- chorus -
you can't, you can't tell me
maybe i'll become a chameleon
you cats
you cats gotta order me
order me the all-american slam and then you got to find me when it's ready
i can't sit in wal-mart
and boil
there's something in the water
someone breathing your air now
it will all have to wait
it's quite important that we tie you down and keep you there
- chorus -
she's all gone, shunned by everyone
if you wait too long, they'll cater to your ego
i believe in your head
all the answers are wrong
she didn't count on the backlash rejection
petty little juvenile crimes now
tell me who you startin' to date little girl
a boy or the world
maybe they dig pretention
maybe you dig taboo, now
it'll all have to wait
until we analyze the data when they're thru with you
- chorus -
she's all gone, shunned by everyone
if you wait too long, they'll cater to your ego
ms. know-it-all, it's hard to pick a side
will they break your fall or assasinate your tour guide
i believe in your head
all the the tension is gone
- chorus -
she's all gone, shunned by everyone
if you wait too long, they'll cater to your ego
i believe in your head
Instrumental
Cannon - Are you unnecessary noise?
Cannon - Firing on all of your toys
Cannon - Thinks we're the same but we are
Cannon - Destiny's towing your car
When fire
Meets powder
You take your cover
I fly over and
When fire
Drowns water
It spreads it farther out of my hands
Asking advice from all the clowns
Cannon - Take your frustrations to the ground
Cannon - They wait in the wings for you to fall
Cannon - Can't you make dust of them all?
When fire
Meets powder
You run for cover
I fly under and
When fire
Drowns water
Don't even bother
Out of my hands
In some untimely way
The world asks us to leave
Suddenly we're afraid
No longer can we stay
The thread of life was strung
To each and everyone
I knew it all along
Your call to arms was wrong
Cannon - Are you just unwated noise?
Loose cannon - Remember all those you destroy
When fire
Meets powder
The strongest cower
Half heart
Underhand
When fire
Drowns water
stand awake and unglued
we've got critical plans
what an incredible view
why don't you soak it all in?
i've been given the option to live into the new year
i've been stuck between a rock and a vinyl interior
and i've got just enough to share
i've got enough to pass it along
and i'm just so damn glad i'm here
isn't everyone?
borateen, tell me what's it all mean
it's bad enough that i'm having to figure it out
borateen, i'm the king of my castle
when i drown it down
you spin me around
not a boy
not a man
innocence dissolved in your hands
it's a crutch
it's a crush
it's a sudden rush and it's unplanned
it's a ball
it's a chain
it's a crying shame that it's a gas
understand it's only urge anyone has
not just anyone
bold as i've become
bite your lazy tongue
it's a sin to me
all your flattery is just sympathy
With all the force behind a driving engine
When all your homies focus their opinion
No conformation, found you floating underwater when..
She's so binocular
She's so binocular
Bet you ya knock her up
* repeat *
when all the angels plotted their descention
from the heavens down to the dirt
found the devil lighting fire underwater when..
- chorus -
candy coated superballs
hail upon uncompleted malls
if it amounts to anything at all
i was drunk when i agreed to this
* repeat 1st verse *
They married young she became a widow
And for all of her bingo friends- ditto
She succumbed to ordinary jive
And was miserable
Tired of waiting for her ship and captain
Too afraid that the prior would happen
Fell in love with an ordinary guy
Who was dressed in drag
Your love's better than aliens tonight
-repeat-
Your love's better than anything that I like
Alot
How can you bury your head so deep
In the bed (and pillowcase)
Girl, there's no oxygen
Shortly after, the waves came crashing in
She moved on to find bigger fish to swim with
In the lonely, lonely November night
She was abducted on sight
Based on her principles
Your love's better than aliens tonight
-repeat-
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed of it
America. Hey, I'm ashamed
It's out of a dream
I'm alone right now
With you somehow
Now we can come clean
Such a torrid past
Alone at last
And nothing can break me
From stringing this along
And nothing can save me
From laying it on
Til you answer me
Cause I'm alone right now with you somehow
Now what in the world are you striving for
I can't be sure
Where's the sweet little girl
I once knew well
I wish time would tell
And nothing can break me
From stringing this along
What have you done lately
Besides haunting songs
Won't you answer me
Cause I'm alone right now with you somehow
I'm alone right now with you somehow
I'm alone right now with you somehow
I'll work my fingers til they bleed
I want to love you
I can't leave you long enough
To know you're out of my league
And nothing can break me
From stringing this along
And nothing can save me
From laying it on
And nothing can break me
What have you done lately
Besides haunting songs
Won't you answer me
Cause I'm alone right now with you somehow
I'm alone right now with you somehow
If I was mummified
Buried underground
I'd be a millionare
If I was petrified
My body turned to stone
I'd be afraid to walk home
Call it good luck
The right place in time
Call it a stroke of genius
Through my window pane
She comes creeping through
Sunshine, she's from Heaven
Sunshine, Wide Awake At 7
What do I do to keep her
All couped up alone in my room
If I was Rakim
I'd have a gold chain
That costs more than I could make
If I was sensitive, I'd be so sensitive
That I could never relate
Doesn't matter now, It didn't matter then
Patience is wearing thin
If I was popular, I'd only talk to her
- chorus -
You come around, you crazy intellectual you do
You make a sound, I take 9 steps to you
* repeat 1st verse *
Dr. Dre, Wacky D and Sunshine, Ice cube and Easy E
Those are heroes of mine
I think it's time I took a closer look at Compton
Blaze the weed and ride over the hill
Pull the Thomas Guide
Put my hands on the wheel
I think it's time I took a little memento from Compton
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin' through Compton
While all the gangsters sleep
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin through Compton
While all the gangsters sleep
Ozzy Osbourne, I heard he's selling his home
Called an agent for some property to own
Sorry sir, but you're not well known in Beverly (Hills that is)
Used to watch Wheel of Fortune all night
Bob Barker on the Price is Right
I think it's time I finally see the sights of Beverly
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin through Beverly Hills
While the game show hosts all sleep
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin through Beverly Hills
While the game show hosts all sleep
Don't wanna see a b-movie on Vine
The Tar Pits or the Hollywood sign
Spielberg's no friend of mine in Hollywood
Don't give a damn about a Melrose skeez
Sunset Strip, or the Mann's Chinese
Just wanna buy the very best of things in Hollywood
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin through Hollywood
While all the porn chicks sleep
I'll steal the bling-bling from the benzos that are parked up on the street
'Cause it's midnight sneakin through Hollywood
When you're alone
In your own little world
When you're alone
In your own little world
You're alone
In your own little world
When you're alone, in your own...
When you're alone (You're alone)
In your own little world
When you're alone (In your own)
In your own little world, you're alone (When you're alone)
In your own little world, you're alone (In your own)
In your own (When you're alone)
When you're alone (You're alone )
In your own little world
When you're alone (In your own)
In your own little world
You're alone (You're alone)
In your own little world
When you're alone (In your own)
And you roam (When you're alone)
When you're alone (When you're alone)
In your own little world
When you're alone (In your own)
In your own little world, you're alone (When you're alone)
In your own little world, you're alone (In your own)
And you roam (When you're alone)
When you're alone (When you're alone)
In your own little world
When you're alone (And you're owned)
In your own little world
You're alone (When you're alone)
In your own little world (You're alone)
And you're owned
She's waiting
For me to live
She's waiting
For me to give her a sign
And there's nothing that I'd rather do
Than give the right signs back to you
She's waiting
For me to try
She's waiting
For me to come alive
And there's nothing that I'd rather do
Than come alive for you
She's waiting
For me to dance
She's waiting
For me to answer her
And there's nothing that I'd rather do
Than romance the hell out of you
She's waiting
For me to smile
She's waiting
For me to walk her down the aisle
And that's something I just can't do
Till I know that I'm right for you
Have you ever been in love
And was it a good one?
I can't speak for myself I suppose
Cause the love that I know
Could never trust as far as I could throw
Love was never in the limelight
Love couldn't last through the night
Cause the Love that I knew
Was always asking more
Than I could do
And If I ever live it down
I might be surprised when I'm alone
I wish you just knew your Uno
Love was never even an issue
Dry your eyes with my towels and time
Cause the love that I know
Was willing to stretch as far
As it goes
Love is jealous and wicked
Sad songs have never depicted
The Love that I knew
Was always biting more than it could chew
And if I ever checked around
I might be surprised at what I find
I wish I just knew your Uno
And I could spend days wondering how
You are and what you're doing now
I last heard you were a librarian
I bet the books are melting away
(Melting away)
Have you ever been in love
And was it a good one?
I can't speak for myself today
Cause the love that I know
Is only good for one roll in the hay
Love was never in the limelight
Love couldn't last through the night
Cause the that I've known
Is always casting out the first stone
And if I ever live it down
I might be surprised
I wish you just knew it
I wish you just knew it
Come away with me, it's a surprise
Everything I see through your eyes
Is just as lovely as the day I first fell for you
And you can count on me
For each and every little thing
Hey love, you can hold me and mold me
But I'll still be the same
On a distant sea far away from
The unimportant things, just the shoreline
And this love we feel
I can prove it
Can you prove it to me?
And I can count on you
For each and every thing that you do
Hey love, you can shake me or break me
But I'll always be true
Cause this is love
One bad engine lost power to the system
The media dismissed them
Cause they all died up there
Devil's under the floor
Devil's at the door
Radar hoses go unnoticed
Needing protection, needing relief
Needing the answers to questions
Before I sleep
Such a well-manner boy
Where's your manners boy?
Action poses, broken noses
It's all so different now
It's the tune comedy plays us
Will we be rectified at The End Of It All?
Or completely faceless?
It's all a fluke hid in vacinities
To avoid detection change identities
It's a neverending war
It's a neverending war
Hey Captain Pete, where's Section E?
I'm entrusting my life, I travel lightly
Time to settle the score
Now go 'head settle scores
Schooled musicians (that's what the paper said)
You're a victim
It's all so funny now
It's the tune comedy plays us
Will we be rectified at The End Of It All?
Or just left faceless?
cement hands - she comes alive on my poster
cement band - and i'm in love
i know the things you must think and feel
you've been left out in the cold
she's a superstar
she'll never see me in the crowd
no matter who you are, you can't forget a face you know
plastic friends
subliminal plastic motives
have you reached the end?
or just knots to your rope
and from day to day, the actors and scenes change
and when you're a memory, the greedy ones remain
i know the pain you've been subject to
you've been left out in the rain
she's a superstar
you can find me at her feet
she's still a superstar
while i'm alone at home
what is a super star?
can you count them on your hands?
does it affect who you are and what everybody says and does
or thinks about you anyway?
does she smoke crack, burn buildings, or just plain strange?
caught in the public eye, we get paid to pry
i know the things that you must think and feel
you've been left out in the cold
i'm a superstar
i can't see you in the crowd
Maybe we should take a long vacation
Only to a place you've seen in your imagination
A place where time stands as still as the Earth
Racing beneath the stars
Hello sunshine, we're waking up
People gather 'round for the summersound
Farewell moonlight, we've had enough
Watch your sorrows drown in the summersound
Now you've got a mind aliens could hang with
You can always talk to me in any language
Utter a sound, and Iââ¬â¢ll be around
Above and beyond this life
Hello sunshine, we're waking up
People gather 'round for the summersound
Farewell moonlight, we've had enough
Watch your sorrows drown in the summersound
You've been a bird, and I've been a plane
You've been real cool, and I've been insane
But somehow it makes sense when I'm with you
Hello sunshine, we're waking up
People gather 'round for the summersound
Farewell moonlight, we've had enough
Watch your sorrows drown in the summersound
In the summersound
In the summersound
In the summersound
I believe in self-assertion
Destiny or slight diversion
Now it seems I've got my head on straight
I'm a freak, an apperitian
Seems I've made the right decision
Try to turn back now, it might be too late
And it's off to the morning and back again
Same old day, same situation
My happiness is back as if to say
I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes to play
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah
A simple life's my cup of tea
I don't need nobody but me
What I wouldn't give just to be left alone
I wanna be a millionaire someday
And know what it feels like to give it away
Watch me march to the beat of my own drum
And it's over and over and over again
Same old day, same situation
The happiness is back as if to say
I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes my way
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Same rain every day
Everyone just step away
Come another, come another
Come another day
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay home
Stay home, stay home, stay home
I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes to play
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna stay home
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes my way
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
give them what they want
when they want
when they know what they want
i'm sick of thinking for myself so i'll play along
stick me in a room full of books, suits, and record deals
be sure to make some coffee with your cream and ask me how
i feel
it's been a long, lonely wait
oh, we can hardly wait to hear the tunes you have made
i'll bet they're really great
there's something to the way you find time to create
the second album is late
where is it anyway?
here i am
believe the sound you breathe
i'm in up to my knees
disregard everything because now i'm over my sophomore jinx
you're crowding my dollar signs (make everyone sing)
your little songs i'll call mine (my sophomore jinx)
get to the back of the line (love turns to hate)
when i stand a million to one (to one)
x amount of dollars for my head
should i say "commodity"
help me get madonna off my bed
she's just to drunk to sing
management's explaining, entertaining to the industry
they've heard the same spiel a million times
maybe two or three
the illusion is sealed
the band's all wrapped in chains
wish their vibe was still real
now it all sounds the same
and all the grooves that they steal
all the blues down on beale
prolific wisdom english poets often write
here i am
believe the sound you breed
i'm in up to my knees
disregard everything because now i'm over my sophomore jinx
you're crowding my dollar signs (make everyone sing)
your little words, they don't rhyme (my sophomore jinx)
you've wasted all my precious time (love turns to hate)
when i stand a million to one
long, lonely wait
Hello, meet my problems
I only miss you when I'm with you
I gotta fly car to jet around town
Gone sour to the bone
Gone bad to the marrow
Financial situation's depleted
Guess a slap in the face is what I really needed
From a strong hand to make me a man
What more could I ask?
What more could I stand?
I'm so low that I wish I was dead
With a knife in my chest and a bullet in my head
I'm so low that I wish I was dead
Must I go on?
Sold all my friends today
I'm so low that I wish I was dead
Gave everything away
Now I'm bound only by twine and thread
Just give me time
Don't give me time to miss you
Just give me time
Don't give me time to miss you
On a short leash yet she was eathbound
So I threw her in the lost and found
Now she's scaring me
A fine charity
With a pink trombone and a tuning key
So just ignore the footprints
And just ignore the sand
My epitaph stands before me
So wear your ego to the funeral of a frightened man
Saw her standing in the doorway
Fade away
And I believe in it
If I were dead
If I were dead
You make me want to give
You make me want to learn
You make me want to shut up and wait my turn
You make me feel high
You make me feel low
You make me want to tell all I know
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
And see if you swim
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Everybody knows it may swallow you down
You make me want to die
You make me want to live
You make me want to pull out my hair and forget
You make me want to shine
You make me want to glow
You make me want to tell everyone
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
And see if you swim
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Everybody knows it may swallow you down
Baby girl
I've know I've been going through alot of changes
But if I don't.. then the music stays in the same key
(You make me wanna...oooh)
You make me want to give
You make me want to learn
You make me want to shut up and wait my turn
You make me feel high
You make me feel low
You make me want to tell all I know
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
And see if you swim
I'm gonna throw you in the ocean
Throw you in the ocean
Everybody knows it may swallow you down
Don't start with me
I don't wanna hear it
You like the beat, don't give a damn about the lyrics
One thing is clear, while all the rest of it is blurry
Got to get out in a hurry
She's all mine when there's no one else around
Young girl get out of my mind
She's all gone when she blends into the crowd
My love's a train that can stop on a dime
Like the light beaming out of the fast food sign
Or a face on the TV Guide
Toni Braxton didn't write Un-Break My Heart
And her boyfriend didn't die
Large as life when she's knows it's not allowed
Young girl get out of my head
Cold hard stare and she shrinks back down
This is a choice I could live to regret, but...
Spoken in rumors
Hand over mouth
She's a late bloomer
He's a dirty old man
Like a girl all alone by the bust stop sign
After school asking for a ride
A piece of ass with a couple of bucks for gas
No rides for free I don't want to hear it
It's more about keeping up appearances
Don't talk to me it only makes me ramble
I hear it now like an overused sample
Mademoiselle with her panacea turns into la jeune fille
She's a spy for a non-existent land
Bonjour, Ca va Oui Ca va
A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand
My love's a word and my word is au revoir
Silently smiling
An inside joke
I'll have a Red Stripe
She'll have a Coke
Like a fan reading in between the lines
Or a kid buying merchandise
No doubt just a girl who's acting out
Don't start with me
I don't wanna hear it
You like the beat, don't give a damn about the lyrics
One thing is clear, while all the rest of this is blurry
Got to get out in a hurry
Tough luck indeed I'm not going near it
I need a lift but I'm attracted by the cynics
One thing appears when nothing else emerges
Got to control my urges
Like the night that you looked at me and smiled
Over a song by a friend of mine
All these words are a thinly veiled disguise
But the beat's still on time
She's all mine when there's no one else around
Young girl get back into line
She's all gone when she blends into the crowd
You're a sick, sick boy you are
You've got your wine, women 'n' cash
Semi-automatic superstar
In the pan you're a punk bitch flash
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let
Tell me mister, what's your story today?
Who is it you want to be?
I've bought some ammo and I'll send it your way
Destroyin' friends and family
I feel a stranger stealing my candy
But you're a housefly trapped under glass
Fat chance of getting me in your caddy
In the pan you're a punk bitch flash
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
Masquerading as a man about town
The seventh chord is my fist hittin' your face
You think you're on, but nobody's straight down
In the scheme of things you're gonna lose the race
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let
I'll round up every beast you let out
I'll round up every beast you let out
Was your Dad a good glass maker?
Was your Dad a good glass maker?
'Cause I can't see through you at all,
No I can't see through you at all
Was your Dad a good glass maker? (Maker)
Was your Dad a good glass maker? (Maker)
'Cause I can't see through you at all,
No I can't see through
There's something wrong, I turn it on
I can't control it
There's something wrong, pretty one
I can't hold it
Was your Mom a goodness saker?
Was your Mom a goodness saker?
'Cause I don't believe her daughter
And I can't relate you to her
I guess you're just the best heart-breaker (Breaker)
All in all the best heart-breaker (Breaker)
But you won't be breaking my fall,
But you won't break nothin' at all
There's something wrong, why'd you turn it on
I can't control it
There's something wrong, pretty one
I can't hold it
There's something wrong when I turn it on
I can't control it
There's something wrong, pretty one
I can't hold it
There's something wrong, pretty one
I can't control it
There's something wrong, pretty one
I can't hold it
I can't get it out
I can't (I can't) get it out
I can't (I can't) get it out
No, I can't get it out
No, I can't get it out
I can't get it out
I'm gettin' away, I can't go
I can't get it out
I can't (I can't) get it out
I can't (I can't) get it out
I'm gettin' away, I can't go
No, can't get it out
Hey, that's a real nice purse
Should spark jealousy in all the other girls
Hey, that's a real nice dress
Now every man around here's thinking about sex
You got beautiful new hair
But there's a stylist much richer somewhere
And what a lovely shiny car
If it were mine I'd make payments 'til 3004
Did you pretend not to see
What I like to think
That you'd do it for me
But I'm just not cool enough
I got so much Potential
But you don't give a damn about Potential
Yeah, the future's inconsequential
I guess I'll go alone
I got so much Potential
But you don't give a damn about Potential
Until the Benz and friends are not rentals
I guess I'll go home alone
Hey, that's a nice new nose
I guess you cut it off to cut down on the coke (habit)
And what a fancy new chest
Maybe later me and the boys can play b-ball with one breast (grab it)
You drop a grand on a make-up kit
But most men would probably dig you better without it
The most baffling part
Is that you work so hard
To fuck celebrities
Just so you can name drop
Did you pretend not to see
What I like to think
That you'd do it for me
But I'm just not cool enough
I got so much Potential
But you don't give a damn about Potential
Yeah, the future's inconsequential
I guess I'll go alone
I got so much Potential
But you don't give a damn about Potential
Until the Benz and friends are not rentals
so they sucked the life out of you
so now what the hell do you do
so your train went off of it's track
back when michael jackson was black
what ya gonna prove
how you gonna prove it
there's no need to waste your life
shatter and abuse it, babe
i'm talking about a time when a dimebag was a dime
no need to dwell upon the here and now, baby
- chorus -
let's pretend it's 1978; we're playing patty cake and baker's men
let's pretend the popsicles we ate all gave us stomach aches on our neighbor's lawn
so you called the chief of police
(this is the pig, this is the pig)
and told him what to do
call the zoo and the justice of peace
and told them what to do
sold your house alone
told your boss to screw it
bought a time machine
grab the wheel and do it, baby
back unto a time when a dimebag was a dime
no need to spend another moment here, baby
* repeat chorus *
hello operator please give me number nine
and if you disconnect me I'll kick your fat
behind the refrigerator there was a piece of glass
miss suzy sat upon it and broke her little
ask me no more questions, i'll tell you no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
flies are in the city and bee stings are our crutch
the boys and girls are necking and asking you just
what ya gonna prove
how you gonna prove it
there's no need to waste your life
shatter and abuse it, babe
i'm talking about a time when a dimebag was a dime
no need to dwell upon the here and now, baby
In my dusty house, in my dirty clothes
Seated in a town on the verge of extinction
Struggling with a tune, alone I compose
A bittersweet ditty 'bout an ex-girlfriend
So why bother with painful memories?
Why tear out my heart for all the world to see?
Why not paint by number
Catchy melody
Burn it up the charts with sweet simplicity
Then do it again
Gotta get away, maybe we should stay
Seated in a town on the verge of explosion
New York and LA, no one listening anyway
Busy predicting the next big thing
So why bother with changing scenery?
Why pack up the car and move to California?
Why not paint by number
Catchy melody
Playing all the parts in deadly harmony
Then do it again
Put the keys into the car
Put the car into drive
You can take us to the moon
Take us for a ride
In his dusty house, in his dirty clothes
Seated in a town overrun by tourists
Struggling with a tune, so alone he composes
A bittersweet ditty in the 3rd person
So why star in your fictional stories?
Why try to deny your criminals and thieves?
Go ahead, Paint By Number
Phony fake I.D.'s
Burn it up the charts with sweet simplicity
Then do it again
Put the keys into the car
Put the car into drive
You can take us to the moon
Handcuffed to the railroad tracks
Gagged and bound, down on my knees
My head upon a platter for you
I'll offer anything
Now, now, any way you want me
Now, now, any way you want
Now, now, any way you want me
Now you know, as long as you want me, now
So now I'm the type of alien
Who's a liar and a thief
I assure you it's no cheap trick baby
I just want you to want me
So maybe you should get legal consultation
Maybe you should get a lock and bar your door
You should seek therapy in preparation, darling
'Cause it's you I'm coming for
Now, now, any way you want me
Now, now, any way you want
Now, now, any way you want me
Now you know, as long as you want me, now
Do you expect me to patiently wait?
I can't get along with anyone else
You should've seen me dating around
But they weren't like you, ooh
Now, now, any way you want me
Now you know, as long as you want
Now, now, any way you want me
Now, now, any way you want
Now, now, any way you want me
I'm beginning to believe
That I can never form my own opinions
Secretly, I've decided to believe
That I'm Polynesian originally
I want the air set to 70 degrees
I want pineapples and sugar as the major industries
I wi be there blending racial amity
While pineapples and sugar build me massive equity
But if I were married to a movie star
That'd be my arm around here waist
As she flips off the camera
And If Meg Ryan were my personal taste
I'd be atop the Empire State every Valentine's
I'm afraid that you'd agree
When you say you don't hold my attention great
Ukelele's play love songs in portugese
That you've made no attempt to every translate
I want love waiting for me after school
I'd like a stream of conciousness
Everytime I take a breath
I want love on the front porch after school
I'd like a stream of conciousness
Everytime I take a breath
And if I were married to a movie star
That'd be a smile upon my face
As she sips her daquiris
And if Meg Ryan were my personal taste
I'd be atop the Empire State every Valentine's
My town is zoning this land
So we can build an ark and sail away
From Tennessee
Palm trees and sand and hawaiian instruments
Say "Aloha" as they're haunting me
I want time, kicking, screaming, put to death
Float like islands in the pool
While Mr. T pitties the fool
tell me who's to blame for this ink spot, question mark,
blood-stained sleeves in the parking lot
i've had it since i was twelve and i wear it like hell
wash it when it gets worn, dirty, tattered, torn
fell in love with me and wears me with pride
we bathe in ultra tide when i start to feel guilty
and everyone's jealous cause they wish they had it
i'm half a man without it
i'm the king of style
and i'll keep on wearing my marathon shirt
and i'll wear it everyday til it hurts
and i got no lady over her
confidence-a-plenty in my marathon shirt
once loaned her to a friend for a party and i worried all
night like a mother does
and when she returned all wrinkled and helpless, she smelled
of cheap cigarettes and other drugs
i'd wear her in any season
i'd wear her for any reason
the only promise in my life's that shirt of mine
and day after day, as her colors fade away, i'll remember
what she felt like the first time
now i've come to lay you down
you can soak into the sound and i'm so elated
she can't be recreated and the water's turning brown
What's the use in singing songs
We can all chime in off key
We can dance until we all fall down
Whats the use of a pretty face
One thats painted and ignores
Every earthling that violates her space (space)
Why not go out and wrestle the tide?
Why not question the very truth
by which we abide?
Seems it all comes to pass so quickly
Why take shit from those who dont care?
The only true reason their really there
and have a job
cause their label's the mob
Now me I'm not one to dwell
on the ups and downs or in my own hell
I just sit back and think
about how life can be swell
Sometimes it never as fun
as some may make it seem
I slip my fingers in between
the shoulders of all the people
sometimes its never as easy
as the child inside thought it would be
professional community
run by thieves
Now me I'm not one to dwell
on the ups and downs or in my own hell
I just sit back and think
about how life can be swell
Me I'm not one to dwell
on the good, the bad, or in my own hell
I just back and think
About how life can be swell
Life could be swell
I wanna sing R&B;
Make a million dollar video for BET
Do a remix version for MTV
Get shot, come back to life in 5 movies
I wanna sing R&B;
Make a million dollar video for BET
Do a remix version for MTV
Get shot, come back to life in 5 movies
Now me I'm not one to dwell
on the ups and downs or in my own hell
I just sit back and think
about how life can be swell
Me I'm not one to dwell
on the good, the bad, or in my own hell
I just back and think
About how life can be swell
Life could be swell
Life could be swell
Excuse me but I need a mouth like yours
2 help me forget the girl that just walked out my door
Funny but it seems that you're alone like me
If U r go let's come see what we can see
Ooh, little darlin' if you're
free 4 a couple of hours
If U ain't busy 4 the next 7 years
Say, let's pretend we're married and go all night
There ain't nothin' wrong if it feels all right now
I won't stop until the morning light
Let's pretend we're married and go all night, tonight
Ooh-we-sha-sha-coo-coo-yeah
All the hippies sing together tonight
Excuse me but I need your chemistry
Don't U wanna be my fantasy?
My girl's gone and she don't care at all
And if she did -- So what? C'mon baby, let's b-b-ball
Ooh little darlin' if you're
free 4 a couple of hours
If U ain't busy 4 the next 7 years
Oh I say let's pretend we're married and go all night
There ain't nothin' wrong if it feels all right now
I won't stop until the morning light
Now Let's pretend we're married and go all night, tonight
Ooh-we-sha-sha-coo-coo-yeah
All the hippies sing together tonight
Ahh, Prince Rogers Nelson, his royal badness
The man in the purple cape
you know, back in 78 remember?
he had an afro
prince came out
dirty mind, controversy
boy my sister loved that, especially the cover
then 1999, thats where this little baby, this little gem
was constructed
then purple rain
man i'd love to have touched appolian you know, the way he
did, you know
and then went around the world in a day
he's like, getting all crazy, you know
parade, charade, sign of the times, love sexy, fat man
diamonds and pearls, and then, swing
what the fuck is swing?
who names an album swing, not to mention your own personality
oh my god
Excuse me but I need a mouth like yours
2 help me forget the girl that just walked out my door
Let's pretend we're married and do it all night
I won't stop until the morning light
Let's pretend we're married.. free for a couple of hours
and if you aint busy for the next 15 minutes
Let's pretend we're married and go all night
There ain't nothin' wrong if it feels all right now
I won't stop until the morning light
Now Let's pretend we're married and go all night
Ooh-we-sha-sha-coo-coo-yeah
Miracle man - such pitiful hands
Undermining my plans and truths
Don't need no television
Telling me what should be done
Neither should you
All I want from life
Is a car that I can drive
Home from work - late at night
From my 9 to 5
And If I don't survive
I guess all I want from life
Is to know that I tried before I died
Setting the scene
Ripped from a magazine from the day before
Such pointless info
Over and Over and Over again
Your fumbling to make amends
Just let it go
Now it's in the way that you shake your head at me
Now it's in the way that you make your bed for me
i love to love your love my love
i love to love your love my love
i love to love your love my love
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
it's crazy i kissed you when we met
and maybe i'd do it again with parental consent
but even if they both resist my mack-mode is constantly on
why am i wasting time writing rhymes when i could be out scoring more tail
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
i love (my love) to love (your love) your love (to love) my love (i love)
yes it's true
yes it's true
love is a thing that i do
i'd be crazy if i ever got into your pants
and maybe we could safety dance
'cause your friends all dance and i know you don't dance
soon your friends will become friends of mine
out of sympathy you'll go out with me, you fine ass bitch
damn you're so fine
damn, you're so fine
remember we kissed when we were twelve
and baby help me through pre-adolescent hell
it can't be wrong to feel so strong now that we're all hairy and grown
Can't help but notice
Staring through my window
December's mugging us in street clothes
No cure for the blues
Minus the stereo
Avoiding boredom and the freakshow
Who knows who commits the Happy Accidents
Don't try to wake me in the morning
I won't be there, in case your wondering
Cause I'm unnecessarily high
Don't know exactly why
Six O'Clock shadows
Poisoning your pillows
Found on the floors of empty discos
You've kept your promise to keep on promising
That we'll dress Gothic and go dancing
While lighting inscents for Happy Accidents
It's so contagious all the yawning
Alert the press, these days are dawning
And shit's unnecessarily fly
Like iguana's with no eyes
Now we've had songs before
The results, well they were poor
Veruca Salt please, won't you put us in your mix?
They don't make much sense
The Happy Accidents
When your careers been completely destroyed
Here's the key to the city
To go unlock all the doors
Until the mayor finds it missing
You were so simple and pretty
Until you pimped out like a whore
You even made it with the rejects
And loved ones, incest
Happy nonetheless
Don't try to see me in the morning
I'm wide awake but I'm still dreaming
And I'm unneccessarily high - I know exactly why
And shit's unnecessarily fly
Like Iguana's with no eyes - Go! *repeat*
Sittin' outside your door, about to break down
Fourth time this week somebody's come around
Who's it gonna be tonight, who's the lucky man
Where you get the attitude, I'll never understand
Uh oh, here he comes now, so happy that he came
Hey! was it good boy? [thoughts on, of her aim]
What goes on inside your head that makes you want to take them all to bed?
Gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
You know you gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messing about
When I call you on the phone, you act so unconcerned
(I wanna) I wanna get you all alone (ooh baby) to show you what I've learned
Why you won't give me the time of day, you won't give me some time,
You won't give me anything, God you think you're too fine
Can't you see? all I want is a little time,
I've been playing with my toy so much I'm gonna go blind.
Gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
You gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
Gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
You gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
You gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
You do it too much
You gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin about
Every time we talk, take a walk, was it good now?
The sky is gonna fall on us all for sure
Are we led along? Are we skin and bones, just for show?
Is there a solution or is it just evolution
I don't know
Baby take a bow to us now, put me in my place
Elevated sound coming down to the floor
The strongest shall survive
Be glad that you're alive tomorrow
Is there a solution or is it just evolution
I don't know
Ooh ooh
Every time we talk, take a walk, was it good now?
The sky is gonna fall on us all for sure
Are we led along? Are we skin and bones, just for show?
Is there a solution or is it just evolution
I don't know
Ooh ooh
Is there a solution or is it just evolution
We all know we're ruining this town
Everybody knows we're ruining this town
Why'd you go and bring us all down
It's all just for show
The sights consume the sound
And I'll be sure to run you off
A copy of the things I thought
Put it in lights for all to see
So you can jot it down & read it back to me
You know we're leaving this town
Everybody knows we're leaving this town
Why'd you have to pry and sniff around
Someone else's life that you don't even know
And I'll be sure to jerk your chain
I'll let you loose into the yard
Your bite is much worse than your bark
So hunt it down like the dog you are
Is it that there's nothing better on your mind?
I can think of ways to pass the time
Is it that the only world you know's unkind?
Like it's not hard enough to breathe
Cleaning all my skin from your teeth
Your bite is much worse than your bark
So hunt it down like the dog you are
So hunt it down like the dog you are
So hunt it down like the dog you are
So hunt it down like the dog you are
We all know we're leaving this town
Everybody knows we're leaving this town
Why'd you go and brings us all down
we were down like the hindenberg, baby
with a coke and a smile
i felt compelled to leave due to the fact that something flew
into my eye
after coaxing the girl and spanning the globe
i'm sure i'll look back differently
with many acres of contemptment and design, liquid filth,
and violent mood swings
and oh yes, she won the west
putting on the sunday best
with the will of a bottle and a false sense of a direction,
protection, dielya
- chorus -
dielya
gotta get you out of a town so dull
and with the neon coast straight out of miami vice
it is not so inviting as it was
about ten or so ago
all the cd bins, a podunk collection
full of rob bass and mc shan
all the airwalks and cardigans
and a man with intoxication
- chorus -
dielya
gotta get you out of a town so dull
dielya
your gleam has completely penetrated
my skull
long after the schooling of coolness that took place at the sapphire supper i found
myself stoned, miserable, and face to face with a beautiful drearie she was staring holes in my skull with that magical
power only drearies possess i call it the "stare into my eyes until all you can think about is me" look this particular
you should have known us in our vietnam days
when we could save the planet saturating the tape
my closet bed, don't have time to sleep around it
someday they're read about the world that we've created
just for our heads, learn to swim or end up sinking
- chorus -
unconditional
imitational
for the senseless world
our material
crimes on paper
and since the here and now has come of age
and all my friends are tripping
telling me to stretch my eyes around my head
watch your back for real they tell me
don't want to read about you boy in the obituary
ignore what you've read, don't have time to read about it
- chorus -
now maybe somewhere someone's jotting this down
so in a million years from now when it's stil around
they can wonder who we were
wonder what we did, who we knew
and all the legends of our time
are they really true, i doubt you do
then again i wouldn't blame you
- chorus -
Caught you shopping for a new party dress
We can take you down now
Just invite ourselves
What's the occasion?
Who are all of your guests?
We won't tell a soul now
Noone else will know
So just how many invitations were sent
We're still R.S.V.P.
You forgot us obviously
I knew exactly what her silence meant
We were not important
To her soiree assortment
How can she brush off the casanovas
That we know we've grown to be
Standing in the shadows
All these people that I don't know
Crashing the party
Is a way of making new friends
As she plays piano
Melodies fall out the window
Crashing the party
Makes me such a big man
She never knew we ate all the food
And took things from her room
She never knew we took mother's jewels
And daddy's shoes
Called you over for some television
There's nothing to do now
Nothing going on
All these people parked outside of my home
They broke down the doors now
As if we'd invited them
Cases of beers
Cause teenage tears
While we watched The Wonder Years
Instrumental
Turn it off, turn it off the station
Screw the new, screw the new sensation
You can re, you can relocation
Become an alien mutation
But you don't really hear me do you?
They call you crazy cause they know you're right
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To please all of the people all the time
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To do the things you do so easily
You've come so far in this life,
In this life anything is impossible
The girls I know they play for
If they breath, If they're breathin at all
The band is pumpin out retro-action
To the drummers dissatisfaction
But you don't really hear me do you?
You just dont want to hear me do you?
You really don't hear me now do you?
They call you crazy cause they know you're right
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To please all of the people all the time
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To do the things you do so easily
You've come so far in this life
In this life anything is impossible
You can't bereave me, Deceive me
Watch me on TV no more
You can't bereave me, Deceive me
Watch me on TV no more
Turn it up, Turn it up the station
We wanna hear, wanna hear the sensation
We can re, We can relocation
Become an alien mutation
But you just didn't hear me did you?
They call you crazy cause they know you're right
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To please all of the people all the time
Oh yea, it's nearly impossible
To do the things you do so easily
You've come so far in this life
Well she's overstressed
And she's underdressed at the party
You know she's a killer
Gothic getups were so eighth grade
And I'm all alone in a sea of vampires
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
Well she's a highpost thriller
Deathrow killer at the party
You know black's her color
Vampire lipgloss was so ninth grade
And I'm hooking up in a sea of mistakes again
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive?
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
Oh my god, you're making me come
Alive from fingertips to my bones
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so deadly?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
How are you alive when you're so deadly?
How are you alive when you're so dead?
he came from somewhere back in her long ago
the sentimental fool don't see
trying hard to recreate what had yet to be created
once in her life She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
never coming near what he wanted to say
only to realize it never really was
she had a place in his life
he never made her think twice
as he rises to her apology anybody else would surely
know he's watching her go
what a fool believes
he sees no wise man has the power to reason away
what seems to be is always better than nothing
and nothing at all...
keeps sending him somewhere back in her long ago
where he can still believe there's a place in her life
It's a common mistake
Brilliant in most obvious ways
What did you expect
Nutured from your earliest days
You made a perfect circle
All around the world it occured
The sight of inspiration
Then again my vision was .... blurred
Maybe Sunday things will go your way
Maybe Monday you'll wake up
Got too many enemies to make
Maybe Tuesday you'll wake up
Now it's Wednesday again
Thursday is the worst day
So on Friday you can earn your pay
Maybe Saturday
Some say it's surrounding
Some say it's a chemical flaw
False adversting
Knee deep in the thick of it all
Your feeling impaired
Your legs won't walk right
Down the hall at the stairs
You've got a book that you need to read
Maybe Sunday things will go your way
Maybe Monday you'll wake up
Got too many enemies to make
Maybe Tuesday you'll wake up
Now it's Wednesday again
Thursday is the worst day
So on Friday you can earn your pay
Maybe Saturday
Is that what kind of person you are?
Is this what you long to be?
It takes all your time and effort
For a moment of clarity
Is that what kind of person you are?
Is this what you long to be?
It takes all your time and your effort
Is this what kind of person you are?
Maybe Sunday things will go your way
Maybe Monday you'll wake up
Got too many enemies to make
Maybe Tuesday you'll wake up
Now it's Wednesday again
Thursday is the worst day
So on Friday you can earn your pay
I'm holding a grudge on her mind
While kids with lazer pointers try to fry mine
The sky is falling as we patch it with twine
I said the sky is falling run for your lives
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Suzie Q Sailaway, just not right now
She climbed the trees behind the house
Had to call the Fire Dept. to get her down
Feet to the branches from the branch to the wind
She shot skyward before they could begin
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Suzie Q Sailaway, just not right now
She's so high - repeat 4x
I can't be Superman today
She's taken my Up, Up, and Away
The sky is falling and I've just begun
To salvage pieces cause they'll be worth a ton
Somewhere, Someway, Somehow
I need airplanes just to bring her down
She's so high, so far off the ground
Yoda forsaw this cause it came from nowhere
I'm well unprepared
Lighter than arosal that's stained into
The hair berets on the wall
The perfect contestant
All afraid and alone
I ordered by phone
All of life's secrets and a custom
storebought, homemade piece of mind
Am I the Sucker here for the punching?
Am I the only one dumb enough to stick around
Till the fighting ends
And the next round begins it can't be
Am I the Sucker here for the punching?
Am I the last one left to admit
That I know the Sucker in the mirror
Staring back at me
It's quite a collection of hearts you got there
In need of repair
Modern day aeroplanes are combing
Every corner of the sky
Hooked a detector to the lies in my head
Said I'm better off dead or buried alive
-chorus-
She could throw parties on my grave
She could make this whole town her slaves
She could dance upon my grave
Am I the Sucker here for the punching?
Am I the only one dumb enough to stick
Around with all your high school friends
And your stupid split-ends and pig tails
Am I the Sucker here for the punching?
Am I just too blind to see
That I know the Sucker in the mirror
It's taken over
Against the grain, against the wall
I'm thinking everyday
Is nothing everlasting?
I miss your patience
I miss the ground beneath
I'm asking everything of you
I know that the way it's often said and done is unavoidable
When you're talking to yourself
I know fairy tales are make believe
But I can wait around
Up on the roof, Up on the shelf
Life
It's taken over
I can't bear when the waitings all been done
And I've still not had my fun
It's taken over, Yea
Turn off your bedroom eyes, sad and lonely
I'll pack up all my shit, I'll sell all my CD's
We've confirmation of no reverberation
that's what I'm asking anything of you
I know that the way it's often cool up
When you're reading off the walls
I know fiction can't always releive
But I can wait around
Up on the roof, Up on the shelf
Life
It's taken over
I can't bear when the waitings all been done
And I've still not had my fun
They took a razorblade
And cut them both right down
Quiet dark resume
It's taken over
i once knew a girl named sassy britches
and she would call my name 3000 times a day
she was running round town burning bridges
and now my ride homes never quite the same
i once knew a girl named sassy britches
and i swear unto you it's her god given name
i told her friends they're stuckup bitches
and now my napkin's soaked with bloodstains
the more you learn the less you know
i'll bet everything is fine
i'll bet everything is fine
the more you see the less you show
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
her family showered me with countless riches
yet i'm in a bit of a bind
i need much more than that
maybe i can sell her cooking - classy, tasty, delicious dishes
then give my spiel about how it's imported
the less you seed the more you grow
i'll bet nothing is on time
i'll bet nothing is ever on time
the more you see the less you show
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
i need something i can't find
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
this shit happens all the time
i still know a girl named sassy britches
and her voice comforts me flying right thru thin air
now i've taken time off work to protest her wishes
but noone's ever around
is there anyone there
the more you learn the less you know
i'll bet you're all out of line
i'll bet you're all out of line
(turn around with the wrong reaction)
(fake us out with a cheap distraction)
the more you reap the more you owe
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh yeah everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh yeah, everything is fine
this shit happens all the time
oh miss britches, sassy and sweet
tell me what more could a young girl be
i've got a punk rock band called love
we've got songs that consist of
8-bar sections, gritty and brash
we got a gig opening for the clash
everyone clowned us, sassy oh sassy
what makes a punk rocker treat us so nasty
mountain dew and a pierced eardrum
what makes a punk rock act so dumb
velvet postcards i'll send ya miss britches
bit my tongue and received nine stitches
bitches and ho's always come to the shows
popping sugar and butterscotch in the nose and it shows
cause they'll lose their hair like ted danson
snatch up all the kiddies and then hold 'em all for ransom
burn all your bridges and then build 'em back with plastic
little old ladies makin' cookies from elastica
and it don't stop there!
ex-bass players all have blue hair
boo-boop-be-doop-a-shang-a-lang-coccoa-puff
kurt haggadorn has a self big-muff
betcha makes ya dizzy watch the big wax spin
1-2-3-4, count 96 more
and then come and find me
cause im hiding, baby
not in the closet or the door
or down in the playroom where we used to
play soccer and i'd grease the floor
with lysol and love
(chorus)
right now gotta get something straight
i can count backwards and make the grades
i will let you carry my books
thru those pre-school days
try to tag me in the laundry chute
where i'd grab your arm and come crashing down
like bmx racers over double jumps
those sentimental days plotting all the ways
throwing snowballs at innocent passing cars
the last laugh was never ours
(chorus & repeat)
and i remember playing games
walking on bar stools with alias names
and holding our breath, the floor a fiery
toxic death, baby
and i would always get my sister straight
trash the dollhouse with ig-88
and my han solo, in his hoth battle
gear clothes
if there's a nowhere, you want to go there
if there's no one, you want to know them
if there's nothing, it equals something
which is still nothing and there's no point to that
i see, your lips are moving but you can't speak
don't waste breath trying to scream it aloud
you've got far more to worry about
can't dismiss it, it's nothing
you're an ordinare in modern times
ordinare, you can't hide
ordinare, You can't hide it away
if we're concious then i'm breathless
do you sleep well
i'm always restless
are you all right
i'm always uptight
which is constantly and there's not point to me
i see your mouth is moving around
wake up late, try to get with the times
there's none left to rehearse all your lines
can't dismiss it as anything
you're an ordinare in modern times
ordinare, you can't hide
ordinare in modern times
ordinare, you can't hide it away
don't waste breath trying to scream it out
you've got far more to worry about
can't dismiss it, it's nothing
you're an ordinare in modern times
ordinare, you can't hide
ordinare, in modern times
she once upset every earthquake from here to l.a.
high above the ocean when you'll surface for breath
but she can't swim
she can break and she can bend
and we never saw her again
'cause she fucked with nature
she comes in dreams
she can terrorize the infrastructure
sewing the seams
like some dearly departed miracle worker
very good
excellent
she once had a boy who loved her in every way
he told his friends he scored and she beat him to death
she said, don't trust a worthless stranger
unashamed of what he's done
i'll learn the secret handshake
when all the decoding's done
he couldn't live in the tired shape he's in
and he never loved again
he came back to haunt her
now he comes in dreams
he can terrorize and spook and torture
apart at the seams
my girl she's on the ill tip
exercised her right to forfeit and rust a bit
her brain's like a microchip
now its a day in the life of
a space cadet that a mother calls daughter
and just follow the instructions
and the pieces come alive
when her shit malfunctions
yeah, they said she'll never last but they lied
- chorus -
microchip girl - kick ass at trivia girl
cd-rom curls
now she wants a pc, to stick a modem into me
i'm not the kind of guy who goes online for just any girl
now it's a strange, strange relationship
microchip girls got her head on straight
i should know i put it there
now what do i get her for christmas
she's got it all on hard disk
accessable to the world
just follow the instructions
i just keep her oiled and she's cool
when her shit malfunctions
i just plug her in to refuel
- chorus -
microchip girl - found the end of pi
Systematically, I'm in over my head
Situation I find embarassing
Heeding every warning with the battery's dead
Oh No
Systematically, I'm in over my head
The consequences I find disturbing
Fearing every corner where my tired maps lead
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Systematically, I'm in over my head
Every singe instance unnerving
Braving territory where most others fear to listen
Oh No
Unfortunately, I'm overloaded in the brain
Worthy conversation now boring
Tried and trued experiments with nothing new to gain
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Charismatticaly, guess I'm weighing in shot
My heady poetry repulsing
Intersellar contact with an obvious denial
Oh No
It was all right there in front me
While on a club kid's high
On old folder labeled photography
With naked photos inside
Acting as if it were not happening
Were dead rappers on the television rapping
If you not scared then they're gonna make you
Feel your head tumble like the London Bridge
Dear tonight they've got you in their antenna
And their tracking
Wonder Twins activate! Megatron rejuvinate!
They're scheming on a way
To get you into bed
If this is nightlife then bring back the sun
Go ahead and count me out
All the boys with their headtrip calamaties
Scope girls that fall prey to them unwillingly
If you not scared then they're gonna make you
Feel your head tumble like the London Bridge
Dear tonight they've got you in their antenna
And their tracking
Wonder Twins activate! Megatron rejuvinate!
They're scheming on a way
To get you into bed
When we're old and gray and uncapabale
Of any rational jive
I'm gonna bribe the nurses
To pull the plugs that keep them alive
So untie your shoes cause your drowning
From all the pressure and tension that's mounting
Taken by fashion and a pretty face
Unaware of the webs that they weave
See first hand the game that they
Throw out like Michael Jordan
Kit, kick the turbo on!
Transformers transform!
They're scheming on a way
wired up to the system is the father
plugging in, cueing up, making digital whoopie
never before in the history of all
has organic and mechanic come together so sweetly
now computing in italics and write protected
reading out - its a boy!
she's faxing and having a baby
the father stumbles to the ground
gasps for air but makes no sound
dies thinking it was impossible
- chorus -
half machine and half of me
wonder what he'll grow to be
the boy don't dig no jazz cos he's joy
hiding out, underground, raving in techno fashion
always out all night cause robots don't sleep
embraced by all of the freaks calling him
the terminator
he gave them piercings for free
part of the scene, a wirey structure
only problem seems, he has no culture
dead stereo panned, joy's mechanical pride
vacuum tubes and vcr's make jill the mechanical bride
- chorus -
look inside his motorola mind
know there's nothing interesting to find
the boy don't dig no jazz cos he's joy
no sense of smell
no change in mood
no sense of taste
joy, he don't need food
he can't be stopped
immune to the digital cancer
no sense at all
joy, the new romancer
look inside his motorola mind
know there's nothing interesting to find
I stand in a wide flat land
No shadow or shade of a doubt
Whore the megaphone man
Met the girl with her hand that's
Covering most of her mouth
Fall in love with a bright idea
And the way a world is revealed to you
Fat man and dancing girl
And most of the show is concealed from view
Monkey in the middle
Keeps singing that tune
I don't want to hear it
Get rid of it soon
MC on the stage tonight
Is a man named Billy Purl
He's The International Fun Boy
And he knows the worth of beautiful girl
Stand on the tightrope
Never dreamed I would fall
Monkey in the middle
Keeps doing that trick
It's making me nervous
Get rid of it quick
I stand in a wide flat land
No shadow or shade of a doubt
Where the megaphone man
Met the girl with her hand
That's covering most of her mouth
Does she tell the truth?
Does she hide the lie?
Does she say it so no one can know?
Fat man and the dancing girl
And it's all part of the show
Stand on the tightrope
Never dreamed I could fall
Monkey in the middle
Keeps singing that tune
I don't want to hear it
Get rid of it soon
Monkey in the middle
Keeps doing that trick
It's making me nervous
There goes the girl I know
She got me good in her little world
And my head's long since exploded
All over the neighborhood
Times like these make me long for a friend
They make her long for the simple life
'Cause she's already twenty-two years older
Than the rest of the night
But don't feel sad for me for
My compassion has gone away
And even if I could I probably wouldn't feel any anyway (hey)
I won't sing of stories of love
Since I donated my heart to science
Now, I won't feel the sting of thorns in my pride
Since they raped me of my self-reliance
So here I come baby, I'm crashing through walls
I'm your half-drunk Superman
But she conquered me with Kryptonite
Least that's the version that she tells to friends
But don't feel bad for me for now though
Wreckage has washed ashore
And underneath the tide we're all laughing forever more (more)
I won't sing of stories of love
Since I donated my heart to science
Now, I won't feel the sting of thorns in my pride
Since they raped me of my self-reliance
I won't sing of stories of love
Since I donated my heart to science
Now, I won't feel the sting of thorns in my pride
Since they raped me of my self-reliance
I won't sing of stories of love
Since I donated my heart to science
Now, I won't feel the sting of thorns in my pride
we can write the chapters of existence starting now
starting now, we'll throw it all down
i can see the shadows in the water on the ground, on the ground
they follow me around
behind every story there's a quick end
behind every smile there's a clown
to understand it i guess i'd have to be a dead man trying not to laugh out loud
i can hear a lonely operator on the phone, on the phone
she can't call home
overseas burned to third degree and the collection plate's been passed and received by me
i wish i could tell you, all you children, why you're here, why you're here
we'd all sing along
isn't that something 'cause there is no knowing 'til you're gone
when i'm gone i'll prove you all wrong
behind every woman there's a good man trying not to bug the hell out
to understand it guess i'd have to be a dead man trying not to laugh out loud
no don't take me under
behind every story there's a quick end
behind every smile there's a clown
to understand it i guess i'd have to be a dead man trying not to laugh out
behind every woman there's a good man trying not to bug the hell out
to understand it, guess i'd have to be a dead man trying not to laugh out loud
trying not to laugh out loud
I can give a damn 'bout just about anyone
Who can give a damn right back about me
I could go along with popular opinion
If ever it was all it was cracked up to be
I'm gonna breakdown
Because I really really feel I'm gonna breakdown
Because I really don't care
I could be content for life playing PlayStation
If ever a commercial really showed me the game
Have you ever wondered why Gary Oldman's
Speaking accents never twice the same
I'm gonna breakdown
Because I really really feel I gotta breakdown
Because I really don't care
For you I wrote symphonies
30,000 harmonies in tune
Tickled ebonies and ivories
But you were never listenin' at all to the things I say
The beats that I can drop like motherfucking Prince Paul, baby
Breakdown
Breakdown
Because I really don't care
Break it down
Yeah, I'm gonna breakdown
Because I really really feel I'm gonna breakdown
Because I really don't care
Breakdown
Because I really don't care
you've got a lot to lie about
all the angles you've covered up
we've got plenty to talk about because some of them you just
can't block
pretend you're the daughter of elvis and you're married to
the king of pop
without worldwide belief, you step up to the mic and blow
it off
you're in over your head
this time you're in over your head
you're in over your head
this time you're in over your head
if it's any indication of what it's really like to be you
if it's any consolation, i guess i wouldn't want to be you
can't say that i'm crazy about anything that you do
without concrete belief, you step up to the edge and follow
through
you're in over your head
this time you're in over your head
just when you thought it was safe, you got raped
a fickle incision from the hand that fed you in the first
place
ten million opinions in your skin color face
contrary to popular belief, this time you caught your foot
Confidence
All by itself
Your dreams would not be worth much
If they came true to the letter
Pettiness
Made a mess
Your value only goes as far as everyone
And their opinions
This little person made their assertion
This littler person screwed their perversion
Sometimes all I need is my baby
Not just anyone at all
People show me whats up
Somebody help me down
Somebody saw a silhouetto of a man
Baby, can you dig your man?
He's a righteous man
Baby, can you dig your man?
Periscope?
Lay back and fro
There's a dragon in the belly of the water
Don't reply because
Someone spoke
A dirty joke
And dirty taste is salty is salty on the tip of his tongue
My little baby wanted to save me
My little baby needed to change me
All I needed was a simple maybe
I guess I'll never tell
If you'll try to refrain
I have this to explain
My boy lifeline is the wind and the rain
Baby can you dig your man
He's a righteous man
Baby can you dig your man
I'll see his like again
Baby can you dig your man?
Populance
Makes so much sense
We'd like to say in closing
Thank you for the chance to say in closing
Ignorance
Should pay well for bliss
Those words will put your eye out
Swallow gum for 7 years
My little baby wanted to save me
My little baby needed to change me
All I needed was a simple maybe
I guess I'll never tell
If you'll throw me a rope
Get back to that dirty joke
He ate his breakfast
Now the pigs in the poke
Baby, can you dig your man?
He's a righteous man
Baby, can you dig your man?
all pissed off
no sleep
no intention on the company i keep
backspinning on the streets of downtown new orleans
half starved
no heat
no inhibitions on the sofa where i sleep
beatboxing on the streets of downtown new orleans
james is doing the robot
i'm remembering all the moves i know
james is poppin and lockin
that was fine a real long time ago
new pierce
no peace
maids at the hotel bring exactly what we need
cafe o'lea on the streets of downtown new orleans
big show
bad luck (bad luck)
all the critics in the paper say we suck
vampires on the streets of downtown new orleans
james is doing the robot
i'm remembering all the moves i know
james is poppin and lockin
that was fine a real long time ago
the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
we don't need no water, let the
mother fucker burn
And as the night drags out
Another hour waiting on a ghost
And as the walls turn black
The memories turn tight against your throat
Oh all the promises
Turn and raise their double sided smiles
And as your feelings show
You hide behind the words of a child
Burnt by the breaking of your heart
Torn down to where the hurting starts
Oh and the story books
Are nothing more than scratches on the glass
And as your eyes stay shut
You're holding on to all that should go past
Oh but the noise is cold
It's colder than the trust you laid to rest
And the room feels old
You keep the child inside your sunken chest
Burnt by the breaking of your heart
Who are these tiny people
That pass my life close by?
How minor and unnecessary
Has everyone else become?
This is my universe
This is my throne
Particles around
My existence only proves
My gravity has more influence
Than all the gods to whom you('ll ever) bow
This is my universe, This is my throne,
My existence is a blessing for this globe,
I am taking over this place by destruction of grace
I shall run over your meaningless trails of life
Become my follower
Or be my enemy,
Become my follower
no sense of self
to balance it off
preconceived notions of something
everyones gone
will I show up
with all that I have to give
would you consider it a gift
but that
doesnt matter anyway
liar youre such a
on your hands and knees
picking up the broken pieces
liar youre such a
on your hands and knees
afraid to turn my head
for fear of whats behind me
I swear Ive seen you before
but that
doesnt matter anyway
liar youre such a
on your hands and knees
picking up the broken pieces
liar youre such a
on your hands and knees
pleasingly
falling apart
pleasingly
oblivious
youve left with more of the same
I cant win
liar
No sense of self
To balance it off
Preconceived notions of something
Everyones gone
Will I show up
With all that I have to give
Would you consider it a gift
But that
Doesnt matter anyway
Liar youre such a
On your hands and knees
Picking up the broken pieces
Liar youre such a
On your hands and knees
Afraid to turn my head
For fear of whats behind me
Only one resource left
So don't fret on my surprise
Is this all you have
Is that all you know
I swear I've seen you before
But that
Doesnt matter anyway
Liar youre such a
On your hands and knees
Picking up the broken pieces
Liar youre such a
On your hands and knees
Pleasingly
Falling apart
Pleasingly
Oblivious
Youve left with more of the same
I cant win
Liar
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