the time has come to speak of many things
of jacks and queens and kings
i bared my wrists and promised to begin
but you cut the blade straight in
the time has come: let's play find the missing song
there is something very wrong
try hard my love do you hear the distant strings
please remember what this means
did i come back for all of this?
it seems absurd somehow...
with one well-placed flick of the wrist
you've really done it now...
(all of my blind ambition left me deaf with perfect vision)
the time has come
for things to come undone
that we should not have begun
at last i felt a numbness overcome
and now you turn and run...
the time has come
to take me in your arms and touch these fragile scars
you have the choice now so decide
if you want in or out
there is too much left for us to try
you cant just give up now
the time has come
to speak of many things
of jacks and queens and kings
it took that cut to bring me back to life
theyre bleeding and theyre frightened still i hold out both my hands:
no one in the world will ever touch me there again.
( Tammy Wynett Cover )
Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand
But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a man
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
There's this thing,
It's like fucking, except you don't fuck
Back in the day it just went without saying it all
All the worlds history
Gradually dieing a shock
There's this thing
That's like talking, except you don't talk
You sing...
You sing...
Sing for the bartender
Sing for the janitor, sing...
Sing for the camera
Sing for the animals, sing...
Sing for the children
Shooting the children, sing...
Sing for the teachers who told you that you couldn't sing
Just sing.
There's this thing keeping everyone's longs and lips locked.
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance
After the show you cannot sing wherever you want
But For now lets pretend we're all gonna get fucked
So sing
Sing cause it's obvious
Sing for the astronauts, sing...
Sing for the president
Sing for the terrorists, sing...
Sing for the soccer team
Sing for the Janja weed, sing...
Sing for the kid with the phone,
Who refuses to sing
Just sing
Life is no cabaret...
We don't care what you say...
Were invading you anyway...
You mother fucker just sing something...
You mother fucker just sing something...
You mother fucker just sing something...
Let's get lost
Fingers burst
It is an ordinary evening, yeah-ah
I am broadcasting are you receiving, yeah-ah
Sick sick sound
All fall down
It is a necessary evil, yeah-ah
Just like highway gas stations and people, yeah-ah
I remember the golden days when all this was a mystery and
You could write a letter then or god forbid come visit me.
And if you find yourself without me?
Can you find yourself without me? (3x)
Hey I'm fine
You say nothing but your tonuge is getting blacker all the time
it is a measurable feeling, yeah-ah
seven on a scale from dead to breathing, yeah-ah
I've connected speakers to my suitors at the discotheques
And they don't know the difference
Are they men or are they Memorex?
And if you find yourself without me
If you find yourself without me
c'mon find yourself without me
c'mon c'mon c'mon
And take your Listerine (Listerine)
I remember the golden days when all this was a mystery and
You could write a letter then or god forbid come visit me. (2x)
And if you find yourself without me
If you find yourself without me
c'mon find yourself without me
c'mon c'mon c'mon
And take your Listerine (Listerine, Listerine)
I'm counting back
the number of the steps
it took for me to get
back on the wagon of the weekend
I'll use the autotimer to prove that
I'll get home with my imagination
if they find the body in the basement
"in the very house that she was raised in!"
I'm taking down
the number of the Times
so when we get the sign
from god I'll be the first to call them
I'm taking back the number of the beast
cause 6 is not a pretty number
8 or 3 are definitely better
a is for the address on the letter
to my alcoholic friends
I'm trying hard
not to be ashamed
not to know the name
of who is waking up beside me
or the date, the season or the city
but at least the ceilings very pretty
and if you are holding it against me
I'll be on my best behavior
taking shots for mother nature
once my fist is in the cupboard
love is never falling over
(1,2,3,4)
should I choose a noble occupation
if I did I'd only show up late and
sick and they would stare at me with hatred
plus my only natural talent's wasted on my alcoholic friends
my alcoholic friends
the party never ends
my alcoholic friends
presenting modern moonlight just as advertised
coke and pepsi finally found a compromise
how can they complain that we're all fucked up kids
when they keep on changing who our mother is?
(like it all you want it's fruitless
night is in the way of progress)
retinas are bleeding for the enterprise
surgically wired into paradise
yesterday I dropped in on the MKB
everyone was messaging like it was going out of style
it was just the cynic in me
god, I love communicating!
I just hate the shit we're missing...
everybody join in the magnificence!
yes! everything is absolutely making sense...
every time you turn around your soul gets sold
to the highest bidder
then they turn around and merger and they merger
and the merger and they murder and they murder
and the one who murders most will take it all......
(fight it all you want it's useless
night is in the way of progress)
we're gonna take your cities one by one
cut your cables cut your cords and spoil all your fun
we're gonna make your light a living hell
cos stripped of your equipment you'll be forced to face yourself...
wire cutters of the world
you know what to use it for
spread the word to all the tightrope walker boys and girls
brace yourself for miracles
you're in for a nasty shock
when the war is over you can read the paper
bring two prix fixe dinners up
I'll unwrap the plastic cups
it's just us my love
it's just us my love
I will clean the room up nice
put your insides all on ice
it was real true love
it was real true love
close all the windows
put signs on the handles
and strip down to my dun-dun-duns
you have gone too far
you have gone so far
and tonight
its just me and the minibar (just up to diminished)
candles from the walmart that
every city has to have
that I bought last night
that I bought last night
I was so excited to
do such normal things with you
when you left last night
with your toothbrush dry
no such details will spoil my plan
that is the kind of girl I am
can you hear room 318...?
man they're really happening...
they're a wild bunch
they're a wild bunch
but if they just knew
what my night was coming too
god would they vomit and run
you have gone too far
you have gone too far
and tonight
it's just me and the minibar
nobody else
and I sing at the top of my lungs
happy birthday us
happy birthday us
you can tell
from the scars on my arms
and cracks in my hips
and the dents in my car
and the blisters on my lips
that i'm not the carefullest of girls
you can tell
from the glass on the floor
and the strings that're breaking
and i keep on breaking more
and it looks like i am shaking
but it's just the temperature
and then again
if it were any colder i could disengage
if i were any older i could act my age
but i dont think that youd believe me
it's
not
the
way
i'm
meant
to
be
it's just the way the operation made me
and you can tell
from the state of my room
that they let me out too soon
and the pills that i ate
came a couple years too late
and ive got some issues to work through
there i go again
pretending to be you
make-believing
that i have a soul beneath the surface
trying to convince you
it was accidentally on purpose
i am not so serious
this passion is a plagiarism
i might join your century
but only on a rare occasion
i was taken out
before the labor pains set in and now
behold the world's worst accident
i am the girl anachronism
and you can tell
by the red in my eyes
and the bruises on my thighs
and the knots in my hair
and the bathtub full of flies
that i'm not right now at all
there i go again
pretending that i'll fall
don't call the doctors
cause they've seen it all before
they'll say just
let
her
crash
and
burn
she'll learn
the attention just encourages her
and you can tell
from the full-body cast
that i'm sorry that i asked
though you did everything you could
(like any decent person would)
but i might be catching so don't touch
you'll start believeing youre immune to gravity and stuff
don't get me wet
because the bandages will all come off
and you can tell
from the smoke at the stake
that the current state is critical
well it is the little things, for instance:
in the time it takes to break it she can make up ten excuses:
please excuse her for the day, its just the way the medication makes her...
i dont necessarily believe there is a cure for this
so i might join your century but only as a doubtful guest
i was too precarious removed as a caesarian
behold the worlds worst accident
I'm the girl anachronism
it is a thursday
I got up early
it is a challenge
i'm usually lazy
i make some coffee
I eat some rice chex
and then i sit down
to check my inbox
i only read a word or two
i stare across the street and see the churches and the blue
the first orgasm of the morning
is hard and raw as hell
there wont be any second coming
as far as i can tell
i arch my back cause
i'm very close now
it's very cold here
by the window
there are some school kids
yelling and running
They barely notice
that i am cumming
the first orgasm of the morning
is like a fire drill
it's nice to have a little warning
but not enjoyable
i am too busy to have friends
a lover would just complicate my plans
so i will never look for love again
i'm taking matters into my own hands
i'm taking matters into my own hands
i think i could last at least a week without someone to hold me
i think i could last at least a week without someone to hold me
won't you hold me?
won't you hold me?
won't you hold me?
clutching the phone till my hands were sore
i never understood pain before, christopher
you cannot know what it does to me
hearing you speak with this frequency
i never knew what one voice could do
i was in heaven the moment i heard you
my friends go out drinking and having fun -
i stay in bed with my headphones on
shot down with arrows from waves above
christopher lydon renounced my love
it took so long to get through to you
i never understood sorrow, and now i do
i finally got past your moniter,
and you broke my heart in two, christopher
christopher, i am your listener, christopher,
i've never felt love like this before, christopher,
christopher, now and forevermore, christopher
i'll never stop saying christopher, christopher
finally i knew what i had to do
christopher i had to make the connection with you
i dont care that you could be my father, dear chistopher
i will be yours til the bitter end........
so during a show about joan of arc
i got through - i said:
"christopher lydon, you've stolen my heart"
when i asked if you felt the same way for me
you cut me off like a guillotine
drawn like a bull to a matador-
i just see visions of chrisopher
shot down by arrows from waves above
christopher lydon renounced my love
christopher, i was your prisoner, christopher,
i hope you're happy now chistopher
thank you for everything but i'm not listening anymore nor do i plan to contribute
to NPR
christopher what do you take me for i'm not just any old talk show host groupie....
oh christopher.....is there a chance for me?
christopher...beautiful, beautiful christopher....beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
christopher....
there's no end to the love you can give
when you change your point of view underfoot
very good: you may be flat but you're breathing
there's no doubt he's alone in his room
probably watching porn of you from the fall
it's last call and you're the last one leaving
and you thought you could change the world
by opening your legs
it isn't very hard
try kicking them instead
and you thought you could change his mind
by changing your perfurme to the kind his mother wore
o god delilah why?
i never met a more impossible girl....
in this same bar where you slammed down your hand
and said "Amanda, i'm in love"
no you're not
you're just a sucker for the ones who use you
and it doesn't matter what i say or do
the stupid bastard's gonna have his way with you...
you're an unrescuable schizo
or else you're on the rag
â'cause if you take him back
i'm gonna lose my nerve
i never met a more impossible girl....
at four oclock he got off and
you called up i'm down at denny's on route one
you won't guess what he's done
is that a fact delililah
larry tap let you sneak in the back
and use his calling card again
for a quick hand of gin
you are impossible, delilah: the princess of denial
and after 7 years in advertising you are none the wiser
you're an unrescuable schizo
or else you're on the rag
cos if you take him back
i'm gonna lose my nerve
he's gonna beat you like a pillow
you schizos never learn
and if you take him home
you'll get what you deserve
so don't cry delilah
you're still alive delilah
you need a ride delilah? let's see how fast this thing can go.....
the record goes
from blue to gold
so thank you for all your help
I know you want
to twist and shout
but try to contain yourself
you always struck me as the type to take it lightly
but now you're gonna have to shut your mouth or fight me…
backstabber, backstabber….
you're all alone
you're all over
the popular magazines
will never care
what do you care
you're so much above that scene
but you've got no right to sit there saying I abuse it
when you only sleep with girls who say they like your music
backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber
backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber
backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
shit lover! off brisher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….
so don't tell me how to write
and don't tell me that I'm wrong……
and don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs
so here we go
the open road
is covered with taco stands
and you can stop
we'll drop you off
and write to you when we land
backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber
backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber
backstabber!
backstabber!
backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
Backstabber!
Instrumental
he's been trying with limited success
to get this girl to let him get into her dress
but every time he thinks he's getting close
she threatens death before he gets a chance
that's the way it is in minnesota
and that's the way it is in Oklahoma
that's the way it's been since protozoa
first climbed onto the shores of California
she's been trying with limited success
to get him to turn out the lights and dance
cause like any girl all she really wants
is that fickle little bitch romance
that fickle little bitch romance
and that is why a girl is called a tease
and that is why a guy is called a sleaze
and that's why god made escort agencies
one life to live and mace and GHB
and that's the way it is in minnesota
that's the way it is in Oklahoma homa
that's the way since the animals and noah
first climbed onto shores of California
must not be too kind
stop thinking love is blind
clench your fists, yeah right
she's just not my type
why all these conflicting specifications
maybe to prevent overpopulation
all I know is that all around the nation
the girls are cryin' and boys are masturbatin'
that's the way it is in Minnesota
and that's the way it is in Oklahoma homa
the way since Aristophanes and homer
wrote the iliad and lysistrata
that's the way it is in minnesota
and that's the way it is in Oklahoma homa
that's the way it's been since protozoa
first climbed onto the shores of California
dear mr and/or mrs sender-
we're pleased to inform you that your applications been accepted
starting from the time you get this letter
your life will be a never-ending circus of confusion
you'll get your choice of an anesthetic
we'll need to chop your clock off (tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock)
it might not be what you expected
but theres no money back once youve been ripped off...
todays a very special day
the boys'll murder for it but what will the neighbors say
it leaves you feeling sort of hollow
it might be nice to look at - dont forget youre stuck with it tomorrow (and
tomorrow, and
tomorrow....)
you're big enough to stop pretending
youll start to really show within a week or so
so dont go saying its just come to your attention
you'll get more than youre asking for without the right connections
todays a very special day
and how you'd love to have a little thing with which to play
but love wont get you very far
today be still your beating heart
youll have to keep on feeding it tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will beat boys
with no
warning
girls will be girls will beat guys will beat boys that dont cry over toys that they
use to beat
girls they disguise by the morning
they always said that sex would change you...
no second thoughts the knife is nearing
youll never hear the little pitter patter pitter patter
of this little feat of engineering
of course i love you and of course its what inside that matters
but i think this whole charade is ending
it seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting
caught up in a long life of regretting
the doctors said that once you get a taste for it youll keep on cutting
but while you happen to be here
why dont you whisper all those sweet forevers in my ear
stiff upper lip inside this sorrow
hurry up and stick it in
you never when it will end
tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow...
ive been feeling dull as a coat hanger pretty as a picture of a patient on a fresh
iv
giddy as a gangbanger with a set of sutres where his magic johnson used to be
yes i'll tell you just the thing you need to be the next big thing
lets start in with a test of your intelligence and zest for recovering
up and down and roundabout and out the back and keep your mouth shut
tight the lights are staying out but no sweat ive got aim like a mack truck
guess how many fingers ok guess how many more i can fit there
guess right get the toaster but you know miss guessing gets you nowhere
i've been baking cakes for the enemy
i've been dying to find out the hard way
ive been taking friends to the alleyway
two down now but whos counting anyway?
yes ill tell you everything you'll need to bring on our little surgery
something you can bite on and your right hand on the gun marked "emergency"
put away that hanger honey you have many other options
how about a nine-month long vacation and a two-foot coffin
i've been getting up close and intimate
some close calls but im getting into it
in some states i heard you can burn for it
but ill burn that bridge when i get to it
it's not a bad thing
to get proffesional
its got a nice ring
mandy goes to med school
yes ill tell you everything you need to get to fix that thing
take two parts water one part gin and add a dash of nitroglycerin
kiss your woes goodbye say hi to bliss ters on the backsides of your
thyroid cysts annihilated with one twist of my trick scissors
i've been taking tips from the government
no trick mirrors in my establishment
fifty bucks a month ought to cover it
i've been getting real good at hiding it
yes i am the next best thing to falling off a third floor balcony
all my work is guaranteed to last the length of your recovery
ever since my confidence was boosted by these blank prescriptions
business has been booming and i seem to have made lots of nice friends
ive been baking cakes for the enemy..
he is a nice man
hes got the newest tools
hes got steady hands
and he goes to med school...
So you dont want to hear about my good song?
And you dont want to hear about how i am getting on
With all the things that i can get done
The sun is in the sky & i am by my lonesome
So you don't want to hear about my good day?
You have better things to do than to hear me say
God its been a lovely day! everything is going my way
I took out the trash today and i'm on fire...
So you don't want to hear about my good friends?
You dont have the guts to take the truth or consequence
Success is in the eye of the beholder
And its looking even better over your cold shoulder
I'm not suggesting you up and line me up for questioning
But jesus think about the bridges you are burning
And i'm betting
That even though you knew it from the start
You'd rather be a bitch than be an ordinary broken heart
So go ahead and talk about your bad day...
I want all the details of the pain and misery
That you are inflicting on the others
I consider them my sisters and i'd like their numbers
God its been a lovely day! everything is going my way
I took up croquet today and i'm on fire
I picked up the pieces of my broken ego
I have finally made my peace as far as you and me go
But i'd love to have you up to see the place
& i'd like to do more than survive i'd like to rub it in your face.....
Hey! its been a lovely day! everything is going my way
I had so much fun today and i'm on fire
God it's been a lovely day everything's been going my way
Ever since you went away hey i'm on fire.....
I'm on fire...
I'm on fire...
So you dont want to hear about my good day?
i love you like a brother
and i love you like a child
and i love you like a lover
and i love you dumb and colorblind
and i love you like a mother
even after all you've done
and i love you like no other
but i know
you're not the one...
and i loved you in bright orange
and in violet and in green
and i loved you in such colors
as your eyes have never ever seen
and i loved the way you acted
but your one trick pony's dead
and i loved you unprotected
but you only love in
red
i know its dark for good
i never listen when i should
you only see in black and white
so go on back to your own kind
and i'll go back to mine
i love you like a brother
and i love you like a child
and i love you like a lover
and i love you dumb and colorblind
and i love you like a mother
even after all she's done
and i love you like no other
but i know youre not the one...
presenting modern moonlight just as advertised
coke and pepsi finally hit a compromise
how can they complain that we're all fucked up kids
when they keep on changing who our mother is?
and to be completely honest
light is in the way of progress
retinas are bleeding for the enterprise
surgically wired into paradise
yesterday I dropped in on a funeral
everyone was messaging like it was going out of style
it was just the cynic in me
god, I love communicating!
I just hate the shit we're missing…
everybody join in the magnificence!
yes! everything is absolutely making sense…
every time you turn around your soul gets sold
to the highest bidder
then they turn around and merger and they merger
and the merger and they murder and they murder
and the one who means it most will take it all……
fight it all you want it's useless
life is in the way of progress
wire cutters of the world
you know what to use it for
spread the word to all the tightrope walker boys and girls
erase yourself america
you're in for a nasty shock
when the war is over you can read the paper
i won't try to explain what i cannot understand
it's a bird it's a plane it's a one night stand
if i only we could ride far enough
i'd forget you altogether
it's a bluff
there is no way i could not remember
don't ask me what i came here for
it is too delicate for words
i used to want to make you talk
now i would rather you did not
i don't mind if you read while i'm coming
it's alright if you need the t.v.
to keep from noticing my mind going blank
what's the worst thing that could happen?
is my back all that bad?
strike the match and watch the doll come open
don't ask me what i want from you
it is not something you could purposely do
i used to want to make you mine
now i have better things in mind...
downloading doves on your fancy computer
youre shooting for love in the dark
hey jude youve found her now go instant message
her name is a pretty good start
ultima sits in her bedroom in texas and
waits for her hamsters to touch
she lost her legs in a car crash three years ago
she doesnt get around much
but she is hoping someday
somebody will take her away
now that you got her a dress you can send her
a matching attachment and face
slick rhododendrons you make out of paper
with flowers that never lose shape
you have a video camera strapped to
your forehead in case she is true
smiling rewind as we die in slow motion
(as if its not happening to you)
don't blow it all at one time:
some girls are harder to find
don't be afraid of the dark ages darling,
the stage has been set and your carriage is waiting
to take you away from this place
where youll meet your bride face to face
knowing her name is enough: ultima...
foks trotting globes rotting under your fingertips
tapping for oil in vain
surely you wont think to hold it against her
she can't help that thats where she came
from
someone is hoping to find
her limbs in an auction online
knowing her name is enough:
ultima esperanza
thirty licks with a belt - playing tricks on myself
and i wonder if everyone else is this way
a succession of tests a triumphant success
each time it's still intact at the end of the day
thirty drops in a glass - keep my temper and pass
with my breath held you bastards i'll get you! but then -
its not really so bad, there's still mom there's still
damage to do before they wrest the axe from my heads
its no mystery: you should obviously go
before i break everything
you're always telling me that youre dying to know
but you're not really listening
how do i manage to station myself in harms way
and only get hit with a ticket for loitering
that i have no means to pay - and no strength to argue
the voices are infesting up through the floorboards and they're
murmuring murder me
if i could shut them out just for an hour i swear
i could stop this catastrophe
thirty day guarantee
but that can't include me
after all i'm at home in this childproof world
no sharp corners or glass
no small objects or plastic bags
please, these are death to a delicate girl
its no mystery - you should obviously know
that i'll destroy everything
so dont keep telling me that youre dying to know
cause you'll get what youre asking for
how can it be that i still put myself in harms way
and only get hit with a ticket for loitering
that i have no means to pay - what kind of place is this?
now all the voices are screaming this just isnt fair
but i've got a fool proof plan
if i can get them alone for an hour i swear
it'll look like an accident
i could be decent yet
i'll make up for everything
i could be president....
red brush
washing up
look I made america
hush hush
don't don't rush
and don't try to care too much
brown wine
turpentine
somethings musn't be combined
sleep now
never fear
all your animals are here
counting sheep
I lay me down to sleep
but I see a sheep that will not leave
from the back they catch him in a trap
hit his head and send him off to bed
cutting by numbers is kinder
invest in one with a silencer
all of the studies say if they're
calm when they die then they taste better
cutting by numbers is kinder
invest in the one with the silencer
all of the studies say if they're
calm when they die then they taste better
goodbye
olive sky
I am crying all the time
there there
don't despair
we will find your sheep somewhere…
an arm is off
an eye is missing
a face is cracked
a mouth is rusting
a dress is ripped
a hand is stuck
this mechanism
seems to be broken
but pull the string
still it can talk
"my name is kaledrina,
and i love you very much"
when i woke up
my arm was off
my eye was missing
my face was cracked
my mouth was rusting
my dress was ripped
a hand was stuck
this mechanism
seems to be broken
but pull the string
still i can talk
"my name is kaledrina,
and i love you very much....."
i've been driving around town
with my head spinning around
everywhere i look i see
your '96 jeep cherokee
you're a bully and a clown
you made me cry and put me down
after all that ive been through
you'd think i'd hate the sight of you
but with every jeep i see
my broken heart still skips a beat
i guess its just my stupid luck
that all of boston drives that same black fucking truck
it could be him or am i tripping
and i'm crashing into everything
and thinking about skipping town a while
until these cars go out of style...
i try to see it in reverse
it makes the situation hundreds of times worse
when i wonder if it makes you want to cry
every time you see a light blue volvo driving by
so dont tell me that you're off to see the world
i know you wont get very far
dont call me if you get another girl baby
just call me if you get another car
the number of them is insane
every exit's an exboyfriend memory lane
every major street's a minor heart attack
i see a red jeep and i want to paint it black
it could be him or am i tripping
and i'm crashing into everything
i can't wait til you trade that fucker in
by then they will have stuck me in the looney bin
it could be him my heart is pounding
its just no use i'm surrounded
but someday i'll steal your car and switch the gears
and drive that cherokee straight off this trail of tears
i could make a dress
a robe fit for a prince
i could clothe a continent
but i can't sew a stitch
i can paint my face
and stand very very still
its not very practical
but it still pays the bills
i can't change my name
but i could be your type
i can dance and win at games
like backgammon and life
i used to be the smart one
sharp as a tack
funny how that skipping years ahead
has held me back
i used to be the bright one
top in my class
funny what they give you when you
just learn how to ask
i can write a song
but i cant sing in key
i can play piano
but i never learned to read
i can't trap a mouse
but i can pet a cat
no i'm really serious!
i'm really very good at that
i can't fix a car
but i can fix a flat
i could fix alot of things
but i'd rather not get into that
i used to be the bright one
smart as a whip
funny how you slip so far when
teachers dont keep track of it
i used to be the tight one
the perfect fit
funny how those compliments can
make you feel so full of it
i can shuffle cut and deal
but i can't draw a hand
i can't draw a lot of things
i hope you understand
i'm not exceptionally shy
but i've never had a man
that i could look straight in the eye
and tell my secret plans
i can take a vow
and i can wear a ring
and i can make you promises but
they won't mean a thing
can't you do it for me, i'll pay you well
fuck i'll pay you anything if you could end this
can't you just fix it for me, it's gone berserk...
fuck i'll give you anything if
you can make the damn thing work
can't you just fix it for me, ill pay you well,
fuck ill pay you anything
if you can end this
hello, i love you will you tell me your name?
hello, i'm good for nothing - will you love me just the same?
oh mrs. o
will you tell us where the naughty children go
will you show
how the sky turned white and everybody froze
heaven knows how they got into the fireplace
but everybody's saying grace
and trying to keep a happy face
and oh mrs. o
can you teach us how to keep from getting cold
out we go and you watch us as we face the falling snow
what a show with our hairdryers aimed heavenwards
and fifty foot extension cords
you really have a way with words
the truth can't save you now
the sky is falling down
watch the vultures count the hours
april trains may bring strange showers
and oh mrs. o
will you tell about the time they made you go
all alone to the palace where they took your only clothes
we all know
there's no hell and no hiroshima
chernobyl was a cover up
the world is really all in love
oh mrs o
will you leave us hanging now that we are grown
up and old
will you kill me if i say i told you so
we all know
ther'es no hitler and no holocaust
no winter and no santa clause
and yes virginia all because
the truth cant save you now
the sky is falling down
eveything they ever told us
shakes our faith and breaks their promise
but you can stop the truth from leaking
if you never stop believing...
missed me missed me now you've got to kiss me
if you kiss me mister i might tell my sister
if i tell her mister she might tell my mother and my
mother, mister, just might tell my father and my father
mister he won't be too happy and he'll have his lawyer
come up from the city and arrest you mister
so i wouldnt miss me if you get me, mister, see?
missed me missed me now you've got to kiss me
if you kiss me mister you must think im pretty
if you think so mister you must want to fuck me
if you fuck me mister it must mean you love me
if you love me mister you would never leave me
it's as simple as can be!
missed me missed me now you've got to kiss me
if you miss me mister why do you keep leaving
if you trick me mister i will make you suffer
and they'll get you mister put you in the slammer and forget
you mister then i think you'll miss me won't you miss me
won't you miss me
missed me missed me now you've got to kiss me
if you kiss me mister take responsibility
i'm fragile mister just like any girl would be
and so misunderstood (so treat me delicately!)
missed me missed me now you've gone and done it
hope you're happy in the county penitentiary
it serves you right for kissing little girls but i will visit if you miss me
do you miss me? miss me?
how's the food they feed you?
do you miss me
will you kiss me through the window?
do you miss me? miss me?
will they ever let you go?
i miss my mister so
half underwater
i'm half my mother's daughter
a fraction's left up to dispute
the whole collection
half off the price they're asking
in the halfway house of ill repute
half accidental
half pain full instrumental
i have a lot to think about
you think they're joking?
you have to go provoke him...
i guess it's high time you found out
it's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong
you'll notice something funny if you hang around here for too
long ago in some black hole before they had these pills to take it back
i'm half jill
and half jack
two halves are equal
a cross between two evils
it's not an enviable lot
but if you listen
you'll learn to hear the difference
between the halfs and the half nots
and when i let him in i feel my stitches getting sicker
i try to wash him out but like she said:the blood is thicker
i see my mother in my face
but only when i travel
i run as fast as i can run
but
jack comes tumbling after....
and when i'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out
and i'm so high not even you and all your love could bring me down
on 83rd he never found the magic words to change this fact:
i'm half jill
and half jack
i'm halfway home now
half hoping
for a showdown
cause i'm not big enough to house this crowd
it might destroy me
but i'd sacrifice my body
if it meant i'd get the jack part OUT
see
jack
run.....
no one's asking to go dancing its not like that anymore
its romantic if they mean it when they shut your fingers in the door
its a gory sort of story thats been told a hundred times before
it gets tricky dont be picky if the slipper fits you wear it whore
how many tips can i take home tonight without them getting mad
how many stitches do you think it takes to fix a cut that bad
how many minutes until midnight and you get your eyesight back
not to knock it i've been off it never moving very much at once
its been awkward i still offer it when its that time of
other girls shower but i give out flowers
to curious strangers who throw dollars at my feet
how many crimes can i try spotting dry before it leaves a stain
how many times say that i love you til it doesnt mean a thing
how many fittings must i sit through with my big feet blistering
how many strips until it hits me and my big mouth strikes again
i'm not asking to go dancing i'm not that dumb anymore
its exhausting to keep smiling when your toes are bleeding through the floor
its a gory sort of story thats been told a million times before
don't be sorry just ignore me because honestly
i'm too sore from fitting exactly to ride into setting suns aching to
stand on my own two feet
how many wishes do i still have left to fix the way it ends
how many princes will it take to put a girl like this back together again
how many instances can you point out where i was less than kind
how many happy endings do you need to change your fucking mind
and how much time do we have left before it's midnight and
you see that i was never the right size?
raise your glass
we have incorporated
place your bets
we're all so sick of waiting
queen takes jack
a lucky guess could land you in the sack
so pick a number
to all the ones who tried the most was i supposed to cheer your efforts
sorry that i chose so poorly
golly gee am i the poster girl
lift your hats
off to the checkout girls with tattooed backs
theyd make an angels skin crawl
if you ask them for assistance
theres an even chance
they'll call your number
she's the kind of girl who looks for love in all the lonely places
the kind who comes to poker with her pockets stuffed with aces
she's the kind of girl who only asks you over when its raining
just to make you lie there catching water dripping from the ceiling
(interlude)
to all the girls at pearl the surly boys who get to masturbate them
i've a prize for each and every one of you so just be patient
to all the ones that hated me the most a toast
you really had me going for a second i was nervous boy am i the poster girl
so raise the stakes
im very confident in my mistakes
ive made so many of them
all it takes is mere suggestion and my poor heart breaks
im such a baby
shes the kind of girl who gets her slings and arrows from the artschool dumpster
the kind who tells you shes bipolar just to make you trust her
shes the kind of girl who leaves out condoms on the bedroom dresser
just to make you jealous of the men she fucked befor you met her
to all the ones who thought they knew me best a test to prove your prowess
who was mine in '99 i want last names and current status
to all the ones who hated me the most a toast you really had me going for second i
was
nervous boy am i the poster girl for some suburban sickness better keep a healthy
distance
now its up to you know what to do its pretty
dirty business
boys wear overcoats in heat like this to keep themselves from showing
girls fill out prescriptions for the tricks that keep their hearts from growing
specialists review the year in tears and call for drastic measures
send them to resorts for boys and girl to get their shit together
sad but true the facts of life are bound to get you down
so whats the use dear jenny anyway the world is pretty...
ashley talks to astronauts back home by way of fax transmission
andy gets a new tattoo each time he gets back bathroom privledge
weary o so drealiy we wave our flags into the camera
amber goes berserk completely she's been here since last december
sad but true the truth can turn your smile to a frown
so whats the use dear jenny anyway the world is pretty
upside-down...
the rates are better in the summer
looks like dear jenny's doing better...
back at home the broadcast warning bounces off of an empty table
jenny asks the astronauts to sleep with her behind the stable
christmas hasn't been the same since dad put in the central heating
checks you before bedtime with a battery to keep your new heart beating
and the world might turn a million times around before
they tell you jenny anyway the world is pretty world is pretty happy world is pretty
happy
sometimes they let strangers in and other times they check their records
when they check out in the morning dad puts out the lie detectors
jenny prays to gods she've never heard of for a special warning
all the walls stay dead as jennys heart is
but shes still observing
sad but true the highgloss gloss paint wont tell you what to do
so whats the use dear jenny anyway
the world is happy
world is happy
world is happy without you...
the rates are better in the summer....
looks like old jennys doing better...
all the cities in the world
and so very little time and
so many different girls...
all you have to do is find them
there's a wealth of opportunity you plan your trips accordingly
a pity but the pretty ones are usually more touristy
say how'd you like to run away from these machines?
everywhere the spies are printing out your dreams
seven stops in seven different countries
seven page itineraries memories thick as bloody marys jesus jospeh bloody hell
right now were here in boston
in love with downtown crossing
new york will still be there in the morning
come back to bed my darling
four years thrown away on vows we never kept
forty-five minutes every day religiously devoted to regret
time we could have spent on medication thrown away on education
and we planned to take a trip to scotland but we never made it
how'd you like to run away from these machines?
i had julians and steves
you had julias and jeanette s
you wear your terror on your sleeve for all the men i haven't met (yet)
i had oliver in potsdam you had elanor in amsterdam
we're keeping track so carefully we've missed the state we're in completely
honestly your foot is out the door and i've got scores of offers elsewhere and keep
both
feet planted firmly in the air
and tomorrow you can totally erase me from your mind but trust me everything is
fine
because
right now we're here in boston
in my apartment in the south end
forget your year in london
come back to bed my darling
you can put the details in a letter
the more embarrassing the better
right now i can be happy if i choose to
i know that in the morning i will lose you....
and maybe you'll go mad
and maybe ill go gray
and pack up to berlin
or maybe it wont matter anyway
we'll find out that your mom was right and you'll admit you're really gay
and maybe ill wake up
in a city far away
or maybe we'll make up
and buy a house and have a couple kids and labrador and microwave
but anyway
right now we're here in boston
in eden where you almost pulled your pants down
don't worry who these jokes will all be lost on
come back to bed my darling
there is nothing in the world that we can count on
even that we will wake up is an assumption
but i know for a fact that i loved someone
and for about a year he lived in boston...
a dirty deed is brewing green ivy overgrowing
the scissors poised and ready and she said that she was going
a thousand hours of waiting she put it all in writing
she pricked her finger for it but she's not cooperating
oh i swear
by the river styx
that's where i am fixed.
but i think the time is nearing i think i might be thawing
if only i were certain that my temperature weren't falling
and the tourists have been coming
from my fingers sawing
pieces for exhibits where impressive crowds are drawing
oh i swear
by the river styx
that's where i am that's where that's where i am i am fixed
and if i had the patience and i had the humor and you had the slightest clue what
all this
fuss was for all of the times that i say that ill do it there's 909 that i secretly
ruin its good
that i tell you what i am escaping for over the rainbow and out through the back
door
if only i could prove it
if only i could do it
if only i could torture all the people who can use it
and at the final hour i am forced to sit and gather
the thousand hours of inspiration slowly growing sour
oh i swear
by the river styx
that's where i am that's where that's where i am i am fixed
and if i had an offer to be better id decline
and if it were more awful to consider id be fine
and if it were all my fault
that i'm that i'm that i'm that i'm
and i've pined and i've regretted that i aided and abetted
this end and if it isn't it will be soon you bet it will be
and the tapes are in the fire
go to bed because i'm tired
of saying it is done
because i've always been a liar
and if it were all my fault that i'm bitter
this day was meant to be
a day that i would treasure
this day was meant to be
a way to make us closer
could it be he doesnt see
that we dont fit together?
could it be that this will be
the way it feels forever?
this day was planned for years
i prayed at every altar
this day confirmed my fears
there's nothing left to wait for
battered bride dry your eyes
things will change i promise
red on white just you wait
you might learn to like it
this day was full of pain
i tried hard not to feel it
the magazines explained
something completely different
if i could have my way
id run home to my parents
im scared but have to stay
i made a firm commitment
battered bride dry your eyes
things will change i promise
red on white just you wait
you might learn to like it
pay your dues
bruised and numb
love means compromises
black and blue
love can come
in all shapes and sizes
battered bride
dry your eyes
things will change i promise
run and hide
all youd like
only death will part us....
battered bride
dry your eyes....
ive tried dolls that were guaranteed sixteen or under none were very exciting
sorta like a laugh track or whacking off they'll get you off but it's just not the
real thing
its been decades since my pit days
but i havent shaken it - i sit there like an idiot
still caught up in the old punk protocol
and dreaming that the teenagers will think that i'm a radical
and i still wait for the bus to come where high school got torn down
still expecting to find true love among the skateboarders hanging out
in back of the bank in my hometown
all this talk and no action's got me stiff from the tit to the bone
so im living in lala land - but at least im not living at home
same old catcall same old chemicals
same old thrills stealing stockings from the shopping mall
its simple enough to grow the fuck up happy with the rough cut
nobodys in the market for a diamond in the rough but
i still wait for my mom to come and pick me up at holly's house
10 years after they cashed it in to make a multi-level parking lot for a
seven-eleven and burger king
i've got cryptographs i've got all the phones tapped
i've got proof enough it is indisputable
love's not good enough i want pies and graphs
something that will teach me my arithmetic at last..
better rope the folks in - i'm on the loose again
and getting more ridiculous the more i think i ought to get my mind out of the
gutter
(it's getting dangerous, amanda, god - you're old enough to be his fucking...)
my own private highway from the cradle to the grave
i save a bundle skipping middle age and saturdays
and i still wait for the cops to come where the station since bunred down
still convinced that they'll pick me up for all the sins i committed in the back of
the banged-up pickup truck
i've got autographs, backstage passes and leather jacket back patches up the...
ask me anything i've got evidence
single serving saccharine packets dripping black with lipstick kisses
i still wait for the bus to come back where the high school got torn down
still expecting to find true love among the sakteboarders hanging out
in back of the bank in my home-
i'm no pederast it was nice to ask
thank you ,but i'm capable of getting up and getting dressed
love's not good enough i want photographs
something that will stand the test of...
time and time again
i think ill head downtown again
oh god
i'm thirty
no, i'm ten
i'm seventeen
and a bank of boston beauty queen....
You can have washington i'll take new jersey
You can have london but i want new york city
I should get providence i've got a job now
Los angeles - obvious - that's where you belong now
You can have africa asia australia
As long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona
We can split germany right down the middle
You'd hate it there anyway
Take berlin and well call it even
You can take all of the carry-on baggage
I'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language
And special occasions we'll split between parents
Who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends
You call it over and i call you psycho
Significant other?
Just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
We'll call it even
I am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
Disgused as a hero to get past your borders
I know when i'm wanted i'll leave when you ask me to
Mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to
I am the tower around which you orbited
I am not proud i am just taking orders
I fall to the groud within moments of impact
I hit back if hit
And attack if attacked
You get route 2 between concord and lexington
I want mass ave from the sqaure to my apartment
And if we should meet through some misunderstanding
Ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
(now get off my side of the state)
And if we should meet one another in passing
Despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)
We'll raise high our white flags and say hi and shake hands
Declaring the land we're on unamerican
We'll call it even
I am the tower around which you orbited
I am not proud i am just taking orders
I fall to the groud within moments of impact
I hit back if hit
And attack if attacked
I am an accident waiting to happen
I'm laughing like mad while you strangle the captain
My place may be taken, but make no mistake
From a little black black box i can say without shame
That you've lost
Do you know what you've lost?
So take whatever you'd like
I'll strike like the States on fire
You won't sleep very tight
No hiding
No safe covers
Make your bed and now lie
Just like you always do
You can fake it for the papers but i'm on to you....
I could make a dress
A robe fit for a prince
I could clothe a continent
But i can't sew a stitch
I can paint my face
And stand very very still
Its not very practical
But it still pays the bills
I can't change my name
But i could be your type
I can dance and win at games
Like backgammon and life
I used to be the smart one
Sharp as a tack
Funny how that skipping years ahead
Has held me back
I used to be the bright one
Top in my class
Funny what they give you when you
Just learn how to ask
I can write a song
But i cant sing in key
I can play piano
But i never learned to read
I can't trap a mouse
But i can pet a cat
No i'm really serious!
I'm really very good at that
I can't fix a car
But i can fix a flat
I could fix alot of things
But i'd rather not get into that
I used to be the bright one
Smart as a whip
Funny how you slip so far when
Teachers dont keep track of it
I used to be the tight one
The perfect fit
Funny how those compliments can
Make you feel so full of it
I can shuffle cut and deal
But i can't draw a hand
I can't draw a lot of things
I hope you understand
I'm not exceptionally shy
But i've never had a man
That i could look straight in the eye
And tell my secret plans
I can take a vow
And i can wear a ring
And i can make you promises but
They won't mean a thing
Can't you do it for me, i'll pay you well
Fuck i'll pay you anything if you could end this
Can't you just fix it for me, it's gone berserk...
Fuck i'll give you anything if
You can make the damn thing work
Can't you just fix it for me, ill pay you well,
Fuck ill pay you anything
If you can end this
Hello, i love you will you tell me your name?
Hello, i'm good for nothing - will you love me just the same?
A late april day and it's sunny outside
And a red little girl's at the top of a slide
And an an orange old man at the bottom
Wants to take her for a ride
As she slips and she tumbles the orange man mumbles
Pennies crash down from the sky
And he tells her he'll take her away where it's safe
And of course it is a lie
She's a third the down and her skirts are yanked up
And her little girl cheeks start to wrinkle
But her smile is wide and her legs are spread wider
Her hair growing long and her hips getting larger
Past getting brighter
Light growing weaker....
She is halfway down now but the man is impatient
Shakes change in his pocket he might have to wait but she's coming...
She's coming...
Who are you blaming?
They're just playing!
That's a good one...
Who left the playground
A good decade before the bell rang?
As she starts to draw nearer the view becomes clearer
The splinters are painful but she doesn't feel it
The pennies were loaded and as they exploded
She starts to spin out of control...
Her eyes are now closing her sleeves are unrolling
Up past her head and her veins are all showing
Not that she noticed she's thoroughly focused on
One old man who's laughing...
Who's laughing....
Dont' worry
I've got you
Don't worry
I've got you
The orangeman got you.....
Gravity plays favorites i know it cause i saw
Honest to god officer it's awful
Down at work i'm getting too familiar with the floor
Showing off my talentsby the mouthful
Hate to break it to you but its out of my control
Forces go to work while we are sleeping
If i could attack with a more sensible approach
Obviously thats what i'd be doing
Now
Necks are cracking sideways
Hit me from the back side
I am on the white side
You are on the black side
Cut a piece thats bite size
Shoot me from my good side
If you got a straight line
This would be a good time
Gravity works slowly if you notice it at all
Some of us are getting mighty lucky
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall
You thnk i can't fly well you just watch me
Now
Necks are cracking sideways
Hit me from the back side
I am on the thin side
You are on the fat side
Cut a piece thats bite size
Shoot me from my bad side
If you got a straight line
This would be a good time
The sky is always falling down on me
So officer forgive me please!
Coin operated boy
Sitting on the shelf he is just a toy
But i turn him on and he comes to life
Automatic joy
That is why i want a coin operated boy
Made of plastic and elastic
He is rugged and long-lasting
Who could ever ever ask for more
Love without complications galore
Many shapes and weights to choose from
I will never leave my bedroom
I will never cry at night again
Wrap my arms around him and pretend....
Coin operated boy
All the other real ones that i destroy
Cannot hold a candle to my new boy and i'll
Never let him go and i'll never be alone
Not with my coin operated boy......
This bridge was written to make you feel smittener
With my sad picture of girl getting bitterer
Can you extract me from my plastic fantasy
I didnt think so but im still convinceable
Will you persist even after i bet you
A billion dollars that i'll never love you
Will you persist even after i kiss you
Goodbye for the last time
Will you keep on trying to prove it?
I'm dying to lose it...
I want it
I want you
I want a coin operated boy.
And if i had a star to wish on
For my life i cant imagine
Any flesh and blood could be his match
I can even take him in the bath
Coin operated boy
He may not be real experienced with girls
But i know he feels like a boy should feel
Isnt that the point that is why i want a
Coin operated boy
With his pretty coin operated voice
Saying that he loves me that hes thinking of me
Straight and to the point
That is why i want
A coin operated boy.
Biting keeps your words at bay
Tending to the sores that stay
Happiness is just a gash away
When i open a familiar scar
Pain goes shooting like a star
Comfort hasn't failed to follow so far...
And you might say it's self-indulgent
You might say its self-destructive
But, you see, it's more productive
Than if i were to be healthy
& pens and penknives take the blame
Crane my neck & scratch my name
But the ugly marks
Are worth the momentary gain...
When i jab a sharpened object in
Choirs of angels seem to sing
Hymns of hate in memorandum
And you might say it's self-indulgent
And you might say it's self-destructive
But, you see, it's more productive
Than if i were to be happy
And sappy songs about sex and cheating
Bland accounts of two lovers meeting
Make me want to give mankind a beating
And you might say it's self-destructive
But, you see, i'd kick the bucket
Sixty times before i'd kick the habit
And as the skin rips off i cherish the revolting thought
That even if i quit
There's not a chance in hell i'd stop
And anyone can see the signs
Mittens in the summertime
Thank you for your pity, you are too kind
And you might say its self-inflicted
But you see that's contradictive
Why on earth would anyone practice self destruction?
And pain opinions are sitcom feeding
They dont know that their minds are teething
Makes me want to give mankind a beating
I'm tried bandages and sinking
I've tried gloves and even thinking
I've tried vaseline
I've tried everything
And no-one cares if your back is bleeding
They're concerned with their hair receding
Looking back it was all maltreating
Every thought that occurred misleading
Makes me want to give myself a beating....
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