(M. Doughty)
The young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long
Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young
gun.
The young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long
Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young
gun.
The young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long
Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young
gun.
The young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long
Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young
gun.
The young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long
Island Lolitata, the young gun, the Long Island Lolitata, the young
gun.
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Long Island Teen
Shot the wife of her alleged former lover.
Long Island Teen
Shot the wife of her alleged former lover.
Long Island Teen
Shot the wife of her alleged former lover.
Long Island Teen
Shot the wife of her alleged former lover.
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
She's a liar! Everything she says is a lie! I'm livin' on baby food!
I'm livin' on baby food!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
Amy Fisher!
Amy!
(M. Doughty)
Daughter to the pop veneer
Shining like a new mint quarter
Shining like the Franklin Mint
Seedy like the lampshade quarter
Rolling with the dopes you know
Rolling with the wrong gun on you
Going down to Baltimore
Going in an off-white Honda
Oh I miss the girl, miss the girl, miss the girl
I want to give myself to the water
Speeding to the rupture line
Rat-a-tatting boombox moocher
Darling with the boop shuh-nai
Rat-a-tatting lose your future
I dream that she aims to be the bllom upon my misery
She rocks the mop style, she needs the rest
(M. Doughty)
I met a girl on roller skates
She had a spare bag, she had lost some weight
Where I used to work, she was a waitress
She proposed a trade, it was generous
She's gone to Houston, feel like I'm floating in a warm sea
And if she finds out when she comes back, I know that she wil leave me
Oh I heard a sign, it was a dull crack
It was a clock hand, It was snapping back
Oh it wasn't her's, it was the dope's kiss
I'll take the blame upon my shoulder, I just love to feel like this
(M. Doughty)
14,000 times a second
The speaker moons
Magnitism pushes
the impulse through
But I can't keep that speed
I can't generate that frequency
What the sound pressure level means
Wants to randomize electrons--I can't read
And you're still not dancing
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen horses
I saw her and thought of her and thought of her
And I thought I heard a doorbell tone
And I thought I saw thought I saw and thought I saw
You watching from the lawn
She went over bridges like the river was a dream dream
Over bridges like the river was a dream dream
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen horses
Two rings two rings two rings clamp down
Quit it
Two rings two rings two rings clamp down
Quit it
Two rings two rings two rings clamp down
Quit it
Two rings two rings two rings clamp down
Quit it
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen
You get the ankles
and I get the wrists.
You get the ankles
and I get the wrists.
You get the ankles
and I get the wrists.
You come down to this.
Nerves are up
and the eyes all screwy
Blood like a panful
of boiling ratatouille
Hang from the axles of a box car
Follow the dotted line
Like a steer to Chicago
to the hooks of the Chicago man
I get all tripped up
my eyes turn to water
rug burns from a shag rug
struck dumb in the presence
polyester burns from a jacket
rub the skin thin
break down in a diner
then I pay the bill
cashier toothpick stuck in the ground
tiny lawnmower to mow me down
I could get lost in a lunchbox
(M. Doughty)
Whose song is that remembered?
At random, surpenting
Throught fatty coils, emerging
some other thought it's thinking
this light
stands above the
houses
on the ground
this illumination
visited upon the whole land
unmarked helicopters
hovering
the lord is coming soon
here comes the super copter
here comes the noise it makes
the demon was an idea
the demon is awake
scratch mark traced across the
surface of your mind
this hour, now upon us
the hour, now arrived
unmarked helicopters
hovering
the lord is coming soon
unmarked helicopters
hovering
they said it was a weather balloon
but i know the truth
i know the whole shebang
i know the names of men they had to hang
i let her out the trunk
heard what she said at them
they've come to drag us through the double M
it goes black black black black and blacker
it goes black black black black and blacker
it goes black black black black and blacker
it goes black black black black and blacker
unmarked helicopters
hovering
the lord is coming soon
unmarked helicopters
hovering
they said it was a weather balloon
it was a weather balloon
it was a weather balloon
it was a weather balloon
it was a weather balloon
(M. Doughty)
There is a bar they call The Bitter Sea.
And she sits and drinks a velvet crush--that's
Kool Aid and gin--casing the clientele
Like a relentless cameraman. She is
Elsewhere. She says You keep a-knocking
But you can't come in, and I say
Little Sister, don't you do what your Big Sister does
Spiral down down down down down down down
Well desire looks just like you with an uzi nine
Gundown fifteen bystanders in a roadside driveby
Desire is the grassfire drinking gasoline
And she says Open up your mouth, man, let me come inside
Spiral down down down down down down down
She cracked
Now they call me Mr. Bitterness
She snapped
Now they call me Mr. Bitterness
She's gone,
Gone gone
Aaah, leaning up against the wall
I will lash out dancing like a madman when you're gone
I will spit the blue flame and hurl my glass against the wall
And I will hear your name coming out from a boom box
I will hear your name called out from passing cars
Spiral down down down down down down down
(M. Doughty)
Moon Sammy walks. Across the floor. Below the floor. There is a wall.
Behind the wall. There is a chair. Moon Sammy knows. The chair is
there.
But that's OK, that's OK, you can do that--if you're wound up, full of
tension,
incoherent. Your mouth is buttered with lies; you ask why, but you
could
call it enigmatic; all your thoughts about the chair are full of
static.
Automatically your mind goes down the stairwell to the chair; your
body
says Moon Sammy, can you come back?
Strum it.
Moon Sammy washes. In the sink. Below the sink. There is a drain. The
drain
goes straight. Into the sea. The sink itself. Is porcelain.
Obsess yourself with causality. The information you hear is a
loophole,
technicality. Behind every object is a mathematic; an obscure
substance
infused with a kinetic force, energy, an obscure conscience shoots a
gun at
the feet the world dances.
Babylon, mystery, mother of harlots, and all these abominations of the
earth, that sits on many waters, drunk with the blood of the martyrs
Jesus.
(M. Doughty)
But I have not seen it now or ever
Women descending on escalators
Coupled with this but also the same thing
Dolled up and spat out
So many deminations
I remember what you tasted like
A gumdrop
Lemon lime
And the numbers
on the rotary dial
Rewinding
Cinnamon driver
Big sexy jerk
Down in the murk
Of your mystery
That's me, swimming
Down in the water at the corner of your eye
(M. Doughty)
When all the limbs are numb and clean,
and you're in transit, dream to dream,
I'll drift there to meet you, lazybones.
When all the world has lain and sank,
and money sleeps inside the banks,
I'll drift there to meet you, layzbones.
Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances,
drunkenness is a hand-held
scrambling down Delancey
I come stumbling;
well I hear you had to take a shine
and firing at random, I hear the rays fell upon mine.
Cool you, Miss Amaze, with a handful of water
trucks encircling, bearing down, coming louder.
If I could stay here, under your idle caress
and not exit to the world and phoniness and people.
When all the noise has left your head
will someday you rise off the bed?
Move upside
and let the man go through.
Let the man go through.
If I stole
Somebody else's wave
To fly up.
If I rose
Up with the avenue
Behind me.Some kind of verb.
Some kind of moving thing.
Something unseen.
Some hand is motioning
to rise, to rise, to rise.
Too fat, fat you must cut lean.
You got to take the elevator to the mezzanine,
Chump, change, and it's on, super bon bon
Super bon bon, Super bon bon.
And by
The phone
I live
In fear
Sheer Chance
Will draw
You in
To here.
Normalize the signal and you're banging on freon
paleolithic eon
put the fake goatee on
and it booms as cool as
sugar free jazz
Schools he bombs, he bombs
Stack wax lie like a placemat
won't lap
or help you at the automat
and it's clear and clean as
sugar free jazz
Schools he bombs, he bombs
Fossilize apostle and I comb it with a rake
you can't escape
you pull out the brake
and it booms as cool as
(M. Doughty)
White Girl,
Market at Van Ness,
Heels to drag,
Discombobulated.
Air all soft around,
Hear the man singing,
Inclines and wires,
Telegraph Avenue.
Look away and she's eastbound, out of sight.
Dropped here,
By the hand of the Astronaut,
Builder of the pyramids,
The man from outer space.
Innocent farmgirl,
Raised by the aliens,
Out in Northridge,
Out in the larger world.
When you were languishing in rooms I built to foul you in
And when the wind set down in funnel form and pulled you in
I don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
When the ghostly dust of violence traces everything
And when the gas runs out just wreck it, you insured the thing
I don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
Doom da doom da doom
Well I know what I'm doin'
Doom da doom da doom
Well I know what I'm doin'
Doom da doom da doom
Well I know what I'm doin'
Doom da doom da doom
Well I know what I'm doin'
But I can't sigh now that you made the move
It has gone and gone to dogs, lay down on the floor
For the right price I can get everything
Slip into the car, go driving to the farthest star
I don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
don't need to walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in circles
walk around in
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years, what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years, what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
On this side the incumbent
And who quoth
There's only one everything
Red sucker mouth
On this side the incumbent
And who quoth
There's only one everything
Red sucker mouth
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
On this side the incumbent
And who quoth
There's only one everything
Red sucker mouth
On this side the incumbent
And who quoth
There's only one everything
Red sucker mouth
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
A jaw-grind disposition to a panic attack
New York, New York, I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years what did you give me back?
(M. Doughty)
I don't mind the worry following me like a dinosaur
I don't fear I am descending into the molten core
So far, I have not found the science
But the numbers keep on circling me
I'm gonna give you most of mine
(M. Doughty)
I got the will to drive myself sleepless.
So much time is cashed.
So much smoke is wasted.
Sudden disappearance
In the air is thick and cool.
I can't approach myself
Skidding over this perdition
And now I'm out on the verandah
When I should have gone to school.
Well I call for sleep,
But sleep it won't come to me.
Shuffling in the hallway,
I can hear him on the stairs.
I hear his lighter flicking.
I hear the soft sigh of his inhale.
And the whole width of my intentions
He exhales into the air.
I got the will to drive myself sleepless.
Skeedunt, stunt the runt,
Smoking buddha blunt.
(M. Doughty)
I'm rolling.........
I've gotta get a new balm
I've gotta get a tight tension on
I've got to slip it up before the rush gets gone
I've got to feel it with the hot mind on
I'm rolling
Hey Norman was it thrown with a broken arm?
Bottle it up, to keep it warm
I'm rolling
I know you got it but you got to go
I'm gonna get into the batter so the mix might glow
I hate to do it, but I did it though
I'm gonna bite into the body like the risk is no risk
I got the souped up car and what you call tripping on the boom bap
etymological
I ride the fader and I ride it low
I'm gonna slip into the field like Han Solo
I'm rolling
One two into the amplifier, the electrified two
Into the amplifier, and you got to get to
Into the amplifier, one two into the amplifier
(M. Doughty)
Paint!
Paint!
Collide a clause, unremitting can you cram?
Stop hitching the monster man
It was a bad plan,
but I had to get to town
Unbitten,
but the way I found it was a hand came down
And pow,
I got illuminated
That's why I have got my mind in my own
Hand over the wave,
hand over the water,
the realest of the real
It's like the burnout said - phenomenonTo the ruder bar in a Buddha plump van
It was a stamped can,
it was a clamor
Understanding,
and all you people jumping but we raised the bar
You're dumber than a box of rocks
Give up, star
The inscrutable,
the irrefutable,
the illegible,
the indisputable
The undisputed
Makes me go on a dig
Daughter to the pop veneer
Shining like a new mint quarter
Shining like the Franklin Mint
Seedy like the lampshade quarter
Rolling with the dopes you know
Rolling with the wrong gun on you
Going down to Baltimore
Going in an off-white Honda
Oh I miss the girl, miss the girl, miss the girl
I want to give myself to the water
Speeding to the rupture line
Rat-a-tatting boombox moocher
Darling with the boop shuh-nai
Rat-a-tatting lose your future
I dream that she aims to be the bllom upon my miseryShe rocks the mop style, she needs the rest
And I know it's not the same thing
(M. Doughty)
Dumb bah did du dumb
I need time to scrounge the rent, need time to contemplate the
accident
I got to drag my ass to now, how did I come to stop here?
And oh I knew the gas was gone but I had to rev the motor
Pull back the hand you might get it cut off in the motor
Maybe I'll come down
She's on Laureate's turf, she's on Laureate's side
She's in a better state, she feels a better fire
And oh I dreamed a great parade, shooting all the guns in Brooklyn
The man who had a spare held out two and then you and then you took
(M. Doughty)
Janine, I drink you up
Janine, I drink you up
Janine, Janine, I sing
If you were the Baltic Sea and I were a cup, uh huh
Varick Street and I drove South
With my hands on the wheel and your taste in my mouth,
Janine
Jesus to my left, the Holland Tunnel on my right
Angels shine down from the traffic light,
Janine
I fell asleep by the blue light of Live at Five
And as I drifted off, I heard Al Roker say to me:
Dial one nine hundred
Four Jay Ay En Eye En Ee.
Slap myself to waking but now it's too late
Cause I spelled your name out on my licence plate,
A man
drives a plane
into the
Chrysler building
Saskatoon is in the room
Poulsbo is in the room
Bennetsville is in the room
Palmyra is in the room
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!
A man
cuts in half
just like he
snaps a pencilKhartoum is in the room
Phnom Penh is in the room
Pyongyang is in the room
Cairo is in the room
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago
(M. Doughty)
When you were languishing in rooms I built to foul you in
And when the wind set down in funnel form and pulled you in
I don't need to walk around in circles
When the ghostly dust of violence traces everything
And when the gas is drained just wreck it, you insured the thing
But I can't sigh now that you made the move
It has gone and gone to dogs, lay down on the floor
For the right price I can get everything
Get on to the bus
That's gonna take you back to Beelzebub
Get on to the bus
That's gonna make you stop going rub a dub
Your words burn the air
Like the names of candy bars
Your mouth is cold and red
All in rings around your
Laugh, laughing, laughs
It's a grind grind
It's a grind
It's a grind grind
I'll scratch you raw
L'etat c'est moi
I drink the drink
And I'm wall to wall
I absorb trust like a love rhombus
I feel I must elucidate
I ate the chump with guile
Quadrilateral I was now I warp like a smile
Yellow no. 5
Yellow no. 5, 5, 5
(M.Doughty)
The five percent nation of ________.
(repeat X 12)
5, 10. 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90,
95, 100
The people's republic of ________.
(M. Doughty)
Blue eyed devil.
Blue eyed devil.
Born to be a God among Salesmen.
Working the skinny tie.
Slugging down fruit juice.
Extra tall extra wide.
33 degrees
Six hundred and sixty six
Dig digging it, come on.
Moving door to door to door.
Stoned motel room.
Nice cool on the bathroom floor.
King of Siam
Get the trouble frying.
Spoon to the lighter to the lighter to the gun
(M. Doughty)
Is you am a dog?
Is you got a dog?
Is you am a dog?
Hold closed the jaw.
How many cans must I stack up
To wash you out of my mind,
Out of my consciousness?
How many times must I cash out
To bring you back the check, fat
Off of my slenderness?
She says "Yeah,
But he's not in right now".
You pause.
You like her answer.
You know that but you go on.
You know but that you go on.
How many cans must I stack up
To wash you out of my mind,
Out of my consciousness?
How many times must I cash out
To bring you back the check, fat
Off of my slenderness,
Slenderness,
Slenderness,
Her knees thrust in one direction
like a symbol of math, a symbol meaning Greater Than
I come recommended by four out of five
I'm a factor in the whole plan
Four and five therefore nine
Nine and nine therefore eighteen
Eighteen and eighteen therefore thirty-six
Four and five therefore nine
Sometimes
I was
drifting on a
coffee buzz
Quantify my
luck I need a
mercy fuck
You crowd me out.
You crowd me out.
(M. Doughty)
Blame
Is the cure
Cure anything
Throw the rudder down
Throw the rudder down
Broad
Latitude
Broad latitude
Throw the rudder down
Rachel's on the phone
Talking to her mom
Just to wish her a Happy Mother's Day
Rachel's on the couch
Suckin' on the bong
Just so she can call her Mom
Rachel's on the phone
Talking to her mom
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Dressed in a snow white gown
Tap, tap, tapping at your window pane
To tell you she's in town
If you wanna make a snow man
I'll help you make one, one, two, three
And if you wanna take a sleigh ride
Whoop the ride's on me
Here comes Suzy snowflake
Look at her tumbling down
Bringing joy to every girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
If you wanna take a snowman
I'll help you take one, one, two, three
And if you wanna make a sleigh ride
Whoop the ride's on me
Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Look at her tumbling down
Bringing joy to every girl and boy
His eyes go funny, you can't place whyAll dolled up in bellhop drag
It is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long gone
I was once misinformed about your intentionsI was once misinformed about your intentions
Were you right to burn the rock star?Were you right to drop the roster?
It is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long goneIt is like a burden to the beat to the long gone
I was once misinformed about your intentionsI was once misinformed about your intentionsI was once misinformed about your intentionsI was once misinformed about your intentions
Lifting me up
Lifting me up
Lifting me up
Lifting me up like a garage door
I need to feel it when the drug starts coming on
I know you Lord are a jealous Lord
I know the tablet is your competition
I need for you to be reasonable
I need for you to be reasonable
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
Beating me down just like a rain storm
I need to feel it when the rain starts coming on
I know the skin is a jealous skin
I know the sky it is it's competition
I need for you to be reasonable
I need for you to be reasonable
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
I need for you to be reasonable
I need for you to be reasonable
I need for you to be reasonable
I need for you to be reasonable
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
She said, for $300 I'll do it
How much?
(M. Doughty)
Shooed out like a housefly
This house was half my mind
I don't dispute the doubts you've outlined
But it's my right to waste your time
And these things
It stands to reason
These things won't kill me
Your feelings
The spattering
It bores me
Don't tell me
Burned in on the 8th of May
She was spectacular
I walk a half-moon by the bus stop
Sliding 'cross the street to her
Three stings
Sequentially
Three strings
Won't kill me
Your spieling
Gracelessly
Is my grief
Please tell me
Half-masted, bass-boosted, slingbacked, fully retractable
Throw out the la-la by the busload
Match the photo to the description
I do indeed and shall continue
Easy places to get away to
Easy limbs languid all around you
All my time, yeah dirt on your hands
Fingers drifting down my spine, yeah
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Soundtrack to Mary
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Soundtrack to Mary
Many minds wandering from room to room
Many trees slain just to write it to you
Many rays blinding almost drowning
Keep this whole shine locked in my room
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Soundtrack to Mary
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Soundtrack to Mary
Throw back the noise, get another one
Pour out the rum, I've been drunk enough
I know the sound that you made
And I can't seem to unremind myself
I hope you feel better later on
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
I hope you feel better later on
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
I hope you feel better later on
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
I hope you feel better later on
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Later on, later on
Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall
Later on, later on
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
My eye like a noisegate, the number 8 frustrate
And I roll to the floor fruit to the fruit
To the core of a spheroid embedded in my skull
The round, the zero, the symbol of null and void
And well, I toyed with the concept
Of Vitamin B-12 the synapse, the synapse
It feeds itself on a nutrient, contained in sunlight
The blink, the lid, the fight, to snap open
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Moving up to the double M-2000, I eat up a decade
Like a flan your turn of the century
You turn it up turn it up clock seconds
To the hour go and cash the millenium
Um um and it hums like a migraine
To the brain in the time yet remaining but
Uh ah melancholy nonsense
And I crack nouns brotherfuck the verb tense
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip and uh, wake up, uh, zoom zip
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, recombination
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, recombination
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, then viacom, safeway
Recombination, recombination
Uh, zoom zip
Uh, zoom zip
(M. Doughty)
Signal got lost to the satellite
Got lost in the
Rideup to the
Plungedown;
Man sends the ray of the electric light
Sends the impulse
Through the air
Down to home
And you can stand
On the arms
Of the Williamsburg Bridge
Crying
Hey man, well this is Babylon
And you can fire out on a bus
To the outside world
Down to Louisiana
You can take her with you
I've seen the
Rains of the real world
Come forward on the plain
I've seen the Kansas of your sweet little myth
You've never seen it, no,
I'm half sick on the drinks you mixed
Through your
True dreams
Of Wichita
Brooklyn like a sea in the asphalt stalks
Push out dead air from a parking garage
Where you stand with the keys and your cool hat of silence
Where you grip her love like a driver's liscense
I've seen you
Fire up the gas in the engine valves
I've seen your hand turn saintly on the radio dial
I've seen the airwaves
Pull your eyes towards heaven
Outside Topeka in the phone lines
Her good teeth smile was winding down
Engine sputters ghosts out of gasoline fumes
They say You had it, but you sold it
You didn't want it, no
I'm half drunk on static you transmit
Through your
True dreams
Of Wichita
(freestyle verse)
Punch it
I got, uh, fed
I got, uh, too much things on bounce, uh, my head
I got to burn 'em up
I got to burn 'em up now
I got to go uptown, uptown
I got a thing
I got a little bit pushed
got to stand on the corner and bellow for mush
I got a bomb
I got a baby bomb bomb
got to stand on the corner and bellow for my friend Tom
I got a thing, I got to thing it
I got to thing--team
I got to run my side
(M. Doughty)
Rachel's on the phone
talking to her Mom
Just to wish her a happy Mother's Day
Rachel's on the couch
Suckin' on the bong
Just so she can call her Mom
Rachel's on the phone
talking to her Mom
(M. Doughty)
New York, New York
I won't go back
Indelible reminder of the steel I lack
I gave you seven years
What did you give me back?
A jaw-grind, disposistion to a panic attack
On this side the incumbent
And who quoth
There's only one everything
(M. Doughty)
Everything is going up.
Everything is going as planned, yeah.
Everything moves along.
Everything is fine, fine, fine.
Oh I could be
Condemned to Hell for every sin but littering.
I could
Slip on the East River and crash into Queens all skittering.
I've seen the
Cops and the robbers, and I know they dance the same.
I've seen a
Half a zillion girls and haven't spoken to a single one of them.
Batting in the light,
My reptile-lidded eyes.
And all this strung end to end,
Is wider than the mind.
And this cool I've been playing I have been
Playing too long now my
Capacities are dwindling 'til they're
Gone Gone Gone.
Baby can I change my mind?
(M. Doughty)
Something I can't comprehend
Something so complex and
Couched in its equation
So dense that light cannot escape from
In the dark your brain glows
And it goes
Way um way, way um way um
I know you're a supra genius
Will you shoot the blue earth down?
In the space station
Polishing the ray gun
(M. Doughty)
I stopped the thought before it's drip became insistent
I rubbed it out and loved the spot where it was missing
She's widely known the only maquereau that pays her taxes
I got to box her for the money, said it might end
Reeling and stubling, I've got to bump around a while
You don't use words like that, St. Louise is listening
You rang the eskimo to meet you at the station
Oh he's like milk to you half swedish and half asian
And your aphasia strikes a bargain with the barter yard
I got to box you for the money, said it might end
Reeling and stumbling, I've got to bump around a while
You don't use words like that, St. Louise is listening
I could be your babydoll, I could be your doll baby
I could be the things you want I could do it all for you
The body like soft serve drippin' down in the June sun
I tried to shoot a thought, ah but the thought sunk
Nothin' to do but scratch words in the dirt and
Watch the water roll down
Phantom kisses buzzin' like the insects
Beads of sweat drippin' down on the rent check
My candy land melted down to syrup while I
Watch the water roll down
Bay the lust comes into phase
But you're down in Marietta
So sweet my mouth was seared
But the words you mouth were sweeter
My sister
Your words can be held against you in a court of law
My sister
You owe no allegiance to the facts, yes
Talkin' like the Saint on the site of the accident
Talkin' like the clause in the lease about the late rent
Ringin' like the random call patched to the pay phone
Talkin' like the water rolls down
Watch the water roll down
And here comes the lust in phase
But you're down in Marietta
So sweet my mouth was seared
But the words you mouth were sweeter
Talkin' like the Saint on the site of the accident
Talkin' like the botched shot, attempt on the president
Ringin' like the change in the legless man's Dixie cup
Talkin' like the water rolls down
Watch the water roll down, now
Day undone
Day undone
Day undone
Watch the water roll down
Day undone
Day undone
Day undone
Watch the water roll down
Watch the water roll down
Watch the water roll down
exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers
jewels cleaving skin between breasts
your cadillac reads 400 horses over blue lines
you are going to Recida to make love to a model from Ohio
whose real name you don't know
you spin like the cadillac was overturning down a cliff on television
and the radio is on
and the radio man is speaking
and the radio man says women were a curse
so men built Paramount studios
and men built Columbia studios
and men built Los Angeles
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
and the radio man says it is a beautiful night out there
and the radio man says rock and roll lives
and the radio man says it is a beautiful night out there in Los Angeles
you live in Los Angeles and you are going to Recida
we are all in some way or another going to Recida some day, to die
and the radio man laughs because the radio man fucks a model too
gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love
gone savage for teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing,
in other words, fly
Los Angeles beckons the teenagers to come to her on buses
Los Angeles loves love
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
i am going to Los Angeles to build a screenplay about lovers
who murder eachother
i am going to Los Angeles to see my own name on a screen
five feet long and luminous
as the radio man says it is 5 a.m. and the sun has charred
the other end of the world and come back to us
and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
it is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
you are listening
you are listening
you are listening....
Roll
Oh, pride is not a sin
And that's why I have gone
On down to Wal-Mart with
My checkbook just to get you some [Incomprehensible]
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Then I know you must've realized by now
Then I know you must've realized by now
By the lawn chairs there
Next to the racks of guns
Your self esteem is waiting
Canned up in aluminum
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Then I know you must've realized by now
Then I know you must've realized by now
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Then I know you must've realized by now
Then I know you must've realized by now
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Like waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Waves in which you drown me, shouting
Then I know
(Note: These are not the lyrics of the recorded version, but of an
ealier version the band once performed live.)
(M. Doughty)
A murder of lawyers in overcoats.
A murder of lawyers in overcoats.
A murder of lawyers in overcoats, shoulders up, heads slung low,
looking like a swarm of M's swarming the crosswalk. Looking up at a
window on the forty-fourth floor. Blueeyed Jew Mystic from a rhythm
section, his hands cupped around the dignified hijiki of human speech.
Muslim baritones idle with their hands down.
And the gat that fattens your jacket pocket
Plugs slugs in vain
Through the body of the immaterial witness.
And that which is Ugly and feeds on The Law comes into the conference
room singing federal jargon. Their necks are covered in chocolatey
growths. Spat up an eyeful of steam in the lumber yard parking lot.
Written in her own shit with a ground down fork.
Written in her own shit with a ground down fork
Written in her own shit with a ground down fork.
The goat chewed up
Once a tin can
The goat shat out
Was a Ford Sedan
I like an eyeball
I like a square cut
I like a funny car
I like a monster truck
Call up bop and I'm bunting stomach
Koko mop, I chop chunking plummet
Thud on top, I ate the chocodile
Call up bop and I'm bunting stomach
Koko mop, I chop chunking plummet
Thud on top, I ate the chocodile
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
Well it's a self fulfilling prophecy
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
Well it's a self fulfilling prophecy
A toots hibbert
Up at the wrong prom
Serves a beat down
Upon a tom tom
I like Genius
I like Jason
I like Joseph
I like Nirvana
Call up bop and I'm bunting stomach
Koko mop, I chop chunking plummet
Thud on top, I ate the chocodile
Call up bop and I'm bunting stomach
Koko mop, I chop chunking plummet
Thud on top, I ate the chocodile
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
The Jupiter Moon, I got disseminated
Well it's a self fulfilling prophecy
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
Well it's a self fulfilling prophecy
The Average Man, I got disseminated
The Average Man, I got disseminated
The Average Man, I got disseminated
Well it's a self fulfilling prophecy
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
And ever since then, I got disseminated
Mid-level manager
Says he heard about
Some mulatto girl
Shot him in the mouth
And left him a hotel
Near the mid-south offices
He worked in distribution,
Regional vice-president
Collapse, unload it, pop! pop!
I must accumulate, unload it,
Pop! Pop! I must accumulate
Well the soil is rich
Competition fat
Ripe and vulnerable
Oozing from the slats
And too cash-heavy, bloated
Sitting there all puckered up
Index of numbers is
Scrolling upscreen, scrolling up
Smash it down to digits
Gut it out and break it down
Liquid assets are
Seeping down, seeping down now
Seeping down, seeping down now.
(M. Doughty)
Three times dark, first in the mind.
Second on Java street, the dead car there.
The hood blown off with a BB gun.
Manuela said she saw the brakes fail.
Manuela said she saw the brakes fail.
An empty body but it still bled
Oil from the axle and it left a trail.
Ran down Java street and formed a pool.
Manuela saw the moon in there.
Manuela saw the moon in there.
I hear a rumbling.
I hear transmission grind.
I bear witness.
I have the clutch now.
Three times dark, third on the rooftops;
Man jumps between and grabs the rail.
Man pulls the door but the door is locked.
Man gouge the hinge and goes down the stairs.
Man gouge the hinge and goes down the stairs.
Dull bright morning and the tools are gone.
Detectives with flashlights in the elevator shaft.
Manuela tells detectives she saw him there.
Stuck in the hinge is a sliver of a fingernail.
Stuck in the hinge is a sliver of a fingernail.
Stack of tools in the Oldsmobile.
From the Motor City to the City of Dis.
They trace his travel by his credit card.
No sleep, smokes, and he's nauseous.
No sleep, smokes, and he's nauseous.
Flicks an ash like a wild loose comma.
Ash hits the oil around the pump.
Travels to the pump and the pump explodes.
Witness said he saw the car jump.
(M. Doughty)
As for my single self I had as lief not be as live to be in awe of
such a thing as I myself.
As for my own concern I had as think to think as keep on thinking not
so hard as for the brain to burn.
And at the salad bar a man he stares into the croutons hypnotized by
powers of the Bac-O-Bits.
And I expose myself to stimuli unfit for people outside the controls
(M. Doughty w/808 State)
The trouble is
a single atom
shot at random
random fire
two particles
fused and coupled
once united
multiply
the waves run
underground
electric power
copper wire
some tiny evil
bursts the surface
lays quiet like
insecticide
Slanted, the eyes
and this bonds mind to mind
the risk is mine
and this bonds mind to mind
She says a word
across the ocean
I hear the spit
I hear the sigh
the wavelength
undivided
to drain the fruit
and leave the rind
the shot runs
through her wiring
through her curve
through her spine
to feel an impulse
rising rising
a mess of reason
(M. Doughty)
Send me your muzzle
The one that you been biting on
Go buy some scissors
Cut your duct tape shakles off
Much better now
Much much better now
Max caps and I could blow
My only
On a payphone call to you
I'll pull the zippers down
I will yank the reigns
Long gone and lonesome
In the airport lounge
Afraid to close my eyes
When I'm going to bed
Afraid to crack the phone down
Over my head
Why are all american girls so rough?
Damn a girl can't every hurt you enough.
Lady (lady)
Knock me on my knees
And I can't stand up
You've got the look in your eyes
And smack my butt
Why are all american gilrs so rough?
Why do all american girls act so tough?
Why are all american girls so rough?
Afraid to close my eyes
When I'm going to bed
Afraid to crack the phone down
Over my head
Why are all american girls so rough?
Damn a girl can't every hurt you enough
Lady (lady)
Knock me on my knees
And I can't stand up
You've got the look in your eyes
And smack my butt
Why are all american girls so rough?
Why do all american girls act so tough?
Why are all american girls so rough?
Digging in my ribs
That ain't no real moves
So baby
Take it easy
Let's try to be friends
Why are all american girls so rough?
Damn a girl can't ever hurt you enough
Lady (lady)
Knock me on my knees
And I can't stand up
You've got the look in your eyes
And smack my butt
Why are all american girls so rough?
Why do all american girls act so tough?
Why are all american girls so rough?
Why are all american so rough?
American girls, american girls
Why are all american girls so rough?
American girls, american girls
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