I may be
Just like Bill
I'm up on the hill
And I can't get down
I cry because you don't know
I cry because you will never know
Just how dark can an animal be?
How dark can an animal be?
Dark like darkness
Dark like a devil out in the woods now
I saw the light
That just buzzed
I saw the light
But, my brain just buzzed
I cry because you never know
I cry because you will never know
Just how black can an animal be?
How black can an animal be?
Dark like darkness
Dark like a devil out in the woods now
Train
Train I ride
Train I ride
Ride on me
Underneath where finds me
all the brothers are gone
I can see the passing refugees
Flowing
They are flowing
Nobody saw it get to my head
no, they can't find me
calling loud in the dark ravine
Flowing
Oh, I am flowing
Flowing back the village river bed
as the water flows underneath my head
All the brothers have gone back overseas
girlies pass me by
I had the meanest heart you've ever seen
Flowing
Oh I'm flowing
If I could crawl out of this yawning earth
go find Suzy-Boo
we'd smoke gold in the dreamland too
Flowing
We are flowing
Flowing by my river to the sea
by my mean old spirit in the trees
I turned my face to the sound above
no, they can't see me
old bones, just food for the trees
Flowing
Oh, I'm flowing
There was lies and fires in the hills
down the living streets
their smoke blows back my memories
Flowing
Oh, I'm flowing
Flowing down river to the sea
flowing mean old bones in the stream
If these bones could ever sail a while
for an extra mile
they'd flow just like the river Nile
Flowing
You look just like an Elvis from HELL
My heart is broken, so I'm gong to HELL
Bury me way down deep in HELL
I'm a steel drivin' man, I want to go to HELL!
Then go tell Ivy oh-oh!
For the love of Ivy yeah-yeah!
I did it for Ivy oh-oh!
You're the one
Gonna buy me a graveyard of my own
Kill everyone who ever done me wrong
Gonna buy me a gun just as long as my arm
Kill everyone who ever done me harm
Then go tell Ivy oh-oh!
For the love of Ivy yeah-heah!
I did it for Ivy oh-oh!
You're the one
Well, jawbone eat and jawbone talk
Jawbone eat you with a knife and fork
I was hunting for niggers down in the dark
When suddenly I got a better thought
Let's go hunt Ivy, oh-oh!
Let's go get Ivy, Yeah-yeah!
For the love of Ivy, oh-oh!
You're the one.
I did it for Ivy
I did it for Ivy
HA HA HA! Ivy!
It's cloudy in the west, it looks like rain
my eyes are black holes and i'm burning away
you slaughtered your loving man
killed him in his sleep
the blood and crying of your murder
simply stains your sheets
Now, you're a ghost on the highway
your gesture is meaningless
you're lost to the living men
trailing souls to the end
You thought winning as a woman, meant failing as a friend
it is nor an art statement, to drown a few passionate men,
you made yourself a diamond
to blind young men's eyes
you claim because they want your shine
they deserve to walk the line,
You're a ghost on the highway
your gesture is meaningless
you're lost forever to the living men
trailing souls to the end
(noise)
Yes, I would give you my love
so my soul would not starve
but, it could never move the honest rock
of what you really are,
You're a ghost on the highway
you're like straw and meaningless
I hate you, but I love you
I'll carry that to the end
If I ever lie with you again, I pray I do not sleep
If I ever closed my eyes again, I'd realize what you are to me.
you are simply a liar
an animal who bluffs and steals
until you become
a bigger creature's meal,
You're a ghost on the highway
your trash and meaningless
I hate you, but I love you
I'll carry that to the end
My hotel is blue
Beautiful ocean blue,
Paint melting off the walls
And I can hardly breathe
Young men nod against the palms
Turn blue and fail to breathe,
But, I came here to see,
Give up the Sun, Give up the Sun
One hundred thousand times
I live just to hear you say
(I live just for once to? I live just to want to?)
Give up the sun, give up the sun...
Down along the beachline
Gulls pick at bones and glass,
Old Jew remembers Broadway
Among the tires and glass
I try to remember Broadway
I had a friend up there at last,
And she can't help me now,
Give up the Sun, Give up the Sun
One hundred thousand times
I just want to hear you say
Give up the sun, give up the sun...
(solo: Jeffreylee)
Out there, the sea makes love
Waves pinwheel to the bay,
Oh, don't you leave me here
There's ghosts and rooms of pain
There's a storm out on the sea tonight
And bodies filled with pain
Palm wind across the sea tonight
Black with whirling pain
Alone against the docks tonight
Nobody knows my name,
And I can't go back again,
Look what's been done, John
It's coming out of the east like rain, Johnny
Look, what's been done, John
It's coming like a God with no name, Johnny
I'm out near Santa Fe
Hitching out for the warmer days
I'm all broke up, Johnny
It all just beat me down
Look, down the line, Johnny
There's flashlights on the backroads, Johnny
Look, down the line, Johnny
Of the American unknown, Johnny
I'm out there in the desert
All your dreams lie dead in the desert
I'm all torn up, Johnny
It all just beat me down
Look at the girl, Johnny
Yellow hair a shine, indian eyes to see, Johnny
Look at her, Johnny
Her love is like anything to me, Johnny
What slipped so deep into me
I can never get it out of me
I'm all broke up, Johnny
If you din't look
you won't know
that outside it's not 4 AM
those trucks won't be there
around, around again
but, it is alright
it was just a night
and another way to turn your back
your back on me,
Hearts, with love like water
Hearts, with love that goes
if you're gonna turn
turn back on me
Eyes that sigh
in my sleep
naked and black on the floor
you should cooperate
when I need love some more,
but, it is alright
ever since the night
and another way to turn your back
your back on me,
Hearts, with lonely sounds like
Hearts, with love that beats me so
if you're gonna go
don't look at me
Hearts, like lovely burning
Fields, love that goes
if you're gonna go
don't look at me
Hearts, with love like burning
Hearts, with love that goes
if you're gonna go
don't look at me
Hearts, like lovely burning
Hearts, with love that beats me so
if you're gonna go
go back! back! back! back! on me
Hearts, like lovely burning
Hearts, with love that goes
if you're gonna turn
turn back! back! back! back! on me
We used to be forever partners
we swore we'd never separate
oh, I didn't see it changing
Now, a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
a house is not a home
I'm without a dream tonight
We used to be sister and brother
then came lovers and then came pain
oh, I tried to change it
Now, a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
a house is not a home
I'm without a dream tonight
Love and tears bound us together
I fought the men to protect her
oh, I couldn't understand it
Now, a house is not a home
I'm out in the street tonight
a house is not a home
I'm without her heat tonight
Now, I unravel onto the floor
Hearts are spilled onto the floor
oh I, I couldn't change it
Now, a house is not a home
I'm the one degraded
a house is not a home
Winter on the Americas
catch you in the snow winter's day
who would think fires burning out
would ever go to the same place,
but, the sadness
slightly of your face
I didn't mean it that way
A Humanesque is playing on tonight
Do you ever talk revolution? [You used to talk...]
Who would ever know, you'd have to see
Way down. Down the Tingo Marie
caught you all alone in their angry streets,
but, the sadness
who did you meet?
did they treat you that way
A Humanesque is playing on tonight
Your eyes are liars
they paint the secrets you betray
Your Spanish men say that you cheat them everyday
they want to go and let you have your way
seems your rebels given up the cause
and even Oklahoma calls your name,
but, the magic
with which you held sway
has fallen decayed
A Humanesque is playing on tonight
the magic
has since burned away
did they want it that way,
A truck flashed at me alone
one eye and still
I've mountains of pain to bear
up upon that hill,
so, I put them down
in the shadows of the leaves
I Hear Your Heart Singing
I Hear Your Heart Sing
The streets I prowl
so secretly I see
sirens and trains at night
they don't frighten me,
so, I dismiss the sound
to the end of the night
I Hear Your Heart Singing
I Hear Your Heart Sing
The note you found, that you blew across town
over my face and into this place
Oh, soul of so and so, come and go with me
I'll take you in the waterpools
I'll take you through the reeds,
beyond the shore
with an ear to the stream
I Hear Your Heart Singing
I Hear Your Heart Sing
Taboos you choose, they leave me amused
leaves not a trace of your burning face
As the truck flashes me
I know the sins you reap
Moonfish cast an eye on you
while you oversleep,
across the sea
to a distant shore
I Hear Your Heart Singing
That line don't make it here no more
nothing reanimates the old times
black clouds to the west
darkness coming from the East Side
Get your friends out of the car!
we got a date in the trees tonight
take off your clothes, you ain't going far
you're going to give me fun tonight
Turn on the headlights
for the Idiot Waltz
turn on the lights
watch us fall
Your body don't get me off no more
it takes a lot of smack to do that
we never made love in the trees
or took you down on your mat
Now, winds of change
are blowing out the fire
I feel your breath on my neck
I hear the darkness and wires
Turn on the headlights
for the Idiot Waltz
turn on the lights
watch us fall
It was foolish to be alive
It was foolish in a foolish time
Turn on the headlights
for the Idiot Waltz
turn on the lights
I am like Jack, I am from southern land
I'm holding your happiness in my hand
the sun behind me is a sexual red
and all your bounty-hunting ghosts are dead
I am like Jack and I tell you this
I will be your lover and exorcist
In the stillness of the mosquito sunset
you will make love to me to your very best
Hey, hey, I'm a Jack On Fire
hey, hey, your lips kiss Jack on Fire
Way back in the Indian days
nothing could drive the heat away
drive the search and murder of lost enemies
drive deep into what is never seen
And like Jack, there is a heat to the fight
like a moth detects a heat to the light
and like Jack, I will covet everything that is you
because, the heat in you will temporarily do
Hey, hey, I'm a Jack On Fire
hey, hey, your lips kiss Jack on Fire
(noise)
When you fall in love with me
we can dig a hole by the willow tree
then, I will fuck you until you die
bury you and kiss this town goodbye,
it will be unhappy, it will be sad
but, it will be understood that I am BAD!
so don't you go and lie to me
John Hardy was a vicious little man
he carried two guns every day
He shot down a man on the West Virginia line
I see John Hardy gettin' away, poor boy
see John Hardy gettin' away
John Hardy went up to that free stone bridge
where there, he thought he was free
a death to men, called nobody his own
siad, "Johnny come and go with me" poor boy
"Johnny come and go with me."
John Hardy had a pretty little wife back home
the dress that she wore was blue
she come to the jailhouse with a loud shout
said, "Johnny, I've been true to you", poor boy
"Johnny, I've been true to you."
she said,
John Hardy sent out to the East Coast
sent for his folks to come and go his bail
but, there was no bail allowed for the murderin' man
they sent John Hardy back to jail
sent John Hardy back to jail
Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet
who's gonna glove your hand
who's gonna kiss your rosy red cheek
it's gonna be that steel drivin' man
be that steel drivin' man
she said,
Now he's sittin' alone there in his cell
tears rolling down his eyes
he's been the death of many, a poor man
now, he is ready to die, poor boy,
now he is ready to die
Sigin' "I've been to the east, I've been to the west"
"I've seen this whole wide world around"
"I've been to the river and I've been baptized"
"Take me to my hanging in the ground"
"Take me to my hanging in the ground"
Kamata City shining
smokestack city lightning
you're frightened
now, we must embrace
like I kissed your beating heart
and kiss beneath your hat
and take you, on your mat
oh, silver night
Kamata Hollywood City shining
my wife's best friend, you changed your mind
it's just like Disneyland in the night,
you shook me,
our lives will never be the same
Didn't do well with mother
after seven whiskeys
got frisky
tried to get her to dance
Almost missed my mark
the dogs began to bark
so, I dragged you in the park
once again
Kamata Hollywood City shining
my wife's best friend, you changed your mind
it's just like Disneyland after Dark
you shook me,
our lives will never be the same
Happy shoppers stare at me
drunk along the street
boots upon my feet
"Oh, where's he from?"
Now, I'm lost in the city
this could be the end
better phone up my wife's best friend
and here you come,
Kamata Hollywood City shining
my wife's best friend, you changed your mind
it's just like Disneyland every night,
you shook me,
I can see clearly
from my diamond eyes,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will accept all of me
so the Fire... will stop
Up through the streets
the gunfire of cars,
going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will take all of me
so the Fire... will stop
I will be cheating
the whole ritual,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will expect all of me
so the Fire.will stop
Someone will break out of the circle,
someone will turn and burn a world
someone knows a better cell
where the old north wind blows through southeast hell, yeah...
Invention was betrayed by the machine,
promised like it was promised to me
I'm going up to the mountain to see
how the last thing, will set me free, yeah...
I had to do something, I was wearing down,
I was going down...
Why can no one ever touch a Fire Spirit?
Why can no one ever hold a Fire Spirit?
Why can no one ever feel a Fire Spirit?
I am going to the mountain,
I am going to the mountain,
I am going to the mountain...
I can see clearly
from my diamond eyes,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit,
no one will accept all of me...
and the fire... will stop...
With too much patience
and too much pain,
going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
to make amends for all of me...
Well, this is what I've never told you
yes, we are animals too
and it'll be a life of "getting back"
for a night of "getting off"
but, I couldn't wait
now, eternally is here...
"I never promised you anything
for promising me everything," she said.
"I stood silent and true
while you fell to pieces."
but, I couldn't wait
and, eternally is here...
and it's a long way down... without a sound...
You've known I've always wanted you
and since today is the end of the world
you're heart and no more art (your?)
will hold me tonight!
but, I couldn't wait
now, eternally is here...
and it's a long way down... without a sound...
(solo: Jeffreylee)
This is what she always said:
"I will give to you of love and blood
for all the forever and never
and yet, still again and again..."
but, I couldn't wait
now, eternally is here...
and it's a long way down...
without a sound in this world...
Snow cuts loose from the frozen
Until it joins with the African sea
In moving it changes it's cold and it's name
The reason I come and go is the same
Animal game for me
You call it rain
But the human name
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
If you don't mind heat in your river and
Fork tongue talking from me
Swim like an eel fantastic snake
Take my love when it's free
Electric feel with me
You call it loud
But the human crowd
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Change the strings and notes slide
Change the bridge and string shift down
Shift the notes and bride sings
Fire eating people
Rising toys of the sun
Energy dies without body warm
Icicles ruin your gun
Water my roots the natural thing
Natural spring to the sea
Sulphur springs make my body float
Like a ship made of logs from a tree
Redwoods talk to me
Say it plainly
The human name
Doesn't mean shit to a tree
Snow called water going violent
Damn the end of the stream
Too much cold in one place breaks
That's why you might know what I mean
Consider how small you are
Compared to your scream
The human dream
I can feel the filth is coming
I can see it moving in
from a window with dirty hands
and coming back again,
yes, the waitress wants to kill me
but, I'd rather kill her all the same
she better not look at me
or I'll do it again,
but, it's me
someone was there, it was me
someone named Araby
Now, the bassist hates the drummer
and the drummer hates his wife
see her again? Run away, it will always be alright,
Shall we go back to the motel?
no wait! Let's run away.
spend all night in Paradise Bar
until it goes away,
but, it's me
someone was there, it was me
someone named Araby
but, it's me
someone else is me
somebody named Araby
Rain just slaps our faces
colors me to here
where do we go? Where's the train?
with eyes still shaking with fear,
I can see the lights are coming
but, I'm sure they're not for me
it's written on the roadmap
that I can never see,
but, it's me
someone was there, it was me
someone named Araby
but, it's me
somebody else is me
I thought I heard you
in my room last night
lonely lemur calls
in my walls last night,
when I was all alone, in the palm drunken night
when I was all alone, bejeweled in the night
pulsing we are hearts, but bleeding unlike diamonds
tying up ourselves, but bleeding unlike diamonds,
and it's bad,
but, it is Bad America
under the western sky...
I looked up another thousand times
you colored my world violence
you made me warm when you hit me
with a nail in my arm,
I was all alone, I could have die there
I was all alone, and I did not care,
but, for a burning second, of red love in the dark
but, for my burning hands, grasping in the dark
and it's bad,
but, it is Bad America
under the western sky...
And there's girl breath
up and down my spine
but, that was a river ago
I knew you'd come in time,
I was all alone, though it was a sea ago
I was all alone, and where did you go,
and there's vein-like children, on the waterfront
smack-rotting faces, on the waterfront,
and it's bad,
but, it is Bad America
under the western sky...
it is Bad America
You blew me out
South and Texas too
I made love to California
To get away from you
New York city made you a
Hungry girl
You should have catch me
In the end of the world
I don't believe you
What are you doing down here?
You need something in a shoe
Or are you just a Bad Indian?
Bad Indians
They love the land they hate
Eat your flesh and then forget the taste
Some describe, that primal drive
To consume what's theirs
And seek what's mine
I don't believe them
And I don't believe you
I suspect everything you do
'Cause you are like a Bad Indian
Bad Indian
Do your war dance
Now you're stripped
By the things you do
Your ass is glass
And I can see through you
Go find somebody
Who ain't been so hard
Give me an overdose of the drug
That you are
You are like a ghost
With crazy hands and mouth
A necklace made of eyeballs
You are just a Bad Indian
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
I'm driving across the wind just to spy you
I never did like that before
My eyes follow you like the tail can wind
They never followed you before
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Underneath the water and so far along below
My eyes will always be there
So deep, deep inside the Marianas Trench
My life will always find you there
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Well, I can answer when you crawl
On your belly in the deep black sand
Real life swung and hurt, pale and useless
You're my kind of man
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
You always say that you're crushed by it all
And everybody blames you
You always say that you are losing your dreams
And yes, I do belive you
Bill Bailey
Won't you come on home, tonight
Bill Bailey
Shut up and come back home, tonight
And get out of the sea, out of the sea, out of the sea
Get up and come back home, tonight
And get out of the sea, out of the sea, out of the sea
Three feet of gravity -
pulling lengthwise, rip me up
Stars dissolve above
down to black below
Black hole
I've seen this all before
Black hole
Fingers clutch my head
Gouge my eyes, you want me (blind/dead)
Inside you no hope for me
I'm movin' on the black train
The night it beats me down
I'm movin' on the black train
And I breathe a soundless sound
Ridin' on the black train
Ridin' on the black train
Every blood in my body goes with the train
And some of it's on the floor
I'm slippin' out to any place
Although I know I've been there before
Ridin' on the black train
Ridin' on the black train
Torn up on the black train
Torn from my southern home
I left a nigger lying dead by the river
I left the Will-O-the-Wisp to roam
Ridin' on the black train
Ridin' on the black train
And I can't get better, I can't get better
Ridin' on the black train
Ridin' on the black train
I'm heat on the black train
And I'm lightin' up the night
With everything I've had and everything I've done
I still can't be satisfied
I'm ridin' on the black train
Why do you keep me
Way underground?
My sight is dying
As was the sound.
Why do you paint me
And cover me with jewels?
Where are we going?
What are we going to do?
You used to say, you'd take me home
But, I keep falling to the sister
Brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further
Away
The sins of me
They buzz and hiss in the trees
Their little skeletons
Will harm no one
Why do you always
Bring them back to me
They're kingdom come
And earth will be done
On heaven and earth and me
You used to say, you'd take me home
But, I keep falling to the sister
Brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further
Away
And who is that there
Always beside you
When I count us together
Together we are only two
I had a dream
And there was foxfire in your hair
I am your brother, your lover
I give you my blood
I will follow you anywhere
You used to say, but, you never know
But, I keep falling to the sister
Brother falls unto the sister
Keep getting pushed further and further
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are you still the same?
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways and so many tears
Your letter never survived the heat of my hand
My burning hand, my sweating hand
Your love never survived the heat of my heart
My violent heart in the dark
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways and so many tears
Carry home to where I am from
Carry to the place that I have come
Carry to the dust and flies behind me
Carry to the cracks and caves on the face of me
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
And now I'm home and now I'm home
Do you still want me? Now that I'm home
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are you still the same?
So carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways
And so many tears, yeah
Oh, but I didn't change, I just had to work
No, but I didn't change, I just had to work
And now I'm home and I carry home
I ask for water, and she gave me gasoline
I ask for water, give me gasoline
I ask for water and she gave me gasoline
Lord, Lordy Lord.
Cryin', Lord, I wonder, will I ever get back home?
Cryin', Lord, I wonder, I ever get back home?
Lord, Lordy Lord.
I went to the depot, looked up on the board
I asked the conductor how long has this Eastbound train been gone?
I asked the conductor could I ride the blinds?
Son, buy your ticket, for that train ain't none of mine
Son, buy your ticket, train ain't none of mine
I cast shadows where
when you talk to me
the cost of time
it still tells on me
the harbor watch
the harbor moan
the tide unfolds
to find you alone
It had to be that way,
Sorrow in the darkest night
in the darkest day against the sun
I detected you
by the ringing bell
and run to the safety
of your wishing well
your blue memories
of 1965
clouds your dreams
and they crush your mind
It had to be that way,
Sorrow in the darkest night
in the darkest day against the sun
Shadows fall
where you fell
time flashes on
and it's time that tells
clouded less than sweet
against your dreams
violence always sits
just underneath
It had to be that way,
Sorrow in the darkest night
Everybody always liked Johnny's mother
Everybody always thought that she was so cool
Everybody went over to her friend's one day
she had no choice, but to eat it,
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
Well, she really thought that she was going to make it
so, she moved out to HOLLYWOOD
she went out to become an actress
she got down to take it,
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
Well, she really thought that she was going to make it
she sped straight down to the bottom
writhing in circles down there
making a film about HOLLYWOOD!
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
But, she really thought that she was gonna make it
but, bright are the lights of HOLLYWOOD!
loud are the shouts of HOLLYWOOD!
and all the choices are taken,
(3-dimensional guitar solo by Kid Congo Powers)
Everybody always like Johnny's mother
Everybody watches her show everyday
from somewhere near Champaign, Illinois
we all got down to take it!
and wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
wow! What a time we had!
she had to do the Crab Dance
she really had to do it
she didn't have a choice
to do the Crab Dance
to do the Crab Dance
Well, you torn your dress, your face is a mess
you can get enough a
you got a transmission and a live wire
to do the Crab Dance
to do the Crab Dance
I take you
I rape you
get in the car
you're going with me
I'm gonna leave on
the radio loud
so everyone can hear
we're having fun
why did you do that
get in the back
I'll even the stakes
The day turns to light in an instant
the night turns to day
in an instant of changelocked in it's cage
and it dies
he's driving
the lights switch
they become flames
life just flickers out
like matchsticks in the rain
that's just how easy
I will change your name
I was for you I
wanted you for me
now, I'm gonna get that dream
The day turns to light in an instant
the night turns to day
in an instant of change
out in the rain
and it dies
We're soldiers of emotion
we're running back to the ocean
the rescue ship has not arrived
The Americans are coming and we will surely die
and I must take you
or you will kill me
that's the way it must be
The day turns to light in an instant
the night turns to day
in a flash in the sky
way on up high
and final
She was frozen
her light would not see the day
I walked away
you wanted it that way
now, I watch the cars pass by at night
things had to be that way
sirens rage through the silent night
things had to be that way
Oh I, who am I to seek
who am I to seek
Desire
Cold London morn'
we fit tight in the storm
You seized the day
it had to be that way
never mind what's only a piece of my heart
nothing could change that way
you should have nailed me up to the sky
there was a better way
Oh I, who was I to seek
who was I to seek
Desire
Now, heaven's gone
or heaven at least to me
my time is up
it has to be that way
these nights I walk the streets alone
it has to be that way
now I watch the windows at night
there is no other way,
Oh I, who am I to seek
who am I to seek
Desire
Oh I, Oh I,
who was I to seek
who was I to seek
Your bus just broke down
must have been 12th and A
you ran in a bar
this must be Emily's place
One foot in the light
the other foot in the dark
the eyes of a bat
and the mouth of a shark
but, Emily's changing her part
Emily's changing her role again
She's just a stranger
but, she feels about the same again
When Pilate was after Jesus
they could not get to him
they made a pact with Judas
so that they could turn him in,
I got the keys to the kingdom
and the world can't do me no harm
Oh yeah
I got the keys to the church house
and the world can't do me no wrong
Oh yeah.
They took him to that hill
they brought his sister in
they conspired against him
to make original sin
I got the keys to the kingdom
and the world can't do me no wrong
Oh yeah
I got the keys to the church house
and the world can't do me no harm
Oh yeah
I was on his left
Devil on his right
he passed those keys to Pharisees
way out of sight
I got the keys to the kingdom
and the world can't do me no harm
Oh yeah
I got the keys to the church house
and the world can't do me no wrong
Oh yeah
and with those keys
I can open lots of doors
devil on my left hand side
he ain't there no more
I got the keys to the kingdom
and the world can't do me no wrong
Oh yeah
I got the keys to the church house
and the world can't do me no harm
You sent a Jack O'lantern over to my house
To charm me from my kill
I've crosses far too much to bear
But you said you will
Now, you look away, look away
Look away and leave me alone
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and open sky
To help myself
To see myself
I'm calling up thunder
I'm calling up thunder
With the tears warm against your red dress
Embedded in my brain
I see that we were alike
But we were not the same
Now, you look away, look away
And leave me all alone
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To see myself
To help myself
I'm calling up thunder
And I'm calling up thunder, ooh
I'm calling up thunder
Hands in the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To see myself
To help myself
And I'm calling up thunder
And I'm calling up thunder
Ghosts, they crawl on the floor
Wondering at it all
I promised I would join them
But, the gesture was too small
Now, I look away, look away
Look away back to myself
I'm calling up thunder
Hands to the open sky
I'm calling up thunder
To the wind and the open sky
To help myself
To kill myself
I'm calling up thunder
the rain has arrived at last
for which we had waited
the hawkers have packed up their stands
nothing to be traded
the soviets beside the quay
run back to the freighter
the terrace of the Rex Hotel
is closed by the waiters
we need you, oh Lucky Jim
where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim
your mistress has left her home
gone back to the dances
the smoking dens are starting up
for life's own enhancing
nobody goes to the war
since there's none to go to
we just sit around the cafè bars
we sit waiting for you
we need you, oh Lucky Jim
where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim
why did you ever go up north
it is not for you
they'll strip your little weak heart clean
then what will you do
the Australians in the Bunny Bar
are waiting your return
everyone wants a piece of you
a piece of you to burn
we need you, oh Lucky Jim
where have you gone, oh Lucky Jim
Rain Rain
rain the walls
face and hands
blues are a shower rain,
brother's in the hallway
fighting against the world
I'm practicing voodoo
in the bedroom on you girl,
Oh my, you're mine, I'm King St. John Divine
unhealthy queen
who's the queen of town?
Rain rain
rain the walls
Joan Miro's way
rain all this rain away,
I heard you're giving up
your dexadrine and pearls
so I slipped some love dust
in your Martini girl,
Oh my, you're mine, I'm King St. John Divine
unhealthy queen
and king of town
Brother's in the hallway
Oh, insults that he hurls
I'm standing candles
trying to visualize you girl,
Oh my, you're mine, I'm King St. John Divine
unhealthy queen
who's the king of town?
Rain Rain
streets and towns
bands are playin'
oh, Sir Douglas rain,
I'm setting up an alter (sic)
and yes, I snipped your curls
I'm practicing voodoo
in the bedroom on you girl,
Oh my, you're mine, I'm King St. John Divine
unhealthy queen
He took a Smith & Wesson down to the corner
and then he took a ride
he got out somewhere in Los Feliz
in the evening time
he rang her bell and pushed her through the door
and onto the bed
he took time to talk to her
copulating, a gun to her head
and it was hot,
Oh, he rides,
he rides between the Straits of Love and Hate
the Straits of Love and Love
the Straits of Love abused
tonight
Come around midnight
they are laughing and playing games
one bullet in the chamber
and spinning 'round in circles to its aim
but, nothing ever happens
so, they get drunk all the weekend
one hungover dirty Sunday morning
they fight
and then it starts again
and he's gone,
Oh, he rides,
he rides between the Straits of Love and Hate
the Straits of Love and Love
the Straits of Love abused
tonight
He was working at the docks, when he found out
she took another man
he left his job and caught a ride
and decided to take a stand
he put his iron between her legs
and told her to love him again
she threw her arms around him
and then it started all over again
and it was fine.
Oh, he rides,
he rides between the Straits of Love and Hate
the Straits of Love and Love
the Straits of Love abused
tonight
Temptation & I
Temptation & I
money lost in back of the car
memory brings light
temptation & I
so, hold on, hold on, hold on,
open the sky
Temptation & I
empty bedroom at night
alone as the dawn's iron gates
in the workhouse light
eyes in the firelight
so, hold on, hold on, hold on,
open the sky
When dawn comes
the morning bleeds
they drink to sleep
so are the shouts
that call you
that want you to play again
Temptation & I
Temptation & I
comes the morning
whistles the sign
that brings on the light
memory brings light
so, hold on, hold on, hold on,
He's dead on the lawn
Of the house that he owned
What will they say about him?
He had medals
He was in the war
What will they say about him?
He had folks in Houston
But he moved out west
What will they say about him?
The Mexican neighbors
And women stand crying
Wonder what he was involved in
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
He was the violent kind
He saved me once or twice
What should I say about it?
I tried so hard
But, I just said no
And what should I say about him? About him?
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
Always ask me, but I don't know anymore
Always ask me, but I don't care anymore
That he's dead on the lawn
That he's dead on the lawn
What will they say about him?
What will they say about him?
What will they say about him?
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
Please, oh please, oh please don't ask me
The sun and sea are smiling
while you're going to bed
wish Allah would will me
a piece of iron in my head
on my knees and wishing
on my knees and breaking hands
The fish are jumping in Tunis
they change colours in my hands
you don't watch the movies, like the clouds
on a plane to Japan
on my knees and wishing
on my knees and breaking hands
They bring the fish in at Tunis
they're changing blue, green and red
while Allah has willed me
and he's got it to my head
on my knees and wishing
on my knees and breaking hands
on my knees and wishing
The fire of love is burning deep
The fire of love won't let me sleep
Oh my love, hear this my plea
Because of you, it's burning me
The sun beats down with it's fiery glow
Knows I won't see my love no more
I'm sorry for the things I've done
Forgive me dear, my only one
My baby's back, once more she's mine
To have and hold till end of time
The moon shines down from up above
Its light to cool the fire of love
The fire of love
The fire of love
I saw you
Talking 'bout plagues and peoples
You're on override
You are lost on the Great Divide
You see
That you're preaching old ideas
That when worlds collide
You are lost in the Great Divide now
And homeless in the street
Make you feel the freak
And your future looks so bleak
Your ideal world
Becomes antique
Now, you're lost and you say
Standing, say we're equal
But, the valley's wide
And you are lost on the Great Divide
On the Great Divide
On the Great Divide
On the Great Divide
There's a stranger in our town
he's got a burning eye
he wants to get off on you...
The last time that he was here
he had a roving eye
he smiled as he got off on you...
Don't face me with that sad face
because, you lost that glorious grace
you will always be coming back to this place,
There's a stranger, in our town
There's a stranger, pullin' you around
There's a stranger, in our town
There's a stranger,
and he's gonna break your heart
and then get off on you...
There's a stranger in our town
pulls out a punk's spinal cord
piss and blood on the sidewalk of hearts...
This stranger in our town
lives in tunnels beneath hell
lives in tunnels way down below your heart...
push it in and push it out
you already know what it's all about
and you'll be begging as usual without any doubt,
There's a stranger, in our town
There's a stranger, followin' you around
There's a stranger whose in our town (who's)
There's a stranger,
and he's gonna break your heart
and then get off on you...
(solos: 1st - Kid Congo, 2nd - Mustang Dave)
So, I walk smile like he smiles
I walk just like he walks
my right hand to my face like this...
This stranger in our town
he once was in another town
with insects on his face like this...
with names that are just like names
and pictures from the rear of trains
what you want will always be the same,
There's a stranger, in our town
There's a stranger, pullin' you around
There's a stranger, in our town
There's a stranger,
and he's gonna break your heart
and then get off on you...
Stranger in our town
stranger he got a burning eye
he got insects on his face like this
but, he is such a strange strange stranger
Well, she was wild
She would do anything
Crawl over her head backwards
Like it was 1963
She sleeps in garbage
Oh Shit! Should I be alone
She's got a simple case of what they call
Some kinda mental health
She went wild over across the sea
What everybody's dreaming of
Is thuderhead falling in love
She was wild
She would go anywhere
I took her to Egypt and India
Man I took her everywhere
But now she sleeps in garbage
But Shit! I be alone
She's got a simple case of what they call
Some strange kinda mental health
She went wild over 'cross the sea
What everybody's dreaming of
Is Thunderhead falling in love?
She was wild
She would go anywhere
She dived down over backwards
Like I never knew that was there
But, now, it was garbage
Should I be alone?
She's got a simple case of what they call
Some kinda mental illness
She went wild over 'cross the seas
What everybody's dreaming of
Is Thunderhead falling in love?
She was wild
She's do anything
Kisses fruit so nicely
Like I never ever seen
But now, she sleeps in garbage
Should I be alone
She's got a simple case of what they call
Some kind of mental hell
She went wild over 'cross the seas
What everybody's dreamin of
I'm here up above the world
looking down on the river black
ready to take a great swan dive
'cause you're never coming back
I'm here up above the world
I always have to start all over
when I decide I should live
I won't be cheated anymore
'cause there's nothing left to give
I'm here up above the world
We almost started something
that you saw fit to take away
something so close to my heart
something near me every day
I'm hear up above the world
I'm here
Forever you were my sister
but you took my heart in chains
the worst was when you broke them
I cannot live with the pain
I'm here up above the world
I'm here
It's lonely here in the freezing dawn
the ships come in through the London fog
the builders there are tearing up my street
the ambulance roars
it makes the sound I weep
I'm here up above the world
looking down at the river red
trying to bet my prayer
at the foot of my lonely bed
I'm here up above the world
Since I'll no longer be living
you'll have to answer my mail
explain it all to the papers
that I bought my ticket for hell
In the still of the night, I walk with the Beast
in the heat of the night, I sleep with the Beast
who slipped so deep inside me
and rots the love right out of me
I prayed to Elvis on my knees
to take this thing from around me
or snap it with a thundercrack
and change my blues to black
but, how did my love surround me
with such a dead thing around me,
I'm just walkin' I'm just walkin'
I'm just walkin'
Walkin' with the Beast...
I'm not alone, there's trucks outside
My body hurts, there's trucks outside
you get lucky in the bar
you're down and lucky in the dark
indian winds across the skies
black against the Nevada skies
there's nothing you say that does not squeal
there's nothing you want you do not steal
well, how my love surrounds me
with such a dead thing around me
I'm just walkin' I'm just walkin'
I'm just walkin'
Walkin' with the Beast
The Beast will be with me tonight
wild across the western sky
someday, I'll go to the mountain and take my stand
and my spirit will rain all over this land
Sick across the highway bar
sick and going way too far
it's the new world, see if you like it
it's the new world, you cannot fight it
Well, how my love done blessed me
with such a dead thing around me,
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
Haiyo! Haiyo yah!
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
Haiyo! Haiyo yah!
He no dead, he no dead he dea' yah!
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the Watermelon Man ah' come
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
See the man put on a smiley face
Haiyo! Haiyo yah!
He no dead, he no dead he dea' yah!
Eyes are gone
you're complaining
and then, screaming at the ceiling
say you saw
spiders up there
well, I must admit I put them there
Oh, Yellow eyes, it's all O.K.
Yellow eyes, it's all O.K.
Oh, Yellow eyes, don't be afraid
Oh, Yellow eyes, Don't you!
The problem is
you're bad taste runs
to dirty old low-class films
Films like
"Sheila Goes To High School"
films like
"Funny Face Goes To Heaven"
Oh, Yellow eyes, it's all O.K.
Yellow eyes, it's all O.K.
Oh, Yellow eyes, don't be afraid
Oh, Yellow eyes, don't you!
Stranger came back from Woodlawn
seems your daddy-boy, he's gone under water
now he works in Phoenix High School
seems his other side just took over
Oh, Yellow eyes, he's not the same
Oh, Yellow eyes, who you gonna blame?
Oh, Yellow eyes, don't be afraid
I'll take you sleeping up the street
But I'll take you very softly
I'll take you under the parking light
And hold you very softly
Just like a soul, your face will shine
Even though your mind has blown
Was the type of love, a much better kind
When you were on your own?
You are taken, going down
Way down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
Look above you, for the sky is black
And the asphalt is blue
Throw yourself right down on your back
Look at me for what to do
I don't take what is given to me
Just take it from the land
Was the type of love a much better kind
When you were with another man?
You are taken, going down
Right down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
I'll take you sleeping up the street
I'll take you very softly
Right under the parking lights
And I'll hold you so softly
Just like a soul, your face will shine
Even though your mind's been blown
Was the type of love, a much better kind
When you were on your own
You are taken, going down
Way down to Blood City
You are taken, going down
Through the bloody red eyes of Blood City
Right to Blood City
Right to Blood City
Oh, right to Blood City
I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm burning them on the deal anyway
I see her come down from the top of the stairs
I guess that I'd be cool, but there's a tickle in my veins
I've been a real good tombstone, but now I'm blowing away
She is like an eye-blue swimming pool
but, she will never know that she is there
we sit together drunk like our fathers used to be
I'm looking up and God is saying, "What are you gonna do?"
I'm looking up and I'm crying, "I thought it was up to you!"
but now
She's like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein
don't let her take her love to town
they will never fill her heart
she needs a passion like her father's used to be
I know, because I'm like the train shooting down the mainline
I know, because I'm like the Indian wind along the telegraph lines
and she's like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
she cannot miss a vein
So mainline it!
I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm blowing back my trouble to the east
while we sit together sad like our fathers used to be
I know a perfect run by the sleep it puits in my heart
I know my special rider, I can feel her in the dark
she feels like Heroin to me
she feels like Heroin to me
she's like Heroin to me
Now, I see you looking lost
and he sits on his seat
but, don't you walk on my street baby
you can hear Lupita scream
The river's got your forehead darling
it spies your city scene
that city shines when you're away
it can't hear Lupita scream
Yeah, but would be such a fool
to rely on his dreams
while New York houses pain and boredom
in between the seas
Their taxis, man, have been following you
they chase you down the street
your cross builds a cross in the center of town
it looks like a Christmas Tree
Well, the docks they went on strike again
it's you, they don't want to see
they said they'd rather get high
then hear Lupita Scream [than]
You need some warmth and relaxation
with the salesman of your dreams
but, don't you walk on my street baby
I'm a thousand miles below
I'm in a hole waiting for you,
with filthy streets and trucks, outside
I dress, then I undress, and look, outside
I'm in a hole and waiting,
here for you...
Between the lights downtown
In the back of a cab,
you are looking for kicks, to make your kicks
and just like the trick, that goes like this
and just like the prick,
that you are...
I'm a thousand miles below
pulling ribbons from my hair,
low rates and color T.V.
money on the bed, left there for me
and one of these days I'll kill you,
while you sleep...
(solo: Kid Congo)
Between the lights downtown
in the back of a taxi,
you are getting misty-eyed, beneath the adult world sign
just like little children, in one screaming line
I'm in a hole and waiting,
here for you...
I'm a thousand miles below
why do you leave me here?
I was strong enough to admit that I was weak
you take and give alot, but you don't give to me
I've gone down the river of sadness
I've gone down the river of pain
in the dark, under the wires.
I hear them call my name
I gave you the key to the highway
and the key to my motel door
and I'm tired of leaving and leaving
so, I won't come back no more
Oh, my dark-eyed friend
I'm recalling you again
soft voices that speak nothing
speak nothing to the end
Oh, Mother of Earth
the blind they call
but, yet stay behind the wall
their sadness grows like weeds
upon my thighs and knees
Oh, Mother of Earth
the wind is hot
I tried my best, but I could not
and my eyes fade from me
Kim was in the air force
he dropped fire from the air,
He grabbed that heater
that was sitting in his hand
he gave it to them
and put 'em in the foreign sand
he was one hell of a man
Kim dropped fire on the people
fire on their face and hands.
He had their families
their mothers and their kids
he said he'd "Head 'em!"
and that's just what he did,
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
they say
Kim was in St. Louis
at Missouri Inn Hotel
He gave it to them
with that heater in his hand
he put it to them
in the Texas sand,
he was one hell of a man,
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
they say
Kim was at the airport
and the faces stared at him.
He grabbed that heater
which was burning in his hand
he gave it to them
buried in concrete!
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
Everybody loved My Cousin Kim
What I say
you cannot hear it
so, you intrude upon my dreams
and hate my appearance,
Who gave you the right
to give out the rights?
and to intrude upon My Dreams
and sell out my eyes,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
I never get a chance
in the airport
sick in bathroom with Your Dreams
and a flight to nowhere,
In Victoria, Gare du' Nord (du)
and Tompkin's Square
You're standing on My Dreams
and you don't care,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
A heartbeat
tears my insides apart
and tears apart My Dreams
in the whirling dark,
I never got to go
I cannot make it
I never get to have Dreams
and I will not take it,
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take My Dreams
You can't take and steal from this body...
Run Molly Run
Your hills are on fire
Why don't you go downtown
And get it on the wire
Now, easy street
Can sure get you laid
Doesn't matter what you've done
And get you paid
In the Port of Souls
In the Port of Souls
Too much ocean, too much sea
It is no wonder that you buried me
But, it's alright
Rose Connally
Doesn't go in the field
You might find something underneath
Underneath what is real,
Now stop pulling an eyelash
Only you that I have
And it makes me so tired
And this could be the end
In the Port of Souls
In the Port of Souls
Too much ocean, too much sea
It is no wonder that you buried me
But, it's alright
Now don't call John Henry
Just kiss him goodbye
It don't matter anyway
So simply goodbye,
In the Port of Souls
In the Port of Souls
Too much ocean, too much sea
It is no wonder that you buried me
But, it's alright
I didn't get lonely dear
I din't have a chance to see
But, it's alright
You don't have to say goodbye
No! no
I was up this mornin', blues walkin' like a man
I was up this mornin', blues walkin' like a man
Worried blues, give me your right hand
Ah, blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
Blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
Travel on ol' Jeffrey Lee, ya know
Can't seem to turn him around
So preach the blues
Preach the blues now
Blues is low down shaking chill
Blues is low down shaking chill
You ain't never had them
I don't believe you will
Blues is an achin' old heart disease
Blues is an achin' old heart disease
It's like consumption, baby
Killin' me by degrees
So preach the blues
Preach the blues now
I had religion, Lord, this day, very day
I had religion, Lord, this very day
But the womens and the whiskey
They would not let me pray
Gonna get me religion
Gonna join the Baptist church
Gonna get me religion
Gonna join the Baptist church
Gonna be a Baptist preacher
So I don't have to work
And preach the blues
Promise me
Outside in the trees
They're waiting tonight
Promise me
While the searching light
Moon has found me
Know it feels like
The last time again
Promise me
Someone who will promise me
Stand in the dark and fight like me
Through eyes like fireflies
Turn around and tell me
It'll be alright
Is it alright?
Promise me
Don't cheat my soul
When it returns to me
Promise me
Give me the vision
I was born to see
You know it feels like years since
They burned me away
You know feels like years since
Turned my heart away
Yeah, it feels like years
Feels like years
Feels like years since
In my sleep,
in my sleep last night
In my dream,
in my dream last night
In the dark,
in the dark last night
In the hall,
walked Richard Speck last night
(Going back. Going way back. Rewind. Chichichichichichi. Going way back to 1966.
My mother was talking with her sister about some nurses who were murdered up in
Seattle late in the night. Her description of these murders was vivid, and she
accurately identified with the fear that the surviving must have felt, all curled
up underneath that bed listening to her friends get killed one at a time. Waiting
for the moment she too would be discovered and disposed of.
Hence, in my overcrowded childhood mind, these murders played out time and time again
like a sickly off-Broadway production that keeps getting revived. And so, sometimes in
I've been here a long time
Seeing the same kinda things go on
Over and over
What I got on my mind won't really take 2 long
So tell me if ur open
4 takin' a ride for an hour or 2
Make it fast or make it slow
Baby that's all that I'm askin' of u
Break my heart if u say no
Chorus:
I wonder can we go 4 a ride
Witcha baby
I wanna ride witcha baby
Go 4 a ride with u
I'll meet u in the morning
So we can make it last all day
Sunrise to sundown
U just say ur comin'
I'll bring the music for along the way
Cruisin' 2 the sweet sounds
Baby if you don't feel like talkin'
Baby that's alright
I'll just sit beside u
And watch the world go by
Chorus
I need 2 go, I want 2 go
I need 2 go witcha baby
I need to go away
Far away, so far away
Seeing that I don't have it easy
I don't live no simple life
Telling u it's not hard 2 please me
U know how 2 make it right
Crazy as it seems
Come on and help me change my mood
Baby I know you got the means
So whadda u got 2 lose
Whoa, thought it was a nightmare
Lo, it's all so true
They told me, "Don't go walkin' slow
The Devil's on the loose"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Oh don't look back to see
Thought I heard a rumblin'
Callin' to my name
Two hundred million guns are loaded
Satan cries, "Take aim!"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Oh don't look back to see
Over on the mountain
Thunder magic spoke
"Let the people know my wisdom
Fill the land with smoke"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
They that seek me are behind me
Against the moon
Recall how we used to ride
Juiced underneath the power lines
In the inferno valley
When your daddy was still alive
I worked with dirt in my eyes
Old blood upon my wound
Dreaming aloud
Of seeing you soon
I came home from day at the mill
I came home and cared for you
The year that we lived
In secret fire
I took my razor blade
I layed old Rubeun in the shade
And I heard the radio moan
I took my place in the hills
Jagged with secret fires
I called you through the valley
Down along the wires
With dust upon the sands
Came the first day of the year
I saw a house where no one lived,
On the black land and under the red sky
You washed my hair and skin
Against the firelight
So, touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
We struggled
Johnny's got a light in his eyes
And Shirley's got a light on her lips
Jakes got a monkey shine on his head
And Debra Ann's got a tiger in her hips
They can twist and turn, they can move and burn
They can throw themselves against the wall
But they creep for what they need
And they explode to the call
And then they move, move
Sex beat, go
They're stupid like I told ya
Very stupid like ya saw
Very stupid as the simple thought
Of ever thinking at all
And all their mind, all their soul
All their bodies, all we know
All the things that shoulda made us whole
All the colorless security
Was all that someone could go
And move, move
Sex beat, drop
And yes, you do look cool
Inside the floodlights so blue
You make my tropical apartment's bed
Your sacrificial pool
My body in the water
And my heart is in your hand
So this is the way you choose
To send me to the judgment land
So you can't move, move
Ooh, sex beat, go
And every day I agree
You throw me down by the Christmas tree
I watched your lights blink on and off
While you start your fun with me
I, I know your reasons
And I, I know your goals
We can fuck forever
But you will never get my soul
So you can move, so you can move
So you cannot move
So you can move, so you can
My man's gone now
Ain't no use a listenin'
For his tired footsteps
Climbin' up the stairs
Old man sorrow's
Come to keep me company
Whisperin' beside me
When I say my prayers
When I say my prayers
He come around
He come up, he come around
Ain't that I mind workin'
Workin' means travellers
Journeyin' together
To the promised land
But old man sorrow
Mountin' all the way with me
Tell' me that I'm old now
Since I lose my man
Since I lose my man
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